The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-02-18

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A repair shop has been placed at the juno
ton Of the two railroad tracks, That seems
10 pint m the right direction.
Mi. Sanlmycr has been hard ui WORK on
hi, books, with the assistance Of Capt. Reed
or, and viii have them ready Ia II very few
days.
Bush Foster is trying again To prove that
he is cray 10y maiIreating MS wife. whom he
burned with a hot poker II few daVs ago. His
brother has taken him to Johnson county,
whcrr II Is IT, be hoped Ir will improve.
There - on exhibition al Mrs,re. l;oyle n
Sons ii beautiful era, on drawing of little
Fannie IL, daughter Of Mr.. }. h. Ball, Of
Richmond. Il Is from tho pencil OF Mrs.
Fannie Banr. and Is true Ia life "a "A Likeness.
A wall Of Ice some ten feet high rose above
the top of the water tower. Thursday, and ii
few minutes thereafter tumbled IN glittcring
CRYSTALS, $50 feet, to the ground below. ono
narrow, sharp piece remained, like n finger
pointing sOlemnlv toward the zenith from
the massive column below, but the ineNora-
BILE law Of change quickly caused II. too, 1"
succumb, and down II came shlvered aud
scattered In every direction.
81. Louis grain marker Wheat Opened
at the top and declined right dong until near
the close. when 1t went up & little and closed
about fc below yesterday; Np.2 red. cash,
7'39SO1c; March, 794G9SOc, closing AT Soc;
May, SIA9Sl2c. closing at SHE; June, Sl4G
sl4c. closing at size; July, 7SA979Ac, closing
al 79tc; August, 7S1@7S4c, closing at i6h'
bid; December, safe. COrn-May fell off
early, but recovered some aud closed &c below
yesterday; cash, 4it9lS.; March, 4isc; MAY,
454g4G3c, closing at 46kc; July, Ale. Oats
Dull; cash, 2oA@29tc; Nav, 29!c. Rye Dull
al soc. B~Arlcy-QuOted 1t 10000. Com
meal--Firm at 81 so.
Bates city Our town is on u boom, prop
erty changing hands every day. DR.. Flour
noy sold to G. II. Hill his property in Cheat
hams addition for ~ 400. The people In this
vicinity are in great excitement over the new
mill, &. Il. Shawhun. president, Dan Douli,
secretary, and G., l., Andri>t, sack holder.
Mr.. Perkins. of Oak Grove, will open u sad
die and harness shop as soon a. his house Is
completed. Mrs. Wallace. the celebrated shoe
tanner, has an extensive trade. Mr.. Wilkcr-
sou SHIPPED Monday night tour car loads Of
cattle. Mr.. and Mrs. Mosley have lust re-
turned from n weeks visit at independence.
Captain Belt returned from st. Louis Satur-
day night. Miss Fannie Wood. of Odessa,
spent Sunday in Bates City. DIR. Ladd aud
family expect to move here In i short time
when he will open a first class drug store.
Miss Katie Ferguson has returned from
Warrensburg where she has been attending
school. Miss Bessie Ewing has returned
E from a three weeks visit ut Fairyiew. Mr..
= Wallace has resumed his school duties again
this week. What the correspondent would
; like 10 know-When Tasting will come back
What has become Of Miss Fannie? II Uncle
Tom received any valentines! Who got the
nameY What Miss Maggie will have AT the
' close of SCHOOL, Where the next party will
: be?
Dover; The most enjoyable entertainment
u of the season was u pie party given ut The
; Dover Hall gu Friday night, February 10.
y As it was something new and novel everyone
u In attendance seemed to enjoy themselves
' splenhidly. The young ladies instrumental
: in getting 1t up received many thanks and
Z compliments irom Inc invited guests. III u
3 short while after they began to arrive the
hail was liled with Il merry crowd of young
= folk. who passed the time pleasantly until thu
hour of eleven, when upper WAS announced
y which consisted of pie and candy. As Il
was leap year the names OF the gentlemen
were placed in II hat, and the ladies did tht
l. drawing. Quite Il lively time enSued Tor
while, aud the prevailing question wa
I. Whose name did you getT' The pies were
pronounced delicious. which showed that tho
is young ia,ii6s warG well skilled IN the culiDa
nv art. The candy Furnished by the boys
l. was splendid. Among those present wer'
Is Misses. Taubman, of Lexington, Annie Tay
~ loI Reltie Dinwiddie, Fannie Hodges, Mur,
Of vanAuslen, Emma. LlEGie. Minnie md Jen
II ME Koontz, Edie, Dora and Jerdie caldwell
Sallie Stark, Letitlt Logon, sue and AM
Plattenburs, alice HOlmes, Lizzie Winn
~ LoIlie LittIclohn, Ella, Bette and Emm
ID Miers, Lille Cox, Maggie and Cgitbs Ray
b Beoca Wlnm. Braiden and Anna HARDWOOD
Carrie and Susie McGee, Ollie Cole Kate Car
N ter. SaiIie and Dora Haggard aud JenDI
IL Matthew. Mesdames HARDWOOD, LIttlci0bn
t LiggOn. Hill, Cox. Hockensmith and Wag8o
= Ger. Nessrs. Jim Dinwlddie, John and Geo
e. Caldwell. Beunie Grey, Will Meng, Barye
he Vaughan, Ell. VunAnZIen. Will WahI, Je>
d, and Jack Groves, Walter Brown, Will stew
~ arr IntTItd dOiHHOH, tUD, MdItIu AN
ne Noby Cole, Jim and Birw0ll Stark, Marshal
U Frazier. Bot and Will Ray, Ed. Seer, Wi
* Huggard, Leslie Wilson. Bob Fox, Wm
I'd Cooper, Rob aud Steve Notice, George VIM
Fletcher and Frank Cox, Alyin Cobb, JohI
Ne Matthew, Hilton Lewis, VIII Corbin, Chas
ne Palmer. Capt. Irwin ZeySing, DIR. Carter AN
"a n. HOckensmitE.
r. AT the Granu Lodge meeting OF the 4. u
as u. W, In q. LOuis,on Wednesday, the gran
~ medical examiner, L. jackson, reported tina
10 since the last meeting Oi tbs lodge 900 ~
In plIcants had been rejected. and OF that NUN
IN Der Ill were for hereditary consumption
is During the same tune there were 348 death
lie The average duration OF membership OF thos
lie who died was four years, eleven months an
twenty eight DAYS. The ayerdRa age of mem
I'd bers admitted was a5 years, and the aycrag
us age Of the members VINO died was AZ years
IL months aud ) days. The report OF the gran
~ receiver, John ID. VinciI, showed that durin
us the term. ending December 81, 1887, the r,
b, Gripts amounted 10 sOJ5 SIS ~ and the dis
or bur~emrnts to sUGi ia IS. The receipt
~ credited TO the general fund were S57 ,28T :
hc and the disbursements were Si7 ~; o.. I'll
, c balance on hand in the general fund, on Dc
re cemhsr 81, 1887. wa. therefore $3.50 -. Hn
ID the balance in the beneficiary fund E3t, 1853 8
10 The reB0rI Of VIM, II stone anu i. Is. Farm
". er, the finance committee, showed that III
Increase OF beneficiary receipts hud bee
Nd S27l, III 30. 1t also made some suggestion
:. concerning the payment OF officers and em
nd p,Oynen. of grand lecturer. Grand RI
III Corder Wm. G.. Richardson made II repOl
~ which covered 100 printed pages. II SHOVE
Il that on December 81, 1898. the mcmbershi
ha was IA 800. while On December 81, 1887,
re wa lO75c, u gaia nf 4 ,57s. The averag
pt membership per lodge Is 10, against AZ!
At the last report. Jefferson lodge, No. II, S
g. Louis, heads the list with Il roll of 4s6. Til
Il. number Of lodges now 10 active existence
40 4O4. -Four lodges have been suspended 70
Bs non-payment Of dues, but most OF the mem
NJ bers have paid up their arrcarages aud sti
tE retain their membership 10 the grand Lodge
NJ ln Nebraska twenty-three lodges were estah
be liShed, and that state has now been made
as separate jurisdiction by the institution of
ed grand lodge which has Il membership &
all nearly 5000. The grand recorders report
H. full OF comprehensive statistics cOnceTnin
he the length Of life aud the causes OF dealt
III. After the reading of the reports the follow
IL Ing resolutions were Introduced and ~reGerre
II to proper committees; TO fix the mileuxe q
Hr 8 cents and allow delegates ~ per day ex
IA penscS; to Fix the RrnuI master workman