The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-12-08

If you want your hogs killed and dressed
right get Jim Gates to do 1t.
Mr.. w. S. Claggett Is to have plate glass
ON his Main and Ninth streets sides.
The vestibule and belfry at the Old Town
chapel make a very neat and useful improve
ment.
"HodGe' is the new postofice lately estab'
lished at Edwards Mill, oil the calamity
branch OF the Mo. p. L. &.
Let us all be up and doing. Look up ant
not down. Look forward and not back
Look out anG not in. Lend a hand.
There was an incipient fire at Esquire
Granville Clayton's house, last Tuesday
morning. 1t occurred just above the kitchen
but was extinguished before it did any dam
age.
Mr.. S.. Il. Smith sold, last Tuesday, to r. T
Conn, 81 acres of timber land of the estate
S. NJ. McCulloch, for 1896; also 40 acres o.
cultiyating land to Mrs. Pharez Hammond
for 81 400.
New Years cards. All who desire anything
In this line will do well to call soon. W.
have Il very fine line OF samples to ordt
from. Come in and look at them, they are
from artistic and beautiful to plain and neat
Commodore 10. UT and MIR. Jesse Hamlet
on Tuesday night last went up the river, thiI
side of Wellington, to fish and TO set theil
traps for beaver. They caught ones leg
but he knawed the foot off. They got some
200 pounds of fish.
The Belle Leyburn Missionary Society vii
give an entertainment in the basement of The
Old School Presbyterial church. on mex
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Friends o.
the church are invited to attend, and buy
their Christmas gifts.
Kansas City Star:-'F. A. Faxon, w. ii
Hail and several others are endeavOrIng IL
organize a Missouri river navigation COM
pany. They first wish to secure subscrip.
tions for the purchase of the ste mer Daco-
tab, which Is to be the nucleus of the line
The gentlemen who are interesting themsel-
YES In the scheme wish 10 make Kansas CITY
more independent of the st. Louis railroads
so that there will be less danger of discrimi.
mating rates." Mr.. Bullene should take 6
lively interest IN this matter, because it is 8
practical way to aid the Missouri river, and
he had a great deal to say on that subject
during his canvass.
Lexington is a good market. AS a rule
almost anything wanted for the cuisine can be
obtained, and Of the best. Prices are gener.
ally a little high. owing to the good demand
for the regular population, the school contin.
gent and the mines. Beef, pork and mutton
of excellent quality retaiis very Reasonably al
from 6 10 10. cents as to cuts and quantity
taken. Veal sells at 10 to 121 cents. Turkeys
and chickens bring dressed from 8 to 10 cents
per pound according to the supply. Live
chickens are worth from 81 so to So pei
dozen. Ham sell at from Is to 163 cents
Breakfast bacon at 10 cents. Dried beef SELL
! by the piece at IA cents, and Clipped In small
quantities at 20 cents. Lard retails at 121 t
| ID cents. Cheese is worth 20 cents. Butte
sells at 90 to 25 cents, eggs at 25 cents PEI
dozen. Potatoes are worth 40 cents PEE
bushel from wagons, and 80 cents at tn
stores. Cabbage sells at 3 to 8 cents pc
head, and turnips at % cents per bushel
Turnips seem to be growing in popularity a
a table vegetable. Canned corn sells at II
and 10 cents per can, and tomatoes at II
cents and 10 cents, as per quality. Hominl
Is selling at 3 cents per pound, and first rat
navy beans at q cents per pound. Common
| white beans may be had AZ 4 cents. Celer
+ retails at so cents per dozen, 8 cents by tn,
stalk. Onions retail at 10 cents per bushel
. and apples at 40 cents Flour is worth fron
SIS to 81. Meal sells at 10 cents per busheI
? Bran brings 70 cents per hundred pounds.