The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-10
The town was full OF people last Monday.

August meetlhB CollulenCes tO-nloTToW
at Dover.
Mr.. W. A. Belhel cures sweeney IN horses,
no cure no pay.
The addition TO Mrs. Nlckells Home is
about essq,leted.
Mr.. GEO. W Clark has purchased the j.
| W. Harrison place on Third street.
The watermelon crop In the county will be
ve-y light, The bugs ate up the young plants.
Work has commenced upon the foundations
of the hew residences of Messrs. q. Andreen
aud j. X. Norelsnd.
Mr.. HClan. OF the MAYHEM neighborhood,
threshed from II measured twenty acres $40
bashels Of wheat. an average of AZ bushels to
the acre.
The venerable Father Hamill, who died In
Saline county last Sunday, vas well known
and much beloved N this county where he
FOR a long time resided.
The proposition to issue $25, 900 In bonds
FOR the purpose of building a high school
building and a schoolhouse for the colo: ed
children, carried by a vote OF G52 to $50, last
Thursday.
Our weather oracles say that it always
rains on the second Saturday or Sunday in
August. We hope II will prove true this
wear. anyhow. as the corn Is suffering fol
moisture and Is ~''fring'' badly in some parts
Of the county.
The Waverly Times credits Lexington
with organizing u packet line between Kansas
City end st. Louis 1t was led TO that belief
by n paragraph printed In this paper last
week that should have been credited 10 the
Kansas City Star. Our mistake; YOUR treat.
We acknowledge the receipt Of complimen'
tarv tickets to the following fairs: Sedalia.
when begins August Goth aud continues five
days Putnam county lat Unionville, September
ll-l4th. and Lafayette county,, at Higgins
vile. Aug. 27-31. We have also received a
ticket TO tho Lawson district fair, with no
dates attached.
An honest man il sometimes met with at
least as was the ease last Monday. Some five
years ago MIR. Jos. Tripble sold to Mr.. Mark
| Morton a tract OF land consisting OF forty
acres In Ray county and through some mis-
take q deed was never made transferring the
| property to Mr.. Morton. Mr.. Morton desired
to sell tho land to Mr.. Rufus Stegal this week
but found that he could moi make a deed aud
went and explained the matter TO Mr.. TIibble,
who promptly made him a deed and the land
was sold to Mr.. Stegall.
A small blaze was started at the residence
OF NJ. Gratz, on the Sixteenth street, last
Monday morning. An alarm was given but
before the fire company reached the place
the flames had been extinguished with the
! small sprinkiing hose. The fire started In a
small cellar under the kitchen, where a large
! pile of dry kindling was stored. The boys
have some white mice and took a match and
went into the cellar TO look for them and
dropped a lighted match into the kindling.
Beyond a good scare and a few scorched
1olst there was no damage done.
Waverly Times:-"The suggestions of
Light a head and Rip Van Winkle' ID the
Lexington Intelligencer, Of August 3d.shouid
receive the united support OF her citizens,
The way to celebrate suggested In regard TO
the pontoon is after the correct style, rouse
up with one accord and let the world know
that the best county Of the state intends to
keep up with the procession" Yes. Lexing-
TIN will celebrate. All she needs Is ample
time to prepare. Boom up our celebration in
Wayerly, Brother Webb, and we will let you
ride In one of the carriages prepared for dis
tlnguished citizens.
The following are the retail prices paid for
table delicacies In this market: -ERgs. 10
cents per dozen or 0 for %; lemons, Doc per
dozen; trout, l2lc per pound catfish, 124c
per pound pine apples, zoe per can; salmon,
121 per pound; black bass lie per pound
breast Of lamb, &c per pound; gooseberries
Zoe per can; lamb chops. 10c per pound
white fish, l2ac per pound; buffalo fish Zoe
per pound; Clipped beef, zoe per pound
sausage, 10c per pound; carrots, 3 punches
for Zoe; squash, zoe per dozen picked pork
Toe per pound; ham, by whole, best 163c per
pouAd; onions, Toe per bushel; cantalopes, 40
to SOC per dozen; choice slice ham, zoe per
pound; smoke shoulders, loo per pound
dairy butter, 25a per pound; ~watermelons, IL
to SOC eac = oranges, 40 to Coz per dozen
new beets, 2 punches for sc; strInged beans.
l5c per peck cooking apples, 40c per bushel
green corn, 10c per dozen; celery, 30c per
dozen bLnches; radishes, 2 punches for DC
prunes, 10c per pound; new potatoes 4Oc per
bushel; peaches, 81 per bushel; fore quarters
Of lamb, 10c per pound; bananas, 10 to Doc
per dozen; eating apples, % o SOC per bushel;
~blackberries 25c per gallon; smoked break
fast bacon, I3c per pound; white stringed
beans loo per peck; spring chickens, 81 per
dozen; cream cheese zoe per pound; limberg.
err cheese, zoe per pound; imitation Swiss
cheese, zoe per pound; tomatoes, 40c per
bushel.
Greenton Miss Ruth Jones, Of Odessa, is
visiting the family Of Mr.. A. Stewart. Miss
Mary Bell Edmonds, OF Lexington, is visiting
the family OF Mr.. Martin Welsh. Major
Hord has built u new store house and moved
his nice little stock Of goods into T., where he
would be pleased to see the nj kles and
dimes. The wheat Is averaging from twenty.
five to thirty five bushels per acre. Tit hay
crop Is the heaviest known 10 the
Oldest inhaDitant. Charles johnson bus
got q new buggy, and VIM. b. Emisou a new
cart, and the roads will now be kept hot.
Miss May Chamberlin will teach the Fair
view school the coming winter. Miss jessie
Burton now of Lexington, was visiting Mrs.
Theodore Thorp last week. She returned
bone Saturday to make preparations to enter
K. A. Seminary. Miss Anna Biincoe and
Misses Stewart are spending q few days al
Judge BentDn's. Rev. Samuel Walkup will
preach his farewell discourse at the brick
church next Sunday morning. He stops for
the purpose OF attending the theological
school at Lebanon, Tenn. He has had good
audiences but u portion of the credit of
drawing them Is due TO Miss Hattie Hannah,
tue cnarming singer and orgauist. There Is
Il young lady visiting at Mr.. Garnett's. She
made her advent last Thursday. We cannot
give you her name because she has none.
/ Mis- Nevada Bryant will teach our school the
coming session. She has engaged board with
Mr.. sweeney. John Emison. of Kansas City,
paid the neighborhood u flying visit last
Sunday.
Cardinal Rlchelleu said ''in the lexicon OF
youth there is no such word as fail" but he
lived In an age when enterprises of the great.
est moment are dwarfed into oblivious insIg-
n~ificance compared with the achievements oil
the nineteenth century. Had the wise old
cardinal lived In these days. he undoubtedly
would have qualified his language and put II
In this way: In the lexicon OF youth there
is NO such word rs fail, except in the show
business" Out OF over two hundred shows
that have appeared on the stage OF life. since
Sells Brothers became identified as showmen,
there Is but one other firm In existence now,
the others having all failed. Nolwithstand
Ing the discouraging statistics winch is calcu
lated to frighten people from embarking in
so hazardous u business, Sells Brothers are
not deferred from undertaking the most
s%tupendous enterprises known. This show