The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-24
ABOUT M~ISSOURIANS.

IioH. W. ". u. ocWCt', ""yOi,
statesman and journalist, is building a
handsome residence at Shelbina.
MI. w. f. Gordon, county clerk OF
Vernon county, spent his vacation at
the stirring young city Of Liberty.
Commissioner Stone. of the twelfth
district hat he does not ex-
pect to be a candidate for renomina-
ton.
Oscar w. Jones, deputy county clerk
of Phelps county, has become a travel
ing salesman for a ST. Louis grocery
house.
DIR. w. w. Finley, of Burlington,
Boone county, has been appointed to
take the census of Boone and Galloway
counties.
DIR. w. F. Grinstead, of Charleston,
will go to London the first of Septem-
Der to begin several years of study in a
new field of surgery.
Senator Johnson, of Montgomery
county, was a visitor at the state capital
last week. Jefferson City has its at
fractions, even in midsummer.
Capt. w. P. Howard. the we'll
known commission merchant of st.
Louis, was in 1S41 a clerk in Jesse
McMahan's store at Arrow Rock.
Col. David Moore, of Canton, late of
the 2lst Missouri Infantry, has been ap-
pointed by the interior department a
special agent on depreciation of claims.
Oney Carstarphen, once a prominent
MissouriaD, has become equally prom
inent as a citizen of Denver. His
family spent this summer in the east.
Homer Bassford, for three years city
editor of the Mexico Ledger and a
brilliant newspaper man, has accepted
a position on the Kansas City Times.
Mr.. w. IL. Linn, the active vice.
president of the Citizens bank Of
Nevada, who went to Colorado in June
for his health, has returned much i'm
proved.
II. Il. Miller, editor and one OF the
proprietors of the Purcell, l. T., Topic,
was for many years a citizen of this
state, residing at Ha%rrisonville, Cass
county.
Hon. T. E. Birch, of the Glasgow
savings bank, represented Charlton
county in the legislature of 1859
He is now a hale, hearty old man of
IA years.
L. F. Harker, whose pernicious &C
tivity as a republican is quite well
known, has been appointed law clerk
in the Office of the assistant attorney
general at Washington.
Col. Nat. G. Dryden, who is known
throughout the state as a brilliant law.
yer and democratic c~ampaigner from
away back, has removed his place OF
residence from Troy TO Mexico.
Mi. j. B. Settle, a prominent took
dealer of Shelbina, has gone to France
tor an imn ense importation OF French
draft and Percheron horses, which are
becoming popular beasts OF burden III
Missouri.
Col. Louis Houck has commenced
the erection of an immense grain eleva-
tor at Cape Girardeau. The council OF
that city granted him sufficient ground
for that purpose, tree OF taxation for
ten years.
Capt. Frank Whaley, of near Pal,
myra, came to this state in 1917, and
still lives on the farm he purchased at
the public sale of land held in st. Louis
in 1922. This is a record of which any
Missourian would be proud.
MIR. A. G. Vsndiver, senior editor
of the Keytesville Courier. has been
elected superintendent of the farm
connected with the agricultural depart
ment of the State University. MIR. Van
diver will be an able and efficient man
Mr.. Geo. &. Hawkins, who recently
returned to Marshall from Idaho terri
tory, found a number of prosperous
Missourians upon ranches near Mos.
COW. Among them were o. J.. Ralph
and Dock Hupp, formerly of Saline
county.
This spring Mr.. j. S. Pardee, OF
West Plains, set out a dewberry bush
that was eight inches high, The Other
day it measured twenty-three feet, and
it is still growing. Howell county
beats the world in orchard trees and
shrnbbery.
Hon. William Hunter, * state sen
ator from Scott county, has undertaken
the task of building a railroad from
Cape Girardeau to Sikeston. He says
the people of Scott will give a bonus o
S35, 600 to the company that will con
struct the road.
Senator Cockrell, CongressmeI
Dockery, Tarsney, Wilson and Mansul
spoke at the great tariff reform meeting
held at Plsttsburg last Wednesday
These tariff meetings are timely ant
, could be held with profit in every
county in Missouri.
Judge Ben L. Turner, OF Clark coun
3 ty, has suggested to the several Crane
%juries Of his circuit that experts b
, selected to examine the books of count,
officers and report at tho Febrnar,
term. He thinks it would be a goot
nlan TO adopt occasionally Throughout
! the state.
Hons. j. j. Russell and L. ID. Dan
firth, of Charleston, Mo, have pre-
sented Gov. Francis and family with
~.2.nound watermelon. 1t is said [,
have been one of the finest melor
over raised IN the kingdom of water
melons and was produced from th
.f,rm of Mr.. Ebert Cummins.
Ira r, Nelson, who died recently s
T,ov. was born in Virginia, March q
! 1877. came to Missouri and settled Q
, Now Hope, Lincoln county, in Octobe,
, Iss6, where he ever after resided. A
q the time of his death klr. Nelson hs
q living S2 grandchildren. As great-granG
. children and 2 great great-grand
8 children.
I Mai. Tbeo. X. Cash, the bright par
~ticuIsr star of the last Legislature, an
8 who represented Clay county with col
spicuous ability, is enjoying the sum