The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-08-17
WhooE EN- Up.

Enron INIELLIGENCER:-G eat guns, but
such q blow as we will have ON or before the
18th of September; have your cyclone cellar
in readiness, with at least two days provision
a corn crop, you bet your bOllolh
dollar the last two rams will make such a
one ~ old Lafayette has not raised IN years.
That insures the hogs, fatLens cattle and poor
men can look the future IN the face, showing
they can at least provide corn bread Tor Their
tamil es for another year under TINS hleh
tariff and penSOn administrator unless Eng
lish capital furnished monOpolists corners II,
"a they seemingly are, and will every thing
else. The rich grow richer, the poor poorer. |
A iabOring man and men on small salaries
who have families aud are renters, do well II
at the months end they make both ends meet.
No time for sickness nor Il Doctors bill; WORK
he must all the live long day and then not long
enough, for the sponge that a:.sOrbs The water
would not spare enough to moisten your lever
ell brow, let alone your parched tongues you
must not sqeeze one drop from out OF II. 10
YOU ste the point? Wheat crop, vegetables
and fruit excepting apples and the negroes
delight, Neutrality-suspicious., WIN the
tact-that the out look for our female colleges
and military school for "A much greater at
l L lHdh tNNl tiO . anu ~ Fh"hN WIZ
up OF our bIack diamond mines September Isl
should cause a continued smile all over our
merchants faces OF anticipated business ana
profits. Do you know that we are building
more beautiful residences than any other city
of our size in the state. Thanks to the h.. ana
l. Association. the engine that puts the ma
chine in motion! Start anOther; run OUT
your tow line there Is room Tor il. WhOop up
The bridge celebration. Found at last-the
missing nk-th bridge-betwnen Lafayette
mud Paw Whnnp-nn he confederate reunion
that off at Higginsville on the 2lh
and 2Sth. That place has always come "heh
| Lexington called; she will be ut our bridge
celebration; let Us give to and attend the re-
union. WhOOp-Ilp the circus that viii be mere
I on the 27th-twO in 0ne-the ike never seen
before; all the world. both white and Black
. from the Sni hills, Ray county. Davis creek
u and Chapel Hill, all should and no DOUBT viii
be here. The ferry will be unable to handle
= the thousands who will wish to cross; theI
hurry up the pontoOn bridge and 'rah for the
democratic party. Back the Kansas CITY
Times and the citizens of that place In TIT
fight being made to make Missouri TiVeI
towns the places rom which TO base irelRh
aud passenger rates in place OF as now tb'
Mississippi river . towns Back the kansa
: City Times and the citizens OF Kansas Cit
in the getting up OF a stock cOmpany 10 oullt
or buy boats to run between st. Louis AM
Kansas City. Let US not abandon the "Bli
Muddy" 10 cat fish and government snai
boats. Only business men of that city and II
Missouri river towns should be permitted I
take stock. They can make ii a success, ant
u rs to Insurance., let tat feature be included
n in their charter or organization; 1t Will pa.
as has been proven by the old Marine In
surance Company of this city in years gon
by, when all frelghts to or from Lexington
o Wellington, Napoleon, Berlin and WaVerl
we're Insured in 1t. Boom up the town hall
4 build such a one as we will all be proud O
and which will accommodate all city Officers
q council room, calabOOse and lire depart
mcnt. Engineer Mulligan is whooping-up
with the help Of Uncle 10. Chinn and jess
HamIett, the macadam on Bird street down L
ID ponton bridge approach, so that the ma
n from Ray on mis- way up town, need not ge
: stuck in the mud. The p0ntOn bridge an
the Santa Fe will break up the siege tina
Gould has been making no ainst Lexington 81
long, and relieve us by opening up via 81
It Joseph, a shorter route west; you can the
90 or come from Kansas City by passenge
train-come in the morning and go IN tn
evening, and not, as now, on the Missouri
ut Pacific, az time nHmed on "A freight train
Such j. GOuld's accommodations To LeXing
ton. You can then go TO Chicago and point
- east more directly, a. cheaplv and quickly a
10 via the J. Gould road, and st. Louis send o
O receive freight from the east and from tn
west. Then let Us awake to the fact that W
are on the go and becoming a place of mo-
importance every day. Where Is that busi
ness mems association? Let US get up and be
come a city OF the 3rd class. There are
a hundred advantages TO be gained over OF
T. present city acting under its special charte
=, Let us extend our present city limits to
=, least three miles square and hold the In
!" provements within our limits; then you W,
ee not find so many buildings just out side
rs escape taxes and yet do business and reap .
IT. the benefits, with u few exceptions, given |
ith our city. Rouse up our citizens to the in
p~ortance of our health-giving springs that
the past performed 80 many wondrOus cure
Within the next few years, II not now, Y
Oh must m a system OF SEWERAGE;
4 our councilmen think Of it. We want, al
~. want badly, more first-c'ass hotel and ope
house accommodations. Within the next fe
he years trains will be running to and from ka
- sas City and this place as they now are
Independence. every few hours, to accoI
zen modate citizens living here and doing but
fly ness 10 Kansas City, and all the intSrveDi
country between this city and Independent
TT: will be homes owned by Kansas Ciiyites. al
,rk "a ems and dairy farms to supply that Gil
10. Then whoop'em-up and do not let up until
" have gotten up on top to STAY. Whoop-up t
IN democratic party, let them organize, for I
F. republicans are in their watermillIon pate
I'm Yours truly. y. BEN