The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-12
rho s,reets and roads are very dusty.

nlulukN Will COhNObO IA ehho Wv
daV.
The Register now runs a full patent out
side, thereby giving a large amount oil addI-
reading matter.
Work has commenced upon rebuilding the
Mammoth stable, recently destroyed by hre'
II will be con siderably improved In appear
ance aud convenience.
Four tramp printers from st. Joseph E"
route to New. Orleans in IA skiif, landed mere
and begged The fraternity for the wherewI'h
to buy grub last Thursday.
Major Helms is IN trouble again. He now
languishes in Jail on a charge OF living in
open adultery with a prostitute OF this city.
His lawful wife is in Kansas City.
Wanted-A boy aboIt 10 years of age, OF
average intelligence, not afraid of gettin ny his
hands dirty or. too pr Dad or too lazy TO work,
to learn the printing business. Apply here.
Kansas City is agitating the subject OF
building a pontoon bridge across the missouri
river at Randolph and has appointed u COM
mittee to visit Lexington and examine the
bridge here.
The house on the farm of Mr.. Lee Smith,
of this city, near Corder was totally destroyed
by fire last Saturday. 1t was insured for $500
In the Phoenix insurance company. The lire
was caused by u defective nue.
Marshall Chinn arrested some movers
saturday on a telegram from Kansas charg
Ing them with the theft of three horses and
offering SO reward for them. The reward
was paid him Immediately.
DR.. p. s. Fulkerson's buggy horse was fed
too much green corn last Thursday and In
the afternoon was taken sick with the coliC
and died. He was an ordinary animal but
| his worth to the doctor is hard to stimate
Another animal on the premises occupied
by Lafayette Grizell and John Landlord, SLY
| miles and a-half southeast of Lexington. II
| supposed TO have CHAMBERS and the state
| veterinarian asked to come again and ex
anime it.
Across the pontoon bridge and a drive ii
the delightful shade and on the level roads o
Ray county are sure to be popular with on
bellies and beanx. The number availing them
selves of the opportunity Is constantly in
creasing.
The wellington road should immediatel
receive the attention OF our merchants an
business men. Thousands Of dollars Of trad
are kept from this city every year by thu
miserable and dangerous condltion Of tn
roadway and railroad crossings.
Messrs. Haywood Heathman and Wn
Taubmsn will leave for Texas counts in
wagon Monday for a hunt and will be con
as long as the weather remains good. Leav
your orders for deer, buffalo, and elephant
at the Lexington Machine Shops.
Charlie, the ven-yesr-old son of Eng
toned in these columns week before last s
having been shot In the foot by his broth'
while playing with a Target rifle, died o
September 80. The little fellows suffering
were terrible.
At a meeting Of the pontoon bridge dire
tory, held last Thursday, the bridge Wi
formally accepted and turned over to Il
stockholders. The entire length Is l $50 fe
and the cost at $18 per foot, the contra
! price, 10 s2S, 900. 1t will be worth four tim
r that amount 10 the trade of the city.
/ The trade from Ray county, since the con
pletion of the bridge and the reduction
toll, has vislbly increased. The stream W
constantly increase In size and we think u
a time not far distant when Lexington W
I. enjoy a trade from across the river equal
{ that outside Of the city on the south side.
5 The sick-Mr. Pete Hale is much bette
D NJ H. yUilrnat io ahlo m eff nm the great
! part OF each day. Prof. ]. d. Blanton
couyalescent. Miss oracle Edelin, IL ImprO
ing slowly. Little Amy Crowder, who b
( been 80 long III with spinal mengltis, is 81
= very low. M. A. Loomis is able to be abe
u the store most Of the day.
In accordance with the laws passed by t
3 recent legislature and under the supervisor
a OF the county court, the old papers in t
vault Of the county clerks Office were TAX
out Tuesday and burned. There was a gr
big wagon load ofthem and the money rep
= sented by them amounted to several mlllio
u Of dollars.
Alligators ars becoming too numerous
- the streams and pools Of Carroll county
~ the comfort and safety OF bathers. SIEVE
have been captured this summer, the LAT
u being taken on "wednesday OF last week n
10 Miles Point. 1t measured three aud al
81 feet In length large enough to eat q q
IT. sized how without much discomfort TO its
Oliver Conway, a tramp, was arrested
Deputy Marshal Geo. Webb, Thursday mo
D. ing at four O'Clock at the Mo. P. depot on
e. charge of having robbed VIM. b. Phipp
IN $40 while asleep at the Il. q l.. Junct
III Another man was arrested at the same IL
but It appearing to the satisfaction OF all |
nu ties concerned that he had nothing to
y" with the matter he was not detained. Z
zee way was sent to Richmond for examinat
Mrs. Chas. Weber, OF this city, two WI
ago sent a letter to her son, who Is out W
CONTEMPLATING him on his twenty.hrst bi
day. Last Wednesday her son replied tina
=. ing his mother that though he was far {
home, vet she remembered him with
kind wishes. He then thanked her
teaching him always to do what was r
Nv and for the care and the education he
- received, saying that he would ever try I
a good and dutiful child. aud that thong
" had entered manhood, he would try to
good, brave and true 10 his manhood .
had been in his childhood. The happy IN
or read the letter 10 some Of her friends
aeked:-"Is not this letter q nice prese
Moral-.Houor thy father and thy moi
that thy days may be long upon the
which the Lord thy God giyelh thee"
var Monday evening rs Preston Moore, a
, a.a nf ~ mud Erp1 Whit
by seven years Vi ase' anu fiou WI"
arm fifteen wears OF age, were returning b
fro n the first ward school. Moore Il
some fire crackers off the bridge u short
lance northeast OF the school and VIII
told him TO Jump over the bridge ant
them. Moore replied to the effect that
Jumped of he would hurt himself, and v
sett said that II he did not jump of he "
throw him of, and with that he gave n
a push which sent him headlong of
bridge, he falling about twenty feet and
:" tanning some very severe injuries abou
head. The officers have not been al
80 find WhItse.t as yet, but from the info
ton now at hand we would Judge that
he Ia caught be will not lie released un
has served a good term in the reform $
at Boonville.
,ooL Last Tuesday was a day long to be rel
ade. Dered D' 'hose VIM "a
,son be at the hospitable home Of Mr.. Wade
,eok lin on the ,yer Road. The occasion
uno an entertainment in honor of Mrs. NJ
Catron, a venerated Octogenarian. aud
'dav long friend and neiRhDor OF Mr.. HE
IA family. The company was not large in
v,s,, Der bu: 10 avoirdupois and sCciality qui
left 10 the stahualu' - ~
fair. Ton and mrS' 'o"n
the honored guests. The dinner WAS super
fable nhnndantlY Runplled with lem