The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-14
ABOUT M~ISSOURIANS.

Clay county, died last Week. Vi Pai"'-
ysis, aged 81 years.
|. N. Hathaway, of Mexico, is an
applicant for appointment as a super
visor of the census.
Hon. j. w. Wright, OF st. Clair
| county, has moved to Columbia IN
| order to educate his children.
Col. Green Clay, member of the state
senate from Audrain county, is brought
out unoficially by the Sturgeon Leader
as good material for railroad commits
sioner.
VIM. M. Draffen, of Boonville, is
beirg talked of for state senator. lie is
an excellent lawyer and a young gen.
tlemen who would do credit to the
district.
James II. Pratt, a prominent attor-
ney OF Neosho, has opened "depart-
ment of law" in the Neosho Times,
and it promises to be an admirable
feature of the paper.
Hon. VIM. E. Coleman, state super
! intendent OF public schools, announces
that he will not be a candidate for
denomination. He has served his two
terms faithfully and well.
Capt. R. l. Eskridge, a prominent
army officer stationed at Fort Wayne,
is a native of Shelby county, Mo. In
military as we'll as in civil affairs the
Nissourian is irrepressible and ON
nipresent.
Judge Chas. f. Peers, of Warrenton,
| will, it is said, be a candidate for nom
nation as Judge of the supreme court,
] to succeed Chief Justice Ray. Judge
| Peers came very near being nominated
| tor lieutenant governor in 1880.
Mary j. Sullivan, a needy widow oil
| Linn creek, Camden county, has just
| received back pension amounting TO
| 3 1000. Her husband, Gibson M. Sui
Ivan, was a member of an Usage reg
| iment of Missouri Home Guards.
Frank Farris, the bright young as
sistant secretary of the last state senate,
has become the editor OF the Steelville
Democrat. He will make a lively
newspaper out of it and will be a
tower of strength to the democratic
party.
Mr.. j. NJ. Collins, who has served
the government as mail clerk during
the past four years, has become the
editor OF the Keytesville Courier, sue
ceeding Mr.. A. G. Vandiver, recently
appointed superintendent of the agri-
cultural farm.
The national editorial association, in
convention at Detroit last week, Sc
lected Mr.. E. W. Stephens, of the
Columbia Herald, as n of its vice
presidents and Hon. w. o. l.. Jewett,
of the Shelbina Democrat as chairman
of the committee on legislation.
Senators Cockrell and Vest, Con-
gressmen Mills, OF Texas, Bland,
Dockery, Tarsney, and Norton OF
Missouri, have all promised to attend
the great tariff reform meeting al
Lebanon, Laclede county, September
%. 1t promises to be N OF the big
gest political vents of the year.
Hon. N. ID. ThurmOnd, OF FdltOn,
twice a member of the Legislature
from Galloway county, will be a candi-
date for congress against Bland. Mr.
Thurmond is a level headed, practical
legislator, and if Mr.. Bland should be
displaced he could hardly be succeeded
by a better man than Nick Thurmond.
Mr.. j. w. Stone, the efficient circuit
clerk of Boone county, has just return
ed to his home in Columbia from a
months s%ojourn in the mountains OF
Colorado. He SAYS he doesn't know
'where a man cal get more satisfaC.
ton and more thorough enjoyment in a
shorter space OF time than by a trip to
the mountains"
Prof. Chss. II. Woodwork tn, the
United States etymologist for the uni,
versity at Fayetteville, Ark, came
over to Missouri the other day and
captured a lovely bride, in the person
of Miss Leonora Stern, of Rolla. The
Missouri girls, like the Missouri men.
capture all the prizes whenever they
choose to compete.
DR.. j. Snider, living near Mcdonald.
Carter county, is n of the Oldest liv.
ing settlers of southeast Missouri.
Early in his career he was collector OF
he district now composed of Carter,
Ripley, Oregon and portions of Howell
and Shannon counties. This was in
1912 and the total taxes for that year
were $l67, of which amount $50 was
paid in wolf scalps.
Senator I'll. w. Johnson, of Mont
gomery county, is already being urged
by democratic newspapers of his dis
trict to become a candidate to succeed
himself in the state senate. This is
Senator johnson has always
been an honor to his constituency and
a credit to the state in the trying |
positions in which he has sometimes
found himself in both branches VI the
legislature.
Mr.. Louis Austermell, an esteemed
landmark of Hermann, died recently |
At Kansas City and was buried at his
under the solemn aud beautiful
auspices of the Odd Fellows, an elo-
luent discourse being delivered at the
grave by his friend, DR.. G. Ettmueller.
Mr.. Austermell was born in Germany,
Dec. II. 1908, came to this country ~
1888 and located at Hermann in 1889, |
where he ever since resided.
Prof. Ebaugh, who had just been
prin cipal of the Troy public
choOls and opened the fall term ,receiv.
d a 81 900 clerkship. the other day and
70 lost no time in handing in his resigna-
ion and departing Tor Washington. ID.
}. The sudden movement on his part
emporarily disarranged the schools of
but the directors have learned,
robably, that a democrat who stands
! no danger of being called to Wash
this year is better material for a
rincipalship.
Mr.. Geo. w. Penn, clerk of the
rcuit court of Galloway county. was {
in the deepest grief, last week,