The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-05

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potatoes.
Quail shooting should not be INDUCED in
before the 10th Of October. 1t is against the
law and the penalty is severe.
We have this week been presented with
twJ lots of second crop apples, one OF the
lots being so near ripe as to have considera-
be fragrance.
Mr.. Franklin 5trlder, of Ray county,
brought to this city last Monday several
monstrous pumpkins. among them one
weighing 1l5 pounds.
On account of business engagements Mr.,
Robt. Hicklin, who was one OF The delegates
appointed to the Topeka deep-water cOnyen-
ton, was unable to attend.
The Smith brothers are converting the
builcing formerly occupied by Mr.. Bates
Vaughan, on Thirteenth street, near the b.
f. c., into q nice swell-front residence.
The Odessa people have made great prepar.
tions for the tariff reform picnic at that place
to-day, and those who fail to attend will miss
one Of the most ENJOYABLE occasions of the
season.
The street car track is in u dangerous cOndi-
ton for vehicles almost its entire length from
Thirteenth street east. Unless attended to
soon the city will have another damage suit
on hand.
The weather the past week has been ex-
ceedingly favorable for the growers Of to-
matoes, the hot SUI ripening the fruit IN
large quantities. -Four hundred bushels TO
the acre Is about the averge yield this year.
"Belford's" for October will contain be-
sides It's complete long novel, THE DEVILS
Anvil, )" by Mary Kyle Dallas. and no less than
30 other articles; 1t will be the most comple'e
aud interesting number from every point yet
issued.
Miss Tarlton, daughter of Mr.. G. L. Bellies,
has placed US under obligation for W very
fine pears, one OF which tipped the beam at
one pound and five ounces. the other being
but little less in size. She also sent at the
same line three Of last years apples, sound
and of delightful flavor. Thanks.
Now that the bridge Is completed and has
settled down to steady business, let us again
agitate sinking a shaft for natural gas, ~artesian
water, thicker beds of coal and anything and
everything else which the anger shall reveal
as hidden beneath the surface of mother earth.
We must not stand still. The world moves
and we must move with it.
l have found by experience, says the editor
of one of our exchanges, that little red ants
cannot travel over wool or rag carpet.
covered my floor with coarse baize, set my
sofa on that, and have not been troubled
since. Cover a shelf 10 your closet or paptry
with flannel, set whatever you wish to keel
from the ants on 1t, and they will at once dis.
appear.
The Sick.-Prof. j. d. Blanton is GONZALES.
cent. Mrs. Jno. Wilmot Is able to sit up 6
short time every day. Mr.. Pete Hale is get
ting along nicely and will soon be up again
Mr.. Jno. johnson Is still very low and nc
hopes of his recovery can be reasonably en-.
tertained. Miss Oracle Edelin, Il much bet.
ter. Mr.. Bird Campbell was in town last
Thursday, having entirely recovered, and
Frank Is able 10 walk about the house and
door yard. Mr.. Ben Coen Is convalescent.
The chigger may CHG with all his might
and the hooking bird mock and sing, but the
Missouri crop It takes the cake. and corr. you
bet, is king. The cricket may crick and the
froglets frog. and the farmer sing his strain
for the missouri corn is always On top,a result
Of plenty of rsip. The chinch bug may chinct
and the grasshopper grass, and the hot wind.
make you tire, but II any one says there are
such things here, just call him a horrible liar.
Now Oklahoma may boom and Texas NAV
howl, and Kansss shoot off her CHI Dp, but
Missouri IS the place to get a good home and
raise a great big crop.
Among the announcements OF the Century
for last year was one of a series of %"letterl
home" from Japan, by tn American artis
Mr.. John La Fargo. The letters have beef
| revised and expanded into u series covering
the landscape, art, architecture, life and reli'
| gion of japan, for which Mr.. La Fargo ha
made q great number of illustrations, anC
these papers are to be q feature of the Cen.
turv during the coming year. Mr.. La FARCE
brief paper on Japanese art, published In Mr.
Pumpelly's 'Acro>s America and Asia" wa
one of the earliest thoroughly appreciativ,
essays on the subject Of Japan.
Second Ward SCHOOL, Scholarship, I'd an
I'd grades-Mary Rulings, Eddie Venable
Frank Gordon. Katie Farrar; 4th and 81
grades-FanDie Russell. Rudie Schaefer
never. Florence Hall, Oscar Hacker, DEM
Siuddard. Annie Ripple; 9th grade-Everet
Bledsoe, Otis Butler. Elmo Saunders, Ernec
Graendorf, Willie Davis, Walter Reedel
George Tunstall. Mamie Brigbtwell, Deli
Standlsh. Edna Butler. Ella Baehr. Homo
Roll, I'd and Sd grades-Mary Rulings, Eddi
Vensble, May McCIntock. Emma Wei,
Maud Graham. Walter StandIsh; 4th and 5
arsdes - Fannie Russell, ZelIa Studdart
Annie Hoff nan. Frank Mountjoy, HERNIA
Jordan, Bette Trail, Florence Hall. Add
Wilker, Annie Ripple. Lizzie Andrew. Fal
ME Huston; 9Th g~rade-Eyerett Bledsoe, VI
Butler, Elmo Saunders, Ernest Graendor
George Tunstall, Mamie Brightwell, Dell
Standish, Josie Hutchison.
waverly:-Mr. James Gaunt who has bee
quite III for some time with typhoid lever
convalescing. 8. B. Harris, of LIviDgstoI
Alabama, and Mr.. s. J.. Sentlock aud Mr.
Lulu Harris, are the guests of j. e. Cord
and family. Miss Carrie Oliver who has bee
spending some time In this city visiting rel
tives returned to her home In MAYHEM, Fr
day. DIR. s. B. Harris is in this city to r
4 . "SOhs III SpCuSOl was III Ills u
!, Sunday, Miss Poena Goodwin WHO Is a
tending the Catholic institute In Marsha
! spent Sunday at home. John Tracy was
this city Sunday calling. Miss Allie Renic
3 OF Columbus, Ohio. visited her brother al
family the past week. Mrs. Z. 8. Dinwidd
: who has been visiting in Lexington for son
d time, came home Tuesday. Ed. Edwar
. ard urifa tuara in this oitu Eatu.Jay NJ;
8 Minnie Reno spent several days of the pa
week In this city. The shooting match W
= well attended on Monday evening. W.
Morrison who visited his brother the ps
4 week has returned home. q. NJ, Bickfol
4 took possession Of the postofice Mond
q morning. be being Miss Mamie Henry
d successor. Joe Smith has been in this c
y returned to Columbia Monday where he "a
II to finish his law course. Messrs. Ora
It Frank Goodwin and G. N. Buford attend
,e the pontoon celebration Monday.
h John Hauschild. Familiarity known
dutch john" who owns a farm and II
upon 1t just at the Ray county landing of
r p~ontoon bridge, is In the deepest grief and
sr a loss to know what has become of his OF
son, John. a lad sixteen years Of age. Nj
day evening he was granted permission
ie his father to come 10 this side Of the riyel
r. witness the games that were In progress
l. the sand bar. Tit last that was seen
at heard OF him was at four O'Clock IN the c
al ming. on the bridge, and his father firmly
TO lieves he fell into the river and was drown
The general belief. though, Is that the
OF has gotten tired OF home and has run av
His father describes his boy as being ''sev