The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-04-05
Circuit court Monday,

Annual stallion show day Monday. Don't
fall come TO Lexington that day.
Trim up that long-ea"ed, bowling Jack OF
yours aud bring him to town Monday.
Mr.. u. Lee Smith has removed to his farm.
near HIgginsville. Mr.. John LOOMS will
occupy his nice cottage on Main street.
Mr.. Jonas D. Ferguson, OF Sni-a-bar town.
ship, thinks the wheat crop In his township
has been injured fully dny per cent. by the
late unfavorable weather.
TIL building boom has commenced here
early this spring. Six or eight good houses
are already under way and more being con-
tracted Tor nearly every day.
Mr.. Jos. b. Shelby, Jr., on last Tuesday
sold out his interest In the grocery stock
belonging TO the firm Of Trigg q Shelby, Mr..
VIM. X. Trigg now being the sole proprietor.
Possession was given Immediately.
Greedy ane all.purpose stallion will make
the season OF 1890 at the Johnsiown breeding
farm, John s. Davis, proprietor. eight miles
south Of Lexington. The Kentucky Jack.
Sampson. will also stand at the same place.
Terms SIS TO insure.
G. B. Russell sold, last Wednesday, for +.
q. Walker, TO q. A. Kriehn. the old Laclede
hotel building and furniture and u lot In the
rear OF the hotel. Consider alton, S5. 200. Mr.
kriehn will commence Immediately TO re-
model aud thoroughly renovate the building.
Report OF First Ward school for the month
OF March: -sallie Brysrly, Eugene Hamlet.
Willie Welsh. Elsie Wendt, claude Luellen,
Lou Edmonds, Jessie Hamlet, Alice Crow
der, Blanche LIellen, Florence Duncan,
Raymond Luellen, Herman Starke. Thomas
Crowder, Bonnie Steele.
Esquire II. W. Thieman, of Concordia, and
mr.. Il, II. Luce. OF HIgginsy lie. were In the
city, Tuesday, having come here TO look at
the printing material Of the old Lafayette
County Post, which Mr.. Luce is figuring on
purchasing for the purpose re-establ fishing
the Higginsyille Leader, which was burned
last week.
Monday Is the annual stallion show day for
this county and IL Is 10 the interest OF every man
who owns one of these animals 10 have HIM
looking his finest and bring him to this city on
that day. Persons who are looking for the
best to breed to will be here to see all the
stations and jacks together and then aud
there decide which one they most desire.
Under = Bunch light" Is the picturesque
title Of the four-psge supplement In Harper's
Weekly to be Published April 10. The arti.
Gle Ia by Minnie Buchansn Goodman. and
describes what 10 to be seen before and behind
the curtain an bour or 80 before the produo.
tion OF an opera. 3 tragedy, q comedy, or q
pantomime. Arthur j. Goodman will furnish
the accompanying Illustrations.
From q circular Issued BY Mr.. Homer Luce,
OF the Higeinsvllle Leader, we learn that he
Is making arrangements whereby the pub
location OF his paper will be commenced
again III about three weeks. In addition 10
the loss OF his printing material. all his books.
dies aud papers Of every description were
burned. He requests all his old subscribers
TO send In their names 30 the paper can be
again sent 10 them.
The annual school election wss held last
Tuesday. and Ia this city resulted as follows:
For school directors, three years. 1.-TWO TO
elect) B. II. John, $50; Geo. r. Venable. 1875
for one year tone to elect) X. b. Dlckey, 100
For county D vision, 81; against supervi-
sion. "a. For road oyerseer Frank w. DAVIS
rsceIye cd two votes al this place and two ri
Hicklin's school house. Mr.. Walter Newman
who was not q candidate. also received two
votes.
II you have, no fear Of the mysterious here
after Just ask Postmistress Jennie BerrIe oil
her deputy Tom Crenshaw II the "Wabash Il
In" Toms several days OF sickness lasi
week Ia attributed To the mental agony caus-
ed by the patrons OF the Office Propoundlni
this question TO him. He stood IL all RICH
until street providers got 10 the habit Of goins
10 the Office door at midnight, rafting thu
door and yelling, "rom. II the Wabash inS'
People who have been nsing the expression
sthis Is good weather for ducks probabl!
never knew how true the saying has beef
this week until they read the following
Mrs. A. v. Robinson. along with u lot o
other poultry, keeps four white ducks whlcl
she locked up 10 n chic ken house last Mon
day morning. Before locking them up sht
robbed the nest OF the two eggs which were Il
Il. Tuesday morning she opened the house ;
feed them and upOn looking In the nest agal
found that Il contained ten eggs. This Is no
snake story nor like the ordinary due
story but " an ACTUAL fact -four ducks reall
did lay ten eggs In twenty. four hours.
Tou can beat this you can have tho entir
Lskery.
AutD bluGNa VII ANHN - W.
the city authorities 100 copies Of the new
revised ordinances OF the city OF Lexington
The book contains 2gT pripied pages, lib
charter OF the city aud the ordinances. wit
amendments, taking up even 200 pages an
the index n pages. The work Of reyisiO
and the indexing OF The book was done In
highly crediIabie manner by our very comp
tent city attorney. Geo. Price. In this mat
ter as In sll others Mr. Price has done h
work thoroughly and promptly and N to :
congratulated npOn the fact that be has con
biIed the best book Gi ordinances the city hs
Sad for many years. For The use of each
tbe city officers books with cloth and leslhe
binding were furnished.
Mr.. Pat Msrshall,o OF Washington township
informs us that q cyclone Of no small diner
ss,,cns passed through bis neIghborhood th
same day that ope made such fearful wor
Al Louisville. Fortunately this one did yer
little damage. IL passed only u SHORT dIstanc
north OF ths residence OF Mr.. Henry Ewini
where 10 blew Town considerable fencing
tbsnce TO the Porter place. where IL tosse
TWO Lsy stacks high Ia the air aud then fore
bly threw them dow to the ground sGaii
III AInO HlEuGk ~ - VIZ httas "ADfN ~
stalks had hsen cut but not vet raked,
pathway about 100 yards wide was swept
cIesnly OF Nil debris as could have been dor
with a broom. II then seemed 10 rise big
In the air aud nothing further was hear
from It.
Mr.. Thos. Ashbumer, representing Mr..
l.. Waddfll, Of Kansas City. who IL the 81
kineer aud western representative sf u
Pbuuix Bridge Co, OF Philadelphia, capI,
10. 900, 600. has been In the city This wee
interesting some OF our prominent bnsIne
men and capitalists in regard to putting
Bier wagon bridge over the river at Ih
nuiaes, he requires that tbe city or IndIVli
dsls' shall give the bridge company 500, 900
honus andguairaptbe that the gross receipt
nan be $4,000 per year upon a toll bss
snob as IL Of present charged by The peHtoC
nIIdse company He lsft yesterday for kar
"a, EIiy, but will return al any time whe
noti6ed hat there IL n reasonable chance ID
SIa oaey wiz be accepted. That the baidiT
= = ,haS bridge would be Of immense advantal
40 out city there can be no doubt. but tbi
~rSzens will feel able to comply with Il
coubns demanded just NJ present we lhII
: sIsAgIy problemsticsl.