The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-04-25

Rainy for all out doors.
Peach trees are in bloom.
A big rain Sunday night.
No let up for the wet weather.
Pear trees are almost in bloom.
The circus will be here next month.
Sunday was somewhat warm and cloudy.
A good deal of sickness is reported by
physicians.
Lexington has the biggest street sprink-
Ter in the world.
A good many wild flowers have made
their appearance.
The time for the restraining of the town
goose is drawing near.
Kite flying and playing marbles fill up
the boys spare hours out of school.
The April number of the Central College
Gem was issued by the INTELLIaENcER
press this week.
w. z. Hickman has a field Of volunteer
wheat which he thinks will produce at
least 4 half a crop.
DIR. Crist said Tuesday that he had four
patients just recovering from severe at
tacks of pneumonia.
Ferd Butler, whose e~scapade was noted
in these columns last week, ran away the
second time Sunday.
The sooner some of the cross streets are
macadamized, the less profanity there will
be by the Transfers in a wet spell.
c. II. Pool, clerk of school district No.
3, township 40, range %, has resigned, and
D.. A. Staley has been elected in his place.
Despite the heavy rain early Saturday
morning, a good many people were in
town, and trade was quite brisk in the
afternoon.
DR.. Tucker received a French bleached
human skeleton from Kansas City 4 few
days ago, one of the most perfect, he says,
he ever saw.
The would-be safe blowers who tried &c
crack Smith & Bottoms safe last Friday
night ought to practice blowing open G
can of sardines.
Our advertisers occupy about half the
columns of this weeks paper. Blu there's
always room for all the advertisement
and all the news.
The Wellington school district has beer
remodeled and comes out under flying
colors as n village organization, with si>
observation-disclosures Democrat.
A wagon load of coal was stuck in the
mud on Sixteenth street, between Frank
lin and South, Saturday afternoon, ant
had to be partly unloaded.
We're going to have a circus. Sells viii
be here Monday, May 25th. The circus
will arrive by the Missouri Pacific on Sun
day, and will spend that day at rest.
One OF the most angry looking clouds
of the year came up from the southwest
at noon Tuesday, but the rainfall was
very light. The dark cloud vanished.
A. e.. Page, of Appleton City, Bate
county, who is worthy master of the state
grange, delivered Il lectute to u large
crowd ut the Lyons school house Thursday
night.
There is one citizen on Main street who
will vote as often us the law allows him
To restrain the town hog. A porker open
ed his front gate Monday and destroyed
several dollars worth of fine plants.
Constable Young arrested a negro man
on Tenth street Monday afternoon, anC
turned him over TO the city calaboost
keeper, on n charge of using profane, OBJ
scene and indecent language on the street
About the most fun the small boys have
is to help load u lot OF cattle into stoci
cars at the cattle pens. h amount o
yelling the average small boy does on suci
occasions would make a Comanche Indian
long for u pair OF leather-tipped lungs.
The ex~-coniederate home is now ready
for occupancy says the Higginsville Demo
crat. We are informed by DIR. j. j. Full
kerGon, of the local supervising committee
that the most needy OF the veterans vii
be admitted on presenting proper papers
Don't come without your papers.
A man from ~Higginsville, considerably
the worse for liquor, claimed to have lost
$50 at Bour g. Sons store Monday night
from a roll which he exhibited. Later ht
said some one was following him, and la
didn't know whether he had lost Thu
money or not. Mr.. Bour didn't think h
had dropped any.
IL is going to take a good deal of worl
to put the roads Of Lafayette county il
good shape, but is a work that ought by
all means to be done. Men who do onl.
half work when working the public road
make a great mistake. If there Is an!
time when honest, conscientious labo
should be performed, it is when men ar
called out to make public roads.