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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
Thn Pinneer Institution.

TMONG the oldest manufacturing
institutions in this section may
be mentioned the Winkler Fur
niture Company, whose factory and lum-
Der yards are located on the block bound
ed by Franklin avenue, South, Eighteenth
and Nineteenth streets. Twenty-Five
years ago the factory was started by Henry
and Fred Winkler, for The manufacture
OF medium and common furniture from
native hard and soft woods. Three years
g the company was Incorporated, the
shareholders being Henry and Fred Wink
Ter, with John F., julius, Oswald, Albert
and William Winkler associated with
them. The capital stock of the company
is S50 1000, fully paid. The company's store
and salesrooms are located in the double
front three story building at the corner
of Tenth street and Franklin avenue,
where is carried n full line OF the COM
pany's own manufacture and That of other
factories.
An INTELLIGENCER reporter talked with
William Winkler, the superintendent,
Wednesday afternoon, and was informed
that the volume of business had Increased
during the six months ended June3 30 over
the same period in 1890, a~ggregating some
SS5, 600. Thirty-eight to forty men are
employed, and some 81 400 paid in wages
every month. Native woods are used and
poplar from Tennessee. There has been
no difficulty in meeting all requirements
for local timber, n good price being paid.
The hardwoods grown here in Lafayette
county are excellent in quality.
The Winkler Furniture Company's
trade extends over Western Missouri,
Eastern Kansas and Nebraska. The finer
grades of furniture an-be manufactured
profitably the company being prepared to
meet all demands.
Ten hours constitute a days work, and
the full force has been kept employed this
year until a week or two ago., when the
factory was shut down during the dull
months.
There is no doubt that this is one of the
most important industrial enterprises in
the county. Native timber is used largely,
and much more proiitably to the land
owner thar if he had to depend on the
export trade. Good prices are paid, the
money stays Mt home, and there is profit
to all. Many of the leading homes in
Lafayette county are adorned with furni
ture made from wood grown buta few mile
away, and by men whose every interest Is
conferred within her borders. Tho Wink
lers are citizens of whom we may all be
proud.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
RuSSpIl's Buggy Sales.

During the past month ID. Russell, the
well-known carriage and buggy manufac-
turer, has old the following vehicles to
parties whose names are attached:
DR.. Sandifer Smith, road wagon.
Glenn BledsOe, road wagon.
Mrs. Witt, buggy.
Mr.. Hutchinson, spring wagon.
Mrs. Hosfelt, buggy.
Mrs. Geo. COrder, buggy.
Ben Hefter, buggy.
l.. V. Roth, buggy.
Mr.. Krause, buggy.
Dooley & Caldwell, wagonette.
Mr.. Trobaugh, buggy.
III. G.. Wallace, buggy.
Mr.. Krouch, buggy.
o. Wilson, buggy.
Wash Cooper, buggy.
George Green, buggy.
Ferd Smith, buggy.
Ed. White, buggy.
Mrs. Henry GelZer, surrey.
James Moorehead, surrey.
DIR. Ridge, surrey.
Travis Buford, surrey.
James McGrew, o wagon.
John Gordon, of Dover, buggy.
Dooley & Caldwell, Higginsville, buggy,
William Walker, OF Page City, buggy.
Mr.. Fox, of Dover, cart. 5-23-tf
VIM. Patterson, surry.
Geo. Galloway, spring wagon,
DR.. Tucker, Timpkin buggy.
John Taylor, spring wagon.
Mark L. Belt, Jr., snrry.
Mark l.. Belt, Jr., Fauntleroy.
The last two go to Higginsville. The
"Fauntleroy" was a remarkably handsome
vehicle, and the admiration of all who
saw it.
The following vehicles were sold thi!
week:
Mrs. Stephen Wilson, buggy.
Judge Richard Field, buggy.
NJ. II. Belt, Jr., buggy.
NJ. II. Belt, Jr., buggy.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
An Infant Industry.

T~IE manufacture of hemp has not been
n during the past twenty years what it
~ should nave been in this county, as
il is clearly demonstrated that it yields
larger returns than wheat, and that the
soil of Lafayette county is peculiarly
adapted to its growth.
John Niblock is now operating II hemp
factory successfully in the canncry build
ing, on South Twentieth street, and keeps
thirteen men steadily employed, paying
out $500 n non in wages.
The process of manufacture embraces
breaking, cleaning, softening and CONVEX
sion into spinning tow, in which shape it
is baled and sold 10 the spinners in New
York. Mr.. Niblock expects to be prepar-
ed, against another crop, to turn out n ton
OF fibre a day. He pays so II ton for the
rotted straw at the factory, and says, at
that price, n farmer can realize from $50
to S25 an acre-morc by several dollars
than for wheat. He has bought the yield
of 80 acres in Lafayette county, and next
year expects to have not less than 800.
This is an institution OF II good deal more
Importance to the town and county than
the farmers seem to realize, but it will
grow with the years.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

The high water has played sad havoc
with u field Of wheat belonging to City
Marshal Hamlet, of this city and situated
in the bottoms opposite Riverton. The
wheat was nearly ready to harvest, but
the water stood several inches deep on the
ground, and it would have been impossi-
BILE to reap the grain. Some of the land
upon which the wheat stood has fallen
into the river.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

The evangelistic committee ofthe South
ern Presbyterian church OF Missouri met
here Tuesday, with the following mem
bers in attendance:
Rev. G.. L. Leyburn, ID. d., Boonville,
chairman.
Rev. $. M. Neal, ID. d., Kansas City.
Rev. A. A. Wallace, Mexico.
II. s. McPheeters, st. Louis.
Judge Xenophon Ryland and 8. G.
Wentworth, Lexington.
1t was n regular monthly meeting o.
the committee, and only routine business
was transacted. h visiting member
left for their homes that evening.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
THE
RaCkctSt0re

Here we are again, with a little piece
for the readers of this paper. We are
still selling goods as low as ever and have
well earned the title of The Cheapest
Store i'll Lexington. Below we quote a
few prices, not advertising leaders, but
Regular Prices asked by us at all times
Turkey Red DamaSh, pc a yard a;
Checked Glass Crash, Is in., l0c Il yard
40 IN. Cream Scrlm, &c a yard Coats
Thread, 4c best Silk Thread, Sc; Twist,
PC; Basting Thread, &c best English
Needles, &c a paper Dress Braid, lie;
Safety Pins, . dozen for &c, all sizes
large lines of Dress Buttons, at &c Il
dozen: III Agate Buttons. &c; COrsets
at 45c, worth 75c; Fine Satteens Corset,
soc, worth double finest quality Table
Oil Cloth, DC Il yard: Ladies' Ribbed
Cotton Vests, sleeveless, at l0c; we have
the best grade of Ladies' Hose ut Zoe in
town black, gray and fancy colors, bet
ter, goods, 15c and pc; Combs, Brushes,
Purses, etc, Laces from llc n yard up {;
Embroidery, s., Z, s and &c a yard up {;
- xxx Envelopes, &c; MuciIage, &c Il
bottle; 4 papers Tacks, SC: Perforated
Chair Seats, 10c Mems Work Shirts,
sic and upwards /; Jeans Pants, $I.l0
and $I.35; COttOnade Pants, 81, $l.I0,
$l.35 and 81 50 Selisia, 12c a yard Sat
teen Corset Jean sc a yard Unlaundred
Shirts, 4Sc Linen Collars, Zoe Cellu-
loid Collars, 15c Ladies' hemmed, print,
ed border handkerchiefs, &c, Ladies'
glove grain button shoes, screw fastened
solid, 81 Ladies' Kid Shoes, 81. 30,SI IS
81. 80, SD up to 1922 call and SEE
those 81 80 shoes genuine Dongola, ilexi'
BILE sole and every pair warranted. Full
of Mems, Boys and Children's Shoes a
Racket Prices. Strictly Cash and ont
price to all.
THE RACKET STORE,
Opp. Morrison-W Wentworth Bank,
Lexington, Mo
New York office, $40 Broadway. m2lml
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
nrnwneI While Bathing

William Zennen, aged % years, residing
with his parents, near Richmond and Lex
ingt on Junction was drowned in a slough
on the Ray county side OF the river Sun
another young man were bathing, when
Zennen suddenly gave up and went to the
bottom. His body was recovered by some
Lexington men near him when he was
drowned. Mr.. Zennen was Il relative of
Charles G%raendorf, of this city.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

The undersigned, public administrator
of Lafayette county, will on Monday Au-
gust 3, 1891, during the August term OF
county court, sell in front of h court
house door, by authority of an order of
the probate court made June 30, 1891, all
the store accounts belonging to the estate
OF 8. 3. Reeder, deceased, which now re-
main unpaid. Sale to take place at half
past one O'Clock. Terms cash,
STEPHEN N. WILSON,
7-At4 Public Administrators.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

neaNy macnlnery Is pre-
pared to say how far and how much Lex
ington's influence reaches beyond the
limits liked by law as the city's boundary.
There is sweet music in moving machin-
cry to the ear attuned to the growing
needs and requirements OF a people, and
there is food for thought when a new
wheel is started or an old one given an ac-
celeration of speed. There may be IA veri-
table Garden of Eden surrounding town;
the sweet smell of new mown hay, and
the undulating wave of ripening grain
may I'LL ones mind with visions of peace
and plenty; there may be lowing herds
and rows of trees laden with their crops
of luscious fruits; there may be the merry
MARBLE of birds and the concordant hum
Of insects in the deep foliage by the cool
roadside; the brook may sing ever so sweet
a ditty as it ripples over its pebbly bed.
But there can be scarcely a more whole
some sound-a more rollicking, impulsive,
laughing sound to tingle in the ears OF
mortal than hat which floats on the noon
day breeze from some busy mill, or foun-
dry, or shop, as iron meets iron, and ex-
pansive force finds escape over belt or
pully.
Whoever it was that first gave motion
to machinery builded far beyond his ken,
for now, as we watch the fast revolving
wheels of a big Touring mill or the slower
and steady revolution of the cylinder of
printing press, we see but the beginning
of an epoch which can only end with the
accomplishment of the complete mastery
of mind over matter.
1t is the province of the writer of this
series OF special articles to speak of the
institutions OF the chief city and capital
of Lafayette county from the standpoint
of public good. 1t is well enough to say
in the start that the INTELLIGENCER is
actuated by a selfish motive-selfish in
this, that it believes in the prosperity OF
the town n county, has a sort of pro-
prietary right in the sum OF the good
things which go to make up that prosper,
ity. No town or county can hope for any
measure of prosperity from manufacture
without the hearty cooperation of all the
interests involved, and there should be nc
spirit of selfish pickering and squabbling
over the details which form the complete
whole.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

Marshall Gray, a colored resident Of
North Lexington, died from hemOrrhage
oi the lungs at his home Sunday night.
lie had been afflicted for some time. His
remains were inferred Monday afternoon.
At all times, i'll all places, on all occa-
siOns, under all circumstances, for all
headaches, use ~BradycrOtine only.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
Tourists Tickets to the Mountains

The summer tourist tickets for the sea-
son of 1891, to Denver, Colorado Springs,
Manitou,. Pueblo, Trinidad, Las Vegas
Hot Springs, Estes Park and idaho Spings
are now on sale at greatly reduced rates
via the popular Santa Fe route. Tickets
are good until October 81, with stop-ovel
privileges ut pleasure anywhere i'll Colo
ado
Solid Vestibule trains carrying elegant
free reclining chair cars and Pullman
palace sleeping cars. Parties destined tC
Colorado Springs and Manitou arrive
there next morning for breakfast.
For tickets, Pullman berth, and ful
particulars regarding summer tourist
tickets call at ticket office corner Ninth
and Main streets, Lexington, Mo.
JOHN TAUBMAN, Agent.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
Fourth of July Excursion.

The Santa Fe railroad company will sell
excursion tickets to all points east of the
Missouri river ut one and one-third fare
for the round trip. Dates OF sale July Sd
and 9TH. Return limit July 9Th.
6-27-2t JOHN TAUBMAN, Agent.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

contract for the shipment OF a part of his
product direct to Great Britain. His ilou
now ranks with the best manufactured,
one Texas firm writing under recent date
that it was the best.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
Heir to $500, 900.

NEW YORK, Nov. GA dispatch
was received yesterday from Baltimore,
announcing that George III. Beiser, of
Brooklyn, had become heir to Il vast es-
tate there, valued ut $500, 600. The prop
erty came through relatives who emf
grated from France in the days of the
HuguenOts. Mr.. Beiser is an account
ant in a Fulton street clothing house.
Bruce's Law and Inquiry Agency, of
Chicago, H., prosecuted his claim
Louisville Courier-JOurnal, Nov. y.
We are Mr.. Beiser's lawyers, and by
him seeing our advertisement, became
the agents of his good fortune. II
your ancestors came from the old coun,
try. write us and inclOse 81 for III list
of heirs. There are more than half d
billion dollars in Great Britain and Ger,
many, unclaimed, which rightly belong
to people in the United States.
BruCe's Law and Inquiry Office,
l64 and l66 Randolph ST.,
6-6-l0t Chicago, ILL.,, |. 5. A.
For Sale.
A good telegraph instrument. For in
formation call at this office.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
lee to Suit.

f.. r. Meet has natural and manufacture
ed ice of finest quality on hand at all times
and in quantities to suit the purchaser.4t3
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

IS is the glorious 9TH
Of July the day on
which the American
congress plainly told
the king OF England
that it was IA bigger
man than he, and al
though it took seven
or eight years to do it,
it proved the matter
con c~lusively. Ever
since that day, way
back in 1776, before
Il good many of us
were born; before Jim
Nickel had won the
Gnn Tluh n,adol aynn
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
The Markets.

The wheat market at the trade centers
has been rather quiet and steady this
week. A good deal of speculative think
ing is going on as to the outcome of the
harvest now in progress, and the foreign
demand for American wheat. If the for
eign demand equals present expectation,
there will be a brisk market here from
the time the first carload is sent in. AT
Kansas City the following were yester-
days quotations.:
Cash, 81 "a SIC; July, 1890; red cash Sac.
At st. Louis the market was active and
stronger, at SOC.
The Chicago market was steady at $3.50
for cash and July, and S7Rc for August.
Corn was quoted very strong at Kansas
City and firm at st. Louis and Chicago, at
54k "a 54hc at the first named place.
Cattle have been steady and a shade
higher, at 1915 "a 5.75 for good to choice
syeers.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
Hogs steady, S4.45 "a Ass.

In Lafayette county a liberal estimate
places the damage by Sunday nights rain
as high as 10 or Il per cent. Harvesting
is going briskly on, and with fair wealth
er the major part OF the crop will be safe
by tonight or Monday night.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
EnI. Sale

Double store house and stock of general
merchandise at a bargain. One block east
of court house. JOHN Il.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
A CITY'S PRIDE.
Something of the Institutions Which
Add to Our Wealth.
MUSIC In WHIRRING WHEELS.
The Blue Ribbon Flour Mills OF the
State-The Hemp Industry-The
Furniture FactOry-A Paying
Brewery.

ONE unacquainted with
the manufacturing indus
tries of Lexington is at
all prepared to speak OF
her resources and brilliant
prospects. No one to
whose ears has not come
the buzz of iast-revolving'
wheels and the crash of
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04
THE RAILROAD BUSINESS.

During the year just ended an even
thousand carloads of freight have been
handled-6O2 sent out and 1903 unloaded,
Those loaded out were as follows:
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-04

E8POhE TRADE
Mr.. McGrew has Just about completed n
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

ANY woman who lives in the country,
and who is not too stout, should be able TO
mount horse from the ground unaided.
II she attains TO be anything Of an eques.
trienne she should require no more assist
ance than a man, though she Is handi.
capped a little by reason Of her skirt. She
should lower tho stirrup sufficiently to
reach il with tho left foot; then placing the
right hand on the upper pommel and the
left hand on the lower pommel. by side
way motion, right shoulder forward,
spring lightly from her right foot and
swing herself into tho saddle.
Once there she should take her foot ont
Of the stirrup, place her right thigh In ita
proper position above the pommel and adj
just her dress. The stirrnp is shortened
from the right side by pulling up the strap
again. Agood dancer will soon learn "a
mount. carl A. Nyegaard in Ladies'
Home journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11
Dispatohea in tho State Department

As'f'-t~.ANN asH ts'V Ss~sC b'FNtsAaN"T
All dispatches Of international impor
tance are written by Mr. Blaine with his
own hand. Each communication OF the
sort he indites in tho shape Of rough
draft, which IL apt to DO full of corrections
and intcrlineations. This goes to copy
ist. who reproduces It in fair and beautiful
script on big sheets Of fine linen paper.
Next 1t Is copied into the record books, af-
ter the secretary OF state has signed 1t, but
II It Is to be sent by telegraph the pretty
copy on linen paper Is omitted. the record
book only preserving u transcript Of 1t for
future reference II needed
A single wire connects the Office with the
Western Union, and an operator Is always
at hand to receive and transmit messages
to all parts OF the world, at cut govern
ment rates. When dispatches arrive they
arc handed over by the chief clerk to the
officials for whom they are properly intend
ell, and such OF them as require translation
are given for that purpose to Mr.. Thomas,
the polyglot oiicial translator for tho de-
partment. Therea are others who assist him
in this work. but he is responsible for II
an.-Boston Transcript.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

One Of the curious features Of some Of
the Islands Of tss Pacific Is the tree village.
0neof these vilSages, on Isabel Island, Ii
built on the summit Of q rocky mountain,
rising almost perpendicularly to the height
of 800 feet.
The trunks Of the trees, in the branches
Of which the natives have erected theiI
houses, are perfectly straight and theii
surfaces smooth, while the distance from
the ground TO the first branch vnries from
70 TO 100 feet.
One OF these novel abodes Is ut q height
Of eighty feet above tho ground, while The
home Of neighboring one is forty feet
higher. Each house is reached by ladder
made Of some creeping vine, which Is slis.
pended from ono of the door posts, and can
be drawn mp when It Ia desired Each
house is large enough to contain ten ol
twelve persons, together with ammunition
for a long siege.
Such lofty babitations are only occupied
In time of war, at night or when danger L
expected. at other times the more con
venient and accessible huts on the grount
are preferred. New York World.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

In these days Of close figuring and small
profits nothing is despised by the man who
seeks to acquire wealth. It appears that
ia Scotland there Is a company which pays
scertain amount yearly to number OF
iron works for the privilege Of collecting
the smoke and gases from the blast fur
naces. These are passed through several
miles Of wrought iron tubing, and as the
gases cool there Is deposited considerable
yield Of oil One plant Is reported to
yield q, 900 gallons offurnace oil per week.
The sum paid for this privilege Is such as
to be profitable, it is said, to both parties.
The oil Thus obtained Is distilled and con-
siderable quantity Of cresol, phenol and
some other substances are procured from
It, while the oil remaining is used as an
enricher Of gas for Illuminating purposes.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

In London, one evening, was look
ing for the Alhambra. Not knowing
exactly in which direction to Co. stop.
ped to inquireo Of a passerby, when, sud
denly, the nameo Of the theater escaped
me entirely. Sol was obliged to ask,
"Doyou know where that large theater
Is near here--it begins with an Ar The
man replied at once, "Oh, you mean
the 'Aymarket, sir."--Cor. San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

The average boy isa dScoyerer as far
outranking Stanley ms Stanley outranks
garden mole. Point me to paint
pot, however discarded and presuin-
ably emptied II may be, which the boy
will not discover and embelllsh himself
with. Show nie a nail, lowsoever hid
den, which he will not find and pro-
ceed to rend his garments on, Take
me to u spot in the garden where a
credulous relative has planted sweet
pea seed, in the fond anticipation Of
floral return of purple, pink and white,
which the boy, in company with the
hen, has not devastated, Have you
buried the family cati Give the boy a
chance and he will resurrect the re-
mains.
Have yon found a place to hide the
garden rake and secude the hoe and
| the spadcl lie will lind them. And
yet adore him, provided there is no
malice in his mischief. love to have
him around. II he is truthful and
brave and pure there is not a trick he
plays nor destructive thing he does
that is not the very spice and pepper
to my broth Of life, 1t Is kicking
against the prickS to try and keep a
boy spick and spandy-give il up SO
far as the exterior goes, for who cares
for dude under the age Of tent
But see to 1t, | charge and double
charge you, that you abate not your
efforts by day nor by night to keep his
soul clean and his thoughts pure It Is
not soiled hands and rent trousers, a
brilnless hat and grimy shoes, that eyi.
dence the boys character and training
it's the language he uses and the things
he finds to laugh at, the avoidance Of
cruel sports and the championship Of
defenseless and tinid things, that set
the trade mark on your boys value In
the sight Of heaven. Chicago Herald.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11

Thirteen has been an unlucky num-
Der for ME" announced certain
drummer sadly. ~ was the thirteenth
child and have always played in hard
luck. When was thirteen years Of
age ! had typhoid fever. Later in life
] was run over by street car No, 10.
In school | was for long time number
thirteen In Il class that counted thirteen
pupils; so | actually began to seSarl
thirteen with III WIN Well, gentle.
men, Il proved to be particularly un-
lucky when ! began to travel on the
road Ionce called on a party, and af-
ter much persuasion managed to sell
him a bill Of goods, | was elated.
when counted 1t up | found to
my surprise that 1t amounted 10 81, ,3l3.
To make matters worse, II was the thir-
teenth order had taken, and was sold
on tho thirteenth day Of the month.
Such an ominous combination Of thir-
teens BODIED no good. concluded that
the party would fall, and counseled my
firm not to ship the order"
"Did the party faili" asked the other
drummer in suspense.
No, that's Just the unlucky part Of
1t. No, he is as good as gold today,
and throws Inc out Of doors whenever
approach him for an order. ] tell
you thirteen is a bad nuinberlp-Ex.
change.