The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-25
Weekly I~ntelligencer.
Dusty Sunday.

River getting low.
A heavy rain Monday afternoon.
Monday night was cool enough.
Cortland spring wagons, Senden's.
Mantels, at Winkler Furniture Co.
Cool and cloudy Monday morning.
Screen doors, complete 81, Senden's.
Buy your straw hats at ii. Sinauer's.
American Rambler bicycles, Senden's.
There was NJ lust to speak OF Tuesday.
Bard wire $40 per 100 pounds, Senden's.
A few native peaches coming to market.
Lawn ~settees, ut Winkler Furniture Co.
Agency Columbus Buggy Co., s%enden's.
Call and see the Crystal water filter at
Senden's. 6-27-tf
Baby carriages, at Winkler Furniture
Company. 5-2-tf
Siberia refrigerators, ut Winkler Fur
niturS Co, 5-2-tf
The dust prevented the usual Sunday
buggy riding.
Every spring suit in the house goes at
cost, at ii. Sinauer's. 7-dtf
The Bank of Higginsville has ordered
5000 stamped envelopes.
10 per cent reduction on Alaska Refrige-
ators to close out, at Senden's. 6-27-tf
White and fancy vest and summer ties
in endless variety at IL. Sinauer's. 7-iti
20 summer coats for boys rom fourteen
to eighteen years at DC, at II. Sinauer's.
Some of the leading farmers of the coun-
ty attended the Farmers Alliance meeting
here Saturday.
The 5-year-old son of Fred Schupp, of
Marshall, was drowned Monday morning
in a steam swollen by recent rains.
George Farrar saw u woman and child
leaving his henhouse Sunday night. He
didn't ascertain their mission.
Recorder Meet had a ''plain drunk" be-
fore him Monday morning. A plea of
guilty was entered and a fine of 50 assessed.
Will Musgrove, in the Barber County
(Kas.) Index, tells of peaches selling for
ten cents "a bushel in a slow market, and
peaches n plums being fed to the hogs.
Some one rode one of John G.. Worth
ington's horses away Saturday night, but
turned 1t loose, and il was found Sunday
morning.
A paragraph written by a man who
probably never heard of our horse railroad
is as follows: 'Don't run to catch a car
but wait for the next"
Will Catron has been elected to the chair
~ nraalr L. &Lo Afnalnla M;Iitarx,
Academy at Sweet Springs. Prof. Catron
is a graduate OF Harvard College, of the
class of 81.
A man with al air gun and a pocket
full of small shot made 1t quite interest
ing for the English sparrows along the
fronts OF the Main street stores Monday
afternoon.
w. IL. Carter, of Lexington, has been
elected principal of the Dover public
school. Mr.. Carter is an experienced
teacher and will give the Dover folks a
hrst-class acknowledgements Advance.
People who occupy our places here in
Lexington in the twenty-first or twenty
second centuries may nave to look out for
b~ackwater, as the Gulf of Mexico is said
to nave grown a foot higher during the
last IS years.
II the author of C~ushing's Manual OF
Parliamentary Practice were on earth and
should witness one session OF some city
councils the INTELLIaENoER wots of, he
would at once begin a strict and complete
revision Of his work.
Some one tried to make away with a lot
of ice from the ice house on the premises
of Mrs. DIR. Young Saturday night. HeI
son saw the man starting away with the
CONCEALED fluid, and fired three shots al
him from a revolver without effect.
Burglars tried to saw a blind in two al
the residence OF Councilman Fegert one
night last week, but were frightened from
the window before gaining IN entranc,
to the house. Mrs. Fegert heard the saw
and saw a mans hand at the window.
Walter Gray, colored, was fined $50 ant
costs in Justice Prices court Monda.
afternoon, by n jury, for carrying and dis
playing a weapon at a colored festiva
July 18th. He was fined s5 and costs 70
disturbing the peace at a former trial.
The McGrew mill started up in dea,
earnest Monday, and the engineer kept tn
whistle valve open for nearly five minute
in the afternoon. 1t was fun to watch tn,
boys faces as they asked the question
tWhere's the fret" and were told the fact
The inner guard rail ON the curve of tn
street railroad at Thirteenth and Frank
lin avenu became loose last week and on
end TODD several inches above the surfao
for a number of days. How the compan
eIcaped Gripping its W mules is a won
der.
A squad of United State soldiers, undo
Command of Lieutenant Patterson, {
route from the military prison at Fol
L~e4n9cEzorth to Governors Island, N. Y
pa&dtNn-aaough town Saturday Afternoon
They came west with seventeen militar
prisoners.
The mayor should see to it that TIL
street railway company complies with tn
terms of its charter in the matter of keeI
ing its track and roadway in a safe cond
tion. Thu guard rail at Thirteenth an
Franklin was in a very dangerous cond
tion for several days.
Harrison Miller, colored, was arreste
by Constable Young Saturday Afternoon
on q state warrant charging him wit
criminally %assaulting Pinkie Wilson,
colored girl IL years old, at her home
this city the day before. The girls cloth,
were torn and she was badly frightene
but was not hurt. Miller was locked u
Deputy Sheriff G. w. Jackson brougI
Charles Hoover, the crazy miner, up fro
Higginsville Saturday, this time for juml
ing on and off moving freight train
Hoover sent word to the girl he Is so mut
in love with that il she will only tell hi
she won marry him, he'll be Statistic
The young lady has never spoken to hiI
Ethan Allen writes from Tacoma tn
he fails to find any temperature figures
the INTELLIaENCER. Dear boy, II the Il
TELLIaENcER should print the reading
of the thermometer there'd be such a rul
to Lexington by those seeking a cool sur
mer resort that we couldn't find room (
all, and some would nave to sleep on ii
roof of the woodshed. No, "Pete;r Il
weather is not bad here. In fact, il bea
any climate on earth.
Our Lexington friends are rying
place US in an embarrassing position VIII,
we talk court house. They say Higgin
Vile ought TO nave the county Jail by
means, as we are better represented insi
the walls OF nat institution than al
town In the county. That NAV he fri