The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-05-16
STATE NEWS.

Warrensburg is to have free express
delivery.
The Richmond public schools closed
this week
Butler would like the luxury of a
county fair.
Forepaugh's circus will be at St.
Louis the 18th
st. Louis Grand Army posts will OBJ
serve Decoration Day on a bIg scale.
a Richmond farmer has an apple
tree eight feet two inches in circumfer-
ence.
Mexico and Fulton are having n
windy war of words about the recent
small pox scare.
Sam Jones says he will lecture at
Moberly June Goth, if they sell enough
tickets in advance.
Hon. Richard Dalton, of Rails coun-
ty, thinks of becoming candidate for
governor next year.
A Mexico young man goes to see his
girl every evening in the week and has
kept it up for two years.
Sedalia thinks the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas road is on the point of going
out of the hands of the receivers.
st. Louis postal clerks have organiz-
ed, and now we'll have II strike if the
postal cards are not written on Il type
writer.
Mexico had meeting of deacons of
the Presbyterian church this week, and
Columbia is in the midst of circus
to-day.
The State Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows will meet in st. Joseph on the
18th. A Rebecca Lodge wiz also be
held there ut the same time.
The express company will soon begin
delivering packages free at Warrens-
burg, and Baldwin, of the Standard, is
having made cut of the new wagon.
Kansas City has such poor base
ball club that they're afraid some cross
roads club will challenge it and force
it from last place in the Western asso-
citation.
A Howard county Baptist preacher
calls Christian preacher of that coun-
ty ssCampbellite, and the Christian
gets back by calling the other a ''forty-
gallon Baptist
The Audrain county local option law,
which was declared imperative short
time ago, on account of an irregularity
i'm the certification of the returns, has
been reinstated.
In the Interstate oratorical contest
, at Des Moines, To-, May 9TH, Frank
Divelbiss, winner of the Missouri medal
} delivered his oration, "a Message from
the Old World to the New
Nj. l.. Jacobs, whose cousin, H. X
Jacobs, is one of the largest theatrica
managers in the United States, ha,
been selected to manage Sedalia's new
summer theater ut Forest Park.
Col. Frederick Lyde, one of the frs
settlers of Livingston county, a soldie
in the famous Missouri Mormon war
and several times sheriff of that county
died at Mooresville, Saturday ,aged S3
e Tom Williamson, the Sedalia tripl
5 murderer, expects the supreme court t.
, release him on the 25th, in which even
, he proposes to hunt up the reporter
. and avcngc all the mean things they'v
! said about him.
The trial of Ridley Thomas, for nun
: der, ut Warrensburg, has been post
poned until the 10Th. The murder wa
committed in Saline county, when a
, old man and his wife were killed
Thomas was tried on one charge
Sedalia last year and acquitted.
v The defamation contest of Wlllial
il Jewel college of Missouri took place
h Leavenworth, Kas., last night i'm Il
o Baptist church II. l.. Bright, OF lIa
d risonville, Mo-; G. b. NJ. Truck
Everest, Kan. T.. Il. Shaw of ST. Loui
II W. j. Williamson of Weston, Mo-, IN
l. Charles ID. Kelly of Arkansas City, Kan
Il were the cont teStantS.