The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-07-25

Some of the Lexington young ladies
seemed to have captured the Toronto
reporters, to man. The papers TEEN
with praises of the Missouri delegation,
Lexington coming in for n large share.
The following paragraphs are clipped
from the Empire of the 10Th:
Mr.. Ethan Allen, of the Lexington,
Mo, INTELLIGENCER, was one of the
arrivals yesterday.
Lexington, Mo, one of the leading
educational centers of that state, has
Il delegates in attendance at the big
convention. Among them are Mr..
Ethan Allen and his daughter Miss
Annie Mr. Allen has been the pub
Usher of Il newspaper in Lexington
since about 1856, and was once a part
ner of the notorious Pat DOnan in the
Caucasian, but for the past 20 years he
had been the editor and publisher OF
the INTELLIGENCER. Mr.. Alexander
A. Lesueur, the present secretary OF
state, was in partnership with Mr..
Allen.
The Missouri delegation held a meet
ing nj their headquarters in the York
street school ut 8 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. There are present over
800 members of the delegation in the
city, and about two-thirds of them
assembled ut yesterdays meeting. The
only business taken was the partia
organization of the members. They
will take two hours trip on the bay
and around the Island this afternoon
per steamer Eurydice. The delegation
will meet every afternoon in the sam,
place at ) O'Clock.
| Ii is II remarkable fact that Tho
ladies from Missouri are taller than
the American visitors from any otheI
| state.
The Toronto World of the 18th says
| When Mr.. Hughes asked the audi
ence to sing ''God Save the Queen
and "America," a Missourian near thu
reporters table said, .sWell ! don
know the tune of the first, but | know
the other" He was surprised TO iint
that one tune fitted both.
The three hundred delegates from
Missouri have taken up their head
quarters at the public school building
corner of York and Richmond streets
Prof. J. B. Blanton of Missouri Univer
sity is president of the delegates, ant
Mr.. A. 5. Coker is secretary. A meet
ing was called by these for last eve
ming, and organized for work.
| These from the Mail of the SAM
date:
A young lady of the Missouri delega
ton, speaking on behalf of herself ant
the rest of the ladies in the part,
said: ave all felt at home nj once il
this city, rs everyone tried to max
everyone else have rs nice II time n
they We're having. We visited tn
Falls of Niagara, and we can say moth
ing of them, as il is beyond our powe
to find adjectives in our vocabular,
sufficiently to express all we saw
With reference to drives about the city
we went of course, as teachers alway
get all they can for nothing, and
must say we got more for nothing THAI
we ever did before. Everyone you saw
greeted YOU with Didn't we have
lovely drive?' is not the city beauti
ful?' Each teacher declared she ha
the incest gentleman or gentlemen i
the carriage. | say 'hurrah' for To
ron;o and the people, most of all for tn
people
The badge of the Missouri delega
ti6n is very prominent among the mum
crous delegates i'm attendance upon tn
convention. About 800 are here, an
others are arriving upon each train
Lexington, one of the largest educa
, tional ccnters of this great State,
represented in the convention by |
drlerateS-l5 ladies and two gentle
men. Prof. l.. f.. Wolfe, state super
intendent of public schools in Nilsson
ri, is attending the convention. Prof
j. L. Blantom, state principal of tn
Kirksville Normal School, is also i
attendance. lie has lately been electe
to the professorShip of pedagogy in tn
State University, Columbia. Prof. &
W Armstrong, teacher of natura
, sciences in the Kansas City llig
, school, is attending the convention
His silver-grey hair and long, sand
whiskers, as well as his suavity {
manners, make him "a prominent mem
Der of the Missouri delegation. ProI
}. X. Kirk, professor of mathematic
in the Kansas City, Mo, High schoo
is II prominent member of the sam
delegation. A large number of Nilsson
rians took Il trip to Niagara Falls las
. Monday on the steamer Cih"la. The
are II Jolly crowd and kept matter
lively on the boat, the singing G
national airs and popular songs, bot
comic and sentimental, being quite
prominent feature during the mornin
trip. Upon their return i'll the after
noon the lake was Il little rough, an
quite Il number made things lively i
another manner-such as is usual i
, windy weather with those who are nc
among those used to the play of tn
! "merrie waves"