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

Cedar county has post Office named
Filley.
Carrollton is in the throes of cord
wood famine.
The Springfield car works burned
Monday night.
Carrollton tobacco factories are ruE-
ming at full blast.
j. C. johnson county surveyor of
Pettis county, died Sunday afternoon.
Heaven defend us! They're talking
of base ball association ut Slater,
Glasgow and Marshall.
Representative Harlan, of Galloway
county, is proud that he voted against
the goose bill in the last Legislature.
The editor of the Fulton Sun says he
is not akin to John L. Sullivan, but
will defend himself if pounced upon.
The Ledger says that .sMexico's
smallpox scare is the first failure we
have had around these parts for years.
Carrollton's town COW law went into
effect Monday, and the price of country
hay fell 90 cents on the ton right away.
Miss Callie Byrd has been elected
school commissioner of Dent county.
She's the kind of bird that should
not be Gagged.
The wife of the proprietor of the
Warrensburg Journal-Democrat, Mrs.
Belle G. Hynes,is the business manager
of that paper.
William b. Lee, who shot and killed
Thomas Maddox near Forest Greene,
in November, 1889, has been sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary.
The Carrollton Democrat does not
hesitate to say that the corner of the
Carroll county court house occupied
by the sheriff and treasurer is 'sabso-
lutely buggy
A coroner's jury at Elmer found that
Samuel Wiggins shot and killed John
Satterlield in self-defense, but the friends
of the dead man had Wiggins arrested
and bound over to the grand jury.
The Use of School Houses.
Secretary of State Eesueur has been
overwhelmed with applications for the
bill permitting the use of school houses
by +. & l.. L. and other secret societies,
means of giving it TO the public sends
ii TO us for publication. The section of
the statute, rs amended, is in these
words:
SECTION 1892. Care of property
and purchase of material.-The board
of directors shall have the care and
keeping of the school-house property
belonging to the district, except such
as may be especially coniided to the
district clerk. They shall provide the
necessary globes, maps and other APP
paratus for the school-room, shall keep
the house in good condition and repair
during the period school shall be
taught therein, as well rs the out-houses
belonging thereto and the grounds
comprising the site therefor, provide
fuel and other material necessary for
the use of the school, and the floors
shall he swept and fires made at the
expense of the district, and shall cause
an accurate account of the expense
thereof to be kept, and submit report
of the same at the ensuing annual
meeting. Nothing in this section shall
be SO construed as to prevent the use
OF any school-house for religious, liter
airy or other public purposes, or for the
meeting of any farmer or labor organi-
zation or society for educational pur-
poses, whether the same be secret or
otherwise, when such use shall be de-
manded by a majority of the voters. of
such district votingsat any annual or
special meeting where such question
was submitted; provided, however,
that when the use of the school-house
is allowed for the above named purpos-
cs, il shall be the duty of the party or
parties using it to keep it Clean and IN
good repair, and 10 leave it in as good
condition rs it was when they took
charge of il; provided, further, that
should the party or parties SO nsing the
said school-house fail TO comply with
the provisions of this act the directors
of such district may refuse them fufth-
cr use of it until said provisions are
complied with.
This law in effect from and after
June p, 1891.