The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-05-09

Expanded Metal Fence. Senden's.
Thursday was little more like summer.
The Mason left.St. Louis for Kansas City
Thursday.
A new moon occurred mt lis yesterday
afternoon.
w. z. Hickman is lame from the kick of
n vicious cow.
The town COW is the acknowledged
queen of May.
The fire company was out practicing
evening.
Tuesday nights frost.
For a good, cheap sewing machine, call
on the INTELLIaENCER.
The ferry boat lands on the Ray county
side just below the pontOn bridge.
A good deal of loose dirt has been haul
ed off of Franklin avenue the past few
days.
The regular monthly meeting of the
building and loan association was held
last night.
Several persons are authority for the
that there was a very light
frost Wednesday morning.
If you don't believe that straws show
which way the wind blows, put on a straw
hat II test the matter.
A new small freight BOAT called the Ran
dali passed down the river without stop
ping Wednesday, at $3.50 a. m.
There was quite Il frost in the iowlands
Wednesday morning, but it is believed no
harm was done to vegetation.
Some strangers are inclined to poke q
little fun at us on account OF the billboards
the court house square, but we
can stand it.
II takes the average Lexington girl ten,
minutes to decide which she will forego,
an evening party, OF the s%ucculent and
fragrant onion.
Dave Smith and James Morrow have
bought Smith Bros grocery store, on
Franklin avenue, and will hereafter con-
duct that business.
The county court at its session Tuesday
made a tax levy for 1891 OF 81 on the 800
valuation, a reduction of 10 cents on the
800 from last year.
For $17 we can furnish you with the N
TELLIaENCER for one year n also a high
arm Chicago sewing machine, n OF the
best in the market.
The Missouri River and Kansas City
company has made q re-
duction of ten per cent on the wages of
their steamers crews.
The river has fallen so this week that
the bar at the foot of Tenth street, which
has been under water for weeks, Is expos
ed nearly a third OF the way across the
river.
There was an egg famine early in the
week, on ccoun OF the farmers being too
busy to bring them to town. The hens
were doing their full duty all the time,
however.
A notice from the postmaster-general
warning the public not to try to mail mat
ter intended for a lottery company has
been posted beside the delivery window at
the postoffice.
Dave Smith has rented the vacant store
room Mt the corner of Eighteenth and
Franklin avenue, formerly occupied by
the late A. LOOMS, and will open a gro
Gerry store and buther shop. "a
The residence at Eleventh and Main
streets is being rapidly torn down. The
veranda has been taken away, and will be
added to the front of Nick Hearle's house,
on Twenty-second street.
s. N. Stewart, who built the ponton
bridge here, was Tuesday refused n license
by the county court for a cable ferry
across the river here. The court held that
it had no jurisdiction in the matter.
Nurse-Tommy, this is your new sister.
Tommy-Where did she come from?
Nurse-From heaven,
Tommy lin deep disgust)-I don't Won
der they wanted to get rid of h~er.-Sift-
ings.
Lieut.. Gunlack had his company out
skirmishing Wednesday. Occasionally
the boys would blaze away at an imagi-
nary Italian, and as there were no Italians
to shoot back they were quite cool and
collected.
The government snag boat, Charles F.
Suter, passed up Tuesday morning, at s
o'clock. Six hundred bushels of coal were
taken on here. The boat will begin pull
ing snags at Kansas City soon, and work
downward.
The water works company intend dig
ging some wells in the fiat place between
the Jump house and the river, in the hope
of finding a bed OF gravel through which
the water can be filtered, thus doing away
with the settling reservoir.
An old colored man working for Percy
Silver fell Tuesday and broke his right
hip bone. He was trying to lea some
calves with a rope, when they wrapped
the rope around his legs and threw him
down. DIR. Crist dressed the wounded
member.
Is Two United States soldiers passed here
Monday afternoon in a 16-foot boat. They
ere drifting from Junction City, Kas.,
New Orleans, La. Their journey on the
;aw, Missouri and Mississippi rivers will
over about 1900 miles. The men are on O
Trough.
AT the last meeting of Mulligan Post
rand Army of the Republic, q committee
five was appointed to assist in the work
: organizing a camp OF Sons of Veterans
IRE. 1t Is said there are some thirty OF
arfu unpnn man arnnnI hara alinihla n
embership.
The Higginsyille town board has order
a election on the 18th, on q PROPOSE.
on to vote S21 600 in bonds for the con
ruction OF water works and an ~electri,
ght Plant and there seems no doubt tina
le proposition will carry. There are al.
ady : 300 in the town treasury for thii
lrpose.
nyou catch a man destroying property
iyour premises, you have him arrested
at IL instead of q man the animal is
wv, q horse, a mule or a hog, you are eX
'cted to kindly open the gate and invit'
out. And, if there's a mud hole in thu
ay, you should get you wife's best wral
I'd cover the mud hole over to keep tn,
,imal from getting its feet wet that /
ay not take cold.
Girls, don't swallow pins; they are yer.
Wholesome and not a proper diet 70
~ one. 1t is even dangerous to carr,
EN- in your mouth. A girl in Balti
ore is dying from the effect of a pin sh
led to swallow, but which didn't know
,edifference when it came to the forks o
le road in her throat and took the wron