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

Long 4 Becker had the first home grown
watermelons OF the season Thursday.
Special sale of white goods, embroideries
aid black %organdies at Ahrens'. Read
elsewhere. 7-25-tf
The Lexington Coal Company's tele-
phones were placed in the new Broadway
Office Thursday.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Corder
say much of the wheat raised there is of
excellent quality.
Dan Brown, colored, "cusscd" Emma
Tibbs Tuesday, and Recorder Meet fined
him 30 for it. He paid.
Doc Frazier ran all the way from
Eleventh street to the engine house Thurs
day afternoon, to give the fire alarm.
A good many Lexington Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias will attend the
joint celebration at Richmond on the 9th.
II was reported that j. G. Buffers horse
had been stolen Saturday night, but the
animal was found later, grazing in another
field.
The county teachers institute will be-
gin at the Lexington High school Mon
day. Prof. Kempor, Of Odessa, is the
leader.
The grading of Seventeenth street north
from Main has been completed, and now
1t il one of the best streets i'm that part of
town.
Miss Emma Wadley, formerly n student
Mt Baptist Female College, was married
Wednesday to n young gentleman at Chill
licothe, Mo.
The grading has been done around the
First ward school, recently ordered by the
city council, and the lot vastly improved
In consequence.
Louis Neale says he came near finding
the end of life by gas escaping in his room
Wednesday night. When he walked he
could hardly breathe.
Payne jackson, q colored miner, arrest
ed on n warrant from Justice Prices court
for petty larceny from a Mr.. Crowder, was
acquitted by a jury Wednesday.
The ladies of Independence raised 1914
for the benefit of the Confederate Home.
Cannot the ladies of Lexington go them
S26 dollars better and make it an even
5000?
The tea table club enjoyed a pleasant
evening at the elegant home of w. G..
McCausland Tuesday, and was entertained
by Mrs. McCausland in her usual gracious
manner.
Two dogs caused a colored woman to
suddenly sit down Tuesday noon, on Main
street, by running against her. The in
cident furnished amusement for 4 number
of spectators.
There was quite a heavy rainstorm near
H~igginsville Saturday afternoon, about 4
o'clock, when trees were uprooted, fences
blown down and outhouses overturned.
No rain fell here.
Jim Epps, a colored man residing on
Sixteenth street, was accused of giving his
wife a severe "~trouncing'' Tuesday morn
ing. Epps has a very jealous disposition,
and accused his wife of infidelity.
During the windstorm Wednesday night
one of the branches of a large locust tree
in Miss Jennie Berries yard broke off
but no other damage was done there. Trees
were broken in several places in the city.
A horse driven by James Aull, OF Teub-
ner Il Aull, and attached to a light wagon,
ran away on Main street Thursday fore
noon. The wagon struck n street car and
was overturned. But little damage was
done.
Arthur Billiard severed his connection
with Saunders photograph gallery Tues
day, and thinks of going into business foI
himself at Shelbina, Shelby county. He
may conclude to begin business here in
the autumn.
Prof. Wilson, of b. +. G. announces thai
he has secured the services of Prot. Vim.
cent Won Rola Macielinski, the famous
violinist, and will be able to impart SUI
perior instruction in the violin during thu
coming term.
Travis Buford sold his team of spotted
; ponies to Mark Belt, of Higginsville
Tuesday. He sold to the same purchase
the team of spotted horses bought from
Green & Dysart when he became the owne
OF the livery stable.
William Seals and Frank Endicott, boil
colored, were caught in the act of break
ing into a sealed merchandise car at My
rick Tuesday Afternoon, n are now il
. Jail, awaiting a preliminary hearing be
fore Justice Price On the 2Sth.
James Smithy, a boy, the sole supper
of a widowed mother, was lined 81 an
costs in Justice Prices court Wednesday
on a charge OF having, in company wit
onpoo nfhar hnxyo Stplan m ,Ir;ff F.o,
l Anthony Neumier. He paid.
:. The board of education will at once be
gin the erection of a splendid brick pave
ment along the South, Twelfth and ThiI
teen streets sides of the High school proI
erty. The city has paved the street
splendid curbing has been put in, an
these sidewalks will complete the work.
County Attorney Aull, aided by til
constabulatory is making n splendid effol
4 to punish evil doors in the county. He
working hard, and if the sentences of IL
criminal courts will punish the crimini
and deter Others from committing Grim
= then Mr.. Aull has things going indeed.
\ The city council, at a recent meetin,
n instructed h mayor to appoint a dete'
tive to serve for a month. in the hope
capturing some of the petty burglars WI
4 have been having lively times recent
The mayor has made the appointment
but does not disclose the detectives ideI
tity.
u Several young lady friends of the Oy
club boys gave them a delightful picn
on theb bluff north OF Central College Tue
n day evening, from @ to 8 o'clock. UpC
m their return to the city they adjourned
d. the club rooms, where two hours we
n. pleasantly spent in dance and convers
4 ton.
A reporter was informed by G. .
Sturges, secretary of the Lexington Gu
Club, that the outlook for the tournameI
n in August was very bright, and that the
would be a large attendance. So far
,r heard from, nearly or quite all the loo
he clubs favor the formation of an amater
re association.
Is Prof. X. L. Binford, once u teacher
the Baptist Female College in this city,
DO now chancellor of Southern University
Florence, Ala. This a splendid instit
g ton and in a splendid town. Florence
II one OF the prettiest cities in Alabam
10 The university accommodates 400 your
" ladies, and cost $4,000.
e., County Attorney Aull had a warrant
RS attachment issued against a recalcitra
RS witness at Wellington Tuesday, and Sc
lie Constable Young to serve it. Mr.. Al
re says he is going to show some such offe
lie ders that the processes of the courts ca