The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-04-18
Weekly I~ntelligencer.
LOCAL NOTICE.

LLESAL M NE.
Go 10 Boar's for cheap groceries. Patio.
Country CURED hams, shoulders, bacon
and lard. Hour 81 son. feb14t-may1
Go To Boiir & Sons for hams, shoulders,
bacon and lard, of their W make. feb14tf
More rain Monday.
More rain yesterday.
Cherry trees are preparing to bloom.
There was a slight fall of rain Sunday.
A good many people in town Saturday.
There was no dust left after Sundays
rain.
A day and a hall of fair weather this
week.
The river continued to rise Tuesday
night.
Rain bas;an falling last Sunday, about
the time people were going home from
church.
City Treasurer Moreland received from
all sources during April SS39.57, and paid
out q, 2s2.e6.
Sedalia has a photograph war, and peo-
pie are getting themselves 'tuk" for al
most nothing.
Saturday turned out to be an almost per-
feet sprinG day, but Sunday afternoon was
raw ana wintry.
A few wild flowers had peeped up
through tire dead leaves Saturday, but
there were not many.
The cable ferry boat formerly in use at
Wellington is tied up at the Ray county
end Of the ponton bridge.
The river is said to have risen thirty
three inches during the twenty-four hours
ending at A p. m. Monday.
The Cameron and Dickey dairy COM
panies, az Cameron, have consolidated,
with Q combined capital OF $4,000.
Several of the boys, including some OF
the InrEiIAaENcER's young men, made
their appearance in new suits Sunday.
The INTlHLLIaENoER job presses have
been flying all week, while the subscrip-
ton list han grown considerably longer.
"Wednesday was all right, but the ques-
tion was frequently asked in the morning,
"'Wiltthis pretty weather continue until
noonfo
Engine Mo. 895, which runs on the Lex
ington branch, was turned out of the shops
yesterday, after a thorough overhauling.
-Sedalla siizette.
A lot of movers were In camp in the
bottofaa opposite the city Tuesday after
noon. IL was a notable party, from the
number OF children.
Owing I'd the bad weather Monday, the
special hosiery sale advertised for that day
by MeCauslsnd, Young q McCausland was
continued on Tuesday.
1 picked 1t tip, the queer wee thing,
There wac u feather on it
Looped to come straw with a yellow string
II must have been a bonnet.
Claims tn the moun Of S626.52 were
aliowedat Monday nights meeting of the
city council and these, with the bill o.
the waser csnpany, were paid.
A burning fiue at the residence of Capt
Andrew Saturday forenoon, at 8 o'clock
caused an alarm TO be sent to both hose
c~ompaniea. No damage was done.
Collector Hamlet reported collections
in March ,~sRiounting TO S303.s7. Deduct
ing nom this his. commissions, s14.55; hi
turned overfto the city treasurer ss7s.s2.
J. a. Mcdonald has been appointed
postmestes At Lewis, Henry county, vice
@. II. Mcdonald, died; and j.. A. Kerr al
Urich, Henry county, vice M. $. Kepner
resigned.
Dav#Heathman killed q six-rattle "ser-
pent' In Ray county Tuesday afternoon
and hes the rattles in his pockets. ii,
carriep them as a charm against hoodo'
and other ghosts.
win Looniis killed a rattlesnake in Ray
county, aboHlt tour miles from this city
last Friday, which had six rattles and
buttons IA says there are a good many
snakes Ia that vicinity.
JohnC. XEaung, ST., received from Kan
sas City Thdrsday a handsome team Of
cream e~0lorel horses with white names
and tails, T.iey are beauties. Mr.. Young
is always trying TO please the people.
There was oyoung lady named Lester;
She had d neW bonnet for Easter;
She wore /. one day,
And "a, raiied, by the way,-
So the spelling it almost deceased her.
Ferd 8ntlet, residing with his parents
half assbsIe4tspth from town, left home
sacdeEH Wednesday morning, and
his maiisfs &Als quite uneasy all day. The
boy w8at If1S#aiid ~ his aunt's, eight miles
from tugyh h, G4iht night.
Adolph PItton aud Miss Julia Thou
iouze. si Rigsrton, were married Saturday
forenoon, hy Judge William Young, OF
the probate curt, at his Office. The young
lady is inst tom France,and came ON pur-
pose to meet her lover, and help him build
q home in the new world.
Life Among the Lepers.-Sistsr Rose
Gertrude has written another article for
the Ladder Home Journal for June, on
'sWhat It IL 20 2 eLeper,v in which she
gives a clear glimpse of leper-life in Mola-
kai; hesg the disease is contracted; how
1t is treated and cured, and how the lepers
Awe in THEN exile.
L. Davis, who has been teaching the
S2e4tom school, four miles west of Well
ington. mias In the city Saturday, and
calisf M the iSrELLIeENcER Office. lie
4x<t Msselcsei an eight-months term OF
s1h>D HD Friday, two more months than
Ire avssSs,e sesms OF the country schools.
He had an as#igge attendance for the eight
months Of II Pupils.