The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-01-23
Snow Sunday.
Plenty of ice now.
More snow Monday.
Goodbye peach crop,
Artificial ice doesn't 90

Artificial ice doesn't 60.
January weather is January weather
this year.
Ice cream can be raised at little expense
next summer.
The ice men expect to secure a full har-
vest of ice this week.
Dave Rowe will have charge of the st.
Paul club this season.
Forty-two Missouri ~trotters and PAGERS
entered the 2:30 list in 1891.
Jay Gould predicts a big western rail-
road strike in the near future.
The January number OF the Central Col
lege Gem was published this week.
Sleighing was said to have been the best
Tuesday of any day for Il long time.
little cold for picnics, but we know
young folks that have one every night.
The Kansas City Times calls H. Martin
Williams the Jerry Simpson, OF Missouri.
Almost every paper in the state has
had a good word for the Lexington park
scheme.
The ice forced Ii ponton bridge open
again Saturday, doing some damage to a
few of the boats.
1t is said that a paper bag tied to n dogs
tail affords the dog just as much amuse-
ment as a tin can.
The pay car of the Missouri Pacific went
over the Lexington branch Saturday, pay
ing the men along that line.
II you want n lively campaign paper you
should take the INTELLIGENCER. The
editor doesn't wear gloves.
II your best young man has the grip,
don't let him kiss you unless it's grip OF
tho hand and not of the nose.
Mr.. Dickey has been trying to run the
cold wave out with his o k pile but has
not yet made much success of it.
Did you borrow this paper to read?
Why not hand your postmaster n dollar
and a half and read your W paper?
The question is, did the News inten-
tionally slightthe Lexington park scheme,
or was it another display of its every-week
carelessness?
II now.takes nearly two bundles of blank
paper, 1000 sheetsl to supply the demand
of the old and new subscribers of the IN
TELLIaENCER.
About every other ear you pass on the
s,reet is spread to catch the voice OF
for county office.
You could hardly spend a little spare
cash more profitably than by subscribing
for the INTELLIaENcER for the campaign,
See your postmaster.
The Lexington park scheme is meeting
with hearty endorsement by the people,
who recognize in the site one of the most
beautiful in the state.
There was II genuine drunken fight
Saturday afternoon and knock-downs and
drag-outs were almost as numerous as
oaths and loud talks.
"Pm YOU huckleberry, l"
The candidates all say
Whene'er a little office shy
Is passing along that way.
That splendid cake of ice lying in front
of DIR. Tevis's drug store is a fair sample
of what Major Meet is storing away for
his customers for e summers wear.
A boy can coast all the afternoon and
come home as fresh as unsalted butter,
but ten minutes devoted to splitting
kindling WOOD makes him feel worse thar
the grippe.
A broad smile was seen skimming down
the street Monday. 1t Twas hard to tell
whether it belonged to one of our local
coal dealers or had just escaped from an
ice packer.
General Superintendent Dickinson, SUI
perintendent Clark and Division Superin-
tendent Marsh, of the Missouri Pacific,
were here Saturday, or a tou of inspec-
ton over the road.
w. f. Sullins wouldn't think of doing
without the best democratic paper in the
state, and the only one IL Lexington, and
his date on the address slip reads January
1, 1893. Thankee, sir.
Joseph Meals is another constant reader
and as prompt in his payments as New
Years day. The INTRLLIGENCER suits
him to a t-y-ty, and his name stands
firm as Gibraltar.
= NooiiooH puiV HIS OIHer DuSlneSS
long enough to call up and deposit a few
shekels with our receiving teller, and
says he'd rather have the humps or stick
Il nail in his foot than be without the
paper of his choice.
AT the last meeting of the Central Traffic
association it was about decided that ex-
cursion rates on the certificate plan should
be abolished. 1t is probable that definite
action will be taken Mt its next meeting.
The next to join the innumerable cara
van was Johh Beall, who wants in 9
newspaper something that has u little
snap in it. Possibly he thinks that two
inches OF map is worth a whole News
full of whine, and he's right foul times.
And to think that old Brother Powell
should permit his angry passions to rise
and we trying to do him a favor. Wei
may we exclaim in the language OF Spoke
shave: GLOW sharper han u serpent's
thank is the ingratitude OF a toothless