The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-08-13
HIS sEVENTY.FIPTH BIRTHDAY

How like n crown of gold is the record
OF Il well spent life.
Last Sunday there assembled around n
festal board of our esteemed fellow towns
man, Mr.. William Morrison, tho mem
bers and relatives of his family. the
pleasant occasion being the celebration
of his seyenty-Hfth birthday.
Seventy-five years! Three-fourths of n
century; nearly three-quarters of the life
of our great republic. One looking back
over the span of this life, sees the growth
aud development of the American people.
the mould and trend of national charac-
ter. He sees the mellow days OF a mystic
past, that now gloam in the golden haze
of the long ago. He sees the tide of civ
ilization moving across the continent,
slowly at first, as it overfiows the valleys
of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and then
more rapidly, as with ~redoubled energy,
it gathers itself up for the conquest of the
Western plains, the mountain businesses
and the golden shores of the Pacific. Oh.
what a history has been writ in those
eventful seventy-tive yearsl The steam
boat, the telegraph, the railroad, with all
their mighty and various concomitants!
TIL capture of natures greatest forces
and training them for the uses OF mani
Wars that have changed empires, and
broken up old boundary lines,-these and
a thousand, thousand other events have
taken place since William Morrison
first saw the light of day on August 7,
1877.
MIR. Morrison was born in P%ittsburg,
Pennsylvania. Shortly after his birth
his father moved to Ohio, INT cleared the
site of the own of New Lisbon. At the
age of sixteen, young Morrison went to
Steubenville, Ohio, where he served an
apprenticeship in the tin and coppersmith
business. In 1886 he went to New Orleans
and applied himself to his trade. Ac-
cumulating some money by that thrift
and economy that has characterized his
life, he started to st. Louis. On the way
up the river the boat he was on, the ILL
starred Elk, went down, carrying all his
earthly possessions to the bottom OF the
Mississippi river. He returned to New
Orleans, accumulated 5000, and started up
the river again. From st. Louis he came
direct to Lexington where he commenced
business in a little house in "Gl.S Town.,
Subsequently he moved to new town and
Tor years conducted a very prosperous
business. In 1848 he built a foundry for
the manufacture of stoves, for which he
soon had an extensive sale throughout
the west.
In 1858 he was elected a member of the
Missouri legislature, in which capacity
he served with conspicuous ability and
industry. 1t was through his exertiohs
that the charter of the Farmers bank
was secured. During its existence HI was
one OF its principal officers. In 1884, with
Stephen G.. Wentworth, he established a
private bank which afterward became the
Morrison Wentworth bank, generally
recognized as one of the safest and sound
est financial institutions of the state.
Mr.. Morrison is an active member o.
the Methodist church, and has done much
to promote the interest and usefulness OF
that great institution. He is also one o.
the Board of Curators OF the Central Fe.
male college, and to no one man does thai
splendid college owe more of its success
There assembled around Mr.. Morrison
board last Sunday to offer con%gratulation,
and wish him many q happy return OF thu
day, the following: Mrs. E. M. Fletcher
Mrs. Mary English, Will Morrison, Johi
Morrison, wife and three children, Thos
S. Fletcher, Misses Alice Eagle, Lizzi
English, and Miss Ethel Austin, OF Kan
4as City.
KNIaHTS GALORE.
1t was a fair house to which the comb
nation OF home talent played at Hagen
Thursday evening. The orchestra wa
late in starting, but made up for lost tim
in the overture. This was one OF Rossini'
sweetest conceptions, and the orchestr
played with unusual art. The drill an
sword movement by Keller division, Nc
80, came next and was loudly applauded
The clarinet sole by Professor Mund
, was a masterpiece. Prof. Mundt is a mu
stefan OF the highest order of talent, an
: his performance is always charming.
; "only a Picture" by Messrs. Bandor
: Yingling, 9unlack and Norman wa
> sweetly, pathetically sung.
: TIT dancing by Miss Gussie Simpso
: was fairy-like and enhancing. Mis-
Middaugh's Rotations showed rare his
: trionic powers, and fine cultivation.
: "a Beautiful Dream" by Mr.. A.. "
. Smith, was very fine indeed.
"Ah Yes l Love Thee" music by job
E.. Burden, was rendered by Mr.. Talbot
> Simpson in his usual effective manners AN
. was r~aptuously applauded.
u my Lady's Bower" was sung by Mis-
Annie Chew, of st. Louis, whose soft SO
. prano voice fairly thrilled the audienc
) with its harmony.
The entertainment closed with fou
beautiful tableaux taken from the life {
Damon and Pythias. These were all e1
quisitely gotten up and fairly %enrapture
the audience. All in all, it was a mos
creditable entertainment, and will long /
= remembered by those who were fortunat
enough to be there.
d Like a Great Railway
With its branches running In even
d direction, are the arteries and veins whic
convey the blood to every part OF I'll
d human system. A cold, sudden chang,