The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-05-21
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Military Academy.
How is it that a number seven corn can
grow on a number two foot?
Sunday was cool enough to make fires
in churches comfortable.
The steamer A. l.. Mason passed down
Mt O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
Next week will witness some lively
hustling on the part of the candidates.
The closing exercises of Elizabeth Aull
Seminary will be held Tuesday, June I'd.
ii. g. Cross has resigned as president of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad.
A hard wind Tuesday night did much
damage to shade trees in different parts
of the city.
SNOWFALL trees (Viburnum) are in full
bloom. This flower is sometimes called
the gelder-rose.
The man who compels his boy to black
his boots can always boast of having son
shine in his family.
The steam ferry boat, Roy Lynds, has
had her upper works nicely painted. Cap
tain Charlie Anderson was the artist.
Artillery drill at Wentworth goes mer-
rily on, and the boom of the morning and
evening guns wakes the echoes among the
hills.
The snagboat, G. X. Suter, which started
to Kansas City last week, returned to st.
Louis from Hermann on account OF high
water.
There was the appearance of n tornado
Monday afternoon, and a good many peo-
pie felt quite uneasy. The storm soon
blew away.
Sam Stump and Miss Bessie LaBertew
won the prize of % for the best gentleman
and lady riders at the merry -go-round
Thursday night.
Miss Harvey, OF East Lexington, was
declared the best lady rider at the merry
go-round Wednesday evening, and was
given the prize OF So.
The Kansas City Star says that the
"seven rainy Sundays after Easter" theory
has been exploded. 1t rained here between
midnight and l a. m. Sunday.
The body OF u white ~floater, supposed
to have been that of one of the victims OF
the Omaha flood, was seen to pass here
about B O'Clock yesterday morning.
Cotton is advancing in price since female
pupils are beginning to rain for com
mencement. The neighbors consume
much of it for stopping up their ears.
The Daughters of the C~onfederacy will
hold a meeting at Mrs. McCausland's on
Third street, this, Saturday, afternoon al
a O'Clock. A full attendance is requested
The top OF one OF the shade trees in The
court yard was blown off Tuesday night
A limb of a large maple tree in front o
the Colored Baptist church was blown off
High water caused a delay of severa,
hours to trains between st. Louis ant
Sedalia Sunday. A train was made up a
Sedalia and sent over the Lexington
branch.
The ladies of the Dover Baptist church
will give a supper Saturday, May %, 1892
in the basement of the church. Supper
served from 8 to 10 o'clock. All are cor.
daily invited.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of Henry Hainkel, the Tenth street har'
ness dealer, who will sell his stock a
cost and retire from the business. Iii.
health is falling.
The nominating convention for the Fiji.
w NJ judicial circuit and johnson conn.
raj ACCOMMODATE @nmssSsgndge Ryland to the
9 VI RI, mas been called TO meet al
Ggginoyille on June 9th.
The prisoners in the county Jail made
an Intellectual attempt to escape Thursday
night, by removing the stone in the cas-
wall loosened some time age, when Nelson
and others came so near going.
GeoFge p. Venable, who has kept tab
on the river for several years, says tina
on Sunday, May 1, 1881, a little more thar
eleven years ago, the river rose to 23.5 fee
above low water, the highest point h,
ever kne it.
Mayor Russell denies that he has uset
the incident of a committee appointment
to petition The city council to AXE better
care of the poor town cows and swine
against his opponent. c. Ben does his
fighting straight.
John Wilmot, the successor to Wilmo
& Mullenix, has sold his grocery store a
the corner OF Sixteenth street and Frank
lin avenue to Messrs. Bonnet, Smith q
Turner, of Carrollton, and may go ives
to find a location.
The Roy Lynds caught a stray tele
graph pole in her rudders Friday after
noon, and had to work backward and for
ward nearly an hour before the obstruc
ton could be removed. The boat had t.
be fioated to shore.
Thomas Walton informs the INTELLI
GENCER that il the river and harbor bill
which appropriates $4,000 to the; Mis-
souri, river, be passed by congress and be
come n law, a part of the sum will be useC
to make a suitable harbor at Lexington.
Thursdays Kansas City Journal report
ed the steamer Mason tied up at Glasgow
unable to get under the Chicago ant
Atoms bridge at that point. The steam
ers' passengers, twelve in number, wer
sent to st. Louis by rail, at the expense o
the packet company.
we oher LOT auOptlOn In respectable
families a few dependent children of diff
ferent ages; also a number of bright ant
healthy babies. Country home preferred
Apply at the Office Of the Children's Ait
Society, room $40, 1877 Dearborn street
Chicago, Illinois.
There was another aurora borealis visi
bic in the north Wednesday night. TIL,
fash was visible about twenty five de
grees above the horizon. 1t is not Otter
these phenomena appear SO late in the
season. Their appearance generally indi
cate continued electrical storms.
Tom Walton got out several hundred
bushels of coal for the government snag
boat, c. X. Suter, last week, and had i
piled near the landing, but on Saturda,
the officers Of the BOA notified him tina
she would not be up until the high waite,
subsidized, and the o. was unclaimed.
Much delay has been caused in TIN
criminal court this week by the failure o
witnesses, duly recognized to appear, Il
show up. One witness gave as All 5xGGs
for his absence at the time specified tina
he had no money to pay railroad fare, ant
could not come afoot by reason of higl
water.
The>McGrew mill on Thursday receives
its fourth order for flour from Amsterdam
The cablegram was in the following