The weekly intelligencer., 1893-09-09
The RACKET STORE
MENG BUILDING,
LEXINGTON, MO.
9-2-tf

LEN Nc ON Mo.
9-2-tf
Did you "git your picter TUX" at the
show.
Forepaugh's circus will be in Kansas
City on September IL.
Miss Kate Bonde, formerly OF Richmond,
has sailed for Japan, where she will be
missionary.
Miss Amelia Finks, who is experienced
in book keeping, will continue teaching
the class commenced by Mrs. j. w. Brown
and herself.
Monday was the most orderly circus
day Lexington has had for years. Pick
pockets and other "fakes" were conspic-
uous for their absence.
We enjoyed pleasant call from DR..
w. G. Goodwin, of Odessa, Wednesday.
The doctor is well read on finance, and
discusses it fueutly. OF course he is a
bi-metallist.
The INTELLIaENcER enjoyed a pleasant
call, last Saturday, from Mr.. J. A. j..
Shultz, the owner of Linwood Lawn stock
farm. Mr.. Shultz removed his family
to st. Louis, this week.
Editor Webb, of the Corder Gazette,
was in the city, Monday, and made this
Office a pleasant call. Brother Webb
gives his readers newsy sheet, and re-
ports business with him first-class.
Pearl Rhodes, a boy who was recently
arrested here for vagrancy, has been re-
moved from the Jail to private house.
He has malarial fever, and the removal
was ordered by DIR. Emmett Fulkerson.
w. II. Whittelsey killed a rattlesnake in
his yard, near town, last Saturday, that
measured three feet and nine inches in
length. 1t had seven rattles and button,
and was over three inches in diameter.
He presented it to Mr.. Grimes, who
turned it over to Henry Winkler to be
stuffed.
Our old friend, N. Haerle, will please
accept the thanks OF the INTELLIGENCER
force for a basket OF the largest, finest,
and best grapes we have seen this season.
There were white and black varieties, and
both were very finely favored, just ripe,
and in large, perfect punches. Mr.. Haerle
is man who loves to see others enjoy
some of the good things OF this world land
he knows that newspaper people appre-
ciate a good thing when they get 1t.
Miss Mollie Cheatham was talking to @
lady friend on the circus ground MONDAY
holding her pocketbook in her hand. A
nicely dressed young man walked up tc
her, took hold of the book, and gave il
two or three jerks. She held on, and he
let go. She asked: "What do you mean
sir?" He answered in a careless way: ga
want you to tell me who that is," point
ing to somebody at distance, and ther
he walked off, and was lost in the crowd
He needed good humping.
The city has just finished another bloch
of macadam. 1t is on Eighteenth street
north OF Main. The block of macadam OF
Eighteenth, between Main and Franklin
has just received coat of dirt. which
will hold the stone in position, and max,
travel much easier. We are glad to SCI
the work of street improvements goini
on. No public work could do more to in
crease the value of all property in tn,
city. Good streets, good sidewalks, goot
water, and good lights, are necessary II
city life, and Lexington has them all.
| Miss Eunice Wray Fulton, OF Kansa
City, graduate OF the Fulton and True
blood school of oratory, arrived in Lex
ington, Tuesday evening. She will teacl
elocution in w. M. A., B. F. c., and e. A
s. the coming school year. While Mis-
Fulton will teach in the schools abov
named, she will also give private in
structions to those desiring to make ad
vancement in this line. Miss Fulton
beyond question one of the best elocutiol
teachers in Missouri, and parties who ar
contemplating taking lessons in this ar
should consult her. She can be found a
Mrs. Laura Young's on Main st. 9-9-t3
Kansas City Journal 3d.-Mrs. Grov
Young, of Higginsville, died at that plac
Friday, and was buried in Elmwood Gem
. etery in this city yesterday. She was 8
years of age and died of heart disease
The funeral was attended by her mother
!, five brothers and eight sisters, one siste
being unable to attend. Her father die
in 1881, and his death was the first whic
had occurred in the family. During til
last twelve years this is the only death i
the immediate family circle that has oc
CURED, and the second in the past fort
or fifty years. All but two of the sister
are married. The brothers and sister
who attended the funeral yesterday in ad
!. dition to the mother, Mrs. G. Youn
1 were: r. L. Greer, j. p. Greer, w.
: Greer, j. b. Greer, and j. A. Greer, Mr..
James Darragh, Mrs. George Coleman
! Mrs. Ed. Smarr, Mrs. George Collins, Mr.
Ravilla Marsh, Mrs. w. Lewellin and Mr.
!. A. Sollars.
There are longer but no better roads i
a this or any other country than the Chica
!, go & Alton X. X. This line makes a per
, manent patron OF every traveller who ono
gives it trial, Its tracks are of the heav
lest steel and as smooth as glass. Its road
l bed is stone ballasted throughout. IL
equipment is superb. 1t was the first lin
y on which n Pullman sleeping car ives eve
}, run, the first line to adopt dining cars an
| the first line to run free reclining chat
cars, and to-day its solid vestibuled train
i containing all these modern luxuries, ar
= running through on fast time to and fror
Union Depots in Kansas City, st. LOU
s and Chicago with astonishing regularit
s and with exceeding comfort to its ever in
!, creasing patrons. II you eyer make tri
: in any direction between Kansas City an
Chicago, or Kansas City and st. Loui
or st. Louis and Chicago, and fail to pat
g ronize the Chicago a. Alton, you may b
t sure that you have missed at least one or
, portunity for increasing your happines