The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-25
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Water melons are q drug On the market.
Refrigerators, best make, at Schawe q
Weis. 6-6tf
John r. Gentry has been sold for
$4,000.
Apples are coming into market in large
quantities.
Bee the Insurance, the latest vapor stove.
al Schawe & Weis. 5-5tf
A brakeman on the Chicago and Alton
Railroad was killed at Odessa last Friday.
lie lived in Slater.
For Picking and PreservIng-Mur-
docks o. p. Il. Extracts, Fruit Coloring
and Strictly Pure Spices are the best. A
full line of Mason's self-sealing fruit
jars. Go see them at Mullenix and
Co.'s 6-23-tf
The public schools will open September
Sd. Secretary Ludwigs will issue certif-
Gates on and after August 3lst. The col
ored children will get certifcstes at their
school house ON September Sd.
Mr.. Frank Stewart showed bis fine
Denmark saddle horse at the fair last
week In q ring In which was Alcion Den
mark, q Worlds Fair premium horse. and
Missouri Rose, also Q prize winner at the
Worlds Fair. Mr.. Stewart won the blue
ribbon.
Last week we advertised for homes for
two boys, and by Tuesday morning had
applications for both. We also rave two
onplicotiopa for a uood militia uirl IN M tr
the country. We invite those who want
help, and those who want employment to
notify US, and we will make no charge fol
advertising or other service.
Gazette, I'D: "Mrs. Annie Beck. wife Of
Rev. William Beck, pastor Of the German
Methodist church, at Concordia, Mo-,
died yesterday and her body was shipped
through Sedalia last night to Washington,
Mo-, for interment. The remains were
accompanied by the bereaved husband
his two daughters and son. The party
was me here by Rev. William Meyers
who lent them brotherly assistance"
Tomorrow evening, at the Southern
Methodist church, the regular Epwortt
league services will be held, beginning Al
seven O'Clock, sharp. Mr.. Hugh Spear
will be the leader, and h subject will b,
"Temperance"-Proverbs 23:29-32. Lee
every member of the League be present
and let all come prepared to say a few
words on the subject or read a verse or tw,
from the Bible. Everybody cordial.
lt3Hese
EUJNTELLIaKNCER, August IL: LEX
EtGt1on has a citizen who is thirty-fou
y0651k ID and has never tasted a drop o
Intoxicating liq or, and who 10 a
ignorant Of the taste Of whisky as q new
born babe. This IL all wool and a yart
wide, and we defy any town in Americ,
to beat the record" News Of Hardin
"Norborne can beat It. J. II. jacobs
editor of the Leader, Is, we believe, forty
seven years Of age, and never drank
drop OF whisky in his life."
The following. from the Kansas City
Star, IL of interest: "County Marsha
Henry Stewart received q letter yesterda!
from William b. Logan, Of Odessa. Mo.
the father of Frank M. Logan, the fir,
bug, who occupies a cell in the count!
Jail awaiting investigation by the mex
grand jury. The father writes that hi
son Is sane, but refuses to assist him be
cause he believes him to be thorough,
bad. Mr.. Logan IL Sc years old, an
states In the letter that he was sick In be,
when his son called upon him August II
after an absence Of many years. The fir
bug was accompanied by three men, an
told his father he was going to Kansa
City to start a fire which would surpas
all that had been set by him during hi
thirty years Of incendiarism. Logan
ST., expresses the opinion that the com
panions of his son were "crooks' an
that b fire was started In the lumbe
yard Mt the corner OF Twelfth and Walnr
streets In this city to attract a~ttentio
while the men should rob some Of the nd
joining houses or stores. Logan tax.
his imprisonment coOlly and has not y
attempted to burn down the jail"