The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-11
Corn is king.
Corn is king.
Probate court next week.
Corn went up four cents, Monday.

Corn is king.
Probate court next week.
Corn went up four cents, Monday.
Refrigerators. best make, at Schawe &
Weis. 5-5tf
Fine large watermelons are selling for
ten cents.
Apple buyers are paying forty cents per
bushel for apples.
Col. John X. Ford is reported to be very
feeble. He is 90 years old.
Hard times are going to vanish with the
apple and corn crops this year.
Good floral hall exhibits at the fair,
next week. Lafayette county is all right.
The Higginsville fair will occur next
cess.
The Methodists at Higginsville have
closed a revival, with ffty-two additions
to the church.
Ireland & M~ountjoy have moved their
shoe stock into the building formerly &C.
cupied by the Herald.
The Silver Canning Company began
operation, last Saturday. About l25 per-
IONS are employed there.
Tn room formerly occupied by Ireland
4 Mountjoy is being fitted up for the
drug stock of Mr.. Leroy Farmer.
Mr.. Floyd E. schooley has assumed
control of the MAYHEM Monitor. He Is an
energetic young man, and will make his
paper q success.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Russell entertained q
! number of ladies, Wednesday, at an
elegant luncheon, complimentary to Mrs.
Charles Byers, of Kansas City.
The Rural World says that Captain
Todhunter is to be congratulated upon
the entry of Nettlewood into the ranks of
2:25 PAGERS, entering with a record Of 2:23.
St. Agnes Guild, Of Christ (E~piscopal)
Church, will give a lawn social on the
church grounds, Tuesday evening, August
IA. Ices, ice cream and cake will be
offered for sale.
RyIand T. holds the worlds race record
for trotting. His grand dam is twenty
six years old, owned by b. G. Ridge, of
Lafayette county, and will be shown at
the fair, at Higginsville, next week.
For Picking and Preserving-Mur-
docks o. P. T. Extracts, Fruit Coloring
and Strictly Pure Spices are the best. A
full line OF Mason's se~lf-sealing fruit
Jars. Go see them at Mullenix and
Co.'s 6-Z3-tf
MIR. John G. Worthington is building q
handsome business house at MAYHEM.
The lower room OF the building will be
occupied by Wheatley Bros, and the sec
ond story has been engaged for the new
K. Of p. hall.
Mr.. Urban 8. Campbell bought lO2k
acres OF land adjoining his farm, near
Bates City, for $500, last Saturday. The
land was sold by trustee. at public auc-
ton. 1t is = part Of the farm once owned
by J. c. Kelly.
Miss Annie Mountjoy, who has been in
charge of the local department of the
News since its organization, now has
charge OF the money order department at
the post ofice. She will continue her
work on the paper. also.
Lexington has Q citizen who is thirty
four years old and has never tasted q drop
OF intoxicating liquor, and who 10 as
ignorant of the taste of whisky as q new
born babe. This is all wool and q yard
wide, and we defy any town In America
to beat the record.
Mr.. Louis Gratz, OF the firm of NJ. Gratz
4 Sons, is In the east, buying goods for
the fall trade. While absent from the
city, he will visit his mother, in Ohio.
Mr.. Gratz will purchase even q larger
i6opek q geods than heretofore, aud when
prepared to accommo-
IRONS OF the firm Of NJ.
all the latest styles.
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to this paper and expect them to be printed.
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to the waste basket as soon as received.
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name. Again We repeat, VI will not pub
lish nor consider anonymous articles,
Notwithstanding their merit.
The populists OF this county held an
other caucus, at Higginsville, last Satur-
day, to All the holes In their county tick
ct. Mr.. Aldridge Corder declined to run
as their candidate for representative, and
George Dusky, OF Middleton township,
T was nominated In his place. Horace J.
Dooley, who was not converted to pop
ulism until he was defeated for the
office of mayor of Higginsville, was nom-
mated for prosecuting attorney. Mr..
|, Joseph Hutchison, Of Page City, was the
r choice for probate judge, and Henry
q Meinershagen, who was q candidate be-
: fore the republican convention, the week
1 before, was made the populist NOMINEES
for Judge for the eastern district.
Five coal mining companies at Higgins.
0 Vile, consolidated, this week. The com
psnies are: The Excelsior, Rocky Branch
Staley q Fowler, Hawkins q Smith, the
Il. 3. A., and possibly one other. Tn,
new corporation will be chartered Al
Jefferson City as the Consolidated Far
t mers Coal Company, Of Higginsville, with
: . paid capital stock Of $4,000. Tit
d articles OF Incorporation were signed
Monday. 1t will own about ZOO acres o
coal lands, near Higginsville, and vii
i virtually control the entire output o
n Farmers coal. Each of the old companies
Z will take stock In the consolidated com'
pany according to the value Of its prop
. erty, and each will have representation II
,. the board Of directors. The consolidate
company will improve the mines 80 q
to increase the output.
John q. Longdon filed suit at Kansa
City, Monday, against g. w. Goldman
mayor OF Liberty. Mo. LOngdon claim
that Goldman made misrepresentation
% q real estate deal, and asks for 1900 dam
ages. The facts are about as follows
Goldman acted as agent for Neal aud Fan
ME Lutz of Platte county, and In May
1893, secured q trade with Longdon where
- by he was to exchange Kansas propert
It and cash for land in Clay county. Long
d don claims that Goldman represente
,r that there were 175 acres 10 the tract whe
there were only ISL; that there were IL
ar acres 10 cultivation when there were onl
So; that the land was free from incum
brance when 4 bank in Liberty held
warranty deed to 1t to secure q loan
$5 1000 made to Lutz. He also claims tbs
he misrepresented b price at which tn
l. land was leased, M that he polnte
out to him az part Of the tract an eighty