The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-10-13
The Odessa band has been re-organixed.
Jack Frost kissed the flowers and they


Jack Frost kissed the flowers and they
wiited.
Bulk Oysters at D. Hascker's. Direct
from Baltimore. 10-1St2
Perfumes, toilet soaps and fancy goods
at F. r. Bane q Go. II
Don't forget sydnor's hog sale 1t Hig-
ginsvllle, October I'D. 9-16-tf
Mr.. Lecht, who lives on tho Dover
road, 10 sick with fever.
schaws q weis invite you to examine
their fine stock Of Stoves. 10-1Stf
Van Horn and his bsnchmen are going
to make . raid ON this county next week.
Dry goods were never 70 cheap. Come
and zee our line, all new. F. r. Bane
4 Co. tt
We regret to hear that Mr.. Walker q,
Ewing, Of Odessa, IL down with typhoid
fever.
Mrs. MaIy Chew has rented the Hollis
property ON 18th street. and will nov
here TO live.
Circuit Clerk G. L. Ewing was very sich
last Saturday. but 10 much better now
He 10 ct his country home.
The Chess Club has been rs-organized
and many . long winter evening will b,
enjoyed by the devotees Of that game.
Losr.-On Wellington road. real Lex
ington. last Tuesday. . blue overcoat will
velvet collar. Finder leave ct this office
MI. sam'l B. whiting aud Miss Lem
n. Mcdaniel are to be married ct tn
Christian church In Higginsville OF Octo
Der Is.
The river IL very low. 1t IL Just 10
yards across II at this point. II 1t woul,
dry mp 1t would be . blessing to the cit;
Of Lexington.
WANTnD-To buy . farm either In 81
line, Jackson or Lafayette county. Sen
price and description. Address box 2e4
Higginsville. Mo.
The democrats around W~olfenbsrge
school houss have organized. The oGicsr
OF the club ares: J. A. Rsnick, president
J.D.McNeil, vice president; David Yancy
secretary, and william Boone, marsha
Fifty m have been placed on th
roll.
The history. Of Ryland T.. the great rae
horse. written by . correspondent to th
Rural World. contains the following
Rylsnd 7. was fosled on the arst day {
May, 1884, Of quite respectable parents,
they were remote from the business an
sporting csnters Of the world, and quit
obscure and alone. Ledger, Jr., his sir,
was raised BY Ben. Halliday. on his fsrl
In New York. was .. I. b., by Ledger, %
OF Robert Bonner, dam Halliday's o.
Puss unstead of Pst), BY Hsmblstonia
10. Ledger, Jr., was taken from Hall
: days farm TO Saline county, Mo-, in 1s7
by Mr.. Henry Carlyle, and was sold
Samuel F. Taylor, in 1873. and shipped
eagle Rock, (now Idaho Falls,) Idah
He was nearly sixteen hands, would weiR
about 200 pounds, and was . bright ba
(instead Of gray,) could trot close to q:
on any good track, and the writer believ
: he has seen him do short distance
herding mares, ut . much faster eli
{ Probably his errstic son will never drt
in as low q notch ON the track a. his o
sire made the distance on the plain
May, or "Old May" ~ she Wa called
the ranch hands and the neighbors
after years, was bought ct the same tin
by Taylor on the same trip east In IS,
and brought out to Snake River valis
Mr.. Taylor bought six head of mare
including May, from Captain RylaI
: Todhunter, Of Higginsville, Mo-, tn
year, and he represented the mare, Ms
q TO be seven -eighths thoroughbred, a
told Taylor II he ever got . trotter fro
any of these mares It would be from Nd
3 Taylor, In . Joking manner, told him
she ever produced Q trotter he won
name It after him. In 1882, May dropp
4 . sorrel colt that died that season.
1883, she wal worked TO run In the foul
n Of July races, but they failed to materi'
ixe and she did not start. The Sal
season she was bred to Ledger, Jr., .
: the next year dropped Rylsnd T., obscr
to all the world except Taylor and
men about the ranch. They, howev
constituted Q small circle Of a. faith
retainers a. the baby prince In
u England could boast today, and to tn,
q he was worthy all the names they co,
confer. and after the colt was six wee
u old, and showed the boys that he col
trot then a. fast NJ some Of the oil
d horses could run, Taylor told the lads
70 his promise TO Captain Todhunter,
70 chr,stened him Ryland T. At weani
" time he wal branded with the otl
o. colts, but when turned out he was
70 sight Of q hay stack, on good feed
pasture, or not far away on the foothi
1t II this angular, e~rratic, cranky. champ
geiding ever was forced TO eat snowb,
r. for his supper or paw to get q buI
II. OF grass for his breakfast, 1t wa after
left Idaho. II he ever headed q COW 1t
w In harness. He never had . saddle on
I'D back In Idaho, and do not believe
had anywhere else to this day.