The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-03-10
Big rain last Sunday night.


River rising. Ferry running regularly.
Tdtt's Pills cause nc nausea or gripping.
Miss Estelle McGrew will entertain the
sold maids" on Monday evening.
Remember the Board of Trade meeting,
next Tuesday evening, and attend.
Eighteen cases have been filed in the
Higginsville branch of the circui. court.
DIR. E. +. Morton and IL. II. Corder will
open a drug store at Corder in the near
future.
Rev. c. M. Bishop was at Odessa, this
week, assisting in a protracted meeting
now in progress there.
President Wilson, OF b. +. c., preached
a. the Southern Methodist church, Sun
d ~, in the absence OF Rev. c. NJ. Bishop.
How many delegates to the district
Christian Endeavor meeting can you
take? The committee would like to
know.
Sheriff Wright on last Saturday shipped
se~venty-seven head of cattle and ninety
head of hogs to Kansas City. The stock
sold well.
The Bible society met at the Presby-
terrain church, last Sunday evening, and
adjourned to meet at the same place at
the same hour tomorrow evening.
Leonard Scott will celebrate his sixty
eighth birthday next Saturday. He will
probably make one undred rails on that
day. Age has had but little effect on him
mentally or physically.
Mr.. Charles Alstadt has accepted 8 po-
sition in Chicago, and will remove his
family there at once. We regret to lose
them from our midst, and wish them a
prosperous and happy future.
WANTED-On subscription: coal, cord
wood, kindling, chickens, turkeys, butter
eggs, beef, pork or mutton, g~reenbacks,
silver or gold, fence posts, old threshing
machines, or anything we can eat use or
burn.
Mrs. L. b. Atkieson is very sick with
pneumonia at Little Rock, Ark. Yester-
day was the twelfth day, and as the dis.
ease generally reaches its turning point in
twelve days, the relatives and friends her,
are very solicitous.
Mr.. ". r. Kerdolf's dog gotinto n fight
Wednesday, with another dog, and Den
Davis undertook to separate them. II,
caught his grandfather's dog by the lie.
and pulled him away, when the do,
whirled and bit Dent quite severely oil
the right hand.
Mr.. George Kennedy, of Higginsville
has pneumonia. His daughter, Mrs. c. {
Wallace, went down last week, and re
turned Tuesday, leaving him better. ii
was travelling In Illinois when the com
plant DEVELOPED, and on advice of n ply
stefan he fastened home. We hope h
will soon recover.
Miss Mile Cleveland, OF Floral Bluff
Florida, writes the INTELLIaENCER tha
since she has moved to the south she ha
often been requested to send range bios
SONS to friends in Lafayette, and no'
that the orange trees are in bloom sh
will gladly answer the requests OF all VIII
send a two-cent stamp to pay postage.
Last week, in mentioning the real estai
dealers who advertise in the INTELLl
aENCER, we accidentally omitted the oil
reliable firm of Catron & TaubmaI
There are nc safer men In any bushes
than this firm. You can rely on the
statements, for they would not misrer
resent anything in order to make
comm issiop.
n On last Monday evening a few frient
were invited to the hostitable home
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Chanslor, to enjoy a fe
y hNnra ot cards Ahnut ai~hf oarplac xra,
present, all OF whom were good player
They were entertained in Mr.. and Mr.
: Chanslors usual genial manner At a
appropriate hour they were invited in,
tn, dining hall and sci we'd with elegaI
d refreshments.
q Tomorrow evening the Epworth Leagl
meeting at the Southern Methodi
church will be conducted by Miss Kathi
: irine A. Tunstall, the subject being "Blir
"a Bartimeus"-Mark 10:48-52; John 9:1-
le A full attendance is desired, as badges f
II the Christian Endeavor district CONVEX
tion will be distributed, and it is expects
In that each member of the League will ha'
a badge and attend the meetings durir
"a the convention. Members of the Epwori
ie League, this is Important Let nothin
prevent your attendance tomorrow evel
Ia ing. Services begin at $3.50.
c. Mr.. Fred. Hays. of Maryland, n cousi
10 of the late W. T. and A. Hays, of tn
city, lost his hand, recently, while fee,
ing a mill, his glove being caught al
drawing inland crushing the hand. TT
arm was amputated below the elbow, nj
:, then above. E%rysipelas set in and
nearly lost his life. His wife burned b
hand slightly, and while helping to DIRE
:. her husbands wound allowed her so
hand to come in contact with his arr
10 Blood poison set In, and for five or s
'e' weeks her life was hanging by a threa
y Both were improving at last accounts.
In another column will be found I
NJ announcement of Mr.. James A. Kemp
ye for the office OF. prosecuting attorney
u Lafayette county. He is a young lawy
of ability and will be supported in !
We campaign by many friends. Morally n
intellectually he is thoroughly qualiH
IS to I'LL this Office, to which he aspir
,ia Loyal at all times to the democratic par
Its he will make the race strictly on den
nd cratic principles. Should he be succet
Use full in the primary, his name will a
RS. strength to the ticket, and II elected as
is. most surely will be IL nominated,
g would prove a most acceptable officer.
-, Temple Lot, the sacred piece of Norm
soil In Independence, for which the 1
~. organized church of Jesus Christ, OF l.
'S' ter Day Saints, and the Independence f
Ms, ton of the Mormon church have bt
Wv Fl lighting in the courts for four years, v
'ss decided by Judge Phillips, of the circ
'iu court, last Saturday, to be the property
W the Re-organized church. The Indepi
y dence faction OF the Mormons is by
k opinion enjoined from asserting title
Mr.. the property, the cloud is removed, &
on full possession allowed to the plant
DC The successful organization has its he
at quarters at Lamont, Iowa. Its follow
Ing number rs, 600 souls, and its president
ey, Joseph Smith, Jr., a son OF Prophet Jos
her Smith, the founder of Mormonism.
JIG The Board of Trade held a very int
esting meeting, in the council chamt
last Tuesday night. A large majority
our the members were present, and many
'om portant subiectswere discussed. A pr
will %osition from the ferry company
lsh. received, and also one from Mr.. Krei
IL. who desires TO put in a cable ferry. Il
It. propositions were referred to the c.