The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-04-14

City politics is beginning to grow inter-
esting.
The young ladies of Central college were
granted a holiday, Tuesday.
We learn that Dover is to be the scene
of a wedding in the near future.
Mr.. Clarence Worthington has bought
the Nav property, at MAYHEM, for $1,000.
The yard of the colored Baptist church
on Main street has been graded and
sodded.
Peter Lindsay's house, in Pomeroy ad =
dition, burned last Tuesday night. 1t was
insured.
One of the best ways to make money is
to save it. Read the advertisements in
this paper.
Mr.. Rudolph Hearle is having a plate
glass front put in his store ROOM, which
is occupied by Mr.. c. G.. Ludwigs.
The entertainment OF the music and
e~locution classes OF b. Il. c., will be given
at the opera house, Monday evening.
Messrs. j. Q. Plattenburg and j. G.
Worthington have bought the w. b..
Steele farm OF 2iO acres south OF MAYHEM.
There will be an open session of the
farmers and laborers' union, at the Webb
school house, april 21st. at I p. III. Every
body invited; special invitation to ladies.
Mr.. VIM. III. Moreland. who was born
and reared in this city, is to be married
soon to a young lady at Chelsea. Indian
Territory. She is a Cherokee maiden,
said to be very lovely and intelligent.
Will is known to nearly everyone here,
and his hosts OF friends will join us in
wishing him long life, happiness and
prosperity.
The Ministers Alliance held an inter-
esting meeting, on Monday, at the stud y
OF Rev. c. M. Bishop. A paper, '.How to
Increase the Efficiency Of the Ministry"
was read by DIR. Richardson. At the next
meeting, which will be held on Tuesday
evening next. Rev. G.. NJ. Goodies SER
mon, "Should Ladies' Take Part in Public
Worship" will be the topic of discussion.
"Mr. and Mrs. George Il. Reynolds re-
quest your presence at the marriage OF
their daughter, Edith Marion, to Mr..
Mortimer Edgerton Serat, on Thursday
evening, April 81, 1894, ut Z o'clock. 1905
Linwood Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. At
Home after June list, 1905 Linwood
Avenue" Thus read handsomely en-
graved invitations received by friends in
this city.
On Wednesday night, April II, 1894, the
store of John Baucum, three miles west OF
Lexington, was burglarized. The follow
ing goods were taken: 1900 cigars, La
Monticello, and Cleveland and Harrison
brands, 10000 Old Dominion cigarettes,
one caddy Star tobacco, one caddy Sledge
tobacco, one cady Crane tobacco, seventy
five pounds coffee, John Baucum brand,
ninety pounds coffee in bulk, lot of toilet
soar and DIR. Snyder's carbolic glycerine
also one Colt pistol, cap and ball. Sheriff
Wright offers a reward OF twenty-five dol
lars for the capture, or any information
that leads to the capture Of the guilty
parties.
We print elsewhere the advertisement
OF the horses OF Red Hill Stock Farm. The
public spirit which prompts the placing
OF standard and registered horses, such a.
these, at such figures, not only demand.
recognition, but the opportunity of thus
improving our horse stock, (which stands
sadly in need of improvement 10 a rars
one, indeed. II our people avail themselve:
of this opportunity it would add thou
sands of dollars, In the future, to oul
horse stock. Horses, Of a kind are low
now; but good horses, Notwithstanding
the general depression, command good
prices. Scrubs OF no breed are not likely
in the future to command better price
than now, hence it will not pay to brees
them; but the prices for well bred horse
and good individually, will always b'
good. Our county in this respect is fal
behind others; hence parties desiring
good road, carriage and coach horse
which command good prices, do not com
here to buy. 1t is doubtful IL six gooe
road horses could be found in the county
and yet this kind, to-day, command from
one hundred and fifty to five hundre,
dollars. A son Of the great Madrid, n
five dollars, as handsome a coach horse a
! lives, with the endurance of a thorough
bred, "a model road horse in all respects,
at the same price, and q half brother O
the one hundred and five thousand dol
lars horse, Axtell, land far better bred oil
his dams side) for ten dollars, seems Xix
selling gold dollars for twenty five cents