The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-11-09
LIFE OR DEATH !
The Next Few Days Will Tell
the Bridge Story.
A CALL FOR A MASS MEETING.

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. CALL FOR A MASS MEETING.
Mayor Taubman Issues q Proclama-
ton Asking All Business Houses
to Close During the Meeting.
The story OF L~exington's bridge, its
success or failure, will soon be told. An
anxious public will be informed of every
detail In connection with the affair next
Tuesday. soon we will all know whether
has spent six months 10 sue.
work, or whether her hopes will
be crushed to earth to rise no more. The
directors have not talked on the
outside for months. They have held their
meetings behind closed doc and from
The meetings nothing have come that
would encourage OF discourage. The
writer OF this has been very successful at
finding out things that happen. We have
at times found out things that never hap
pened and never will. We have inter-
viewed . good many kinds of men, but at
every inquiry as to the bridge movement
we have been as unsuccessful to learn
anything that was going on In the bridge
board as IL we were Q representative OF .
town that was trying to defeat the project.
We have questioned and cross.questioned.
W. L.-a AanlaeoA e. Inhn Il n1aAkUal1
tina We would fight the silver question,
to Jas. q. McGrew that W. would never
use another pound OF "Hope," to Judge
McCausland that we would wreak our
vengeance on the county court. to Ernest
McCausland that we would kill his "ad."
to 4. M. Taubman that we would vote the
republican ticket, to Jas. Moorehead that
Capt. P~lattenburg that we would publish
him as ungrateful to the gentler sex,
because he don't get married, to Albert
Young that we would never get sick, to
Emison Chanslor that W. would fight
electric lights, to Philip Keller that We
would pay him our bill, to H. r. e.
Winkler that we would start . furniture
factory, I o Judge Field that we would In
terview him ON the money question, to
VIM. Stevenson that we would 60 into
the hardware business, and to Albert
Geyer that we would advocate prohibition.
We have made all these threats, but
never q word would they tell N, either
for private use or for publication. They
have kept a. still ~ . barn door about
ggA-A .~.;S.. ., ,n~Nfi mo ~oe NfroA ~ ankfnO
and had about concluded that
1uG1E HohooaA column OF bridge
IL we had to manu-
Just started out for
Elder OB61b y11Gay to get him to write
another piece OF poetry fe1ns about the
thing, when 10 came q with .
slip Of paper. Our poeu 1ea-
tai emotions dwindled l.
We were confronted with
bridge was beyond the poetiSz
was 10 fear and trembling that
that paper. We thought It was an inteE
view from Jas. G. McGrew, or . memorial
to congress, but It was neither. It was .
call for q meeting, and read thus:
LIFE OR DEATH OF THE BRIDGE!
/ To the Subscribers 10 the Bridge aud Citizens
of Lexington and Vicinity:
You are hereby notified that there will
be q grand mass meeting Of citizens 1t the
court house, in the city OF Lexington, on
next Tuesday, November IL, At 2 p. m:
At this meeting the complete details Of
the bridge affair will be disclosed. Every
citizen and subscriber especially 10 urged
to attend this meeting. 1t has been
requested that the business houses all
close during the meeting. Don't fail 70
meet with us. Our business 10 your busi-
ness, and you should be there I look out
for your interests. The Bridge Company
believes It to be q duty that every citizen
owes hrs city to be on hand ct the
appointed time. Remember the date, the
place aud your duty.
e. N. MCCAUsLAND,
PHILIP KELLER,
A. q. YOUNG,
Committee.
The paper told its own story. Tit
Bridge Company 10 going to talk, and VI
hear 1t Whispered that they are going Il
talk loud. Mayor Tsubman. at least
thinks DO, because he has issued . procla.
nation that will enable every one to heaI
what 10 said.
Let every house be closed. Notice II
hereby served that there will be no one Ia
the INrKLLIaRNCER ONCE with whom u
transact business or talk politics durini
the meeting.