The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-10-24

For SALE.-I have for sale nine very
fine yearIing mules.
WALTER B. WADDELL-
YingIing's is the cheapest place to have
your Tin work done. Opposite Moore
heads. 6-2Otf
Mr.. Walter Ireland has gone to Decatur,
ILL.,, to accept Il position In the dry goods
store of e. S. Young & Co.
For SALE-An upright piano, at a bar
gain. Address Della Blaise, Farrar Build
ing; or this office. 1O-I7-1G
DIR. Geo. w. Bates is Offering some ex-
cellent stock for sale. His sale occurs
mex Thursday. Be sure to attend.
Poison Ivy, insect bites, bruises, scaIds,
burns, are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve, the great pile cure.
Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
The transfer company keeps a call book
at the Mammoth livery stable, and one at
the Grand Central hotel. Leave orders at
these places. 10-27-tf
The curfew bell rings every night at
a quarter of s O'Clock. and at s O'Clock
every boy and girl under sixteen years Of
age must be off the streets.
AGENrs WANTED-To take orders for
pure whisky from consumers, from one
gallon up. Good pay. Licking Valley
Distilleries, Covington, KY. 1913 5t
The poultry raisers of the county are
making vast preparations for their great
exhibition to be held in this city on the
18th, 18Th, 18th and Goth of next month.
The whole system is drained and under
mined by indolent ulcers and open sores.
De Wits Witch Hazel Salve speedily heals
them. 1t is the best pile cure known.
Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
"BoYs will be boys" but you can't
afford to lose any of them. Be ready for
the green apple season by having De
Wits CoIIe and Cholera Cure in the
house. Crist u Gardner. 1-25-1y
have just opened up a new millinery
store on Franklin avenue, and would be
pleased to have the ladies of Lexington
and vicinity call and see my stock and get
my prices. Mrs. Henry Rasch. 10-24t2
Mr.. 10. Hook suffered a dangerous
stroke of paralysis while on a visit to his
son, Mr.. Homer Hook, near Greenton.
At last accounts he was very i'll and the
outcome was considered doubtful. His
many friends here will regret to hear Of
his misfortune.
A coal switch is being built to connect
several mines below Riverton. 1t is
nearly a mile in length and is about COM
pleted and ready for the cars. A large
number of men and teams have been en-
ployed on the work.
The wheat market has been attracting
the attention of many spectators this
week. 1t has f~uctuated considerably at
times, but it has had a general upward
tendency, and was selling in Chicago yes
terday at 20 cents, a fall of 8 cents since
Tuesday.
A large number of people have been
employed for weeks past in gathering,
barreling, hauling and shipping the
apple crop of this county, which was a
very large one and worth thousands of
dollars to the farmers. Many ear loads
were shipped from this point.
Miss Alice Thistle, of this county, has
sued the trustees of Christian college,
at Columbia Mo-, for $3.50 on account of q
breach of contract. She was engaged
there as a teacher, but the contract was
broken without a word of ex planation, so
Miss Thistle alleges in her petition.
Mr.. VIM. Gregory, who had both his
legs broken by an secident at the Serat
mines, is reported to be doing very well,
though he suffers great agony at times.
The bone were badly crushed by the
heavy -"cage" which fell upon him. He
is said to be a good engineer and a
reliable man in every way.
County Clerk Andrew has all the poll
books and tally lists ready for the cleo
ton judges and clerks. To prepare these
books and lists required a great deal of
time and labor, but Capt. Andrew has
worked faithfully upon them and every
thing is now in readiness for the Bryan
victory on the 3D. of November.
King of Diamonds, a three year-old
pacing gelding, by velocity, beat all the
crack three-year-olds at Lexington, KY,
last week in straight heats, 2:1OH, 2:09A
and 2;11A. He was trained over the
Higginsville track this year by Ed.
Parker, who drove him In his race. 2:09A
equals the race record for three-year-olds.
If you have ever seen a little child in
the agony OF summer complaint, you can
realize the danger of the trouble and
appreciate the value of instantaneous re-
lief always afforded by DeWitt's Colo
and Cholera Cure. For dysentery and
diarrhea it is a reliable remedy. We
could not afford to recommend this as a
cure unless it were a cure, CrIst s. Day.
Mr.. Thos. Shelby is improving slowly,
and his family and friends have strong
hopes of his recovery, despite his age and
the serious nature of his disease. He was
always a man of robust constitution, great
will power and determined character.
The news OF his probable recovery will
give great pleasure to his many friends
throughout the county.
Rev. H. p. Farris, prohibition candi-
date for governor, spoke to a small
audience at the court house last Monday,
He is a fine talker and his address was a
fair exposition of the prohibition doc
trines. Being a general political cam
paign, however, the people cannot be
induced to turn out to listen to addresses
upon subjects foreign to the questions at
issue.
Word was received in this city Thurs
day of the death, at his home in Califor-
mia, of Mr.. Tol Hunter, at one time a
resident of this city. He was a well
known brickmason while here, ana built
many of the store buildings and resi-
dences erected prior to the war. He left
here at the outbreak OF hostilities and
and went to California, where tho family
has since resided. He died many years
ago, and now his son has followed him to
the grave,
Mrs. Kate Basoom. wife OF Louis Bas-
com, formerly OF this city, but now Of
Clinton, killed herself and her f~our-year-
son in a lodging house at Kansas City,
Wednesday night, by turning on the gas
in her room. She had gone to Kansas
City from Clinton in search of employ
ment, and meeting with no success she
ended her troubles in the manner above
described. She was in great poverty, and
had paid her last cent for the rent of the
room. The bodies were found lying on
the bed and the room was full OF gas. A
letter from Mr.. BascoIn, containing 81,
reached the lodging houss shortly after
the discovery OF the bodies by the inmates
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