The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-12-26

Clearance sale of wraps now going on,
at Kriehn & Wilker's. 12-26-tf
The latest thing out in Cake Pans, The
Perfection, at Yingling. 12-19-tf
Don't make any more resolutions next
year than you expect to keep.
Phares' gallery is the place to get first
class photos. Only 81 per dozen. 11-2Stf
Coal is now in good demand, and large
numbers of miners are steadily employed.
Don't buy until you see my large and
elegant line of perfumery. Leroy Farmer.
For good second hand Cook and Heating
Stoves, call on Ed. YingIing, OPP Moore
heads. 12-19-tf
Judge Field adjourned court last We'd
nesday afternoon until the second day in
January.
Hunters nave killed off nearly all the
quail in this section, and even rabbits are
said to be hard to find.
l have u very fine assortment OF hand
kerchief extracts. Price from 10c to S1.00
per bottle. Leroy Farmer. 12-12tf
The mayor of Kansas City yesterday
distributed hundreds of baskets of edibles
among the poor of that city.
Those persons who failed to receive
Christmas presents yesterday were unde-
niably in the hardest kind of hard luck.
Capt. G. N. Richards, formerly OF the
Concordian, is editing the Cole Camp
Courier, and making a first-class paper
of it.
The INTELLIGENCER will be a better
paper In '97 than it was in '96, and there
are some who think it was worth $3.50
per year in '96.
1t makes no difference whether we have
a white or green Christmas, provided
there is an abundance of good things on
the dinner table.
Large line of embroidered handker-
chiefs, silk elastic, buckles, gentlemens'
h~andkerchiefs, silk mitts and kid mitts at
F. R. Bane & Co.'s. 11-21-7t
The ~graphophone, the ideal talking
machine, for sale for S25, at Ludwigs'
iewelry store. Calf and hear it. Free
concerts daily. 12-19tf
The Republic says that one of. the best
committee plums of the senate will fall to
Senator Chas. Vandiver. Any plum that
falls to our senator will fall upon one
worthy of it.
Soothing, and not irritauIng; strength
ening, and not weakening; small, but
effective-such are the qualities of De-
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. Crist & Day. I-25-1y
Don't resolve to be a better man next
year han you have been this until you
resolve to pay your subscription to the
local paper, or else resolve that you will
make a desperate effort to pay for it.
The state legislature will soon be in
session. Nearly every member has pre-
pared one or more ''bills," but it is a safe
prediction hat most of them will find
their way into the waste basket before the
end of the session.
"Wanted, a Wife," a four-act comedy,
with the latest songs, dances and musical
specialties. Also Miss Ollie Eaton's fire
and butterfly dances, with calcium and
electrical effects. At the New Grand,
Monday, December 2Sth.
Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped
hands and lips, cuts, bruises, scalds and
burns are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is at present the
article most used for piles, and it always
cures them. Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
The old way of delivering messages Ly
p~ost-boys, compared with the modern
telephone, illustrates the old, tedious
methods of ~"breaking' colds, compared
with their almost instantaneous cure by
One Minute Cough Cure. CrIst & Day.
Major j. r. WATSON, a we'll known citi-
zen of Ssdalia, has gone to Cuba to fight
the Spaniards. The major is known to
49, rao,Ia - fhfo oit- oIao on1 hoe
the reputation of being a daring man, and
one who never falters in anything he I'M
dertakes.
Mr.. Jacob Fegert is putting up a very
fine granite monument for Mr.. E. Hoff-
man. 1t will be a center piece for the
family burial plot in M~achpeIah cemetery,
and will weigh, with the base, about two
tons. 1t is of Quincy granite, the finest
that could be purchased, and is sur
mounted by a highly polished urn OF the
same material.
II it is true hat diphtheria is spreading
the board of health should take prompt
measures to stamp it out before it gets a
stronger hold and causes the death OF ad-
ditional victims. There is probably no
immediate risk of it becoming danger
GUS to the community, but wise precau-
tionary measures should be taken now to
prevent a further spread of the malignant
disease.
One night last week a burglar entered
Braun's bakery store, breaking out a
pane of glass in the rear window. He
took fifty cents from the money drawer
and a CAKE from a glass case. The pane of
glass he broke out was not a large one,
and he must have been a boy or a very
small man to nave been able to crawl
through without breaking more than one
glass from the window.
At the special election for constable of
Davis township, held last Tuesday. j. c.
Gum, the democratic candidate, was
elected over his opponent, John Taggart,
by a good majority. At the November
election there was a tie, and the county
court ordered a special election to decide
the matter. Mr.. Gunn is said to be in
every way worthy of the place, and will
prove himself to be a capable officer.
Willis Carr and Manville Buford have
purchased the feed store on Franklin
avenue from the present proprietors, the
Messrs. Kreihn & Hollingsworth. The
transfer will take place on the first of the
month, when the new proprietors will
o Ysume charge of the business. Both are
qng men of energy, industry and bust
It liability, and they will no doubt meet
+ "yuccess from the start.
n Nictswas a merry little party at Mrs.
!, e A Home Tuesday evening. Capt
80 oaSman, Prof. stark, Prof. Allen
49, ~ Blackwell entertained a few
HIT md bird supper Capt. and Mrs.
a muns mace alighttul chaperOns for the
;, Henry. Eupentts were: Misses Mary
Edna TiabaII. EPpavis, Locke Arnold
,.u a, pn1ton TNickelI and Mr.. Braw-
: served ana a1terwaN the young people
l enjoyed an informal ArsicaIe in the mar
lors-given by those ofNa nartv toIented
in that direction.
The Sunday Post-Dispat< contains
very fine picture of Miss Be- Huston
of this city, and says: "Miss\ nston H.
the daughter of Col. Samuel j. e.