The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-22
The peach crop is immense.

Watermellons are abundant and cheap.
Complaint is being made that diseased
horses are watered at the public %troughs.
Miss Allie Wilson has been quite i'll
with malarial fever this week, but was
improving yesterday.
The lawn social, given by the ladies of
the Baptist church, at Linwood Lawn,
Wednesday evening, was a grand success.
Though the sky was overcast with
clouds part OF the time yesterday it was,
nevertheless, very warm a regular August
day.
Impoverished blood causes that tired
feeling. Hoods Sarsaparilla purifes,
enriches and vitalizes the blood and gives
vigor and vitality.
The lower room of the court house is
about ready for occupancy. 1t is hand
somely furnished and all the fittings are
of the best style of workmanship.
Elsewhere in this issue will be ound the
advertisement of the Higginsville Milling
Co., which speaks for itself. The brands
of flour put upon the market by these
mills cannot be excelled, and every sack
is warranted to give satisfaction. The
advertisement contains the names of Lex
ington merchants who deal in their flour.
The new, c~ommodious and elegant hall
erected by Olive Lodge No. 81, Knights of
Pythias, of Odessa, was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies last Monday
night. Quite a number of knights of this
city were in attendance, and also members
of the order from Kansas City, Indepen-
dence, Higginsville, MAYHEM and We'll
lington. The grand keeper OF records and
seals, John ii. Holmes, OF st. Louis,
officiated as master of ceremonies, and his
address was both eloquent and appro-
pirate to the occasion. After the meeting
all present enjoyed a bounteous repast
prepared by the members of Olive lodge.
1t was a very pleasant dedication, and
hugely enjoyed by all present.
Miss Lena Kleinschmidt, of Higgins
vile, died suddenly in st. Louis one day
last week while on a visit to friends there.
She was engaged to be married in Sep
TENDER and had gone to st. Louis to
prepare her wedding wardrobe when she
was overcome with the terrible heat
prevailing at that time, and it was while
at work upon her wedding gown that she
was stricken down and died before med
ical assistance could be summoned. An
autopsy revealed the fact that her heart
had swollen to several times it's natural
size. 1t is thought that excitement pro-
duced by preparations for the suspicious
event, in which she was so much con-
cerned, combined with the frightful heat,
was the cause of her death. She was
buried in her wedding robes, and no
sadder cortege ever wendell it's way to a
cemetery than the one which escorted the
remains of this fair young girl to her last
resting place.
Though the war with Mexico closed in
1S49 with the treaty OF Hidalgo, there yet
remain many veterans of that famous
struggle to tell the tale of their sufferings
and the heroic achievements of the Amer
lean rmies under the leadership of Tay-
lor and Scott. Those who reside in this
city are DIR. j. F. Hassell, Jos. Chinn, W..
B. Major, T. S. Chandler and VIM. B.
Hale. The annual reunion of the veter-
ans has been arranged to meet in this
city on Friday, September IS. 1t is thought
the attendance from all parts of the state
will reach at least one hundred. Every
necessary arrangement Will be mace to
accord them a reception worthy of the
occasion. Committees will be appointed
next week to select places for the enter
ment of the old veterans during their stay
in the city, and to prepare a program Of
exercises. In the meantime persons who
would like to enjoy the society of these
old warriors should see the managers and
give the number they are willing to
1t was Col. O'Hara who
wrote the poem, 1.-THE Bivouac OF the
in memory of those Americans
who fell on the bloody fields of Mexico,
it will be an inspiration to the old
to hear it recited at this reunion
by one of their number. The Missouri
in the war consisted of three reg
Iments under Colonel Sterling Price,
Colonel Rawles and Colonel A. w. Dom
Iphan. OF the entire roster of survivors,
numbering three thousand, about 500
reside in this state. About 10000 men
we're sent to Mexico and Missouri fur
1ished one-tenth OF that number. The
reunion here will be addressed by Hon.
ohm Doniphan, of st. Joseph, nephew of
Col. A. w. Doniphan, who commanded
he First Missouri, and also by Hon. ].
Blackwell and Hon. John Welborn, of
his city.