The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-03-21
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Missouri Notes.

Inc country societies are debating
the corporal punishment question.
Ozark township, Texas county, has
organized an immigration society.
The court house of Henry county,
very fine one built in 1898, cost s4s, 200.
The mayor of Glenwood has issued
proclamation concerning the hoodlums.
Nearly 800 worth of new books
have been added to Moberly's high
school library.
Bob Bass has organized good min
strel troupe from the Columbia black
people.
Princeton will never drink any more
since 1t has seen "Ten Nights in a
Bar Room"
The graduates of the Schell City
High school have organized an alumni
ASSOCIATION.
At a recent session of the Jackson
county court ten miles of macadam
road were ordered.
Durhamf n. c., ships tobacco by
wholesale, but Dnrham, Mo-, is the
seat of whisky cure.
There is nothing particularly high
priced about the attire of Prof. DOod
of the Carthage High school,
The Shelby County Guard calls
attention to well written account ola
hanging in its issue of March 3.
A majority of the counties in Mis-
souri, have adopted the stock law, but
Polk county is not going to join them.
o. e. Ballard, who is a great man
in Georgia, being clerk of the Arragon
hotel at Atlanta, is a Weston, Mo,
boy.
A Missourian on his travels describes
Pilot mountain in North Carolina as
being ''of the shape of the court honse
in Shelbyville"
The late Albert Rees, of Columbia,
died last Sunday in Buffalo, n. Y.
From a coal miner he became the lar
gest owner of mines in Boone county.
Alexandria recently suffered q very
serious conflagratIon, but it is claimed
that the burned district will be rebuilt
in 4 much more substantial style.
Prof. j. p. Blanton, of Columbia,
has been invited TO deliver a series of
lectures before the summer school of
the University of Minnesota. The
school has an attendance of 200.
Hopkins Journal: There is not
member of the legal fraternity over at
Oregon who chews, smokes or drinks
1t is said they are ahead of the minis
ters of the town in this respect.
Holt Rustler: 1t is now generally
believed that the Plttsburg & Gulf rail-
road will be built by way of Plattsburg,
Mineral Springs, run through Lily,
thence direct to the Milwaukee bridge.
Woodson Persinger, witness in the
Gillaspy murder case on trial at
Moberly, swore that he had hunted all
! his life and had killed more game than
any man in the United States.
The veteran DIR. w. Pope Yeaman,
president of the Grand River college at
Gallatin. and prominent in religious
and political circles in this state, is
very i'll and his recovery is doubtful
1t was decided to transfer the Mis-
souri, state weather service from
Columbia to St. Louis. Prof. Waters
of the state university went to Wash
ington to protest and the service will
remain at Columbia.
Fulton Sun: Those of our orchardists
who sold apples at fifteen cents a
bushel, and in some cases less, last
fall, are confronted by the fact that
there Is an active demand at Kansas
City for fancy varieties at - 80 per
barrel.
A farmer near Atherton, Mo-, is now
buying up potatoes at ten cents
bushel and feeding them to his hogs.
He says potatoes can be had at this
price and that for fattcning purposes
they are inner than corn, especially at
the price at which he is buying.