The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-01

Lowest prices and latest styles millin-
ery at Mrs. IL. Rasch's. 4-3tf
Wall paper, latest designs and pref
tiest patterns at the lowest prices. A.
EgIe. 5-1-1Ot
Rev. A. s. Moffett will preach at Maple
Glen school house tomorrow afternoon at
3 o'clock.
When you are weak, tired and lIfeless,
you need to enrich and purify your blood
with Hoods SarsapariIla.
Go to the ball game at w. NJ. A. Monday.
The game is between WarrensburE and
Wentworth, and promises to be the best
of the season.
Mr.. Emil Ludwigs recently old a
graphophone to IA gentlem III who in
tends to lake it to his home, about thirty
miles from Pari'. France.
As none of our citizens have as yet
claimed to have seen the air ship, we
think they can be heartily commended
for their sobrieiy and total a~UStenance.
We are glad to report that Mrs. Travis
Buford, who has been suffering ill health
for some time, is at last improving and
hCI tIu hOHt @Apoh ~ "a
cry.
Sedalia Sentinel: Mrs. w. e. bard, Jr.,
is entertaining a company nj friends thi
afternoon at her home, 7Oj West Sixth
street. Cards are the feature OF the
entertainment. The event is given in
honor OF her guest, Mrs. Ed McOrew.
Guttenburg lodge No. 32] and Orion
lodge No. As, l. O. o.. F., celebrated the
seventy-eigth anniversary of the order in
America, on Tuesday, April q, by a ban
quet and ceremonies in which a number
of visiting members took part. A very
pleasant and sociable evening was passed.
For the gu .drennial funniest of North
American Gymnastic Union National
Association Fire Insurance Agents II be
held at st. Louis, May @ to II, 1897, the
Wabash will sell excursion tickets at one
fare for the round trip. tickets limited to
continuous passage in each direction,
Tickets on sale May 8 and 6, good to
return up to and including May II, 1897,
p. w. Carter, agent for Wabash, Lexing-
ton Junction.
The steps in front of the court house are
a favorite resort for those 10 attendance
upon court. When the day is warm and
balmy the steps are lined from one end to
the other with q mass OF humanity,
perched upon the top row OF steps like
blackbirds upon the limb of a tree. 1t is
one of the first indications of spring to
see those steps adorned with mankind
basking in the warm ray of the sunshine
MIR. Aaron Misenhelter was in our office
Wednesday, and showed us a piece OF
money which he found while digging In
the ground around his home. 1t is 6
Mexican coin, called n quarter real
weighs fourteen grains n is worth
about 81 cents. 1t was coined in 1876
and the lettering on it shows no apparent
marks of wear, but can be plainly distiu
guished. The coin is slightly smaller
h a a half dime, and is very rare, even In
Mexico, that country having discontinued
the coinage of them years age.
On Friday afternoon of last week Mr.
E. M. McCausland entertained the clerks
employed in the store of Mr.. w. G. Nc.
Causland. Mr.. e. NJ. McCausland was
until recently one of the proprietors o.
the store, and a warm friendship exists
between him and his old employees. Al
Of the force that could be spared from the
store were present, and a very pleasant
time was enjoyed by all. Mrs. McCaus-
land had prepared an elegant supper, and
the time that could be spared from their
duties at the store passed quickly to all
present.
In spite OF the Incorporate habits with
which the Americans are charged, the fol-
lowing drink bill shows that the British
ers are more frequent takers of "toddy'
than our inhabitants. The bill is the
mount of money expended for liquors by
these two countries the last year aud is as
follows: Great Britain s745, OOO, 900, Uni
ted States 1851 ,OOO, 600. The population Of
our country is nearly twice that of Eng
land and therefore the consumption Of
liquor by Americans is almost one-hali
less per capita han by the British, or, in
other words, the Highlander drinks so
worth OF intoxicants while the American
consumes liquors to the value OF So.
The Lexington and Odessa second ball
teams played a very interesting game OF
base ball at Odessa, last Thursday, result
ing in the defeat our boys by TWO scores
% to "a. BIevins and Mcconnell did very
good battery work for Lexington as did
Parker and Bumgarner for Odessa, bot as
Parker was hit more frequently than
Blevins, the superior field work saved the
game for the Odessans. Our boys say they
were treated as fne as princes by every
inhabitant of that city except the umpire,
whose frank" decisions in favor of the
home team did not meet with the approval
of the Odessa boys, they knowing them to
be too unfair. Odessa will return the
game in the near future and our boys will
endeavor to treat the boys from the "Val-
ley City" with the greatest hospitality at
their command.
For some time past the minds of many
OF our fellow-townsmen have been much
perplexed by an object that has appeared
In view from the higher localities OF our
up-to-date city. Far away to the north
west It appeared and day by day, as 1t
increased in height, the wonderment of
all increased in proportion. Higher and
higher it's mighty form lowered above the
tallest trees to be discerned on the hills of
the country whereupon 1t appeared to
to stand, and the wise ones shook their
heads knowingly and looked askance at
one another, each waiting for the other to
express his views as to what the queer
object could be that had so suddenly
appeared to disturb the even tranquility
of their minds. What could b strange
object be? Active young persons climbed
the tallest telegraph poles to get a better
view of the wonder, but all in vain. Some
with eager haste scrambled up the inside
OF the tallest church steeple and then,
peering out through the holes that the
woodpecker had made during his busy
summer season, eagerly scanned the land
scape in the direction of the wonder but
nothing could be seen that threw the least
light upon either the substance or origin
of the strange appearance. Old decrepit
scientists climbed to the highest windows
of houses and tried, with the assistance of
field glasses, to solve the deep mystery, but
still it remained. What possible solution
to the problem could be given? At length,
worn out with the ceaseless watching inc
unnatural activity, one man., older n
feebler than the rest, sought his humble
home and before retiring too In han
his bible, as was his custom, and wearily
fnrnad the Ieavea Iookin0 for n auftahIe