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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
Gold Versus Life.

Men are at present risking their lives
for gold. There is a stampede of eager,
willing martyrs to the inhospitiable
country OF the Klondyke. Many will
perish from cold and hunger. Not one
quarter of the people who go there will
ever return. Not one-half of those who
do return will return any richer than
they went. They will not only endan-
ger their health. but their lives, for the
sake of gold. And yet everybody says
that health is more precious than gold.
The thing which restores health is,
therefore, more precious than gold. Pc
III restores health, cures all forms of
weakness, all forms and stages of
catarrh, builds up br~oken-down ccnsti-
buttons, brings new life back to all those
who have become prematurely old. The
latest and best book ever written on the
subject of female diseases will be sent
free, to women only, for a short time.
Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufac-
turing Co., Columbus, Ohio.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
CORDER.

C0RDER.
Miss Emma ~Shackelford' visited Hig-
ginsville Tuesday.
Miss Stella Lewis will attend school ia
Hlgginsville this year.
Miss Lolita Corder opened her school at
Sunny Bank, Monday.
The Eimaker school opened Monday,
with MI. John Fletcher teacher.
Miss Frances Mullins, OF Linneus, NO.,
is visiting her friend, Miss Anna Groves.
Mrs. L. A. Blackburn, of Blackburn,
was here last week attending Presbytery.
Mesdames Deere and Ewing, of Nevada,
visited their sister, Mrs. H. F.. Corder, of
this city, last week.
MT. Ben Lewis has bought the residence
OF Rev. w. b. Mcfarland, and will soon
move his family to town.
Miss Katherine Dean, who Is teaching
near Blackburn, spent Saturday and Sun-
day with the home folks.
The Misses Shackeiford entertained q
few OF their friends last Friday evening at
their delightful country home.
Mr.. Jess Boswell returned to his home
10 Vandalis Tuesday, after q pleasant visit
with his friend, Mr.. A. Livingood.
Misses Vic Jackson, Mamie and Edmo-
mia Field, o Blackburn. visited Mrs. d.
O.. jackson several days of last week.
Raw. W. B. Mcfarland returned last
Friday evening from DesMoines, Iowa,
where he was called to see a sick brother.
Aunt Bette Saunders returned home
last Saturday. after q pleasant visit to the
family OF h5r nephew, Mr.. Chas. Lewis. In
the country.
Dur public schools opened last week
with an enrolment OF about 200 pupils.
The work 10 somewhat retarded on ac-
count of the recent change of text books.
Dealers are having q In securing
them.
There wal quite a crowd Of strangers
here last week In attendance on the Pres-
bytery OF Lafayette. Some we knew, but
the majority were strangers to most of
visitors from Lexington we noticed Mr..
and Mrs. J. p. Gordon aud Miss Wayne
Andrewa.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
ET,ITNaT0N


G. M Bowring made q business trip II
Lexington on Monday.
Sherin Fulkerson was seen on on,
streets early Monday morning.
Frank Needler, of near H%igginsyille
was in Wellington last Saturday.
Thomas Rulings spent Sunday In Lex
ington with friends and relatives.
Miss Pearl Powell, OF near MAYHEM, is
visiting with Miss Mary Beali, OF Green
ton Valley.
visited friends and relatives In WelIIng-
ton Tuesday.
About twenty OF our citizens went to
Sedalia Wednesday to listen to the great
apostle of free silver, VIM. j. Bryan,
Miss Fannie Renick, who has been the
guest of Miss Mamie Corse for the past
two weeks, has returned to her home near
Columbus, Mo.
Messrs. Will BeaIl. Will Bailey and
Evert Bryant, all of Kansas City, landed
in Wellington Monday evening to spend
q few days visiting relatives and friends.
Coroner Mann was summoned to Bates
City last Monday, but upon his arrival
found that bis subject was very much
alive. The party being q ramp and I'M
known, was cent to a Kansas City hos
pltal.
Miss Florence Gates, OF Richmond, who
has been visiting the family of Mr.. Alex
Denton for a number OF weeks, returned
home last Saturday In company with the
family of Mr.. Denton.
Prof. Watson, of Central College, Lex
%ington, filled the pulpit here Sunday
morning In the absence of Rev. Franklin.
Prof. Watson's sermon met with such
favor that an effort will be made to secure
his services for a regular appointment at
this place.
Miss Bessie Strodtman, in company
with her cousin, Miss Aims Howard, OF
Holden, left for Lexington Monday morn
ing, where both will attend the Baptist
Female College. Miss Bessie Is a charm
ing young lady, of splendid intellect, q
the action of Mr.. James Strodtman In
giving her ar opportunity for intellectual
is highly commendable. D..
Our public school opened Monday
morning with q good attendance. Prof..
Jarvis, the principal, is a native of Him
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The music for the occasion will be fur.
nished by the Lexington and Concordia
bands, two OF the best bands In the state.
A grand parade of the blue and the
grey will be given during the day, and
once more the old veterans will keep step
to the music of the fife and drum.
At night one o. the grandest displays of
fireworks ever witnessed in the city will
be given In the court house yard.
We are proud of the hospitality which
Is always shown by our citizens to visit
ora to Lexington, and they intend to
make this day no exception to the rule.
Lexlugton's homes will be thrown wide
open to the reception Of the visitors, and
a pleasant day is promised all who attend.
Every family In the county is urged to
come. bring we'll filed baskets add spend
one OF the most enjoyable days of their
lives.
Judge Rich ard Field will deliver the
address welcoming the guests to our city.
Captain w. d. Rankin will be grand mar
shall for the day, aud his assistant grand
marshals are as follows:
Lexington township-Capt. 10. A. Will
son, Maj. Fred Meet add e. M. Taubmau.
Clay-Zach w. Wright.
ID vIs-W. A. Thornton.
Dover-S. J. Kleinschmidt.
Freedom-Jos. L. Youngs.
Middleton-Hon. e. NJ. Edwards.
Shi.a-Bar-Wm. Liszt.
Neutrality-suspicious. WheatIey.
The reception committee Is as follows:
John 8. Blackwell, chairman; ]. Q. Plat
tenburg, Geo. M. Catron, w. q. McCaus-
la H. ALL D- L-
Burden, John Welborn, Nicholas Haeris.
PROGRAMME.
Procession forms at 10 O'Clock In the
following order:
FIRST DIVISION.
Form on Broadway, right resting on
Main street.
1-Grand marshal aud assistants.
2-Concordia band.
6--Mulligan Post g. A. R., and visitors.
4-Confederate Veteran camps and vIs-
itors.
6-W. NJ. A. Cadets.
6-Speakers, reception committee and
guests, in carriages.
7-Secret societies.
sECoND DIVISION.
Form on Main street, right resting at
Intersection of Main and Broadway.
Lexington band.
2-Lexington Fire company, No. 2.
3-Lexington Fire company, No. l.
Trades display.
5-Cltizens In carriages.
LINE OIL MARCH
Form on Main street; east on Main
street to Eleventh street; south on Elev-
enth street to Franklin avenue; east on
Franklin avenue to Thirteenth street;
south On Thirteenth street to South
str est; east on South street to Sixteenth
street; north on Sixteenth street to picnic |
grounds.
PROGRAMME AT GROUNDS.
Called to order by Judge Richard Field,
Irvocation by Rev. r. Ellerby.
Music by band.
Address of Welcome, by chairman.
Music.
Address by Hon. Frank p. Walsh.
N
Music by band.
Address by Hon. Geo. W. Trigg.
Music by band.
Address by Hon.. VIM. Warner.
Music.
Address by Hon.. VIM. 8. Cowherd.
The following ladies ave been APP
a committee to solicit families to
.ttend and bring we'll filled baskets:
Mesdames Mamie Steele, Bert Taubman
md w. }. Bandon, and Miss Ella Nickel.
Again we say come, bring well filled
baskets and enjoy the greatest reunion of
he old veterans ever held in the county.
"Forker's Electricity Pills" cure bill,
.iousness, indig estion, disordered kidneys
nd kindred troubles. They aid nature.
hey build up. No weakening and debiI-
effects. All druggists sell them. ! :
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
500 Reward, 800.

The readers ofthis paper will be pleased
20 learn that there is at least q dreaded
disease that science has been able TO cure
in all its stages, n that IL catarrh.
HALLS Catarrh Cure Is the only positive
sure now known to the medical fratsr-
nifty. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nalIy, acting upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of me system, thereby destroying
the foundation Of the disease and giving
The patient strength by building up the
consultation and assisting nature in
doing It's work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers that
fhsV offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that IL falls to cure. Send for list OF
testimonials. Address
r. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
H-6old BY druggists, Toe.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
THIRTY-sIxTH ANNIVERSARY.

THIRTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY.
The thirty-sixth anniversary of the
battle OF Lexington will be celebrated
on next Tuesday by the veterans Of the
blue and the grey.
This event is q part of the history of
our proud old county and city, and as
year succeeds year. interest IN these
reunions of the survivors of the war
increases.
In thsse reunions of patriotic soldiers
we behold an omen fraught with much
good to u country. The heart of
every lover of his country should glad
den at the sight of citizen soldiers,
whose blood formed q common rivulet
down the steep sides of College Hill
meeting, not in the ranks of devas-
tating war, but as q band of brothers
In friendly conclaVe under the equal
protection of q common country. Such
occasions should be fostered, cher
ished and encouraged. They tend to
heal up old war sores, to exalt above
the shafts of passion, prejudice and
doubt the dignity and stability of u
government. They speak volumes for
the perpetuity of our republican insti-
tutions. They point the crowned heads
of Europe to the fact that we are not
only great in war, but also IN peace.
That In this magnificent republic we
can sustain a little family dispute
whose vigor would have wrecked any
government of the old world, and yet
after the battle we can shake hands
and sit down and consult together over
the interests of a common country in
the magnanimous spirit of an all per-
yading patriotism.
One feature of the coming jubilee
will be the rendition by the renowned
Wilk's Cornet band, of Concordia, of
the battle piece entitled the ''BIue and
Gray" with cannon and musketry
accompaniment. This piece will be
performed Immediately upon the
of the procession on the
grounds. It represents the ~''pickets
driven I'M" the galloping horse and
jIngling spurs of the troopers are dis
heard. Then in a sad minor
strain the pickets tell the pathetic
story of comrades slain. Following
This a shout of defiance, the bugle
s.fall5 in" the cannon fires the
camp alarm, and after crash
ing chords of military harmony, the
inspiring strains of "Dixie" and
yankee Doodle" proclaim the battle
Is on. The cannon and muskets pour
iorth their realistic notes, and while
,ne-half the band plays "Dixie" the
other half with equal enthusiasm rem
lers s'Yankee DOODLE" and amid a
ooisterous finale of horns, bugles,
.rumpets, drums, muskets and cannon,
he piece ends with q thrilling crash
If harmony.
Hon. John f. Burden, of this city,
arranged the above piece especially for
,ur anniversary, and no band in the
tate can excel the style in which the
band performs it. When
hey play, all the people shout.
We look for a grand day. Let every
'ody come and bring well filed baskets
md enjoy the day.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
PAGE CITY.

PAGE CITY.
Stock water il scarce.
@. B. Siusher was here Monday.
Temple Page was here this morning.
Sam Pfeger spent last Saturday here.
Burwell Starke had business In town
last Monday.
George B. Gordon. of Dover, was here
Tuesday night.
VIM. Walker was here Tuesday morn
ing on business.
George Miller made HlgginsviIle a busi-
ness visit last Monday.
Henry Plattenburg had business here
several days last week.
Thomas Young, of Lexington, made us
@ pleasant call Monday.
VIM. Slusher aud wife spent Sunday
with JOE Page, OF this place.
j. w. Tompkins had business In Hig-
gfnsSflie several days last week.
Misses Lizzie and Marie Scott spent
Tuesday evening in Higginsville.
Miss Josie Murray. of warrensburg, is
Waiting her sister here this week.
Geo. vandIvsr, of Borland, spent Sun
day with the family of r. P. Tabo.
Miss Maud ckle is the guest of Misses
Lizzie and Marie Scott, of this place.
News came to town this morning that
MIR. Wash Cooper is sinking very fast.
Joe Page, OF Kansas City passed through
last Sunday, on his way to Higginsville.
Major c. II. Vandiver passed through
here Tuesday morning, en- route to Hig-
ginsviile.
Linn Shelby and Thomas and Elias
Miller made q business trip to Higgins
Vile Tuesday.
John Taubman, of Lexington, was here
last Friday, posting bills for the battle of
Lexington celebration.
John Stewart and Walter Page saw the
reproduction of the Corbett- Fitzsimmons
fight In Lexington last Friday night.
II. Tabb, of Virginia, who has been on
the sick list for several days, at his
brother Payton's, near here, is no better.
We hear he has been an invalid for years.
DIR. J. J. Fulkerson, of HigginsvilIe, is his
physician.
G. B. Slusher Is hauling water from
here to bis family in Higgineville. We
understand several of the Higginsville
citizens have to buy their water to drink
and cook with for thirty cents q tank and
haul 1t themselves.
Billie White, one OF our neighbor boys,
hired o buggy and team from Payne Bros.
livery stable to drive over to Lexington,
and on his return one of the horses was
taken sick and died ON the road home.
Billie said the horse seemed to have a sun
stroke.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

No Lexington young lady will be in
the Kansas City Karnival parade. The
Lexington papers not being willing to
give up the advertisement, Lexington
10 erased from the list. And yet the
prettiest girls in the world are here in
I~axinOton-
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The Kansas City Carnival Crew is In
the business of drawing trade to Kan
sas City. The Lexington papers are IN
the business of bringing the trade here.
Herein lies n good reason for reject
ing that ssyoting scheme"
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oils, and has In his possession papers that
bear witness to the fact that he has an en-
viable education. Miss Mamie Corse, his
assistant, is a graduate from one of our
state normals, and has already mace a
splendid reputation as a teacher.
With sue able instructors we may well
look for q successful term of school.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

The shooting down of the miners at
Hszelton, Pa, was nothing more nor
less than ruthless murder, and those
responsible for 1t should be punished
accordingly.
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Have Tom Watson and C. Cleveland
been Kidnapped

Nobody welcomes prosperity more
than the democrats. That's what they
are fighting for.
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Decorate your houses next Tuesday,
in honor Of the brave heroes who
fought fer what they thought was
right, thIrtY-six years ago.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

Governor Stephens mas appointed
Hugh Brady one Of the election COM
nissIoners of St. LOUIS.
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Owing to the Dingley bill there is q
famine in India, and before the for
signer will starve he pays a dollar for
what.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

The ministers at Sedalia prayed for
rain. OF course they did not forget
that it was also dusty at Jefferson City.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

Come to the battle of Lexington
celebration next Tuesday. Bring well
filed baskets and spend a royal time
with The veterans.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

Our stock of summer shoes at cost to
make room for our immence stock of fall
and winter boots and shoes. Ed. Meyer,
opposite post office. 7-31-tf
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

The merchants who give the most
for that s.dollar wheat" have adver-
tisements in the INTELLIGENcER.
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And the Columbia Herald bit ut the
Karnivsl Krewe's drag net advertising
schsme "Its a way the Herald has,
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Wanted!

A good white girl or woman to do gen.
eraI housework In q family of two.
J.. w. GRAHAM, Mayview, Mo.
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The silver issue refuses to be killed
by a Hannaized press, or to be ehoked
of by a trust administration.
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MATCHMAKER and JEWELER

All kinds of fine and Complicated
Work.
Diamonds remounted. Eye Glasses and
Spectacles of the very best make. Eyes
measured and fitted without extra charge.
Clocks, watches and Jewelry repaired and
new work made to order.
Next door to Lafayette County Bank.
The advocate., 1897-02-10
THE LEGISLATURE.
A History Of Its Important Acts During the
Past Week.

for the ADVOCATE to go to press Tues
days it is not possible to give a report
Of that days work until the following
week.
Mr.. MetzleC introduced bill prOVid-
ing for the consolidation Of the Board
of Directors of the Penitentiary, the
Board of Directors of the Hutchinson
ReROrmstory and the Board Of PsrdOns
and to place in charge of the new
board the duties previously performed
by each.
Mr.. Csssin presented bill to sppro-
pirate $60O0O to erect chemistry hall
at the University as memorial to ex'
Governor Robinson and to be known
as Robinson hall.
A new step was taken In the His
tOrical Society State Library fight over
the miscellaneous libraries by the in
PRODUCTION by Hackney of a bill to
give the same to the library.
A normal school to be the successor
to the county high schoolst Efinghsm
is provided for In a new bill by Ernst.
A bill by Gates provides for the es-
tsbIishment of state normal school
at Holton.
A salary bill for Cloud county was
presented by Stoner.
A bill by Brown of Pratt provides
for state board of examiners Of bar
bers, and that licenses shall be issued
to competent persons engaged in that
business.
Mr.. LObdelPs bill to appropriate ten
days pay to the members and employees
was passed on suspension Of the
rules.
The House Judiciary committee has
recommended for passage new game
law. 1t provides that prairie chickens
may be killed from September 1 to De-
cember 81, and that quail may be shot
during November and December. 1t
provides that except for scientific pur-
poses it shall be unlawful to kill at any
time orioles, meadow larks, robins,
blue birds, mocking birds, thrushes,
turtle doves or yellow hammers. 1t
provides that 1t shall be unlawful to
kill birds along the road unless the
permission OF the owner Of the prop.
eEty adjoining is sseeured, and that the
possession or offering for sale of dead
birds shall be deemed evidence Of Vio-
lation of the act.
Brown of Pratt has q bill which
makes 1t unlawful for any person to
sell liquor without druggists permit,
and provides that the fact that q per-
SON has a government license to sell
liquor shall be deemed evidence of a
violation of this act.
The bill providing for branding Pen.
itentisry-mRde goods was unfsVorably
reported.
The Committee on Temperance re-
ported the resolution providing for re-
submitting the prohibitory amendment
with the recOmm endation that it be
not passed. The bill was ordered
printed on motion Of Fsirchild, how
ever, aud referred to the Committee oi
the Whole.
BY consent Burtis (Rep,) of Finne!
introduced bill providing for the pur
chase and maintenance of residence
at Topeka for the Governor.
The advocate., 1897-02-10

ubm6B OIL L. II, DOIbu huu D. W w uOVAOL
to be members of the Board Of Chsri'
ties, to succeed Lockard and Blakes-
ley. They were confirmed,
WEDNESDAY.
Among the important bills intro
duced was one by Williams to provide
for the establishment Of county per-
msnent school funds, and another by
the Committee on Insurance, providing
for the organization and control of in
Sursnce companies.
The bill to regulate the Kansas City
Stock Yards was reported by the COM
mittee with the recommendation that
it be referred to the Committee Of the
Whole. The docksge Of hogs bill was
favorsbly reported, but the bill to cre'
ate a live stock inspector for the in
spection of cattle and hogs was
unfsvorsbly reported. The Oleomsr-
gsrine and the grain inspection bills
were reported favorsbly by the Com
mittee on Agriculture. The bill sbOl-
ishing the Metropolitan Police Com
missions was not reported fsvOrsbly.
The bill providing for vestibules on
street cars was reported favorsbly.
The Committee on Printing reported
the State Printer bill with the recon-
mendatiOn that the fees be cut Is per
cent, and the bill to cut printers pub.
licstion fees to one.hslf the present
amount was unfsvorsbly reported.
A resolution of sympathy with Rep
resentative Fslrchild, who had been
called away on account of the death Of
his father, was adopted.
The House spent considerable time
WrRngling over q resolution inviting
Bryan to address the Legislature at
such time as might suit his cOnven,
fence. After considerable discussion,
interspersed with rOll-cslls, the resolu-
tion was adopted.
A Senate concurrent resolution re,
questing the Legislatures of Oklahoma
and Texas to join the Legislature in
the appointment of a committee OF
conference to devise ways and means
to secure relief from exorbitant freight
rates to the Gulf was adopted.
A petition WAS presented from the
inmates of the Dodge City Soldiers
Home asking that the law be 81
amended that their children may be al
lowed to remain with them until they
are l6 years of age.
In the Senate the following bills
were introduced: BY Ryan, providing
for a normal school at Pittsburg; b.
Helm, enabling Lincoln county to in
vest its sinking fund in district, county
State or government bonds; by Young
establishing a county high school IL
Montgomery county; by Ways and
Means committee, providing for pay
ment Of State bonds falling due In tn,
next two years.
The Senate did not concur In tn
House resolution requesting the Gov
ernor not to appoint any Commission
ers of Elections, Oil Inspector
Forestry Commissioner, Fish Commits
sioner and State Board Of Irrigation
until the Legislature can act on legis
lation which is intended to abolish
these offices.
The Committee on Agriculture re
| a. IL A..