The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-04
Here and There Over the State.


The Maryyille Daily Review tells
how criminals are scott in France.
Cameron has patrol wagon and no
lack of people who need ride in it.
When people die in Sedalia, the
Capital says they have safely anchored.
Peaches that measure ten inches in
circumference are grown near Chilli
cothe.
Warrensburg will soon be able to
call mp New York city by telephone.
Ten dollars minute, please.
ST. Charles is to have an asylum for
epileptics. There are only three SINH
lar institutions in the United States.
Mrs. Laughter lives in Springfield.
She's said to he a jolly good woman
and her name certainly verifes such
statement.
Shelby county proposes to keep her
feet out of the mud by building rock
and gravel roads Every other county
in the state should go and do likewise.
A st. Joseph alderman delivered
speech the other night on stChickens
as They Are If he boards he prob
ably knows how some chickens are,
anyway.
For the first time in many months
Jefferson City is TO have circus
Everyone in the town, from the COVER
nor down, is smiling and beaming
with joy.
Who says that Missouri is not the
most productive state in the Union? A
farmer near Fulton set hen on twelve
eggs, and she Matched out thirteen
chickens.
Charley Green has got 'em bad. He
describes young lady as ''one of those
Roman-striped, neck-scarf girls" He
should explain just how a young lady
looks when she is "Roman-striped."
Sam Jones lectured IN Browning
last week. Among other things he
sand that beauty in woman was the
most dangerous thing in the world.
''But," he added, ''no woman IN this
audience is in any danger
The Carthage officer who few
nights ago chaaeG and shot at well
known local derkey under the impress
sion that he was ancther equally well
known young man of color, evidently
has that failing of the eyes which
prompted the song, Gan Coons Look
Alike to Me-
Brookfield Gazette: "Stay in Mis-
souri," is the advice given by the
Columbia Herald. The advice is good.
1t is better TO come to Missouri than to
go away, and it is better TO come now
than TO wait, especially if the party
coming wants to buy land at prices
that are bound 10 increase.
General Robert Mccullough has
issued orders for the first reunion OF
the Missouri camps of ex-confederate
veterans, which will be held at Moberly
on the three last days of September.
| The orders could only be directed TO
organized camps, but all old confeder-
ates are invited and expected to attend.
The Springfield Leader Democrat
says: 'sFrank CockrelI entered the
United States senate twenty-five years
ago. He has not stolen a dollar nor
sold his vote in all this time That is
to say, he Is as poor today as when he
went TO Washington, and he didn't
have more than two common suits OF
clothes them"
Maryville Tribune: covered
wagon, drawn by two skinny mules,
and having a SKINNER one tied behind,
and upon which the words sAlaska
or Bust" were painted IN almost
indecipherable hieroglyphics, passed
through town headed north Saturday
The occupants insisted that they were
bound for the gold country.
The chief clerk of the state bureau of
labor statictics estimates the total
value of MissourI's product last year at
| $50 million dollars. This does not
include factory products. And yet
there are those who delight in saying
"Poor Old Missouri" They should
go over to New Yawk and loose them
selves in the nations metropolis. Mis-
souri don't want 'em.
Fayette Democrat Banner: Nineteen
counties comprising northwest Missouri
have produced more of the necessaries
of life this year than the entire states
of Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island. These counties claim
100 million bushels of corn, wheat and
oats, 9 million tons of hay and $50, 900
bushels of timothy and clover seed,
$50, 900 head of cattle, 800, 900 head
of hogs, l5O, 900 horses and mules and
200, 900 sheep.
Columbia Statesman :, IL Is refresh
ing to run up against brand new idea
IN conntry newspaper. One was ad-
vanced by the Boonville Advertiser and
the Statesman s'falls inn with it. The
Advertiser wants it made a felony to
name anything for our great state,
Missouri, except the grand old river
which flows through it. Every little
concern in the way of bank or asso-
citation wants to have the name of the
state connected with it. These things
and even people named for the state
often bring the name into bad repute.