The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-10-30
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Bishop Albert Mack (cOlored) Is car
rying on u revival meeting at the col
ored Free Will Baptist church in this
city. e.
Higginsville proposes to take in south
side and be spoken of as .'Greater Ilig-
ginsville' in order 10 rank with New
York.
Rev. n. NJ. DOwdy, pastor of the NJ.
+. Church, South, nj Dover is carrying
on Il protracted meeting in Saline
county.
Messrs. VIM. Meng, James Eckle,
VIM. Dysart and Tug Matthews have
returned from n fishing trip TO Camden
county.
Wellington has an India rubber boy.
His name is Jimmy Morris and he fell
from the limb of Il hickory tree a dis
tance of % feet and escaped injury
The farm house of Mr.. JosephiNeale
near Hisginsville, caught fire last week
and was burned to the ground. No
| insurance was carried on the building
and it was a total loss. @
The Leader says there hasn't been a
case of drunkenness before Mayor Leh-
mar for one month. Either the boys
have the scoops" fixed down there or
they are suffering from a terrible
drouth.
The Convex Hone and Strop COM
pany, OF HIgginsyille, has abandoned
the manufacture of its goods in that
city and will place the work with some
eastern firm and receive a royalty on
the output.
HigginsvIlle is figuring on sinking a
we'll 1000 feet deep in order to get
enough water to last through all dry
spells, If they go to that depth they
may strike something more valuable
than water.
A convention of Lafayette county
Sunday schools will be held at Hig-
ginsville next week. The convention
will be held on the 4th and 9th of No
vember and every Sunday school is
urged to send delegates.
The Concordian says there IS a man
near Concordia named Max DoblIe
who raises sweet potatoes the size of
his head. Now if we only had the size
of his head we would know something
about the potatoes.
The Higginsville creamery will be
ready TO begin operations Monday. ID.
H. Smith, the proprietor will pay %
cents a pound for butter fat which
amounts to the farmer about the same
as % cents for his butter.
Mr.. ID. A. Slusher, a prominent far
mer of neal Dover, had h misfortune
To get his arm caught in the chain On a
corn crusher. His arm is badly LAGER
ated and bruised but the injuries are
not thought to be serious.
The Dover Democrat man says he
spent an entire morning in putting up
his stove and fitting the joints of pipe
together and further says, 'snot a cuss
word was uttered" This shows what
editing a newspaper will do for a man.
The Odessa Democrat man reports a
citizen of that town as falling out of a
wagon and jarring the earth for one
mile square. Odessa is a pretty sub
stantial town but we did not know that
any of her citizens were as solid as
that.
Fritz Jantz cut Fritz lessen in the
head with n corn knife because the lat
Ter went to- his house and told him a
farmer wanted them to wo k for him.
lessen refused 10 prosecute for old
friendships sake. Both parties live
near Concordia.
The Advance comes out this week
with a write UP of Wellington, her re-
possibilities and the enterprise
of her citizens. Wellington is one of
the best towns of her size in the state
and the article in the Advance only
does her justice.
Nearly all of the lots offered by the
Higginsville Fair ground committee
have been sold on the condition that
possession be given in % years. Hig-
ginsville does not intend to have the
county fair go by and deserves credit
for the efforts she is making in that
direction.
The j. w. Harrison Mercantile store
at HigginsvIlle was entered by burglars
week and goods valued at 500 ia
zen. Entrance was effected through
the basement. A reward of $25 has
been offered for the capture of the
thieves but as yet no clue has been dis
as TO their identity.
Mr.. j. p. Chinn, of Higginsville,
has been figuring on the number of
in Lafayette and has found them
to number 1890. The men out num-
Der the women laos; there being only
Il ,5S5 women in the county. We sup
pose this is what keeps a great many
OF our old bachelors single. They dis
like to step in ahead of any of their
brethren when there are not enough
in the county to furnish every
= wife.
A special election is being held at
today for the purpose of
on a proposition to issue SO, 900
in 5 per cent five-twenty city bonds.
The bonds which were issued by that
city in order to erect the city building
bear 8 per cent interest, and the new
bonds will be used to pay them off.
H~IgginsYille has but very little city
debt and has a considerable amount of
public improvements. The present
proposition seems to be in line with
and ut the same time pro-
s~Tessive spirit upon which he: affairs
have always been managed and will
probably carry at tie election there
The Higginsville Leader has discov-
sred another source of Joy to add to
he many pleasures with which the cit
Zens of that own can still farther as
themselves that they live a life free
the many cares and worries of
lome of the rest of us. The Leader
the war which Is beng made
by the Sedalia Capital on high hats in
he opera house says no lady a show
/ big hat in front of a nan during the
interesting part of n play IN Higgins
lille because they haven't any opera
here. For a bright and cheer
disposition, which Is inclined to ,
ook on the sunny side of everything =,
iapp & Schooling easily take the
AXE yer anyone we have the pleasure
# knowing.
Most Gratifying Results.
al man warm. ponch HahilitotaI and auR