The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-02


The state legislature ~wiIlEconvene next
Tuesday.
Clearance sale of wraps now going on,
at Kriehn & Wilker's. 12-26-tf
The latest thing out in Cake Pans, The
at Yingling. 12-19-tf
Phares' gallery is the place to get first
class photos. Only 81 per dozen. 11-2stf
Miss Claudia Silver entertained a few
friends last Saturday evening in honor of
Mr.. Brawley OF Fulton.
1 have a very fine assortment OF hand
extracts. Price from 10c to s1.0O
per bottle. Leroy Farmer. 12-12tf
Hoods SarsaparilIa p%urifes the blood,
that tired feeling, creates an
appetite, and gives refreshing sleep.
All the newly elected county officers
have qualified and entered upon the dis
charge OF the duties of their respective
positions.
The g~raphophone, the ideal talking
machine, for sale for S25, at Ludwigs'
iewelry store. Call and hear it. Free
concerts daily. 12-19tf
Large line of embroidered handker-
chiefs, silk elastic, buckles, gentlemeus'
handkerchief, silk mitts and kid mitts at
F. X. Bane & Co.'s. 11-21-7t
Miss Nettie Williams, aged %, of War
r~ensburg, died suddenly OF heart failure
last Tuesday morning, while on n visit to
the family of Mr.. j. III. Barnes, at Aull-
vile, this county.
Soothing, and not irritating; strength
ening, and not weakening; small, but
effective-such are the qualities of De-
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. Crist & Day. I-25-1y
Vt Mexico, Mo, last Monday, VIM.
Robinson, colored, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for 1O2 years for killing his
sweetheart, and three years for stealing a
horse on which he had attempted to make
his escape.
Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped
hands aud lips, cuts, bruises, scalds and
burns are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is at present the
article most used for piles, and it always
cures them. Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
Owing to the warm weather and rain,
the ice in the Missouri river at Omaha
began to break up Tuesday, the first time
such a thing has happened there at this
season of the year. This is not encour-
aging news for our ice dealers.
The old way OF delivering messages 10y
p~ost-boys, compared with the modern
telephone, illustrates the old, tedious
methods of ~"breaking'' colds, compared
with their almost instantaneous cure by
One Minute Cough Cure. Crust & Day.
Absolutely pure, perfectly harmless,
n invariably reliable are the qualities of
One Minute Coggh Cure. 1t never fails
in colds, Group and lung troubles. Chill
dren like it because it is pleasant to take
and it helps them. Crist & Day. 1-25-1y
George Barnard & Son, OF New York,
have taken charge of the stock of the
Hub" clothing store at Higginsville,
which recently failed. Mr.. Schwartz, the
proprietor, turned over the entire stock,
which was shipped back to the New York
house.
Capt. VIM. p. Barlow, secretary of the
Ex-Confederate Home Association of
Missouri, died in st. Louis last Monday,
aged SO years. He fought through the
war; anu hAo iaoC HAOOiiCS Ghio nm I've
Louis his home since then. He was
elected secretary OF the association in
1889.
John Hall, a colored man about 40 years
OF age, was found dead in his bed last
Monday morning at his mothers resi-
dence, on Eleventh street. The cause was
given as heart failure, but he was known
80 he n HAD lrinkor and his Enddan
death was no doubt caused by a too free
indulgence in his ~favorite beverage dur
ing Christmas week.
Last summer we asked Prof. Myers as
to his prospects, and were told that they
were good, and that he hoped to enroll
forty students at the coming session. This
number was realized before the Christ
forty pupils enrolled, and from present
indications will reopen January 4th with
fifty students in attendance.
Lexington Camp, Woodmea Gf the
World, elected the following officers at
the last meeting: l.. F. Myers, council
commander; w. G. Mars, adviser lieuten-
ant; Julius Withers, clerk; Jas. Hays,
tSCOTIs -" DuETlSg UdbhCi "COO1
Watchman; VIM. Price, sentry; Drs.
Tucker and Crist, camp physicians. The
camp has now a membership of forty,
carrying policies to the amount OF about
$50, 900. The officers will be installed at
the next regular meeting, Monday, Jam
uary 4, 1897.
Capt. and Mrs. Hunt gave a pleasant
progressive High Five' party Tuesday
evening in honor of their niece, Miss
Hunt, of st. Louis, VINO is here for the
holidays. The large double parlors, which
are adapted for a good time, were decora-
ted With holly, mistletoe, and a bevy OF
pretty girls, Misses Elizabeth McGrew,
Minnie NeaIe, MGClelIand and Grady
cut for the ladies' prize, and MISC Grady
carried off the honor, while Mr.. Charles
Ettle, OF Sedalia, won the gentleman's
prize. Supper was then served. Mrs.
Hunt is we'll known to the young people,
and can be acknowledged as one of the
most charming and gracious of hostesses.
Mr.. j. w. Garnhart, superintendent of
the county poor farm, treated all the
inmates of that institution to a grand
turkey dinner on Christmas day. Egg
nogg was also served, and every one CT
them received a present of some descrip-
ton. The dinner was a sumptuous affair,
consisting as il did of turkey and other
meats, cakes, %jellies, sauces, candies, ETC.,
and it was highly enjoyed by the people
are under Mr.. Garnhart's charge.
He is popular with them, as he labors I'M
ceasingly to make them contented with
their lot, and endeavors in every way 10
relieve them of the tedium of the lives
they are compelled to lead. To them
Christmas was one of the brightest days
OF the old year.
Last Friday night a colored coal miner
named Anthony Scott got into an alter
with VIM. Lineback, a foreman at
the Kerdolff mines, and brother-in-law of
ex-Sheriff Wright. Scott became abusive
in bis remarks, and finally seized a heavy
club and struck Liueback q hGrd blow on
pack of the head. The wounded man
taken to his home and Scott was
up in the county Jail. Some one
foolishly started the report on Monday
the friends of Lineback intended to
attack the Jail and hang Scott. Fired by
bad whisky, n number of negroes gath cred