The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-04-09

The "Big Muddy" is on the rise again.
Specs to suit your eyes, so cents and up,
It Ludwigs'. AZ 1t
lear MIR. Fred Meets.
Do you want a stylish fitting spring
iuit? Written berg will make it for you.
The latest and most improved harmless
for eye-testing at Ludwigs'. 2t
The INTELLIGENCER is the place to get
,our horse and jack bills printed, while
wait tt
Call on A. Egle and examine his line of
paper before you make your pur-
chase. 4-9-2m
One dozen cabinet photos and a 16x20
for $3.50, at Phares' Gallery, Lex
inrtou. Mo. 3.26t3
Fancy shirts, from soc to s1.5O. The
and best assorted stock in town,
at II. s%inauer's. 400
If your specs don't suit, have new
glasses put IN them. Prices from 30
cents up, Mt Ludwigs'. An
All work guaranteed at Billiards.. His
best photos at reduced rates for thirty
days. Opposite p~ostofice. 3 10 1t
Billiard will accept all tickets for photos
in city or county at reduced rates, and
will give you photos that will not fade At
Miss edith Marrs won the pair OF gold
spectacles offered by Mr.. Emil Ludwigs
in the word contest. The word was
"Askance."
Mr.. Thos. Fletcher has been appointed
aIght Waterman, in the place of Mr.. NJ. }
Crowder, who resigned. The appoint
ment is a good one.
Odessa Moon: MIR. and Mrs. Rer
EIIiott's little daughter, Elizabeth, fell
from a sofa, Sunday, fracturing her collar
bone. DR.. Barclay was called, and SCOT
had the little sufferer on Il fair way &c
recovery.
Children like it; it saves their lives
We mean One Minute Cough Cure, the
infaIIible remedy for coughs, colds, Group
bronchitis, grippe, and all throat and
lung troubles. Day 81 Shelby, Leading
DRUGGISTS. 4-2tf
The city election is still two months of,
but the candidates are getting warmed uI
to business, and the campaign promises
to be a hot one. With seven candidates
out for marshal it will not take many
votes to elect.
Thousands OF sufferers from grippe have
been restored to health by One Minnie
Cough Cure. 1t quickly cures coughs,
colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe,
asthma, and all throat and lung diseases
Day & Shelby, Leading Druggists. 4-2ti
Westminster College has not yet elected
a president to take the place of DIR. T.. c.
Gordon, who resigned to take charge oil
Presbyterian church in this city
DIR. John J. Ric has been chosen chair
man of the faculty and made acting
president.
Ludwigs, the optician. 4-22t
Mr.. c. Ed Yingling this
week as a candidate for councilman from
the second ward, subject to the action OF
the voters at the city election. Mr.. Wing
ling is an energetic young man, and one
who would make a safe and conservative
member of the city council. II he is
elected he will make a satisfactory official
and one Who will have the best interests
of his city at heart.
Some of our exchanges want the big hal
outlawed from the churches. They say 1t
has peer run out of the opera houses, and
ought to be run out of the churches
Some of these days our churches will be
built with tilted floors, so the men in the
rear can see over the big hats in front oil
them. But we will say to these grum-
blers that there is always room on the
front seats, where there are no big hats to
obstruct the view. Come up in front, and
quit growing.
ashore Acres" which was presented al
the New Grand, last Friday night, was
one of the best dramas seen on the Lex
ington stage. The plot is an excellent
one, and was produced with wonderful.
realism by a capable company. The play
was we'll staged, and each scene presented
was true to life. Comedy and pathoi
were evenly balanced; and, taker
altogether, it is safe to say that it was th:
most satisfactory show that has visited
our city. 1t was a rare treat to all present
On the second day of April, County
Treasurer Bledsoe paid off bonds mum
bered 10 and IL, each for 1000, issued by
Middleton township, bearing 8 per cent
This wipes out the bonded debt OF Mid
dIeton township. He also paid three
bonds of 81, 1000 each, Issued by Freedom
township, bearing 5 per cent. He ha'
issued a call for one bond OF $1,000, bear
ing 5 per cent, issued by Sni-a-Bar town
ship; and four bonds OF 81 900 each, ISSUED
by Lexington township, and bearing
per cent. This is a good showing foI
Lafayette county. Her various townships
will soon be free of bonded debt, even i
the times are feariully hard under th'
gold standard.
Even the little children are taking al
interest In the war talk, and thinking
few thoughts of their own about thi
matter. They hear a great deal OF tall
about "Uncle SAM" and his ability Il
whip any country on the globe, until
they begin to look upon him as a distinc
personality, and to consider him an ever
greater "scrapper' than Corbett or Fitz
simmons. A certain 6-year-old yopngstel
in Lexington, who evidently looks upot
"Uncle Sam as being a great big man
surprised his mother the other day by
asking: "Mamma, is n Sam" as bis
as Albert GIllen?" AS everyone in Lex
ington knows, Albert Gilleu is quite
large, strong young man, and he no doubI
feels highly compIimented by the little
fellows comparison.
War or no war, Commodore Boulwart
IL making every preparation for trouble
HI don't propose To be surprised IN hi
own stronghold by the treacherous Span
iards, nor to have the Maine horroI
duplicated at our very door,. No; his il
entirely too smooth for anything of tina
kind. He has ordered two torpedo boat
and one torpedo boat destroyer. and hal
placed a huge electric search light on biz
battleship, the Aeriel. These improve
ments, in connection with the submarine
mines and torpedoes with which the rive
at this point is underlaid, to say nOthinG
OF the powerful battery on the bluff, rem
der our city safe from any attack by thu
enemy. Woe ia any craft that %approacbei
our harbor with hostile intentions. NJ
investigation will be necessary when thi
smoke OF battle shall have cleared away
There will be nothing left to in investigate
Strength to the C~ommodore's right arm