The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-15
The river Is falling.

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Negro boys at HIgginsvllle have lots Of !
fun throwing stones at the electric lights. Z
HOME MONEY TO LoAN.-Ou good real 4
estate security. In sums OF $500 and up, !
at I per cent. No commission, no red I
tape. Apply to J. Q. Plattenburg. II !
While the river has been quite hige all I
week, and has partly overiowed the \
"Plngree Patches on the saud.bar, We ]
have heard OF no great damage being \
done. J
Mr.. Rufus Young is gathering samples J
OF the agricultural products OF Lafayette I
county, aud asks farmers to send him }
some OF their best specimens. They will 4
be sent to the agricultural department at ,
Washington. 4
Sedalia Capital, 18th: 1.-THE remains OF I
Mrs. Mary A. Fletcher, who died Sunday .
morning, were yesterday shipped to
Dover, Mo-, for interment. DR.. t. j.
Fletcher, son OF the deceased, aud the
members OF the family accompanied the
remains" Many OF our older citizens
will remember Mrs. Fletcher, who
formerly lived at Waverly. She was the
mother Of Messrs. T. j. aud Brack
Fletcher. Her home was at Marshall.
Mr.. T. J. Fletcher nov lives at Sedalia.
BANK FIXTURES AND FURNITURE FOR
sALE-The furniture aud fixtures OF the
Lafayette County Bank are for sale st
low figures. An old style safe, a modern
burglar proof chest; counter, book case,
sundry law books; an Encyclopedias
dictionary; Appleton's fine atlas, Smith
Premier type writer, scales for detecting
counterfeit coins; scales with troy
weights. desks, tables, chairs. &c. Apply
at the old stand. Splendid fire-proof
vault, which can be taken out, is also
for sale. s2
The Woodmen OF the World will have
interesting public exercises at the Well
lington cemetery tomorrow afternoon,
about three O'Clock. The camp 10 this
city will at that time unveil a monument
recently erected to the memory Of W. W.
Duffendack, and the Wellington camp
will unyeil a monument erected to the
memory OF ]. G. Stefan. The two camps
will unite in the services, and the Lex
ington camp will conduct the services
One OF the requirements OF the Woodmeu
is that each camp shall erect a monument
costing not less than 500 over the gray'
of each deceased member. 1t is a good
rule. as the families OF the deceased ART
often too poor to put up a neat monu'
ment. The services will be public, ant
everybody is invited to attend.
Last Monday MIR. Joseph q. Chin
employed a negro man named Ernes
Reed to cut the grass and weeds about hi
premises. Ernest Is a strapping younI
yellow buck, about twenty years OF age
with an eye to business. While he wa
cutting weeds his eyes fell upon a mic
lot OF nine young spring chickens In Mr.
Gilkeson's back yard. That night tn
chickens disappeared. Marshal Pric
was notified, and he at once decided thu
II Reed was the guilty o He saw Rec
,de' and arrested him, and he acknowledge
that he had stolen the chickens, but thu
six of them had gotten away from hin
and he had given the other three TO Ell
Clay and Ida Sullivan, who live In u
Dr. Lubric block. He told the officer
10 "hurry down and you will find 'em eatiI
dem chickens" The officer did hurl
W. down, and found the women eatir
our chicken, and he arrested them. Thu
nge claimed that they had paid Reed thirl
Mr., cents for the three, though he says
b gave the fowls to them. They were Q
10y. tried before Squire Russell, who ga
Mill, the man a light sentence OF fifteen days
FOUR jail because he turned states eViden'
and gave the women twenty days each
o.. iail for buying stolen property.