The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-02-17
Mr.. Alexander Graves went to Kansas
City yesterdaylmorning on legal business.

Mr.. Alexander Graves went to Kansas
City yesterdaylmorning on legal business.
1t Is being told OF an active candidate
for a local office In Cole county, that after
rounding up q bunch OF eight voters In a
we'll known Jefferson street resort the
other night, and spending money lavishly
on them for liquid reireshments, he mar.
rowly escaped heart failure when he
afterward learned that the outfit to the
last man lived and voted across the river
In Galloway county.
The following merry crowd OF young
people enjoyed . delightful sleigh ride
Thursday night, after which they went to
d. Hackers restaurant and partook OF
an oyster supper: Misses Rose Graendori,
Carrie Rlee, Emma Weis, Carrie Nagel,
Josie Long, Minnie King, Freda Hacker
and Carrie Guenther; Messrs. Albert
Gillen, Charles Guenther, Albert Homer,
Frank Weis, Edward Ludwigs, Eugene
Weber and George King, It was an ideal
night for q sleigh ride aud everyone IN
the party had a jolly good time.
Miss Isabel Harris, Of Fulton, who has
been the guest Of Mrs. ]. R. Moorehead
the past three weeks, returned home
Friday. She was accompanied 70 Full.
ton by Mrs. Moorehesd, who went to visit
her parents, Col. and Mrs. 1. W. Boul.
ware. During Miss Harris stay 10 this
city she was the guest OF honor at
numerous social functions. She IL q
popular and charming young lady aud
will always receive a hearty reception 10
L~exington's society circles.
Mr.. q. W. Loomis, secretary Of the Lex.
ington Building & Loan association, 10.
formed us yesterday that 1851 applica.
tions had been made for shares 10 the
fourteenth series, the sale of which will
closs at 10 O'Clock this morning.
The number Of shares applied for 10
greatly 10 excess Of the number (160l
offered for sale, but under the present
plan OF disposing Of them the last appli.
cant will stand the same chance Of
securing stock as the frst person who
made application. The great demand for
building and loan stock shows the
immense popularity Of this institution.
sedalia Capital: The Bolton damage
case occupied the time Of the circuit court
Thursday. 10 this case Mrs, Dora Bolton,
widow Of Thomas Bolton, sues the Mis-.
souri, Pacific for 5000 damages for the
death Of her husband, who was killed 10
the yards here on Christmas day, 1887.
Thomas Bolton wass brakeman and had
been In the employ Of the company for
nine years. He was reliable, sober, aud
when found terribly mangled under the
wheels OF his train, lived only long
enough TO say that he had fallen. The
company 10 attempting to show that the
killing resulted from no negligence on its
part, the plaintiff bringing evidence to
the contrary,
Jacob Bell, aged OIL years, one Of Mis-.
souri's oldest aud most interesting char.
acters, died at bis home one mile north oil
Macon Thursday morning. In the Macon
county history 1t Is said Of him that "h,
never took a drink 10 a saloon In his life
never treated o person to liquor and neye
used tobacco" He moved to Macon il
1910, aud had to do his milling for q louI
time at Hannibal, q distance Of sevent,
, miles, which place was reached by OIL
teams. The quaint history OF Missour
pioneers says: "Aiter one Of Mr.. Bell
: trips to Hannibal he wore a brand new
~broadcloth coat to church, but this CAV
ohfense to his friends and they becam
angry at bis attempt to lit himself abov
them. 30 the coat was placed 10 4 trunI
. to await the days when 1t might be SAT
TO wear It," MIR. Bell was one OF th
largest land owners 10 Macon count
= and had always lived an exemplary life.