The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-08-10

John Deere Plows and Hoosier Grain
Drills have imitators but no equals. e.
W. Krnse, agent. higginsville, Mo. S-10t4
The Enterprise Implement aud feed
store sells the best hat money can buy.
Ed. W. Kruse, Higginsville, Mo. 8 10t4
Messrs. ]. R. Dryer, Alfred Eisniap,
Frank R. Mattox aud Silas Woodruff lett
Wednesday for Salina, Kas., to look
after the wheat threshiug prospect in that
vicinity. Later they may take a thresh-
Ing machine to that section II the pros
pect seems to warrant it.
Mrs. Virginia VOORHEES,, of Union City,
Tenn, accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Minnie, arrived In our city Thursday
evening and is visiting Mrs. George W.
johnson at her pleasant suburban home.
Miss Truehart White, Of Dover is also
visiting Mrs. johnson, her sister.
Misses Elliott Todhunter, Edna Riue-
hart and Mary Graves, accompanied by
Mrs. 8. N. Wilson, as chaperon, left
Wednesday for Springfield to ate I'd
the confederate reunion and participate
10 the exercises attending the unwilling
OF the confederate monument.
Col. Ryland Todhunter, Capt. j.. j.
Fulkerson and Hon. Alex Graves LETT
Wednesday to attend the confederate
reunion at Springfield and to meet their
old comrades 10 arms who wore the gray
and live over again, in memory, the
stirring times OF the civil war.
Misses Bernice and Lillian Cromwell, Of
Kansas City, came Wednesday night to
visit Misses Mamie, Bette and Pinkie
Chinn. Accompanied by Mr.. Buford
Chinn they left Thursday morning for Nc.
Alester Springs, where Mr.. CHM has
taken q cottage for several weeks.
Piles are not only in. and Of themselves
very painful and annoying, but often
greatly ~aggravate and even cause othsr
grave and painful affections, and should
therefore not be neglected. Tabler's
Buckeye Pile Ointment is a great boon to
sufferers as it will cure them. Price, 80
cents in bottles. Tubes, 70 cents. For
sale by Crenshaw & Young. s 3ml
Mr., W. e. Winner was in our city We'd
nesdav evening and spent the night at
Mrs. Nickell's Home, returning to Kan
sas City Thursday. In company with
Capt. Joe Wilson he drove Wednesday
over the route from Odessa and MAYHEM
to this city, making observations as to
the physical nature OF the land on the
route.
Prof. ]. T. Pritchett, formerly OF the
faculty OF Central Female college at this
place, but more recently engaged 10
school work at Martin, Tenn, arrived In
our city Thursday evening for a brief
visit with old Lexington friends. He has
accepted the presidency OF Scarritt Insti-
tute at Nsosho, Mo, and will leave for
that place soon.
Mr.. Glen BIedsoe came 10 Thursday
from San Francisco, Cal. His wife went
to Glasgow to visit relatives for a while
and his mother, Mrs. NJ. E. Bledsoe, went
to Pleasant Hill, Mo-, for a visit. Mr..
Bledsoe IS satisfied that Missouri and
Lafayette county particularly is about
the best place on earth, and be will locate
somewhere in Missouri.
The Higginsville Oil company has been
incorporated with a capital stock Of
800, 900, and they received their final
papers Of incorporation from the state
department Thursday. j. II. Burgen is
president, Joe Lane, secretary aud Theo-
dore Youngs, treasurer. They have
already been successful to the extent Of
getting gas in some OF their wells and are
making arrangements to supply the city
with 1t.
The Commercial bank Of this city bought
Wednesday night at the meeting Of the
school board OF the Lexington district the
So2. 600 OF bonds that the board offered for
sale. The bonds are to bear 4 per cent
interest and the bank paid a premium of
$500. They are twenty year bonds, $4,000
of the issue being redeemable in five
years and $4,000 in nine years, at the
Option of the school board. Tit sale is a
good one and the work OF building the
nav school will be pushed to completion