The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-11-02
WELLINGTON AND VICINITY
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Wednesday.
L B. Seitz had business in Kansas
City Wednesday.
Ii. B. Corse and wife visited Lex
ington Wednesday.
James L, Kinkead had business in
Lexington Monday.
Mrs. F. F. Moeller spent Sunday
here with her parents.
II. j. Moss and H. II. Holke, of
Napoleon, were here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nichols were
trading in Lexington Monday.
Misses Marion jackson and Ethel
Emison were shopping in Lexington
Saturday.
DE-. g. A. Girsy moved into his
house recently bought of James Line
back Friday.
William Tuepker visited his dear
friends in the eastern part of the
county Sunday.
Trains commenced running through
the big cut on the new line OF the Mis-.
souri, Pacific west of town Thursday
evening,
Miss Selma Limberg left Sunday
morning for a several days visit with
her aunt, Mrs. Fred 3eske, of indie
pendence.
Thomas +. Lockbart, who has been
confined to his bed Tor the last fifteen
years, has been suffarin. with rheims.
tism and is feeling much worse than
usual for several days.
Thomas Cole has purchased a strip
off of the east end Of the lands belong.
Ing TO the heirs of j. c. Bryant, neal
the Carter mine. He will soon begin
The erection of a residence.
An old batch living IN Wellington
has purchased a building site and will
soon erect a three.room cottage over
on the east side, but we won't tell his
name until Glenn Tyree gets his license
fee.
Friends here note with profound
pleasure that Bate Drummond, big.
hearted and jolly as ever, is getting
more conveniently located to his old
home with US and can now come up to
see the boys twice a week.
Three or four carpenters went to
work Monday erecting James Line
backs new seven.room residence in the
east part of town. MIR. Llneback has
moved his family and will occupy the
small box house on bis place until the
new home is completed.
A hand car heavily loaded with
workmen of the bridges and building
department of the Missouri Pacific left
the rails just above town, and several
OF the men were more or less hurt. DIR.
). A. Mann had some little patching
up to do, but no one was seriously
hurt.
A large per cent of the grading for
the railroad in and around Wellington
has been completed and many of the
men and teams are gone. A new track
OF heavy steel rails was laid the entire
length of the line within the city limits
Wednesday and Thursday, excep.
where the rock. workmen are blasting
through the cut in the northeastern
part of town.
State Examiner Riede was here last
week looking into the condition of the
wellington bank, and it would make
most any ordinary banker green with
envy to read the letter that Cashier II.
B. Corse received from Secretary Of
State Cooks Office Saturday. The
truth is our little bank is one of the
best things to be found anywhere with
the same amount Of capital invested,
Ex-County Surveyor James X. GRAY,
OF Waterloo vicinity, has just COM.
pleted a new plat Of the entire suburban
addition to the city Of Wellington that
VIII meet all the requirements of the
state laws relating to such documents
when property Is acknowledged and
recorded. c. ". Bowring is now en-.
Gagged IN taking acknowledgements.
and land owners will do well TO hunt
Mp deeds and carefully compare with
the plat when the notary public comes
around.