The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-12-28
WELLINGTON AND VICINITY
(BY LEALMA.l

rank AEllslN ha"
iugton Monday.
Miss Beulah Room was shopping IN
Kansas City Monday.
DIR. f. W. Mann and wife were in
Lexington Saturday.
Henry Brinkman is clerking for H.
l.. Mann x Co. this week.
+. +. Moeller and wife ate Christmas
turkey with her parents here,
]. A. r. C~hamberlin of Greenton
neighborhoad was trading here Mon
day.
Oscar Westermau and mother spent
Sunday last with relatives in Black
burn, Mo.
Mrs. Minnie Daniels and children OF
Kansas City, Mo. are the guest of Mrs
j.. A. Emison.
A large number of men and ladies
were engaged in the ice harvest Friday,
Saturday and Monday.
Mrs. A. n. Woodland was up from
Lexington Monday looking after her
residence property here.
A large crowd attended The Christ
mas tree celebration at the German
church Wednesday evening.
Mrs. w. NJ. jackson and Miss Ethel
Emison left Monday for a weeks visit
with friends in Kansas City.
Mrs. Nj. NJ. Lockhart who has been
visiting in Lexington for several days
returned home Saturday evening.
Edgar Hamm came in Saturday from
the Chillicothe Normal school to spend
the holidays with his parents near
town.
Chana Cole got in from Oklahoma
one day last week and will likely re
main here during the remainder of the
winter.
Price Crutsinger and Henry Bordett
went to Kansas City to get a Christmas
gift for their respective s~weethearts
Monday.
f. j. Westerhouse arrived from
Havana, Cuba, Wednesday for a few
days stay with friends in and around
Wellington.
Prof. George Chamberlin left Friday
evening to enjoy the Christmas good
things with the old folks near Green
ton for the next week.
II. f. Mahony who moved with his
family to Bates City about a year since
came back Saturday and is glad to be a
resident of Wellington nee again.
Misses Delphia Dillinghaus and Susie
Thomas and Walter lIoke, all from the
Warrensburg Normal School are
spending their Christmas vacation al
home near town.
Among the many who left Christmas
morning to spend the day with friends
at a distance were Mayor w. j. Car.
penter to ~Independ ence; Mrs. B. D.
Ragland and Robert and jackson Car.
ter to Kansas City; A. F. Oberhelman
and wife to Napoleon; William Tuep.
ker Halls Station; G. w. Alunbaugh
and family to Lexington township;
George McVeey Sedalia.
Most any old thing at any ratio
will do for a circulating medium when
the powers that be favor it as was
demonstrated to one or two of our gold
standard merchants here a few days
since when a hat full of lead pennies
were raked out of the chewing gum
slot machines hanging at the front
door of this store aud some of the
good little boys about town say thai
the coins used did not effect the quality
of the gum either.
George Stovall, living just across the
river, opposite here, last Friday while
trying to drive a shell that had beer
swelled by an over tight wad into hi,
gun struck the cap with a pair OF stee.
pincheFs and an explosion followed
fragments of the shell and wads cut
ting bruising and blowing grains o
powder into his face aud head; pieces o
the shell cut one or two large holes il
his heavy shirt front but fortuna ell
did not strike the body. DR.. j. A
Mann dressed his wounds and he is do
ing well.
: ii. w. Carter was rrested by Deput,
Constable j. f. Larkin Saturday ant
d. taken before j. A. Lockhart Esq. I,
answer to a charge of assaulting will
+, intent to kill c. c. Braden on Friday
= Dec. 10, 1901, and the case set for
preliminary on January 3, 1902. Tn,
complaint was made by Braden's wife
, who claims that her husband was as
saulted and struck on the head fractur
ing the skull with the but end OF
whip inficting what may prove to b
a fatal wound while on the road be
tween Wellington and Waterloo but a
this writing Braden is reported mucl
better and able to be out once more.