The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-09-13
COUNTY NEWS
wRLLINdrON hNp vIclNITY.

iBY LEALMA.)
Mrs. Matilda Bnrdet went 10 Lexing
ton Tuesday.
II. B Corse and wife we're 10 Lex
ington Tuesday.
Johu Purcell, of Independence, had
business here Saturday.
Price CrulzsInger went to Kansas
City Tuesday on business.
DIR. J. A. Mann transacted business
in Kansas City Wednesday.
Mrs. John Gausman is visiting her
parents in Independence this week.
Albert Adamsop, of Kansas City,
spent last Sunday with friends here.
Miss Dora Slade visited relatives
near Sunshine, Ray county, Thursday.
Isaac Joder is afflicted with a very
sore hand, likely the result Of a brnise.
James Denton, of Oklahoma, has
been visiting his son, Alex. Denton, of
this city, for several days.
Mrs. t. N. Samuels, of Toronto,
4 Kansas. is here on a visit to her
daughter, Mrs. &. A. Bauman.
The work Of putting the wagon road
under the railroad at the crossing ono
and a half miles west of town is pro-
crossing nicely.
Miss Mamie Ham, Of Wellington,
left last week for an extended visit
with her sister, Mrs. w D. Wagner,
of Colorado Springs.
Several Of our citizens attended the
public sale of personal property OF the
estate of Charles Rocklage, deceased,
near Sunshine, Ray county, Wednes-
day.
Owing to the i'll health while there,
M. G. Vaughn, who has been conduct
ing a small store at Waterloo, has
rented property and moved his family
to this city.
There Will be a social given by the
members Of the Greenton church
on Wednesday, September II, on the
lawn of Richard Hams home, one mile
south OF Wellington.
Lenora, infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. T. Bauman, died at their home
in this city, on Wednesday, September
10. She was inferred IN the family loI
in Mount Oliyet cemetery Thursday
The bereaved parents have the pro.
found sympathy of friends here.
Fred Vaughn, of Boonville, who hal
been working with an extra gang o
railroad hands in and near Wellington
for some time past, last Sunday nigh
a off with Kittie, the sixteen-year-olt
daughter of NJ. G. Vaughn, of this city
The Kansas City papers Of Tuesda.
morning showed that license had beef
issued to parties of the same name ii
Kansas City, Kansas, and 1t is sup
posed they we're married there Monday
Poles are being set and wire
stretched from the river north an
within the next few days Wellingto
will be connected by telephone wit
Sunshine, Richmond and u.Acr point
in Ray county. The new line will cor
meet with the Lafayette county line 1
the store or J. A. Mann, the wire
reaching from there to a lurse elm IRE
north OF II. F Brinkmeh's residence
and then north to a tail pole on IN
opposite side Of the river.
The remains of Mary Se~ell, co
ored, ~ re inferred in the Martin gray
yard, near town, Tuesday morning
"Aurf . IS everyone called he
was old fashioned and reserved In b.
manner, and had many warm friend
both white and black, around her
She was oorn on the banks Of the riv.
Que mile above town, August LIST, 1872
Her pa,en,s we're slaves Of James MI
tin. She married David Sewell
about tpe year 1912, and numero'
descendants survive her. Her emil
life was spent in or near Wellingto
aud at the lime of her death 1t is qui
likely sue urd lived here longer thi
n other inhabiIant Of Clay TOWNSHIP
TuA IUuMC