The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-05-24
COUNTY NEW S
WELLINGTON AND VICINITY
(BY

James Strodtman left Wednesday
evening for Clinton, to be gone a few
days.
George L. Hackley and John L.
Corse had legal business in Richmond
Wednesday.
Miss Dollie Waddell, of Lexington,
was the guest of the Misses Strodtman
Thursday.
David Goen, living ia the bottom,
opposite this city is very low with
typhoid fever.
William Brunger and William Tuep-
ker spent Sunday with friends at
Halls Station.
Mrs. NJ. P. Burgess, Of Excelsior
Springs spent a few hours with friends
here Saturday.
H. w. Wright has been given the
contract for painting repairs at the
M. E. church, South.
John F. Larkin was called to the
eastern part of the county by the death
of his mother Tuesday.
There was an unusually large attend
nee at the Sunday school picnic at the
German Church Monday.
The excavations for the additional
sheds for J.. r. Moorehead's lumber
n yard has been completed,
F. w. Gausman has made many i'm
provements to his dwelling house and
had the whole building reprinted.
Mrs. Robert Linss left on the morn
ing train Tuesday for a visit with old
friends in the eastern part of the state.
John M. Drummond and Frank
Rumbaugh came over from Odessa on
Sunday afternoon and were gallanting
about until late in the evening.
Courtney Myers, from near Henry,
MO. was here Wednesday s%uperintend-
ing placing OF monument in the family
lot in Mount Oliyet cemetery Wednes-
day.
The entertainment gwen by the
young Ladies Ii. II. Circle for the
benefit of M. e. Church, South, was
quite a success and yielded a net profit
of $3.50.
Joe Cruslnger's boarding house is
gaining a great reputation among rail-
road men,. Among others the pay a
4 was held here till the crew got dinner
Sunday.
Miss Blanche Kerr of Falls City,
Iowa and now a pupil at Central
Female College in Lexington was the
guest of Miss Mamie Corse one or two
days in the early part of this week.
Henry Holke and Edwin Boese re-
turned Thursday evening from a pleas
.ure trip to Blackburn. They have not
up to this hour had time to get off any
fish stories.
Miss Ethel Emison having previously
secured a position nearer home de-
eiined to teach in the public school
here this winter and at a meeting of
the board OF education, held last week,
Miss Josephine Sheppard, of Hume,
Mo. was chosen to fill the vacancy.
The democratic primary passed off
very quietly, there being an unusually
small vote. 1t is SAID that many of
1.-THE old bachelors about town were sadly
disappointed and moved to tears at the
7 result as 1t was understood that if
Professor George B. Chamberlain was
elected Justice of the peace the fee for
performing the marriage ceremony
would get a reduction Of 90 per cen
We are credltably informed that the
Mo. Pac. X. r. Off 'lals have agreed to
construct The necessary swrh and IN
connection thereWiln Otto Koek will
build a bin or hopper AT Third and
Vine street aud from there have a
kmetal tube leading down The hill so
that grain can be unloaded on top of
the bill and $50 yards from the rail-
road. Snch an arrangement would in
deed be Il blessing to farmers and
others.
There Is beyond all doubt something
radically wrong with The mental ca
FATALITIES Of the chief scribe in the
sanctum Of the Higgtnsville Advance
or when printing the historic facts that
we laboriousIy framed in sweet ryme
for the benefit Of posterity be never
would have declared us afflicted with