The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-11-15
G COUNTY NEWS
WELLINGTON AND VICINITY.
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friends in Kansas City Sunday.
Mrs. A. n. Woodland is visiting
friends near St Joseph this week.
DR.. ]. A. Mann and little daughter,
Ruth, were in Kansas City Tuesday.
John Strodtman aud H. H. Woeste-
meyer were down from Napoleon
Monday.
Mrs. NJ chanslor, of Lexington, ia
visiting friends in and near Well
lington.
The regular monthly services at the
III. E. church, South, will be held
tomorrow.
j. A. Schultz went to Higginsville
Sunday morning for a few days visit
with friends.
Edward Hamm and wife, who have
been in colorado for several weeks, got
home Sunday.
H. G. Willie and family spent the
day last Sunday in Kansas City and
Independence.
Frank Woodland had his hand badly
mashed by a fall of state at the Carter
coal mine one day last week.
Mrs. H. B. Corse and VIM. NJ. Duck
attended the quarterly conference of
the N. E. church, South, at Odessa
Monday.
There We're more wild ducks on the
river for one or two days this week
than at any time for many years, but
they soon left.
E. W.. Flournoy has been notified of
his appointment as clerk in the rail-
road postal service, and will leave for
Kansas City Monday next.
The dwelling house on the farm of
Samuel ". Sawyer, three miles south
Of town, was totally destroyed by fire
at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, most of
the household goods being saved.
The twenty-one pupils comprising
Mrs. DR.. +. w. Mann's music class
gave a delightful entertainment in the
wareroom of Mr.. Robert Linss' store
Friday evening for the benefit of the
NJ. E. church. South, which yielded a
net profit Of s17.9O.
E. j. Westerhouse and wife are here
for a stay with the family Of her
father, Mr.. Robert Flournoy. Mr..
Westerhouse has been given a place
under civil service rules in the Philip
pine islands, and himself and wife will
leave for San Francisco December /.
In passing a horse somewhere near
the house Wednesday afternoon Oscar,
the three-year-old son of Bud Good
man, living near Waterloo, was kicked
and his forehead cut to the bone, the
skull slightly fractured and the upper
lid of the right eye cut entirely
through. DR.. Mann was sent for and
he is doing we'll.
Owing to the illness of Prof. George
K Chamberlin and Miss G. Shepard, two
Of the teachers, the public schools
have been discontinued for the past
ten days, but opened Wednesday
morning. The professor IS having a
hard time getting over the mumps
before he is called on to qualify as q
justice Of the peace.
While his horse and buggy that had
been left at Emmett Burgess livery
barn BY Earl Mahan were being gotten
ready for him to go home after the
entertainment last Friday evening.
the h orse broke away from those about
him and run east and south, finally
smas hing the vehicle to pieces In front
OF the residence Of Charles Budde-
meyer.
The story is current here, being cor
roborated by many Of her ~neighbors,
that on Saturday afternoon while in a
corn field about one-fourth Of a mile
distantfrom her home, where she had
gone to perform the last sad funeral
rites over the remains Of her f~avorite
feline. an immense bald eagle swooped
down and fastened its claws in the
braided hair Of Louisa, the eleven
year-oid daughter Of Henry Rocklage,
living near Sunshine. Ray county, and
a fierce struggle followed, the girl
being dragged for some distance, but
her weight, 100 pounds, proving to be
too much and frightened by the cries
Of the child and the barking of her
dog it finally left her. Mr.. Rocklage
was at work some distance away and