The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-01-24
G TY VIEWS
WELLINGTON AND VICINITY.
(BY LEALMAl.


and Levasy on business Tuesday.
H. F. Blackwell was here on legal
business for a short time Monday.
Mrs. IL. G. Larberg aud two little
sons were guests of friends at Napoleon
Tuesday.
j. h. Grumke and Will Emison
were t~ransacting business in Lexington
Tuesday.
J.. F. Bryant has been employed as
engineer by the Wellington Milling
Company.
James L. Klnkead, of Lexington,
was shaking hands with old friends
here Tuesday.
Mrs. W. W. Corse visited the family
of T. j. Morris IN Lexington Thursday
and Friday of this week.
W. I. johnson shipped twenty eight
head of mules to Kansas City Monday
and forty-hve more on Wednesday.
Two of the employees of the Yelling
ton mill, F.. w. Drewell and H. C.
Brinkman, are layed up with the
humps.
Mrs. Reid Kinkead was up from
Lexington on a visit to her mother,
Mrs, B. F. Porter, living on Texas
Prairie, one day last week.
B. G.. Drummond came over from
Odessa last Wednesday and stayed
until Monday morning, devoting some
of his time to the Ledger's delinquent
subscribers.
Mrs. Gertrude Ferguson left for St.
Louis Tuesday morning, where it is
likely she will form a partnership
with Miss Bertha Schoening In the
millinery business.
Mayor w. J. Carpenter has given
up the ~clerkship he has held with the
firm of A. f. Oberhelman & Co., but
has not yet determined whether he will
go in business here for himself or seek
employment elsewhere.
The pupils Of Linden school house,
four miles east of here, realized $14.75
at the box supper given at the school
house Saturday evening, the proceeds
to be donated to a fund for the pur-
chase of a library for the use of the
school.
j. B. Wilcox, representing the Will
liam Henry Commission Co., Of Kansas
City, was here Wednesday superintend-
ing the loading and shipping Of a car
load of potatoes purchased of H. G.
Willie for use at the penitentlary at
Jefferson City.
Tuesday a new toll switch board was
placed in DR.. j. A. Mann's drug store
and connection made with the Yelling
ton and Sunshine line, thus giving the
Lafayette County Telephone Company
service with Richmond, Camden and
other points north Of the river.
A suit brought by F. L. Lucia
against ]. A. Workman for the sum OF
SIG, said to be due him for labor, was
tried in Justice ]. A. Lockhart's court
Tuesday, the jury rendering a verdict
for 50 DO due workman for cider and
other good things belonging to the
defendant that witnesses testified that
plaintiff had consumed.
j.. l.. Rider, living in Ray county
opposite this city, had both of his
hands scorched and blistered last Sun
day while trying to extingulsh a blaze
that was consuming the window cur
tains and bed clothes in the family
room at his house. The fire originated
from parlor matches that his little son
was igniting with a toy pistol.
At the regular weekly meeting of the
Epworth League held Sunday evening
last the following officers were installed
for the insul ng six months: William
Duck, president; Robert L Mann, LIST
vice-president; John r. Corse, I'd
vlce-presidenl; Miss Lizzie Lockhart,
Sd vIce-president Miss Mamie Corse,
secretary; W. F. Lineback, treasurer.