The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-01-31
G COUNTY NEWS
WELL NUTON AND VICINITY.
iBY LEALMAl.

David Moore OF Odessa was here
Monday.
R. NJ. Wright spent Wednesday IN
Lexington.
Il. B. Corse made a business trip to
Kansas Guy Tuesday.
Jessie warder Jr, was down from
Kansas City to see the old folks Sun.
day.
John Rennick of the Oak Grove
neighbOrhood was here on business
last Saturday.
Fred Kruse and Henry Proctor
we're viewing the sights a the state
capitol last Sunday.
Mrs. A. F. 0verhelman has been
suffering with a severe attact of rheu.
matism during the past week.
DIR. ia. Mann was sent for and
wen to Odessa Monday 10 see Milton
Drummond, Sr., who is quite sick
there.
John H. Grunke has sold to William
B. Emison the so acre tract of land IN
Texas Prairie recently bought OF J.. s..
Ragland Of %Higglusville.
John L. Corse, who has been laid up
with tonsilitis for the spast two weeks
was able to resume his place at the
Wellington Bank Monday.
Arthur Winklemeyer, now running
as mail clerk on the Missouri Pacific
fast mail tram was home from Satur.
day until Sunday evening.
Rev. ]. C. Given Of Lexington con-
Quoted the quarterly meeting services
at the Bethel church IN Egypt Bot
toms Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
William 0dell, living in Ray county,
started to come to Wellington last
Friday. and while crossing the river
fell through a hole in the ice but fer
tunately struck bottom just as the
water got up to his shoulders, and a
neighbor, who was accompanying him
succeeded in pulling him out.
At a little after six O'Clock last We'd
nesday evening John Olesner, a trav-
cling salesman for the Selz-Schwarb
Shoe Company Of Chicago, at that
time making his first visit to Yelling
ton, In looking over the stock Of A. F..
Oberhelman passed into a part of the
store not yet lighted and fell down the
stairway leading to the cellar breaking
his left arm above the elbow and was
badly bruised and shaken up generally.
He was picked up unconscious and
taken to the Crutsinger boarding
house and cared for. DR.. j. A. Mann
attending to bis injuries until he was
able to leave for his home IN Chicago
Thursday evening.
James Franklin Lineback died of
old age and dibility at the Confederate
Home on Wednesday, January 28,
1908, and was inferred at the cemetery
there in the afternoon of that day
Mr.. Lineback was born in North Car
DINA, January 2Srd, 1920, and came to
Missouri, settling in Egypt Bottoms,
opposite the town of Camden in about
1855, and since then made bis home
IN and near Wellington until he became
an inmate of the Home, where be il
said no better soldier ever found rest
in his declining years as will be borne
out by them who knew him while ser.
wing through all the war under Gen.
eral Price. While yet a resident of his
native state, he was married to MISS
Mary Cox, who proceeded him into The
great beyond by about twenty years
OF this union two sons, William, nov
at the Confederate Home and James
living IN this city, still survive to BIZ
memory. Be all honor given an,
may comfort and consolation abid,
with his loved ones on earth
Asking such questions may be takeI
as Ignorance or willful impudence bu
if such, we and others around US viii
be profoundly grateful, making all duI
apologies, if anyone who may chauci
to read this can and will make al
plain 10 the matter-whereas 1t IS gen
orally accepted as true that there i
now on deposit to the credit Of TIL
city treasurer the full sum of $1,000
being absolutely idle and If as ap