The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-07-18


friend, Miss Mabel Gillespie.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Limberg and
daughter, Miss Nellie, returned from
Kansas City Saturday night.
Col. and Mrs G NJ. Mountjoy went
to McAllister Springs Monday morn
ing to spend a week.
Miss Emma O'Brien, of Higgins
vile, is the guest of Miss Nancy
Vivion on South street.
Mrs. S. P. Ayers, accompanied by
her infant sou, left Wednesday morn
ing for her home in Bellwood, Neb.,
after a visit to the family of her
father, Rev. Xenophon Ryland.
Miss Kate Kriehu spent Sunday in
Kansas City with her peice, Miss
Estelle Wilker, who is at Scarritt's
hospital. Miss Wilker is improving
rapidly and will return home in about
a week.
Mrs. H, E Mclaughlin, accom-
panied by her little granddaughter,
Marguerite Wilkelmi, returned to
Kansas City Tuesday evening, after a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. William
Shipman.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Temple and
daughter, Miss Mary, of Joplin, Mo-,
who have been the guests of DR.. and
Mrs. N. B. Payne, left Monday norm
ing for Chillicothe, ILL.,, to visit
friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Buck, of
r WaverlY, spent Tuesday night here.
5 They returned home Wednesday
morning accompanied by Miss Mabel
Barron, G. E. Barron and Col, Tom
Pritchard, who will visit them.
Mrs. l. W. Boulware, Jr., formally
of Fisher, Louisiana, left this morn
+ ing for St. Joseph, where she will
make heN future home. Mrs. Boul-
ware has been visiting the family'o
j.. r Moorehead for the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs j. C. McGrew left
Monday morning for Colorado Springs,
where they will be joined the latter
part of this week by E. j. McGrew,
wife and baby, w. E. Bard and wife
and James McGrew. After a short
u stay in Colorado the gentleman will
go to Southern Utah where they will
y spend some time hunting ana fishing
d The other members of the party viii
spend the summer at the different
n ressrtS in Colorado.
20 The United States patent Office is
sues one.third OF the whole number 0
ID patents issued in the world, or nearl,
D. as many as France, Germany an
). Great Britain combined, and four an
as a half times as many as Germany, tn
il only one of our competitors who
n. makes novelty researches before grant
III ing patents.
ed Lake Erie afforts a good opportunft
". for studying the effects of the wind Q
II. an enclosed body of water. Its trough
ty fifty miles 10 extent, lies about in tn
Is direction of the west to southwei
&c. winds that prevail there, and u gre'
to blow from the quarter sends the tod
\ of water eastward, so that a rise
eight feet or more takes place at But
alo in the course of a few hours. Whe
w. the force of the gale has passed IL
water swings back.
1t is unlawful. to fish in Nilsson
waters with anyIkind of a net. A vel
81 small seine may be used for minnov
by persons owning the ponds, etc.,
localities where minnows are necessa
for bait. Persons with water on the
premises or bordering their lands nj
HISS fish two hours a day with a net, {
49, meshes of which are not less than tV
eKs inches.
During the Spanish-Amerlcan wal
e was estimated that only three per oe
Of the shots fred by American gunnt
hit the enemy's ships. In the rece
quarterly target practice of the MOI
U.S. Atlantic squadron 2216 per cent of
: . shots hit.
There are in New York City tod
1920 m%illionaires, as against
lty' twenty years ago and 20 in lSI
y OF There were no ~millionaires in the c
tur- one hundred yeas ago. The first p
Judy SON to reach that distinction was Jo
Jacob Aston, who became a milliona
zead about the year 1920.
ming The oil fields of Peru yield an aV
WIN a0a of sixtv harrela a tav of a oual