The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-15

with little success.
After several weeks stay with friends
here Mrs. Lucy Purcett returned to
her home in Independence Sunday.
Turner Williamson of the Mayyiew
vicinity is visiting his daughter Mrs,
Alex Thurman near town this week.
James X. Linebaek was on Monday
appointed substitute carrier for R. F.
D. route No. 1, vice George Joung
resigned
G. T. Bryant and Will Mitchell
from the Mayview vicinity with their
families spent the day with relatives
here Sunday.
John D. Sbewalter of Colorado
Springs COL, was here Monday and
Tuesday OF this week looking after his
crop rental interest in Egypt Bottom.
The wheat crop an Mrs. Sophia
Buddemeyer's land in Egypt Bottom
had to be thrashed out last Sunday to
save it from the backwater from the
river.
The civil engineers who are locat-
ing the line Of the Midland Air Line
Railway from Des Moines, Iowa, to
Port Arthur, Texas, when they got
to the river below Lexington had to
come to Wellington to cross it last
Sunday.
When anything is said about the
old sidewalks about town the city
dads look very wise and talk brave
like little boy with his first fire.
cracker, but they all know very we'll
those sidewalks have got dynamite
under them.
The Old Hen club were entertained
on Thursday evening by Miss Laura
Bryant it being her twenty fourth
more or less anniversary of her birth.
No bachelor beaux or boys, only two
benedicts and but few babies were
permitted to attend.
The river commenced declining here
during the night Wednesday, but not
until hundreds of scres OF the finest Of
corn in both Sunshine and Egypt
Bottom had been inundated. Large
numbers of men worked incesantly to
keep the water from coming over on
the west side of the Bottom, and on
this side were successful all damage
done being from back water from the
lower side; but on the Ray county
side the dams gave way aud a great
volume of water poured In.
Sunday morning DR.. f. w. Mann
o received phone message stating that
stranger there who had evidently
been run over by passing train bad
Just been found beside the railroad
below Napoleon, with both legs broker
and badly mangl-d but for whom tht
y, railroad officials had refused to care
The doctor accompanied by Con
stable j. f. Larkin left at once fo
+ that place but on reaching there fount
c him dead. An examination of thr
y body disclosed a railroad ticket issuet
u at Deepwater Mo-, and those who hat
Z been with HIM said that he told tnen
his name was Levy Sandusky. l
D response to a message sent tber
d relatives came from there and too
= the body back to Deepwater for buTia
o Monday. The man is supposed t.
e have been partially demented, as b
o was seen in the vicinity OF NapOleo
acting strangely and was taken off q
s the railroad two or three times o
r, Saturday.
ie Monday afternoon as the thrashin
81 outfit owned by John F. Nelson wa
Is being moved from the wheat field {
r MOtt Graham on the lands of Mrs.
u Sophia Buddemeyer to that of Davl
Dee on the lands belonging to th
Estate OF H H TEente. Frank th
six year old son Of Harry Kendnck
living at the Labor Exchange COZ
mine attempted to climb on 10 th
separator but in some way slipped an
- falling into the road was killed On
OF the bind wheels passing over h
70 breast and neck resulting IN instaI
death. At the time Mr. Nelson was
G, charge and Robert Morris guiding II
st engine and John johnson, coloTed, II
only one of the hands present, none
is whom, from the best iDformatio
st oolainabla, can be held in any wa
responsible, the little fellow an
i several companions having been tol