The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-08-19
Wellington and Vicinity
(BY LEALMA.)

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business here Tuesday
Mrs. G. A. Schaberg has been quite
sick for several days but is improving.
Misses Anna S. and Ida Legate ana
Alfred Bardett were In Buckner Sum
day.
Mrs. Alley, Of Independence, visit
ed her parents south Of town last
week,
The ferry boat Wellington went to
Napoleon Sunday to do some work
there.
Dan We ss and John Rider, Of Kan
Sas City attended the ice cream social
Saturday evening.
H. H Limberg, Otto Koch, Will
Crutsinger and W. Bedford spent the
day in Odessa Tuesday.
Mrs, William Early, of St, Joseph,
Mo-, is the guest of the family Of her
father, Frank Myers, south of town.
After stay Of four weeks with rela-
tlves here Ernest Massie returned to
his home IN Durant, I. T., Tuesday.
John f. Larkin and brother
Thomas, left Tuesday for a visit to
relatives in Cofieyville Kansas and
Llmpah, II.
Mrs. Joe Huffman who went to
Kansas City and had tumor removed
some two weeks since is home again
and is improving.
The gross proceeds of the ice cream
social given by the Ladies Aid Society
in the city park Saturday evening
amounted to 1885.
Mrs. Will Emison got home Friday
night from Denver, Colorado, where
for several weeks past she has been
attending Mrs. c. D. Ragland, who is
still very sick
G. S. Shoemate had one mule killed
and another mule and two horses badly
hurt by the falling Of barn at his
home in Egypt bottoms during the
storm Wednesday.
The boys say that a male hen party
came into existence here Wednesday
afternoon when during the big storm
c. L. Thompson and Adolf Boese ran
out of George Larbergs store and took
refuge in his chicken coop.
While G. W. Alumbaugh was
descending the Labor Exchange hill
Monday one Of the breast straps broke
and his team took fright and ran,
Mr.. Alumbaugh and his little boy
jumped out and escaped injury, but
the surrey was torn to pieces.
Recently Mrs, SallIe Bryant has
been suffering with a red and angry
looking growth on the side Of her face
and Tuesday in company with DR.. J..
A. Mann and her son John Bryant
went to Kansas City for an examina-
tion, but the exact nature of the
trouble cannot yet be determined.
| The most exclcing ball game Of the
season was played in Rooge's park,
just east Of town, Sunday afternoon,
by the Wellington Rubbernecks and
| the Cabbagenecks of Cabbage district.
Both teams tried out before starting to
u play the game. Bushelfoot in yelling
/ ton seam benched before the game
s started. Mule tried for two iuningt
/, and benohed for the season. Cabbage
necks all showed up we'll and playet
, the game from start to finish. Every
body enjoyed themselves. Score
a Rubbernecks 10, Cabbagenecks IL
Time 3:04.
d One OF tine worst storms In thI
IS history of the place struck Wellington
:. coming from the west at five O'Clock
# Wednesday afternoon doing more ol
!. less damage all over town ant
e throughout the country. The wors
: Obstruction being at the Lannlng 4
8 Harris Coal nine. Both Of the big
It smoke stacks being blown down and
n the building and machinery receiving
IS damage that it is now estimated vii
g cost $500 to repair. The Rex Milling
It Company and several other building
d being partly unroofed. A part of th'
Il fire wall Of the Dubert store room
blew over and windows we're broken
flues blown down and crops and trees
4 badly damaged in all directions. Nc
u