The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-10-12
MAYHEM NOTES


City last Thursday to transact busi
ness.
Mrs, Bird Campbell was out from
Lexington last Monday to see her
mother
Mrs. L. C. Chiles sold to Geo.
Actmansberger, the Mrs. Bird Camp
bell property. Consideration $4,000
Arthur Wilkening and Sidney Fish
ba * Of Odessa spent Sunday after
noon here with relatives and friends
Mrs Laura Graves and daughter,
TolFe. of independence came down
Saturday to spend the day with Mrs,
l.. c. Chjles.
Rev. English. pastor of the Baptist
church is in a protracted meeting in
Plttsville. Bro. Monroe, preached for
him last Sunday.
Corn cutting is about over. Potato
digging is going on. Pumpkins will
be gathered then Oh my! The delc-
iOus pumpkin pies
Frank Arthur came down from
Lawrence, Kans., last Friday eve
ming and stayed over until Sunday
evening with friend
Mrs. Q. Ellafrit and son, Oron,
arrived from Galena Kansas last
Tuesday to visit with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Smith
Hungry Hill baseball team played
the Mayhem team last Saturday
After heavy contested game the
score stood Mayview ll-Hungry Hill
TO-
The Box social at the school house
was a success. Anice crowd was there,
One box brought $500. The neat
sum of S36. IS was realized from sale
of boxes.
Art Reynolds had seven ears oi
corn on exhibition here that weighed
l3 lbs. ear weighted 2lbs 2oz. HC
is going to take some of this corn tc
the Sedalia fair.
Mr.. Hamilton of La Juanta, Colo,
came in last Mondny and is stopping
at the Marshall Hotel and passing OF
his time watching and listening t.
the crowings of his new grandson.
o. NJ. Billiard is quite sick. II
has been confined to his bed 70
several days. He rested fairly wei
last Wednesday night. Hope he ma,
soon recover his wanted strength
Thomas Stally, who has been dow
in Arkansas packing apples returned
last Tuesday and went out to see hi
mother. He said they packed som
good apples. Every thing in apple
was used, even the cores and peeling
being dried and sent to toe jelly fac
tories.
The Ladies Aid of the Christian
church met at Mrs. Dan Herr's las
= Wednesday evening. Those presen
S were: Mrs. Jerry Proctor, VIM
: Jennings, Herman DeBolt, j. T
: Nav, Joe Simpson, N. S, Vim, I. I
. Packett and Miss Viola Packet
. Cake and ice cream were served
= The next meeting will be with Mrs
= N. S. Winn on first Wednesday Il
d November
r. NJ. Chinn is a hustler when i
comes to raising watermelons, h
always raises for the october market
He also is to be counted on to be on
of our best corn rai5ers. He brought i
a stalk Friday that was l3 feet higt
I feet s inches to the top ear, it ha
a good ear of corn. He also had
' Succor that had a 10 inch ear cor
on the end. He thought he had tn
field beat when Weed Marshall pr,
u duced stalk that measured IL fee
j two inches to the ear grown on /
l, Strucktemeyer's farm. SO you c.
d see we can beat the world No bott,
&C soil to be found than there is arour
i Mayview.
John w. Newman, our fellow tows
man had the pleasure of attendil
the annual meeting of his old COZ
pany which fought during the Civ
war under the Confederate dag
Capt. Henry c. Brookings compau
, which was Co. A l6 Mo. Infantr
There were fourteen that answer,
= to roll call last week When they m
with their old comrade A. NJ. SenC
near independence, they ranged
age from 80 to 81 years old. They W
ID meet in Independence next We;
IS This company did some heavy dgl
ing during the war. One by one t
an these battled scared veterans a
81 passing away. What pleasure it
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