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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28
TUESDAY, THE 9TH DAY OF
APRIL, 1908,

tor the purpose of ~electing the following
cfleers. to-git-A Mayor. Marshal, Attorney,
Police Judge. Assessor. Collector and Treas
urer; and also one Councilman from each
ward in said City.
The polling places have been selected and
specified by the City Council, as follows:
First Ward-In the building owned by
qustave Hearle, on the north sid of Main
Street, Block 81. First Addition.
Second Ward-In Police Court room OF City
Hall.
Third Ward-At the drug store of William
LOOMS on Franklin Avenue, on part Block
eleven First Addition TO Lexington.
Fourth Ward-At the Engine House In Old
Town, In said City, on Twenty-Third Street
between South Street and Washington street.
Said election TO be held in accordance with
the laws of the State of Missouri, applicable
to Cities OF the third class.
In Testimony Whereof. /, Oswald Winkler,
Mayor OF the City of Lexington have here
unto subscribed my name and caused the
seal Of the City of Lexington, to be hereto
affixed this 23rd day Of March, 1908.
OSWALD WINKLER.
(sEAL) Mayor.
Attest:t
JACOB FEGERT,
City CLERK Of the City OF Lexington.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28
Real Estate transfers.

NASN ~
Buehner land, consideration
$4,000.
Mary Buehner to John r.
Branson land, consideration
S2s3O.0O
Silas jackson to Mrs. Sophia
Wahl lots, consideration $4,000.
Mollie M. Lewis to VIM. Sch
reiman land, consideration
S767S.7o.
John Maher to Henry E. Mil
Ter land, consideration $500.
Jacob Steffens to VIM F. Beck
err land, consideration 80, 400.
Estelle Wilker to Addie M.
Young land, consideration
S2,35O.
Gustav Haerles to Traders
Bank lot, consideration $4,000.
Maggie jackson to Peachy
Rhodes land, consideration
$5359.33.
Theodore Jungklaus to Ernest
Dittmers land, consideration
S 5000.
Thomas Earl Kensler to David
A sSlusher land, consideration
$1,000.
William Meinsen to sWm F.
. Bergman land, consideration
E $6, 100.
Anheuser Busch Brewing Co
to Gustav Haerle land, consid'
GRAFTON $1,000.
? Anheuser Busch Co to Gustav
Haerle lot, consideration $3.50.
Edward Aull to Edward sAuI
0 Coal Co Deed, consideration $40.
Mary A Brooks ct al to Edward
| Aun Deed, consideration 1915.
Rebecca j. Dalton to @Wm. I
Dalton land, consideration $140o
Mary S. Dalton to VIM F Dial
ton land land, alton 81 ,550000
John Frerking to Adolpl
H Frerking land, consideration
$4,000.
James F Prigmore to Peach.
. Rhodes land, considerable.
$535s.
D H Smith to Louis BredC
hoeft land, consideration $365(
Carl F Schmidt to Gottlelie
Meiram lots, consideration 500
Louis Bredehoeft to VIM Klel
per laid, consideration S $1,000.
Robert Bates to Frank
Foulds lot, consideration, 5000.
Fred Liese to Frank Meierar
land, consideration $3413.
Walter Eckle to Louis Eek
land, consideration $4,000.
Cornelia Nickel to Preston
Tapp land, consideration 1000.
Anna Roepe ct al to Julil
Roepe land, consideration zoe
Emma Smith to Louis Bred
hoeft 40 acres Of land, conside
alton 100000.
Alexander Frazier to Thornt,
A Campbell.
Moses. Powell to Thornton
Campbell land, considerati
loo.
Gustav Haerle to Lexingt
Eagle Club by Tr lot, conside
- alton $50.
Frank Meirand to Leila
Khneschmidt land, considerati
$50.
ere Anna NJ Phetzing to August
lne Phetzing ct al Will.
7sr3 Clayton Williams to John q
ter lots in Higginsyille cons
GRAFTON $50
'on' Joseph Schaal to Forest N;
~ land, consideration 10000.
John A. Edwards to Larry
S, Shroyer land, considerat
500.
March II, 1908.
it's
an Sue 0 Hammond to Lou
For Sparks land, consideration "a
Joseph Jackson to R L ia
AIN son land, consideration $500.
the March u, 1908.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28

For a good cold bottle of beer that
did not make Milwaukee famous but
made Milwaukee jealous, brewed in
Lexington Mo-, by the Lexington
Brewing Co., go to the Gem. 6-22
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28

@The new bookkeeper is a regular
encyclopedia"
Smart, Them"
mo, very thick" Philadelphia
Press.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28
All orders for feed promptly
filled at GeIzer's. Phone IA.

Spring ginghams and percals at
VIM and Ewing's.
Try some of u fine pitted pre-
served cherries that we r closing.
out at cash, and a can of succotash
Jos. L. Long, Cash Grocer.
You can't get all the dirt out Of
your house without q step ladder
Best ever made att. r. Moorhead's,
have a line Of Painters ladders.
extension, from 80 #. to 40. it,
J. r. Moorhead,
Now is the time to buy your gar
aen seed and flower seed for early
sewing And we have a very fine 10
Of onion sets, both top and bottom
sets at Jos. L. Long, Cash Grocer.
Al Are is often headed of BY having
a good, straight ladder about tn
premises. For sale at J. r. Moore
heads.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-28

Call phone lyS and order a
sack Of Gold Medal flour. Ed
MOOrman handles it and will
seethat you get it promptly.
For colee that's ''test by test 60
to VIM & Ewing's.
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Sue 0 Hammond to Lou E
Sparks land, consideration 540O.
Joseph jackson to R L Jack
son land, consideration $500.
March u, 1908.
Bera Fading to L f Benning
lots in Odessa, consideration 35,
Frank A Foulds to Edward
f Keith lots in Higginsyille, con.
sideration 600.
Virginia P Johnson ct al K
William G Coen land, considera
ton $500.
G Trimmer to Edward N Hop
kins lots in Lexington, consid
Grafton 100.
March IS, 1908.
Rebecca J Dalton 10 Hanna 4
and Mary S Dalton land, consid
GRAFTON 1900.
The evening world., 1908-12-01
Gilbert A. Middleton'S Evidence
Was Secured After Suit
Had Been Begun.
NOT GOOD, COURT SAYS
Automobile Man Gets Setback
After Trailing and Trap
ping Pair in Hotel.

Despite the fact that Gilbert y. Mid
others, intruding at midnight of Sept.
II last, found Mrs. Beatrice Middleton.
msnt on the sixth floor Of the Majestic
Hotel, Seventy-second street and Cen
trail Park West. having been admitted
by Percy Brooks, in pajamas. slippers
and q eathrobe. and upon whom as we'll
as Mrs. Middleton was served the sum
mons and complaint in an action for
absolute divorce, Justice Bowling to-
day, on tho testimony, refused 10 grant
. divorce sued for by Middleton.
x Justice Bowling said: There is alb
solutely no proof of any wrongdoing by
Mrs Middleton prior to the commence
ment OF this action by the service Of
the summons and complaint at mid
night Sept. Ills. and nothing to show
that she and Brooks occupied the apart
nent prior to Sept. II, although they
registered separately on Sept. Is A
decree cannot be granted upon proof Of
misconduct occurring after the COM
mencement Of the action"
Left Him Farewell Note.
John G. SAKE, son of New York's
popular poet of half a century ago. WAS
Mr. Middleton's lawyer. Mr.. Middleton
testified that he married Beatrice E,
Midi eton at the Registers Office Lon
don Jan. q, 1906: that their baby boy,
Darcy Middleton, came 10 them Dec. 10,
1905. and that they lived at the Hotel
Collingwood, in West Thirty-fifth street,
until Sept. 10 last. when on his arrival
home for dinner he found In his letter
box this note:
Sunday Sept. Is. 190s.
Dear Berthe news / give you will,
know, prove a great shock TO you. but
my mind is freely made up and l am
leaving you to-day for good. 1t will be
useless for you TO attempt TO trace me.
and even If you do I will never return TO
you. I am too excited to write more
now, but 1 may send you another letter
when / feel calmer-the last l shall ever
write you. BEATRICE.
Two days later he received this one.
bearing the postmark OF Highland Falls.
\. Y. Sept. Il:
Dear Bert: Just a line written Ell
Route to bid you farewell. | am going
away with some one who loves and un
derstands me better than you do, and
The evening world., 1908-12-01
SHOCKED TO DEATH
ON B. RI. 4" TRAIN
Workman Electrocutei, Falls
to Street, Near Greene
Avenue Station.

John Nolan. an irorvorkcr, twenty
i've years old. was killed to-day by an
electrical shoyl, while repairing the Gle
waited railroad structure a. Grand and
Greene avenues, Brooklyn
The II. II. r. IS putting in new girders
at this point and Nolan stood ON a
swinging platform under the tracks n
IS supposed that some of The wires
which cross there in a network are NOT
properly insulated aud that Nolan
touched one of them
His fellow worl>nan saw him s'aEger
without IA cry, roll or the pla'form and
The evening world., 1908-12-01
No Argument Needed

to convince thoughtful people as
to the folly OF entrusting their eye
sight TO inexperienced "salesper-
sons in jewelry or department
stores. Don't let any one but a
competent OCULlST prescribe
glasses for YOUR eyes" The
wearing of improper glasses is
MORE INJURIOUS than wearing
no glasses when they are needed.
Eyeglasses, if required, Si.OO up.
The evening world., 1908-12-01

from whom VIII never part. think In
the long run It will be best for us both
Adleu BEATRICE "
| But tho deserted husband didn't put
much credonce In these letters. lie had
already engaged detective. and on
Sept i6 he received his report. saying
that on Sept 10. In the afternoon. Mi
Percy Brooks" had registered at the
Majestic, and n pretty woman with him
had written In the book under his name
Mrs Brooks" and this detective said
the lady who wrote Mrs Brooks" was
startlngly like tho photograph OF his
runaway wife
At midnight Of the NH Mr.. Middleton
and the detective and Robert smith
clerk at the Colingwood, visited the
Majestic.
Brooks Admitted Them.
They repaired to the apartment as.
signed to MIR. Percy Brooks" and
Mrs. Brooks" and rang the bell. Percy
Brooks opened to them, and what fol-
lowed is best told 10y the detective, Don
aid L. Armstrong. a. witness at the
trial
Mir. Brooks said rs we pushed by
him through the. little passage-way 70
meaning of all this
"Ry that time We had got into the
apartment. There was an open trunk
and clothing male and female appare
scattered about. two liquor bottles and
a siphon of Nichy on a table at the foot
of the bed. and in the bed was Mrs
Middleton in sleeveless night.robe.
MIR Middleton said to her.
so this is the man YOU left me for7''
she said II IL done, what's the use
OF making a fuss about IT,
MIR. Brooks. IN bathruhe and slippers
over his pajamas, observed to the whole
party.
i think you We're very fortunate TO
have traced MS here
lyon dirty scoundrel" CALCULATED MIR
Middleton In reply. and then he and Nh.
Smith turned to leave. Brooks said to
me:
Have You told the hotel people what
brought you here viii We have to get
OUT
No said l: I have told them moth
ing. and If you don't they will not know
and You may stay here until you are
ready 10 leave"
MIR Smith Corroborated all this. and
Harry A GoT. proprietor Of Hill Crest
Hall. a hotel at Highland Falls. with
his register ON his lap, showed that on
Sept. II was entered on the book. MIR.
and Mrs p Brooks. New York" but
he couldn't swear thar the Mrs.
Brooks" was Identical with the pretty
Mrs Middleton, and so the automobile
man will have TO begin all over again.
although his wife did not bother to go
to court and oppose him, and neither did
Percy Brooks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
OLD FOLKS EVERYWHERE.

From the Washington Post.
 Kentucky is making a proud boast of it's old people. There is old man Dave Galloway, of Uno, who is 90, and hasn't been out of Hart county since he was q boy. He plowed considerable this year, but never got too tired to stop his mule and tell that flea-bitten sage what Henry Clay said to him once There's MT. Phil Waters, too, six years older than old man Dave, and chipper as cricket. If it weren't for him and Aunt Sally Illus kinson, who lives over on Fourtain Run, and is 102 years old come'her next birth day. folks around the 'Barrens" would have to look in the almanac to find out what century they were living in.
 But these hardy old pioneers are almost children when compared with Uncle Israel Tisdale of Horse Cave. Uncle Israel says he's IF. and there's nobody to prove diff ferently: besides. his shiny black face is as wrinkled as a butternut The last heard of him he was 'cuttin' capers'' around a young cullud widow 'oman." and they say he's got his eye out for an- other chance at matrimony. Such is the gallantry of old men fin Kentucky.
 Kentucky is right to be proud of her old people. It Is land where folk take great joy of life. The sun is bonny in old Kentucky. the bluegrass is paradoxically green, and the air sweet with the bloom on the corn. All good things are there the mellow dew of mountain moonshine, hominy and hog meat, tobacco as fra grant as though the lips of fair women had breathed kisses on 1t. Its inhabitants are loath to leave this land dripping with fatness, and perhaps that is why people rarely die in Kentucky-save with their boots on and a few little puffs of white smoke hanging in the foreground. Most of them just live on and on, enjoying life and it's. blessings. until one day there comes a strong wind blowing out of the mountains, and it catches them up and the place thereof knows them no more.
 But the oldest inhabitants are not all confined to Kentucky. Providence be thanked, We have them everywhere. Life is better regulated and better protected now than it used to be-. What would the world do without its brave octogenarians, with their ripe judgment, their cheery voices, their unfailing wisdom to guide the footsteps of those who must carry the business of life where they have already trod? Blessings on the men who grow old serenely and on the women who grow old gracefully, for theirs is a beautiful autumn and well-earned time of rest!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15

for direct and practically imperative action. There is no danger that a leg islature will disobey the expressed will of the people. In Oregon a republican legislature is about to elect demo. cratic Senator simply because the peo. pie have willed it, and the constitution of that state sanctions it. Alabama has two Senators who were selected by the direct action of the people, and all though no statute commands it the pri- mary election of Senators has come here to stay.
 The Senate has long been the stronghold of special interests, and President Roosevelt has felt those in- terests, and so have the people of this country. No little progress was made toward reform in the Senate in the re- cent election, and every point gained was due to direct action by the people. The ground already covered by sena- torial primaries will be held, and state after state will adopt the policy until it covers the entire country. It is the best hope of progress and political re- form. and every man outside the politi- cal rings and special interests will favor it. The country is fairly com- mitted to it. It is good democratic doctrine, and it means as a rule Sena- tors who stand for the many. It may now and then slip a cog, as it per haps did in Missouri, but that excep- tion does not eontrovert the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
THE DELIGHT OF MUD.
From the Washington Post.

rom the w dSHlHStun FOSl
 The Swiss professor who says Ameri- can children are kept too clean, and thereby started.on the high road of molly coddleism, hits the nail on the head. Children, instinctively obeying a great law of nature, despite finical mothers. hunger to get back to the earth, to wal low and wade in good, clean dirt, and to daub themselves from their dear little toes to their inquisitive noses in good rich mud. The frilled-up, speckless, spotless kid is parental crime against nature, a crime for which the child must pay in after life.
 There are three great, looming events in boys life. The first, perhaps, is the moment when the despised dresss are discarded for the first pair of trou- cers; the second is the thrilling hour of the first circus, but none of these events can compare in utter happiness with tho first time a kid. escaping from the moth CTS too watchful care, in complete abandon and sweet defiance of domestic tyranny. gets his fill of the ecstatic de- lights of clean dirt and luscious mud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
Reminiscent of Amusements.

George H. Harris, who is this season in charge of the Me, Him and r. company that comes to the Bijou this week. Is one of the best-lSnown managers, not only in this country, but wherever the English language is spoken. It was Mir. Harris who first undertook the scheme of taking an American company to far-off Aus tralia. In 1878 he took the Lingards (Wil- liam H. and Alice Dunning) to the land of the kangaroo. It was a big under taking, but so successful was his Aus tralian tour with the famous Lingards that about two years later he formed a partnership with the late lamented Joe K. Emmett. the greatest German come dian the world has ever known. The Elm success in Australia.
 It was under Mir Harris management that the colored comedians Williams and Walker made their run of over a year at one of London's prominent theatres. He made all the arrangements for Will Hams and Walker to appear "befo'' King Edward That performance stands today as one of the most notable ever given in England. There is not today, perhaps, a manager in America that has done moro to advance the American stage in foreign lands than Harris. This will be the first tune he has visited Birmingham in sev- eral years. With MT. Harris this season is Frank (Bud) Williamson. who was his stage manager in all his foreign under takings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
The Inauguration Parade.

1T have been interested fin the tenta- tive pfans for the inauguration of MT. Taft" said veteran, land I approve the suggestion for confining the parade to the regular troops, the naval contingent and the National Guard stationed in and near Washington. The old way has been to invite all the volunteer soldiery in the United States and all civic societies be- sides Hundreds of organizations have been accepting the invitations and the result has been a procession miles and miles long. Every one enjoys lookitg at d fine military parade, but when 1t is of uncommon length it becomes very monotonous. have attended several in- separations and have marched in two of them. Each time the weather has been rough and winter-like.
 A brigade of regulars, battalion of sailors and the National Guard of the Dis- trict of Columbia, all told about TOGO or 5000 men, would make splendid escort to the President, and would pass given point in three-quarters of an hour or less.
 "The Inauguration day should be changed from March to some day in the latter part of April or the early part of May. Washington is seen at it's best in May, and I have wondered why the authorities stick to March 4'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
The expectancy and rose of this fair
 state. Hamlet.
OrYiIIe Wright All Rleht

The Atlanta Georgian published a dispatch stating that Orville Wright would be cripple for life as a result of the accident in his aeroplane at Washington. This publication speed fly brought from Bishop Wright of Dayton, O., the father of the two aero nauts, this letter:
 Dear Sir: In an editorial in the Geor- gian of October 2S I see very compli- mentary notice of the Wright brothers and their efforts in navigating the air. The report, however. that Orvlle is like ly to be "a cripple for life" is ineor- rect. The surgeon here, as well as those at Fort Myer, says that the fracture of his limb has mended more rapidly and perfectly than one case in hundred, if not a thousand, and that the injury is not likely to affect his action permanent ly at all. The injury neither affects his brain nor spine. Yours truly,
 MILTON WRIGHT.
 P. S.-1t Is a remark here from the lips of many neighbors that Orville clean life, free from spirituous liquors and tobacco. accounts for his rapid recov- cry. He is now at the paternal home in Dayton, O., free from pain, and reputer- auhs rapidly. M. w.
 The Georgian thinks the postscript is valuable, and it asks it's readers to read it over again.
 It is good newsrindeed that Orville Wright is recovering his strength and activity, for if the air is to be con quered in the near future it seems plain it must come through the efforts and plans of the Wright brothers, who are holding up the American end of the most daring and apparently successful method of aerial navigation. The two brothers think mankind can learn to fly without the aid of gasbag in oyer. coming the attraction of gravitation. and when Orville is we'll again no doubt their tests at Washington will become as brilliant and pronounced as they have been in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
Decline of Divine Riebt RuIe

The recent discussions in the Ger man Reiehstag of the Emperor Will Hams personalism in public affairs is healthful sign of the course and trend of public sentiment. The Emperor William clings to and not long ago asserted the divine right of crowned rulers, but it is plain no other Ger mans accept the theory. The major jty believe he should not only consult his ministers, but that he should hold his tongue and pen in public matters.
 The recent plain talk in the Reichs- tag over newspaper interview with the Emperor plainly points to consti tutional changes in Germany. It must have jared the Emperor's pet theory. for the divine right doctrine does not for a moment admit that the Emperor could be indiscreet in his utterances or in anything else. The members of the Reichstag from monarchists to social ists. including all grades of liberals and radicals, thought otherwise, and there was no one to defend the Elm peror's interview published in a Lon don newspaper, not even his chancel- Tor, Prince von Buelow.
 After while enlightened and pro- gressive Germany will put an end to the divine-right nonsense by making all of her ministers responsible to Par liament rather than to the Sovereign. This would be true representative gov ernment, toward which all the world is turning except those that prefer direct popular rule to representative govern. ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15
Popular Election of Senators

The Kansas City Star, an independ. ent republican paper. says: "The plat. form the defeated party declared for the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people, and the platform of the victorious party was silent on that subject. But this does not mean that the issue is either unattraetiye or dead. For 1t is an ts- sue, and the democratic party has taken the right stand on it."
 The hope of reforming the Senate lies largely in practically taking the election of Senators out of the hands of legislatures which are in nine cases out of ten dominated either by special interests or by machine politicians and putting 1t in the hands of the people