The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-09-05
MAYHEM NOTES.

Smith spent last Friday With friends.
Martie Roach went to Lexington
on last Friday to attend to some
business.
Mrs. Jerry Proctor is in Odessa
this week with her daughter, Mrs.
John Blucher.
Mrs. Maurine Thompson of Kansas
City was the guest of Mrs. Chas.
Nolte last Saturday.
c. A. Keith and family we're here
last Friday mingling with home folk
and to meet his kindred, Geo. Cum
mings and wife.
Frank Arthur came down from Law.
renee last Thursday and whiled away
few days on the hill. He thinks it
a nice place, cool and airy.
James Drummond in some way got
poisen oak in MS eye which causes
him great pain. We do not like to
see Jim going around with one eye.
Long Brothers base ball team
played here last Saturday with the
Mayview team and they treated our
boys little bad. They beat them
Is to 3.
John Sanders, who lives Southeast
of town is very sick at this writing.
1t is hoped that he may rally. His
friends, who are many, hope to see
him around once more.
J. B. and r. W. Douthitt left for
Santa Fe, New Mexico, last Monday.
They received a telegram from their
brother, Robert, that his wife was at
the point of death, and thought she
could not live through the week.
Mesdames t. T. Pickett, O. NJ.
Bullard and Miss Kate Bullard and
Mrs. J. B. Moore went out to Mrs. w.
f. Moore's last Wednesday and en-.
ioyed good old fashioned country
feast. The day was spent in remi.
niscences etc.
Rev. Samuel Garvin win give a free
lecture here on Friday night, Sept.
lltb. His subject will be Golden
Milestones. You will miss a great
treat if you fail to come, for Mr.. Gar
vim is great word painter. Lecture
to be in the Baptist church
DR.. G. A. Nickel last Saturday am
putated the thu1b from the right
hand OF August leidbrink, He had
it badly hurt some days ago, but did
not seem to do well Ampatstion
was resorted to and the doctor says
there will be no further trouble, and
looks for it to heai up qnl soon be
well
DR.. Q. A. Nickel has gone and
done it, he and Gus Radius went to
Kansas City last Tuesday morning. In
the evening at about 5 o'clock they
came riding into town in his automo-
bile making good time from Kansas
City. So Mayview is up to the notch
and still on the map. We wonder
why other towns do not have autos.
Our school will open up for business
next Monday. We speak about the
dear old school days when we get old.
When kid it is all right for the first
week, then to most of them it be.
comes kind OF round up to keep
them out of mischief. Then anything
but school for them, if they had their
way.
VIM. P. Keith and wife entertained
quite number of their relatives last
Sunday. 1t was a kind of feast day
with the family, their children COM
ing home with we'll filed baskets to
assist in the entertainment. The
occasion that caused this was the
coming of Geo. Cumming and wife
from Oakland, Cal, he being a
brother of Mrs. Keith. They had not
seen each other for 80 years. At one
time 80 years ago Mr.. Cumming was
a resident Of Lexington, some of the
older ones may remember him. w.
G. Keith and wife, John Keith and
family, John Staley and family of
Trinidad, Col, c. A. Keith and family
of Higgiusville we're on hand to add to
the enjoyment and talk of days gone
by Mr.. Cumming will leave Thurs
day for Chicago, thence to Canada,
his old home, then back by Niagara
Falls home. He will be gone some
two months on his trip.
Miss Floyd Green left yesterday
for Galena, Kansas, to take up her
duties as teacher in the public schools
there.