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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19
Dover Notes.

Capt. Erv. zeysing had bus
mess in Lexington Friday.
Miss Helen Cole spent several
days this week with Miss Lille
May Shelby.
Miss Dolly Trent is spending
this week with her sister. Mrs.
Ben Vessel, near Waverly.
Quite a large crowd went to
Lexington Monday to attend the
show.
Mrs. F. j. McGee went to Sla-
ter Saturday morning for a two
weeks visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Emma Niece, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Yokely
and family moved this week to
the farm owned by Mrs. Annie
Rently.
DR.. and Mrs. W. G. HARDWOOD
spent Monday in Lexington.
John Cooper went to Kansas
City Friday for a short visit
with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Cherry and
family moved into town this
week. We are glad to have
them as citizens of our town.
J R. Plattenburg of Higgins
vile had business here Saturday.
Vane Bently left Friday for
tanyon, Texas. He will be Join
e later by his mother, Mrs. An
ME Bently, and sister, Miss Irma,
who viii go the first of Novem-
her to make their future home.
Jeffy Wilson, wife and baby
are visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. D H. Eagan.
Mrs. Ella Stolte left Saturday
morning for Eldorado Springs fol
d visit with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. MaSlin.
Mrs. Leon Lewis and small
son of near Corder are spending
this week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Eppes.
Mrs. James Erskine of Sedalia
arrived Tuesday night for a short
visit with relatives.
Misses Nina and Bernice Ham
of Corder spent Sunday with
Miss Ruth Lewis.
Mrs. J. H. Holman and daugh-
ter, Miss Addie, were in Lex
ington Sunday.
Died at her home here on
Tuesday, Sept, 9, 1918, Mrs. Car
Oline Ramsey. Mrs. Ramsey's
maiden name was Caroline Best.
She was born in WestmOreland
county, Pennsylvania. Five chill
dren survive her: William, Mag
gle. Matilda and Minnie of Dow
er, and Robert Ramsey of Kan
sas City. Interment was made
in the Dover cemetery. The chill
dren have the sympathy Of the
community in their bereavement.
Two boys of New York City
passed through Dover Monday,
who are touring the world on
bicycles. They were James
May S and Capt. Chris Wendell.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

Try some Of our Hog Remedy,
Stock Food aad Poultry food.
We have a full line Of the differ
ent kinds Of stock and poultry
foods. Jos. L. Long, next to
George Kings store, Phone IA.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

The Missouri State Fair is your
state Fair. Your financial interest In
il is Just as great as is that OF any
man. When you boost for II you
boost for your " business. When
O attend, you are right at home.
II "a your Fair, not the other fellows.
When o knock" you are knocking
on your W enterprise.
The directors Of the Missouri State
Fair do not " Il. They are not
paId one cent for the work they do.
only their actual. expenses are al
lowed. The secretary does not swn
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

There have been reformers dry
as summer dust and austere as an
old rural slate ~gravestone. There
have been popular idols who
We're nothing but sanctity and
sawdust there have been orators
and writer's who were nothing
but words and style; personally
hollow as drums. Mayor Gay
nor had plenty Of faults; he was
nritable-there was plenty Of
physical excuse for it in his last
dayS-he sometimes went too far
and fast both on and off the
Lench he fought without gloves
his humor and temperament did
not always tempt him to be char
liable to his opponents, who, to
he sure, We're seldom charitable to
him; he liked to swat; he
was more than "a good
hater, ~ he was a pitt
less scorner of many he turn
ed not the other cheek but the
other fist to those who asSailed
LIN; he was hot tempered, like
many generous and placable ma
lures; he saw his enemies in
bells own black, his friends in
rose colors; he was impatient
sometimes he seemed a little
tickle politically sometimes far
enough from a saint and right
down near the passions, prejudi-
ces, hatredS, affections, the sym
Tathies and the laughter Of com
mon men.
lie had a constituency. a public
which took in most of these
United States. He brought
that halting slave" EPictetus
down to the people" as cara
thustra would say. His letters,
/ ithy, at times bitter, humorous,
i"onical, saturated in the strong
juices of his character, enriched
with long serious study and ex-
pcrience, ranging without effort
from the 50 called heights or
depths of scholarship to the more
difficult and dangerous art of
saying the right thing to a child !;
there is one monument of his en-
gaging and unusual mind. He had
more than a little of DR.. Frank
lin in him, the Shrewd, kindly,
philOsophic life studying and life
enjoying, tolerant pagan Frank
lin; and he had enough of that
"unequalled instinct for the Jug
uIar vein" which Rufus ChOate
attributed to John Quincy
When he was near death at an
assassin's hand the people of New
York found him out and in a sort
a. passionate but sincere remOrse
honored a worthy public servant,
a compelling individuality, a
strong attractive complex of
traits and talents, a friend. Now
no unkindly death silences a long
Storm of detraction and restores
tie real Gaynor to his city.-The
SIM
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

Help make q noise Ike a State Fall.
Meet your friends at sedalia, Septem-
Der q to October :.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

LOST-A small gold locket
somewhere between the Baptist
church and Lexington College.
Engrave with initial "V." Find
er leave same at this office and
receive reward.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

WANTED-25 or 80 girls to
peal tomatoes at the Wellington
Cannery. Pay 5 cents a bucket.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

FOR SALE-Some young Buff
Urpington Cockrels from a fine
pen. Phone TIT.
GEO. A.. PARKS.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

FOR RENT: Furnished rooms
for sleeping or light house keep
ing. 128 on 18th st. Phone 813.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

WANTED-A good cook for
family Of five. Phone 85l or
apply at 4l5 North 18th street.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-09-19

FOR RENT-A barn. room for
4 horses. Apply at SIG South
street. Mrs. Anna Roseen.
The evening world., 1913-12-08
DAYLIGHT ROBBER
STEALS $1,000 IN
GEMS FROM STORE
Disguised, as Window Cleaner,
He Opens Door While
Policeman Is in Sight.

Solomon Goldran locked the door Of
his little jewelry store a: No. 119 Le-
lancey street at 10 o'clock to-day to
20 to the State Bank In Delaney
street for the purpose Of having .
check certified.
Goldman had no sooner disappeared
around tho corner OF Essex street than
a stocky. blond young man. carrying q
bucket and n short ladder. stepped
briskly up to the show window of
Ooldman's store and began to apply to
the glass an opaque whitening mix
ture such as Is used as a preliminary
TO cleaning windows. He covered the
glass to a height Of about six feet
above the sidewalk and then pro-
ceeded to apply a similar coat to the
glass panel of the door. lie was a
fast, businesslike worker. and at
tracted only the attention that a work.
man would attract.
The jeweller had been gone about hf-
teen minutes when Samuel Schwartz. a
iewelry peddler OF No. 23s South First
street, wil.amsourgh. who kept his
stock In Goldman's safe, arrived at the
store.
lie noted that the windows were
whitened. stepped to the door. turned
the knob and walked in. The store was
empty.
So was the show window. save for
seven trays that had contained the
jewelry display. The show cases had
been stripped.
Schwartz ran into katkowsky's barber
snop next door and shouted that some.
thing had happened ia Goldman's store
Then Policeman Ryan was summoned
by that time Goldman had returned e
find his little place rihed. No attemp,
had been made TO get into the safe. bu,
every piece of jewelry Of any value on
display had been taken. He was gone
only about twenty or twenty-five min
utes.
The evening world., 1913-12-08
LITTLE CHANCE TO BAR
"PR0" FOOTBALL COACHES.

CHICAGO, Dec. s-Qplnlons expressed
by the athletic authorities OF the Uni
versity OF chicago to-day indicated that
The evening world., 1913-12-08

the proposed conference ruiins barring
professional football coaches would do
little more than create discussion. The
Maroon officials predicted that the reso-
lutions passed by the big nine faculty
representatives would ne sdetrscked ny
the various athletic boards OF all IN
stitutions at the first opportunity.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
BAREFOOT TALKS
OF SCANDALS OF
BEAUTY BOARD
Says Commission Bought Worth
less Shrubs and Sold Them
School Children
USED PUBLIC FUNDS
topaz FOR LUNCHEON
Now Sees Log Rolling Attempt
to Have Council Put Through
BENEFITS Bill

1t looks To me as II certain mem.
oers OF the City Plan & Improve
ment commission had begun log-roll-
ing with the aldermen. TO secure pay
ment OF Architect E. II. BENEFITS bills
for so-called services" said Fred
erick T. Bancroft, Friday morning,
commenting on a report that a meet
ing OF several members OF the-eeHa-
mission was held recently in the Uni.
versity club. TO which several alder.
men and Mayor-elect Marx were In
vited.
Il was not invited TO the meeting,
and | understand that r. ID. G. Hinch-
man also was not asked to be pres
emf" continued Mr.. Bancroft Il do
not blame the aldermen who attended
for they probably were ignorant OF
the purpose Of the meeting, and went
because they received an invitation
from a man prominent In the city
just as any man would
The case Is simply this: The com.
mission drew up contract with Dan.
lei II. Burnham. an authority on city
Identification, for his services in the
ptAho III DCAAOll
Durham died last summer. The city
made no contract for Mr.. BENEFITS
services an q maker OF plans. do not
believe that Mr. Bennett can take Mr.
Burnhsm's place as an authority, and
I do not believe that there are many
men who would insist that Mr. Ben
nett Is as capable az was Mr.. Burn
ham. OF whose services the city b de-
prived.
furthermore, Mr.. Bennett has been
paid $1,000. He wants "a, 800 more for
services the nature OF which we know
nothing. The commission has nothing
to show for these alleged services
Moreover, the commission is on rec
ord in a unanimous resolution de-
handing a showing from Mr.. Bennett
OF maps and plans. or some tangible
return for the money which he asks,
Still further, the commission is forti-
tContinued On Page Te.)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
IGNORANCE OF
BANKER BAKER
IS COMPLETE
Another Case of ION Advice
From Counsel | don't
Remember"
DOESN'T KNOW IN WHAT
BANKS HE HOLDS STOCK
William Rockefeller To Be Ex-
amined by Physician Named
by Pujo Board

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-william
Rockefeller, the elusive Standard Oil
magnate, viii be examined by q physi
clan for the money trust committee
probably at Miami. Fla, upon his re
turn from the Bahamas. Chairman
PuJo announced that the committee's
specialist would leave here today and
IL was assumed that the committee
had word OF ReekefelleF,s intention &c
return within a few days to the
United States.
Resuming his testimony today. be
fore the Pujo committee, George +
Baker, right hand man for J. p. Nor
gan, volunteered:
II have never become a director OIL
voting trustee at my own solicitation
do you know how many director
ships you are in?" Untermyer asked
NO. don't" the banker admitted
Probably 25 or more
Baker submitted list showing that
0he and his bank officers are directors
OF So business and financial corpora
tons. Ii also showed that officers o.
the First National bank, and J. p. Nor
gan and company were officers OF 81
great urmB.
Disclosure OF al peols, syndicates
and promotions In which the First
National bank, and the First Secur
tiles company were involved In recent
years, was refused by Baker.
"On advice OF counsel, we consider
that information private and confden
tial," Baker declared. II am advised
the committee has no right to inquire
INTO these affairs"
Baker insisted that this information
10 now In the hands OF the controller
OF the currency. He and his attor
neys held a long consultation. The
passed the question until
later.
The First National banks deposits
average 500, 100000, Baker said. On
Nov. 1, last year, 1914 corporations had
s92. $4,000 on deposit
Would publicity OF assets, elimi-
Continued on Page TeaJ
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
SEE CHANCE FOR
CHARTER CHANGE
BY PIECEMEAL
Aldermen Propose Passage Of
Immediate Effect Bill, With
Test in Court
FELLOWS AND LAWSON
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
Will Spend Two Days in Detroit
Drafting Measure for
Legislature

Atty.-Gen. Fellows will confer with
Corporation Counsel Lawson. In De
Lroit, for two days. beginning Jan. 20.
TO draft bill for presentation TO the
legislature providing for piecemeal
amendment OF city charters, In accord
ance with the decision OF the voters
in the recent election The bill will
probably take the form OF an amend
ment To the present home rule act.
and the details will require close
study on the part OF the lawyers who
draft the bill for the legislature.
The opinion OF the attorney-general,
given TO lawson in a conference in
Lansing. Thursday, that the legtsla-
ture cannot constitutionany give i'm
mediate effect TO the act providing for
piecemeal amendment, does not salts
fy Detroit city officials. They look TO
the local delegation In the legislature
to seek TO have that body give imme-
date effect 10 the act so that amend
ments providing for municipal owner
ship and an increase in the bond limit
can be submitted at the spring cleo
ton. So far as Mr.. lawson n con-
cerned. he considers the opinion OF
Fellows as final. but there is some
talk among the aldermen OF petition
ing the legislature To pass two acts
giving one immediate effect, the other
following the usual course and becom-
ing effective 90 days after the ad-
tournment OF The legislature, which
would bring the date about Aug. l.
The plan contemplated by some OF
the aldermen is 10 have the act passed
for immediate effect tested In the
courts. II It fails, the city still has
the act passed in the regular way
under which plecemeal amendment
may be undertaken in the future. Mr..
Fellows refuses 70 ask for immediate
effect for the act on the ground that
no questions of public health. peace
or safety are involved, these being the
reasons, under the law, for giving acts
effect.
II think all proposed charter amend
ments simmer down TO a question OF
public peace and health" said City
Controller Heineman, who Is a lawyer,
on Fellows opinion. 1T
is vital 10 the welfare OF the people
that certain changes be brought about
at the earliest possible moment. A
good way 10 test this out, would be
To have the legislature pass two acts
and let some one carry the question
OF imm ediate effect to the supreme
court That body would soon tell US
whether we could proceed al once to
amend our charter OF wait until fail
Foreseeing objections Of immediate
effect for the piecemeal amendment
bill. the council has provided for a
general revision OF the charter and
the election Of commissioners In the
spring. The work Of revising the
charter could proceed regardless OF
the action OF the Legislature on the
proposition,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
HIGHLAND PARK MAN
ALLEGED BIGAMIST
Charles WorthingtOn Arrested
on Complaint of Chi
cago Woman

Charles Worthington, laborer. about
30 years old. employed in the Ford
automobile plant, Highland Park. and
living at No. So Cottage Groyeave.
Highland Park. was arrested, Friday
morning, by the village police on ad-
vices from Chicago, where he Ia want
ed on charge of bigamy. preferred
by woman who says she is his first
wife
The Highland Park police gay that
Worthington admitted having two
wives, marrying the second one, he
said, In Flint, about month ago.
when he removed from that city to
Detroit.
Wife No 2. about IS years old, told
the Highland Park police that she
didn't know worthingtcn had another
wife.
worthington will be held until an
ofbcer comes Tor him from Chicago.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
ANTI-SUFFRACE
ADDRESS GOOD
ASCOMIC OPERA
-MRs. RuRY NJ. zAHN.
VOTES for wumen' advocate
Foxes Much FUN at Mrs.
Georges Talk
SAYS SPEAKER DODGED
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
''She Gave Pretty Good Suffrage
Address," Mrs. Sellers
Estimate
MRS. RUBY N. zAHN.

As good as comic opera" was
Mrs. Ruby NJ. Zahn's Characterization
OF the anti-suffrage speech. in the Ho-
tel Pontchartrain, Thursday after
noon. OF Mrs. A. J. George, OF Brook
line. Mass, platform speaker OF the
National Association Opposed to Wom-
an Suffrage, who came to Detroit in
behalf OF the chapter OF the anti-suf-
frage association repently organized
Arguments against suffrage? She
didn't have any" said Mrs. Zahn, who
Is president OF the Political and Civic
league OF Detroit yet she made a
very good showing II is pity that
a woman able To do what Mrs. George
Is doing. doesn't devote her time To
something worth while
II would scarcely like TO see the
suffragists conduct a meeting as Mrs.
Georges was conducted No one was
permitted to speak in opposition.
There were a great many suffragists
In the hall, and we were permitted TO
write questions. with which she did as
she pleased. Some OF the questions
she found abusive; others she side
stepped. Sometimes she would APP
peal for sympathy. and point to the
way that people were treating her.
Once she said, very dramatically: i
have received a question which no
man would ask another on the plat
FORM, And from her synpathizers in
the audience came chorus OF obs
and abs in depreciation of the way In
which she had been insulted.
Some one asked her why, II she
believes that woman's place is the
home, she does such thing as TO
make a public address. When she
read this question she assumed the
air Of an injured martyr.
MRS. George began by being very
polite to the suffragists, but soon she
INDUCED in abuse OF US. She called
us noisy. idle women who are seeking
notoriety' Think OF IL! She said
CONTINUED ON Page TEN
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
RIVER STEAMER
BLOWN UP;
Two Women Among 16 Injured
on the T0mbigbee
River

MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 10.-Eleyen
men were killed and 16 injured In a
boiler explosion on the big steamer
James T. Staples. on the Tombigbee
river. late yesterday, according to
dead are: Captain G. Tom Bartee ;
Chief Engineer Bill Harris; John
Kopf, sailor; w. c. Mckee. clerk;
Mate Henry Moulton; M. Herring, a
cottonseed agent; Henry Hoskins,
Tom Robbins, Richard Sewall, VI.
Gardiner; one victim unidentified.
mong the injured are two women.
Green Vermuillo, second engineer.
who escaped unhurt. thinks the eK-
plosions must have come from dyna-
mite. as there were two smaller ex-
blossoms before the boilers went up.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
]. F. MACAULEY Is
DEAD IN CALIFORNIA

Word was received In Detroit, FIJI
day morning, OF the death, In San
Diego, California, OF ]. +. Macauley,
the well-known. Detroit bookseller
and stationer. Mr.. Macauley was
spending the winter In California In
the hope OF benenting his health. He
had not been well since suffering a
stroke Of paralysis about three years
ago.
Mr.. Macauley was born in Roches-
Ter, ". Y, &C years ago, and came TO
Detroit when a lad He IL survived
by his wife, who was with him ia Cal
ifornia. two sons. Roy and Ward, and
one daughter, Mrs. Adair Smith. Of
Windsor. Richard Macauley Is a
brother
Funeral arrangements have not
been made but the body will be
brought 10 Detroit
Job Printing Done Right. Tines
Printing Co.. Is Jshn R.-st.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
CHINK BROWNS
WHILE BEING
STRUGGLED OVER
Brushed From c. p. X. Car Fer
Escort, Windsor Mem
Arrested Here
BREAKS DOWN AND
TELLS WHOLE STORY
Charles Rose Will Be Held Pend
ing Inquiry; Chink's Body
Not Found

Charles Rose. OF Windsor, an eM-
ploye OF the DeLsoit & Windsor Ferry
Co.. is being held by the United States
immigration officials In connection
with the alleged drowning OF
Chinese while he was being struggled
across on Canadian Pacific car fer.
ry, about two weeks ago.
Rose will be held while the police
on both sides of the river make an
effort 10 find the body OF the drowned
Chinese, the location OF the body de-
ltermining whether Rose will be prose
cuted on this side or turned over 10
the Canadian officials.
II Is stated that Rose took the
Chinese from Sam Wah's laundry at
Glengarry-ave. and Wyandotte-sts.,
Windsor, and that the pair boarded a
C. p. X. ferry as II was leaving the
slip. The Chinese was brushed on
when the boat hit a spile.
Rose was picked up by the irnmi-
grafton officials, and when question
ed broke down and admitted the
whole story. He said that he had told
about the affair to Philip Deneau, in
hose house he roomed. and that the
latter advised him To keep his mouth
shut about IL. Rose later said he was
going 10 get the suitcase belonging TO
the Chinese which was left In a Wind
sor hotel but Deneau told him that
he had got IT himself and given II TO
John Humphrey who Is under arrest
| in Detroit on charge OF Chinese
smuggling.
Chief Wills, OF the Windsor police,
Is investigating the case thoroughly,
and Rose will be held II possible un-
til charge can be worked up against
/ him
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-10
SAY CLERKS OF
JUSTICE COURTS
LACK COURTESY
Lawyers Complain Of the Treat
ment Received From
Teagan's staff
FREQUENTLY DIFFICULT
TO SECURE SERVICE
But What a Difference in Far
relrs Office, Where Every
one Is ION the Job"

Not only are lawyers complaining
against the laxity OF the courts OF De-
troit's justices OF the peace, but they
say that IL "a almost impossible 10
get proper service in the ONCE OF the
clerk OF the justice courts.
The county clerks ofice bears the
same relation 10 the circuit courts
that the Office OF clerk OF the justice
courts bear TO the inferior city
courts" said one attorney. The ser
vice, however, is as different as is day
from night. In Mr.. Farrells Office
an obliging clerk Ii always ready 10
step TO the counter and take your
business. In Mr.. Teagan's ONCE II
is often dif1cult TO secure service, and
sometimes II Is impossible.
Il have gone into Mr. Teagan's Of
fice at 10 minutes TO 3 and waited
until closing time, $3.50, before found
a clerk who would take the trouble
TO notice me have often gone intr
the office before $3.50 and been told tc
come around next day 10 start my
case. The clerks are very arbitrary
They have the attorneys at their
mercy. and they seem to enjoy the
situation.
There are very busy periods lie
the once, admit, but there are -four
clerks whose business It Is TO write
up the files OF their respective Jus
tices, and l fail to see why, in rush
hour, these clerks cannot be called
from the file room TO wait on the law
yers who crowd the counter. ] know
Of no other city or county once where
80 little attention Is paid to the &C
commodation Of the public.
| There's another thing. There are