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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
8
Local briefs list social visits and travels in Lexington area. Numerous residents visit Higginsville, Kansas City, and Eldorado Springs. several people attend fairs, weddings, and family gatherings. Some notices mention clerks, post office staff, and business ads.
On August 15 1906 Missouri will lay the cornerstone of the Late Sanitarium at Mt Verona for incipient pulmonary tuberculosis under Masonic auspices. Gov Polk Atty Gen Hadley Secretary Swanger will attend and speak. Prominent local and St Louis professionals will deliver addresses as will educators and ministers. Citizens are invited to join stamping out the White Plague with special rail rates.
H F Moody a representative of Farmer's Grocery Company Kansas City was arrested about 9 30 Friday morning by Marshall Walk on a warrant for selling goods without license. He appeared before Judge Joseph Ching who ordered a $100 personal bond for Saturday at 10 o clock. Moody refused initially and demanded jail but signed the bond after warning of contempt. He has been in the area for weeks and had contested the notice regarding the goods.
The Sintegaian scribe notes Maj. Evans’s record in Columbia of the Saluda bell once hung in the old Fifth and Broadway church. The bell, salvaged after the Missouri River flood near Lexington, moved to later church buildings, stored in 1904, with debate over its reinstallation and a cost estimate of 50 dollars.
The Dover Woodmen announce a summer picnic in the Inn Grove nest down August. The programme will be Annoorded Inter.
An old advertisement claims Tis Smith's Sure Kidney Cure by Creaghan and Young, with a money-back guarantee after one bottle. It also promotes marzoyi Children Hike Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar and Crenshaw & Young selling a cough syrup containing opiates.
Fragmentary line up shows an item called Something for Ladies and an asbestos related warning. Mentions the Kint adver and magazines priced at 25 teots at Gillen's. Reading uncertain, but indicates a promotional storefront listing.
Real estate note offers several Lafayette county farms and remaining city residences and vacant lots at reasonable prices. Agents Grate Bros, E. B. Vaughan, and W. V. Curtis can arrange viewings. Contact numbers listed: 223, 32, or 278.
Wanted gentleman or lady with good reference to travel by rail or by road for a firm of capital. Salary 1072 dollars per year and expenses. Salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address with stamp, do as Alexander, Lexington Missouri. 1716m
Notice to bridge contractors for a 32 foot wooden bridge with pile foundation to be built across on vars road south of Stall school in Sec 24 T 50. Plans and specifications available at time and place of letting. bidders must furnish bond for bridge maintenance. contract reserved to reject any and all bids.
The sheriff of Lafayette County Missouri announces a public auction of real estate in Wellington City. Under a decree and order of sale from the circuit court, the properties include land described as part of the city lot and surrounding parcels. Sale to occur at the courthouse door in Lexington between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm on a specified day. Bidding by the highest bidder for cash.
Sheriff CHAS F. KINKEA announces an execution sale by public auction at the Lafayette County courthouse in Lexington Missouri. The property includes Lots 3 4 and 6 in block 46 first addition and Lots 1 2 in block 59 first addition, all in Lafayette County Missouri, to satisfy a judgment in favor of Traders TP of Keaxington Mo. against Ohio Mulligan. Sale on a specified day between 9 am and 5 pm for cash to the highest bidder.
Execution issued by the circuit court of Missouri directs sale of properties in Lafayette County. Jones E Tucker sues Wealey L Smith. sale set for August 1904 at Lexington courthouse, highest bidder cash. Property described as multiple parcels totaling about 141.97 acres in sections 14 15 16 township 48 range 7, with hedges fences and creeks, including NW quarter and parts of sections 14 and 16. Sheriff CHAS. PF. KINKERAD to conduct sale with costs as permitted.
Notice to creditors and interested parties that the administrator will apply for a final settlement of the estate of James B. Helin. The probate court in Lexington will hold a final settlement hearing on the second Monday of August at the probate court room in Lexington City.
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