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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1901
Page
5
The report blends two vivid vignettes. A Chester steamer assault ends with a deep stab wound to a sailor named Daniels, then Douglas Nietert of St Louis performs a rare heart surgery to repair the wound, noting a successful recovery despite lung infection.
Local notes from Higginsville Missouri and surrounding areas list residents visiting Kansas City and Columbia, names such as Ruth Fielis Lee Still Hugh Smith and Miss Haine Green appear, along with several Mayview Corder and Alma lines. Community events include a Lafayette County Reading meeting and a Masonry chapter initiation. Christmas program plans at Waverly churches and a local funeral for Myra Lake are noted.
Local items report Josiah Mann on the invalid list and river ice blocking navigation. Amusements include a Christmas wedding invitation for Miss Nannie Gladdish and Fletcher Jarvis in Kansas City. Wellington lodge No. 811 IOOF elected officers George Prock noble grand and others for six months.
The Corder school literary societies hosted a late evening program to raise funds for a school library. The event featured remarks, dialogues, tableaux and recitations by students while attendees paid a small admission fee and the plan is to establish a library for the school.
Miss Tillie White visits West Virginia while the Missouri river freezes solid at the town. John E. Hill reports six inch ice forming on Thursday. Miss Edith Tweed visits from Kansas City for holidays. A. B. Slusher builds a large barn on his farm. L. Is. Ashurst feeds cattle with cotton seed meal shipped from the South. Nathan Corder ships a carload of hogs to Kansas City. Infant child of Mr and Mrs Font Jones dies on Thursday evening. F. W. Pauling travels to Oklahoma for health and to see his children. Ladies of the M E Church host a candy pulling at the opera house. Charles McBee and wife of Kansas City visit Mrs McBee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, with W. A. Howerton who moved to Oklahoma to settle.
James Davitt, about 85, a long time Lexington resident since 1855, died Saturday afternoon between three and four from pneumonia. He was the last of his immediate family, having buried wife, three daughters and two sons. Native of Ireland, he was a close friend of Judge Andrew O Malley and lived alone but well cared for by neighbors and a levant. Funeral held for Davitt.
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