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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1920
Page
3
Lafayette County Clerk publishes a long list of Democratic Republican Socialist and Prohibition party candidates for the August 1920 primary. The notice covers polling hours from 6 a.m. to 7:14 p.m. and includes names and addresses across numerous offices from Governor to local township committees.
Guardian Pangborn appointed for Benjamin Pangborn estate in Lafayette County Missouri. Claims must be filed within one year. notice from Probate Court dated June 7 1920. Also includes publication order in Lafayette County Circuit Court for Mamie Parker vs Harry Parker seeking divorce with absented defendant. appearance required by October 11 next term.
Felicitous text from 1920 public records notes a divorce suit filed by plaintiff against Katie Butler, alleging desertion. Absence from residence prevents service, with publication ordered in Intelligencer for four weeks before October term. Final settlement notice for Jackson Arnold estate follows, public administrator to report at August term in Lafayette County Probate Court.
Notices hereby given to all creditors and other persons interested in the estate of Joseph C Talbott deceased that the undersigned Administratrix will apply to make a final settlement at the August term 1920 of the Probate Court of Lafayette County Missouri to be begun and held in the Probate Court room in Lexington on the second Monday Minnie M Talbott Administratrix Pinal settlement the estate of Sarah E Bourlier defined settlement of said estate at the Court of Lafayette County Missouri on the second Monday in August
The executrix Mary Elizabeth Thomas requests a final settlement of the estate of Emory Merideth Thomas at the August 1920 Lafayette County Missouri Probate Court in Lexington. Ernest Peters, administrator, will likewise apply for a final settlement of the estate of Julian Peters at the same August 1920 Lafayette County Probate Court session in Lexington.
Spring housecleaning is here and Crawford's Laundry offers rug washing for all sizes from small bathroom mats to room-sized rag carpets. Colors are treated carefully and customers can call or ask the driver for details.
Wilbur C. Abbott in the Yale Review reflects on Lord Beaconsfield and his early 20th century critics. He questions whether Disraeli’s Balkan forecasts proved prescient or merely meteoric, noting lingering influence or fading reputation depending on future events.
In Philadelphia a gardener hosts two stone paths to a historic sundial. The left path, the historical way, links Germantown battles and colonial sites including Brandywine, Wolfe’s rock path, Quebec’s Plains of Abraham, Penn and Wayne homes, Valley Forge, Washington’s headquarters, Chadds Ford, and Wissahickon paper mill founder Rittenhouse. The ancestral way lists 14 stones now, with plans to grow as Mr Fewkina counts 128 pre1700 ancestors who left their marks on time.
In a Kaneay City Star excerpt the preacher condemns keeping fighting dogs in church and argues that loving enemies implies having or making foes. The speaker mocks those lacking enemies and contends to apply strict moral instruction to controversial issues.
A renovation firm uncovered a Harrison county grand jury indictment from July 1856 naming Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. It notes a felony for circulating Tribune copies to incite unrest and rebellion, per the Pittsburgh Dispatch report.
A returned soldier hears two versions of war tales and contrasts them. One man is tired of war stories while another clings to them, reflecting on how veterans react differently to wartime memory. The fragment hints at contrasting attitudes toward shared conflict narratives.
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