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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
5
A collage of Lexington advertisements and essays urges careful spending and home pride. It promotes local shops in shoes, groceries, clothing, ice cream, and hardware while warning about wasteful farming practices and neglected farm machinery. The piece mingles commerce notices with a moral on economy and prudent money use.
Geo. Wittenberg, merchant tailor and French dry cleaner, promotes a full line of wollens and a dry cleaning pressing service. Customers urged to inspect foreign and domestic serges for spring orders, with delivery and pickup by phone at 24.
Crenshaw and Young Drugs paints and varnishes promote quality service in Lexington Missouri with Cook Missouri Gas and Electric Service Co. Now is the time to paint. Cook's Paint at Luther W Marshall. Jos L Long dealer in feed flour poultry coal and hides. The New Edison at Westerman and Barnett Drug Co Grand Theatre Vivian Martin in the Wax Model Monday April 30th. Ladies Shirt Waists 50c Special This Week A A Grimes Co 5 10 25c Store Gas.
J A Wittenberg Groceries offers fresh fruits and vegetables daily with Bananas 25c to 50c New potatoes Tomatoes Rhubarb Celery Cabbage Radishes Eggplant Strawberries 2 boxes for 25c Plants of all kinds Mike Malo and Co 10th St between Main and Franke
Supplies of all kinds expert repair work guaranteed materials and labor Goodrich Tires advertised. Best in the long run. Phone 174 at 10th and Main.
Proffit Bros offers fresh and salt meats oysters and fish in season at 825 W Main St Lexington Missouri. Butler Williamson proprietor supplies a complete line of hats caps shoes and clothing for men and boys. See prices before you buy.
Tornadoes across seven states in three days killed nearly 250 people and injured over 1,260. Homes, farms, and crops were destroyed from Illinois to Alabama, with large losses in Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee. State troops aided relief. Red Cross workers mobilized as funds and supplies are requested to shelter and feed the homeless and injured. Bonds and local authorities coordinate disaster response and funding requests.
Petrograd reports agrarian disorders and confiscations rising in Central and Southern Russia along with arson and other signs of anarchy after the revolution. Telegrams indicate growing unrest in Tesserabia and Siberia as authorities struggle to maintain control. A German submarine has captured four Swedish steamers bound for Russia in the Gulf of Bothnia.
Government studies a system to compensate families of soldiers and military personnel. Officials plan to propose details to Congress, aiming to provide support through a structured program and potential benefits for dependents.
A town urged support for Liberty Bonds under President Wilson's call to Boy Scouts to aid the war effort. Ten 50 dollar bonds per scout earn a War Service Emblem, with emphasis on self denial and patriotism as Lex ington seeks to lead in local subscriptions and enlistment details via Traders Bank and McGrew Coal Co. contact.
A warning about cholera morbus stresses its dangers and urges ready use of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. A Huntington Indiana mother reports two children ill in summer 1911 found immediate relief after use.
Mrs EB E Hunstable of Muskogee Oklahoma has been visiting her sister Mrs Fred Campbell in town and went to Waverly Tuesday to visit her mother.
Misses Clara and Alice Zimmmerman traveled to Dover Tuesday for a day visit. Mrs Price Grindstaff also went to Kansas City Tuesday for a visit.
Mrs John Strodtman and daughter Mrs Vince Owen spent Tuesday in Kansas City for a day trip. Judge H N Wilson also traveled to Independence on business Tuesday.
A brief note explains sour stomach as a mild indigestion from overeating or unsuitable foods. It advises eating slowly, chewing thoroughly, eating little meat, and avoiding supper to prevent symptoms without medicine. It also recommends Chamberlains Tablets to aid digestion. Rev. G. Garland Riggan traveled to Napoleon Monday evening to conduct services.
A Richmond Kentucky resident F B Tressey says Chamberlains Tablets are a wonder and that he never sold anything that beat them. The note suggests trying the tablets for indigestion or constipation.
Mrs. W. R. VanAnglen and Mrs. L. Cooper traveled to Malta Bend Tuesday for a social visit. Miss Elizabeth Wilson also visited Waverly on Tuesday for a social visit.
Mrs P H Martin of Peru Indiana reports two daughters with whooping cough improved quickly after using Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy. The remedy helped keep the cough loose and expectoration easy, described as working like a charm.
C L Wilson traveled to Kansas City on Tuesday to handle business matters and conduct official duties during the day in the city.
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