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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
5
A roundup of local visits and social news from Dover and nearby towns. Frank Zeysing and other Kansas City visitors stop through. Lexington and Higginsville residents are noted for trips, familial returns, and gatherings. Church events, club meetings, and upcoming services are listed along with several marriage licenses and a local obituary.
Milton Hester and family of Kansas City are visiting relatives this week. Win Vanarsdal and family of Sweet Springs visited relatives here Sunday. Rd Cravens of Kansas City visited relatives and friends here the last of the week. Mrs J R Hodges visited in Mayview Friday. Miss Helen Kramer was a Higginsville shopper Saturday morning. Dale, who is attending college in Marshall, was mentioned.
Travel ad touts seven to ten dollars weekly board in Colorado with 320 sunny days and cool restful nights. Promotes Rock Island Lines trains with all steel equipment and reclining chairs. Travel reps offer planning, hotel and ranch info and full trip details.
Sedalia resident Roscoe Moorman spent Sunday with relatives. Sandford Sellers Jr. left Sunday for a visit in Chicago. J. M. Opaig’s family hosted Mr. and Mrs. D B Thieman and Miss Laura Thieman of Aullville. Mrs. Lynn Gordon of St. Joseph arrived for a visit. Buford Gordon visited Kansas City. Miss Kittie Worthington left Monday for Warrensburg to attend the State Normal summer school. Birgis Klapp, Nell Ross, and Owen Gartin with relatives made weekend trips to Higginsville or Clinton. Judge John A. Rich arrived from Slater to attend criminal court. Mrs. H. W. Sexton visited Kansas City. Myron Gaffin departed Monday for Warrensburg summer school.
A New York Sun article warns American soldiers in Mexico about the sedative marijuana weed near Vera Cruz and between that city and the capital, detailing effects from headache to panic and imagined monsters. It notes Mexican bans on selling marijuana to soldiers, mentions a police incident in Vera Cruz, and contrasts medicinal uses with dangers, plus stray notes on arnica, tolvache, and Michoacan plants and their puzzling effects.
Delaware saw a drop of 1.44 dollars per hundredweight to 14.5 cents per pound while West Virginia rose by 12 cents to 13.4. North Carolina increased 1.5 cents to 12.5 and South Carolina gained 2.5 cents to 15.0.
The annual meeting for election of directors and other business will be held at the company office in Lexington Missouri on June 11 1914 at 10 o clock in the forenoon. Gustav Haerle president John Chamberlain secretary Lexington Mo May 28 1914.
Edenview church announces preaching services on Sunday morning May 31 at 11 o clock led by Rev. L F Clemmons.
George Hutchinson left Saturday morning for an extended visit in Des Moines Iowa. Mr and Mrs Ralph Dorrance went to Independence Saturday morning for a visit. Lee Rice of Kansas City spent Sunday here with relatives. Corder Steele and M F Cockrell of Kansas City spent Sunday here with relatives.
Crop reports of the Bureau of Statistics show average prices paid to farmers in various states for butter eggs and chickens on May 1 1914 compared with May 1 1913. Butter averaged 23.8 cents per pound, down 3.2 cents from 1913. New England states show mixed shifts with New Hampshire up 0.3 cents, Connecticut down 8 cents, Vermont 29 or 30 cents, and Maine about 30 cents. New York and Pennsylvania also noted changes.
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