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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1907
Page
4
Locally circulated advance notice from Lexington post office offers subscription options for The I ntelligen J E N Hopkins Sandford Sellers Bus Mur Editor. Subscriptions priced per year, details not fully legible.
The Intelligencer announces a change in ownership from E N Hopkins and Sanford Sellers to A W Allen and D R Sellers, equal partners, with retiring firm praising public patronage and new management earning public confidence. It profiles Major Allen and Ovid R B Sellers, their backgrounds, and wartime service, plus brief remarks on legal cases and Oklahoma primaries.
A fragment argues protectionists must unite to defeat Taft using Enox or risk splitting the party of special privileges before a national election. It warns that attempting the split would be worse than leaving the issue untried and failed.
Last week the corner stone of a new high school building to cost 250,000 was laid in our neighboring town of Marshall. The public schools there are already well equipped and the plan reflects growing needs with strong school spirit. The Kansas City river enthusiasts announce two boats bought for service between Kansas City and St. Louis after long anticipation.
Legislation in Texas on sleeping car rates and stricter conditions forces railroads to cut or overhaul service. Several lines choose to purchase and operate the cars themselves to meet the new requirements.
Report says McMackes named Internal Revenue collector in Toledo and distributor of federal patronage in a Foraker appointment. The piece notes Governor Hughes shifts stance after vetoing New York two cent railroad fare measure, signaling reform fatigue and political maneuvering at state and national levels.
Such bills without information would give courts power to clear dockets run an hour without hearing evidence and assess penalties upon defendants proving jonogene. Miss Olga Nethersole has refused invitations to Berlin Brussels and Antwerp this year and will open her season to Kansas City. This will correct impressions that Kansas City is not on archaic center.
A fragment notes a dispute over a book credited to Fairbanks. The Kansas City Star asks what book he wrote while the Chicago Tribune counters that Fairbanks helped compile a large and interesting bank book. The excerpt shows conflicting claims about authorship and involvement.
The passage asserts Oklahoma as more Southern in character than the coming state, noting widespread Democratic strength and that every notable local figure is called Colonel. It presents a snapshot of identity and local political culture.
Mark Twain travels to England to accept the honorary Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University amid reports that his novel The Yankee at King Arthur's Court has finally influenced opinion, with Oxford seeming to accept the joke.
Alabama flags at half staff as the state mourns the death of Senator Morgan Tuuesday. A longtime servant of the United States Senate, he was a credit to his chamber and to Alabama. His long service ends as the nation feels his loss and his approaching birthday highlights a life of public duty.
Lexington Indiana officials describe steady municipal growth across business and residential areas. The town is promoted as one of the best in the state, attracting new residents from the county with a stable and gradual development pattern and no signs of overbuilding.
Missouri and other states with the 2 cent fare law saw trains dropped or schedules lengthened as the railroads cited the measure. They then obtained an injunction against enforcing the law. It will be months before a ruling, while citizens pay 3 cents a mile and receive poorer service at the same price.
The country shows growing interest in the Haywood trial though Boise's public apathy remains. Orchard's testimony unsettles readers. one correspondent says he has regenerated, another claims he is driven by revenge. The public has yet to form a firm opinion.
Government experts report two years of investigation uncovering platinum abundant in North California and Oregon black sands. The metal, once scarce, has broad potential if production costs drop. Also noted is iridium, scarce yet valuable for hardening metals and for gold pen points and watch bearings.
Mr Delano, president of the Wa bash, offers reasons for rails breaking and says heavier rails weigh more than eighty pounds are likelier to fail. He argues weight, not rail strength alone, drives breakage and questions the weight threshold's role.
A discussion on how a rail’s ability to bear weight depends on its carbon content and rigidity of the road bed. Heavier, faster trains require stronger rails, while lighter, slower travel may seem adequate but risks uneven tracks if rails bend. Public confidence wanes without conclusive evidence of rail strength.
Society cannot afford to palliate the crime of oficial corruption. It is to be hoped that San Francisco will purge itself thoroughly. Both the bribe giver and the bribe taker should be punished no severely as to strike terror and deter from repetition. But society has no right to indulge itself oc any hypocritical pharisaism about this matter. Without Inclinationsometimes with guilty knowledge and placid tolerance-it has fostered the conditions which have made birth giving apparently necessary to the best interests of the public. It is folly to expect official virtue without a general public virtue. And public virtue, to command respect, needs to be constant and not spasmodic.
Citizens praise the public schools as teachers spend summer idle time in normal schools or universities to refresh skills without salary increases. Re-elected to their positions, they dedicate effort to improve class handling next year, reinforcing Lexington’s strong school system.
Jamestown Exposition boards award a $250 cup for choral societies and a $160 cup for glee clubs to be contested over the Exposition's life. A judges panel of Dr. H Peters, J. Lewis Brown, and Wade K. Brown will evaluate entrants. Washington Choral Society leads invites, plans Handel’s Messiah with famed quartet and Sydney Lloyd Wrightson directing on Georgia Day.
A severe hailstorm late Wednesday afternoon damaged grain fields and shattered windows in several homes south of town, causing notable property and crop losses.
Ray Stannard Baker recounts a June American Magazine piece describing a warm scene where a white girl greets an old black Mammy with mutual affection. The observer notes such moments show plain human love, contrasting with racial hatred rhetoric.
In a startling episode at Pith and Main streets, Rueben Fields famed as the freak mathematician collapsed from heat and was carried to an emergency hospital where he quickly regained consciousness. Fields, a Warrensburg, Missouri native, identified himself as a mathematician when asked his occupation.
New Front reports show work started on the old wooden awnings being removed. The two store rooms will be joined into a single front, creating a handsome facade. Palace Mercantile Company plans to occupy the building with a complete dry goods and notions stock.
Joe Gratz, staying several days with his brothers, left Thursday for New York. Mrs. Paul Linn arrived from Kansas City for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Robert Taubman. Dr. G. W. Fredendall departed Wednesday for New York City to meet F. T. Wilson. the pair will then sail for Europe on an extended tour.
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