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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
3
William Gear spent Sunday in Kansas City. S. Summers was in Kansas City Sunday. KE F Nicholson spent Sunday to Kansas City. Dr Fo Carter spent Sunday in Higginsville.
Farm Progress announces price increase to 25 cents per year starting January 1 1908. Until then subcriptions are three years for 2 cents. Readers are urged to send 25 cents for a three year term or extend existing paid time by 3 years. A fruit picture offers for 5 cents extra for tube and postage. Address orders to Farm Progress St Louis Mo.
Capt M F Cockrell visits Columbia for a brief stay. Mrs B C Drummond visits relatives in Wellington. Mr and Mrs K L Hughes visit Mrs Hughes' parents James and Mrs Horn. Advertisement invites Rural Routes residents to subscribe to the Intelligencer with The St Louis Republic for 2.50. Offer targets new and current subscribers paid in advance. Garrett and Alonzo Miller return from Cole Camp Missouri. Robert Carter visits Odessa for several days. Miss Rose Emerson from Higginsville visits the Barnett family.
President Roosevelt cites rising infant mortality and bowel trouble as a key danger. McGee's Baby Elixir, priced at five and ten cents, claims to cure diarrhoea dysentery and sour stomach, sold by Crenshaw and Young. Theresa O'Brien and Margaret Walker visited Judge T A Walker's family and returned home to Bigginsville after a few days.
Job listing for a farm hand named Watrip offering 8 percent monthly wages plus board. Refers to location near Joux B and Porrs with working hours 10 to 6. Compact, period-appropriate notice likely from a historical classifieds page.
Hans Feil and Miss Mattie Lou Catron gave a crowded dedicatory recital at the Christian church in Lexington. Feil impressed with organ works including variations on Saance Hirer, while Catron encores earned cheers for Shadows by Mrs. Bond. The program featured pieces by Grieg, Schumann, and Boelyn as the audience praised the performance highly. A small news note follows about local arrest records, Zinc Lacy and a companion charged with cracking Silverstone's aged property Wednesday night.
Dale Wilson returns home after several days with relatives. Estelle McGrew Duvall arrives from Sedalia for a city visit. Mrs. C. H. Russell leaves after visiting Irving Tevin’s family. Mr. and Mrs. J. Lo Vaughan depart Versailles after weeks with their daughter Mrs. John Briscoe. Ballard’s Herbine advertisement cites health benefits for liver and stomach ailments.
Mrs J P White of Rushboro Pa extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a cure all for coughs colds and lung trouble claiming it saved her life. The remedy is sold at Crenshaw Young’s drug store with a 60 cent and 1 00 price and a free trial bottle offered. J C Dunlap travels to Goodland Kas on news of his brother J F Dunlap’s death. Lauren Mackie accompanied him. Mark Russell, visiting his grandmother Mrs Emma Taubman, returns to Independence.
The notice promotes Dr King s New Life Pills and a refund promise from Crenshaw Young s drug store. It also mentions Mrs Reid Ryland returning home to Montgomery and Itch cured by Ford s sanitary lotion. Loomis druggist sells the product. Maj Lowe, National Guard instructor, arrived to spend days at Wentworth Military Academy.
East Raymond Maine clergyman Rev F Starbird touts Bucklaw Arnlen Salve as the best healer for years of use on elf army wounds and obstinate sores. He claims it heals quickly with minimal dogeals in his veterinary business. Price five cents at Crepshaw Young drug store.
Classified fragment shows a year old male offered for farm work. An ad from Paris Missouri lists a Mrs. G R Cooper visiting Kansas City and a Bridget Bates illness. Another notice mentions a subscription rep needed to grow a monthly magazine's list with salary and commission, address Publisher Box 5% Station O New York.
Geo J Schooling aged 86 died at his home in Bigginaville Saturday. He was regarded as one of Lafayette County’s most respected men. Funeral services were held Monday at 10 o clock in the morning.
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