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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
6
A sweepstakes promises prizes including a $400 Kimball piano to the highest list, a $350 piano to the second, and escalating credit checks. The structure awards further prizes in decreasing amounts to subsequent top lists, distributing the full $7,860 across multiple rounds in groups of five.
The notice directs that lists of names must reach the office by March 21, 1908 and requires plain presentation with proper addresses. Only heads of families may submit names and no music business links may participate. Prize winners are decided by three judges whose decision is final. ties divide prizes of equal value. Each list requires a filled out and signed coupon. Upright piano owners are barred from submitting.
Drummond spent Sunday in Wellington. Miss Anna Weis visited in Kansas City Sunday. Mayor Oswald Winkler spent Sunday in Kansas City. Miss Lavinia Warren visited in Higginsville Sunday. Mrs. P. Ki. Adams left Sunday morning for a trip to Sedalia.
A collage of brief items lists visits by Oscar Westerman Nell R Russell and others to family and relatives in Kansas City and nearby towns. It includes an ad for Rogush Spavin Liniment for horses, subscription info for McClure's Magazine, and notices about local residents traveling, plus a barber college promo and worm remedy claims.
Mr and Mrs William Cullum with daughters Florence and Estelle and son George spent Sunday in Kansas City. Sheriff Charles Kinkead Geo B Gordon J W Sydnor Frank Stewart and Captain Ryland Todhunter met Monday in Hipppingville.
An advertisement extols Ballard's Snow Liniment as a sure remedy for rheumatism and various aches, promising swelling relief. It notes Crenshaw & Young sell the product and mentions social visits in Kansas City and local residents Isabelle Yingling and Mrs. Leroy Palmer. A 20 acre fruit farm near Lexington is offered, with 1000 fruit trees, strawberries, a three room house, and land tracts for sale.
Thomas Hare Sr. left Independence after visiting relatives in the city for several weeks and returned home Saturday evening. Mrs. W. E. Bard and Estelle McGrew Duvall also left Sedalia Sunday evening after a several days visit with relatives in this city.
Good For Everybody Mr Norman BR Coulter promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic for stomach liver and kidney disorders praising its rapid efficacy and blood purification. Crenshaw Young's drug store sells it for 50 cents. Dr H R Meng recently visited and returned home to St Louis. Mr and Mrs L W Brelsford visited Higginsville with daughter Aula and son Raymond. Mrs A W Small returned to Kansas City after weeks with Mrs John E Ryland.
For sale a Rhode Iakind red cockerele from prize winning stock listed under Mrs G H Logan. Contact by phone, available for inquiry and purchase.
Notice to Lafayette County Missouri voters announces an election at the annual April 1908 meeting to decide on establishing county school supervision. A petition by over one hundred freeholders prompted the County Court to order the poll, with ballots marked For Supervision or Against Supervision. The vote will be cast at the annual meeting and forwarded to the County Clerk.
Special inducements for all work. Samples shown at home if desired. Phone 669 ALOT: AL WEBER.
Public notice in Lafayette County Missouri for tax collection against unnamed heirs of Thomas Holloran and others. Court to hear petition on delinquent taxes 1906 and 1908 with interest costs. publication required in weekly newspaper for four issues, commencing before the next term at Lexington courthouse.
Trust deed details a mortgage on real estate securing two promissory notes due and in default. The trustee William Hamlet, deceased, initiated a sheriff sale at the courthouse in Lexington Missouri after proper notices, with dates and terms set according to deed provisions and state law. The notice lists parties including Hubbard Lloyd and Myrtle, and references a trustee's sale to satisfy the indebtedness and costs.
A garbled note describes an administrator facing confusion and delays in handling duties. The fragment references letters and a Christena figure, with unclear connections to a local office and required actions. Further readable details are not recoverable from the text.
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