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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1913
Page
4
A W Allen biditor and publisher advertises weekly tests and postal details for mail matter at the post office in Lexington Missouri. The notice emphasizes fair examination and proper filing of all communications with the interlock.
Journeys dominate a period of frequent travel with many names: J M Winn in Conter, Ery Zeyzing in Lexington, W G Harwood in Lexington, B Winn in Corder, Ten Vaughan and RK L Yokley in Malta Bend, O G Congdon and Willard Smith in Lexington, and numerous social visits. Notable items include Miss Margaret Shoeman visiting her sister Mrs Bertie Bertrand at Hodge, Miss Addie Holman spending a week in Lexington, and the Christian church to host its annual strawberry supper. The narrative also notes a fatalDrowning accident near Dover involving Cleveland Butler, his kin, and friends with recovery of the body and a brief obituary.
Eustace Johns conducted business in Waterloo last work. Mrs M L Duffey visited Buckner for a day. Mrs T R Landrum stayed in Kansas City for several days. Elmor McClure left Saturday for Lamar Missouri. Dive Groves of Louisville Kentucky visited his father Thos A Groves. Jas Tustin of Kansas City visits this week. Mrs Janie Miller of Sweet Springs visited friends last week. Wm Popinean and wife from Weir Kansas arrived Wednesday for an extended visit with his parents Wm Popineau and family. Mrs Warren Groves and children returned home Sunday after a short visit with her mother Mrs Fannie Walton in Kansas City.
Eighth grade commencement exercises were held at the Baptist church on Friday evening April 25. Graduates listed include Misses Hattie Thurlbart, Lillian Larkin, Estelle Bridgewater, Rovilla Ledford, and Tarry Zeysing. Dr. M. Williams of Central College Lexington delivered an address to a large audience.
Oscar Andreen leaves Toraday morning bound for six months travel across Europe. He will sail from New York on the steamship Oxcar TP May 8 for Copenhagen Denmark. He plans to visit several countries of the old world, especially his native Sweden, and wishes a safe and pleasant voyage.
Humorous exchange about sharing a bed where Tom claims his half is in the middle while Mother offers the other half, set as a playful domestic vignette likely from a periodical. The snippet evokes a domestic scene with a May Woman's Home Companion flavor and a light joke about space and contention.
Mr and Mrs Joe Wiley spent Sunday in Kansas City. Carlyle Wallace and L A Roy were in Marshall Monday on ness. Mrs Russell Harding and daughter Louise arrived from Orrick Mo for a visit with Mr and Mrs J J Harding Less Hopkins who has been visiting here returned to Kansas City Monday. Mrs V J Tharpert of Jerseyville Illinois visiting her grandson Ike Noyes went to Independence Monday. Rev G V Curry went to Kansas City Monday to spend the day. Mr and Mrs Walter Shinn Mary Murphy and Miss Ablee Cahill went to Kansas City yesterday for a few days visit with relatives. T S Barton of Concordia spent Monday here on business Li F Blackwell spent Sunday with relatives in Richmond. Mss Wilton Edwards spent Sunday in Warsas City. Mas No Ross spent Sunday in Kansas City. Hhbert Bates went to Kansas City Saturday evening for a Visi.
Choice Boone County White Seed Corn won first in class at the Missouri State Corn Show in Columbia in 1913 and second at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia in 1912. The ad promotes investing 25 cents per acre for pure bred seed corn, contrasting with the $1.50 per acre seed wheat. For information, write or wire Milton Uphaus in Concordia, Missouri, phone 404.
An advertisement seeks buyers for hatching eggs and asks them to stand by. It promotes red Plymouth Rocks, offers parcel post with charges paid at a circular price, and urges immediate action. A phone contact 474 is provided for the illustrated egg circular.
Readable fragments note names Foy Joe and Jewel Hegel with Owen Gas Range. Apply at this office.
Notice to all others in Thoth and other persons in the estate of Sarah Viren deceased that the signed administrator will apply for the final settlement of the estate in the May term of the probate court of Lafayette County Missouri. The settlement will be heard at the probate court room in Lexington on the second Monday in May 1913.
Notice to all creditors and interested parties that Jotinn J. Skinner administrator with will annexed will apply for final settlement of the estate at the probate court in Texington on the second Monday in May 1918. The probate towy room will host the proceedings.
Creditors and other persons interested in the estate of John Tingh Leach deceased are informed that the undersigned executrix will apply to make final settlement of said estate at the May term 1918 of the probate court of Lafayette County Missouri, to be begun and held at the probate court.
Administrators Walter and Alva McFaddin announce a final settlement for the estate of John McFaddin. The administration will take place on May 1913.
Notice is given that letters testamentary on the estate of Frederick Kroll deceased were granted to the undersigned on April 1, 1913 by the probate court of Lafayette County Missouri. All persons with claims must exhibit them for allowance within six months or be precluded from benefit. if not exhibited within one year from the date of the last insertion they are barred. This 11th day of April 1913 Carrled Kroll Executrix.
Letters of Administration granted by Lafayette County Probate Court on March 28 1913 to Frank T Bolton administrator. All persons with claims must exhibit for allowance within six months or be barred from estate benefits. If not exhibited within one year from last publication date, claims will be forever barred.
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