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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
5
Veat McDaniel spent a few days with homefolks. Odessa visitors included Joe Lightner in Lown and Crook Francy. Local extended notes cover residents visiting Kansas City and Trinidad Colorado, teachers new and returning, a new soda fountain at Hutcheson Patton drug store, a protracted meeting at the Methodist church, and recent county political interests.
A compilation of brief movements and events including residents traveling to Kansas City and Lexington for business, Ed Niswig and family moving to Odessa, George Stultz visiting, and oblique notes on a restaurant sale. It mentions Epworth League leadership, a marriage of property, a marble monument dedication, school board re elections, a windstorm damaging the M I Church South, and community fundraising needs for repairs.
Waverly notes report Jester Bure of St Louis visiting relatives, Rev Pf A Brooker’s Kansas City trip, and Oscar Leach traveling to visit sisters. Walter Tussey and wife from Ramsay listed among visitors. Eli Hewce and Frank R Edwards ill with pneumonia. Reinhardt named new station agent at Waverly. Mrs Reinhardt to join later. Local Democrats held no meeting to send delegates to county convention at Higginsville. Westminister League fundraiser raised over 20 dollars. Alma items mention last day of public school May 16 and local measles cases. railroad dirt moved for a new side track. Alma creamery to operate three days weekly, aiming for full time after May 20. Ladies from Lexington and Higginville visit Fletcher family, and funeral of Mia Lulu Polk Taylor draws telegraphic notice.
The speaker honors Confederate veterans in Texas, declaring each faithful private a prince by achievement and every gray cap a nobler crown than monarchs. He closes with warm greetings to the state and city, saluting soldiers who fought for the republic and their enduring legacy.
A Baltimore woman Miss Margaret Carrell loses a $500 diamond brooch when a balloon tethered to the pin drags it away at a Kansas circus. The jewel reappears days later in the stomach of a steer butchered in St Joseph Missouri, its steel traced to Dodge City plains. The steer’s find connects a long-lost mishap from two years ago.
In a Gentleman's Magazine account Dr. Romanes trained 11 men to walk Indian file as a dog followed a trail. The setter ignored other footprints, consistently aiming for the master's path, even when trails split and others interceded. The study highlights strong scent tracing to the lead.
A West End resident warns Cocoanut grass is poisonous after observing chickens fed on the plant. The grass grows near water, with a nut on blade ends and a powdery edge. Chickens fed the nut sobered, staggered, and died, costing a neighbor twenty chickens.
In a social admonition piece the author argues most boy dishonesty stems from early spending, luxury, and inadequate guidance. Parents bear responsibility for steering youths away from embezzlement through frugal living, realistic ambitions, and avoiding overextended roles. The essay links low wages, envy, gambling, and flashy gifts to crime, urging boys to seek honest work and prudent finances.
A Wooster Ohio school superintendent contrasts two teacher types. The competent instructor rejects excuses, embraces high ideals, and uses sympathy as a tool to engage learners and guide classroom progress. The piece cites expert views that sympathy fuels patience and effective teaching.
The newest mode is serpent jewelry with gold and precious stones coiled on arms, waists, and hair. The serpent, symbol of eternity, is used for engagement rings, yet the lifelike reptile on a woman is repugnant to the speaker. A tame python pictured on a lady provokes revulsion despite fangs being removed.
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