Lexington Daily Briefs Snapshot of Local Comings and Goings
Local residents and visitors are referenced in a string of arrivals, departures, travels, and social events across Lexington and nearby towns. The items mention people visiting kin, attending meetings, going on trips to Kansas City, Higginsville, or Jefferson City, and participation in alumni banquets, races, and fishing trips. Notable names include families and professionals from the area. The notes capture a bustling pattern of daily movement and community ties across Lafayette County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Ward
Turner Hall
M. J. Butler
Leavenworth
Fourteenth
U. S. Cavalry
Eighth
Cuba
Ballard
Crenshaw & Young
Clarence Vivian
Lexington
Happy Hour Club
Vivian
Higginsville
Jeffersonian
Price
Hall's Great Discovery Promises Kidney Cure in Bottle
An advertisement touts Hall's Great Discovery from Dr W Hall of St Louis, once Waco, Texas, claiming a single bottle cures kidney and bladder troubles, gravel, diabetes, emissions, back pain, rheumatism, and irregularities in men and women, with mail order available for $1 and two months' treatment per bottle. Testimonial from Mexico Missouri dated July 6 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Br. W. Hall
St. Louia
Waco
Texas
Crenshaw & Young
Mexico
Pialote, JR
Luckil
Central College Pupils Recital Delights Lexington Audience
A Monday night Central college music hall recital drew many guests as students performed a varied program. Highlights included Grinstead and Bevan vocal pieces, Yates on Carlott Chaminade works, and Marcia Sellers violin selections, with a finish by Mendelssohn and Wynne pieces. A pleasant afternoon followed at the Baptist college with Miss May Peak winning first prize in a photo puzzle contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central College
Central
Bear
Miss Lyons
Milloté
Misses Smith
The
Baptist College
Mesdames- White
Lexington
May Peak
Annie Ireland
Belle- Manly
Cornelia Ryland
Cornelia
Ryland
Mabel Sellers
Texas
Brosius
Peery
Ruth
Lina Burgnes
Bradley
Atkelson
Minehe
Young
Howe
Andrew
Gordon
McKean
Right of Way Secured for River Route Progress
E 8 Cronk of Missouri Pacific and Green C Fowler returned from Marion after negotiating with farmers for a river route right of way. Four farms remain unsettled in Cole county and condemnatory proceedings will be filed. Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards of Jefferson City received a group photo from England of Moses Edwards family in exchange for a photo of her own family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cronk
Missouri Pacific Land Department
Green C. Fowler
Marion
Cole County
Sarah O'Brien
Kansas City
Gale
Pheebe Waleters
Edward Edwards
Hodge
John Edwards
Blackburn
William Edwards
Lexington
H. G. Graham
Rebecca Hogan
Ida Edwards
Elizabeth Kidwards
Higgirsviile Jeffersonian
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Farma
Mie Wilker
H. Hamlett
Keith
Our City
Brown
Moriterloo
Iowa
Oee Neale
Mr. Lewis
Jechie Hix
St. Louis
Chas, Wallace
Bis
Jam Calaway
Marmorning
Reises of
Missouri Valley
Rankin
Parks
Louis
Jon. L. Long’s
Heathleman
Libmorning
KE. Serat
Serat
al Tie Green
W. Tall
Hall's
Prison
Igginsville
Welborn
Warrensburg
Statehool
Ter
Otlivery
Ando
Central Hotel
Lucy Maro
Marshall
Mari
Wen Owen
Orrisis
Onathan & Young
Tip Ludwigs
Allie Uttif
Centerville
Nebraska
Cobb
Evenansas City
I. M. Williams
Kaw
Boyle
Eory Gelzer
Chickasha
I. T
Bob Ardinger
Capt
Barnimrdt
Marshal
Florence Neale
Zach Wright, Jr
Chas. Kinkead
Napoleon
Frank Barron
Mereine
Dodson
Frances Smith
Richmond
John Goehner
Delia Trail
A. T. Johnson
Lincoln, Neb
Linn Buford
Lucille Robinson
Lina Rodenburg
Concordia
George Dodge
Migglesville
Ike Gratz
Wm. Palmer
East
Messrs. Ed
James Hughes
Pearl Miller
Windsor, Mo
Claudia Dunaway
John Robinson
Tom Crenshaw
Mr. Creshaw
Neil Todhunter
Ryland Todhunter
Ben Johns
Sedalia
Mr. Mansfield McClelland
Wm. Bandon
Kansas
Wabash
Missouri Pacific
Annie Jefferson
Louise Smith
Centrals College
James Robinson
Tipton
Margery Minter
the Baptist Female College
Birdie Duncan
Frank Hays
Katie Hays
J. H. Campbell
Miss Allene
H. F. Satterfield
Chas. Barron
Church of Christ Scientist
Knights of Pythias Hall
Campbell
Vera May Campbell
Messrs
Geo. M. Mountjoy
G. W. Stier
W. I. Hinesley
David Lyons
McAlister Springs
Bessie Orr
Liocvln, Mo
Central Female College
Newt Henry
Mary’ Henry
Virginia
E. B. Este
DeWitt, Mo
Bessie Este
EB. B. Farley
James Edmonds
Casper
Wyoming
Edmonds
Hassell
Matta Powell
Joplin
Anna Worthington
Galoa
Worthington
Galena
Powell
Harrisonville
Watson P. Aull
L. A. Spingler
Aull
Mr. Aull
Alex Graves
Wm. Aull
Jas. Burney
Robert Bailey
Payton Parks
John Lucas
Lizzie Smith
Joseph Smith
Joseph Bailey
Buckner
R. K. Campbell
John Harwood
M. BE. Serat
Sam Neale
Juliet Findlay
Dr. Fulkerson
Jefferson City
State Medical Association
Nellie
Mamie Warren
Mesers
John
Bob Peacock
Chas. Hoefer
Archie Hix
St.Louis
Charles ©. Wallace
Dave Heathman
Liberty
Liberty High School
Misa Anna Jefferson
Watsull
Chicago
Lafayette County
J. K. Tucker
B. R. Ireland
J. Q. Chambers
Joe Graddy
Lavien Lesueur
Jamie Raokin
Warsaw
Thirkles
Boonville
Mr. Sinauer
Philip Keller
Miss Grinstead
Bevan Mira Alioe Grace
Miss Yates
Carlitt
Chaminade
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