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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
4
The Intelligencer column notes a hoped fall business revival, chides public figures over money, mentions LaFollette, Chautauquas, new housing, and a public sporting goods venture by J. Kling. It also comments on shooting coverage naming Akers variants and notes ongoing entertainment options in Lexington.
The article notes a hopeful year for Lexington private schools boosting town business while criticizing tariff effects on eastern rice men and western resources. It mentions September, lingering straw hats, blankets, yellowed grass, a forecast of Missouri versus Kansas on Thanksgiving, kids buying books, a rainfall and cooler temps.
The Lafayette County teachers gathered in the county high school for two days to affirm their shared purpose. The 102 educators anticipate guiding hundreds of youths this winter toward mature character by instilling high ideals and delivering the three R's with diligence.
The passage extols teaching as a noble, earnest vocation beyond monetary gain, highlighting the labor and sacrifice involved and praising the teachers of Lafayette County as noble and earnest individuals dedicated to their profession.
The Lexington Intelligencer laments The Jeffersonian lacks true rhymes for Lexington while offering consoling lines about bexington. Higginsville Jeffersonian replies with playful couplets and asserts exact rhymes are required, mocking freeform assonance and defending strict verse craft.
The Bartant and Batly greatest show on earth visits Kansas City on Saturday September 4. The circus promises sensational acts new to the world with Jupiter the balloon horse and a menagerie of nearly 1000 animals. Barnum and Bailey present a grand street parade and hundreds of elephants giraffes hippopotamus and a rhinoceros among other wonders.
The Riverview Exposition in Chicago opens as a five million dollar, 10 million attendee dream, rivaling world fairs with 7.6 million visitors last season and sensational features. It showcases 6,000 dancers, frontier day acts, aerial machines, and a Court of Honor likened to ancient gardens as Miss Elliott Todhunter and Miss Blair Gordon visit from Kansas City. Local figures F. J. Kroll buys a premier two year old jack Judge Bradley from W. J. Tinley, with community invites to view the fine animal.
Capt Rankin and Mrs Rankin and son Dr Edwin Rankin visited McAlister Springs last week. Mrs J W Kauffman of Alton Illinois and her children Angelica Helen Hugh stayed with sister Mrs Leroy Farmer and returned home yesterday morning. Frank R Howe and Irvin Morris returned from McAlister Springs Thursday. Mrs John T King returned to Little Rock after summer visit with sister Mrs Sellers. Dr F L Carter came back Wednesday evening from Higginaville after several days away.
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