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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1903
Page
5
A local compare highlights a water product performing better when paired with milk than competing brands. The report notes superior flavor balance and stability, suggesting consumers switch to this water for dairy mixtures and daily use.
Dover area news reports a busy week with visits among Lexington and Kansas City residents, trade in coal land, library circulation, and local school openings. Died, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Bockall, aged 12, interment at Dover Cemetery. Local church and school events planned including Rev W D Polis preaching and teachers Shapperkeotter and Mollie Cheatham taking roles.
In Chickasha Indian Territory Mrs McCann and daughter stay to keep house for Mr Karrow. Meore Lewis and Clark of Kansas City plan to reopen the J M Se wall coal mine west of town owned by H H Corse. A new street railroad bridge over the title Sai Creek will soon be placed. Unknown persons dug trenches by Helios Lake at Waterloo causing flooding on railroad land. Sixteen laborers filled trenches repeatedly, risking trouble if action continues.
Announcement states Miss Frances Cook daughter of Secretary of State Sam B Cook will wed Cassius M Clay son of Col Green Clay in Audrain County. Mr Clay a planter from Bolivar Mississippi, the wedding slated for October 7.
Wm Holke attends Higginsville Fair and many Napoleon residents attend events in Wellington Lexington and Kansas City. Typhoid illness strikes children of local families while house additions telephones and travel to fairs and conferences appear among a flurry of visits and relocations.
Mr Chas Lesser and Miss Helen Webb visited relatives in town and Elgin. Attendees from here at Higginaville fair included Bud Ashurst and wives, Maude Corder, Bessie Allie, Irene and Minnie Ashuret, Mrs J C Marshall and Mamie, J E Johnson and wives, Ella Biand, Hugo Kleischultze. Cordar and Concordia played a three game series, Concordia winning 5 to 2 amid umpire disputes. Victor Tiernan announced a farm sale next Thursday after forty years in farming, offering mules, horses, hogs, cattle and implements. he hopes for a long, healthy later life.
Jota Smith visited Sedalia on Sunday and many residents were in town for the ball game. The Corder public school will open September 7. Several residents moved, visited, or were in Kansas City, Independence, or St. Louis for various reasons. The Concordia and Corder teams played a game with a score of 2 to 5 in favor of Concordia. Married in Corder on August 50 at the M E parsonage James Jones and Mary Mount of Higginsville were wed.
On September 8 M. K. & T. Ry. begins operation of its new fifty-five mile line from Oklahoma City to Agra Oklahoma through Witcher Arcadia Luther Fallis Carney and Tryon. By October 1 the line extends to Bartlesville IT linking Oklahoma City to Kansas City St Louis and major points north and east.
The Lexington Camp of Mine Workers will celebrate Labor Day Monday September 7 with a large picnic and speeches. The event will take place in Edgewood grove, about a mile east of town along the Dover road.
Mina Algie Whitsett of near Mayview was voted Queen for the Carvinal at the Odessa Street Fair yesterday. Married at the brides mother’s residence on August 25 1903 Ernest Boone of Lexington and Jessie Warner. Rev Joe Powell officiating. Attendants were Est Mabann and Boylsh Boones. They will move to Oklahoma.
Rev W A Crouch preached Sunday at the Baptist church, former pastor of the congregation, here sixteen years ago. His visit aimed to raise funds for remodeling, with 5100 subscribed of a planned 87,000. Plans are viewable in the pastor’s study. community hopes for success.
The Intelligencer 18 reports a biographical sketch of the late Dr William Prottsman with tributes signed by Rev Thomas M Cobb Rey Bee Alton and Dr C Woods and five sermons by Protttsman The Opening of the Fifth Seal The Mind that Was In Christ The Cross The Source of Saving Power and Procrastination Proceeds fund a monument to Protttsman at his Boonville grave Price cloth 60 cents paper 30 cents Available from Rev W S Woodard Fayette Missouri
On Friday evening August 28 Mrs Henry Wallace entertained the pastor and officers of the Lexington Baptist church. She presented to the church a silver communion set with a four tray holder, thirty five glasses per tray, four plates and a wine cruet. The gift honors her late husband Henry C Wallace a long time church member and deacon. The church recently changed to monthly communion observance from quarterly.
At a regular Baptist church meeting on Wednesday night the members elected A. V. Robinson BE. W. White F. T. Bates and W. A. Guilin as deacons. The water tower is receiving a fresh coat of paint.
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