Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-21
Winter is coming.

In onions there is strength.
Pay as you go, or don't go.
A hot-house is a painful sight.
A chimney sweep-a hurricane.
Members of the bar-gymnasts.
The age of recompense-salv-age.
The Murphy reading r. ON is closed.
A finely turned limb-a wooden
leg. -.
Judge Buckner is in Washington
City.
Watered stock-Cows from the
brook.
Or, that corns would grow on mos
quitoesl
A full in the hand is worth tours in
the deck.
The skating rink is now the fash
ionable resort.
Corn is $1.25 a barrel in the field,
ON Bean creek.
Maj. Allison has returned from
Louisiana, Mo.
Paddle your own canoe, and with
your own paddles.
Charlie Heckler has gone South on
a visit to relatives.
w. H. KEENAN, attended Boone
county circuit court.
Reid's string band was out sere-
nading Monday night.
Give us neither poverty nor riches
anyhow not any poverty.
Col Tom Scott, the great railroad
king. is said to be insane.
The queen of Egypt was very
Cleopatronizing to Anthony.
c. Bruce, of Thompson Station,
went to Texas last Monday.
The city council meets in regular
session next Monday night.
W. W. Fry is attending the court
of common pleas at Louisiana.
Stafford & st. John have some new
uugSies, JUST IN nom cinoinnaei.
The street in front of the council
chamber has been ~macadamized.
Geo. H. Ribble, Esq, left for Texas
and the South last Monday night.
Take a look at j. G. Heads new
sign; it was painted by "Dutton."
1t was left for a New Haven man
to dircnver that gas bills never leak.
G. B. Macfarlane attended the
supreme court at Jefferson City Tues
day.
Pancakes are now king of the
breakfast. 1t is a pleasant use-syrup-
alton.
Who is going to send us a Thanks
giving turkey? Don't all speak at
once!
When Tom Scott was "sstruck'
with paralysis he said, "D-n q
striker"
1t is getting fashionable in Mexico
to marry. Boys, don't fall behind
the times.
Miss Annie Woodward has just re-
turned from a very pleasant visit to
Columbia.
One needn't be an early bird now,
to catch the worm. Buy a glass of
chestnuts.
A practical joke is poor fun, be-
cause the laugh doesn't reach all the
way round.
The Mexico roller skating rink will
be open Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday nights.
There were only three Greenback
votes cast in Galloway county at the
late election.
Miss Ella McCracken and Frank
Hunter, both of Galloway, were mar
ried yesterday.
j. Med Trimble made a telling
speech at the Murphy Meeting last
Monday night.
Certainly; ga habitation'' took
ATS name from Ahab, the first man
who built a house.
Hamilton Hall left for California
Monday in the interested the MaIinda
Allen Mining Company.
Prof. Treloar, by special request,
will repeat his concert at Louisiana
next Thursday night.
The LEDGER now has the largest
circulation Of any paper in Audrain
county. Everybody reads It'll
III you rant to see poetry of motion
drop into the skating rink and witness
the maneuvers of a beginner.
Hiram Ricketts, and Chat. Sumner
ieft for Texas last Monday to visit
Wm. Sumner, who is very sick.
Miss Bette King, one of Fulton's
most accomplished ladies, is visiting
IN Mexico, much to the delight of her
many friends.
The skating rink, Tuesday night
at the opening was crowded with
Inc elite Of the city Of both sexes. The
new moor is quite an Improvement.