Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-05-16

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81 Rainey has our thanks this
week.
Always behind time-The back of
a clock.
False curles might be called dead
locks.
Editors never do wrong. They al
ways do write.
The motto of lovers is, sc" plural
buss-Yum yum.
r. H. Fowler received last Satur-
day Zoo fruit jars.
Last Saturday and Sunday were
cool, very March like.
Capt. Frost is having a new awning
raised over his News Depot.
A dog show in Boston is called a
canine convention.
Miss Lulu Hord is visiting friends
in ST. Louis.
Ian Morris and Henry Fowler are
also thinking of going to Denver this
summer.
Never strike a man when he Is down
That is, unless you can't get the best
of him any other way.
DR.. Crawford, from near Worces-
ter, this county, made us a pleasant
call last Saturday.
eriff Glascock has been serving
subpoenas in the East part of the
county for the last few days.
"What y i'll this year bring FORTH"
Why, it will bring Fourth of July, OF
course.
Jeter Wallthall, of Fulton, passed
through Mexico Monday en- route for
Chi ago to buy summer stock of
clothing
If you want an easy shave or your
hair u in style, call at the Palace
Barbershop under c Savings bank.
At.
Patterson & Keeton have moved
their drug store into the same room
occupied by Homer st. Johns book
store.
Persons sending mail matter away
should read the new time table.
Change of time ON all roads took
place last Monday.
Mexico needs a bath house. If
some one would take hold Of this en-
terprise they could accommodate the
public and make money.
Col. George G.. Vest will address
the people of Boone county in the
Court House in Columbia, on Satur-
day, June 8, 1878, upon the politi-
cal issue of the day.
The porch at Gallovay's corner.
which fell show day, causing so much
excitement and no little injury to
several persons, has been repaired.
We learn that several of our farmers
have had to replow and plant some of
their corn this spring. It was plant
ed early in that wet and cold spell
and so failed to come up.
Tie chief occupation of the mem
bers of the Legislature of
Ohio is said to be throwing paper
wads at each other. 1t is an expen-
sive amusement for the State, but
lots of fun for the boys. q
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B. f. Dobyns is making the land,
personal, school, and road tax books
out for this fall. He will be through
in a week or so. This has been a
long and tedious job, but it has been
done quickly as well as very neatly.
The editor OF the Ashland Bugle
will please tell us what is the matter
with him now. Has a certain young
lady of Mexico, of whom he makes
mention IN his paper ever murdered
anybody. 81
Miss Laura Clark, who has been
teaching a select school at Centralia,
has our thanks for an invitation to
her closing exhibition. Miss Laura
is an excellent teacher and always
gives entire satisfaction.
About the first of June there is to
be a convention held in Mexico of
representatives from all counties who
are trying to repudiate their bonded
debts. We suggest that extra police
be put on during this convention.
Nelson George, who lately settled
in this county IN Liltleby, informs
us that several Of his friends in Hi
nois, are thinking of coming to Au-
drain. We promise them a warm re-
ception by the residents of the conn-
ty.
The kickophone is the latest, and
will, no doubt, be adopted in all
newspaper offices. Editors, without
moving, can by its mean bounce
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