Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-07-04
PERRY.

b EDITOR 81 LrDern:-1 have been
mere the wood bine twina,s,, 6
ne na the tramp never goeth in ,e,n n al a!
ms so[k: Awaiting myself Of tbn o.
, 1ns of Haetmen, Mr.. David ID pi that e.
o leave of Mexico and ~
: hours drive behind
M found myself in e,
age of Perry. -.1er a
north, a spirited
clc the wide-awake
Rails county, %
cast of Mexico. Having
,sely confined for six or eight
1nths we were enabled to fully APP
| preciate the sentiment of the poet,
that 'God made the country and
man made the town" Our road ran
mostly prairie, whose thousands of
acres were covered with cattle and
sheep, fat and still feeding upon the
broad savants covered with blue grass
and beautified with thousands of wild
flowers. Never before has so many
acres of corn and wheat offered so
bountiful q harvest in return for hon
est toll. The wheat, corn and oat
crop of this section is splendid.
Lick creek is. perhaps, the most pro-
ductive country adjacent to Mexico
and, consequently, her trade in mer-
chandise is of no small Importance to
our merchants of Mexico. Density
populated by an honest, industrious
and trading people who came direct
or by ancestry from Virginia and
Kentucky. One cannot fail to enjoy
a rest among q people whose gener-
osity is only equaled by their desire
to make you comfortable and happy.
Perry is a neat, white, live little town,
Boosting of more than ordinary ac-
tivity-situated on the proposed
branch of the keokurk and St. Louis
r. r. The whole country abounds
with the best coal in the State and a
vastly superior article of mineral
paint, which has been used largely in
st. Louis and Chicago in car and
machine painting. We noticed the
all seeing, (Gill) enerjetic founder of
the little city, Mr.. T. +. Gill, at the
head of a good hardware store selling
farm machinery of the most improv-
ed patterns. Sa. France, Richards
and j. NJ. C~rosthwait, running two
well stocked dry goods and grocery
stores, with a good trade and ell
%couraging prospects ahead, and Mr..
CRANKY is proprietor of the only ex-
elusive family grocery in the place.
Smith, Clark and Tandy, proprietors
of two neat, well arranged drug
stores, who keep dry drugs and IL
few wet ones. Miss Ann Menefee
has q very neat stock Of millinery
and is doing well, identifying, if pos
sible, the fair young ladies' of the
country, of which Sick Creek has
more than her share II. Harris runs
a nice little furniture store, X. Meme
fee is proprietor of Il good restaurant
with ample accommodations to store
away the traveller that gOeth that way,
and feed him to destruction. Peter
Bard is justly called the boss" sad
der and harness maker in the county,
who is kept busy as a good workman
desires to be. DIR. Bozc does Il good
business in tooth c]arpentering and
general practitioner in practical and
speculative dentistry. Three black
smith shops, a wagon factory and tin
shop enliven the village. W. Cra-
mer owns and runs a goo! steam
flour, saw and grist mill, with capaci-
ty to accommodate the fullest de
mands of the country. Three doe
tors, A. B. and G. healeth the sick,
who all look lean (tIlc doctors |
.mean) for want of compensating prac-
tice. The only deficiency | noticed
was the want of n good shoemaker,
the former one having gotten to sick
to fly the hammer a good one would
do well to 90 there. r..
W. attended church on Sunday.
There we saw every body and their
cousin, tsr they go to church there,
all hands, babies and all. After rid.
ing from ten to fifteen miles a day for
a week viewing the prospect for a
living ank n good trade this fall, we
again took the overland stage for
Mexico where we will remain till anx-
iOus for another rest and the enjoy
ment of the good things Oh old Lick
Gullivcr.