Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
THURSDAY, AUGUST %, 1879.
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People now on Earth.

The wasp is a stem winder.
The Daily Herald is a darling.
Mr.. j. W. Town of Paris, is in the
city.
Judge Buckner returned home last
Monday.
Have you seen DIR. Patterson's new
stockings?
Fresh oysters at Manvell's Depot
Restaurant.
Go hear the Georgias at the opera
house tonight.
Charlie Weinant is going to the
country to farm.
The st. Louis Times is now a COM
munistic organ.
If you want to laugh, read the
"Daay' Herald.
Westminster College, Fulton, Mo-,
opens next Monday.
The LEDGER paid $500 for the
post office building.
The Grcenbackers don't like Dun
can and rice rerso.
Rents are advancing in Mexico as
business gets better.
W. w. Harper is registered at the
Lacledc, St. Louis.
A patch on a mans pants might
be a stern necessity.
There is no town in the state i'm
proving like Mexico.
Drink whiskey only in months that
have Il TX" in them.
Probate court on the 9Th. see
docket in this issue.
Two Or three divorces are being
effected in Audrain.
1t is unlawful to sell coal oil ofless
than $50 degrees test.
John NJ. Marmaduke and family
returned home Tuesday.
Now, let every man have q saloon
that will pay $1,000 a year.
Jonas Ladd, of Vandalia, with his
family, has moved to Mexico.
1t takes chink and cheek to run 6
daily paper-we have neither.
Mrs. Bolts is building a fine resi-
dence in South Mexico, to rent.
Elder Cake palavered at the Muir
ply meeting last Monday night.
The LEDGER booms in the country
and the city both-everybody reads it
Col. Hutton carries an umbrella
He is afraid of softening of the brain
The Greenbackers are thinking o
printing their newspaper with gree
ink.
The public will find out some da
that eCery fool cannot run a newspa
per.
Look out for advertisement {
american Sewing Machine" neS
week.
The LEDGER has twice as man
subscribers as any other papec in til
county.
Sec advertisement in this issue c
tsBooths for rent" at Paris, Septem
Der 9th.
Marshall wants a high schoo
There is an opportunity for a goo
teacher.
Miss Nettie Bourne has been visi
ing the family of DR.. Yeaman
Glasgow.
Some men shove their OK into Il
pit Saturday, SO they can pull HI
out Sunday.
Miss Lulu Hord is visiting in Ind
ana. She is missed by her frien'
i'll Mexico.
The Troy Free Press nails to Il
cross for 1880 David Davis ofIllinoi
for President.
Robert Keller leaves for Fulton t
morrow. He will open a meat ms
ket in that town.
Misses Minnie Wilson and Mann
Morris, of Kirksville, are vIsitil
friends in this city.
Harve Allen is home again.
has as much faith as ever in the NJ
linda Allen Mine.
ID. II. Smith left at this office Ii
week, some of the finest Germ
millet we ever saw.
The city council meets to-mcrr'
[Friday) night to consider apple
TONS for saloon license.
The speech by Mr.. Hickman, !;
Tuesday night, was one of the me
eloquent we ever heard.
Some day it will be hot enough
those who, when they meet,you,
say SIS it hot enough?"
The man who finds a pocket DO
with money in it docs not look at
paper for three months.
Sprague's Georgia Minstrcls
opera house tonight. Everybo
and their children are going.
A fourth party will have to be
tablished for NJ. Y. Duncan.
can't find q homc-that Is office.
Scott Green is now foreman on t
Daily Herald. r. NJ. Dobyns a
has a position on the same paper.