Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-07
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People new On Earth.
Circus

DtEu US HcNS itCuuos
No vacant houses in this city.
Doesn't come a-miss-a boy baby.
Col. Hutton uses perfumed lead
pencils.
Hands on your pocketbooks to-
morrow.
Thanks to j. B. Clark for late Illi-
nois papers.
Lon. Hall is clerking in /. Frank
clothing store.
Chas. G. Daniel, of Vandalia, was
in town Monday.
Thanks to Mr.. Jas. Carroll for
favors this week.
Our thanks are due Prof. j. H.
Myers for favors.
Look out for the grand street pa
rsde tomorrow morning.
Mr.. j. F. Lleweliyn and Mrs. Mat
It's have returned to the city.
The material, &C., of the Union
office is now in decent hands.
The hot summer days are upon us =;
summer glad and summer sorry.
Bring in your tall corn stalks.
Cut them off close to the ground.
If that electric light hits our big
diamond nobody can stay inside the
tent.
Jos. f. Moore and wife returned
last Friday from a protracted visit to
Virginia.
The editor of this paper, when he
returns, will occupy a country seat.
1t will be a stump.
Mr.. Rogers, the groceryman, will
move into Rines' new store-house
when it is completed.
Jas. Bright is now in Montgomery
City driving his stock on the mile
track at the Fair grounds.
Five thousand people will attend
the circus tomorrow. 1t will be a
big day for III merchants.
Col. Switzler will start a daily paper
at Columbia, August 18th. Now we
kaoW Col. Hutton will start his.
G. G. Galloway is painting and
otherwise fixing up his store house,
occupied by Mixers Notion store.
Mrs. A. B. Daniel is on a visit
to her son, Charles, at Vandalia, Mo.
who has lately become the father of s
fine boy.
Mr.. j. S. Null of Lincoln county.
Mo-, one of the oldest settlers in Mis-
souri,, is here on u visit to his son, G.
B. Null. q
Mr.. Ed. Rines has purchased {
new and beautiful carriage, which cal
be seer on our streets almost any
evening.
VIM. B. Uzzell brought to town
last Saturday, two hundred water
.melons-just enough to make half thu
,darkeys happy.
Rev. DR.. Grasty, when last heard
'fiom, was at St. Louis and improving
in health. He expects to visit ELI
Lick springs shortly.
AS the weather grows warmer
Dick, the ''gemman'' who drives thu
ice-Hagon, begins to assume the dig
nifty Of a drum major.
Serenading is all the rage now. 4
party of ladies and gentlemen wer'
out Saturday night, and made SOM
excellent vocal music.
Don't fail to hear the characteI
.quartette entitled, ''De Banjo am d.
Instrument for Me-" next Monda!
night at the Murphy meeting.
The picnic advertised in this pape
last week to come off on the 10th o
this month, on the Cartmell farm, ha'
been changed to Friday, the 18th.
Prof. Treloar is up at Red Oak
Iowa, and has in preparation III. M
$. Pinafore. 1t will be nearly tive
weeks before it is put On the stage.
Father Russell is confined to hi
bed by sickness. There were no ser
vices at the Catholic Church last Sun
day on account of his indisposition.
The interesting account Of thu
moonlight picnic at Mr.. Hathaway
came in too late for publication thii
week. 1t will appear in our mex
issue.
Everybody-their sisters, 'thei
cousins and their aunts-will be il
COWH IO-uuOIloW' ACOpiC "ho wv
(what, never?) saw a show will
''show up"
A magic lantern exhibition, an ad
sverasing medium of the London Cir
Gus, Ga the balcony of the Ringe
House, created a good deal of merri
tmept Tuesday night.
We have just delivered to the Pub
Aic School Board 500 copies of a nea
pamphlet containing IS pages-thei
annual report of the public schools 0
Mexico for the year 1889.
j. NJ. Daniel, administrator estate o
"Thos. M. Pulls, deceased, will sell al
property belonging to the estate o
said deceased on Tuesday, Angus
~. 3. T. Rodman, auetioneer.
Our citizens should see that thei