Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-20
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People now On Earth.

Intended for the People now On Earth
All smokers will die.
Mr.. Maxwell is very sick.
Never bet on a gray horse.
Shoot the stars-they would not
fall.
City council meets next Monday
night.
Christmas day ONE on Thursday
this year.
Pick your crop of almanacs about
this time.
An angry man should pull down
his choler.
The LEDGER the rest of this year
for 10 cents.
In New York ever the BARRIERS
p0il-ed a vote.
Feed your corn to stock. 1t will
pay in the end.
W. L, Gary's boot and shoe store
IS fng painted.
3pan can pay attention who never
paySnything else.
The Cromwell House is receiving
a new coat of paint.
Grant was the biggest man in Chi
cago last Wednesday.
The Underwood mare, like the
stars, fooled the boys.
Judge Macfarlane is attending cir
cult court in Columbia.
ssThe bravest sre the tenderest,
does not apply to beef.
Jack Hayden, county surveyor, is
in Stur geou on business.
The embers of the dying year r
November and December.
Wonder if Wise fell last Thursday
with the rest Of the stars?
Our readers will do us a favor by
reading our advertisements.
Newt Basket and family have gone
to Denver, Colorado, again.
d. NJ. Roberts Of Illinois, has just
bought a farm in this county.
Jaw Gould will, in the future, cut
some figure in Missouri politics.
The day after the Grant boom in
Chicago, the stars fell. Look out.
We hear that it is fashionable for
the girls to tattoo their legs and arms.
The Kilgore case will not come up
in the Supreme Court before January.
The CITY of st. Louis lost the gas
case. 1t cost them q million ofdollars
1t is better to have everything but
money than to have nothing but mo-
ney.
1t is a good deal of a bore to have
q man love you more than you dc
him.
Texas should be called the muttor
State. She now has four millions o.
sheep.
Nothing is impossible in this sci
entific age, except to collect YOU
debts.
Cheek may be a very good thing
in its place, but it won't stand a ties
of fire.
The recent rains have filled tn
ponds, and the wooden mill is agail
at work.
s'Man wants but little here below
A good many people are not disap
pointed.
The stars did not fall last Thurs
day, but Grant made a speech jus
the same.
Miss Minnie Gordon of Columbis
is visiting Mrs. c. NJ. Lakeland {
this city.
Doctor Fetter again has the thank
OF the LEDGER force for a deliciou
treat of cider.
We are glad to see that the Colun
bia Statesman still liveth-an homo
to Columbia.
Thanksgiving on the 9th, nez
Thursday. Wonder who is feeding OIL
turkey antifat?
The Hume sisters of Columbia, wi
play "Etalee" in Mexico next weel
See advertisement.
We will send the LEDGER till Jar
uary /, 1881, for $3.50. Now is Il
time to subscribe.
Thanksgiving day always CONS
on Thursday. This year, next Thur
day will be the day.
Mexico is, without doubt, the fine
town In the state of its size and
''sizes' up amazingly.
M. Y. Duncan continues to 8
forth the greenback platform. 1t
all lis stock in trade.
The Mexico string band will 81
their opening ball at opera house t
morrow (Friday) night.
Cleopatra's Needle, en- route
New York, is thought to be a frau
and only one of her hair pins.
The Audephone is the latest inve