Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-06
e MEXICO LEDGER
Bayard boometh.

Matrimony is on the incline.
A man liveth called Hancock.
Vox populi est non vox Grant,.
Memphis is a good winter resort.
County Court met last Monday.
Fosters majority in Ohio was 81
sS5.
New York will be Democratic in
1880.
November 27th is Thanksgiving
Day.
New York has gone to look for
Ohio.
Billie Morris is better and able to
be out.
Joe Eldridge is working for Clacher
g. Ruloff.
See probate court docket on out
side, this week.
Just wait till next fall-there is
music in the air.
Our farmers missed it by not hold
ing on to their wheat.
Bal-Loonatics are having a rough
time of it this season.
See Harper & Turner'S big adver-
tisement in this issue.
State convention of Y. M. c. A,
at Columbia, to-day.
I. b. Buckner is in Fulton attend
ING to a divorce case.
What lady would not wear = sur
cingle two feet wide?
DR.. Grasty preached at the jail
again last Sunday at 4 p. m.
R. H. Herman has opened a grocery
store in the Runkle building.
The revised statutes Of the state
went Tito effect last Saturday.
Pedestrians go-as-they pl.ase-ser-
want girls go-when-they please.
Turkeys are looking for ''snti-fat''
as Thanksgiving day approacheth.
Saturday was "All-Saints day. "
Last Friday night was Halloween.
1.-The late Greenback party" is the
way the politicians speak of it now.
j. r. Owens is going to open q
meat shop in the Duncan building.
Obedience to parents will always
make a child beloved and respected.
Runs the old German prophecy,
"Kccp your feet under the quilts
Wonder what Pomp Plunkett wa
carrying home in a box last Monday
noon.
Walker, Of Howard, will probably
be 4 candidate for governor mex
year.
The more you do for some men,
the less they appreciate your kind
ness.
l.. Phillip, the star clothier, has jus
put up an elegant 8 125 glass in hi
store.
The Methodist churches North an(
South have a union meeting mex
Sunday.
Judge G.. B. Macrarlane's new
house is one of the finest residence
III Mexico.
See Rev. Wheat's sermon o.
"Sanctification," on our first page
this week.
Miss Stanhope, sister of our ire
pressible townsman, Joe, is yisitini
her brother in this city.
Saline county is to have a ne1
court house. Slater wants it Their
instead of at Marshall.
Jesse James. The train robber, wa
shot near Joplin, Mo-, last Tuesda
hy an amateur detective.
DIR. keeton will not be at his offic
ut night, but ut home-fiye door
west of the LEDGER building.
A "Holiness'' agitator in Texa
who claimed to be Jesus Christ, wa
escorted out OF town on a rail.
Charley Knoderer has just returne
from St. Louis, with 4 boss stock {
leather for .tine boots and shoes.
Last Saturday was stock sales da
and d rushing business vas done b
stock men as well as merchants.
So~mnambulists should put thei
feet in a sack, when they go to bed
There is no danger from a sack race
The Jefferson City Eclipse is to b
enlarged in spite of the caustic sneer
Of ''Iiosie," OF the great Daily Hel
aid.
The Hartley Brothers trial is 8,
for December the 9th. Ii. Glascoc
was busy last Saturday summoning
jury.
W. III. Rice is now sole proprietc
Of the Mexico Wooden Mills, hayin
bought MI. Sinners interest in tt
same.
We will send the LEDGER, to ne
subscribers, from now till Januar
1st for Is cents. Now is the time t
subscribe.
j. c. Basaford, one of our leadin
grocers, has gone to St. Charles an
Roodhouse to see about purchasil
a large lot of flour.
Col. Reddington made a speec