Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-07-17
A Newspaper OF the Present Time,
Intended for the People now On Earth.

Drink ice water sparingly.
, S. NJ Locke is at Elk Springs.
Bathe often this warm weather.
Sturgeon wants a Baptlst Church.
The Fulton fair opens August IS.
Don't eat too much in warn. wealth
cr.
Use lime freely about your premi-
SEES.
Miss May Silver is visiting in Full
Edgar Frost is in Patterson's drug
store.
Hiram Ricketts, is in Texas on bust
ness.
Hon j. A. Floods life was insured
for $1,000.
Montgomery County Fair opens
Sept. 1G.
Go to Parks cigar store for ice
cold cider.
See corrected railroad time table
in this issue.
See advertisement of Hardin Col
legc in this issue.
j. w. Carson has gone to Boston
on IL pleasure trip.
Ninety-two in the shade and 50 in
the sun yesterday.
We are glad to see DR.. Grasty
again able to be out.
Go to Parks cigar store for the
best brand of cigars.
Bysfield of the Fulton Enterprise
made us a call yesterday.
Lamartine Lakeland has a most
beautiful phaeton. Quite cliitied.
The right kind of men have hold OF
the immigration movement in Mexico
Once in q while we find q little ice,
but really the backbone of winter is
broken.
Mrs. Jas. Galloway and Mrs.
Hiram Ricketts,, are visiting in Fay
cite, No.
Eddie Bolts is making arrange
ments to build a new house in South
Mexico.
Never give up the ship, when yor
can buy groceries St low at r. H
FOwler's.
Miss May Wetmore, ofSt. Louis, i
visiting her sister, Mrs. l.. b. Fetter
of this city.
The Hon. J. A. Flood is dead
His biography will appear iii GU
next issue.
The market is flooded with al
kinds Of vegetables. Corn, tomatoes
squash, cimbling, beets, etc.
From what we can learn the Green
back picnic at Thompson, ended in
free fight last Saturday,
The Thompson Station Gun Gu
is talking of shooting a match wit
the Mexico Gun Club shortly.
Ten cents worth for q nickle. !
good 10 cen cigar for 5 cents at tn
cheap store of Il. III. Fowler.
The new boxes for the postoftic
have arrived. The p~ostoflice will b
removed to the corner at once.
The II. r. boys all read the LEE
Gen. 1t don't take folks long t
find where they can get the news.
VIM. II. Barton, last week, sol
four farms and a half section of will
land. This will do for dull time
The young men of Audrain count
are stalwart Democrats. They al
down on decentralization and boiling
The Union Democratic Picnic mex
Thursday will be one of the bigges
things ever held in Audrain county
Every Democrat in the count
should hear Cockrell and Phillips ne>
Thursday at the Democratic Picnic
The pottery man from Paris say
the demand for jugs in Mexico
wonderful, since the saloon is CLOSED
c. A. Keeton, one of the bes
newspaper men that ever showed
pencil in Mexico, is now ''pressin
brick"
There will be no fighting or fussin
at the picnic next Thursday. TIL
proper authorities will be present /
keep order.
Don't fail to attend the grand unto
picnic on the Cunningham plac
on the oath. 1t will be the picnic
the season.
The Greenback boom is just lii
the Grant boom. Just wait till ne!
Thursday night and witness the Den
ocracy boom.
The county should have a law
mower and use it on the court hou:
yard. 1t would only cost three {
four dollars.
Geo. II. Cross of the st. Joe ever
ing News made us a social call We
terday. Cross seems like a live e.
ergetic young man.
Train dispatcher Murray, Of I'll
G. & A. railroad, has resigned S. 4
Johnson, Of the X. City and Nortl
ern, has his position.
The passenger conductors on IL
G. & A. r. R., carry off the pal