Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-13

St. Valentines Day tomorrow.
The LEDGER the rest of this year
for $1.25.
Mexico is well supplied with gro
Gerry stores.
DR.. Koontz and lady are at the
Martin House.
We hear some talk of a new shoe
store in Mexico.
Grand Masquerade Ball at Moberly
Tomorrow night.
We fear the peaches are killed; we
are not sure about it.
Renters are getting ready to move
on the first of March.
Pure Havana cigars at Greena-
meyer Bros for 5 cents.
None but the brave deserve the
hair, so says the Indian.
Night session of Teachers Insti-
tute on next Saturday night.
A fine lot cf MeerschauIns ut Green
ameyer & Bros cigar store, cheap.
T.. III. Musick has returned from
Washington. He is not postmaster.
thirteen new subscribers this week.
How is that for the "Police News?"
Dutton, the painter, has put a
beautiful effect on Reily's grocery
front.
The finest brands of cigars receiv-
ed daily at Greenameyer & Bros ci-
gar store.
The next thing in order will be the
city election. We smell the battle
from afar.
The Clippers ''took to the road"
last week. They will ''take to the
brush next.
The dance at Hickerson's Hall,
this week, comes off tonight, instead
of Friday night.
The stockholders in the Malinda
Allen mine meet tonight a week at
: council chambers.
We know a very good tragedy O.
for the ''Cllppers" to play lit Hurts
Our Feet to Ride"
The Royals" of Fulton, have our
thanks for an invitation to their calico
bull tomorrow night.
Don't fail to call at Greenameyer's
and examine his new and complete
line of M~eerschaums.
Mr.. Dennis Brophy, of Glasgow,
was in Mexico to-day. He was on his
way home from Chicago.
Mrs. Dobyns, wife of the late S.
L. Dobyns, Esq, is in very ill health,
being confined to her bed.
Misses Nollie Seward and Angie
Flye, of Louisiana, are visiting John
Clark and lady Of this city.
Smith & Winscott have moved
their oyster. saloon to the rooms
across from the Martin House.
There was a large number of farm
ers in town last Saturday and our
merchants did q good business.
If some mems characters only
stood as high as their shirt collars,
this would be a much better world.
Jas. Carroll, our accommodating
Circuit clerk, has our thanks for re-
portorial favors during court week.
There is more reading matter in the
LEDGER than any other county paper,
and it is only S1.25 the rest of this
year.
There is a man in Fulton so lazy
that he has an artist hired by the
month to draw his breath with a lead
pencil.
The falling Of the bridge at Glas-
gov will delay the completion of the
extension of the G. & A. r. r. for
sometime.
Harry Day Should so to Washing
ton in person. We imagine he would
settle this post Office trouble without
any difficulty.
L. NJ. Pease, Esq, brother-in-law of
Judge Forrist, has opened a grocery
: store in Vests building formerly oc-
cupied by the Mitchell Bros.
An envious exchange says Henry
Clay Dean is a good lawyer and has
practiced at nearly every bar in the
country, except a bar of soap.
W. II. Day registers "Capt." W.
ii. Day in st. Louis. That is fact
he did acquire the position of captain
on the battle field of Martinsburg.
The law now compels our mer-
chants, when they are through with
tobacco or cigar boxes, to entirely
remove the stamps. Scratching them
will not do. The burnt brand on the
box must also be defaced.
We see in the Washington News
that the appointment of Geo. Poteet
as post master is being fought on the
ground that he is not q Republican.
This is not our fight. We don't know
anything about Poteet's politics, but
we never heard of his being a Demo.
GRAFT, and if he was we would know it.
Rev. DIR. ~Sopneschein, a renowned
lecturer of the Hebrew faith. will
speak at the ODera house. i'm this CITY.