Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-25
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Columbia.
Mr.. Dunbar is building sanother
tenant house.
Mexico has a telephone from the
depot to the round house.
. Go to Greenamyer's for the best 5
cent cigar in town. % ct.
"Neugent," the well-known Ringo
House porter, is very sick.
Elmer Cunningham is running a
hack to the camp grounds.
The trial of Kilgore for killing
Willingham will open to-day.
Go to Greenamyer's for the best
8 cent cigar in town. % 2t.
Young Dyer, of the Fulton Gazette.
has been ''doing" Mexico for the
last few days.
The doctors report a good deal of
sickness this fall. A good rain is
what we want to cleanse the atmos-
phere.
Mrs. Ready has returned frou, her
visit in the west. DIR. Ready has
also been in the city for the last few
days.
The hoys now pay $3.50 a piece
for shouting ON the street. Rather
rough when other things much worse
60 unnoticed.
Jimmie Graham, one of the popu-
lar passenger conductors of the C. &
A. railroad, is going to New York on
a visit, the first of October.
"Gentry," in the Ola Country are
men who don't work and whose an
cestors before them did not. We,
in this country, would call them
tramps.
Some expectant postmaster at
Carthage, Mo, fired off an anvil
when Grant reached California last
Saturday. Stand from under the
boom.
Take Ayers Sarsaparilla to purify
the blood and purge out the humors,
plmples, boils and sores which arc
merely emblems of the r~ottenness
within.
Work has been commenced on w.
II. Remnants and VIM. Sims bust.
ness houses on the north side of the
square. They will be almost entire.
ly rebuilt.
Several gents from Fulton, took
in the camp meeting Sunday. Among
whom we noticed the beautiful anC
accomplished" ALI. Bennett OF the
Fulton Telegraph.
Allen says that latter you have
stopped SHINING and become holy.
then the Lord wal! forgive your sins
When Il man is pure he has no sins
to be forgiven.
President Hayes made a speech il
Sedalia yesterday. He WAS on his
way to Kansas to attend o fair. Ill
is likely to pass through Mexico
OH his way back.
Billie Danley is station agent anC
telegraph operator at Jonesburg
Mrs. Danley has moved to that place
Billie is a good boy and u most eN'
pert ''ETass FOUNDER
NJ. Y. Duncan has III elegant new
carriage. 20 per cent. paid for it
not soft money at all. Tie idea
people whom he is trying to foo
paid for il with hard work.
Joe. Murray, our popular fner
chant tailor, has inst returned from
st. Louis with II complete stock o
fall and winter goods. He ais
brought a city tailor with him.
The poetry in last weeks Herald
reported As written by "A hank eierl
of this city, is as old as the hills
ANY way, the bank clerk could writ,
better poetry than that, We trus:.
Mrs. NJ. z. NetcaIf, one of tn
w~cal,hiest ladies of Giernville
Mississippi. has been wishing tn
family of l.. iI"rd, of this city
Mrs. Mctcalf is an clc1ant singer
In this issue of the LEDGER will b
found l.. Phillip, the star clothin!
mans advertisement. He has tn
largest and best stock OF clothin:
ever brought to Mexico. Give hin
Il call.
There are but few people in thi
county who are willing to stand NJ
in the sight of God and say: Il au
pure ; pass me in" Allen must no
think the citiz'ns of this county ar
either fools or knaves.
Jacob Essig & Co, millcrs of elias
gov, Mo-, have our thanks for
sack of their best flour. Essig has
good mill and turns out none ban
good -four. Those who have use
his -four pronounce it the best in tn
market.
Both of the dailies at Warrensbur.
died last week. The editors foun,
the people could no: support a dali.
without feeling bored and so sus
pended. They were both live an
sprightly sheets.
Eighty or ninety citizens were GU
on patrole duty in Paris last Frida
night, to catch sneak thieves. Non
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