Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-12-11

this issue.
The Depot Hot.l will be opened
next week.
The Chinaman says cucumber no
belly good"
Billie Kemper has moved into his
new meat shop.
Billie Maxwell Is much better and
will soon be well.
Moody and Sankey are holding
forth in st. Louis.
Money has not been on a drunk,
but it isn't tight anymore.
See Billie Kemper's advertisement
in this issue Of the LEDGER.
Read Jno. NJ. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
advertisement" and act accordingly
AS lonesome as an oyster in a stew
is a Gre .nbacker in Audraln county
now!
A m never buttons anything
she can pin. They can't pin their
mouths.
Centralia is to have q bank Janua-
nv 1st, 1880, with a capital stock OF
$4,000.
Dutton did the granting in "BilPs'
new meat shop. 1t is truly a gilt
edged job.
Bring in your holiday advertise
ments early, and secure a good posi-
ton in the paper.
j. NJ. Coons & Son have moved in
to their new store room on the north
side OF the square.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Pease has been very
sick, but we are glad to state Is In a
fair way to recover
Bring in your Christmas advertise
ments. The LEDGER will boom for
the next month beyond expression.
Paper shirts are the latest. We
don't want to wear shirts made from
the LEpGER-catch cold, you know
SO thin.
Don't fail to read John Sontag's
advertisement in the LEDGER. There
is the place to get useful Christmas
presents.
Congressman Alfred NJ. Lay, ofthe
Seventh Missouri District, died in
Washington very suddenly on last
Monday.
Wrecks by water and rail have
been equally numerous this season
Lake and ocean disasters have been
unprecedented.
Brick Pomercy has gone to Colo
RADIO. He got Disguised with politics.
Brick is not the only 6. B. man that
would like to 60 west.
Mrs. Walker, wife of Doctor Wal
ker, Of Glasgow, was In town Satur'
day with Mrs. l.. G. Mitchell and
made us a social call.
We have no desire to cause HARD
feelings By having the constable AS
sist us in the collection of debts, but
We need money.
Wonder if Colonel Switzier evel
thought, in his surmlse about wha'
killed Columbia, that newspapers
sometimes make a town sick.
We regret it very much that WI
made q mistake in the ''make up" o
MIR. Wheat's sermon last week, which
makes it read very awkwardly.
Trains are again running over thu
St. Charles bridge. W. don't know
how soon trains will again run through
the bridge, rather than over 1t.
Leap year is coming. Boys, can
we give the girls a grand leap yea
"bawl2" 1t is also our turn to keel
"open house." Let us hear from you
M. Y. Duncan still harps on inter
views with Judge Buckner, that neve.
took place. Why don't he touch OF
the interview he had with d. H. Nc
Intyre!
Mr.. Cary, the e%x-section boss, VIII
has been very sick with consumption
for sometime, and for whom the char
ity ball was given last week, died las
Monday.
Those who owe us must pay up
We pay u debts and expect Others
to do the same. 1t takes money al
we'll as cheek to run a ''one-horss
country newspaper"
Or. Hawkins, of Glasgow, was in
Mexico last Saturday, assisting in thu
care of Harry Brown and Harr,
LaMertha, who were scalded in tlv
wreck near Glasgow.
we have taken some ESQ subscri
bers during the past three months
whose time runs out January, 1880
If they don't want the LEDGER mex
year, they will please be prompt il
giving us notice to stop the same.
Mr.. James Galloway is having
we'll bored on his farm in this county
He struck water when $50 feet down
the water rose So feet. Every farr
in the county could and should hav
o well of water of this kind.
Duncan glorifies Senator Carpente
of Wisconsin, who is a r~ip-roarin,
republican. that scents Democrat
fraud in the next presidential election