Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-22
a Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People now On Earth
A kingdom for q circus.


A kingdom fora circus.
Crusade Commandery banquet to-
might
d. w. Crowly was in Mexico last
Saturday.
TIE Moberly Cornet Band arrived
last night.
Jonah vas not sorry when he got
out of fish.
At last the town clock is in run
ming order.
Hardin College closes Thursday,
June 18th.
Capt. Hiner and Gus are at home
for a few days.
DIR. Vincil, of St. Louis, will be
in Mexico to-day.
The calaboose is the only empty
house IN Mexico.
The ~watchword OF some people
seems to be-tick.
Call me Col" s'for I am bad"-
\ "trom Bitter Creek"
Four trains a day are now II on
the Columbia branch.
Read McIntyre's vindication by
"Voter" in this issue.
Several articles of Importance are
crowded out this week.
There are enough cats in Mexico
to have Il ''yawl race"
See programme of Public school
exhibition in this issue.
Oh, no, we have no need for a
street sprinkler in Mexico.
Chas. B. Greenamyer left Tuesday
afternoon for Leadville, Col.
J. Gordon Bennett won 500, 900
on Parole in the hurdle race.
This will be one of the greatest
gala DAYS ever known in Mexico.
The Exchange Bank has just been
painted in the most artistic manner
The only oasis IN some mems
lives is a green spot on a faro lay out.
In the Missouri pe~nitentiary there
are over 200 prisoners convicted for
life.
Circuit Court docket for June
term of court was closed last Satur-
day.
NJ. Y. Duncan, ESQ.,, will address
the Murphy meeting next Monday
night.
Shannon Douglass. a prominent
lawyer of Columbia, was in Mexic'
yesterday.
Richard Judy, who has been a
Glasgow for some time, was in Mexl
co Saturday.
Next Tuesday night the colore'
school will give an exhibition a
Opera House.
Bill Hyde, of the st. Louis Repub
lican, it is reported, will purchase
the Kansas City Times.
Sherman has resumed. but that vii
not put him in the presidential chair
even if he did think SO.
Annual examinations of Hardin
College for 1879, begin Thursday
June 9TH, lasting a week.
j. Gould, together with sewers
other rvilroad n,agnates, are in Law
renee, Kansas, on business.
The st. Louis Evening Star ha
gone down in q cloud. The ST. Loui
Post now shines the brighter.
X. Scharlach has put a new sod
fountain in his drug store. 1t is on
OF the finest fountains in Mexico.
The awnings over the Saving
Bank have been put out. They ar
quite an ornament to the building.
The Murphies meet at Mapl
Grove school house 1st and Sd Sur
days in each month, 4 o'clock p. m
"Col." M. McIlhany is editing th
Mexico Inteligencer. We don't kno'
whether the other ''Col." is sick {
not.
Lon Fisher, of Henry county, Mo.
who has been going to school 9
Columbia, is visiting relatives i
Mexi.o.
DIR. Grasty will address the tw
literary societies of Westminster Co
lege, Fulton, IN Wednesday nigh
June the 4th.
Capt. l.. C. Mitchell and daughter
Of Alton, Illinois, are in Mexico I
attend the Crusade Commander
Banquet tonight.
Charles johnson, who has bee
writing in the freight Office of til
Kansas City & Northern railroad hs
gone to Macon City Is ticket agen'
j. c. Brookbank is travelling wit
Meyer, Bannerman & Co., wholesa|
saddlers of St. Louis. "Brook" is
good salesman ard we wish him sue
cess.
Mrs. Kate Glandon has a beaut
full and artistic fernery. 1t is one
the pretliest things of the kind "
ever saw and Of her own construt