Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-11-13
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People now On Earth
No fireworks last night.

Conductor Tom Hughes is again at
his post.
Gill & CARROTS new store room is
looming up.
Johnnie Clark is happy, and with
good cause.
1t was all n mistake--Jesse James
was not killed.
Have you been to II. H. Kernan's
Star Grocery
Pure maple syrup at Smiths Opera
House Grocery.
The Hartley trial comes off on the
9th of December.
Duncan killed the greenbsck party
in Audrain county.
Miss May Silver has been making
a very pleasant visit in Fulton.
Harry Day did more fer the green,
back party than EVER Duncan will.
VIM. Pollock has just completed
an elevator for the handling of corn.
John T. Jones has bought j. j.
Parks cigar store. Drop in and see
hlm;
Miss Lille Rodgers from Perry, is
visiting Miss Minnie Tomlinson OF
this place.
Mrs. j. W. Ritenour, of Virginia,
is visiting tue family Of j. w. Carson,
of this city.
Carter & Hisey are doing an inn
mense corn business, both at Mexico
and Laddonia.
We shall die. The Herald and
InteHigencer are both afraid to let us
read their papers.
Pure buckwheat -four, fresh prunes,
currents, dates and figs, at Smiths
Opera House Grocery.
w. T. Fields and family have re-
turned from Texas to Hamilton, Mo.
They were sick of Texas.
Don't fail to read Harper and Tur-
ner's new advertisement in this issue.
There is the place to buy goods.
Garrett Null and B. +. Tomlinsor
are going into TIE grocery business.
ia Harper & Sims new building.
Mrs. Wash, wife of Frank Wasl
the popular salesman of Snider &
Holmes, was in Mexico Monday.
Stufing cotton in your ears Won
prevent you from catching cold IL
the head. Put it in your mouth.
The L. S. Court onvene at Jeffer
son City Monday next. B. b. lure
man Of this city is one of the jurors
d. H. Mcintyre is at home again
He is looking well and will do a gooG
deal more of efficient work for hi
country.
Miss MolIie McFarlane, an estima,
bic young lady from Rails county, i:
visiting her sister, Mrs. Ii. Glascock
Of this city.
Alb. says if the stars fell he didn'
see any of 'em laying around thi'
morning when he got up; and Alb!
an early riser.
Mexico Home Club will have theiI
opening club dance, for this season
at the Ringo House parIors on mex
Tuesday night.
Albert White has one of the fines
farms in Audraiu county, handsome
ly situated, close to town, which III
offers at a bargain.
S~paulding & Co., Of Springfield
Illinois, have presented the Audrail
county Agricultural Association will
500 ornamental trees.
There has been a good deal 0
talk about the C.. & A. wrecks, bu
the travelling public will fluid tina
life is safer on no other road.
Finest stock of canned goods il
the city, bought before the raise il
canned goods and to be sold at bee
rock prices, at Opera House Grocery
Col. Burch, of the Chicago Com
mercial Advertiser, spoke at the Muir
ply meeting last Monday night. IL
made q very neal and appropriate ad
dress.
Miss Kate A. Brown, of Newark
Ohio, has been in the city a few day:
on business and is the guest Of Mrs
j. w. Carson, residence on Prone
made street.
Don't fail to stay up tonight ant
Sct IOl L iiC , hIS- HOlh5- bitGcOIl
shower positively tonight. Curtain
rises at 10 p. m. short ! This is M
greenback illumination by any means
w. w. Rutledge is in Boston
Mass, buying goods for Mr.. w. L
Gary, the boot and shoe merchan
who has just purchased Rutledge
Treloar's stock of boots and shoes.
John Roseberry is nc longer wit
the Daily Herald. John is a clever
hard-working fellow, but he has foun'
that ''all that glitters is not gold,
and that the newspaper business don
pay.
Walker Kilgore has a stay of exc
cution until his case can be tried i
the Supreme Court. This will be a
least Il month later than the day n
was sentenced TO be hung. Kilgor
non, lIuac in hnnas of ,o- A. 40,