Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-01-01
A HAPPY new YEAR
TO YOU!

Be economical this year.
Keep your eye On Maine.
Be a better boy this year.
Have you heard from Maine?
Good bye 70, we will e you later.
Dead ducks are not worth shooting
Ranger-let US hear from you Of
Have you sworn off !? If not, why
Het?
We have sworn off with the rest of
the boys.
Whatsoever a woman seweth shall
a man rip.
Ring out the old, and ring in the
new year.
The docket for circuit court closes
January 1st.
County Court meets first Monday
in February.
II. =. Duncan don't see himself as
others see lin.
1ss0-the year in which Grants
"goose" was cooked.
Remember tho poor-especially in
he cold weather.
Prof. Hamill is dangerously sick
with the heart disease.
Call early and late to-day, but
don't eat (?) too much.
Pihafore and Trial by Jury again
tonight, by special request.
The girls all have roses on their
cheeks at this season of the year.
Several articles are crowded out
this week, will appear next.
George Daniel and wife, of Wanda
liza, spent Christmas in Mexico.
More ice is being harvested in Mex
leo this season than even before.
We want gas, but We don't want
TO pay $50, 900 for gas works.
Some of our politicians are now
training for the spring city elections
Moody, the evangelist, passed
through Mexico Monday, en- route fol
Fulton.
The LEDGER will be in 1880 al
ever-the newslest paper in tn
county.
Prof. kemper Of Boonville, Nc.
attended the State Teachers Institute
this week.
Col. Hutton and the LEDGER maj
will now be solid friends, for they liv'
neighbors.
The fire engine should be kept il
working order. This is the time 9
year for fires.
Mrs. 4. Rines has returned fror
New York and Boston very much i'm
proved in health.
Trial by Jury and Pinafore tonight
Don't fail to hear them. This will b
the last chance.
T. B. Buckner aud J. McDowe.
Trimble leave for Texas to-day. !
tale we will unfold next week.
Before a mar makes up his min
to be q rascal, he should be sure b
would not make a better fool.
}. C. McMullin succeeds Vanhorn
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the C. & A
r. p. January l, 1880.
The post-ofice on New Years da
will be open from $50 to $50 a. m
and from $3.50 to 5 p. m.
Turkey surrendered last Thursda
and gave up the ghost. She died tn.
her country-men might live.
The criminal docket now comes =,
the foot instead Of the head of IL
court docket.
I Maj. Lawder has returned from b
trip East to visit the death bed of b
mother-in-law, Mrs. Harper.
Young Patton, a soldier of moder
/ times, from the State University, WI
heart-smashing in Mexico YESTERDAY
Thomas Grasty, a prominent Law
yer of st. Louis, and a son of D
Grasty of this city, Ii visiting j
Mexico.
Those who owe us wood, would d
well if they would at once bring IL
wood to the front. Puns won't kee
us warm.
Treloar's English Opera Compar
Is meeting with unparalleled success
The Professor Is "a good manager
well gas a God musician.
q Alb. says he can't watch the o.
year out with his girl. The old m,
sent him in a wood bill for the mig
the stars did not fall.
Wonder how many people in til
country told their children that it W
Grant who IN dowa the chimn ey
and not Santa Claus.
Pause Oh the brink ofthe new yea
How many Of your friends and col
rades have fallen during the year 2!
1t may be your time next.
Did we hear you soy you we
going to do better this year? Glad
81 IL Gnhonr:h~ 10, %Ao rx~suu Il &, 4