Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-02-12
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1880.
A Newspaper Of the Present Time,
Intended for the People now On Earth.
Get your valentines ready.


Saturday will he Valentines day.
Buy or write your valentine at
once.
Kilgore will join the Catholic church
to-day.
Pennsylvania went HI bent for
Grant.
Men desire to be underrated only
by the assessor.
C. 7. Quisenberry is doing heavy /
business in mules.
Mexico is the biggest town in the
world for its size.
George NJ. Shelley, of Kansas City,
looms for Governor.
Mite Society meets at Elder Har-
din's tomorrow night.
Ladies' belts will soon have to
have arm holes in them.
j. A. Glandon is thinking of OPEN
ing a roller skating rink.
The Lenten season opened yester-
day, with ash Wednesday.
The building boom still looms, and
spring will add new impetus.
Charlie Morris will open his grocery
store about the first of March.
Everybody reads the LEDGER. We
want everybody to subscribe for 1t.
The LEDGER this week has between
two and three thousand circulation.
DE Shea has q new sign. He
also has a new advertisement in this
issue.
H. W. Gleason is back again and
we hope to see him in business here
soon.
"Ab." says to be sure and tell the
girls that next Saturday will be Val
entine's day.
Come to Mexico On stock sales
day if you want to see live town
and live people.
Miss Henrietta Gooch returned
home last week from a very pleasant
visit to Columbia.
Talk about there being no news in
Mexico. Why, it is the newsiest
town in the state.
If the Republicans will only nomi-
nate Grant we will show them who
will carry New York.
The original Janauschek at the
Opera House Saturday night only.
Go and see Macbeth.
Coons & Co., and B. F. Tomlin-
son have erected handsome awnings
in front of their stores.
Mr.. Glover will, in a few days,
take charge of Jay Gould's telegraph
office, in the express office.
joe Bigbee got on a shooting
spree last Saturday night. The hemp
crop last year was over large.
Decided steps are being taken to
hold the National Democratic Con-
vention for 1880, at st. Louis.
A small key was found IN West
Mexico last week. Call and get your
key by paying for this notice.
Boys who do not behave properly
in the post office had best be on their
guard Or they will be on the rock
pile.
Every street in Mexico that is clos
ed should be opened at once. This
will add new impetus to the build
ing boom.
We stated last week that Thornton
Davis knocked r. Jesse down with a
club. We learn that it was In self
defense.
Flint & McWilliams have their ele-
CANT new dental parlors over the new
Sims building, on the north side of
the square.
Several petitions are being circulat-
ed for signers to the Governor to com-
h.,te Kilgore's sentence to life i'm
4 Pris.oment.
Df. >. A. Brooks has returned
from his Wit to Paris, where he had
been assisting Elder Mountjoy in
aprotracted meessg.
q Gen. j. A. Hockao.y, of Fulton,
Is candidate for Governor of Mis-
souri,, No better man or mere con-
& sistant Democrat lives.
u Col. Hutton is mot very we'll
3 and keeps small boy and wheel.
B borrow busy rolling editorials from
3 The house to the office.
III All road overseers east of range
are required to settle with the court
k on lst day Of March. All in range
& and west of same March end.
Lon Hall is the funniest man in the
world. He was in at Lee McCon-
neifs yesterday trying to get the job
81 OF printing him some 'diagrams."
81 We had a demand for hundred
g extra copies Of last weeks LEDGER
81 more than we could satisfy. The
b LEDGER weekly grows iu interest and
IL favor.
u Miss Matte Craddock, We learn,
mas private school in Galloway.
b miss Matte is most excellent scholar
& anu will succeeu as a teacher in
any community.
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