Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-04-07
The Misses LaFrance, Perry, are
visiting Miss Maggie Hall.

visiting Miss Maggie HAIL.
If Arkansas is Arkansaw, why
should not Texas be Texaw and Jack
ass Jackaw?
Rub kerosene oil on your chilblains
and hold your feet to the fire. That
will burn EN- of.
Judge Shell killed 81 dogs that
we're after his sheep. This is the
way to deal with the dogs.
What a beautiful thing is a rosy
check! How great the contrast when
the blush settles on the nose!
James Carroll was in Fulton yes
terday, in connection with his duties
as a member of the managing board
of the asylum.
Grants friends have raised a fund
to support him +; it pays him $3.50
per year. The consummate fools are
not all dead yet.
The sheriff Of Pike county with five
and the sheriff of Saline county with
seven prisoners for the penitentiary,
were in the city Monday.
We issue 500 extra half sheets this
week containing the abstract Of the
county finances. The LEDGER this
week will 60 into every house in the
county.
Joe Stanhope sold, last week, the
stallion "Royal Gold Dust to Ian
Morris for $3.50. He also sold a
black driving horse to JAS. Wallace
for $175.
\ Some newspaper 90 men are SO
Jealous that they would not vote for
a man because they had seen him
associating with the editor Of the
LEDGER.
Mrs. j. Mcdonald, sister of John
Gregg, our county recorder, died
last Sunday in Galloway county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gregg attended the
funeral services.
Don't fail to read Smothers &
VOORHEES, advertisement in this is
sue. They are live, energetic, prac-
tical men and deserve a share of the
public patronage.
1 H. j. Flye, of Illinois, and Miss
A. G.. Hightshoe of this city, were
married by Rev. T. j. Wheat last
week. We wish them a pleasant
journey through life.
James Robinson, OF this county.
the champion bareback rider of The
world, leaves this week to join Sells
Brothers circus, with which he will
travel this season.
The late Legislature passed a Law
regarding the training of hedge
fences. Whern does a legislature:
power cease? Have they the RICH
to regulate Our fences?
Passenger trains now run on tn.
C. & A. every Sunday the same a
any day in the week. We can nov
get the ST. Louis Sunday morning
papers O. the same evening.
We went to st. Louis last week
1t is a woader some one of His un
d~erstrappers did not telegraph to tn
metropolitan papers that W. left tow
because We were afraid of HIM.
Don't fail to hear the Mendelssohl
Quintette Club at the opera hous'
next Monday night. 1t will be tn
entertainment Of the season, and you
should not fail to go and take a lady
We have had control of the LEDGEl
for over four years, but we have neve
before experienced such a rush o
new subscribers. We are bound t.
reach 1000 subscribers this year.
The LEDGER is impartial to a faul
as between democrats. The edi,o
has a right to his private opinion ant
influence, if he has any. He viii
use the same whenever he sees fit.
In this issue of the LEDGER will b
found the advertisement of c. Fl
Eubank & Co. in the hardware bus
mess. They defy competition AM
invite every n to call and &c
prices.
We see it stated in the St. Loui
and KansaSCity papers that 18th
, foundation of the court house 8
F Mexico is giving away" This is
!, mistake. It Is wonderful how sue
reports get StarIeu.
II An apple pie exploded in a farr
4. house in Illinois the other day an
q put out a woman's eye and burne
most of the hair off a baby's hea6
In the midst of life we are on til
, verge of all sorts of death.
| Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Dunn we're i
Mexico last Sunday visiting Mr.. an
Mrs. Geo. A. Poteet, Mrs. Dunn
h parents. They were en- route f
! Council Bluffs, Iowa, where Mr.. Dun
takes charge Of the Commercial Tel
graph Office.
= The State Medical Institute NEE
h in Mexico on Tuesday, May It'll
There will be a meeting Of Mexit
Nphysiclans at the Ringo House pa
). lals tomorrow (Friday) night in r
gard to the matter. Every physics
Nshould be present.
We are informed that H. H. Was
burn ran for councilman so he coul
pass laws Furnishing boys who shon
od stwash tuh', at him. IF M