Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-05-05


ming.
Ed Rines Is repairing and fixing up
generally the inside of the Ringo
House.
Thos. Saunders, one of Monroe's
best citizens, has moved to this
county.
Frank Gender has moved to Slater,
Mo. Resolutions of respect are now
in order.
W. E. West has returned from
Eureka Springs very much improved
in health.
Land "went up this week so fast
that it hit one of our real estate men
in the face.
Mrs. J. NJ. Marmaduke delights
her many friends with a coffee party
this evening.
Don't fail to attend the public
school entertainment for the benefit
of the library.
Nine thousand people were driven
from their homes in Kansas City by
the high water.
The price of coffee is bound to go
up if tue ladies keep things booming
every afternoon.
Moberly June races come off June
16, II and IS. Can't we have June
races in Mexico?
E. D. Graham and wife are keeping
house in their neat little residence in
northeast Mexico.
r. G. Paul has our thanks for a
sample of his first ice cream. 1t was
just jolly and cold.
Leslie Ferris failed to get a room
in Rich Hill, Mo-, and is going into
business at Centralia.
City Marshal Coons has issued an
order to keep the sidewalks open and
the alleys clean. Good.
The Murphies held their last meet
ing for the season last Monday night,
which was book beer day.
:. Where is the enterprising man that
wants to make 500 per month this
simmer with a street sprinkler?
Jas. Mckinney, aged Ga, and Miss
Maggie Rickenbaugh, aged "a, OF
Fulton, were married yesterday.
N. E. Adams, of Farber, was
: knocked senseless by a fall from his
horse last week. No serious injury,
| f. r. Cunningham, the enterpris-
: ing proprietor Of the Central Stables,
has just purchased a span of ''fyers."
Is there no law against cursing
and Safeguarding on the streets !
| If there is, it ought to be enforced.
: Tom Able has a dog that will catch
a sheep killing dog and hold it until
, Tom beats his brains out against the
fence.
A girl in one of those poke bonnets
looks as though she was sitting at the
rear end of a "Colorado or Bust
{ wagon.
G. w. Baker sends greeting t.
, Thomas Waters and says The has
black mare mule, six days old, three
feet and seven inches high.
I The Mexico Public School base bal
e nine play the Vandalia nine at Van
dalia next Tuesday. Chas. Buckne
y is captain of the Mexico nine.
d Screen doors and windows at tn
F, lowest cash prices, and all kinds o
e job work at H. D. Hunters shop
8 three doors north of p~ostofice. 3-3V
In Kentucky the authorities ar
trying to indict the railroads for run
=, ming OH Sunday. Can the govern
ment be indicted for carrying tn
mails?
During the past week we have ha
business both in Kansas and Illinois
and in neither State did we find tn
n prospect for wheat and grass bette
q than in Missouri.
g Josiah Wright and wife, Mrs. Van
Calder and D. Henderson and wifi
will leave on August 9th for Londo
It and Paris. They will be abser
l. about six weeks.
Look out for grafters-men VIII
want to put in a few gratis, and the
e put IN as many as one thousand G
g more, the gratis being twlgggs CT
10 from the last orchard visited,
y Brophy & Bradley will short
), move into the Tucker corner Jot
J. Steele, moving his furniture sto1
to the Daniel building just north
L. Nj. Pease, on.Jefferson street.
John Robinson, the great bar
back rider, fell from his horse at c
lumbus, Ohio, last week. The fir
: time in his. life that he did not lig
on his feet. He was net serious
hurt.
When the LEDGER man writes
j. Mexico, be omits no. business.
III notices every enterprise in the count
:. That 10 not al-he does It free, a
merely charges for extra copies
the paper.
- III. B. McDoaald and e. q. Hal
To- are now on their way 10 Colora'
fnr thoir health. They are going