Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-11-30

Nearly all the reserved seats fef
Charlotte Thompson are taken.
The Charlotte Thompson and IN
Templeton companies both stop agthe
Windsor. v
4 WellsvIlles Laddonia, MartinsburQ
|eda vanasli, .rs lhe loss corn ship
ping points.
The candy pulling at Hardin Col.
lege last night was jolly success
for the library.
When we look out of the window
we think it is Christmas instead of
Thanksgiving Day. II
Joe sinon, tbe showinaa, was here
Tuesday buemade no arangementsso
bring his show here. =
DIEp.-Monday evening, Nov. 27,
1882, infant son of M. A. and NJ. M.
Howard, Of this city.
Go and hear Charlotte Thompson
Tomorrow night, for the benefit of
the military company.
The ladies tea party IL the N. r..
Church, South, IN spite of the bad
weather, was success.
Charley Pearson has q position in
the Moberly express Office. Charley
is Q reliable, steady business man.
F Mrs.M. F. Gibbs has returned
from Santa Fe. She now has a mil
linery store over Griggsby & Mckee.
The readers of the LEDGER will be
supplied Win copies ofthe Piesiaentis /
message as soon as we can get the
copy.
j. c. Huff has purchased the right
of this county for the best cistern
pump ever invented. Call and see
one work.
r. B. Griffin, formerly of Mexico,
has opened produce exchange al
Sedalia, similar to the sne we have in
this eity. 1llH ~
Thanksgiving Z Day being d legal
holiday, the post-office will be open
only from Z to a. M, and from 8 80
to 5 p. m.
Douglas Murray, one Of Audrain' S
most. substantial : citizens, refuses to
accept Office after elected. He is q
democrat.
Ex-Gov. Hardin and other enter.
prising men are taking active steps to
secure the Hannibal & Southwestern
railroad to Mexico.
A friend of ours who spells God
with q little ''g'' g. and cow with a ''k,'' Z
still insists that the Greenback party
| was born and died to save the country
There will be union meeting of the
Second Christian Church at the col
ored public school house on Thurs
day-to-day-at II a. M, and z p
m. Everybody invited.
There is a gentleman in Audrair
who is too lazy to beg and too timid
to steal. The next time we catcf
him meddling with the affairs of tht
LEDGER, We will publish his name.
Willard Carroll is clerking for Har
& Duff, large wholesale and retail
house of st. Louis. Willard will make
q fine business man. :@aa g&
Mrs. Mary Iillson, wife of Col. E
c. Tillson, and a former resident @,
this county, died recently at Dee
Park, Maryland. -rxrffs G. 2
There is some dispute about what
state certain editor of Mexico wa.
born in. We will venture that he was
born in a state Of nudity.
The case Of Colored Baptist Church
vs.. Bro. Silas Smith to replevin the
communion set and other church
property, has been dismissed al
plaintiffs cost.
The Mexico Quadrille Band ant
Orchestra, composed of Messrs. Rags
dale,e Conway, Wright and Runkle
has been retained to furnish music fol
the grand ball at the Windsor Tues
day night.
| s. w. Watkins has charge Of thu
barber shop in the new Windsor, and
has everything fixed up in elegan
style. Sam will eontinne to run tn,
Ringo House shop, with A. D. Wealth
ers in charge. IS go =
Our accommodating and efficien
county clerk, Benjamin L. Locke
smokes but once a year, and that il
on Thanksgiving Day. To-day, Mr.
Locke will enjoy a good cigar will
bis many friends who call. "
Y Mrs, Louisa Hilderbrand, wife o,
John Hilderbrand, living near Ben
ton City, died last Friday night, o.
typhoid pneumonia. Charles, a sol
of Mr.. H., is also very sick with the
same disease, and is not expected to
recover i#sa= .szzna ~ 81 4sgs -sta s.s.
The Home Club will give grand
ball at the Windsor Hotel next Tues
day night. The Windsor is an elegan
place to have dance. Good music
has been engaged. Messrs. Jacobson
& Blum, the proprietors, have tender
ed the club, and those the club invite
an elegant supper. So 49,, e,l, E !.
Gibbs, the painter, is thinking
about locating here, as there are sew
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