Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-07-05
OUR OLD CITIZENS.

OUR OLD CITIZENS. ]
The old citizens, that assembled at ]
he court house on Saturday were q
,ody of mel that any county in our ]
country might we'll be proud of. The
most of them are substantial farmers !!
enriched by judicious agricultural in
and educated in the best Of
Ill schools, that of practical and sue
experience. All of them hay-
ing been thirty years in our midst,
and most of them having emigrated
to Missouri after having reached the
age of life, they r old
enough to have witnessed for them
the progress Of a century, that
without doubt has outstripped all 9TH
in charging the powers of the
human family and in comforting adj
vantages and blessings upon it. Many
of those that came to this State from
Kentucky, and that class isin decided
majority among the old settlers, have
lively remembrances of Harry Clay
and his career at Washington, labor
ing just previously to the era of steam
and electricity and the introduction
of railways and telegraphs, for the
construction Of a rock road from the
Atlantic over the Alleghanies to that
which was then the great West but
is now the eastern portion of the mid
die states Of our grand nation. They
remember, too, the hand loom and the
spinning wheel, and the old Kentucky
smooth bore and blue jeans. They
are living now in an advanced period
and the only hand weaving they are
familiar with, is going on at Gill &
CARROTS, in Mexico, for the con-
struction of a farm fence, as far
ahead of the old rail staked and III
dered one, as the railway and tele-
graph are of the old modes of trans
portation and communication. They
came from a glorious state to cast
their lot in a fairer one, and to-day,
through their tact, intelligence and
industry, their county lacks nothing
that pertains to agriculture and COM
merce that is enjoyed any where.
Their farms are ploughed, narrowed.
sown and reaped by machinery infe-
rior to none, and their crops, herds,
cattle, horses, sheep, and hogs have
rapid transit, at cheap freights, to the
best of all markets. Is 1T wonderful
they are rich, happy and contented?
With such men. in such q county
blessed with such advantages, it could
scarcely be otherwise. But their
aims have not been exclusively indus
trial and material. While they have
been clearing and extending theil
farms and increasing their products,
they have not been unmindful Of
schools and churches for themselves
and their families. In town and
country in this county, there are con.
s~equently intellectual and spiritual
provisions adequate te the demands
of a progress, the like of which has
never been e Coming from Ken
lucky. it was natural for them .te
bring thence and acquire here the
servants, they yer ali their lives &C.
customed to. This sort of property
the wal ruthlessly swept away; but
they are scarcely the poorer for that,
because. to-day, their farms and
herds are worth more than they were
when combined with the value of theil
slaves.
The object of their new organiza'
ton is wholly social. In their ad.
vanced years they are unwilling tt
have the ties Of their youth sun.
dered more than can be avoided.
Time and circumstances have wrought
sad havoc in their numbers. Those
that have departed can only be re.
membered; but those whom either
the sale or exchange Of farms has
separated a be r~egathered annually
and every year be made to feel that
their best days were not passed with.
out being conducive to the building
up of such q brotherhood as only
true manhood and genuine hospitality
can establish.
When, therefore, the first Saturday
of September shall have arrived and
the location and circumstances OF
their picnic shall be known, let not
alone the old be there; but to them
let there be added men and women
OF all ages. Let the children also
come. Let a WIDE and q free board
be spread. Let there also be music
and dancing and a high old time,
tempered with such decorum and
self-restraint, as is acceptable to both
God and man.
The old citizens of our county have
both the we'll wishes and respect OF
the LEDGER, and anything that can be
done by it to promote their prosperity
or add to their Happiness will be mos,
eheerfully done.
Beauty On Bicycles.
The Mexico correspondent Of The
Perry Pioneer writes az follows about
a couple Of Mexico's prettiest young
ladies: 81 saw Johnnie Abbay last
Saturday. He was greatly excited.
/ asked what was the cause Of bis
strange behavior. After I had prom.
Used him not to say any thing about
II IN aurhadv no ooneonfod fo tall mo