Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-01-18
DR.. W. c. Pipino, Harper block.

DI. w. I. l1pinO, Harper Dlock.
Cali for Anheuser.
P. W. Harding is sick.
The days are getting longer.
Circuit court begins January p.
Mexico has too many grocery stores.
Huff does all kinds of tin work. 38-tf
See circuit court docket on fourth
page.
Business is picking up all over the
county.
Mrs. Green Clay is visit ,g in Mis-
sissippi.
Mrs. DIR. McWilliams is visiting in
Boone county.
Mrs. G. A. Brock is visiting in Ra-
cine, Wisconsin
The widow Seaman has opened a
store at Laddonia.
R%oodhouse, ILL.,, is quarantlned on
account of smallpox.
Frank Grasty is clerking at the
Globe Hotel, Louisiana.
Strangers with cheek can get I'M
limited credit in Mexico.
Forty Hardin College ladies attend
ed Eli Perkins lecture.
Conger & Barnes keep flour and
feed for sale on their mill.
Ex-Mayor ]. C. Bassford is going
into business in the spring.
There is going to be another di-
yoree suit brought shortly.
Potts & Glandon are harvesting an
immense amount of fine ice.
Miss Ida Ricketts, is visiting Mrs.
T. W. Carter, of st. Louis.
Benton City has a saloon. Less
liquor is drank than before.
S. L. Mexican is writing up a big
advertisement for the LEDGER. =
The building boom this spring in
Mexico will be unprecedented.
H. W. Gleason is going to sell
farming implements this spring.
Mrs. John Pollard has opened a
notion store in her residence.
Our hardware merchants are going
to make business boom in the spring.
The Mexico Gas Company will be-
gin operations as soon as spring opens
The Governor has appointed Geo.
Marshall coal oil inspector for this
city.
Obituary notices are charged for in
the LEDGER at regular advertising
rates.
d Ed. ]. Mcknight and Miss Annie
Sayres, of Farber, were married last
week.
1t is time something was done about
the June races to come off at the fail
j grounds.
As we said once before, corn will
be worth more money before we have
corn again.
]. W. Town is back from Illinois
and will make his pottery boom il
in the spring.
R. W. Tureman has purchased thu
j. B. Clark residence on Clark aven
ne for $500.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Booth, o
C~entralia, visited DR.. and Mrs. Muir
dock this week.
Corn, during this bad weather, /
coming into Laddonia at the rate o
sixty loads per day.
The Wooden Mills have not bee
moved and viii open mp again as 500
IS they receive orders.
Billie Garrett, of C~entralia, is mai
ing arrangements to handle a full lin
Of farming implements.
]. J. Huff, formerly in the insul
ance business here, persisted in tn
Milwaukee fire last week.
]. Med. Trimble's many friend
are glad to see him able to be out al
ter a two months sickness.
Timber is being deadened for th
city election. There will be no lac
ct material for all the offices
Geo. Hablutzel can now be foun'
In the Duncan building, one doc
vest OF Squire Hooton's office.
The Windsor bill of fare last Sun
Gay took the cake. 1t was not b
surpassed by any hotel in st. Louis.
Don't fail to read Pollard Bros
locals of Laddonia. They are squar
men, and viii sell you goods cheaI
Langtry is in st. Louis this weei
She will not come to Mexico. A
neglected. to make arrangements wit
her.
The fire company has done goo
work this winter and deserve a ne
sseam engine and e few hooks an
ladders.
John Gregg, ex-reeesssder Is now
ne grocery business on che west sid
the square. where his many frienf
can ind hin.
g. Aartin Williams has joined Il
ploninahonists. 1t will be o sad di
saen 4. Martin can find no fanatics
faat and rave about.