Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-09-06

II Tie DfoWnS uld not play dan
dy game at Sedalia.
If Sallee & Brooks is not the place
to buy your school books.
Who gave Eos Matthews that Gle
giant horseshoe of flowers.
Who sent Charley Greenamyer
that boquet. It's daisy.
If Griffen's knitting factory is not
crowded daily with visitors.
If the Sedalia Bdzoo is not the
dandy paper in Central Missouri.
If "Uncle" Willis Terrell is not
the boss rat slayer-43 in one hour.
If the Centralia Guard did not cork
the editor of the Press IN short metre.
If we won't have a long dry and
dusty spell if it don't rain pretty
soon.
What kind of world this would
be if every one believed all they
heard.
If the Waddingham case has only
| gotten under good headway in the
courts.
If there are not few dogs in and
out of the manger ON this mundane
sphere.
What has become of our street
sprinkler, gas works, water works and
creamery.
If the more you do for some people
don't make them that much the more
ungrateful.
Why the young lady did not accept
theatre tickets for herself and friend
from "Ab."
If a certain anonymous letter wri-
ter in Mexico is not fixing to get in a
warm position.
If Cross
Isn't the "boss''
At "playing hoss." -.-
Why some young lady in Mexico
don't go and hide herself so we can
have . big item. -
What has become Of the many
oranges. Col. Hutton organized for
''admission fee.'' :
Why the Fog Horn don't learn
the difference between an opinion and
the decree Of a court. --4.--,-------
If some so-called editors have not
queer way Of trying to spite their
more successful competitors.
Il people shoslds not pay their
debts and attend to their own affairs
before they become ofiicious.
Why interest does not sleep at
night if treated like labor and not al
lowed to accumulate Sunday.
Who, in the United States, has a
finer collection of ancient coins and
moneys than J., F. Llewellyn,--~ -
How much money .'Truth'' would
take to give his real name, if he has
one, if he is not ashamed of it, g
1
II Cash Blackburn, manager of the
Vandalia Reds, has not more grit than
any B. b. manager in the State.
If "Truth'' did get an idea into
his head that there were other histo-
rians in Mexico besides himself.
If. Cross of the Press knows who
the "lewd women of this country
are. He says they were at the picnic.
If the LEDGER is not the only pa
tper-in Auarain county that gives q
full report of the Frank James trial.
If the Mother Hubbard style of
dress is not cross between coffee
sack and a scare-erow in a srneion
patch. = tSE$Fkh*E
If there is not an ordinance against
hitching teams to awning posts or
leaving them unhitched on the public
square.
IL some peoples terrestrial doom
does not hang on a slender thread
when people let their little spites get
the best of their judgments. % -
If it is not fun to hear "Friday"
talk about what he suppresses On
some people. We all know what he
"suppresses" the most Of.
If the picnic is not the only enter
prise we. have had for years, and if
sorehead newspapers and rag-tag fol-
lowers are not mad about it.
What r. Fl. Fowler Is going to do
with bis skiff-and if he, C, ]. Settle,
James Pasqueth, Joe Murray and Joe
Coons are really going around the
world in 1t.
How Jim McDearmon came to
get stuck on the leader (?) at the
theatre Tuesday night. Jim stayed
right with him clear through. birds
of a feather" &c. 4>~'' '--'i-
What is the matter with the Fog
Horn? The LEDGER, for months, has
attended to its own business and has
not even referred to the old sheet.
What do they want to fuss about, we
wonder? 2 ~ '5tt
If Hutten allows Truth" to insin-
uate, in his paper without giving his his
name, Why the LEDGER may not allow
correspondent To- ask him Hutton)
questions that win make him sick.
| Co on : we will have Won where wa