Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-09-18
THOMPSON GLEANINGs.

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Of the Ledger.
THOMPSON, Sept. 18th, '84-"We
smole a smile for Ajax"
The general health status is good.
Considerable grass and wheat is
being sown.
The yell of the school boy is
abroad in the land.
F. Mowry, sick for two weeks past.
is convalescent.
Morgan Show left Saturday to at
tend the Normal School at Kirksville.
Work has recommended on J.. P.
Edwards coal mine.
Since the debut of the shallow pated
ssAjax," the mystery of the ''haunted
hill'' greatly supplies itself.
The sanctifed shouters begin to
howl their yahoo monotone Of saliva
ton to-day at Bethlehem, on Skull
Lick.
Miss Annie NJ. Pool, visiting rela-
tives in Boone and Galloway during
the past summer, has returned home.
NJ. J. o,Brien and Martin Donnely
are in Clark county buying cattle.
The non compus menttis "Ajax" re-
fers to the far-famed "Them steers"
of Scion Chase's, as "Texas steers"
No doubt the grim-rattle echo OF the
fog horn in his unfathomable ignor-
ance has some sort of a notion that
Chase lives in Texas.
The Baptist %protracted meeting,
conducted by the Rev. Moore, closed
with eight additions.
Emmett Mcdonald, who left the
first of the month to attend West
Minister College, returned home quite
sick with fever.
Western Grove Seminary opened
up with an enrolment of &C pupils.
Employing the same instructor for
several years in succession, he has
been able to grade the school and
everything works by a systematic
programme.
Twinkle, twinkle little "Ajax,"
How We wonder if you lack
The muscular appendage
That would prove Darwin a sage.
Jonathan Kemper, late of this
county, now of Montrose, Henry
county, is IN on a visit to his son-in'
law, Lee Kindred. Lee will emigratt
to the same section this fall.
John Sims is having his barn NOV
ed, also a new granary, Toulouse
carriage shed and pair of scales
erected. He says he proposes tt
have one of the best improved farms
in North Missouri.
J. Stephens, J.. Lindsey and VIM
D%eJarnette have returned from thei
tour through Arkansas. They max
, favorable reports Of the country ant
the two latter contemplate emigratinl
next spring.
: In the Sept. 4th issue of the crank,
old fog-horn, one Ajax" Of Thomp
Q son, whose mental calibre, by tn
way, seems to be Of the smalles
bore, and whose mind closely resen
bles the pupil of an OWLS eye-in tha
e the more light it receives the NOR
it contracts-rattles around like
+ pebble in a hogshead, because, fol-
sooth we merely stated the fact, tha
Mexico men received the nomination
o for county officers at the late Demo
q cratic convention.
At this, "Ajax' swells up like
e toad with the dropsy, and in a BON
d bastic, egotisticaI manner pours OF
o his little half-ounce vial of wrath uI
t on the editors innocent head fl
permitting such An "untruth to g
unrefuted." Now, be it known, "
have no fault to find with the nom
nees. They are all excellent me,
g Nor do we blame Mexico in the leas
or intimate it was her fault that tt
e farmers were not represented on Il
ticket. The action of the c%onventio
demonstrated %conclusively that Me-
If leo delegation wanted to recogni;
is the producing element of the count.
hut such pig-headed chumps and u
mitigated asses from the country
Y. "Ajax'' spould not haze it so.
e There is a stream of young mi
at constantly flowing into the streets
the busy city from the farm. Tit
V leave the Ivy embosomed homeste.
r, with its wealth of golden fruit, i
r field Of waving grain, its green pa
t, lures, shady valleys, messy dells al
!" springs that bubble up from the ear
like a little poem, because they kno
t. if they stay on the farm they CT
Re never hope for political distincti'
y and honor. There is a kind of i
tuition that their parents have i
st stilled, by their example into ther
that if they would even seek to +
u any Of the offices in the gift Of t
to people they must link their forum
er with the city. Now, why is thi
lg Simply because the farmers are co
Ct tinually voting for city men to fill
the important offices of both count
ID state and nation. The townsman
not to blame. 1t is such numbski
t, farmers as "AjaS'' aDho r account
II Die alone for their most inteltectu
10 sons rushing into the maslstrom ofc
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