Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-09-25

each paper, making the circulation about
$4,000, counting extras a grand total of
III $1,000 readers in a month. Everybody
reads the "Great Religious Weekly!"
Business is picking up.
Mr. James Galloway has been very
sick.
Corn is liable to sell for 25 cents a
bushel.
Miss Ella Grasty is visiting Mexico
friends.
Mrs. Maurice Mann is visiting in
st. Louis.
1t don't pay to raise wheat at cur
rent prices.
A foot ball club will be organized
this winter.
C. C. Koeppen has moved to Lead
vile, Colorado.
Mexico will be well represented at
the St. Louis fair.
The p~cstofice has been moved to
the Hardin Block.
Miss Sallie Carter has been very
sick the past week.
A new addition to Laddonia has
just been surveyed.
j. j. Steele's residence is nearly
ready to be occupied.
Rev. Boone Keeton, of Gallatin, is
visiting Mexico friends.
Mrs. G. A. Keeton, during the
week, visited in st. Louis.
l.. n. Bass has our thanks for
some fine, large tomatoes.
Miss Miriam Saunders spent last
Tuesday visiting in st. Louis.
The hog cholera is still raging in
many localities in this county.
Geo. Blesse and his mules left here
Tuesday for St. Charles to reside.
Every one was pleased with the
Mexico band at the Columbia fair.
Several of our local sportsmen are
attending the state shoot at Kansas
City.
Mrs. DR.. T. A. Keeton, of Chica-
go, is visiting Mexico relatives and
friends.
Bob White left Monday to attend
the Congressional Convention at New
London.
Johnny Jones, who has been clerk
ing at the Ferris House, has gone to
railroading.
Oscar Kreiger, of Martinsburg, was
in Mexico last week and reports bust
ness booming.
Charley Malone, day clerk at the
Hotel d Ferris, is ''doing up Saint
Louis this week.
The schools are all in full blast
and never with better promise of suc-
cessful sessions.
We are under many obligations to
Hon. ". L. Gatewood, of Montgom-
cry City, for favors.
Hopewell church is to be torn
down and removed further out, into
the Jesse neighborhood.
Mrs. Lamb and daughter, Miss
Jessie, of st. Paul, are visiting the
family Of Joel Guthrie.
Hog cholera is playing havoc with
swine all over the county and State.
Hundreds are dying daily.
Mrs. Joseph Lupton is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Thos. W. Carter, at
1915 Lucus Place, st. Louis.
f. D. Graham's '.Gold Dust took
the premiums at the Paris fair for the
best S-year-old harness gelding.
Mr.. A. c. Hit is going to move to
Mexico so his daughter can enjoy the
advantages of Hardin College.
Mr.. Hamilton has bought back his
farm just south of Mexico. He is
right-there is no place like Mexico.
Young Riney, of Vandnlia, who
shot Gibbony at Perry last week, is
out On $4,000 bond. Gibboney will
get well.
R. S. Mcconnell & Co., are now
running the old Sontag bakery. They
understand the business and will have
agood trade.
Geo. A. Poteet has bought the Nc
Laren restaurant and bakery and fit
ted it up in elegant style. Bob Nc.
Connell has charge.
The Wabash last Tuesday-the
one-cent a mile day to the Exposi.
ton in st. Louis--took in o train OF
10 passenger coaches.
A wood house belonging to BE-
Tomlison burned Monday afternoon
while the family were absent from
home. Loss about 500.
Geo. A. Poteet is on the road in
the interest of the Garrett Steam
Washer. This is as good a machine
as was ever manufactured.