Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-02-05


good paper. and his son Wilson is
turning out some excellent job work.
The p~ost-offlce has been moved to
Daniels new brick, built especially
for it. Mrs. Bruce Madison is post
mistress.
The grocery merchants are selling
20 pounds Of excellent New Orleans
sugar for $l.00, ana hutter at from
IL 1.2 to l5c per pound.
Daniel & Blackburn last Saturday
sold over $500 worth OF goods. Cash
wants to know if any Mexico firm
can beat it. They are rustlers.
Who was it that came up from
Louisville, in Lincoln county, and.
after losing all his dust, s%quealed, and
had his money given back to him.
The town needs a new hotel and a
new depot, and those unsightly stock
pens should be moved out Of the
square. This should be attended to.
Charley Brown was down Monday
looking up a suitable business house
in which to put a stock of clothing.
1t will be a branch of Barth's Golden
Eagle.
Some blind scamp gulled the peo-
pie for about Is subscriptions to a
paper he said was printed in Chicago.
He got their money, but they got no
paper in return.
Conductor Bob Dunsmore wanted
to know the name of the pretty widow
who got off at Vandalia. They do
breathe it occasionally that Bob is
matrimonially inclined.
Alex. Mergell, formerly a baker
at Vandalia, now of Bowling Green,
was in town a day or two ago to
receive a legacy of 500, left him by
an aunt who recently died in Germa-
ny.
We are sorry we couldn't stay to
the A. o. U. W. oyster supper Mon
day night. We know it was a grand
affair, for if there is any one thing
more than another the Vandalians
believe in, it is good eating.
, Here you will find three of as fine
hardware stores as there are in the
country, viz: Winter & Bro, Cald.
well, Smith & Chinn. and Read &
Coons. They all carry heavy stocks
and are reliable, gentlemanly business
, men, and seem to be kept busy.
G A well-known young business mar
A., good h~umoredly said, 81 would take
D your paper, but the LEDGER tore
n down in five minutes hopes that
+ had been more than year in building
up" He subscribed, all the same
p and will come out o. k. yet. Laird
but he was mad at first!
The reporter is under special obi
cations to Joe Beshears for favors
Joe pays out from $4,000 to $4,000
a week, and will buy anything oil
earth you have for sale. He say
there is not another paper in the uni
verse like the LEDGER, and Joe i
nearly always correct.
r. Dingle Bros. do a flourishing gro
J. Gerry business, and their trade is dali,
being extended. They are cleve
+, boys, are we'll liked, and can be count
ed upon, we think, as permanent Cit
zens, as they are badly stuck on til
town. We are glad to note that the,
are kept busy supplying the peopl
i with groceries. All loaded us dow
with sugar, 20 pounds of which b
sells for S1.O0.
They say Jim McDearmon's hid
S has loosened up wonderfully since b
has been in the town. Nothing
as too good for Jim now. He is a cleve
young druggist, is doing a fine bus
a ness, and is highly pleased with th
trade he is having.
O.. Joe Pitcher, another wide-awak
Mexico boy who went there to max
his fortune. occupies part of the stol
r room with Mac. and is selling tt
whole country round about watche
clocks, jewelry, &c. Joe carries
No. 1 stock of goods, and is sellin
ne them low down.