Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-08-27
DR.. W. G. Pipino, Mexico, Mo.

Miss Jennie Hit is con~valescing.
Black Squirrel attended the Column
bia fair.
The Florida picnic as usual was a
big thing.
Col. E. D. Marsh is IN Illinois on
business.
Dick Worsham is happy. 1t is a
Is pound boy.
L. Phillip is East buying q large
stock of goods.
Judge Robinson is going to Louis
iana, Mo-, to live.
The w~aterworks people are hard
at work surveying.
Miss Belle Morris made a visit to
Columbia this week
James Powers is back this week
feeling much better.
Palmer's new restaurant is one of
the best in the west.
As Saturday draws nigh Ben
Dobyns gets happier.
DR.. W. v. Walker has cur thanks
for favors this week.
Geo. Kabrich is going to erect that
fine block in the spring.
&c. Bassford was in Illinois on real
estate business this week.
Some of our farmers have been
afraid Of a frost this week.
Look out for L. Phillips big "ad'
in the LEDGER next week.
Mike Scheftell is erecting a fine
addition to his lunch counter.
The court house roof and dome are
receiving a fine coat of pant.
A. H. Boyd, of Rush Hill, was in
Mexico this week on business.
Clark & Potts took their stable Of
horses to the Brownsville fair.
Hon. j. N. Cartmell, of Laddonia,
was in Mexico on business this week.
A. R. Wilber's Lyceum Theatre
Company at Opera House Sept. IL.
Maj. Brockenbrough, of st. Louis,
was up to visit his family this week.
Another horse fell into a we'll this
week. Why are the wells not kept
covered?
MIR. and Mrs. r. Galloway and fam
lily, Of Paris, were over on a visit
this week.
The only son, age 3years, of Elder
". T. Henson, Of Martinsburg, died
last week.
Supt. Pratt has had about loo
much needed hitching posts erected
in the cemetery.
Col. Joe Hickey, wife and daughter
we're at the Central Ringo Monday
en- route North.
Stoddert Society will meet at the
residence of Mrs. Bragg this after
noon at 2 o'clock.
The A. o. q. W. lodge has rented
the hall in the block Hiner is going
to put up this fall.
j. G.. Trimble is in st. Louis thi!
week attending a convention O
"Bata Theta Pts"
The lumber for the crossings t.
the court house is here and will b,
put down very soon.
The Mexico fair next year will b.
on Aug. 18th. Begin to prepar'
something for it now.
Mr.. Houston is visiting his son
A. S. Houston, a prominent lumbe
merchant of this city.
Frank Grasty, one of the lives
men on the Kansas City Times, wa
in Mexico last week.
Some of the yandalia boys are fg
uring On how much it will cost t
move the court house.
Mrs. Jennie bunker, of Shelby
vile, ILL.,, is visiting her sister, Mrs
]. N. Pollard, of this city.
The Lyceum Theatre Co., CON
posed of No. l talent at Oper
House Monday eve, Sept. IA.
Nimrod Townsend, a r~ip-roarin
Republican and blue-jay shot c
Fulton was in Mexico yesterday.
R. H. Fowler has received all th
properties for his show and will h
ready at once to start on the road.
R. II. Fowler will positively az
pear at Opera House Friday an
Saturday evenings. Sept. II and l.
Col. Richmond has left Vandal
tor st. Louis. He left some lit
mementoes there just as he did
Mexico.
The Audrain county S. s. Assoc
ttion will hold its sixth annual CO
fention at Mexico September ID
and 18th.
Blackburn & Bro, Of Vandalia, a
preparing to greatly increase the
ooggy paint manufacturing interes
next spring.
Col. Sam Cook, Of Warrenton, "
N Mexico Monday. Sam deserv
something goods at the hands Of t
Powers that be.
Geo. NJ. Brown of this county