Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-03-19


Why We have no entertainments ,
the opera house.
The name of the young lady ma,
q%ueradine last night.
Why we can not get a little lii
into the city election.
Who made Sallie Harris give u
that silk handkerchief.
What all the country people ar
moving to Mexico for.
If Phillip Bauer amt a Joe dand,
citizen AS we'll as a tailor.
If the delegates should not be in
structed for all the offices.
If George Brock amt a hustle
when it comes down to business.
If the country is not preparing t.
furnish some startling sensations.
If Mexico within a year will no,
surely have gas Or water, or both.
Why. every Democrat in Mexico
should not be at the ward meetings.
Why we can't do away with the
wooden awnings around the square.
How often the question will be
asked, "where is your congressman
Why NJ. Mann don't buya ''coun.
try" fire company for his own private
use.
If offices should be given to peo-
pie who can't make a living at any
thing else.
When Jack Jepther is gong to pay
us the 81 he owed when he STONED
his paper.
Why Mexico is not a good place
for a custom wooden mill? See Boom
cr's proposition.
If Cough & Ruger have not got
the nobbiest line of dress goods ever
brought to Mexico.
If some people don't think eyes
were given them for but one purpose,
to close while asleep.
If our congressman really thought
the aucus could be postponed be-
cause he was not there.
How much Maj. Carson would take
his circus dog that jumped
through Phillips glass door.
Any reason why Mexico should
not have had a big parade as we'll as Il
ball on St. Patrick's day.
Who it is that would only give IL
eggs for a dozen yesterday because
one of them had a double yelk.
If Uncle Abe Hit and Wick Mason
are really going to form a law part
nership? divorces a specially"
If the Littleby people are not very
indignant at the gentleman who drove
wife away from home at midnight.
Any town in the state except Mex
leo that in every direction is surround
ed with the finest of farming lands.
If Winscott and Bennett wasn't
most awfully sleepy a few days since,
and if 'Rng'' did not wake them up.
If there are not wealthy business
men in Mexico who do not spend a
dollar with any home paper in a year.
If the LEDGER and all other Dem
papers don't deserve a good
kicking for noticing John A. Brooks
1t all.
When that beautiful and vivacious
young lady is going to send the LED
FER office dudes that Mother Hub
bard.
If the West End millinery and
1ressmaking establishment is not the
boss place for ladies' to get their old
hats made new.
If every farmer in the county
not attend the creamery
meeting March ~, and hear Colonel
Coleman speak.
If George Brock is not the dandy
floor manager and if he did not keep
'hings moving lively and smoothly at
she St. Patrick's ball.
If "Mary" Armistead was not
about right when he gave
,hree cheers for 1.-THE holIows" He
gets to the front.
How Mexico would support q sim
gle pspef or any other enterprise If
all of our merchants refrained from
as do some.
If J. p. Squires did not raise
she first spring chickens of the
season, and if his friends won't have
a hiU time at the 0innar
If Mexico Is not one Of the most
moral towns in the state, and il our
police courts and grand juries
should not be proud of it.
If the people who said the C. e.
A. Il. r. division did Mexico no good
are not the very ones who are now
to give $50, 900 to get it back.
II our contemporary, as the head
and fount of Democracy, won't, for a
price or as a favor, vaccinate US so it
can stop calling the LEDGER an .sal-
Democratic" paper.
Fine Stock Farm.
c. 6. Mediation & Sons, of Fulton,
have purchased and moved on to the
line Hamilton Park farm just south