Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-08-20
Galloway fair this week.
The novelty race did not fill.
Nothing succeeds like success.

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Clarence Vivion was here to the
fair.
Ten new subscribers to the LEDGER
this week.
Who can beat Shippee making a
bouquet?
The boxes were all filed at the
French Spy.
No fair in the West had any better
speed rings.
The Goldens had crowded houses
every night.
Thursday was an off day for "Joe
Stanhope."
The twenty-five questions are still
unanswered.
Most of tho stores closed Thurs
day afternoon.
There were nine entries in the
three minute trot.
"Skippie" Garrett can't be beaten
for race horse rider.
Golden played to standing room
only Thursday night.
By-the-way, T. B. Buckner does
hate d. H. Mcintyre.
J. ]. Rice of the Galloway Gazette,
took in the fair Thursday.
Billie Carter has a fine mare. She
trots up with the best of 'em.
The LEDGER will give a prize for
the prettiest baby again next year.
The Mexico track, when in good
fix, is not as slow as some think it is.
The angels whether pulled
down. or not, are roosting very low.
Cy Clark has one of the fastest
running 2-year-olds in the country.
Floral Hall is not large enough.
Next year one double the size will be
erected.
A prominent citizen of this city
has bought a show out and will GO
on the road.
The 2:3O trot was the biggest
thing of the kind ever seer
on a country track.
'sMalice and hatred" to the con.
trary Notwithstanding the truth is
mighty and will prevail.
How "Father Hubbard" kept &
lady from getting a school in tht
east part of the county?
A bouquet of statesmen from Lad
donia occupied the lower left box a
Goldens on Thursday night.
1t was big Thursday sure enough
There were more people than thu
amphitheatre could accommodate.
The charge of 'shatred" needs NJ
reply. Read both sides and judg'
yourselves wherein the hate doth lie
During the wind storm Thursda.
the side show blew down and tn
snake got mixed up with the ia
woman.
| The entertainment at Mr.. Ed
Lees Thursday night for the benefi
of the Episcopal Church was a mos
enjoyable affair.
| Bob White secured water work
for Mexico by rousing majority
Bob generally wins.-Glasgow Cen
troll Missourian.
| West Goodwin, of the Sedali,
Bazoo, brought his wife down to tn
fair. He says it was one Of the bes
he ever attended.
In the interest of law and justic
we demand of the Iatelligemcer th
name of the man who wrote the al
ticle signed ga Democrat
The LEDGER cannon stands benin
the bulwark of honesty and purit
in Office and puts the hot-shot plum
into the dishonest public record.
DIR. Vandeventer, one of the mos
worthy citizens of this county. die
Wednesday and his remains wer
inferred in Mexico Thursday.
The ambition of man is indee
commendable who envies another fe
having raised himself to the loft
position of a deserved dismissal frol
his Office.
The squirt-gun loaded with fill
from the cesspool OF 1niquity an
corruption is now owned and control
ed by Buckner, Intelligencer & Co
alone.
Esau of the Laddonia Herald
y getting to the front. Esau is
:, slayer. The people will never appr
. ciate him until they have known hi
for years.
The Inteligencer should noN
as of old, accuse the editor OF Il
LEDGER of having been born in Ne
York. 1t would have the same bes
IS ing on the subject as the stiffs tn
- are giving us.
stThe Proof"
Buckner admits using free pa
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