Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-09-10
THE LEDGER.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Cry OF MEXICO.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1885.
ION was up SUNDAY.

grapes
7. W. Atkins has our thanks fol
melons
The prospect for a big fall trade
is good.
J. V. Robinson smiles because il
is q son.
Mr.. McCarty of near Modoc, dieG
Monday.
Mexico will soon take up the sewer
question.
The hickory nut crop promises te
be large.
]. E. Sims is completing a new
residence.
R. Hisey is going to remove biz
old elevator.
Mrs. J. NJ. Pollard is visiting hel
parents in Illinois.
Capt Frost is talking of moving to
Eldoradn Springs.
Joe Pratt is turning out to be a
fac wood engraver.
Frank Turner is going East in a
few days to buy goods.
VIM. Dyer, Of Rush Hill, made us
apleasant call this week.
A. E. Poteet is going to remove
from st. Louis to Marshall.
An infant child of Tom Wynne, OF
Benton City, died last week.
We are glad to see that a grade is
being established for our streets.
Miss May Hooton, of this city, is
visiting Miss Gunnell of Moberly.
Audrain stock is capturing prem
iums at the fairs all over the state.
J. Franklin has the contract to
erect the cells in the new city cooler.
You must not shoot quail or prairie
chickens till after the 18th of Octo-
Der.
Alex. Carter has our thanks for q
sample of the so-called Egyptian
corn
A move is on foot 20 stop some OF
the cruelty to animals going on in
Mexico.
Mrs. Joe Henderson has just re.
turned from a pleasant trip to Gin
ton, Mo.
The crossings to the court house
are being put down. Hurrah for the
LEDGER
All of the fairs are a success, but
none this far compares at all with
Audrain's.
Taz Johnson lost S20-two tens
on the streets of Mexico Saturday q
week ago.
G. Blum has returned from New
York with a full and complete line OF
new goods.
Work has begun on the water
works. Pipe is being laid on Prom
enade street.
j. T. Llewellyn is putting a front
in his store made mostly of Audrain
county walnut
Yerger is going to move his grocery
store into the new brick across from
Collins saloon.
VIM. Wetter, Dicks local agent.
appreciates printers ink and always
shows his appreciation.
Look out for J. F. Llewellyn's new
ad. next week. Call and see his cleo
trio light in a few days.
The town people should all go ths
picnic On the 18th with full baskets
and help feed the crowd.
c. 81. Hodges and family, of Car
r~ollton, ILL.,, have been visiting rela
tives in Mexico this week.
1t is not the man who thumps ths
bar the hardest that has the mos
money to pay for his drink.
Read r. q. Fowler's show ad. ant
you a see what he is going to Civ
us Friday and Saturday nights.
Lester Esthal, of Terre Haute
Indiana, is now night clerk at tn
Windsor Hotel. Les is a rustler.
If you want to know just how
small a man is, give him an office o
let him become suddenly wealthy.
Don't fail to make arrangement
to come to the Old Settlers Re-uniol
and bring your baskets we'll filled.
Cash Blackburn, of Vandalia, wa
up shaking hands with friends las
week. He reports Vandalia booming
MIR. Canada, a prominent citize
OF Sailing township, was in Mexic
this week shaking hands with friends
Mrs. B. B. Runkle is visiting wit
relatives at Tallula, Ill. Mr.. !
spent Sunday there, returning Mo,
day.
Married, on the End Of Septembe
by Elder P. T. Gentry, John lind
and Miss Emma Toalson, all of tt
county.
The Mallory Bros. are the DO
threshers. They say that they c.
knock out $50 bushels of oats in
half hour.
j. G.. Trimble, DR.. j. F. Now
hams and Virgil Williams took