Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-06-04

Chew W. T.. G. Plug. IT'S best.
Judge Guthrie is happy-it Is a
,irl.
The Jonesburg Journal has been
moved to Montgomery City and will
,e as good a paper as it has been.
A. E. Poteet is in Colorado looking
or a good investment in real estate,I
His family is in Carthage on q visit
The Fair Catalogue is now in the
lands of the printer, and will be
and ready for distribution
next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Gill went to
Mo-, last week to visit one
If their daughters. Mrs. Gill will
remain at least a month.
Shade trees should be planted on
each side of every street in Mexico.
now have a stock law and trees
will be allowed to grow.
The postmaster at Centralia would
do us a lasting favor by not receiy-
ing for post letters from Mrs. Show,
intended for this Office.
John X. Brown sold Geo. Kabrich
700 feeces Of wool, the best in the
county, for Is cents. George bought
10, 900 pounds Of wool last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Martin have
removed from Bowling Green to
Petersburg, Ill. Mrs. Martin says:
"Don't fail to send US the LEDGER"
Mr.. Francis Marschalk, editor and
agent of the New York AIdine, made
us a pleasant call last Friday. He is
a clever gentleman to do business
with.
Col. W. F. Switzler, Of Columbia,
has entered upon the discharge of his
duties as Chief of the Bureau Of Sta
tistics at Washington-salary $4,000
per year.
The Fair association has offered
no premiums for cattle this year,
owing to the reported prevalence of
pleuro-pneumonia in this section Of
the state.
G. n. Suggett, of Middletown,
Mo-, was in Mexico this week and
made us a pleasant call. He says his
corn is up in good shape and plowed
over once.
Wallace Williams, editor of the
Fulton Telegraph, and wife, were in
town Monday, en- route to Columbia
to attend the meeting of the Press
Association.
Messrs. R. W. Tureman and C.
W. Baker returned Monday from a
business trip to Texas. They report
much rain and many serious wash
outs in that state.
Spring has come, and some OF the
boys say it is dangerous to be out,
because the grass has blades, the
flowers pistils, the leaves shoot and
the bullrushes out.
VIM. Pollock was elected q mem
Der of the Board Of Trustees OF
Hardin College to ELL the vacancy
occasioned by the death of WIN. NJ
Sims. A good selection.
Our young friend, Charley Drake,
manager of the Hotel dFerris,
knows how to keep a good hotel, and
makes a jolly landlord. He is the
right man in the right place.
Mexico is we'll represented in Co
lumbia this week. Quite a party o.
young and old people went over t.
attend commencement and the meet
ing of the Press Association.
Many of our farmers are re-plant
ing their corn. The stand of corr
where good seed was selected ant
when the re-planting is carefully ct
tended to promises to be good.
Thomas Yates. Esq, of Monro'
City, in company with his nephew
Yates, Of this county, mad
us a pleasant call Tuesday. Tn
latter says he has a hundred acres o
corn to replant.
Mrs. j. NJ. Koontz has returne'
from a visit to her husband at Leav
enworth, Kan. She reports the d.
in good health, with an extensiv
practice, and having large sales Q
his medicines.
/ Married, at Rush Hill, on Tuesday
May 10, 1885, at the residence of tn
brides parents, Nh. John T. PIX
and Miss Mile G. Reusch. both {
that place. Rev. Father Dempsey
of this city, performed the ceremon'
Il. N. s. Pinafore by a superb ca
i of go Of our best local juvenile t.
/, ent, under the supervision OF Mi
, Lizzie Hicks, at the Opera Hous
Tuesday and Wednesday evening
, June 16 and II. Admission, ff
I kcents.
A Centralia friend of ours got no
of the wrong jug the other day a
took q big drink Of kerosene oil a
m~uriatic acid. Then he accused
son of stealing his whisky and pou
ing water in the jug 70 conced :
theft.