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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
The Two Ways.

The Two ways.
There are two ways in which the re-
cent decline in the price of grain may
be met by the American farmer, to
whom increasing production by rival
countries gives no promise of relief
from the extreme depression now ex-
listing. One way is to adopt the best
system known for managing the soil.
The other is by saving something of the
cost of putting the products of the farm
into the hands of the consumer. OF
the various means for accomplishing
the latter none have been found more
satisfactory than condensing these prod
ucts into the smallest possible COM
pass, and into the most valuable form.
This is best done by feeding the bulky
grain and fodder to cattle, horses, sheep
or swine. In one or another of these
classes of animals, almost every farmer
will find an aid adapted to the condition
under which he happens to be working.
But it is not every description of cattle,
or horses, or sheep, or swine that will
help the farmer to find profitable
market for his crops. Some of the live
stock of this country is SO poor in breed
ing that it can really be of little use in
condensing grain. If that work is to be
done to best advantage it must be by
the help of the best means obtainable.
In raising q crop the farmer is quite
likely to use the best machinery he can
secure-why should he not be equally
careful to use the best means he can
get for putting his crops into market.
If aperson should learn that he could
sell his corn to the most profit by first
having it ground into fine meal, he
would scarcely be content to take that
corn TO mill that could not separate
most of the meal from the bran; nor
would he take it to one 50 exposed that
the winds could blow away q quarter,
or even a tenth part of the meal. And
if the farmer owned the mill, he would
hardly like to see it running half the
time with the hopper empty, while the
machinery wore out, and interest on the
investment accumulated. Cattle, hogs
and sheep are simply mills for turning
grain and hay into more marketable
forms. They should always be sup
piled with as much grist as they can
grind we'll. There should be no empty
hoppers, nor should wintry winds be
permitted to blow away any part of the
grist they grind. To get tho best
results, the grain must be taken to the
best mill, and that mill be made to do
its work in the best possible manner.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
Ayers Sarsaparilla

for Rheumatism, with entire success and,
after careful observation, declares that, in
his belief there is no medicine in the world
equal to it for the cure of Liver Disorders,
Gout, the effects of high living, Salt
Rheum, Sores, Eruptions, and all tho
various forms OF blood diseases.
We have Mr.. LELAND's permission to invite
all who may desire further evidence in regard
to the extraordinary curative powers Of
AYERS SARsApARILLA to see him person.
ally either at his mammoth Ocean Hotel,
Long Branch, or at the popular Leland Hotel,
Broadway, 9th and 2Sth Streets, New York.
Mr.. LELAND's extensive knowledge Of the
good done by this unequalled eradicator OF
blood poisons enables him to give inquirers
much valuable information.
PREPARED By
Dr.. J.C.Ayer& Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists; 81, six bottles for %.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
Potatoes Eaten by White Hrubs.


Apropos of the recent article on the
white grub in the Prairie Farmer, is
this from Columbia County, N. T.,
correspondent of the New York Trib-
une: We hear much about I'M ury done
to potatoes by wireworms and scab, but
as this year proves, the tuber has no
worse enemy than tho common white
grub, Lachnosterna fusca. The injury
they are doing the crop in this section
is very great. Whole fields turn out
nothing scarcely bat skeletons of pota-
toes. Out of curiosity dug five hills
at random in a field said to be infested
with this pest, and found therein
twenty-five full-grown, able. bodied
grubs. Two of the hills had six grubs
each, and the workman said: "Some-
times the ground is whito with them
where we are digging" There is scarce
~ anything left of the tuber in such
hills. In these were found no wire
worms, and none OF the potatoes were
scabbed. It was the work of the white
grub, pure and simple.
In a portion of his field the proprie-
tor had put some sawdust in the hills
at the time Of planting, with view to
retaining moisture, and some think the
grubs are thicker on that account, old
wood and decaying substances being at
tractive to them. However, complaint
comes from all sides, the location or Cir
cumstances seeming to have very little
to do with work of the grub. This is
certainly one of our most destructive
insects, and mono harder to contend
with and overcome.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
GEN. PASS. ACT, C E. NV. n.y.,
CHICAGO, ILL.

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less, Conyulsions,- Fits. Nervous Neuralgia.
Headache, Nervous Pr ostration caused by the use
preston, Softening OF tho Brain resulting in IL
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Premature Old Age. Barrcnness, Loes ct power
orrheea caused byOver-e1crtion of the brain. self
one month treatment. f1OOa box, or six boxes
70. 500 sent by mail prepaidon receipt Of price.
To cure any case. With each order received by az
for six boxes, accompanied with $780, We will
eend the purchaser onr written guarantee to re.
fund the money If the treatment does notef1ecs
acure. Guarantees Issued orlyby
JOHN q, WEST & CO.,
ca w. MADISON sT., CHICAGO, iLt9,
soss Props Vests Liver Pi,lh
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14
Different Ways of Making Butter.


In contrasting two ways of making
butter, Stephen Powers says in the
Ohio Farmer: "The good wife slaves
early and late, making butter, good,
bad or Indifferent, according to her
ability-(generally doing the best she
can, and doing better than she could
be expected to do under the wretched
inducements held out to stimulate ex-
cellence), to receive in return few
groceries or a few yards of cheap
print. 1t is one of the many mean and
little drudgeries of the farmers wife
which together sap woman's life,
steal away the color from her cheeks
and the elasticity from her steps," To
this might have been added that the
work of thousands of farmers wives are
done in their diaries, under conditions
that make the production of butter OF
good quality an impossibility. The
food given to the COWS is 40 tainted by
the presence of strong and disagreeably
favored weeds as on the raw prairies OF
the West; the water they drink is so
poisoned by the elements of putrefac-
ton, as in thousands of staguant pools,
or by minerals, as in many streams in
Kansas and other parts of the West
that the milk is utterly unfit for use.
It is we'll known that butter is spoiled
by the influence of any such obnoxious
matter in the diet of the COW, yet thou.
sands of women have struggled on for
years in the hopeless effort to make but
ter as good as they were wont to make
in their old homes, where water was
pure aud pastures free from noxious
weeds.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-14

mr.. d1mblett chuckled to himself
when he got outside, and proceeded in
the direction of Scotland yard, having
first securely slowed the s1O note.
Whether the @oiling" process extended
beyond Mr.. Gimblett himself is by no
means clear. Suffice it to say that five
minutes chat with the inspector having
charge OF Mr.. Mortimers case, the pro-
duction Of the letter, and few nudees
ana w1nks exchanged over q friendly
glass, seemed all that was necessary to
show how the land lay. From that day
forward Martha Chale ceased to be q
suspected person, even as q matter of
form, and the mystery of the robbery
was considered to be solved in a man
ner not altogether uncommon.
MI. Gimblett was gallant enough to
pay Martha Chale a visit at her moth
er's humble abode to report what he
had done, and receive the young wom-
ans thanks, which were rendered with
out the least enthusiasm, rather to his
disappointment. The ex-detective eyinc-
ed an inclination to follow up the &C.
quaintance thus auspiciously commend
ed, and ventured to call second time
when he happened to be passing soon
atterward. But on the latter occasion
Marthas manner was so abrupt and in
hospitable that he did not care to re-
peat the experiment., though he was
surprised how very mildly he resented
her treatment of him.
Shortly after this Mr.. Gimblett had
to go over to Paris on business. ~Miss-
ing persons traced" was one of the an
nouncements upon his professional
prospectus, and this branch afforded him
plenty of employment. The supposed
elopement. of q publican's wife with q
sprightly grocer's assistant was the cause
of his visit to the French capital on this
occasion, and in course of his inquiries
in connection with this thrilling case he
picked mp little piece of information
which recalled Martha Chale wildly to
his recollection. Perhaps if the truth
were known her image suggested itself
to his imagination rather frequently,
for there is no denying that for the first
time in his life Mr.. Gimblett found the
gayeties of Paris decidedly depressing,
and was constantly detecting fancied re-
semblances between casual passers-by
and certain young woman who had
impressed him so much with her clever.
ness. But the trifling discovery he
made in Paris suggested an uncomfor-
table suspicion as to whether Martha
Cha'e's cleverness had not been rather
too much for him. In other words, he
began to have a diequieting idea that
the young woman had made a cat's-paw
of him; and, what was worse, he learned
to doubt whether she was really as in
nocent of the disappearance of Mrs.
Mortimer's jewels az she had pretended.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

If a "Demagogue" is a hummer.
Who said anything about charac-
tiers.
If the two Johns won't take the
skating prizes.
Who is really selling the cheapest
goods" in Mexico.
If you have read the LEDGER sup
plements this week.
Why the Board of Trade meetings
are not better attended.
If Mexico can't boom when she
gets a 3rd class charter.
If Glib Landrum, of Laddonia,
has not the daisy watch
If Shell Bros. & Brown have not
the daisy store in Laddonia.
If Rush Hill did not think she
was going to have a sensation.
If some of the Mexico girls could
not get good salaries as Washers.
| If there should not be q crowded
house at the entertainment for the
POOR.
The name OF the learned peda-
gogue our Skull Lick correspondent
refers to.
Who it is from this part of Missouri
that thinks he is a dark horse for l.
s. Senator.
Which one of the girls vas think
ing of running off with a theatre
man last week.
If Misses Mollie. Glen and Lulu
jackson, of Laddonia, are not daisies
on roller skates.
Why it is that W. P, Hooton has
the finest Christmas cards and holiday
goods in the world. 36-lw
If Jasper Tucker knows the differ
ence between a nice juicy steak ant
an old salty mackerel-
/ If the brain pan of the Lyceun
Theatre Co.'s musical director Is a.
large as a Silver nickel.
If every one should not remembe'
well to keep constantly behind q guI
and in front OF a mule.
Who 1t is that thinks he can rui
the Democratic party of Audral'
county and the state of Missouri.
If Bertha" has not got in a goot
guess for the LEDGER watch: Der
tina" must know something about tn
printing biz e
If Barney Eooton amt a dand.
orator at a country debating society
He raised the trees out To
.tghost district the other evening
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Omen House.

The young ladies' have Ii good
chance in year to return some of the
courtesies extended to them by the
gentlemen during the year. That is
for them to keep open house on New
Year's..Day. We trust this good old
custom will be largely observed in
Mexico. Give in your names, girls,
so the LEDGER can get out its regular
annual directory.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Big Store-BIg Adj.

Shell Bros. Il Brown, of Laddonia,
have one Of the best store rooms and
one of the most complete stocks of
goods in Audrain county. They are
located at Laddonia, n of the best
little towns in the county. II yon
want any dry goods, boots or shoes
call on them. They defy competition
in styles, quality and prices. See ad.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY. DEC. II, 1885.
Official ORGAN OF THE CRY or MEXICO

Clean your sidewalks.
Goodbye, tobacco factory.
Joe & Vic Barth have electric
Eght.
Marshal Murray is able to be out
gsin.
Corn is coming into Laddonia
very slow.
SILVER Spur at opera house Jan,
lst and. 2nd-
Next Monday will be the shortest
ty Of the year.
/ ten. Robert Toombs died at Wash
aston, Ga, Tuesday.
The Sedalia Bazoo is doing some
aas! fine advertising,
famous" is headquarters for low
E1ees On rubber goods.
Read the LEDGER ads before you
Guy your Christmas goods.
The LEDGER can have your briefs
Panted for 75 cents a page.
10 TO the entertainment for the
POOR next Wednesday night.
J. G. Trimble was in Rush Hi
ls week Oh legal business.
See advertisement of Shell Bros
tBrown, of Laddonia, in this issue
There will be a grand Christina:
satertainment not down on the bills
Jim Roy was in Laddonia OF
Iuesday. He said he was buyine
Grn.
Gus Reusch has sold all of hi
ROperty in Rush Hill to Britton 4
BILL.
There should be no complimentary
tickets to the entertainment for th
POOR.
Ashort-haired temperance lecture
seated quite a rifle in Rush Hill thi
Week.
Mrs. Haisllp and little daughte
lie home from a pleasant visit a
Toledo, Ohio.
DAY Goatsworth, of Kansas CITY
sn Mexico shaking hands with hi
lost Of friends.
The most of our communication
Ne crowded out this week. The
Viii appear next week.
!. NJ Menefee has gone to Cal
N'nia for his health. He will b
s'ae three or four months.
lou can get the St. Louis Repul
"'ah cheaper from the LEDGER tina
W. can at the Republican office.
eollector J. 7. Nelson is taking i
~4sfent portions of the county gail
N4s IN the dollars of our dads.
Democratic paper is IN hard line
1t invokes Republican aid
as men like Gates or CockrelI.
'e's and Cockrell are two of th
senator's in Washington. Hi.
0eas Us out in this statement
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
AN. 9TH TO ONE DOOR WEST OF NATIONAL BANK:@

Col J. G. Downey, formerly of
this city, got into trouble at Ottawa,
Kansas, not long ago. While stop
ping at the Windsor here, with his
wife, he claimed TO be in the grain
business. We are informed that his
other wife caught up with him and
made 1t warm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Teachers Examination.

The second quarterly examination
for teachers certificates will be held
at my office in Mexico. Dec. %, 20
and 80, 1888. Ali persons desiring
certificates should he present as there
will be no further examination till
the last of March.
Respectfully, II. A. GAss,
3G-2t : School Com.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
"a Small Matter. ,

W. ?. Hill, son of Britton A. Hill,
of st. Louis, and q large land owner
near Rush Hill, has moved there to
reside. He has been selling land
and making out deeds, We learn, as a
single man, and now brings a wife,
and a child a year old there. Several
parties were very much exercised
about the matter. Mr.. Hill Informed
us yesterday that he'had only made
a few deeds of this kind and his wife
would give q release deed and it
would be all O. K.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Helm the Poor.

We are sure if our ministers would
have a tin "poor box" placed in the
postoffice they would find by Nmas
it would contain a handsome sum for
the poor. Mexico has many deserv-
ing poor. We think this experiment
worthy a trial.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
The Water-Werks.

The hard weather We have had
lately did not interfere with the work
on the water works. A full force is
at work and they are nearing COM
pletion. The elements can not stop
such enterPrising men as are putting
in pipe in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Notice.

To all whom it my concern: Mr..
VIM. r. Richards, a sewing machine
agent of Mexico, Mo, Is no longer in
my employ and is not authorized to
do any business for me whatever.
S. l.. MCkEAN, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The article in our contemporary in
regard to Its getting a certificate OF
character from the LEDGER is unex-
plainahle and uDanswerable.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
For Rent.

A large new 2-story brick business
house, with cellar, on Washington
street, to rent by January list upper
story arranged for residence; six
rooms and hall front and rear stair.
ways. Apply to
36-2w L. L. RoTHwELL.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Frank Tompkins' residence in East
Mexico burned Tuesday night. In
surance on house. sl00; on furniture,
5000. The family was away from
home and very little was saved from
the hOnep.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Jumbo aud Sampson, Americas
great favorites, will appear on skates
at the rink next Saturday evening.
Don't miss seeing them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The city council, Monday night,
bought 1000 feet of the best fire
hose, a hose cart and six good play
pipes. When the water-works are
done Mexico can defy the fiery ele-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Messrs. Swain Glenn, II. /. Hart
and JAS. McCane, Of Louisiana,
guests of Charley Burkhart, at the
Windsor, a few days since.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

For RESr.-Large, new store room
in Nandalia, between p~ostoffice and
Daniels bank. Apply to G. Fl.
Utterback, Nandalia, Mo. 34-4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The grand masquerade street pa
rade will take place at o'clock sharp
next Saturday. Wa,ch for it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Don't fail to attend the grand Mas
querade skating party at the Rink
Saturday night, Dee. IS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

All parties owing me can settle
their notes and accounts with Ira
Tincher in my store.
36-4t j. III. MENEFEE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Through an error our papers were
a day late going east last week. The
people at Laddonia aud Rush Hill
we're about to mob the postmasters
because they could not get their
LEDGER. The error will not occur
again. By-the-way, being late once
in awhile, isa good way to make the
patrons appreciate their newspaper,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Green apples, potatoes, turnlps,
onions and buck wheat flour at r. c..
Paul's.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Bud Carson was slightly injured
in a railroad wreck out west. The
party who tried to work his relatives
for money on false statements about
his injuries got left.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Why do you sleep cold when the
Infamous is offering such great ar
gains in blankets and comforts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Oak lumber cheap at Nelson s.
Wilcox. Best oak lumber s1.75
other grades S1.25 to Sl.50 per hun
dred. Sawed and split posts for sale
cheap. 35-1m
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The best Of buckwheat flour, HON
my, nuts, such as pecans, English
walnuts and almonds at
36-2w THEO. GARRETT'S.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Nice fresh line of canned corn,
tomatoes, peaches, pears, apricots'
damsons, blackberries, SC, at Theo.
CARROTS. SOW.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

Weimer is a daisy Oh getting to
the front. He moved his large stock
in twenty minutes and is now wide
open again just south of Carter's sa,
loon. 35-tf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The LEDGER can have your briefs
printed for Is cents a page.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The Red Apron club of Rush Hill
are making extensive preparations
for the festival at the new church
next Friday night. Come one, come
all, and have a good social time and
plenty to eat. There will be q fish
ing pond in one corner for the amuse-
ment of children. Miss Lib Clark is
in Mexico now to procure fish for the
occasion.
Potatoes, jumbles. green apples
and ginger snaps and mince meat at
36-2w THEO. GARRETTs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17

The Audrain County Medical Soci-
ETY. met in office of DR.. Rothwell at
s o'clock p. NJ, Dec. 18th, DIR. Walk
er in the chair. Minutes of last
meeting read and approved. Mem
bers present-Drs. Basket, Dodson,
Russell, Rodes, Rothwell, Walker
and Cave. The evening was spent in
the report and discussion of interes-
ting cases. At the next meeting
DR.. Basket will read a paper on
Acute Albumimeria.' This society
meets weekly in the office of DIR.
RothWell.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Supplements This Week.

The LEDGER again this week issues
two supplements - one filled with
good, fresh local matter and valuable
ads, the other Henry Watterson's
Louisville Courier-Journdl, n of
the best papers published. The
LEDGER has to make room for ads
but does not intend to cut off our
regular subscribers reading matter,
but rather increase it. The LEDGER
will boom in this way all through
| 1886 and tue rest of time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Old ReliableS.

The proprietor of the LEDGER has
made arrangements with the st.
Louis Republican so that we can send
the Old Reliable LEDGER and the Old
Reliable Republican till January LIST,
1887, to new subscribers, for 1925.
This offer is only open to new sub
scribers and to them only till Jan.
LIST, 1886. Get two papers for the
price of one.
Extra selected Immortelles in all
the beautiful shades of color, for let
tering and other floral designs.
36-2t T.. ID. SHIpPEE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-17
Residence Burned,

L. L. RoTHwELL.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-23
The Operators Mistake.

SIS this Mr.. Hughes?" asked a gentleman
whose animated appearance indicated tha
something unusual had happened, as he hur-
risd into the deputy postmaster's office Ia Min
neaoplis, and addressed the gentleman behind
the desk. "I have just mailed letter to the
person whose address you see on this card, and
I want you to get it out OF the box before it is
sent off"
Mr.. Higgins went into the mailing room and
soon returned with q letter bearing the wide
black margin seen on envelopes generally en-
ployed by people in affection.
81 wouldn't have had that letter sent for
500" said the visitor, taking the significant
missive from the assistant postmaster's hand
"This morning l received telegram telling of
the death of my child in Bangor, Me-, and as
I am so far away L can't go home to bury him
/ just sit down and wrote my wife NV svmna-
thy and my condolenoe. Eve minutes ago the
telegraph boy came into my Office and ssid they
had made mistake. The telegram didn't be-
long to me, but to another man whose family
also lives in Maine. That's Why L didn't want
this letter to 60" And as he thanked the post
office official, the face of the gentleman bright
ened up with the thought that his little bow in
far-oH Maine was still of this world, and that
the next letter to his wife would De far differ
ent from the one that he held ia his hand
Minneapolis Tribune.