Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-10-22
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CRY OF MEXICO.
See DR.. Beaty's adj.

See DIR, Beaty's ad.
S. S. Craig has been very sick.
Columbis, Mo, has a skating rink.
VIM. Mundy, of Moline, has sold
his store.
Mrs. Arnold has been in Mexico
on a visit
Goldsmith Maid. the famous trot-
ter, is dead.
Work will begin at once on the
water-works.
The LEDGER extra was out before
the fire was.
There are $50 pupils in the Van
dalia school.
Farber wants a brick yard and an
a~rtesian we'll.
County court meets first Monday
in November.
Centralia is to have a new M. E.
church, South.
Court has adjourned. The docket
was very light.
Miss Nettie LaRue has a fine school
at Doan Station.
Mexico is we'll represented in st.
Louis this week.
Z. Rines and family will spend the
winter in ST. Louis.
G. D. Ferris was in Mexico yester-
day on business.
II. Schmidt was in Laddonia on
business this week.
Don't fail to take supper with the
Ladies' Aid Society.
Frank Tomlinson will set up the
oysters. 1t is a boy.
Squire Winscott is kept rather
busy marrying people.
Maj. E. L. Hord is reported as
keeping hotel in Fulton.
B. B. Tureman is talking of spend
ing the winter in Florida.
VIM. Wetter, Dick Bros. agent,
has our thanks for favors.
The Mexico deer hunters left for
Usage county last Monday.
G. F. Williams is happy. It is a
girl. Better late than never.
Mexico is getting some fine COM
pliments on the electric light.
Col. Alb Cassidy, of st. Louis, was
in Mexico Saturday On business.
The Cunningham farm sold for
about S32 per acre to Mr.. Mason.
Don't fail to go to Reed & Hight
shoes sale if you want good cattle
Shell Bros. & Brown of Laddonia,
are receiving new goods every day.
Hon. G.. G. Daniel, of Vandalia,
was in Mexico on business last week.
Tom Ford is very sick at the res
idence of VIM. Johnson, Laddonia.
Our old-time but young-feeling
friend VIM. Mixer is back from a visit
east.
A liberal reward should be offered
at once for the party who started the
fire.
VIM. Wetter, agent for Dick Bros
went to Quincy, ILL.,, On business this
week.
G. D. Ferris and family arc coming
back to Mexico to reside in the
spring.
". C. Clanton, of Galloway, is
opening a store at Moline, this
county.
The Hatton and Concord boys play
amatch game of base ball at Concord
Saturday.
Mrs. j. M. Pollard is home from a
pleasant visit to relatives at Shelby
vile, Ill.
Prof. Yancey and J. H. Hayden
went to the Baptist association at
Carthage.
Mike Sheehan is now conductor on
the branch. w. B. Belts has taken
"trip East.
Assessor Beatty is now working ir
Mexico. He is through with the res'
of the county.
Plnckney French fell over a clothes
line last Friday night trying to cap
ture q burglar.
The "Candy Makers" have a lot o
fresh candy on sale at John ]
Steele's drug store.
The wooden awnings must go
They are a nuisance any time ant
worse in case of a fire.
DR.. r. D.. Rice, of Benton City
has gone to Colusa, Cal, to reside
The LEDGER follows him.
Nearly five thousand dollars wa
paid out in Vandalia last Saturday b
the 2. &C =. r. r. for coal.
Forepaugh's show was very poor
in fact, the very worst of its prefer
tons that ever visited Mexico.
Married, on the goth inst, by /,
j. Winscott, C. D.. Green and Mr.
Mary Peery, both of Rush Hill.
While in Laddonia Monday "
En00nad in sly new euhScrihar