Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-07-15
DR.. French is able to be out.

Mrs. Tom J. Ford and children are
up from st. Louis for the summer.
The ward meetings will be held
Saturday, July Il, at , o'clock p. m.
The Audrain County Normal Insti
tute will convene after the county
fair.
The weed ordinance was not passed
but the weeds should go just the
same.
Barney Griswold (colored) died
from the effects of a sunstroke
last week.
S. H. Gillian, of Iowa, and brother
of James Gillian, of this city, died
on the 9th.
The report that Barney Hooton
had committed suicide at Kansas City
is roneous
II. Z. Baird, of Baird College, is
in Mexico shaking hands with his
host of friends.
One hundred teachers should at
tend the Institute to he held here
Aug. 10th to 9th.
Miss Blanche Hart, daughter Of
Judge Hart, of st. Louis, is visiting
Mrs. r. NJ. White.
See change of timetable in adver-
tisement Of excursion to Randolph
Springs on July 25.
John Pollard, the jeweler, will Of
fer q fine cake basket for the best
white cake at the fair.
The LEDGER got to the front with
over forty new subscrihers-all goo,i
men-at the Union picnic.
There will be eight or ten coach
loads of persons go on the excursion
to Randolph Springs on July 20.
See ad. Of DR.. Willingham in this
issue of the LEDGER. He is expe-
rienced and will give satisfaction.
H. NJ. Hamill, conductor for last
year, has again been secured to con-
duct the Normal Institute this year.
Roy Mcmillan, youngest son of
Prof. j. P. Blanton, of Kirksville,
Mo. formerly of Mexico, died this
week.
The city Of Pearl, Ill, wants to
buy our old fire engine. We think
the council should sell it and put the
money into hose.
Lizzie, wife of NJ. l.. Thomas, died
last week of cancer Of the breast
She was forty years old and leaves q
husband and children.
H. A. Ricketts, is treasurer of the
fund for fireworks during fair week
Call and give him a liberal subscrip'
ton. Don't put it off.
The excursion on the 25th inst
promises to he a big thing Here
and at towns all along the route
tickets are selling rapidly.
The night sp"aslug at the country
school houses lasts ill tie wee sma
hours. Sometimes it Is nearly day
light when the boys get back to town
Miss Sallie Chance, al attractive
young lady from C~entralia, Mo, ant
Mr.. G. A. Crowson, were guests o
Mrs. r. II. Ragsdale of this city, las
week.
C. O. Morris. of Texas, has shippel
a large portion of his stock to Mex
leo on account of the drouth. He l
one of the big stock raisers in tn
Lone Star State.
Mrs. E. D. Graham. Mrs. Mari
Pitcher, Mrs. Brit Ringo, Mrs. DIR
McFalI and other ladies of Mexico
are spending a few days pleasantly a
Elk Lick Springs.
Sheriff Atchison this week caugh
a crazy man named John Leigh. o
Philadelphia, in Clifford Brown
orchard, north of Mexico. Leigh
father lives in Kansas City.
j. w. Hall, of Waverly, H., i
visiting the family of j. W. Howell
He is much pleased with u tow
and sees no reason why it will not b
a hustlIng busy little city in the nea
future.
Rev. W. S. Trimhle will accept
call elsewhere to preach. He is
faithful worker in the Lords vine
yard and wherever he locates wi
devote his entire time and talent t
the building up Of the church.
There will be a genuine old-fash
Toned basket picnic on the old Kee]
farm, two and q half miles south o
Thompson and five miles west O
Mexico, on Saturday, August 9TH
Everybody invited.
The body of Charley Hanley al
rived from Decatur, Ill, where h
was drowned Monday. His father
who lives just southeast of Mexico
was greatly shocked when Fathe
Dempsey broke the news to him
Charley was a very promising youn
man of about 20 years.