Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-08-12
Joe & Vic Barth,
The CIothiers of Mexico.
PERSONAL

1EhSONAL MEN llUNs
Hon. J. L. Hutton is home.
Mrs. G. NJ. Carroll is visiting ut Rush
Hill.
DR.. NJ. NJ. Scott is back from Texas on
business.
Arthur Tureman, of Kansas City, is here
for the Fair.
Mrs. J. E. Hutton has several friends
visiting her.
Hon. j. E. Hutton left Washington for
home last Saturday.
Judge d. W. Sumner is home from a
pleasant visit to Texas.
Ed. Dingle, city marshal Of Vandalia,
was up to the DinSle reunion.
Miss Belle Morris and her friend, Miss
Cooper, of St. Louis, are visiting Mrs.
3. Morris.
Mr.. Armstrong, of Franklin Co., is
visiting his brother, Rev. j. c. Arm
strong, of this city.
Geo.W Batterton, ex-Representative
of audrain county, is in the city, an at
tendant at the Fair.
Miss Myrtle Speer, of Olathe, Kan, is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Wilson, of this city.
Miss Ala Simpson and mother, of
Slater, have been visiting their uncle,
VIM. Mathews, of this county.
Life Norris, 7. A. Boulware, DIR. How
ard, owner of "Gipsy Girl, "Dick Smith
and other Galloway boys are over.
c. l.. Harrison, representing a large
cattle commission house in Chicago, is
mlngllng with friends and relatives in
the city.
Mrs. Emma Bauer, who has been Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Ruloff, has returned to her home in St.
Louis.
Reader Wren, of Shamrock, Galloway
county, d prominent young farmer, is in
the city, and will remain during Fair
week.
Keep the boys and loungers out of
the judges stand. They are an in
tolerable nuisance.
Horsemen can't monkey with Col.
Clay, for when he says a thing he
means it and sticks to it.
First-class pianos, from S165 UP.
w. NJ. Treloar, agent. Office up
stairs, opposite Ringo Hotel.
Charley Mitchell has quite a curios-
ity in the way of a potato on exhibit
ton at the fair grounds.
The stores should all be closed to-
day and every business man in town
with his family should attend the
Fair.
Frost & Smith have opened a %
inch vein of coal just northwest of
this city, said to be of excellent
quality.
Call on w. NJ. Treloar, agent, and
get q dollars worth of sheet music
for Zoe. Office up stairs, opposite
Rlngo House.
John +. Davis, living four and one
half miles west of Mexico, brings US
in a brush of broom corn measuring
80 inches.
For the largest and best selected
stock of millinery and fancy goods
90 to the one price cash store Of
Mrs. Harding.
Things will work smoother to-
day. The boys will understand
their work better and get down to
business in good sh pc.
Smith & Wallace are running a nice
conveyance from their restaurant to
Fair grounds. Will call anywhere in
town for you. Ride with them.
John Cough, the merchant tailor,
has just received a nobhy line Of
| suitings and goods for pants. Look
out for advertisement tomorrow.
The LEDGER baby show comes the
first thing after dinner Friday. Sill
yer cup to prettiest baby; $40 bou-
quet to mother of same. No en-
trance fee.
John Seibert, the leading grocer OF
| Louisiana, has our thanks for a 81
pound watermelon Seibert's mel,
ons are as good as bis Plymouth
Rock cigars.
Jno w. Jacks, of the Montgomery
Standard. and James r. Hance, q
leading merchant of that place, came
up to learn how to run their mex
Trades procession.
GEORGE BATTERToS, ex-Represent
alive of this County, informs III
that ''all reports concerning his bolt
ing any of the nominees of the party
are false, and that he is a Demo
crat."
Why are people rushing to insur'
in the Agricultural of n. York? Be
cause that company is perfectly re