Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-02-23

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THURSDAY. FEB %, 1888.
FOR EASTERN MONEY ON LONt
TIME LOAN, Ar LOWEST RATES
APPLY 10 klLGORE Il HOWELL
LOAN AGENTS, MEXICO. MO.
w. f. Jones is home from Spring
field.
Rev. J. A. Matthews is still yer,
sick.
Born, to Mrs. DIR. Gartrell
Goliad, Texas, a boy.
W. IL. Coons is seriously i'll a
his home on East Monroe street.
James r. Ward, Esq, of Car
r%ollton, ILL.,, is in the city on lega
business.
Miss Linnie Steele entertained
the Chow-Chow club charmlngly
Friday evening.
Dan Waltz and family will locate
elsewhere a. soon as he can dispose
Of his property.
Services at Monroe Street Bap.
list Church Saturday and Sunday
by Ed. Bradley.
Prof. ]. P. Blanton, of Kinks.
vile, spent Sunday with Prof. Nc
MILAN, this city.
Mrs. J. F. McWiliiams returned
Sunday from Vandalia, where
she had been visiting relatives.
Miss Bessie Mckinley and Mis-.
Annie Hayden spent Sunday will
Miss Annie MeNama, Laddonia.
Services Will be held at thu
Regular Baptist Monroe Street
Church Sunday, by Elder Jane.
Bradley.
Mrs. Osela Steiger died at Wor
eester Sunday, aged go years. Thu
funeral took place from Rock Hill
Church Monday.
Francois Xavier, a popular lead
ing man, who has appeared severa
times at Kabrieh's Opera House:
this city, is at the Windsor.
Enoch H.. Fudge, n of The
directors of the Chicago, Hanniba
and Springfield, has left Hanniba
on horseback to go over the entire
line.
D. D. Woodward was yesterday
confirmed by the Senate as post.
master of this city. He will take
charge of the office as soon as he
receives his commission.
The Sunny Workers entertain
ment Thursday night was a com
plete success in every particular
There was a neat sum for the bene
fit of the church realized.
Wood Maddox, the mule king
sold recently to Northern & Ed
monston p head of the "fnes
mules in three counties" Th'
purchasers shipped the animals.
E. NJ. jameson, Elkhorn, Mon
tana; DR.. Dodson and family, Ed
G.. R. Dodson, Mrs. A. B. Cluster
and Harold Cluster composed &
party which left Monday for Cali.
fornia.
Miss Maggie Cake, sister of E
B. Cake, well known in this city
died at the home of her brother il
Nevada, a few days ago. The re
mains were inferred in Abilene
Kansas.
Ed. Atchison, a son of Sheriff
Atchison, whose home smear Wor
eester, fell on the sidewalk neal
the Windsor Tuesday night, break
ing one of his legs. He is resting
easily at the home of his parents
in this city.
We judge the Vandalia water
works (?) r for sale, as there il
displayed from the top of the res
ervoir in large letters, "Bankrupt
Stock Well bet this is some O
Cash Blackburn's doings.
A continuance was granted il
Kansas City yesterday in the cas'
of Col. James Smith. formerly o
this city, charged with killing Ottc
Drogmund on December "a, 1887
until next term. His bail was
fixed at $4,000.
Jacob Cumberland, recently
pardoned from the P~enitentiary o:
Kansas, where he was serving &
term for murder, has returned tc
his home in this city. The au.
thorities Were satisfied that Cum.
berland was innocent of the crime
charged against him and he was re
leased.
The w. C. T. q. County Con
yention will be held in this city OIL
Monday, FEBRUARY 81, commend
ing at 8 a. M, at the Christian
Church There. will he an after