Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-07-31
OUR GAY" IN PIKE.

Enjoying a Visit to Friends
in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Homes and Beautiful
Lawns
Correspondence of the Ledger.
GAINESVILLE, Mo-, July 81
Whirling away from the dust and
smoke of our great city, st. Louis.
l found myself last Tuesday a pas
senger on the Keokuk line, bound
for GAINESVILLE and the hospitable
home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Muir
ply. Here in this healthful at
mosphere a guest at his bountiful
board we forget the failure of the
sprinkllng contracts, the injunction
against the site of the new City
Hall, the state of the thermometer
and the various d~isagreeable ills
those less fortunate than we are
still enduring at home. We find
the people here hospitable and en-
terprising, with cheerful homes
and lawns with great forest trees,
while the view of the placid Mis-
sissippi at this point is a rest for
our weary brain. Blackberries, in
their various forms of cooking, are
the principal topics Of these busy
housewives. We always thought,
when we lived in Kentucky, that
where blackberries grew the land
was always poor Ono greater insult
could be offered the blue grass
region), but We find the fallacy a
mistaken one, for magnificent
corn fields lie in close proximity
to large patches of this delightful
fruit; all of which shows We know
about as much OF farming as Edito,
White claimed to know during his
eastern sojourn. However, both
of US can console ourselves with
the comforting quotation, "a
prophet is not without honor, ex-
cept in his own country
One member of our family has
been for several weeks the guest OF
valued friends in your city; each
letter bears the tidings that the
home-nest will have no attraction
tor her until school duties put in
their claims in September.
I attended yesterday a quilting
bee given by the ladies of the
Presbyterian church of which Rev.
E. M. Jerrold is pastor. Pleasant
conversation to the click of busy
needles and a delightful dinner
served at noon made this primitive
custom a novel and agreeable re.
union.
When I left home an unique en-.
tertainment called GA House.toI
Party" was the fashionable fad fol
the ultra fashionables. Houses
with fiat roofs are utilized for this
novel style of entertaining. The
roof is handsomely decorated with
palms and Towering plants, with
back ground Of oleanders, a few
bright rugs with their rich Persian
colors, rustic seats and little tables
with a band of string Instrument
and the ever fashionable mando
lin and you are ready to receive
your friends. The young lady wh'
first suggested the idea is a biblica
scholar and says the design wa
in imitation OF the hanging gar
dens of Babylon. l fear when W
see the fashionably attired waiter
passing delicious ices and frozel
l creams served in the rinds Q
) oranges or miniature drums, banjo
or accordeons we feel we still llv
! in the age Of modern improvement
t The custom is a common one il
the East.
l had the pleasure of meetin
Miss Annie Goodman, the charm
!, ing daughter of the editor of tn
GAINESVILLE Sentinel. She ha
pleasant anticipations of going wit
; the Missouri Press Associatio
: excursion next month to st. Pat
and afterwards, in company wit
Mr.. and Mrs. Col. Jones, of tn
Republic, and Mrs. Stephens,
Columbia, making a trip to Uta
and other points. Miss Goodma
n formed one of the excuIsionists
n the Hannibal convention an
8 pleasantly remembers Mr.. and Mr.
II R. M. White on that occasion.
Wherever I go 1 hear the prais.
l. sung of the generosity and ente
prise of the LEDGER. Need l So
l take a pardonable pride IN swell
ing the chorus
The GAINESVILLE cornet band
le earning golden opinion both
Of home and abroad over their pr
y fciency in music, in which M
ss Price Ragsdale, of Mexico, is len
ing his best efforts.
l. / would like to be with you {
the occasion of your press banque
lie All I ask is a kindly thought f
3 an absent correspondent and tn
my LEDGER friends drink a spar
% ling bumper filled with got
a wishes TO the health of
~ FAY.
Ycu are saving one profit by bu
.: ing CT Ia Crosse Lumber Co.
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