Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1890-06-12
LUCKY LADIES'!
Three To Co Instead
Of Two.
MISSES MCKINLEY, Nell
SON AND Inflow ALL
FAVORITES.
The Vote so Close it is Al
most impossible to Dis
tinguish Which La
dy Has The Most
Friends.
THE GRAND WIND-UP IN TIE LEDGER
VOTING CONTEST EXCITING IN
THE ExTREME-NOTHING
LIKE IT EVER TOOK
PLACE IN MEXICO
BEFORE.
The Crowd Enthusiastic to the Last-The
Ledger's Presses Kept Busy All Last
Night-An Enormous Vote Polled-
Ballot Box Emptied Twenty
Four Times To-Day.
THE RESULT.
First: Miss Bessie Mckinley, 4l0s.
Second: Miss Mary Nelson, 1886.
Third: Miss Belle Inflow, 2762.

The polls in the LEDGER contest
for the most popular young ladies
closed promptly at 2 o'clock this
afternoon. The wind-up was ex-
citing in the extreme, and showed
the novel contest to have been the
most successful newspaper enter
prise that ever took place in Mex
leo, or, indeed, anywhere in this
section of the State. The LEDaER's
press was kept running constantly
from A o'clock yesterday afternoon
until after 3 O'Clock this morn
ing. Fifty or more people were
kept busy all night cutting out and
writing names on the coupons.
ATT o'clock this morning orders
again began to pour in for more
papers-no order asking for less
than 500 and several for more than
l 900, which kept the press going
until after II o'clock, printing
1870 papers per hour. People
stood around and in the Office last
night until they were sure nobody
had filed a bigger order for extras
than they had. Groups of excited
persons stood on the streets and
discussed which ladies would be
the fave rites. Every few minutes
some excited individual would rush
into the office and ask questions no
man on earth could answer /; then
he would dart out and tell his
crowd their favorite was all right.
The ballots began pouring into the
box this morning as early as t
o'clock and by noon it had been
emptied "a or 25 times. A rough
estimate of the number of votes
iput in the box last night and to-
day, we think, would place it in
the neighborhood OF IA, 600 or 15,'
GOO. A large number of the bal
lots we're put in in such bad shape
that a great deal of trouble wat
had in Strengthening them out fol
counting. Votes were deposited il
such rapid succession at the finish
that it required the services o
seven experts to count them. A
10 O'Clock the crowd around th'
ballot box was SO large that tbos'
whose business it was to take thu
ballots out could not get near it TO
Imore than half an hour. The seen
i. at this time around the Office wa
| exciting in the extreme. Th'
"Ghost District" furry of severa
? years ago was nothing to compar
, with it. In that memorable instanc
big crowds gathered around the o1
lice to learn the latest from tn
"Deestrlct," but that jam and cor
! fusion wasn't "a patchin' to thl
morning. The scene IN the offic
at / l O'Clock was indeseribable-th
7 compositors were crowded fror
their cases in the jam and all wor
was suspended except running th
press, which kept turning out th
Q magic little coupon which was
i tell the tale of which of all th
q popular candidates would be til
!. lucky ones. People talked an
,-fguessed, and fingered near the ba
d lot box; big, little, old and your
I'll came to vote for their favorit
rel Old men whom one would suppo,
Q took no interest in such affal
!, were on hand with ballots; o.
;. ;. ladies', middle aged ladies an
misses made II q point to get dow
town early TO do their voting
using coupons they had perhal
= saved up since the first day Il
= contest begun. Little "tads" vi
= could not reach the box tripped !
s and asked, "Mister, please put u
10 in: it,s for Miss Bessie" or Bell
"a or Mary, or else for ono Of the OF
ID er young lady contestants. Litt
boys came around with packae