Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-10-22

Mrs. Fl. Kunkel is visiting at
Ashley, Mo.
Wood Maddox shipped a car
load of mules to st. Louis last
night.
Mrs. J. E Callahan, of Benton
City, is in st. Louis under the care
of a physician.
Johnson & Roy's sheep, which
were sold Saturday, brought all the
way from 1915 to s4.25.
Cook Groves, and VIM. Blythe
are in Chillicothe. Mo-, attending
the anti-horse thief meeting.
Wood Shelley, the horse king of
Galloway, was here yesterday, re-
turning home from Kentucky.
L. C. Hartley sold his farm OF
80 acres, south of Benton City,
this week, to VIM. Syria for $500.
Mrs. J.. B. Stanhope, of Ken
lucky, is the guest of Miss Sara
Pollock and is very much improved
in health.
"Lottie Mills" the animal Billie
West sold in Kansas City recently,
won a s40O purse at Dallis, Texas,
Saturday.
A large number of people from
Mexico attended the funeral OF
Dick Willis, which took place at
C%entralia Tuesday.
Lakensn&B Barnes Tuesday sold the
H. w. Mathews 20 acre farm 3
miles west of Mexico, to John M.
Bradley for $500.
Henry Mason, a negro living at
Fulton, Mo-, was run over by the
cars in St. Louis last week and
had his arm cut off.
Hon. G. F.Clark will trot Robert
Rysdyk in the free-for-all at Inde-
pendence, Iowa, Saturday. Aller-
ton Is also entered in the race.
Thos. Gibson went up to Stur-
geon this week. The object of
his mission is to purchase 1000
bushels of Boone county hickory
nuts.
Geo. LaForce went over to JEFF.
ferson City Tuesday afternoon. He
will bring Mrs. Selden Brooks
and children home with him when
he returns.
The Kansas City Evening Times
says: "Dick Dalton and Leverett
Leonard had a tilt at Mexico in
which Leonard and the third party
got the worst of fit"
A doctor testified thai George
Smith, the negro who was beaten
and hanged in Omaha, died of
fright before the lynchers had
finished their job.
Messrs. s. NJ. Brown and J. A.
Milron have arrived from Little
Rock, Ark, and will start a new
grocery store in the vacant room
just north of the post-office.
Geo. Adams, Jr., and Miss Biggs,
daughter of NJ. R. K. Biggs, will
be married at Farber yesterday. A
full account of the wedding will
appear in next weeks LEDGER.
Judge Kendall, VIM. Vivion,
w. T.Lott and VIM. Llewellyn left
Tuesday for Chillicothe, Mo-,
where they will attend the meet.
ing of the Anti Horse Thief As.
ISOLATION there this week.
Mr.. Edward Dahlem has return
ed home from a pleasant visit to
Halstead, Kas. He says that the
farmers are busy sowing wheat, ant
the prospect looks as though they
might have a good crop next year
Mrs. Margaret Cave and daugh.
ter, Mrs. J. T. johnson, left Tues
day for Dallas, Texas, to visit Mr.
William Cave, a brother of DIR
Cave, of this city. Mrs. Cave viii
likely spend the winter there.
Miss Hinde, of Independence
Mo-, sister ofthe Recorder of Deed
of Jackson county, is IN Mexico O,
a visit to J. T. Williams, ass1stan
recorder of this county. Mis-,
Hinde is q cousin of DR.. Hinde @
Audrain.
j. N. Cross, secretary of the +
& l.. u. of Audraiu county, ha
our thanks for a curiosity in til
way of a strawberry plant attache
to q potato. The potato grew q
though attached to a regular potat
vine.
Mr.. Percy Hord and Miss Ha
tie Cant, two of Mexico's mo-
popular young society people, wi
be married on November It'll
and will reside in the elegent ne
residence of the groom on Clal
Avenue.
Mrs. Ann Kemp, aged rs year
\ mother of Jim, Hop and Bob Keml
is one of the best preserved woms
We know of anyshere. In spite
her age she has not Al unsouI
tooth in her head, and it is = pa
time with her to crack hickory M
with her teeth for her grandchi
dren.