Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-29
The CITY OF Clinton.
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Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger
CLINTON Mo-, June 23.-clinton
ID one OF the prettiest towns IN the
State and two or three of the reasons
are very patent to the writer. There
are no wooden awnings or cross signs
In the business part OF town. The
Court House Square is very large and
there is no fence nor hitching racks
around it. The Court House yard
is surrounded by granitoid walk
without a fence. The citizens have
hitching racks on the side streets.
The result is magnificent, and with
very little improvement along this
line the Mexico Public Square could
be made a beautiful park.
The people of Clinton are public
spirited and hospitable to a fault.
They give freely of their money on
all public occasions and are enter.
tanning the Missouri editors in a
royal manner. If the Mexico people
would subscribe half as literally the
Fourth of July celebration would be
a perfect success, the Mexico Fair
would be on its feet and the coal
bank on the Davis farm would be
developed in short order.
While here we have met several
people who have lived at Mexico. The
Bairds are running Baird College.
which they own, and it is recogniz-
ed as splendid school. Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Henderson live here and
John F. Brown, formerly of Mexico,
is doing a good business in lumber,
while Mr.. Duncan is with the elec-
trio light company.
The town is decorated with flags
and bunting in favor of The editors,
while the streamer, "welcome here, ,"
is displayed everywhere, even on
the Jail. One of the curiosities here
is the artesian we'll, which flows free
ly the year around and the water is
good to cure everything, but, as a
matter of fact, is good for bathing,
and as medicine will cure kidney
and other troubles. In our opinion
it is not good to drink unless you
like sulphur.
This town has system of sewer
age which gives perfect satisfaction
and they are just like those put in at
Mexico by Mr.. Browning, who lives
here and, by the way, is very popu-
lar with the Clinton people.
Crops look we'll around here and
business is active. You hear no
cry of hard times and we were very
much impressed by remark made
to-day by citizen. He said, "times
are not hard except in some peoples
minds. A few loafers cry hard times
and few idlers repeat the cry and
before you know it we haye hard
times" The more l think of this
the more I am convinced that there
is much in the statement and but
little in the talk of hard times.
The editors are having a splendid
meeting, both in business and social
ly. The entire party leaves Satur-
day for Chicago and will spend a
week at the Worlds Fair.
When you come to Clinton you
want to stop at the Artesian Hotel,
which is in forest at the celebrated
well, just in the edge of town. 1t
will some day be a famous summer
resort.
Mexico, / find, is famous over the
State just now, as follows: swell
Bob, so your fair is busted. l am
sorry, for you had the best in the
State" $50 you have found coal
in Mexico; that will give you facto-
ries. You can't keep good town
down." swell, Bob White, is it
possible you are not going to have
a big Fourth of July celebration after
going so far as to appoint commit
tees? Surely Mexico is not going to
fail in any undertaking." And SO
the world wags; but we are proud to
be able to state that Mexico has a
reputation abroad and it is a good
one, too. And Mexico is going to
continue to deserve it and more. We
are going to have coal, Fourth of
July celebration, factories, paved
streets and among other things a
fair-not this year, but some other
year before the next Worlds Fair.
BOB WHITE.
Don't You Know
That tn have perfect health Won