Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-02-01
A VISIT TO MEXICO.
The City as q Pike County Editor Saw
1.-The Talks OF Our schools, Pee-
pie and Enterprises.
From the CIsrksville Sentinel.

E..HE EVA b1E as -
While at Mexico last week, as
one of the board of examiners, We
had the pleasure Of meeting a num-
Der of valued old friends and the
opportunity OF meeting some highly
priced new ones We dropped in
on Sam Cook, whom we found as
placid and serene as though he had
not just fiagellated old 1908 fer as
sailing his Democracy, and who
made us perfectly at home in the
Intelligencer office, which we are
glad to say is turning out one of the
ablest Democratic journals in all
Missouri. We were at the LEDGER
office, too, and there met Major Bass
Ruakle, up to his eyes in work get
ting out the Daily LEDGER, which
everybody reads and enjoys, and
Col. Bob White, whom every news
paper man in the state knows and
whose popular and widely ~eirculat-
ed LEDGER, like ''black terbackers'
in Arkansas, has become NECESSITY
for all the people in that section.
| We had a pleasant chat with Mr..
Dobyns, who is "a Democrat from
toe to crown and who stands I'M
f1inchingly by his friends; with
Wick Mason, the new postmaster,
whose appointment had just been
made and which will doubtless meet
public appreciation; With Mr..
Bassford, whose sturdiness of
| character and staunch Democracy
| place him in the forefront of the
| reliable and efficient men of his
party; with VIM. Fry, the able
lawyer and well known ex-Piker,
and many of the other estimable
gentlemen to whose liberality and
public spirit Mexico is indebted for
the distinguished place she occupies
among the best towns of Northeast
| Missouri. 1t was our pleasure too
to enew our acquaintance with
| Profs. L. r. Hall and w. T. Car
rington, the former the efficient su-
perinteudent of the schools of Mont
gomery City the latter now in charge
of the Mexico schools, and who
aspires to the office of State Super
intendent of public instruction, a
position for which his splendid lit
erary qualifications, acknowledged
executive ability and past experience
as chief clerk under Mr.. Coleman.
so eminently fit him. To Col. and
Mrs. Bob White we were indebted
for a cordial invitation to be their
guest at supper, and accepting the
same we enjoyed at their palatial
new home the generous hospitality
for which they are distinguished.
Behind Bob's three minute Rocin
ante and with the Colonel as a com
panion We were permitted to catch
a flying view of Mexico a she is,
and confess to some surprise at the
great number of splendid houses
and the handsome and deliberately
ornamented grounds which might
give to the town the distinct
tive name of the city of magnifi-
cent residences. We were near Har.
din College, which we were told was
filled to overlooking with young la
dies from abroad, and passed the
solid and substantial Military Insti-
tute, SO well p%atronized and over
which Col. Fleet presides with such
stately dignity and marked ability.
The splendid breeding and training
stables of Mr.. Clark on one side of
the avenue and of Mr.. Potts on the
other are indicative of the interest
taken in the roadster and the saddle
horse and stand as monuments to
the enterprise Of these gentlemen.
Excepting the fair grounds, which
on account of too much kite shaped
track which considerably permitted
the spectators to see the start and
finish of a race, and these only, has
falleninto a a lf-neglected condition,
everything about Mexico wears the
appearance of freshness and pros
perity and but few indications of
the hard times which have paraIyzed
the business energies and ruined
the trade of SO many towns are any,
where visible. Evidences of inn
provement, in the way of new build
ings, street repair, etc., were every
where in sight and the work which,
under judieious municipal legisla-
ton, was being furnished the poor
put every class of society above the
condition of absolute want.
she Was too Lazy
To steep up herbs and so she tried
pills and cathartics till she was SAL
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