Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-08
Twenty Years Ago This Week.

Twenty Years Ago This Week.
G. B. Null was sick.
T. T. Morris had gone to farming.
]. M. Menefee was in st. Louis buy
ing goods.
Miss Alice Vincil visited friends in
Louisiana.
E. J. Shea, of McCredie, was in Mex
leo on a visit.
j. T. Brown, of Fulton, was in Mex
leo on business.
Ed. Wright, of Martinsburg, was in
Mexico on business.
Mr.. Insley was completing a new
house in west Mexico.
H. B. Allen was trying to form q
mining company in Mexico.
Mr.. Schumacher was making an
addition to his eating house.
Will Mitchell, of Bloomfield, Ia, was
visiting his brothers in this city.
The defeated candidates "went up
Salt River" the same then as now.
Geoge Kunkel was finishing a house
on the southwest corner of the square.
Frank Coatsworth, who was attend
ing college in Columbia, was home on
a visit.
Miss Hayden, of Kentucky, return
ed home after a visit with Mexico
relatives.
Mrs. Elliott fell off the depot plat
form at Bowling Green and broke her
collar bone.
Mr.. Hill, from Charlton county, sue
ceeded Gap" Adams in his clerkship
in Fowler's.
Tom Buckner graduated in the Ann
Arbor, Mich, law school and return
ed to Mexico.
Governor Phelps appointed ex-Gov-
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Lunatic Asylum at Fulton.
Brother Rodemyer, the "Old Man of
the Guard" Centrally vas Dragging
about a new baby in his home.
Judge Buckner purchased the VIII
son house and lot across the railroad
ON Jefferson street and was improving
it.
Rev. H. B. Seeley succeeded Rev.
Gillis as pastor of the M. E. Church
in Mexico. Rev. Gillis went to Louis
lana.
Dap" Adams had charge of the
Grange store with a salary of $50 a
month. The store was owned by a
stock company.
The following were the city officers
elected: Mayor, r. H. Fowler; Re-
corder, A. B. Daniel; City Attorney,
George Robertson; Marshal, W. K.
Potts; Councilmen-First Ward, j. w.
Reed; Second Ward, j. D. Morris;
Third Ward, Edward Rines, Fourth
Ward, ]. E. Ross; Fifth Ward, VIM.
Pollock; Sixth Ward, Joseph Murray.
LAND SALES.
The land sales for that week were as
follows:
A. J. Satterlee to Laura E. Hickox,
8 lots in Vandalia, $500.
James A. Simpson to John Earhart,
4 lots il Laddonia, $40.
j. W. Carson to L. H. Hightshoe, lot
6, Sparks addition to Mexico, $3.50.
G. ID. Ferris to G. L. Ferris, 225 acres
10 miles northwest of Mexico, $500.
M. Y. Duncan TO jas. II. shoess, 1es
acres 1 mile north of Mexico, $4,000.
Geo. R. Pool to Lydia M. Renis, 225
acres 6 miles south of Mexico, $4,000.
John w. Gamble to VIM. Bradley,
40 acres 2 miles southwest of Mexico,
$500.
Joseph Renie to Geo. r. Pool, 200
acres 10 miles northwest of Mexico,
5000.
Rufus Hisey to William Hisey, 40
acres s miles southwest of Mexico,
$3.50.
Rufus Hisey to John T. Hisey, 40
acres s miles southwest of Mexico,
$3.50.
| B. F. Harrison to John 8. Dickey,
437 acres II miles northeast of Mexico,
$1,4OO.
j. Fl. Crawford to Chris. Marburg,
1876 acres 20 miles east of Mexico,
1882.
Pauline Toms to Amanda F. Gala
way, 100 acres 10 miles north of Mex
leo, $4,000.
Mexico Southern Bank to @. W.
Baker, $50 acres s miles north of Mex
leo, $1,000.
VIM. j. H. Major to Rodney Van
vacter, so acres Is miles northwest OF
Mexico, $3.50.
VIVA. D. Harrison to W. W. Harper,
lot 6, Block 4, Guthrie's addition to
Mexico, 800.
Martin and Hugh Donnelly to John
Donnelly, 100 acres 10 miles northwest
of Mexico, 5000.
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