Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-11-25
A DAY AT
A Thriving Town With q Good Coun.
try Around It-Enterprising Bus
mess Men-At Sturgeon and
O~entralia.

SVabA01A6s
Last Tuesday some ten or q dozen
Mexico people were in Martinsburg,
among them Collector Doweli, P. e,
Locke, his assistant for chat day, and
a LEDGER man. All remarked upon
the good business done in Martins
burg, its class of business houses and
the hospitality of its citizens. Mar
tinsburg has improved during the last
year. 1t has a splendid trade from
the adjoining country, and its mer-
chants and business men deserve the
patronage received, from the fact that
large stocks of goods are carried and
the prices that prevail In the more
pretentious cities are met. Martins
burg is up with the times and the
LEDGER is glad to know that it is
year by year steadily growing.
The largest mandatory in Audrain
county is at Martinsburg-the picture
frame establishment Of N. Friedman.
Fifteen or twenty skilled workmen
are employed the year round and the
product is shipped all over the United
States and to many places in Canada,
and even to Europe. The LEDGER
man was shown the intricate workings
of the large establishment by Gus
Kleinsorge, who puts the coup de
grace to the handsome frames. 1t has
been a money-maklng concern from
the start, simply because Mr.. Fried
man is thoroughly q business man and
the class Of work turned out will equal
that of any other similar mandatory
in the world.
Martinsburg has a creamery that,
unlike many other creameries in this
section, has been operated successful
ly and continuously since it's erection.
Mr.. J. P. Burns, the head butter
maker, informs the LEDGER that he
handles 5000 pounds of milk every
week, which is received on Mondays,
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Mr.. Burns counts on five pounds of
butter to every 100 pounds of milk and
says this is a higher yield than was
ever before realized at this creamery.
The butter is sold in st. Louis, Column
bia, Fulton and other places at Elgin
quotations, +. o. b. at Martinsburg.
The Martinsburg Bank is a solid
financial institution and does business
in a new and substantial brick build
ing. Stephen Bertels, a wealthy and
sterling citizen of Audrain, is president
of the bank, E. P. French, a shrewd
inancier and a large taxpayer, is
vice-president, and Robert L. Morris,
formerly of this city, one of the clev-
crest and most accommodating of
gentlemen, is the alert cashier.
And there is Oscar Krieger, who is
part and parcel of Martinsburg and
who knows every chick and child in
that neck o. woods. Oscar lie a hale
fellow well met, with q morbid desire
always to get the Joke on somebody
else. 1t was in his large general store
that the Mexico boys saw "the white
OWL" 1t was a rare "bird" indeed.
John Atchison saw it and laughed the
other Mexico boys groaned. Col.
Krieger sells groceries and keeps a
large and varied stock of merchandise,
including clothing, boots and shoes,
and is also proprietor of a general
store at Venice, Galloway county.
Jocobi Bros, are proprietors of a
big dry goods and grocery store and
are doing a thriving business. Both
are clever, accommodating gentlemen
and have been in business at Martins
burg for many years.
Some of the other business houses
are: q. T. Payton, druggist; L. Kem-
pinsky, dry goods and groceries, A.
Zimmerman, harness and saddlery f;
Andrew Pihale, hardware; ]. r.. Ber-
rey, jeweler; George Meyerpeter ,lum-
Der; Sam Overbagh, dry goods and
groceries; A. T. Reed, hotel, Mrs.
Powell, hotel; Ben Kleinsorge.
saloon; T. j. Lowder, groceries; two
or three millinery stores, and several
other places OF business.
Julius Krieger, of Martinsburg, will
leave about the first of the year for a
six months visit to his mother in Ger
many.
AT STURGEON.
Wednesday was spent at Sturgeon.
a good town which is improving right
along. DIR. Keith is erecting a large
business building, and many othel
signs of improvement were noticed
The LEDGER is under especial obliga'
lions to it's old friends, II. Nj. Long
George w. Batterton, the Ritchit
brothers, E. M. Young, o. ID. Gray
Frank Bruton, Joseph Smith ant
many others tor favors.
AT CENTRALIA.
There is no town in this section tina
has improved in the last few year
like Centralia, where Collector Dowell
]. E. Jesse and the LEDGER represent
alive spent Thursday. This town ha
| fine business houses, wide, leve
streets, arc street lights and incandes
cents in all the prominent business
houses. The Globe Hotel, Clay Threl'
keld, proprietor, Is one of the bes
hostelries in the State and Is constant
ly thronged with guests. Centrali
is a sure enough up-to-date SINAI
, city.
}, The following named new subscrib
ers to the Weekly LEDGER were oh
tanned:
! Elem See.
R.. 8. Vaughn.
Lewis Burkeye.
T. A. Crank.
James B. Gray.
]. L. McIntire.
=, John Human.
>, ]. 8. Brown.
II Ben Crump, Sen.
j. H. Pool.
\, L. Kempinskey.
al John G.. Hilkemeyer.