Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-04-01
Twenty Years Ago This Week.


Prof. Hamill lectured at the Gamble
school.
James Lynch left Laddonia for Cali
fornia.
Miss Lou WardwelI visited McCre-
die friends.
Miss Mamie Jones died in Mexico,
aged 8 years.
]. Sontag had opened up his soda
water fountain.
DR.. Keeton, who had been very sick,
was improving.
Mrs. T. H. Musick returned from a
Visit in Vermont.
M. Grange, of Galloway, was in
Mexico on visit.
Joseph Murray was buying spring
goods in st. Louis.
Dunn & McIlhinney had re- papered
their barber shop.
Mrs. Lawhead, who had been quite
sick, was no better.
The Changers had purchased T. T.
Morris grocery store.
Laddonia had three cases of small
pox during the winter.
Rev. Bibb, of Montgomery county,
preached at Laddonla.
Sheriff H. Glascock was in New
London on official business.
Mrs. Kate Bernard, of Laddonia, was
visiting in Livingston county.
Misses Elliott and Allison establish
ed millinery store at Laddonia.
J. Guthrie had delivered 15o cars of
coal in Mexico during the winter.
Bob Hooton drew a shot gun with
the highesJ throw of 43 at a rattle.
A new coat of paint was being
spread upon DIR. Riley's drug store.
J. M. Menefee had purchased part
nership in Cardwell's furniture busi-
ness.
Edwin Silver, a young lawyer OF
Jefferson City, was in Mexico on bus
mess.
Rev. M. Gillian expected to hold
Easter services at the Episcopal
church.
Miss Minnie Mordon, niece of John
M Gordon, visited Mr.. Lakeland at the
Ringo.
William Weaver possessed a "chick-
en- eating cow" which was quite a
curiosity.
There were more Democrats in the
United States Senate than there had
been for II years. =
1t was an assured fact that the pro-
posed Kansas City extension of the @.
& A. would touch Centralia.
The Senatorial race had fairly open
ed with Bogy, Phelps, Hardin, Vest
and Woodson as candidates.
Mrs. Larier, daughter of Mr.. Ahl.
feldt, died at her fathers home in
Laddonia. She had lived at Farber.
Miss Verde Kee, of Johns Branch
in company with Miss Alice North
cutt, made the LEDGER social call.
B. F. and M. Wylde were selling
hedge plants and fruit trees with head
quarters in Mexico and Benton City
John D. Lee, the leader in the
Mountain Meadow massacre, was shot
He preferred to be shot rather than be
hung.
Both houses of the Missouri Legis-
lature had passed a "rat bill," provid-
ing bounty of $5 per hundred for rat
scalps.
DIR. W. W. Macfarlane, who was one
of the Board of Managers of the State
Lunatic Asylum, was in Fulton on
business.
L. T. Hammond and Miss M. E.
Mock were married at the residence
of L. D. Hammond by Justice T. B.
Martin on the 22nd.
Mrs. VIM. King, of Fulton, was en-
deavoring to raise $1,000 to save the
Fulton Synodical College from being
sold under the hammer.
LAND SALES.
The land sales for that week were as
follows:
8. I. Smith to F. Bereson, 20 acres of
land 6 miles south of Mexico, 500.
8. 1. Smith to H. Carter, 20 acres of
land miles south of Mexico, 800.
o. W. Jones to F. A. Elliott, 80 ~
acres IS miles east of Mexico, $3.50.
j. N. Haislip to L. Gilstrap, so acres
land 12 miles south of Mexico, 81, 900.
g. B. Allen to G. O. Gentry, so acres
of land 16 miles northwest of Mexico,
s445.
J. H. Shoots to M. Y. Duncan, 24O
acres miles northeast of Mexico,
$4,s00.
]. Harrison to ]. W. Harrison, 100
acres 9 miles southwest of Mexico,