Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-11-18
IN THE EAST END.
me Ledger Man, in Company With
Collector Dowell, Visits Mt. Car
mel, Farber and Laddonia.

mel, Farber and Laddouia.
The LEDGER representative who &C.
companied County Collector j. W.
Doweh and his deputy, ]. E. Jesse, to
the east end of the county last week,
had a pleasant and profitable trip.
Tuesday was spent at Mt. Carmel, 8
miles south OF Vandalia and IL miles
southeast of Farber. The trip to Mt.
Carmel was made from Farber In a
buggy behind a good team furnished
by VIM. Machin, the livery man. There
is, indeed, some fine country in that
section and many of the farms are
highly improved. Handsome resi-
dences and large barns were noticed
all along the route, as we're also sew
eral newly built churches and a num-
Der Of good school houses. The peo-
pie seem to be in a prosperous con.
dition and quite well satisfied with
their lot IN life. At Mt. Carmel there
is a store &c. Douchant, proprietary, "a
Grange hall, blacksmith shop and
several houses.
This little hamlet enjoys the dis
t1nction Of having the only working
Grange in Audrain county or, as for
that matter, in this section of the
State, we believe. 1t was organized
by Col. J.E. Hutton more than 20 years
ago. However, after a season of sue
cess interest among the farmers lag
ged and finally died out altogether, and
it is only recently that the Grange has
been reorganized. "Uncle Grundyn
B~ranstetter, j. j. Mosby and Mr.. Cook
were the first taxpayers to interview
the Collector. They were on hand, it
was said, about daylight. Some of
Audrain's best citizens and large tax
payers live in that section, among
whom are: Il. D. Tuggle, Uhas. Grow,
A. B. Glascock, Grundy Branstetter,
@. W. French, G. Q. Kinney, VIM.
Coughenor, ]. F. Middleton, George
Williams, James Heaton, the Detien-
mes, Jacob Renner, Thomas Kirk FAINT
H~erlinger, ]. w. Darnell, Charles
Barney, Fred Pine, J. W. Harris, E.
W. House, A. J. Middleton, L. E.
Langford, G. Douchant and others
whose names have slipped the mem
DRY of the writer.
A good, steady blacksmith can find
a location at Mt. Carmel. Apply to
G.. Douchant, who will furnish q shop
and residence.
Wednesday was spent in Farber, a
town of 300 or 400 people, where near.
ly all kinds of ordinary business is
represented.
Farber has a number of up-to-date
dry goods and grocery stores, a drug
store, a well-managed and solid bank,
a good newspaper-the Fortuna
frst-class hotel, a large livery barn the
Lacrosse Lumber Co.'S. yards and
other business houses. 1t Is a good
town and its people are clever, hos
pitabIe, Industrious and thrifty. The
LEDGER has a large subscription list at
Farber.
Thursday the day was put in at
Laddonia, Audrain county's second
city in size. Here is q town that is
growing right along and evidence of
the fact is apparent at every turn. An
entire block of modern brick business
buildings has recently been erected
and two large brick sto rehouses are
now in course Of construction by
DR.. kirkland, who. will remove to Lad
donia from Rowena. A number of
Laddonia's merchants do business on
a large scale and the town is an impor-
tant shipping point for stock and
grain. Two banks do the business of
the town and vicinity-Ellie Locke's
and Hugh Logan's. Both are solid
financial institutions and are under
excellent business management. The
Laddonia Herald, published by the
Beal brothers, Is a live, up-to-date,re re-
liable newspaper and enjoys a nice
patronage. 1t is one of the LEDaER's
valued exchanges. Laddonia is notice
ably short on hotel buildings and a
first class hostelry erected in that
place would be a great help to the
town. This is about the only thing
that Laddonia is behind the times on.
1t has many elegant residences and
within its limits is one of the largest
and handsomest dwellings in the
county-that of Hon. E. O. Kennen.
The LEDGER is under especial obi
cations to Wilder & Pearson, the
merchants Of Laddonia, for courtesies
extended, as we'll as to G. Douchant,
of Mt. Carmel, Price Sutton and Mr.
Osterhout, of the Farber bank, and
Ellie Locke and Hugh Logan, of the
two Laddonia banks.
Corn is selling in the east end at
s1.25 per barrel. The yield IL tolerably
fair.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
The following named new subscrib-
ers-all good and substantial men
were enrolled upon the Weekly LED
GERS large subscription list:
A. B. Hale.
w. H. Logan.
John u. Harley.
P. Mcdaniel.
F. 8. Akridge.
G. H. Dubray.
James Gibson.
w. 7. Brown.
j. W. Murphy.
Mrs. E. ]. Gililland.
J. r. Williams.
!, A. T. Chase.
i, G. HI. Huntley.
w. j. Grow.
Lacrosse Lumber Co., Farber.
Sam O. King.
F. M. Doyle.
Charles Barney.
Jacob Renner.
Antoine Detienne.
VIM. Woodeman.
Thomas Kirk.
w. Y. Powell.
FAINT Herlinger.