Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-02-04
Twenty Years Ago This Week.
Fulton cast 209 votes.

j. B. Smell was Mayor of Fulton.
Spring fever and tops were in order.
MI. Shippee owned a green house.
The population of Vandalia was 40s.
Grant had signed the compromise
bill.
Born, to VIM. o. Lee and wife, a
son.
Col.Burrel Bailey Tss died on the
9th.
There was a shooting gallery in
town.
M. Blum was buying goods in st.
Louis.
Total population of Audrain county
1926.
Geo. Marshall caught z large rats in
one trap.
T. Bradley was agent for a cholera
medicine.
rhoss swh knew'' said that winter
had gone.
Quails we're allowed.tc be shot till
February 1st.
Gen. ]. B. Henderson, of st. LOUIS,
was at the Ringo.
MIR. Mitchell entertained Mr.. Holt,
of Bloomfield, Iowa.
s. s. Craig's drug store was receiv-
ing a new coat of paint.
T. Mitchell had returned from a
visit in Bloomfield, Iowa.
VUytIin ErNof cnvf fhA nnND. n
sample of some wine cider.
The LEDGER finished the publica-
ton of the city ordinances.
Hon. John A. Flood, Senator from
this district, was in Mexico.
B. 8. Hite was employed in the gro
Gerry store of Uncle Jerry West.
T. Gill was in st. Louis making x
tensive purchases in spring goods.
VIM. Gatewood, Senator from Mont
gomery, was In Mexico Saturday.
Jewett Henderson and E. B. Booth,
of Fulton, made the LEDGER a pleas
ant call.
Martin Bowman, who was teaching
school in this county, made the LED
GER a call.
Woodward & Coons, dry goods mer-
chants, offered their entire stock of
goods at cost.
DR.. j. w. Lanius was in Mexico (his
old home) from his home in Bonham,
Texas, on a visit.
Horton & Hisey killed, dressed and
shipped $50 head of poultry On the
morning of the 18th.
Marshal Potts recovered a jug (but
not the c%ontents), which had been
stolen from the depot.
The LEDGER acknowledged the re-
ceipt of an invitation to a social in the
Odd Fellows Hall at Auxvasse.
j. A. j. Dawes informed the LEDGER
that there were a large number of
wolves in his vicinity (near Centrally.
Prof. Tice warned the people that,
as there had been a good deal of snow,
there would be lots of water when it
melted.
]. R. Dye traded his house and lot in
West Mexico (vaIued at $700) for a
farm in Monroe county, 8 miles south
of Paris.
Mr.. Holt, of Bloomfield, Iowa, was
making arrangements to start a dry
goods emporium and auction house
under the Ringo.
Agnes Herndon, after reading before
the Governor and the members of the
Legislature, favored the residents of
Mexico with an entertainment.
By order of the court the hearing of
the a g of estate of Missouri against
Branstetter," for killing Lowrie, was
postponed from Feb. sth to 18th.
Ricketts, & Emmons had purchased
of the receivers the entire stock of
the defunct st. Louis Boot and Shoe
Store and offered the goods at % per
cent discount.
Married, at the residence of J. G.
Bruton, of Laddonia, Jan. 25, by Rev.
DIR. Vincil, Mr.. Samuel O. Woods, of
Waverly, ILL.,, and Mrs. Mary E. Jack
son, formerly of Mexico.
The st. Louis Journal correspond
ent at Jefferson City said: sd. FL.
Mcintyre, of Audrain, is another of
the quiet ones; when he speaks it is
to some purpose, and I observe that
he is always attentively heard. He
has one OF the soundest heads in the
General Assembly"
The professional cards in the LED
GER we're those of Macfarlane & Trim
BILE, attorneys at law;J. w. Reed, den
fist; Drs. W. Humphrey and T. A.
Keeton, physicians; Thos. Flint, dem
tist; W. W. Fry, attorney and coun-
selor at law; DIR. Pinckney French,
physician and surgeon; ]. W. Daniel,
attorney at law; DR.. w. e. Starr,
Homeopathic physician and surgeon;
DIR, Spence,