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Life Norris was a resident of SPRING
field.
Harrison Glascock was Sheriff of
Audraln.
David N. Evans was a contractor
and builder.
Bob Herman and family were visit
ing in Iowa.
Mrs. Cudworth was proprietress of
a green house.
Bragg & Hiner were saddlers and
harness makers.
A band stand was being erected at
Allison's Springs.
July had five Mondays, Tuesdays
and Wednesdays.
]. Med. Trimble was a candidate for
Prosecuting Attorney.
The sum Of $50 had been subscribed
for a silver cornet band.
Miss Sadie Lawhead was teaching
a summer school at Naylor.
Tom Mildred was a candidate for
Recorder of Audrain county.
Prof. Tice was the recognized
weather prognosticator of that time.
Preparations were being made to
view the total eclipse of the sun on
July 20.
Giles Allison and Selden Brooks
gave an entertainment at Allison
Springs.
There was an accommodation train
on the @. & A. between Mexico and
Louisiana.
The editor said, 'sThis kind OF weather
a man wants to take off his skin and
sit in his bones"
"Alpha" wrote a two column COM
munication for the LEDGER from
Liverpool, England.
A local item stated that "The DEM
ocratic party is greenback enough to
suit the most fastidious."
Hon. A. H. Buckner, Congressman
from the 18th district, was confined to
his home In this city by an attack of
fever.
Again the humorist gets in his work.
He said, ga poker room is an ante
room," and it was, about that time for
some of the boys.
1t was 103 in the shade, which led
some n to exclaim, "Sermons on
hades would have been very Impress
i've last Sunday"
Bob Cauthorn's team ran away with
his reaper, which passed over him.
Bob is still in evidence that the acci-
dent did not prove fatal.
An unusual and alarming state of
affairs existed in Audrain twenty
years ago. A paragraph states that
"The office is seeking the man in this
county"
Redman Galloway and W. F. Whit
ney werem managers of a shooting tour
nament of the Mexico Gun Club to
take place at Currie's driving park on
August Z.
The Silver Cornet Band had just
been organized. Some of the mem
bers were Walker Ragsdale, J. B.
Chalmers, Hal. Gibbs, Tom Armstrong
and J.. o. Sullivan.
The humorist on the LEDGER made
these remarks: SIT is bad enough to
have dog days, but it is almost too
much for good nature to be afflicted
also with cat nights"
Speaking of James Robinson, the
circus rider, who was then in the
zenith of his glory, the LEDGER said:
"His legs are worth a couple of thous-
and a week to him."
The LEDGER said a prominent citi-
zen was caught in Joe Coons' store
with his arm around a lady's dress
statue, and added, "He could find
nothing better, we suppose"
1t must have been hot about that
time, for an item says, "Bob Ingersoll
may gain as many converts as he
pleases during the winter, but he can't
hold them such weather as this"
On July 1 VIM. 8. Elliott, of this city,
was married to Miss Mamie Surber,
and when the groom took the bride
home to see her parents she was kept
there by her father, much to the dis
comfiture of the husband.
The Court House was comparatively
new and was spoken of Is a magnifi-
cent structure, but the appearance of
the grounds surrounding it brought
forth the following remarks: "Our
Court House yard with its present
luxuriant growth of Brazilian fanny
is, indeed, a lovely thing upon which
the educated eye car gaze with unal-
loyed bliss"
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