Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-05-12
County News.
BENTON CRY ITEMS.

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BENTON CITY ITEMS.
Correspondence Of the Ledger.
BENTON CITY, May u.-Lieut- ]. @.
Johnson visited friends in Lsddonia
last week.
Miss Zelma Wigginton and sister, Of
Columbia, are guests Of VIM. johnson
and family this week.
A. r. Petty and family, Of near Rush
Hill, moved to st. Charles Monday.
Dyer Bros, of Auxvasse, shipped q
car of hogs from this place last week.
J.. Q. Hendrix shipped one car load
OF hogs last week.
j. n. Field and ]. O. Hendrix re-
ceived one a corn each last week.
Mrs. Billiard and daughter, Miss
Nora, of Martinsburg, visited friends
and relatives here Sunday.
Mrs. Robt. Sallee has rented her
property to Mrs. NJ. e. Douglass.
Mrs. Sallee move to Mexico Monday.
2. T. Dillon will occupy Mrs. Douglass
property.
Dr.. ]. Frank Harrison has papered
his office and made a general clean up
this week.
Mrs. J. o. Tinsley and little daugh-
ter, Of Centralia, are visiting j. M.
Harrison this week.
Jas. Harrison, of Thompson, visited
his father, J. NJ. Harrison, Sunday.
Elder ]. w. Coggins filed his reg
nlar appointment at Unity church
Sunday and Sunday night.
Mrs. w. o. Powell and children are
visiting Mrs. 8. W. Powell in Martins
burg this week.
Rev. j. 7. Nevins, of Wellsville,
filed hia regular appointment at the
Baptist church Sunday and Sunday
night.
Jas. 8. Brown is erecting a barn on
his farm near here. Stephen Harper
is experimenting the work.
Our wide-awake merchants, 2. T.
Northcutt and W. N. Mullins, report a
large sale of -four the past week, on
account OF the war scare.
DR.. T. H. Diven's valuable saddle
horse got badly cut up on q barb wire
fence M day last week.
A. F. Romans sold his fine saddle
and driving mare to John Wilson, of
Mexico, last week. Price, 800.
Walter Tratchel was in Mexico on
business Monday.
81. e. Miller, our jeweler, was In the
vicinity of Martinsburg this week
doing work in his line.
Geo. White, who clerks for B~lattner
Bros, of Wellsville, visited friends
here Sunday.
j. @. Hendrix and family visited
relatives and friends in Galloway Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Our enterprising stock dealer, ]. O.
Hendrix, received 100 stock hogs this
week, which he will feed.
The Benton City Cornet Band re-
ceived some selections Of standard
music this week, which they are now
practicing on. The boys expect to
have them mastered in q short time,
even Dewey's Naval March.
RUSH HILL ITEMS.
Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUsH HILL, May n.-Rev. Mendsn-
hall will preach at the M. E. church
Sunday at 7:30p. m.
j. @. Mitchell went south with a
load of horses last Thursday night.
John Richardson and Carl WASH
burn are the only two who have had
the nerve to join the militia from our
town.
B. Lewellen, of ear Laddonia, wal
in this vicinity Tuesday looking aftel
stock
Corn planting is bound to be very
late again this season on account o.
the rain.
J. P. Harper Is doing some carper.
ter work for T. T. Torreyson this
week.
F. p. Paris lost a good horse Sunday
with lung fever.
Several in and around Rush Hill
attended the Collins commencement
at Laddonia Friday evening. 1t was
just as usual, 'sup-to-date."
]. A. Medley and wife visited reIa.
tives in Laddonia the last Of last
week.
The price of corr is getting to be
better and will encourage the farmers
to crop on q larger scale this season
II you want q satisfactory job or
laundry work, take it to Jas. Myers
barber shop and he will have it done
for you. -