Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-10-12


Smell, r. L. Brown, Hisey & Lee, two
entries; William Smith, Brit Luckie,
W. B. Hanna, Joseph Schulz, two en-
tries; W. P. Jones, W. B. Freeman,
o. @. VOORHEES,, &. E. Biggs, J. P.
Arnold, James Kempson.
COIN SHILLING CONTEST.
The entries for the corn Smelling
contest were: Elmer Powell, Geo.
Massey, Geo. Dean, I. O. BalkIn and
L. J. Plunkett. The decisions were
awarded by the judges, Ian HIT,
Price johnson and Ross Calhoun, to
Powell nrst and Massey second.
CORN sHUoEIHa CONTEST.
At ! .45 this morning en- unique
contest was pulled OF In the amuss-
mont stand on the northwest side OF
the square. The contest was a good
one and very interesting. The
snteries were: ]. II. Crockett, Y. T..
Dean, O. II. epottswood and z. d.
Fox. Corn shucks we're q drug on
the market during the contest. Dean
and Crockett finished together but
the judges, s. II. Crigler Of Monroe,
VIM. Black Of Galloway, and Geo.
Newgent, of Audrain, decided that the
former did bis work cleaner and he
was given first prize.
TUG OF WAR.
Men from Sailing township to-day
outpuiled men from Cuivre township
in q tug cfwar on the west side ofthe
square, The contestants we're;
Selling township: d. M. Morris,
Captain; B. T. Price, Chas. Duffy,
George Massey, Dan billiard, J. q.
ozart, ]. D. Elliss W. ]. Hamilton, P.
K. Dean, O. Weber and Newt Davis.
Cuivre township-John Daniel, Cap-
tain; Sam Pulls, Geo. Wisdom, VIM.
Buckley, John Vance, W. A. King,
Arch Thomas, Henry Vance, VIM.
Loren, Joe Marshall and Lee Stewart.
Captain Allen was refereee.
CHORUS SINGING Last NIGHT.
The chorus singers gave an open
air concert on the east side Of the
court house last night. A large crowd
was present, and the beautiful sing
ing with band accompaniment, was
highly enjoyed. The volume OF the
tone made the event very impress
slve.
Another concert VIII be given to-
night.
PIE DRAWING CONTEST.
Mrs. Dollis Carter, Miss Birdie Oal-
laway and DR.. Hawkins were the
judges in the pig drawing contest.
Following are the entries and the
time consumed In seconds:
Harry Scott, 30.
W. e. West, is.
William FREDDIE, 10.
&c. Davis, IS.
Joe Potts Jr., 10.
Fred Kent, 38.
Dick Helm, SO.
Ira Ellis, 80.
All were very artistic pieces Of
work, and the prize was given to Fred
Kent.
HOGS AND SHEEP.
The display OF hogs anu snsep is
quite small, bat lie q good one, there
being some fine blooded stock
shown.
BEST CARRIAGE TEAM.
In the contest for the best carriage
team, any age, Lee & Hisey had two
entries which were the only ones
made. The black team, Dick and
Dan, won FIRST, and the bays, Sir
Archer and PhilIis, were second.
LADIES' WOOD SAVING CONTEST.
In the ladies' wood-sawlng contest
there were entered Mrs. Hiram Burt
of Galloway, and Mrs. Bedberry, Of
Mexico. The tins allowed was 81
minutes. Mrs. Bedberry sawed OF Is
pieces Of 2x4, while Mrs. Burt sawed
6 pieces.
AT POULTRY HEADQUARTERS.
The display Of poultry was largely
augmented to-day from yesterday.
There were a number Of good games
on exhibition.
In M pen we're several hne look
ing "yellow-leggedn chickens. The
appearance of a Methodist minister
came near putting the birds in q ft.
GUTHRIE AND LooKE's ATTRACTION.
Guthrie & Locke, the real estate
firm, secured the services Of an Ital-
ian roman and boy together with ..
street piano. The dusky musicians
have been entertaining large crowds
to-day.
MINIS DARNINa CONTEST.
I'D Griffin, NJ NJ Brown, Geo Mas
sey and W A King got up on q dray
wagon and punched 3 needle through
q piece of cloth until they had q hole
in the cloth covered up In the order
named above they occupied the
following time In minutes IA, 21h,
14and 10 The 21K minutes won, or
M M Brown won the prize