Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-04-19
$Twenty Years Ago =
This Week.


William GILLIAN died.
Lon Hail clerked at Bsrth's.
Andy surber's house burned.
W. o. Barnes handled lumber.
Van. West bought the j. Smith
restaurant.
Gen. Marmaduke was a candidate
for Governor.
George Michaels and Miss Letta
Wade were married.
VIM. Harper, VIM. Sims, J. W.
Carson, Jas. Galloway and H. A..
Ricketts, were directors Of the
Southern bank.
The following school board was
elected: b. {. Locke, 1 year; @. B,
Macfsrlane and j. J. Steele 8 years.
The proposition to add Is cts. per
hundred to the schoollevy was carried.
TEX YEARS AGO THIS WEEK.
Edgar Pearson left for Texas.
There was small poz In Columbia.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Duncan,
q son.
keenan, Laughlln was home from
Virginia.
Residence property in Mexico was
advancing.
James Wright and Miss Lulu Brown
we're wed.
Mick McOubblD was back from
California.
Mrs. M. &. Sellers, of osceola,
visited In Mexico.
Albert Renie and Miss Annie Sim
mons we're married.
]. Mod. Trimble and Mrs. Alice L.
Strowbirdgs were married in Kansas
City.
Morgan Stewart, Bob Byuns and
Ohas. Mcintyre left for Spokane Falls,
Wash.
Alexander Garter, aged II years,
died at his bome, II miles north Of
Mexico.
DR.. J. R. Fritts was corresponding
secretary Of the State Medical AS
ISOLATION.
Mansfield King, formerly Of Au-
drain, was arrested In st. Louis for
horse stealing.
DR.. VIII Brown, OF Brown station,
died of heart disease while operating
on a patient.
Two C,& A.engines, one drawing q
passenger train and u q freight,
met In q head end collision near Far
Der. Fireman Gus Howard was
killed.
The business directory of Thomp.
son: e. q. Mcdonald, postmaster
and general merchant; D. o'Oalla-
CHAN, hotel proprietor and general
merchant; Ohas. Hamblin, black
smith; Will Ewing, carpenter; Ruter
& Sons, carpenters; M. M. Tinsley,
depot agent; q. W. Berry and J. W.
Wilson, physicians.
The following were selected for the
appointive offices: n. 8. Mckinney,
street commissioner Kemp and
Dobyns, night police; 8. J. Buckner,
treasurer; DR.. HALEY physician; VIM.
French, assessor; o. d. Rodgers,
surveyor; Kelly & Stockton, city
weIghers; B. ?, Bradley, cemetery
sexton.
FRoM AN OLD LEDGER.
The following is taken from Vol. 2,
No. "a OF the LEDGER, dated Decem-
Der "a, 1856:
Mr.. Henry Williams sold ahouse and
lot In West Mexico, to VIM. Hen.
bricks, EGG, for $1,000.
Mr.. James Douglas sold to Capt. j.
W. Ricketts,, 1. 2acre Of ground in West
Mexico, for $3.50.
Mr.. John Il. Kilgore sold to Capt. J..
W. Ricketts,, 1874 acres Of land, 2 miles
south Of this place, for $1,000.
Capt. J. W. Ricketts, sold 12s acres Of
prairie land, z miles north of this place,
for $3.50.
R Il. Hord, Esq., sold 20 acres Of
land east Of this place, to Norman J.
Lakeland, Esq,-terms private.
A. E. Inflow, Esq, sold 8 acres land,
adjoining town, on the north, to W.
H. Edmonston, for $500.
st. Joseph was on . boom.
The Fulton Telegraph was alive.
Warner was entering the field Of
medicine.
George Hall, Of Randolph County,
was accidentally shot.
8. W. Davis and Miss Sophie Malone
we're wed ct Palmyra.
Pennsylvania and other eastern
states led In wheat raising.
Dol. Nathan Boone, youngest son Of
Daniel Boone, died ct the age Of eel
years.
Governor Adams, Of South Carolina,
proposed the revival Of the slave trade
with Africa.
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