Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-09-04

The we'll flows 200 gallons per hour,
and a good supply OF water is supposed
to have been found.
A woman In Noble took her black
collarette from the camphor chest
and hung it on the front door knob to
air, and in ten minutes the house was
swampei with sympathizing neighbors
wanting to know who was dead.
Two st. Louis girls became mired in
~quicksand near Kimmswick, NO., and
we're sinking out Of sight when they
were rescued by a farmer and his ne
gro hired hand, who we're attracted by
the cries for help from the girls.
A young man and his girl ordered
dinner at a Lawson hotel, and found
so much fault with the meal that they
we're told TO leave. Inquiry proved
that they were walters from Excelsior
Springs who were trying TO ''even up
things.
1t is noticed that the Macon man
who does the most talking about the
weeds that hide the town has let them
grow so tall around his own place that
his wife has TO blow the dinner horn
to let the children know where the
house Is.
A jealous Missouri wife who feared
that her husband was in love with the
servant girl, and following him-as
she thought-into the dark kitchen
one night was caught in a rapturous
embrace and ~feryently kissed by the
hired man.
Weatherby's great social event OF
the season was its picnic held last
week. In the "wrlte-up' Of the func-
tion the village paper states that
Eugene Rice and his daughter, Miss
Myrtle, ate green apple pie and cheese
for their luncheon"
Captain Marmaduke, brother Of the
former Governor Of Missouri, has sold
his sword to the Colombian govern
ment, and has staked his future on the
success Of his attempt to wipe out the
revolution in that republic, which he
will make his permanent home.
An airship contest is promised as an
attraction at Manhattan Beach next
week. An unknown mar has agreed
to propel the Santos-D umont machine,
and Leo Stevens, who has been work
ing on his invention for three years,
says he will give the Brazllian's model
a race.
A cautious young girl living in HUI
Evansville, received a letter from her
sweetheart so poorly written that she
could not tell whether IL was an inyl-
tation to the circus or a proposal, so,
to be on the safe side, "she accepted
with pleasure" and is now awaiting
developments.
At the odd Fellows home at Lib
erty, Supt. w. S. MeSslmer raised 100
bushels OF good wheat, but fire de.
stroyed two stacks, leaving III BUSH
els when threshed. This Is an aver
age of 30 bushels and over 10 the acre
The Home inmates will have abund-
ance OF breadstuir and some 10 spare.
A probable exhibit for the st. Louis
Worlds Fair In 1904 will be the exhi.
billion OF sea mammals. Lewis Stalt-
melster has recently visited the man
agement OF the fair 10 decide upon the
proposition Of bringing a large whale,
tin whales, dolphins and sawfish from
the Island Of Skora, of the coast OF
Norway.
Where the town OF Agency now
stands there wa formerly a ford ex-
tensively used in the days OF the early
settlement and was called Agency
Ford. The name originated from the
fact that the Platte river was forded
at that point in going from the Indian
Agency. 1t was at that point that
Gen. A. S. Hughes lived several years
as Indian agent.