Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-07-13
@. E. MADDOX.
ASpecial Invitation For This Knocker
to Attend the Mexico Carnival

Mr.. G. E. Maddox, Monroe County, Missouri.
MEXICO, Mo-, July s, 1905 Dear
Sir; ] have read your letter to the
Mexico LEDGER, and note you say
That for four slices of bread and a small
chunk OF shoate
| And cup of Arbuckle's TO wash out
your throat,
Two dimes were demanded at least
so you wrote.
Now, Maddy old boy, you got off dead
easy. You get Charley Graham to tell
you his Worlds Fair lobster story, en-
titled: "What nine dollars will buy on
the Pike" You are no sport; that's
what's the matter with you. You
have streak down your back as wide
as Jefferson street, and it is about the
color of well developed case Of yaller
ianders You should mix up with the
people now on earth, get the burTs out
Of your name, and the prejudice out
of your system. Your opportunity to
mix it will come this fall when we
have our Carnival.
1t Is going to be lulu this time All
The startling freaks from the four cor
ners OF the universe, will be on exhi-
bltion and you must come also. Prem
iums will be given on everything In
the art department, from the best
kettle Of soft soap made in the dark Of
the moon to the most deadly loaf Of
bread, built Of Ben Hur flour,
W. A. Morris-your uncle Billy
will be In charge of the premium de-
partment Of the Pumpkin show. He
offers his celebrated graphophone
which PLAYED under the Ann Hiser
Bush until 1t broke the record, for the
most complete display of farm pro.
ducts, to include mule colts, and red
Berkshire hogs, and for the Buff
Cochin Rooster that can crow the
loudest, the owner will geta preserve
stand. You must be sure and come.
Mrs Gander and myself viii be pleased
to have you take dinner with us, and
we will show you how we live, 1t will
cost you nothing and If it don't, set
US back more than twenty cents, we
will be happy and satisfied. If you
will come and stay the week, / believe
you will like the touch of high life, so
well that we can induce you to move
In for keeps, and help make Mexico a
City. We have quite a colony of re-
tired farmers here now. Col. Joe
Bolts, Col. Charles Lewis, Col. Jack
Woolery, Col. Bob johnson, Mr.. r. r.
Buckner and myself. You couldn't
drag us away from this town, with a
traction engine. We used to feel just
like you do about tan shoes and tooth
brushes, but we are bravely over 1t.
Now we wear loud socks and drink ice
water in the good old summer. time,
and In winter we sit around the nickle
plate base burner in the luxurious
quarters of the benevolent and protec-
tive Elks, Keep our hair cut for the
proper setting Of the Antlers, wear a
conspicuous oreide pin and play finch.
It's the only life, and you will enjoy 1t
after you come in; give yourself up
a nd not ooo1iroatad
When we pulled up the fence around
the court house and margined the
square with eight feet Of granitoid;
when we killed the hollyhocks with
an AK, and pompadoured the shrub
berry, paved the streets, built hitch
racks at big expense on high priced
lot, and passed the antiseptic bichlo-
ride Of mercury, don't spit on the side
walk ordinance, number Alta, SO
that your handsome daughters, could
stroll around on bargain days without
trailing their expensive skirts through
liquid Battle AK we certainly thought
you ouldappreciate our efforts in your
behalf and bring US your produce, and
now because you can't get goose liver
and terrapin with champagne trim
mings for twenty cents you snort like
Sam Howard's automobile with Fred
Hathaway up, and say you won't play
In our yard no more on earth forever,
and to rub it in, you intimate that
Mexico is not a city. You are not
posted, Maddy, my friend; now have a
look. Stand with me on the bridge
that spans the railroad tracks and
look towards England, The tall struct-
ure that obscures the view is the Pol
lock Mill and Elevator. They handle
more grain every six months than is
produced in Monroe County In a de-
cade. They ground the flour that
made the bread that cost you five a
slice, you said. To the right you will
observe an object that resembles a
torpedo boat destroyer. That is the
Mexico Fire Brick Works and 1t
works-and it is turning out quality
of yellow brick that good lightning
road agent could sell for gold in Mon
roe County. South of the bridge is
Hardin Park, the beautiful, in the
center of which, where the fragrant
red geraniums are planted in exact
geometric circles, is the future site Of
our Carnegie library. Now, lookl lookl
lookl towards the Philippines and see
the place where the new thirty thous-
and dollar Union Station will be 10 the
sweet bye and bye. We have cigar
factories, wagon factories, ice plants
and ice cream factories, car coupling
works, water works, electric light plant
and Paul Weber's pie plant. We have
doctors galore and lawyers to burn,
and papers to print your letters. We
have all kinds of churches and all