Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-09-27
Cottonwood Springs.
By one Reuben o'Rourke Din.

BY One Reuben o'Rourke Din.
COTTONWOOD STRINGS, Sept. Is
We were not at the Springs Sunday.
We were mingling with a bunch OF
good people a little farther west, but
we learn there was a great throng at
the fountain having a good time
Among those who gave progressive
luncheons we're DR.. Marks and wife.
They had as guests Of honor Miss
Phoebe Knowsitt and DR.. Sinner,
two missionaries Of Wichita, Kansas.
Frank Armistead and family are in
Fulton attending the street fair. One
]. R. Murphy will act as their guide.
Tom O'Toole has quit writing songs
and gone into the painting business,
He yields the brush Of an artist.
Bob Hooton has two ''artists'' from
C~entralia digging him a cellar to keep
wet goods in for guests domiciled at
the WaverlY hotel.
Thanks to Charlie Menifee, Of Co
VIVA, CAL, for a quart bottle Of ''gun
grease" It's scrumptious.
Dick Carter is trying to buy a half
interest in Joe Dobyns' Chill Factory.
If the deal is made these two progress.
sive men will help make Mexico a city
right away-Quick. Ira Collins will
act as night clerk and stenographer.
Bob Hooton and wife and Miss Eta
Gentry, Of Hallsville, attended Mrs.
George Wisdom's house party last
week. Bob took the ladies a ride In
bis automobile.
Barney HootOn, after helping make
Mexico a city, has returned to his
plantation down near Vandalia.
Ed. Rodhouse, the handsome rural
route mail carrier, is taking a much
needed 15.days' lay-off. He is visiting
friends up north.
The Misses Myers, Of Pennsylvania,
and Miss Walsh, of st. Louis, who are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John Fecht, will
attend the ball at the Star Hotel at
Thompson, and the following day will
visit the Springs. We shall meet Them
at the fountain Of health, wealth and
loveliness and again extend TO them
the glad hand.
DR.. Rudolph Keeton, late Of Aux
vase, well known here, has moved
back to Mexico to practice and to stay.
DR.. Keeton is a successful practl-
tioner and a true gentleman.
Peck Bros, at a depth OF II feet,
found plenty Of water for their large
bunch of thoroughbred calves.
We took dinner at the new Hotel
Hoxsey Thursday and we must say it
reminded US very much OF the Palmer
Hotel in Chicago. Everything is right
up-to-the-mlnute. Col. Hoxsey is a
hotel man to a fare-you-well and is
having a splendid business.
There'll be no marriages in heaven,
That land 60 bright and fair;
The reason is perhaps because
"We'll know each other there
John Fecht, the porch artist, AVS
Thompson looks more like C~entralia
every day, every hour, every minute.
Mike Georgy is looking for his auto
to arrive every day. When it gets in
Mike and the writer will ill it up
with bread and cakes and take a swing
around the circle. Sure, Mike.
Col. Lowder has moved his barber
goods to rooms in the Windsor build
ing and wants all who wish a Phila.
delphia or Cottonwood Springs hair
cut or shave, to give him a call. Col.
Lowder and Col. Wilson are tonsorial
artists late Of Boston and New York.
COL. and Mrs. Richard Campbell Of
Robbins Station, Pa, who have been
visiting relatives In this county, re-
turned to their home Tuesday night.
Col. John Brewer has received from
= friend in Kansas two grey hounds,
Of which he prizes very highly. He
has named them Garry Nation and
Reuben Din. The hounds, like their
namesakes, must be thoroughbreds OF
the Prohibition stripe. Sure, Mike.
Col. Leroy Key, Of the Fulton Sun,
was here Saturday. Leroy wants US
70 move the Springs owe to Fulton
md help make that village a town.
Leroy is always doing something for
iweet charity's sake.
We hear there are 10 be two new
restaurants soon TO open up
hear the old Union Station site-one
be known as the Eureka and one as