Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-10-01
Chunks Of Driftwood,
BY One Reuben o DiIl.

line ONl icaLUe tuu NOitu JUG oAA~J
J to be paved in the early spring. o,
Dyl
Geo. Randall has just completed al
lice residence In Mexico, nea the
FIRST and Last Chance store.
Ammon Kemp, the champion corn
Of Audrain county, has the
contract to cut and shock Clark Gar
EFT 8 large corr crop. Col. Kemp is q
lum-dinger-then some.
DR.. Horace Fletcher and his lady
owe we're delighted visitors at the
Springs Sunday and mingled with the
large bunch OF people.
Squire Frank Williams has just
completed the best arranged and
most substantial cellar in the Cotton
wood springs district.
The Owl don't like the song I'm
Afraid to Come Home In the Dark.
There's nothing 10 the song. But
then, great minds will differ.
No tidings have As yet been received
from Judge Barney Hooton who a few
weeks ago left for Phoenix, Arizona.
IL is to be hoped that he has not been
'foully dealt WITH
Thanks to Kemp, Pearson & Co. for
q nifty little booklet which tells us
all about the house Of fashions and
the place to buy on the square. We
partly raised Kemp s. Pearson and
we know they are y. X.
When Charlie Glendy's new LIVERY
barn Is completed the structure will
be quite nifty. New outfits will be
put in and several lei autos VIII be
out in stock for the benefit OF a suf-
ferlDg public.
Here's our glad hand 20 Prof. l. D
Lambert and his handsome youne
bride. May they live long and pros
per and may their pathway through
life be strewn with Oottonwoo
Springs flowers. Come across, Irwin
Ray billiard tells us that the matri
monial bee is humming around tn
head Of Roy Pearl every day, ever
hour, and that the happy day has bee
named. Roy Is a good boy and will
pluck a flower from the garden o
love.
That prince OF merchants, Cha
lie Leeper, has our thanks for fayors
Charlie Leeper stands to-day as u
best JUDGE Of white goods Of any me
chant in Mexico-With or withou
whiskers. II you wish a square dea
call on Charlie. He is there with u
goods.
Jesse Bratton and his handson
young bride are at present happil
, and pleasantly located In q suite
rooms at the Clarkson Hotel. Ear
In the new year Mr.. Bratton wi
2 erect q handsome brown stone res
dence in the extreme west end clos
up to Cottonwood Springs. o, joy !
Major Isaac Taylor is fattening
few billy goats and has asked the o.
to dine with him sometime. NoN
we don't know about this goat mea
But we'll be there to take a shot
a said meat, whether it is juicy or no
= Thanks, Major.
Aubrey Bybee, little son Of Arthi
Bybee, is out the best toe on b
/. right foot. Aubrey was monkeyir
: with a barrel filled with water Mo
day. The barrel got the best
|, young Bybee and landed on the 4
! and cut it of as would a two-edg'
sword.
Those two dreaded diseases-acu
Indigestion. and buck ager- is ragiI
among the Flat Head tribe Of India
B on Carter Johnson's reservation, we
of town. DIR. Joseph Steinman, .
z ID. Jennings Kanaly and DR.. Hora
Fletcher, all experts, are trying the
c best to alleviate the pains and shut {
the yells OF the aflIcted Indians. O.
johnson is worried about his braves.
Attorney d. Hlner Robertson W
4 make the speech Of his life at II
Printers Picnic and Midnight Carr
= val soon to be reeled Of at the Spring
His subject will be. 1.-THE Wherefor
OF the When" Major Joel Gard al
Captain Archibald W. Collins, silye
tongued orators, will also address d
boys on good roads and bac roads.
Col. Geo Clark, the expert rur
a mail artist, is now taking his 15-di
0 lay-off. George will walk through ii
country to Deer Park, Boone count
and will make Sunday school speech
. at many school houses. He has be,
riding on a cart for so long that
long walk will be beneficial to b
shattered health. He will take alor
. his dogs and capture q few rabbits 4
0 pastime.
There is no better man or mo
successful farmer on this earth th;
Major Joel Gard. The gallant Maj
is the owner Of quite q number
pens Of good corn. A corn buyer ask,
: the Major the other day what |
would take for his corn. Major said:
will sell you the corn II Bryan
elected at so cents a bushel, or
sl.00 per bushel II Taft is elected
, Now what do you think OF that? v
. have a notion TO make the deal vii
Bro, Gard. He is a Taft man and Il
Owl is a hot Bryan man. Gre
minds will differ. But this Is a frI
7 country and II you never stole q mu
q or goat, you can vote as you ual
please, 'begosh.