Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-09-03
Said the Wise
Old Owl on
Reubin DIPS Cap,

the Ledger. Be wise Q get ousys
Dol. Dave owen is helping make
sxico a city every day. Dave is
there with the goods.
rhe great Mexico fair Is over and
G victory Is ours. NEXT years event
II surpass ali previous efforts.
II you are wear and heavy laden,
TO Cottonwood Springs and get
juvenated. It's scrumptious. iii
Dock Patton is now with Kal Rob-
Is, the oil king OF Mexico. Dock Is
ways there with the goods.
Miss Eala Sims, the beautiful an3
vacious daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
"a Sims, Of Jefferson CITY, is visiting
.latives aud friends in Mexico.
Miss Vera Bishop was the guest Of
Irs. John W. Foley, Of Benton City,
A big dinner vas served 70
4 guests and all had a good time.
DR.. Lon Wills, OF St. Louis, and
Mrs. 5lmmie Hawkins, OF Oklahoma
yty, Oklahoma who were guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Peck fair week,
have returned to their homes.
Miss Leta Humphreys, Of Jackson
vile, Mo-, was the charming guest OF
Mrs Walter Peek last week. A swell
party vas given in honor Of Miss
Humphreys and q gay time reeled on
"Good night and bye-bye,
While time does fly,
You're the apple of my eye,
And III see you in the sweet bye
and bye"
Tom O'Toole is the frog king OF
Audrain county. Tom took first prize
on Billie Bryan IA monster bull frog
at the fair. The frog will be sent tc
mis- ramesake at Lincoln, Nebraska.
:. Mrs. Jack Towne OF st. Louis, has
returned to her home, after q visit u
relatives here. Mrs. Towne wal
: formerly the beautiful and accom-
> plished Miss M~ignonotte McDonough
+ Of this city.
Mis- Pauline Criswell, of Southwest
Audrain, was the guest fair week o.
her grandmother, Mrs Frank Nj
; Williams, Miss Pauline is an accom-
plished young lady and has many
admirers.
!. The morning after leading ths
! whirlWind life is awful. During last
week many of the boys ''entered al
! the rings and went all the gaits." Oh
well, it was fair week and everybody
had a rafting good time.
S Miss Grace Smith and Miss Ednt
Smith, who have been guests Of theil
parents, Captain and Mrs Smith, Just
west OF town, have returned TO theil
s splendid positions as school teachers
!. Miss Grace to Ferndale, Gal, and Mis-
e Edna to Detroit, Michigan
Col G. d. Rsgsdale, Of Paris, wa
the guest fair week of bis relative
VIM Ragsdale, Of this city. WhilI
here Col. Ragsdale bought n of thos
! famous spring seat saddles, as did Dol
Woodson, Of Benton City, and Urial
e Pinkerton, OF Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Jefferson Davis Sims got q furIougl
0 for une week from the warden Of tn
Missouri peDitenIiary and came owe
~ 10 Mexico and attended our big fai
= aud gave the glad hand TO his mar
friends here. Col. Sims has a splendi
y position at The pen" as q guard.
,h Robert Dermody Is hume after
happy weeks visit with bis cousin
children Of Col. and Mrs John De
mods, Of southeast Audrain RobeI
6 rep rus a gay time He went huntin
and fishing, caught a large frog and
n bald eagle and broke several wild an
woody brlndle mules for his uncle.
D, The Ledger's Owl has in stock muc
food for thought. just as soon as v
get that deep, brown taste out Of OIL
throat, the whiskers Of our teeth az
ID our plumage sprucsd up, we shall giN
the Ledge'rs many thousands Of real
ers something to talk, laugh and CT
:, about for many moons. Just watc
US sieid a ~trenchant pencil and han
II out SO mighty good stun.
Captain Louis Hubert, OF noftheal
q Of Mexico, is the proud papa OF a L
pound Democrat, who made his fir
bow to the public August % CAPITA
r. Hubert owns a splendid farm, has
good looking wife, bright children ar
is prosperous and happy
", Billie Jackman. Billie Forsyth
IL Leroy Key, Charlie Heck, Billie A
ST kins and Capt. Hisey, all good" Pr
IT. hibitionists, worshipeu at Pilgrim
IT. Rest Sunday. Jay Bennett says
ar the above bunch will promise not Z
I'D eat SO many plums, peaches, apple
In grapes ana tomatoes. they may con
again. II they do, be wants the cas-
Col Henry Drebine, proprietor
10 the Mexico Wish Bone Poultry Yarc
took first money on bis coop Of Barr
ID Plymoth Rock chickens at the b
Mexico Fair and Henry has q sml
that won't come of. There we
many competitors for the prize. q
Dfebing is the owner Ut the fine
bunch OF chickens that a crow ev
-. few owe and is there with the gooc
3D. DR.. Frank Peck writes the Owl fro
us Nursery, Texas, that he Is prospero
ur and happy. He sends regards to
m. bis Mexico friends. He also states th
the report that he was recently ms
ried TO a Texas girl, who has beautii
Titan hair, is not true. Not yet, b
soon. Or. Peck also sends us a pI
scription which calls for a quart bot
of Rocky Mountain Tea.
Capt. John T. Hisey, q contract
land builder Of Beardstown, Illino
had on exhibition at the fair a bun
Of very peculiar owls, know as t
m~oukey-faced owl, seldom lei In u
~country. The owls are In nc way
lated TO the owl on Reuben Dlll's ca