Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1909-02-25
UNCLE BILLIE"
WRITES ABOUT
BUSINESS MEN
WELL KNOWN PERRY RESIDENT
HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY
ABOUT MEXICO CITIZENS
LIKES THEM ALL, HE DOES
Dedicated to the Business Mems As
ISOLATION Of Mexico, Mo-, and Pro-
spsctIveIy Perry, Santa Fe and Mex
leo Electric r. n.
PERRY Enterprise.)

Editor Enterprise.
The above caption may seem a
little tangled and even mixed. But
Bob Burns puts it thus;
what ! may say as go long,
l trust may prove a warning,
1t may turn out song;
Perhaps turn out a sermon"
Even though the public press has
eomplimented that most worthy asso-
citation for their general ideas Of
progress and good business manage
ment, feel the Job not complete un-
til give them my incest compliment
and especially since have shaken
the genial hand Of near all of them
and am not much in exaggeration to
say that were that road in order this
morning and no train Immediately
leaving Perry would put on my
other collar and start for Mexico, the
little city of N. e. Mo-, IL stumped
my toes on every r. R. tie. And
would most heartily endorse their
every sentiment In their respective
topics. Yes, that Centralia Editor
ial scion--( (Pool, l believe) when he
talks of the Public Press" is uplift-
ing and inspiring. He does not put
his head In a vice for an idea and
his mother should be proud of his
birth, "Since every man to his pro-
fession." That man of the Wabash
is the right man in the right place
and there will be a collapse In that
r. R. Corporation to lose him. Hon.
Cy Clark, plain as he may appear, is
galore In thought on our general re-
sources" and to touch his garment
along that line | am sure would live
longer and be better man. AS to
Sink Emmons / would not put him
last for living man, since the Ameri-
can Agricultural and live stock bank
cannot do without him. He cut tape
indoor until the outside world called
him TO give the honest pedigree Of
White Faced cattle.
But M. Editor. IL you will pardon
my elaboration and praise of fellow
man will now reach the top round Of
the progressive ladder, even the cap
sheaf, and will promise not to worry
you, and possibly some others longer,
when ! mention lastly, Judge w. W..
Bolts, one of our best and most en-
terprising citizens whose topic was
especially the immediate construc-
tion of the Perry, Santa Fe and Mex
leo Electric Railroad. That talk
was simply meat and bread to our
general country and superlatively to
the point. AS all In this country know
Judge Bolts as native and whose In
terest is identical with our best in
terest, and whom to commend by me
is out of place. I have farmed for
SIS years IN Monroe county, mostly.
Was born at Paris and with much
promiscuous travelling have seen no
counties with similar natural advan-
tages for development than in Mon
roe, Rails and Audrain. For twenty
five years past this town and yicin-
ity have simply dangled and danced
at the end of this broad road of the
J. |. Blair system. Graded first by
Rails county money nearly thirty
years since and sorry to say too many
have seemingly petrified around ter
minus with scales on their eyes as
to extension to Mexico, Mo-, which
was the real intent in original APP
preparation by Rails county court and
some now seem to think they could
not stand any greater felicity than
the present conditions and that a
few chicken wagons and teams to
Mexico is all that is necessary to
their future prosperity. To my knowl-
edge Messrs. Bolts and Race did not
ask cent of any one while on their
recent visit to Perry as solicitors, but
they did ask to see a mutilated for
mer subscription for this road and
IL possible cancel same for stock at
twenty-five cents to the dollar pay
able If road is built. That subscrip-
tion seemed to have passed through
fire and the internal SCOT pit since
it was badly wrecked as removals,
death, etc., showed.
Yours for push and progress,
William Armstrong