Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-09-16
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Boost. no11 knock
MS Mite Reck d IN Of fever.
"a ban wander back again"
AgoGth IS known By ths sisters be.
.hSS o fndges
CspsAan SpsceS, living Just vest Of
town No has been III, h better.
Mr. Joe OordeE has again entered
|tss newspaper arena Joe has sold
his interest in the oOocrete business
The sxraorainAry resources Of the
|eroel lightaing sere exenplihed Al
SkStua. No, recenslF when one
stroke killed = negro and . maie
Sone girls consider ope mole q
beauty nark, and sone wear polka dot
uesa& What 90 you think Of that
II TIE west end painting firm Of
Feoht & Painter are going 70 paint
cur pump At the Springs We want
then 10 DO 80 and talk less 'Nuff aid.
The Lcdesr Osl has several eye
openers but We never let 60 OF a
scrsI las = way ve have And
then We don't want 10 wear . black
ere Cor telling the cold, naked truth.
utook two men-OoOk and Peary-
to ind the North Pole. II only took
one mxn-Bob white-tO md the
North SIDE Alley. Anyway. there's
The South Pole lsfk
The ST. Joseph NewSPress says;
"Abe Martin, OF the indianapolis
News thinks that Doc Cook could
loonvince the world easier II be had
brought back 3 pole cat" Sakes alive
Major and Mrs. Wa. Albus, living
lust south OF town, left Tuesday for
King Fisher, Oklahoma, and other
points 10 the west, seeking q new
home They'll be back TO grand old
Audfain County, TO be In close touch
to Cottonwood Springs and the beau
tiful North Side Alley!
"She Is away ; life isn't just the same;
III have some fun, now that she's
out OF sight;
/ think that III start up q poker game,
And have the boys bring up a keg
tonight"
Love will find G way-into matri'
mony, but only a lawyer can find a
way out. Is that so?
Davis & Ferguson, the acknowledg
ed melon Kings Of Audrain County
have the thanks Of the Ledger force
for q large sweet watermelon. Davis
& Ferguson likes the printers and the
printers like Davis s. Ferguson. Com
ing from the Kings, of curse theil
gift was highly appreciated.
Says the Louisiana Journal : "a
Mexico man has sued his wife for
divorce because she took money out o
dis trousers pockets when be went Il
bed. A Louisiana woman would know
better than to go through her hus
bands pockets at bedtime because b.
the time a Louisiana man gets read.
to go bed he has no money left"
Our good friend, Major Henri
Kemper, who lives and owns q splen
did farm north Of Mexico, tells US b
and his good wife will move to Alton
Illinois, this fall to reside. Henri
says be has been living In Audrail
,ICounty 20 years, has worked hard an
now proposes to take a rest and liv
, on Easy Street. He says he will rem
, bis farm but will not sell 1t as long a
he lives. Henry is a good man an
we wish him much success in his ne'
home, but he'll be back.
Major Tandy Hill tells us that tn
1 party or parties who took two pairs G
lines and four brides of Of horses a
the hitch rack are known. Major Hi
! also states that II said party or partie
will return the same to him at hi
! apartments at the city scales. n
! questions will be asked and all will b
q we'll. II they do not return the SAINT
: there'll be something doing. Tn
articles were taken Monday.
Jay Bennett entertained a few 9
! bis friends on the Waverly lawn Sur
day afternoon at a watermelon fet
and a good time was reeled o1-Un
n sweet dream. Those present wer
. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Drebing, of thi
. city; Miss Katie Hayes, of Grant,
City, Illinois Miss Haney, Of Howell
Indiana, and Miss Vera Bishop. 1t
to be regretted that Miss Ella I
I Watkins, Of st. Louis, and Mr.. And
, Huntaker, of Fayette, we're unable t
be with this jolly bunch Of people.
These remarkable statistics ar
given by the Rothville Bee when
man is fully dressed he wears eleve
different articles, including his NECK
, tie and pipe. A woman wears mint
teen different articles In her hal
alone with fiftY-seveu other varietie
of clothing, all of which are held 4
place by pins. A man spends abou
! twenty minutes a day IN dressing an
a woman spends four hours. A ma
couldn't put on the same amount 0
clothing and anchor it In place wit
pins IN four weeks" Sakes alive
HARD HIT BY A MONSTER CATFISH
!; Last Monday, we are told, while ia
Bennett was walking through his cor
field, which is near the creek, JUS
west Of town, he was attacked by a
enormous catfish, which sprang from
behind a cornstalk, where IL had bee
hiding, and seized him by the arm
Jay was being dragged rapidly through
the cornield to the Nine Foot Ford
CLOSE by, when Reuben Toalson an,
Captain Smith, who were working il
an adjoining field. hearing Jays criei
for help, Immediately ran to him ant
succeeded In driving the large isl
away by stabbing 1T with pitch forks
George Laforce also came to the rescuI
OF Jay and belted the fish over thu
head several times with a grubbinI
hoe, but the monster escaped into thu
dense buck. bushes, owned by John @
Fecht. 1t was a close call, indeed
Detective Buck Pagan, DR.. Kanaly
Loren Mceks, Peter Campbell, Docl
Patton, Windy Jones, Sam Potter