Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-09-22
Chunks of DnfwOod
One Reuben DIn

needed rest atter MS OiOsS Onh'
r. H. Wallace, Of near Thompson, is
very sick.
Fred Mann Is back from a tour In
Texas. They all come back.
Mrs. Dora Lemley, OF Mallard, H.,
is here visiting relatives.
Shanks Mckinney is in st. Louis at
the bedside OF a sick brother.
Miss Ora Greed, Of Jacksonville,
Mo-, is the charming guest OF Miss
Linnie Bybee.
Mrs. Robert Hooton is in Centraiia
at the bedside OF herI father, Enoch
Hunt, who is critically i'll.
Thanks to Major M. B. Paige for
taking us o swing around the circle In
his two-horse motor car.
Take a shot at Bryant Sanders
show window at Fix 1t Shop. Nifty.
Col. James E. Moore, of Boydsville,
Mo-, was in Mexico, Tuesday, on bus
mess, Col. Moore is a prosperous
stock dealer Of Galloway county.
Mrs. w. Il. Adkins is home from
delightful visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Minnie Berger, of Sedalia. Mrs.
Berger came home with her mother
The Owl is told that one OF Mexico's
w~ell.to-do young men and a pretty and
viyacious Mexico milliner is o to
m-but 'nuff said, at this writing.
Mrs. WIN. Kemper departed, Tues
day, for Asheville, North Carolina, to
Join her husband, and son, Willie, and
daughter, Mrs. W. ]. Porawski, who
have been in Asheville several weeks.
Come on with that storm" house
party that is talkad Of to be reeled of
at the Waverly. Bring good goods to
eat and drink and you will be as well
come as are the flowers in May.
Col. Robert B. Hooton and bis
copper colored valet, Roy Henderson,
are busy harvesting Col. Hooton's big
ginseng crop, down on the farm.
Peter B. Campbell has the contract
to lath Luther Saunders large modern
bungalo, on the Boulevard. Pete is
an artist In the lathing line.
The Misses Wilburn have moved to
their handsome new modern home and
a nifty house party is soon to be reel
ed of. o, joy
DR.. and Mrs. Bomar and DR.. ant
Mrs. Walter Hubbard we're out sight
seeing, Sunday, in the vicinity Of thu
Springs. They came out IN DR.. 30
mars taxicab.
Ed. Dermody is soon to build a mod
ern residence on North Clark avenue
Ed will then by an automobile ant
help make Mexico a greater city,
Miss Emma Wenzel, Of the Missouri
Printing Company, is % taking hel
vacation and will probably visit rela
tives in Ithaca, Nebraska. May he
visit be one sweet dream.
Curtis Bybee now drives a swift
up-headed mare that be recently pur
chased OF Col. Miller at fancy figures
Betsy is the mares name and Ourtil
handles none but good ones.
The saucy little bird on Nellie's ha
whisper lovingly to the Owl that whel
Ivan Ashworth returns to his western
home he will not travel alone. Blu
'nuff said at this writing. Dick is
nifty rip-pah and a good Democrat.
Hubbard & Bennett have just pur
chased Of ShankS Mckinney the edu
Gated goat, that acted Sc we'll at tn
late Elks' Convention, in this city
The goat is Of the Mamie variety AM
the price paid Shanks was a fancy one
Captain Dave Ford, the practica
gardener, gives US a large juicy tomat
which tilted the beam at an even tw
pounds. Capt. Ford is always ther
with the goods. But Major Tazwel
johnson still wears the belt and ha
Capt. Ford skinned just one pound.
The summer is almost over and th
harvest has passed. Are you ready t
meet Mr.. Winter, face to face
The many Mexico friends Of Docto
Kanaly are rejoicing that the weathe
prophet still lives and was not swep
away In the mighty flood, Sunday
TITS hard TO "wash away a good mar
Coils. Walter Peck and John Fecht
representative men of the west enc
were in town, Wednesday, shakin
hands with friends. Both gentleme
would make splendid United State
Senators or Foreign Missionaries.
Ask Col. Tom Chopper to tell 20
about that fierce ride be took wit
DR.. Council, Monday. Tom rode GU
In the country four miles with til
doctor but walked back, and says th
Docs horse is too swift and then life
too short and be will never again tax
a ride behind the little sorrel.
Prof. Jas. o. Smith, late Of Ell Rent
Oklahoma, is now an artistic arts
at Lambert IL Slavens' Tonsorial Pal
Tors. Prot. Smith is soon to spruce u
the Ledger Owls rufled feathers. Oh
Joy Prof. Irwin Lambert Is now i
Texas In the interest Of Cottonwoo
Springs and is the American" refere
for four bull fights 10 Old Mexico.
Col. Reuben McCord, with the T. A
Chopper meat emporium, is soon {
take his annual vacation and a niue
needed rest down on Col. Chopper
Pea Ridge farm In Lincoln County
Rube will buy a car load Of grass an
corn-fed cattle Of the famous Pc
Ridge variety, the meat Of which wi
be sold at the Mexico emporium, Rub
is a rip-pah and a hum-dinger.
Capt. Adolphus W. Collins is hom
from Marshall where be attended th
fair and visited his son, Byron. Th
gallant Captain tells us he had a RAJ
thing good time, all along the line.