Mexico Missouri message., 1911-08-10
PRAIRIE LEA.
Irions Airship Again - Way
Down on Wild Cat River.

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would be dry indeed for it rains
every time he says 50.
Way down on the Wildcat river,
That's where we lost our hat.
It was so cold that we could not
SILVER,
What do you think Of that
Bert Bartels is very sorry that
threshing time is over. Bert
works harder at the table than
anybody in these parts. He has
been seen TO enter on the first
table. oatclcar thru the second and
third tables and finish up with the
cooks. then 90 off hungry after
making the ladies promise to have
an early supper.
Phillip Shire was out dc-horn-
ing his frogs the other day when
he heard fierce racket overhead
lie crawled under a frog stool
and looked up. What he saw was
Geo. Irion in his Internal air ship
with a long hook trying to catch
Shire's alligator so he could
alight. But just then the hook
caught in a cloud and broke Off
and Geo. sailed for home so fast
that he set the wind afrc.
The next thing on the program
at Bachelors Hall is a great big
watermelon supper next Saturday
night. All the "niggers" in Mex
leo are invited and also the white
people if they care for melon.
Miss Mamie Davis is making an
extended visit with her sister,
Mrs Roy Dudley up near Skin
ner. She left Wednesday and
will return with the spring flow.
ers.
If you want any watermelon be-
fore Saturday night just call on
Bert Bartels. Bert says, you are
as welcome as the flowers in May
and then some, especially if there
are any ladies in the crowd.
The inmates of Bachelors Hall
will collect the melons for the big
supper Friday night.
Some boys, supposed to be
from Bachelors Hall, carried off
an invalid, who was sleeping
under a tree for his health, the
other night, bed and all, and left
him in a pasture a long ways off.
The boys ought to have more re-
spect for the sick and blind.
Chas. Wilmshorst is doing some
fine work on the roads with a
grader. Charley is an expert
when you get him wound up, and
he never stops to play.
A great many from the Lea at
tended a fish fry at Barnes Ford
last Wednesday. All had a swell
time, and we will not mention any
names, but they caught all kinds
of fish and ate all kinds of fish and
threw the bones away.
The biggest event in the base
ball line for this season was pulled
off Sunday, when the Rush Hill
Red-Sox met the Prairie Lea No
Sox. 1t was a great game. as all
the leading sporting papers agree.
The manager of the No-Sox was
absent on a trip to Auxville and
that is the reason given that the
boys did not get in the lead. But
although the NO-Sox lost the game
they have not lost their reputation
and expect TO continue TO do bust
ness in the future.
Mark Pierce sent to Chicago re
Gently for a pipe wrench. Mark s
pipe is out of order and he says
he must have a smoke.
The blacksmith was making
hairpins the other day and broke
his one hundred and eighty pound
anvil all to pieces. He says he
must now either get a heavier
anvil or do lighter work.
Robert Davis received letter
from the governor of England not
long ago, asking him what his ad-
dress was. Bob wrote back and
said, Just put r. n. Davis, L. s.
A, on the outside Of the envel-
ope." The governor did so and
since then Bob has got his mail on
time. Bob will visit the governor
on the 32nd day or August. come
back by Washington and take
dinner with President Taft. After
dinner he viii give the president
a few lessons in horseback ridino