Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
COUNTY NEWS

4 Mrs. J.. j.. Steele has gone to S
Louis to join her son, Chas., wi
VIII accompany her through the Eas
visiting Niagara Falls. and 9th,
places OF interest.
|, David Petty has gone to Creole,
Colo, to spend the summer with hi
son, Guy Petty.
Mrs. Bert F. Wells and childre
are visiting relatives in oskaioosi
Ia.
Drs. j. F. McWilliams, W. L. Rec
and Carl Pasqueth will attend tn
Estate Dental Association meeting a
Joplin June 13.
u John Sherman. cashier Of the Ban
at Santa Fe, and daughter were Il
Mexico Thursday.
c. II. Dunn, the mule man Of tn
Kingdom" OF Galloway. residing nes
Hatton. was in Mexico Thursday OIL
business.
Poole Harrison, of this city. wol
the debate for the P~hilologic literary
society of Westminster College thii
week. The contest was between tn,
Schools two literary societies.
DR.. C. F. Blanks has purchased
a beautiful lot next to DR.. J. G
Moore, on Love street. He will
build him a handsome home soon.
Overhead electric fans have beer
put in the Circuit Court room. They
more than last year.
Misses Frances Carter and Mary
-Eller, who taught school in the
State of Washington last winter, are
home to spend their vacations. They
will return to the West next fall.
Mrs. W. l.. Green and children,
of Buffalo, Wyo., are visiting Mrs.
Ida Watts, of this city.
Mrs. ]. A. Bush, mother of Marvin
Bush of this city, and Mrs. W. b.
Bush, both of New Florence, visited
the formers son here Wednesday.
The Laddonia Herald says: Mrs.
T. j. Hoxsey, wife of the proprietor
of that popular hosiery at Mexico,
passed through here Monday after
noon on No. IA going to New London
to visit her parents. She was on a
cot in the baggage car. We hope
she loon her former good
health"
The Montgomery Standard says: B.
A. Parsons has moved from Bellflow-
er to Mexico, Mo, We hope he has
struck 1t right. There is no better
place than Mexico in which to live.
Thursday evening, while Henry
.Sannebeck was out riding his saddle
mare, Nancy Jane, and when he was
the ice plant, Nancy Jane be-
came frightened at an auto. The ami
NAL reared up on her hind feet and
fell on her back rolling completely
aver ON Henry and then made her
getaway on out west to the Cotton
wood Springs Poultry Farm where
she was lassoed by Charles Robbins,
late of Boston. Henry received
a few scalp wounds, and other Sc
we're injuries about the body. He is
not badly hurt, but it was an exceed
ingly close call for Henry. He is
glad he is alive to-day to tell the
story of his frog hair escape.
Dill.
The Montgomery City Standard
says: Bert Luckie's mother from
made him a visit the past
week, arriving here Saturday. The
of the Standard ate at the
same table with her and DR.. Luckie
in Mexico when her husband first be-
gan practicing his profession. Mr.
has lost little Of the charm
and graciousness of manner that so
we'll became her in those days just
the war, and it was a great
pleasure to greet her again. We
would that such people were becom-
ILg more numerous.
Thursday, as Mr.. and Mrs. R. B.
Hooton and their daughter, Miss Ida
May Hooton, of this city, and Miss
Eta Gentry, of Sturgeon, were en
route to the Hooton home, west of
Mexico, in a taxicab they had an
exceedingly close call. Mrs. HootonI
who Is an expert driver and who
holds the lines with the grace of
an ideal queen, was driving Col. Hoot-
on's spirited mare, Beauty. When
going out West Monroe street, down
the incline near the home of Mrs.
the animal became unman-
.geable and acted badly. Mrs. Hooton
had a vice-like grip on the lines
and see-sawed the maddened animal
across the street to a post. Several
men ran to the rescue and the ami
NAL was checked in her mad career.
Miss Gentry jumped to the granitoid
walk and badly sprained her wrist.
None other of the occupants of the
left their seats and were not
Half a dozen spokes in the
wheel Of the taxicab were broken.
was indeed a close call. Col.
Hooton has, for many years. handled
horses-all of which have made
frog-hair getaways. Dill.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, prominent in
Prohibition services. died in a santa
rum at Leavenworth, Kansas, this
Mrs. S. P. Dubray and son. of
are guests of Col. and Mrs
]. H. Larue, of this city.
Irwin Asbury, of Martinsburg, was
Mexico, Saturday en- route to Lad
donia.
The Rev. Willis Carlisle is re-
slowly improving.
e. f. Kunkel, wife and son,
are spending a week with Mrs
sister, Mrs. j. H. Springer,
of near Thompson.
Ira Shepard, formerly of this city,
now of San Angelo. Texas, is re-
ported TO be in i'll health. Mrs. Shep-
ard also is said to be not well. Miss
Cordie Mundy, sister Of Mrs. Shep-
ard, is visiting them in San Angelo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shepard formerly re-