Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-07-06

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handing out food for thought TO thI
good people Of that town.
Amos jenkins, the expert meat ant
liver sllcer, is now with the Jaspel
King meat emporium. on, you links
Col. and Mrs Louis Doss we're Sun
day guests Of Prof. and Mrs. Geo. E
Latorce. Col. Doss is capitalist.
The Cottonwood Springs Poultry
firm has been dissolved by mutual
consent. The firm retired with q
"fortune" and many chickens.
Miss Ida May HootoD, In a delight
ful manner, entertained her friends,
Misses Leona and Jessie WilkersoH at
a sumptuous dinner, Sunday. The
occasion was a sweet dream.
There was a man 10 our town
Woo often took a drink;
He knew a soda water clerk
Who understood his wink.
But when The soda clerk got fired
This poor man heaved a sigh
And for a week, or thereabout,
His throat was very dry
by Jess Bratton.
DR. Kaoaly told the truth, Friday,
when he said II would rain on Satur-
day, and 1t rainetb. Thanks, Due.
Send a whole lots mor Dec says later
Oh, IF the wind gets in the right d.
rection, we'll get a flood OF wet stuff
and will have to fee to the mountains
OF Cottonwood Springs for safety. He
also states we will have terrific thun-
der storms and fierce lightning Wish
Walter Peck would put on that light
ming rod 90 that pump at the Springs
before IT'S eyerlastiDely too late:
Owing to the fact that tue Ledger
Owl has for the past few days been
suffering with e%xcruclating pains
from a hnrrld tooth and our jaw puff
ed out like a toy BALBOA, and 5eing
ia attendance .'at that hot trial" at
the court house, we have not handed
out much food for thought for Ledger
readers The only cure for toothache
is 10 have the tooth jerked out, roots
and all, also the jaw, II It's necessary
to alleviate that horrid pain.
IL it's nottrue that II any young
fellow wants a sweet little wiley wife
and a young lady vents a loving hus-
band TO take her to the Airdome and
to eat an ice cream stew with her out
OF the same crock, all you have to do
is to get q good-paying position at the
Shoe Factory? The factory seems to
be a sort OF matrimonial bureau, as II
we're. Some Of the pretty girls at the
factory are always hummlng the song
"Without Your Love D, Let Me Die. "
During the past year about % or 10
employees at the factory have married
with lots more to follow. Oh, JOY
Col. Treadway, Of this city, is TILL
ing the soil and killing weeds for
John Isom Brown, west Of town.
Mrs. +. Wandercheck, a sister Of
Harry Drebing, is here from st. Louis
the the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. Drebing.
Whatever troubles Adam had
l bet you could not guess,
His only troubles 10 his life
Was to find the pocket In her dress
BY Greenville Tomlinson
Doc Kanaly was up town, Tuesday,
buying light bread of Mike GeorRy to
feed the isn In Lake Killarny. Doc
says the rain Of last Saturday came
very near drowning all the frogs 10
the Lake. Sakes alive Where is
Phillip Shire md Martin Donnellyf
Bob Hooton sold to Col Kidd a fine
mich COW at fancy figures. Bob also
sold to Bill Owen a fine beefer at an
out Of sight price. Oh, you liver.
Last year, Col. VIM. Willingham was
the COW king Of Audrain, but this
year Bob wears the belt.
Col. Nat Lawrence, of Fulton, was
a recent guest Of his relative here,
Commodore Charlie Craig, the peer
less one. Years ago, Col. Lawrence
rendered the Mexicu printers valuable
assistance when the printers were
coon and 'possum hunting over 10 the
jupgles near Concord, on Seven Mile
River. We made IN all.night run
and had barrels OF fun and caught
coons and IL 'possums. Some of the
printers ''got about half sick'' by hit
ting the JOY water jug too often. We
were there with the goods, both wet
and dry. Col. Lawrence is the owner
Of q cross-cut saw that has been in use
over a hundred years. It's a rlp-pah
and we learn Col. Lawrence has re-
fused S74 30 for the saw, It's the best
saw we ever saw saw, even II the saw
sawed In Arkansaw, And we'll let Il
20 at that. It's a way we have.
II our relative, Col Billie Holt, 0
near Concord, is not the heftiest mar
who attends that trial" at court
Billie tits the beam close up to th'
270 mark and is a mighty good man.
II Prof. nj J.. Edmonson, late o
Arkansas, is not about the most arts
tic ~tonsorial artist that has hit Mex
leo in many moons +? The Professo
spruced up the Owls top-not Friday
and we must say it was a nifty piec
of work After the spruce-up, man
OF our pretty lady friends took us 70
King Alfouzp Of Spain and some fo
the Duke Of Manchester. Oh, joy
Prof. Edmonson comes to Mexic
highly recommended as a hrst-clas
barber. He has worked In shops /
New York, Chicago and other larg
cities with much success. HIS wor
speaks for itself. II you want a nifl
shave or hair cut, give the Profess
a call at his parlors on east Jackso
Street, AL Bodine's old stand. H
shop is a laboring mans shop.
"Arise my love, my fair one, an
come away, for 10 the-winter is pas
the rain is over and gone; the fowe
appear on the earth, the time of ii
singing of birds has come, the voice