Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-22
Chunks of iitwood
We have with Us This Evening

Island. NOT yet, but soon.
If Kicking Bess, 4 COW owned !
lGeo. Laforce, is not the highest an
hardest kicker that ever happened
Ask Jay Bennett about Kicking BesI
This column is Just a little bit shor
to-day. The Ledger Owl is down 4
the fashionable east end, doing a llttl
missionary work aud gathering foo,
for thought. It'sa way he has.
II Chief Of Police Allison Brown d
not making things look mighty warn
for the evil doer? Sam Wallace snt
Quincy James have eyes that never
sleep and the night providers mus
hike out or keep mighty shy or thel
will be pinched and pinched hard b.
Judge Fry, the peerless one.
BIZ RaRsdale, the peerless one, aud
the hero OF many bard fought battles,
was up town, Thursday, entertaining
his friends In bis blue room on first
floor OF bis leather emporium. Bill
Gays bis general health Is good but he
can't track we'll Col Ragsdale also
tells us his lei Ford mot Jim Ford)
automobile will arrive here along
about July LIST, and that young ladies',
old ladies and widows can now prepare
to make goo-goo eyes at bin. But oh,
you Bill You're so kind.
John William Palmer, the boot and
shoe polisher, asks the Owl for a date
at the colored opera house, near Cot
tonwood Springs. Palmer is manager
and financial boss for Sampson Brown
and Henry Owensby, two well known
col0red orators. Both Sampson aud
Henry are rip-pahs and will speak uu-
der the flag of the "Colored Pink Rose
Athletic Social Club. If Palmer will
come across with the cash he can get
a date for the afternoon OF August 4.
Minor Ford and Steve Payne have a
date to speak on 'The Race Problem
on the morning Of August 4tb.
Where's Doc Kanaly?
Yes, Rebecca, we hope to meet you
at the Mexico ChautauQua
"Red" White is back from s'Sunnyn
Idaho. They all come back to help
make Mexico a city. Oh, you Red
The Auxvasse Review: .We have
horseless vehicles, wireless telegraphy,
ordorless onions and now Missouri has
a sonRless song.n Editor Hook could
have added that Auxvasse has a song.
less bird, Well let it go at that.
Herman Figg, OF Ennis, Texas, will
be a guest Of Charlie Karnes, July 4.
Herman will give Hop Kemp a little
touch OF high life and learn Hopson
how TO play pool a little bit. Col. Figg
will also visit and make q little talk
to the boys at Cottonwood Springs.
The Lord willing, the Ledger Owl
will, Friday, visit friends at beautiful
Oakdale Park, Lake Killarny and at
other notable points In the fashion
able east end OF Mexico beautiful. DR..
Kanaly has kindly placed bis taxicab
and Black Diamond horse at our com.
mand. oh, blissl We anticipate
much food for thought.
The frog Ease Of Renken VS.. Shire
will not come up at this term Of court
and If Shire will pay Judge Murphy
lawyer fees, the ase may never come
up before a just Judge and jury. Col.
Shire should either feed his frogs and
keep them at home, OF get out OF the
frog business forever. We hear that
Martin Donnelly's monster frogs have
gone to "milking'' his COWS and Mar
tin is fast blowing the hops from his
frogs with dynamite. Sakes alive
What do you think Of that
DR.. Joe Moore, OF this city, one Of
the most successful and popular trav-
cling statesmen that ever hit the road,
who has been here for ten days visit
ing his wife and baby. leaves for St.
Louis, Friday. Joe travels for a big
st. Louis firm, has a large territory
is there with the goods and has a fine
trade. His firm are proud Of him.
Joe is as full OF business as a ''yaller''
dog is of f%eas-when be is on the road.
Tuesday. we were pleased to extend
our glad hand to our good friend,
David Gass, now farming near Lad
Years ago, David and the
Owl went to school together at Jesse
west OF Mexico. The late
field Edmonston was our teacher.
David and the writer got many a we'll
deserved "lickinRn at the hands OF
Prof. E%dmonston, We we're the best
looking and brightest scholars Ia
the school and had many afinities.
We came within frog hair length OF
at this popular school.
Col. Gass is a jurYmaD here ut court.
David is a good man and Is happy and
prosperous on the good and only way.
Owl Would Like to Know
II Thebe Eisel Amt q hummer.
II Mexico has not the most progress
sive schools In the Middle West.
II George Laforce's young calves
the swiftest runners that ever
We say yes.
If a teacher at Miami really tries to
put the lid on winking at girls by
firing n of the boys who did.
II that was not a nifty beefer Col.
Bill Owen bought Of Bob Hooton ? o,
you roast and oh, you homeless liver.
If u good looking and portly
friend, Charlie Leeper, is not a king
among kings Of white goods merchants
and is always there with the goods.
If there wasn't several attacks Of
nervous p%rostration out in the Cot
tonwood springs district, Wednesday,
The elixir Of life was close at hand
and saved several precious souls.
II Alexander Kilgore doesn't know
how to properly take care of a horses
Ben Middleton says Alex is the best
cafe-taker of a horse that ever hap
pened. We have no doubt about IL.
II Rube McCord, Amos Jenkins,
Dick Lane or any other liver slicer,
now living, ever sliced meat on niftier
sectional meat blocks than those In