Mexico Missouri message., 1911-06-29
PRAIRIE LEA.
A Good Bunch of Fun Mr.. Irion's
Wind TANNER Blows Up.

tim of a rather sad accident about
two weeks ago, Sunday, altho not
as bad as it might have been. Tie
hitched a young and fiery horse
to his brand new buggy, drove to
church and left the animal tied at
the hitchrack. During the eSrvicc.
which was rather long, the fiery
steed broke the hitchrein in two.
crawled under the hitch pole and
became entangled in the wire
fence. Here Robert found him
after service; the shafts broken
and the harness riddled to shoe
strings. We deeply sympathize
with Robert and are very sorry
that misfortune should fall upon
him at such a time.
The fred chicken blowout at
Bachelors Hall was one grand
success. from start to finish. The
chickens were collected, cleanT
and cooked by the bachelors them
selves. and that is why they were
superfne.
The large snake that Geo. IriOn
found in his boot about two
weeks ago turned out to be
ShOe-String after all. Georges eye
sight must be failing.
| Phillip Shire sold three settings
of frog eggs recently at a high
price. The frogs are not laying
very we'll on account of the dry
spell. Shire claims his frogs are all
genuine, pedigreed, thoroughbred
and registered, but we have found
out by some secret investigations
that a large per cent of them are
about one-half tadpole.
This is the weather forecast for
the remainder of June as given by
the wildcat prophet hot and
dusty. clear and bright, light in
the day time and dark at night.
The Lea celebrated another
grand ball game recently when
the Prairie Lea no-soX met the
Rush Hill red-SoX on their own
battle grounds. The game was
long and fierce, fast and terrible /;
the two teams fought each other
like hungry wolves and the score
lkeeper was kept busy, while the
sun shown brightly in the tree
tops overhead. In keeping track
of the home-runS and stolen bases
we forgot just what the score was,
but at any rate it was, and so we
are glad to be alive. On ccount of
being absent, the manager of the
no-soX was not present at the
game, and for this reason the
team did not score as many
points as they might otherwise.
. J. ITord Davis watermelon
patch looks very tempting.
Gorge Irion's wind-jammir
machine blew up the other day
and soiIed the clouds for several
miles around but failed to pro
, duce any rain.
/ If anybody can invent a ma
, chine that would have stretched
e. the oats up high enough to cut, W.
would have been glad to have
$ heard from him.
I Leo Shire was riding rapidly
I through the streets of Mexico re
Gently on his new bicycle, when h'
I suddenly had a head on collision
with the red-rear wheel of a larg
automobile. To make long story
e short Leo picked himself up il
s another part of town later in tn,
p day and was not injured in tn,
T. least. Neither was the bicycle bu
G the poor old automobile has no
been heard of since. We are very
very sorry, and deeply sympathiz
with the gasoline tank.
Bill Irion, the veteran sig
painter, artist and cartoonist
celebrated his seventy-first birth
day Friday, a week past. Bill j
still hale and hearty, belongs t
the Bachelors Club and talk
freely on any subject
The blacksmither got out of
job the other day and tried t
forge a check. But the forg
wOuldn T work because he WASH
windy enough to blow it. Mex
time he will send for Geo. Irion.