Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-09-19
COUNTY news

20, a son. He has been chEisteR
ed Joseph Thomas Brighton Mrs
Brighton was formerly Mics Missy o.
fntt, OF ms city.
Mn. Alfred Barnes and daughter.
Miss Grace. have returned to theiy
home m Ballsyine after a pleasant
visit with Mrs. =. N Ragsdale
Miss Addse Hale has returned to
her home IN Iaddonia. after a pleas
ant vissf 20 c. II. Nua and wife.
Miss Belle waters has returned
70 her home IN vaudalla after a
pleasan. visit to Misses Frances aud
Mangare. Cunningham. OF northeast
OF town.
Mr.. and Mrs. P + Locke left TITS
morning for Minnesota points. for
q sew days.
Mrs. L. NJ. Angert was injured this
week by falling down stairs. While
her injury = very painful they viii
not prove serious.
Ms. Bsrrick, who has been the
guest o. her daughter. Mrs. George
GaIlop. left Thursday for Kansas City
where she wiz make 9 visit be-
fore returning 20 her home n Okla
homa
Al the Rocky Mountain Handicap
shoot being held at Denver, Colo,
This week. W. D. Grub. Of Laddo-
mia. scored 1874 ont OF 200 targets or
% per cent. on Tuesday. the first
day IL the meet. The shoot IS be-
ing held IN the Overland Park with
s.. 900 added money, and lasts four
days.
This is the greatest shoot ever
held IN the West and there is an at
tendance OF over 900 OF the best
shots in the United states.
Thirsyseyea thousand four hun
dred shots were fired at the handi
cap opening. William Crosby Of
the ~trapshooters was the high
man. with 1879 out OF ZOO
]. W. Punkett is putting some
spheudid improvements on his resi-
denne on L. Monroe street.. and
win have a modern and upto-date
home.
r, r. Buckner has gone to Excel
sior Springs on a short visit
Col. William zeveiy. wife and
daughters, after a visit to airs. zev-
efy's parents. Col. and Mrs. Green
Clay, have returned to their home
l. Muskogee, Okla.
Ex-Mayor E. D. Graham. who some
time ago., made a liberal contribu-
ton 70 the State Democratic cam
paign fund to-day subscribed ten
dollars to the Ledger National cam
paign fund.
Mrs. Luster Franklin departed Sat
urday for Ration, N NJ, to join
her husband who has a responsible
position with a railroad company
with headquarters at that point
Mesdzmes ] d Miller. Jas. Watts
WIN. Morris and Walker are visiting
IN Chicago. They went on the ex-
eursson Friday evening.
Oscar Kent is home on a visit e
bis parents. Mr.. and Mrs. W L
Kent
W. H. Morris. formerly clrcuii
clerk Of Andrain county, has the
thanks Of the Ledger for late Stock
ton, California. papers, which shows
clearly that business on the Pacific
Coast Is booming.
Mrs. Champ Clark addressed th'
ladies OF Louisiana at the Carnegl
Library Friday evening.
G. L. Harrison OF Chicago II crit
ically III. His brothers. Tom and Jaci
Harrison, have gone 10 his bedside
in New York.
Mrs A. NJ. Patterson, formerly o
this city. has presented the Meraet
public Library with $50 books. Thii
is quite an addition to Thu
growing inatitution and Mrs. Patter
! sons remembrance viii be most high
~ appreciated.
r. E. Carter. who some years ag'
was deputy sheriff OF Audraln coun
~, nov located IN Oklahoma il
visiting relatives in Andrain coun
ty Mr.. Carter is agreeably sur
prised al the many improvements
made in Mexico since he moves
= away. While Mr.. Carter IS mucl
$ pleased with Oklahoma, he stl
feels there is no better place t
! live than good old Mexico, Nilsson
y ri.
Over ian the Maddox school distrc
in Galloway county. the patrons 0
the school are preparing q vehicl'
to take the children Of tho distric
to and from school when the weather
and roads become bad. This is a pr
g~ressve move amid should be emulat
Cd by other schools in the county.
Roy Wright. who works on the F
L. Crosby farm. was injured slight,
Saturday hen a horse he was ridsns
Skipped and feI upon him,
Misses Elizabeth and Abel Sum
ner Of Texas are guess Of Mrs. WI
J. liam Stuart and win attend Hardin
College.
FL j. o. Tiusley and ]. + Dorgan ar
< home from Amarillo. Texas, wher'
Is a land deal was made whereby j.. +
Ig Dorgan traded his 2e0acre farm
near here for a half section IS mile
d west Of Amarillo. The sale in
wolves $4,000.
IS Mr.. Tinsaey says he va ia Amaf
d lilo ut the time John b. Sneed sho
and killed Al G.. Boy0e Saturday. Mr.
Tfnsley says he heard three 0
3Ithe shots.
ls Mrs. Mary e Rice, OF West Low
d street, was ~agrecably surprised B.
Is a number Of her friends Sunday
when about twenty with Dime
prepared called 10 spend the day
Mrs. Rice is 81 years old. Tn
day was most pleasantly enjoye'
by all there. Those who were pres
emit are: W. A. Wayne and wife
p. ]. Burkett, vile and children
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