Mexico weekly ledger., 1913-01-23
COUNTY NEWS

sold Harry Stocks a lot in Wadding-
ham Park.
Mrs. II. s.. McCune Of Auxvasse is
the guest Of Mr. and Mrs W. A.
Sharp.
Miss May Burns, who has been a
valued member OF the Variety Stores
salesforce, has resigned and after a
short visit in Columbia will enter
the Business College and study ste
biography. Miss Burns is a capable
and popular young woman and her
friends Join the Ledger in wishing
her success in her new work.
A marriage license was issued to
Fred Louck and Miss Julious Morris,
both of vandalia, Thursday.
The Good Roads meeting. which
was first announced to be held at
jefferson City, Jan. %, has been
changed ana will be held Jan. 2sth,
President George Robertson, of the
North State Highway. is in receipt
Of a letter from J. b. Grigg. of the
Missouri Highway Association, TIC
this effect.
At a meeting wednesday after
noon, the Junior class at Mcmillan
High School organized and elected
the following officers: Orlando Wor
rell, Pres; George Irion, Vice-Pres.
Mabel ThreIkeld, sec'y Mildred Pear
Treas; Leonard Coatsworth. Atty.
Louis Jesse. Sergt.
Claude Canterbury. wife and chill
rem, Of Oregon, are visiting rela
tives and friends in Andrain county
They have lately been visiting J
ID. Ellis and family at Muskogee, Ok
lahoma, and were accompanied t.
Mexico by A. H. Canterbury, wht
has been in Oklahoma for a year.
Ed. w. Clark, well known in thii
city, is now located in haywood, Ill.
The Hoxsey Hotel Is almost in
a state of seige because of the re
lease of VIM. Mituse on a $1,000
bond in Columbia Tuesday. Mitus'
attacked Miss Leona Scherer, whit
now lies almost at the point O
death in the Hoxsey Hotel and
with her sister, Myrtle, live II
deadly fear that the man who at
tempted her life on a Wabash trail
recently may return and attempt Il
complete the work he almost accom-
plished.
Mr.. Hoxsey. who saw Mituse II
the Parker Hospital, Columbia. say
he is keeping a strict watch for tn
man and IL he attempts to ente
the building will meet with a warn
welcome. The girls are also careful
to know who is at their locked doc
before they open it. Miss Scherer'
condition is very serious and it
feared another operation will be nec
essary. She is far from being SAT
) from death at this time.
She denies an interview which VI
peared in a Columbia paper, Tues
Y day, in which Mituse claims he live
9 with her for nine months, paying he
= expenses and showed a letter purpoi
d ed from her in which she asked 70
d money and signed Lee. Mrs. B. M
/ tuse."
d Work has started on the$20, 10000
electric line between Kansas Cit
and ST.. Louis and according to Co
0 Jack Hereford, Of Odessa, they hay
begun grading in that little city pr
' ~paratory to laying track. The line
247 miles in length and its neare'
point to Mexico is McCredie. in Ga
laway county.
Its central station will be
Boone County and the track sta
dard guage.
Mr.. Hereford says the road is a
y sured and that 1t will be double-trat
ed throughout. There will be sub-po'
o err stations every 80 miles. The lii
If will cross the Missouri River twi'
t. -once at Arrow Rock and again
weldon Springs.
S. Miss Ethel G. Owings Of Montgoi
cry City, formerly stenographer
Robertson G Robertson, Of tn
city, who was stenographer in the
gal department of the State, at t
end Of the month will be appoint
to a similar position In the sta
BE Banking Department.
George A. Black has u than
for Los Angeles papers containi
Id a large picture of gas wells mana
ca by w. G. Cutler, known to ma
er readers of the Ledger.
of Mrs. Mike Wood, living west
Mexico, is critically ill of pneun
lis MIA.
~ y. II. SlhEh ID AOhAC tND
visit to his island in the RtN
alf south Of st. Louis. He says pea
and prosperity reigns there a
that race suicide is unknown.
On January fifteenth, 1918, M
o., Frances Cook Clay, daughter of H
he S. B. Cook, of Jefferson City, !
be- merly of Mexico, filed suit in
It's. Circuit Court of Cole county for
em vorce from her husband, 9.
lex Clay, Of Mexico. The case Will
red called at the next regular term
are court. The grounds for divorce
get along the line of incompatibility
al temper. .
William, the IL year old son O
L. Sopher, Of this city, has q
team which has attracted much
J. tention here and which he receI
-rit- refused $500 for. The team
of trained by the boy and pulls !
les- wagon or sled almost as fast
ST., a good-sized pony.
The dogs are a cross between
to and shepherd, are a year old and
vic ing workers. William gets into
row wagon with a boy friend and
the team starts off without a hitch.
and is Justly proud Of his trained
Q Of and is to be complimented for
that success in teaching them. The
,lac- are known as Prince and Watch.
rge- latter will drive single. They