Mexico weekly ledger., 1913-11-20
COUNTY NEWS

domieiled in the coous property on
East Promenade street.
T. ". wAlet. State manager. Broth
erhoOd Of American Yeomen. viii or
ganise a lodge in this city. Friday eT-
ening. Every Yeomen IN Mexico n
vited.
Frank Head. Of New York City, 81
in Mexico visiting relatives and
friends and Il delighted with ihsl
growth and prosperity III bis home
town.
Drs.. Harrison, Moore aud Blanks.
attended the American Congress Of
Surgeons III Chicago this week.
W. J. Grow Is now the postmaster
at Farber and VIII make a good one.
wm Taylor .colored. was fined
$40 and costs for boouezging ia
JUDGE wayne's Court Friday The
new Law goes into effect immediate
y after the final ~pnblIeatiou Of
the local option election notice.
L. r. Austin and Lzwrence DaYen
port are home from New York. Thexl
report heavy SHOWS an through the
through the East.
p SelAeman. formerly
pastor OF the Mexico Methodist
Church. has been called TO the pastor
ate Of the Trinity II. Z. Church. g..
IN Los Angeles. Cal. with a salary q
$4,000 a year. He win have charge cs
a new 100000 church and parsonage
Macon has twenty4hree students a.
ending the State university.
Bishop F. w. johnson. Of TIE Epds
eopal Church OF Missouri. held serY
ices Thursday a. the home Of G. Col
vert. rear vandalia. One person was
baptized and another confirmed.
J.. w. Hines OF Ben.nr City was
a business visitor here Saturday.
Miss Emma Marshall. Who has
been quite III. is better.
Miss ssllie Robinson OF the St
Louis City Hospital, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. J. H. Robinson. OF n.
Washington street. Miss Robinsou's
friends will be glad to know she is
very much pleased with her work an
is getting along nicely.
Frank Ragsdale and DR.. ]. w. Mil
lion are home from a hike across the
Galloway hills. They walked from
Fulton to Mineola Springs, Thursday,
but couldn't make the return trip.
Friday on account of the rain. In
stead they came home on the train.
Theodore, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Virgil Pearl, who is in a santa
rum in St. Louis, is able to walk
with braces on his legs. He is SUI
fering with ~infantile paralysis,
Misses Frances and Margaret Cum
bingham have returned home from
Milwaukee where they visited their
sister.
Jas. Henderson OF neal Hatton is
quite i'll.
Thos. Stockman, so years old, has
returned to his home in Columbia,
after having spent seven years in
the Klondyke, $4,000 in gold and
s12, 900 invested In Billings. Mont. are
the financial results of his expert
ence.
The Chicago C Alton has com
menced the storage of coal in anti
cipation OF a strike OF coal miners
in April. The Alton will place 75,
900 tons, enough for two months sup
ply in reserve.
II. ID. Sage, a farmer writing L
lLhe Macon Herald, suggested an cleo
trio line from Macon to Mexico via
Woodyille. He wants Harry Rubey t
take $4,000 stock in the enterprise.
W C. Rainey and wife, Of Illinois,
are visiting here.
Haskins Hall and sister, Miss Or
pha, Of Thompson, left for Gridley,S
Cal., on November 18th.
3ht'Ies Pigg and his sis.e-. Miss
Lutte Pigg, two very ia euied mi
sictans, will open a studio in the
Bragg building at onc and give ms
bic lessons this winter. Mr. Pigg,
eho leads the orchestra in the Or
pheum Theatre, is an unusually fin
pianist and his sister, likewise, is
experienced in this work.
The studio will be Hastily decorat'
cd and arranged. They will also
have apartments in connection
where they viii make their home. Mr.
Pigg is perfecting himself in pipe
organ work this winter under the In
struction Of Miss victrola Brooks.
L. t. Van Note has traded his Fair
view place in Southwest Mexico to
Wallace Holman, of Galloway coun-
ty, for the latter's 1870 acre farm
near Hatton. We are glad to state
Mr.. Holman will move to Mexico in
a short time to make his home. The
Ledger joins the people in welcoming
them.
DR.. A.. A. Wallace is home from
Palmyra. Mo, where he has been
conducting a meeting and will fill
his pulpit in Mexico tomorrow as US
ual.
Mrs. ]. II. Ross leaves Monday for
Chestertown, Md, where she VIII
spend the winter. Miss Julia Ross
will go to Kansas City where she will
visit for a while.
George and Charles Daniels, Jr., Of
vandalia spent Sunday in this city,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Daniels
and family.
Mrs. Frank Kelso has gone to Chi
cago to enter a hospital to undergo
an operation. Her many friends trust
she will soon return and enjoy her
old-tlme good health.
Clay Brown and wife of Columbia
are visiting Clay's mother who is
very Ill. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Woolf, of Kan
sas City, reached home Saturday af'
ter an 5000 miles tramp owe the
West. This couple has walked $4,000
miles in the last four years. On n
OF their hikes they passed through
Mexico.
S. Becker Won Grabill, formerly a
teacher of music in Hardin College
has a school of pia~noforte in Ian