Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-02-26

Macon Is seeking the aid Of Paris,
woodlawn and other towns b a e.
fort to get the Burlington to change
the route OF is proposed extension
50 It win pass that city.
Carthage. Mo, has bought a moscr
fire truck.
Since Trenton voted dry the citk
sens are working for a Y, n. C.
A. building.
A Kansas City woman Is suing bcrl
soa,in.Iaw. Geo. W. Phelps for ~
weeks board and keep fer his wife
and children, st.tss. She charges him
with having deserted his family oo-l
tOber 10. 1910. She allowed him tol
extend payment sar too long.
A negro woman was arrested at
Kansas City, Friday. charged with
having robbed chas. Hutchinson Of
|Leods. Her mouth vas pried ope'|
and two n dollar bills. four silver
dollars and eight silver half dollars
rolled out. She had made a bank Of
her mouth.
In 1908 the average price OF Coop
er county farm land was s5i.oe. Last
year 1t had reached t71.o5. Indication
ara that II viii go higher this year.
Capt. Z. o. Bartlett. the Joplin
white lead manufacturer. LETT an es-
tate Of about 100000.
There r three tickets in the
City Primary at Louisiana, Nc.
Moberly has a humorous poet In a
little high school girl, Miss Marie
Stewart. The following lyric Is from
her pen:
your teeth r like the stars" he
said
Which smile was right.
He didn' know that, like the stars,
Her teeth came out at night.
moRERLY CLAIMS 20" SHOPS.
MoberIy papers claim they have
information from a reliable source
that when the Burlington extension
Is made that road win move It's Han
nibal and Brookfield shops to that
city.
r. n. MANSFIELD DEAD.
R. H. Mansfield. for q great many
years editor Of the wslIsvtle Optic
News, died Monday at Lebanon. Mr..
Mansfield was an oldschool news
paperman and a high minded gentle
man. The Ledger and his many
other friends are sorry to learn Of
his death.
Does It pay TO raise tobaccof A
farmer living north Of Dye. whose
name we failed 10 get, raised II
shocks OF corn on one acre Of ground
In 1912. The season OF 1919 he plant
ed the same acre Of ground to tobac-
co. receiving s2e5 for the crop.
Rushvilie News.
II ere's an item fran the Palmyra
Spectators first issne in the year
1897. Turkeys sell at six cents a
pound, chickens -four cents, rabbits, 6
cents apiece. partridge fifty cents a
dozen. butter fifteen cents a pound.
eggs fifteen cents a dozen. lard eight
cents and sausage eight oents.Thsnk
God for plenty to eat. drink and
wear, even II dollars are scarce"
Miss Vera Jane Holcomb Of Bowl
ing Green, a student IN the Uniyers-
ity who is well known In Mexico, 10
leading in the campaign for Savitar
Queen. She is a charming young wo-
man and has many admirers in Mex.
leo. where she has visited Miss Marie
Rose.
Capt. R. NJ. Fountain Of BooneCo,
sent in a load Of hogs that were good
enough to sell up to $3.50.
Miss Mary Frances Bruton Of Cen
tralia. is editor OF the High School
paper there. She Is the daughter
OF Mayor Bruton and a charming and
accomplished young lady,
Gov. E. ". Major will be invited to
the annual banquet OF the Columbia
Commercial Club Thursday evening.
Plates for 300 win be laid and al
number of complimentary tickets viii
be sent to nearby towns among them
this city.
BOONE COUNTY AFTER
NEW JAIL.
Thirty thousand dollars, raised byI
a ten-cent tax levy to be paid In
three years and the building put up
on the court house block where the
Old n stands-a special election To-
be called as soon as possible - was
the spirit Of the meeting In Boone
Comfy Saturday afternoon in agitat-
ing the building Of a new jail for
Boone ounty.
M~issourians will be interested ID
the report that the brotherhood az
Railway Tralumen ere going to make
an effort to buy the Wabash Rail.
road The organization f.
one Of the few labor unions
Is very strong financially. i. is
reported that they are ready to-
a bid considerably above thai
'S4'OOo,OOo figure set by the federal
court as the minimum at which the {
,oad shall be sold.--Columbia Herald !
Statesman. TTTT /
FATHER or TWENTY DIES.
springfield, Mo, Feb. is. y
9onn 7. Greenwade, who died at 9
rs nome in Willard. 1s miles north. v
vest Of here. to-day. was the father Q
I twenty children, sixteen Of whom \
urvive He was rs years old and hadft
yea IN Greene County half a CEN