Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-06-25
COUNTY NEWS

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Pertle Springs. where he was elect
ed vice-president OF the Missouri
Pharmaceutical Association.
Misses Frances johnson and Julia
Tucker and Harry Lane and claib-
orne jackson motored to Montgom-
cry City. Friday.
Mrs. Ollie Palmer and Mrs. Elijah
Palmer OF Fulton have been guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Peters.
Dir. P. L. Coil is riding in a
new Marion touring car.
chas. scherer expects a 1914 Hup-
mobile next week.
Miss Alma shoush IS home from a
visit to Fulton.
Mrs. e. G. Sexton is enjoying a
visit from her father, Of Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs w. B. Peeler and
family are home.
Chas. Weinand aud wife are visit
Ing friends IN GLASGOW,
Edwin Cave Is with the Gem Cam
dy Shop this summer.
e. d. Graham was in Lexington
this week on business.
Mrs VIM Crockett is home from a
visit in Louisiana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Conlsdine and sen
went to Kansas Thursday.
Chas. Steele rs home on a visit.
Mrs. s. J. Nichols aud daughter
have returned home to Kansas City
after a pleasant visit with Mexico
relatives.
Bruce Powell who has been very
Ill al the Mexico Hospital is much
better.
J II. Scott Of Martinsburg was a
a business visitor here Friday.
Ed. verhoff, Wabash operator here,
is on his vacation.
DR.. J.. c. Parrish Of vandalia has
sailed for Europe on the American
Liner, st. Paul, and will spend
the summer abroad. DR.. Parrish, who
is a member of the Board Of .Curat-
ors Of the state University, accompa'
led President A. Ross Hill
r. w. Clevenger, Of Mexico, has
purchased the Gem Theatre from l.,
A. Cook this week and took posses
sion Wednesday evening. The price
paid was not given but It is UNI
derstood the place brought a good
price.
Mr.. CIevenger, wife and son have
moved to Centralia to reside and
will keep this amusement place III
| the present standard C~entralis
Guard.
Harry Turner, of Montgomery City
was in Mexico Thursday. He and
: John Jacks are arranging to issue a
special edition of the M~ontgomerJ
:. Standard at the close of tho state
: and county campaigns before the
primary They will have a splendid pa
per, no doubt, filled with live ad
} vertislng and good reading matter.
D Mutton & Sands the loca
[ automobile dealers, have sold Ford
. to DR., Roy Gleason, of Auxvasse,
: and e. e. Pierce, north of town.
Frank Kunkel is home from
4 trip TO Kansas City.
!, 1t is reported that a dog beionginI
to Dave Clark. on South Emmon
= street, has gone mad and bitten
number Of dogs in that part of Me'
leo. Operator Campbell OF Francis, wa
/, bitten by a dog on the Sharp farm,
Friday morning. He had the woun
cauterized.
W. j. Bolts many friends will b
!. glad to know he is much better an
able to sit up.
! The owners OF automobiles al
finding the cost of Living, as far
gasoline is concerned, is getting
smaller. The price of motive pow
st for automobiles is now IL l2 ct
r. 1t may still be lower soon.
There were five old Confederate s
at diers at the melting in Auxvasse {
L. Saturday whose ages aggregated =
g, years. They were James Swon, :
a. James H. Bell, 50; Capt. VIM, Ellie
he 81; DR.. w w Macfarlane, 80, az
no John r. Hassler, so.
Lloyd Gilpin went to st. Louis
Friday, to enlist in the United Stat
Navy. He was accompanied
Tom Bruce, his guardian, who WI
to aid him in getting in. Lloyd 8
E; fine young man and will. no dou
Y, !, make his mark in the service OF =
q Gle Sam,
Mrs II. e. Pierce and Mrs. o
re Howard, of the olivet neighborho
e y attended the funeral Of Mrs, Eni
d, Friday.
a Prof. and Mrs. George Porter
- Columbia are visiting in this ctyN
or Mrs. S. P. Emmons went to Ma
Vile Friday. She will be IN
about ten days, doing district w
for the w. c. T. U.
Ts' In this weeks Saturday Even
AIN Post, Moline, Missouri, is mentioi
irst in a short story, "s~uperman,"
Fannie Hurst. Molino will get sc
the advertising as this paper has a {
of culation of 1000. 600.
Cassius M. Clay is home from
ry visit to his mother at Paris, Ky.
FIR, John Guthrie will resume
,ho work in Secretary Of State Roa'
Rev. office Monday. John makes a m
St efficient assistant to the secreta
as Of state.
in, ]. w. zevely OF Muskogee, o
plar is in Mexico the guest Of G.
Clay.
George Harvey, n Of Mex
most popular travelling salesmel
Ed able to be out again.
di- John Hin, of San Antonio, Te
two is back on a visit and in the
and Of health. Mrs. Hill and Miss y
mach Hill are spending the summer
fact, Colorado Springs but viii ldk
Sold visit this city later in the summe
Judge Nat Shelton decided
Macon City local option contest
al day Il, n s favor , . the = DAYS 1s..u. !.