Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-01-29
COUNTY, NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. Thornton got a
plum seed in her nose Tuesday night,
but the Doctor removed it the next
and the child is getting
along nicely.
Macon City business men have or
ganized a Retail Dealers Association.
I. H. Marshall has bean laid up
with Lagrippe.
H. E. C. Tucker and Miss Julia
Tucker are visiting in Excelsior
Springs.
W. ]. Bolts who has been seri-
ously III of acute Indigestion. is
much better.
Jas. Wilkins has returned home to
Texas.
R. Q. Bromagln is home from a
business trip to Vandaiia.
Mrs. Dan Dudley 81 visiting rela-
tives and friends in Little Rock, Ark.
J. .. Bassford is the guest of his
son, Homer, In st. Louis.
Mrs. L B Morris and daughter Miss
Blossom. have returned to their
home in St. Louis.
Rev. B. H. Charles, well known in
Mexico, and formerly president of
Synodical College, Fulton, died in
st. Louis this week Of apoplexy.
Renfro Gibbs of Cape Girardeau is
the guest OF his parents.
Mrs. Herbert Tucker is visiting
friends in Moberly.
The body OF R. L. Pollard, cashier
of the Peoples Savings Bank, Bowl
ing Green, passed through this city
Friday, going home from Excelsior
Springs, Thursday; about 20 from
Bowling Green met the body here.
Harold Breedlove is here on bust
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Nj. Gilter are maB
ing an extended visit In Monroe coun-
fy.
X. L. Philips Is home after a
pleasant visit in Virginia.
Mrs. L. M. White IL the guest of
Mrs. Hugo Monnig, in jefferson City.
Fred DeTienne of vandalia was
in Mexico Friday.
The flue in the Hiner property on
East Monroe street burned out, Sat.
urday morning. A fire alarm was
turned in but no damage resulted. Mr.
Virginia Davis resides therei
Mrs. H. H. Grafford who has been
quite Ill is some better.
w. w. Pollock ia home from St.
Louis where he attended the big
bankers meeting.
Caleb Berrey is confined to the
house with Illness.
Mrs. r. II. Edmonds of Kansas
City is visiting in Mexico.
Lee Ringwalt is quite i'll.
August Bertels Of & Martinsbnrg, !.
who was attacked BY a bull q fey
days ago. Is very muah improYea
and is out of danger.
Mrs Rein Hildebrand of Benton City,
who underwent an operation in the
Mexico Hospital this week, is improv.
ing nicely,
Shirley c. Thompson. who built the
0rpheum in Mexico is building a
modern new theatre at Marshall, Mo
We wish somebody would build a
first-class opera house for Mexico.
Miss Zola Beal is home from
Thompson.
Jump" Cauthorn is home from
Lees Summit. where he visited
''Longview," r. A. Longs fine stocA
farm.
Col. Loren Tunage, the slim ed
itor of the Wellsville Optic-News, wa
business visitor here Tuesday.
c. A. Bast has a handsome nev
Paige motor car.i
Mrs. W. w. Pollock is home iron
a visit with relatives in st. Louis.
Mrs. w. W. Fry, sr., is in St
Louis.
DR.. A. A. Wallace, pastor Of tn
| Presbyterian Church, in Mexico, con
Quoted the funeral of Mrs. s. N. Rus
sell at Fulton this week.
John T. Beatty who has been Ill 1
much improved and will be out in
day or so.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Price returne
to their home at Billings, Montana,
Tuesday.
L. H. Hanna is in Columbia on bu
iness.
Anderson Gibbs has returned
, sikeston after a short visit in tn
t city.
Mrs. w. D. Lee is home from s
] Louis.
Miss Olive Benton. graduate
the Hardin College Conservatory
Music composed the music for a ne
song. "The Mermaids of the Ocean
a which has recently been placed
ie sale. Miss Kenton lives at Lees
r. Summit and has a number Of frien
IS In Mexico.
Is She is a very talented musici
W and the new song is said to be qu
popular. Her brother, Gus V. kento
of st. Louis, wrote the words for I
Or song. The Ledger joins MISS n
i'll toms other friends in Mexico
congratulating her on her success
and wishing her continued success
A number Of local motor enthus
asts will erect signs for Mexif
merchants on the Central Cross st
,r- highway near New Florence VIII
if the Northern route branches Off,
In that tourists, deslrous of using
on Northern route, will have no trou
s in finding the branch road.
The Hoxsey Hotel has lars
sign which will be placed on
Central route about quarter OF
on mile east of the branch road.
oa matter of marking the telegral
lar poles that far east with the tn
white rings of the Northern re
will also be taken upon with
Telephone Co.
ub- Mexico motorists say number