Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-03-05
COUNTY NEWS

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Mass Ethel Wallace has returned
to North Carolina to take up her dn
ties as principal Of Morrison Col
isge. N
A. @. Turner. who was taken to
the Hospital recently. Is getting
along spbsndidly.
Mrs. Fred Kent and baby are
able to be out and are improving
nicely.
Joe Cousidine Is shaking hands
with Mexico friends this week.
Mrs. j. M. Alien is home after a
pleasant visit with friends and reiar
lives at Eldon, Mo.
Walker Burns and Pemberton Blatt'
ner, who have been i'll. are able
to be out.
]. L. sweig and wife OF Kansas
City are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. B.
A. Powell.
! Joe E. Jesse has bought DR.. r.
H. Tincher's grocery in the South.
east part of town and wiz take
charge the first Of March. Ho has
given up his farm. He viii make
his home on s. Jefferson street in
the house o occupied by ]. w.
Lee, who will move to his farm,
east OF town. DR.. Tincher will take
up poultry raising in earnest. The
Ledger joins in welcoming Mr..
Jesse and family back to Mexico.
Imla Hewitt and Miss Julia Hsw-
tit, of Ashland, ILL.,, are here the
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Rob
erts. Mr.. Hewitt is en- route home
from Colorado.
i The Fourth Annual Stock Sale OF
the MartinsburgC Commercial Club will
be held Saturday, March 14th. Ar
Engagements are being made to make
this sale the most successful of any
previous sale.
Miss Grace Talbot OF Manhattan,
Mont, is the guest OF Misses Alberta
and Nina Kennen.
Mrs Captain D. s. Burroughs is Wis
iting friends and relatives in Ed
w~ardsville, H., and is expected home
in the next few days.
Mrs. Ed. Kuhne Of Des MOines, Ia,
formerly Of Mexico. 10 quite Ill.
Mrs. Milo Cleveland and little
daughter. Of Brockport, N. Y, are
guests of Mrs. L. B. Hawthorne.
w. A. Sharp Is home from a bus
mess trip to Macon, Mo.
he electric line Is running regular
ly and on time again after the So
we're storm.
Miss Juanita Lewis and r. o.
Bromagin are visiting In Indianapo-
lis.
w. J. Bolts is able to be out a.
ter an extended illness.
w. @. Burks was able to be up
town Friday.
Mrs. Leslie Ferris IL critically III.
John Cave was I'm this city Sat
urday.
william Biggers, former Street
Commissioner Of Mexico, Is running
for Councilman Of the Second Ward
in Moberly and should be elected.
II. L. Hammonds, who is run
ming an engine for the fire clay
company in Mexico. has been spend
ing some time here with his fam
ilyl He will return to his work the
first Of March. Mr.. Hammonds tells
us he has purchased property in
Mexico and expects to to 1t
! about the first Of May.-Bellflower
News.
r. R. Arnold, ST., and wife will be
in st. Petersburg, Fla, until about
April /.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. LeonarS
= Clark, Feb. 27,a Q IL Id. son. Boil
mother and child are doing splendid
ly. Leonard is wearing the e~verlast
ing smile. ~
c. r. Lupton. formerly of THU
city, now an undertaken in st
. Louis, was the subject of a stor1
in the st. Louis Times, Friday. tell
u ing of his sending the remains o
p L. 8. Howe to Kansas City, by mai
7 The body had been cremated and
was sent by parcel post
: Jap Stuart, switchman at Francis
!. was badly injured in the back and II
terually, Friday night, at Francis
!, when he vas caught between tw
cars and squeezed.
% Ed. Spotser, a negro boy. wa
fined $3.50 in the Police Court FRI
Ilday morning for Stealing Is cent
worth Of coal out Of a car in u
railroad yards.
Ne The coal dealers Of Mexico hay
cooperated and have a man to Q
the coal cars. Anyone stealing Coz
= from or around coal = VIII DO Pr
W ecuted, but City Attorney Robertst
y says there is no law to punish
y person for picking up coal along u
fer railroad right-of-way not near al
car.
Persuant to his policy to cut" E
penses, President Bierd, Of the Afc
made some changes in the local for
this week. e. e. Forman, claim
ent, has been relieved by R. A. p
. cell, formerly claim agent here. u
where Mr. Foreman will b~etransferr
is not known. The position viii
Miss Jessie Mexican occupied In Z
claim agents office has been abo
ished. John T. Martin, the gent