Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-09-24

COUNTY NEWS


A. C. whitsoD has gone to Fayet'e
where he has a case in the Circuit
Court.
Mrs. ]. ]. Heller is home from Co
lumbia where she visited Mrs. j. T.
Faigbairn.
Miss Clara Tinsley is home after a
weeks visit with Mrs. Billie Bunton'
of st. Charles.
Mrs. W. D. Lee is visiting her
mother, Mrs. t. A. omOhundrO, at
Bowling Green.
Operator f. A. Stubblefield, of the
Alton, il home after a two weeks va
cation in Colorado.
Mrs. S. T. Emmons is in Spring
field. Mo-, for a few days before
starting for Artesia, N. NJ, to spend
several weeks with her daughter, Mrs
Martin Yates.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Ecton enter
tanned at ~ o'clock dinner Sunday +.
II. Eeton and family ~ Thompson. J.
L. Acton and family and Mrs. NJ. Z.
Acton Of Benton City.
Judge Evans granted p divorces
in Howell county last week and has
a few more couples on the docket.
The government has selected its
Lebanon post office site and is to pay
$500 for it.
Miss Dorcas Ballew is critically i'll.
Mrs. W. J. Bolts of South jefferson
Street, is visiting her sister in Tex
as.
Miss Elizabeth Bolts is the guest
of her sister, Mrs. S. H. Ragan in Kan
sas City, Mo.
DR.. W. L. Kendall, formerly of this
county, who married Miss Lulu
Pearce, Of this city, is superintendent
of the State Feeble Minded In
stitution in Enid, Oklahoma. An Enid
paper compliments Mrs. Kendall for
the splendid assistance she is giving
her husband in his work of making il
the finest institution of its kind in the
.o IV..4nJ CNofog
, Perry Spurs, John Morris, Punch
Cason and Bess Bright, four negroes
were arrested by Chief-of- Police San
Wallace Tuesday on a charge of boot
logging. They will be tried in thu
, Police Court, Wednesday morning a
8 o'clock.
Father j. ]. Dillon is visiting Fathei
j. L. Haar at Martinsburg.
. Clarence A. Barnes responded t.
the address of welcome by Charles P
Williams at the Missouri Bar Associa
q ton in St. Louis, Tuesday. On Thurs
q day, Nudge Elijah Robinson, of Kan
sas City, will make an address befor
the Association on the life and worI
a Of Judge George Robertson. W. "
Fry, jr., is attending the Association
q and a number Of other lawyers fror
Mexico will attend Wednesday.
: Three hundred and forty acres O
North Audrain County land was sol
a few days ago for $4,000 by w. /
Crawford, as executor under the wi
a of his mother, the late Mrs. France
L. Crawford. His brother, James G
4 Crawford, was the purchaser and pos
session will be given March /, 1917
This land is located near Moline, an
is reputed some of the best farm Ian
n in Audrain. Being entirely a famil
transaction the price must not b
taken as representative of real estat
N value in that district, for if the Ian
had come into the open market
IL would have changed hands at a priC
considerably higher.-Paris Appeal.
70 The n~ine-years-old son of Mr.. an
Q. Mrs. Robert Burt, of North Olive 81
was seriously burned on both of h
\ hands, Monday afternoon, by a Iiy
h wire from the electric line. Two fiji
IS gers on each hand were badly burne,
ID the wire sinking to the bone on one {
them. The little fellow was playin
10 with his brother when the accident o,
CURED. The wire had blown down du
~ ing the rainstorm and the Burt bo
fell on it. He is getting along ver
re- nicely now.
a Mrs. Kate Lochridge is attendin
the State Fair at Sedalia.