Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-12-07
LADDoNIA ITEMS.

James Huntington and wife, of Kan
sas City, visited her mother, Mrs. ].
P. Smith, a couple of days last week.
They drove through in their auto
mobile. Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington
are engaged in the mercantile bust
in Kansas City. = Miss Stella
Whitson, of Mexico, makes weekly
visits to Laddonia, where she has
quite a number of pupils under her
instructions as a music teacher. - E.
c. Smith, Roy Smith, Miss Margaret
Smith and Mrs. Roma Braden have
gone to Hannibal to take chiropratic
treatment under w. d. Bull, C. d. -
W. G. Bailey shipped in two car loads
Of cattle from south Missouri to feed.
- Buckner & Gilmore bought one pair
of mules from Mrs. Pate for $3.50.
They also sold a span Of ~two-year-old
mules for s425. They had ten head
delivered at Benton City the first of
the week. - DIR. Welsh's Drug Store
was broken open one night last week,
and the miscreants helped themselves
to some of his 'best bottled in bond"
fire water, and at this time the doctor
has no information as to the parties
who "confiscated" his wet goods, or
even the recovery of the empties. A
couple of months ago this anne store
was robbed of the same kind of goods
and the doctor recovered nothing.
We do not know the motive Of these
%repeaters unless it is an unrelenting
effort on the part of those fellows to
make the town absolutely bone dry.
IL o. c. Bernard is operating a two
table pool hall in the hotel building.
On November 9th he obtained license
from the county and town. Licenses
per table is $40, state, county AMI
town licenses, making $50 on each Ia
: BILE. - A car load of steel bridges Cor
this part of the county was unloaded
here last Friday. Eight bridges will
take the place of old wooden struct-
ures. = Judge Carter was in town a
few days ago looking after his farm
= that he recently purchased. 1t is
known as the Wells farm. Mr.. Carter
| is making preparations to repair the
: house and build a new barn. - Mr.
t Long and wife, Of Southwestern Kan
4 sas, have leased the hotel and are now
e operating it, and propose to serve the
public in a first-class way. - Mrs
C. Z. Mayhall, wife Of the postmaster
spent Thanksgiving week with hel
n parents at Elsberry. Her children &C,
companied her. - Corn is selling W
the scales at soc. Some of the farm
ers are selling to the feeders at 85,
per bushel. This is higher than w
have ever known corn to sell in Lad
donna at this time of the year. Dat
n are SOC; wheat $1.55 to SLIGO; hay
n $1,000; oats straw, baled, $3.50; egg;
40c per dozen; butter SOC lb; hens, ID
spring chicks l5c, broilers lie; erear
44c; rabbits at Sac. Denmark Me-
camille Company shipped out "a bar
IS rels of dressed poultry at n shiI
. ment last year. - George Hagan, O
Monroe City, arrived last Saturday a
: Laddonia to visit his brother; E. i
Hagan, and his twin brother, jaime
r, Hagan, north of town, and his daugt
ter, Mrs. John James. Mr.. Haga
says he has visited here only two o
Q. three times in the last twenty years
9 On account of his close resemblanc
lie to his brother, many greeted him wit
ar chow are you %grandpa?" and
handshake. Mr.. Hagan's son, Rile!
was killed in a cyclone that passe
through this country in May, 1897
Riley and his cousin, Lee Hagan, wer
living two miles from town in a sma
one-room house on the farm Of ].
Braden. The house was completed
demolished, and scattered in every d
%rection by the storm. Riley was xii
ed and Lee badly hurt.