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Mexico
Missouri
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VOLUME IV.
MEXICO, AUDRAIN COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1903.
NUMBER 13
HAPPENED and
Some too! matt Cooaty
Miss Minnie Berry is visiting at
Callao.
Miss Byf ' jocke of this city is
visiting in ''Texas.
Mrs. VV. H. Logan of Laddonin
visited in this city last. week.
Mrs. S. P. Carter, of this city,
is visiting Kansas City relatives.
Julius Umfried, near Benton
City, has been disabled with a bro
ken rib.
Arthur Butts, down in the Mt.
Carrael neighborhood, is teaching
a singing class.
Harry Atchinsou and family of
Coffcyville. Kansas, are here on a
visit to relatives.
Jack Scroggins, of near Farber,
has purchased 80 acres af the Sut
man farm near Laddouia.
W, R. Carter of this city will
open a training stable in Moberly
next month. He will handle fine
trotters.
Albert Dowell, who formerly
lived near Molino, died in Fulton
last Saturday. The burial was at
Long Branch church.
Robert Bise, down near Benton
City, while in this city last Thurs
day had his poketbook containing
about $40 taken from him.
' John Stotler and Edward Ken
nen will be the carriers for the
two ffPA mnil dpliverv routes to
be established at Laddonia next
week. .
' Eld. C. H. Strawn, of Monroe
county, well remembered in Au
drain, has accepted a call to the
nARtnrflie -of the Christian church
at Sigourney, Iowa.
George Bingham, of Manning,
Iowa, who bought Mrs. Sarah E.
Little's farm, two miles south of
Mexico, has moved his family here
and taken possession of said farm.
We are glad to welcome this fam
ily to Audrain.
A specialist at Columbia inoc
ulated a rabbit from the Robert
son dog killed in this city some
time ago and thought to be mad.
The rabbit died from rabies and
said snecialist thinks the Robert-
Bon was a sure enough mad dog.
The Robertson dog was bitten by
the Edmonston dog last summer
the same day the Edmonston dog
bit the little Rhodes child who was
afterward civen the Pasteur treat
ment in St. Louis.
Chas. Townley, colored, gets
two years in the penitentiary for
stealing a horse and five years
more for raising a check from $5
to $75. He took the horse from J.
C. Martin, his employer, over
' tT7:u:...v.nUtr itt flallaurau
county, and brought it to Mexico
and tried to sell it. The check
also belonged to Mr. Martin.
Towujey cut these antics last De
cember, "just afore Christmas,"
and he ate his Christmas diuner in
jail..
G.'over Mettler, who, if we mis
take not, is the same Grover Met
tler who was raised five miles
north of Laddonia, this county,
who in late years served as" eugin-
ger train, having his home at El
dorado, Kansas, was killed last
Friday iu a wreck at Yates City,
Ken There were two of the
bovs. Grover and Glenn Mettler,
both leaving the farm for rail
l-nniline?. The mother, the widow
France Mettler, married Benja
mi 11 Bond ami moved from this
county to Custer county, Nebraska,
where after several years they
iH:parated. Bond is now among
relatives in Cauudu.
HAPPENING. ft
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Ntwt la Pillit Form
Nelson Miller is now permanent
Wabash freight agent here.
C. B. Morris bps moved his
family back here from Chicago.
Tho E. II. Carter place in this
city has been sold to J. W. Gam
ble for $2,250.
Sam Fuqua of Ralls county has
purchased 190 acres of the Hiram
Sutman farm, four miles north of
Laddouia.
Miss Mary Minor gave a six o'
clock dinner one day last week in
honor of Miss Elizabeth Ball of
Jonesburg.
Last Friday in this city A. G.
Turner, A. D. Jackson and J. T.
Johnson, at sheriff's partition sale,
bought 263 acres of the I. J. Sims
land, three miles west of Thomp
son, for $5,047.33.
The Farber Forum says that
A. E. Jenkins has prepared a bill
providing for the collection of
taxes in small towns by the coun
ty collector, and State Senator
Biggs will press the bill for pas
sage in the Legislature.
I. M. Richards has been ap
pointed permanent ticket agent at
the Union Station in this city. He
has been acting in that capacity
at this station for several months,
tried and not fouud wanting. The
Mexico public is glad of this ap
pointment.
Says the Seaton( 111.) Indepeud
ent: , G. E. Mclntyre, Joe Laird
and Harry Lighter left here Mou
day for Mexico, Mo. Mclntyre
and .Laird have gone to arrange
about moving to the farms they
have there and Mr. Lighter to
look at the country.
Daniel Reudy, of Alhambra.Ill.,
has sold his two farms near Rush
Hill, this county, aggregating 300
acres, to Iowa parties at $37.50,
net, per acre. JMr. Keudy was
here last week to' look after . his
trade and also to visit his daugh
ter, Mrs. itobert Walter, near
Rush Hill.
Jiidwara Lt. Tucker, a youug
man of line reputation, a
prominent business man of
Frankford, Pike county, came up
to Mexico last Thursday and that
evening was united in marriage to
Miss Julia Kendall, the daughter
of County Recorder S. E. Ken
dull. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. J. Q. Partee of
Vandalia. Only a few outside of
tho contracting parties were preS'
ent. Miss Sue Hostetter of Far
ber was bridesmaid. Tho happy
ceuple are visiting for a short time
at Eoila, where Mr. Tucker also
has business interests, whence they
will go to Frankford, their future
home. )
Here's a slander told by the
New Florence Leader: A peddler
took some clocks up into Audrain
county to sell to the natives.. He
set one up in the bouse 01 a poor
unlettered family and the old man
ana woman with Borne eigne or
ten children, gathered around to
hear it tick and see the pendulum
swing back aud forth. Not long
after the clock began to strike
The children took alarm at the
ring of the bell, and some of them
toon reruge under tne bed, some
under the table, some ran into the
yard and some into the orchard,
and the little ones who could . not
run set to screuiniug at,the top c
their voices. Finally the old worn
an picked up a Dig suck and ran
to the clock, Highly excited, aud
said to the peddlefi "Sir, if you
don't take that clotk ,down in
minute and clear outyjf here, I'll
set to work and bang it to pieces."
"DICK" NELSON KILLED.
Was a Blacksmith and - For
merly Lived In Audrain.
Richard J. Nelson, aged about
50 years, who formerly resided at
addonia, this county, was almost
iustautly killed at a saw-mill near
Hutchinson, in Ralls county, last
Thursday. Mr. Nelson was
proprietor of the saw-mill and re
sided at Hutchinson.
The saw was running with
great velocity aud flew to pieces,
a piece striking Mr. Nelson in the
head and shoulder. Carl Gates
also working at the mill , was
knocked down, but was not se
riously hurt.
The dead mau leaves a wife and
five children.
The Legislature is considering a
bill to bar.the cigarette.
Lawrence Bass, near Ashland,
died last week in his 74th year. He
leaves property worth $200,000.
Robert B. Bristow, a prominent
attorney at Monroe City, dropped
dead at his home last Thursday.
F. L. Laforce, late of this county,
and John F. Betz, of Sturgeon,
have formed a partnership in the
jewelry business at Centralia.
Colonel Arthur Lynch, the
Irish member of the British Par
liament, who headed a regiment
of Boer soldiers in the recent war,
was convicted of treason in Lon
don and sentenced to death.
Says the Auxvasse Review: W.
D. McDonald, of near Mexico,
was in Auxvasse Monday. He is
nursing a sprained ankle, caused
by jumping from a hayloft. It is
not a bad sprain, but quite pain
ful.
The Wellsville public school
building was destroyed by fire last
Thursday at noon. Over 200 school
children escaped safely from the
building and, that no lives were
lost Rev. Hay Bell and Rev.
Bone held a thanksgiving service
on the street.
It is said that a thief who had
been imprisoned down at Warrens
burg, Mo., in company with his
wife, escaped from jail by picking
the lock. His wife refused to ac
company him. If he is caught
she will have a good case for a
diyorce suit on the grounds of de
sertion. A case was tried before a Cam
eron justice of the peace recently,
in which a man named Drink-
water was accused of borrowing
hogs from his ueighbors and sell
ing them. This proclivity of Mr.
Drinkwater would imply that he
does not strictly adhere to the bev
erage which his name would indi
cate.
uner the latest tads is men's
socks for women. If the women
continue the invasion of the ward
robe of the men there will be
mighty few articles of wearing ap
pareJ that man can call his own.
His hat, shirt, vest, coat, collar,
tie and socks are gone. He has
remaining. tha chewing tobacco
and suspenders not much of a
layout for a cold day.
Placing the comma iu the pro
per place is sometimes of superla
tive importance. By misplacing
one a Missouri editor is ' iu a peck
of trouble. The mistake oocured
as follows: "Two young . ineu
weut with their girls to the church
social aud as soou as they left, the
girls got drunk." He meant to
place the comma after "girls,"
but the latter refuse to consider
what his intentions were.
Message Readers.
The following are new
sub-re-
scribers to the Me ssage or
newals since our last report:
R. L. Day.
J. H. Giel.
J. S. Holmes.
J. P. Harper.
Sarah L. Robinson.
Thomas Bass.
J. B. Robertson.
R. T. Byars.
C. E. Cook.
VV. J. Baker.
A. Hughes.
Henderson Johnson.
A. B. Smock.
A. G. Butts.
J. D. Ellis.
E. P. Burns.
James Coons.
John Ilagan.
Rev. J. D. Watson.
Hiram Sutman.
W. II. Morris.
D. A. Wilson.
INSTITUTE.
To be Held With Wafer Ash
School Feb. 7th.
The following is a program for
a teacher's institute to be held
with Wafer Ash school, near San
ta Fe, Feb. 7th, from 1:00 to 6:00
p. m.
Practical Agriculture, Wiley At
kins.
Class Drill in reading, Lee Tur
ner.
What do you consider the most
practical method in teaching En
glisht Miss May Mosley.
. Discussions, Misses Mabel
Vaughn and Mary Henderson.
(A) Language, Miss Nan Bates.
How do you develope the indi
viduality of your "pupils! E. B.
Cowherd.
How should history be taught in
rural aud grammar schools! E. L.
Rogers and Miss Jessie Cowherd.
Supplementary reading in the
elementary grades, W.W.Powell.
Libraries iu rural schools, J. B.
Rogers.
MORTGAGED PROPERTY.
Boy Jumps From Frying
Pan Into the Fire.
Macon, Mo ., Jan. 21. Thru a
conscientious desire to settle an
obligation to his father, so he
claims, Martin Tahney, aged 22,
has been placed in jail here on the
serious charge of selling mort
gaged property.
In the early part of last year
young Tahney got into a scrape
with the First National Bank of
Macon, was arrested aud jailed.
The boy's father, Matthew Tah
ney, a well-to-do farmer, living
near Atlanta, settled with the
bank ou the boy's promise to re
turn tbe money as soon as he
could. A few weeks thereafter the
boy went to Wm. Keel, a farmer,
and purchased a fine mare for
$130, giving his .note aud a mort
gage on tbe mare and also on
three head of horses which, it is
said, had been dead for years.
Two days thereafter Martin rode
the animal over iuto Knox county
and sold it to a dealer for $45.
The money he turned over to his
father, and until the note fell due
all thiugs were serene in tbe Tab
ney homestead. The disclosure
came when the note was presented
by the cashier of the Atlanta bank
aud the security was looked up.
Frank Parker and wife have
moved back to this city from Par
is, Ky.
Miss Stella Blattuer of this
I city is a teacher in the VvellS'
' ville school the buildiug .buruod
(last Thursday, '
A MISSOURI MULE.
The Courts Asked to
bid His Braying In
Public.
For-
Binghoinpton, N. Y., Jan. 23.
Hon. John B. Stanchfield. late
Democratic candidate for United
States senator, has been retained
here by the St. Louis wrought
iron range company in one of the
most peculiar actions ever brought
in a court of law. The principal
party in the contest is a "healthy
mule" with an excellently devel
oped "bray," which is owned by
the St. Louis wrought iron range
company, and a permanent in
junction is asked 'for to restrain
this mule from braying, thus in
juring the business of the Drake
hardware company, a rival con
cern. The complaint alleges that
both concerns have agents on the
road selling their goods. The
agent of the Drake company has
been followed from town to town
lately by the agent of the wrought
iron range company, who has
been furnished with a trained mule
by the St. Louis concern. When
the Drake agent reaches a town
and gathers a crowd of grangers
about him, the St. Louis agent
drives up aud the mule begius to
bray, keeping it up until the
crowd is broken up. The Drake
company has in this manner lost a
great amount of business, directly
chargeable to the mule's bray, and
the court is asked to forbid the
mule to again Dray in public or
before a crowd of possible Drake
customers.
Attorney Stanchfield, as coun
sel for the mule-, is one of the lead
ing attorneys in the country, and
as he never takes a case without a
retaining fee of less than $1,000,
the mule's expenses promise to
come high, but the St. Louis com
pany is evidently determined to
fight it out regardless of expenses
The argumeut is set down for
special term of the supreme court,
to be held at Rochester the last of
this month, aud in any eveut the
defeated side will appeal the de
cision to the appellate division
and from there to the court of ap
peals, as this is the first question
of the kiud that has ever arisen in
New York state courts.
THE PLAGUE.
The A palling Conditions
a Mexican City.
In
San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 23.
uev. K. U. JMliot, a missionary at
Mazatlan, Mex , in a letter to A.
H. Sutherland, describes the con
ditions existing iu the plague
slricken city as horrible beyond
anything that has been heretofore
received. The letter follows:
"Mazatlan, Jan. 8. Dear
Brotherland: Yours of December
30 reached me a few days ago. VVe
thank you very much for your
concern in and prayers for us. We
stand in jeopardy every hour. Bu
bonic plague is all over the city
There has been one case almost
opposite and one right behind our
house. The city is almost in a
panic. Nearly half the popula
tion is gone, and numbers are
starving to aeatn aud others are
dyiug of the plagne.
"Think of thesick aud dead be
ing carr led thru the public streets
to the lazareto or the cemetery on
cots by four prisoners and four po
licemeu. Eight persons and their
families are thns exposed to the
irigntiui disease, me disease is
on the'morease iu spite of every
precaution. We have suspended
services at night; only Sundays at
10 a. m. and 4 p. m.
"Business, of course, is as dead
as a herring. Tbe port is closed.
Factories are closing down and
some of the principal stores will
do so, and the city has a most
triste look. The physicions' are
worn out with day and night work
and others are here to relieve
them.' The Federal government
has sent ns $20,000, about two
cays vitnals for the pobr, starv
ing people. Starvation stares
the poor right in the face now and
if contributions do not pour in
quickly many must die. There is
no work and everything has gone
up in price; The poor have no
money aud the city is in a bad fix.
ublic appeals are being made Jfor
help. You may not get this.
Mails are vtry uncertain. The
telephone is our only means of
communication. We are strictly
quarintined. Ouly letters are re
ceived at the post office. Our
trust is in the Lord of Jehovah.
ray for me. Children are pale
on account of strictly qnarintine,
inhaling lime, sulphnr and car
bolic acid. Yonr brother.
Robert C. Elliott.
Mazatlan, Sinoloa, Mexico."
$101 FOR A HEN.
That's the Price for a Barn
yard Fowl at a Poultry
Show.
The Kansas City Journal last
week contained this interesting an
nouncement: One hen sold for $101 at the
close of the poultry show at the
Armory Wednesday night. Not
the goose that laid the golden egg,
nor even the geese that cackled
and saved Rome, but a plain old,
everyday biddy hen,,, which lays an
egg at a time, whose eggs spoil as
those of a 25 hen, and whose
meat would make no better fried
chicken than that of thousands of
other yellow legs! Think! One
hen, $101.
This surprising event certainly
marks the limit in the sales here.
When one heard of a Belgian hare
that went for $1,000, one won
dered, but thn, a Belgian hare is
not a common beast, and its fur
will make seal coats if nroDerlv
treated. But a hen a common
old barnyard fowl such as sets on
eggs, for $101. Whew!
A Kansas Girl's Efforts.
St. Joseph, Mo., Jau 22. Miss
Emily Becker of Topeka, Kan.,
has undertaken to save the life of
Charley May, who is confined iu
the county jail here awaiting exe
cution in March for the murder
of Charles Robert Martin of De
Kalb. Miss Becker is iu St. Jo
seph, and to-day called ou As
sistant Prosecuting Attorney Fer-
ril with a letter of introduction
from a Topeka attorney. She had
a talk with Murderer May, and as
sured him that she would go to
Gov. Dockery at once aud beseech
him to graut May a commutation
of sentence. Miss Becker says she
was a schoolmate of Mav's. and
that she thought a great deal of
him when he was a boy. May
said to-night that he believed Miss
Becker could save his life.
Case of Vaccination.
Chicago, Jan. 21. Because her
employers, Truax. Greene & Co.,
insisted that she be vaccinated,
from which illness resulted, Miss
Grace Voorhees has brought suit
agaiust the firm for $50,000 dam
ages. Miss Voorhees asserts that
she was able to earu, $100 a mouth
iu February, in 1901, and that she
submitted to the vacciuatiou be
cause she thought it would be pro
perly done aud that she could not
retain her position nnless she did
submit. She avers, however, that
tho vaciuation was not well doue,
that from its effect she became ill.
aud that she never again will re
gain her streugth.