Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-06-07
THE WHEELERS COLUMN.
W. 3. Editor.

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w. 3, vEERKAMP. Editor.
Officers of the County Wheel:
]. v. Veerkamp. president; jos.
Elliott. vice-president; J. w. Mid
dleton, secretary; w. Il. veerkamp,
lecturer.
The next meeting Of County Ag-
ricultural Wheel will be, at Moline,
June l6, commencing at 10 o'clock
a. m.
The Wheel is making rapid pro-
gress in this county; Bolts school
house organized the 18th of May
with a membership oe 16; Benton
City June 2, with a membership of
eight, and several others from
which we have not received par
ticulars.
s. o. Wright is president of the
new Wheel at Benton City. MI.
Wright is excellent material and
should have been in the Wheel
long ago.
Our organizations are kept busy
all the time, as petitions for organ
izations are coming in by each mail.
A grand Wheeler picnic is all the
go now, Time and place not settled
yet. Laddonia Agricultural Wheel
wants and should have a meeting
of the County Wheel at that place
as soon rs possible; this will give
the Laddonia brethren a boom.
In all probability Wheels will be
organized within a few weeks at the
following places: Cornet school
house, Oak Grove school house,
Dye school house and Farber.
Those wishing. to organize will
please address the organizer, j. p.
V~eerkamp, Rush Hill.
Each Wheel must send two del
egates to Moline on the 10th OF
June.
1t is thought there will be one or
more Wheelers on each section OF
land in Audrain county, by the
close of the present year.
Wheelers, we must be patient,
not expecting too much at once:
the oppressed and stagnated condi-
ton of the country came gradually
upon US, and can one by one be
removed by patient, persevering
effort.
Some of the southeastern coun-
ties of Missouri have as many as
1850 Wheelers, and in several OF
these counties, Wheel newspapers
have been started for the purpose
Of e~xpounding the faith. We of Au-
drain are not strong enough 70,
such a move if it were necessary
but through the ~liberality of the
several editors of this county, we
are enabled to present our views
through this column;every Wheeler
should read it.
In answer to the Bro. who en-.
quires whether or not SUBJ Wheels
must pay the lecturer when he
visits the wheel, we will say oul
law does not compel them to dc
so, but leaves it optional with the
Wheel whether it viii voluntarily
give the lecturer something or not
see?
The editor of a labor journal in
Western Kentucky thinks the
Wheel is a remedy for worms,
trusts, chinch bugs, pools, flies,
floods, free trade, high tariff, de-
faulting treasurers, Ingalls,, yoor-
bees and other calamities. Since
the great Irvine combine was spoken
of in our County Wheel, several
Wheelers have looked into the
Irvine trade, and find that the best
Irvine can be bought in 10000
pound lots for from - 10 IL "a,
from the Farmers County Oper-
alive Club" The prospect for an
abundant harvest makes this an
important matter.
Brother Wheelers, please send
in communications from your
Wheels, giving any items of inter.
est concerning the good of the or.
der, condition of crops, etc. We
must try to make our column read.
able.
We should make each of oul
meetings A place of pleasant resort,
a place at which we can meet SO.
cially and fraternally for the pur.
pose of teaching and being taught;
we should urge our young men and
boys TO take an interest in these
meetings now while their minds
are still inlpressible and before they
have become warped and dwarfed
by prejudice until they are blinded
| To their own interests