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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THE Board ofEducation has ordered
a proposition to borrow So, 900 at
8 per cent. for the purpose of aiding
in building e school house be sub
mitted to the voters of the district
on Friday August 80. The overcrowd-
ed condition of the present school
building rendered this action absolute
ly necessary, as we all know that for
several years the rooms in the school
house have been uncomfortably crowd
ed and children have been packed
together like sardines in a box. The
tax will be only 5 cents on the n hun
bred dollars which is a nonentity as
compared with the benefits to be de-
rived from the new building. The
proposition should carry by a unani-
nous vote.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Vest at Long Range.
MISSOURI SENATOR SUBMITS TO
AN INTERVIEW AT CARLS-
BAD ON FREE COINAGE.
Says the Silver Question Will Never
be Dropped in America Until the
White Metal Is Restored.

CARLSBAD, August 13.-(Copyright-
ed, 1895, by the Associated Press.)-
"The silver question will never be
dropped in America until free coinage
is passed." said Senator George q.
Vest, of Missouri, here to-day, reply
ing to questions put to him concern
ing the Missouri, Mississippi and Iowa
Conventions.
"The people in the East" he con-
tinued, "believe it will be adopted as
business revives, but the overwhelm-
ing sentiment in all the West and
South is in favor of free coinage. l
believe it will surely be passed i'll time.
What the result of its passage will be
/ am unable to predict. The whole of
the money power of the East and the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
FIRST WOMAN R
Mrs. Stewart, Of Springfield, Appoint
ed to the Office.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Aug. 10.-Mrs.
Helen G. Stewart, widow of the late
Sheriff Dan r. Stewart, vas yesterday
appointed Sheriff in her husbands
stead, to hold Office until September
Q, when a special election will be held.
Mrs. Stewart is 4s years old and has
been married twenty three years. She
has resided in Springfield for twenty
years.
Judges DENLY and Houston voted
for Mrs. Stewart and Appleby refused
to vote. Mrs. Stewart is the only
woman Sheriff in history.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Diyprs Indicted

FULTON, Mo-, Aug. 12.-The Circuit
Court of Galloway County is now in
session. Emmett Divers, the muir
derer of Mrs. William Cain, has been
indicted. People r quiet and the
indications are that the law will take
its coTrse
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
THE MEXICO FAIR.
Statement of the Board of Managerial
Good Financial Recon-
mendations for Future
Meetings.

To the Members of the Mexico Fair Guarantee
Fund.
Your board of managers chosen to
conduct the meeting for the present
year submit herewith the official
statement of the receipts and dis
bursements.
The total receipts fell S90.S short
of the expenses and this sum was
generously contributed by public
spirited business men.
An expense of S97 for improving
and repairing the Fair grounds is
not included in the above statement
as it was borne by the owners of the
ground.
Every obligation of the Fair has
been promptly met and the money
paid into the guarantee fund will be
returned i'll full to the subscribers.
The owners of the ground who
have carried heavy Indebtedness
for the past three years have been
paid ii reasonable rental for the first
time in the history of the Fair.
While there has been universal
friendship for the Fair and generous
aid from many citizens, to all of
whom we + deeply grateful, we
desire specially to thank those pub
lie spirited business men who, by
Offering special premiums, contrib
uted SO largely to the success of the
meeting.
1t will be noted i'll the statement
of receipts and disbursements that
the entrance money paid in speed
rings is very much less than is usu-
ally realized from this source. This
was caused by our inability to get
into a circuit through which we
could have secured a much larger
attendance of horses. By beginning
in time this disadvantage can be
avoided in the future.
| We feel justified by the results of
this meeting in recommending the
organization of a permanent associ-
alton. TO do this successfully work
should begin in ample time to secure
the largest possible number of en-
tries.
The agricultural department
should be greatly enlarged. The
exhibits in this department this year,
although but few premiums could
be offered. made a display that at
tracted universal interest and re-
Elected great credit on our county.
The date should, in u judgment,
be changed to the last of August.
This will be a more leisure season
for the great majority of the people
and also insure a better agricultural
and stock exhibit.
We also recommend that a half
mile track be added. This need
not interfere with the present mile
track, upon which horses can go for
records, but races, to interest the
spectators, must be on the half mile
course. The increase in attendance
which this change would insure
would, in Ii judgment, pay the cost
of construction of the half mile
track.
The statement of the receipts and
expenditures is hereto appended, to
which we invite the attention of all
citizens who feel an interest i'll the
Fair, and especially those who
signed the guarantee.
Respectfully,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
The Very Best Coal Cheap.

/ will sell coal in any quantity OF the
bank or delivered. My coal is as good
as any mined anywhere. Idefy COM
petition in prices. Give me a chance
before you buy. My coal bank is II
miles southeast of Mexico. Address
W. W. MCGOWAN, Benton City, Mo.
J5d&yytf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Notice OF Final sett1e,rart

Notlce is hereby given that final set
tlenent OF the estate of II. Wommack
. also OF Louise Wommack. deeeas-
60, VIII be made at the September
term OF the Probate Court of Audrain
county, Missouri, the second Monday
In September, 1895.
l.. G. provinces,
ib-4t. Administrative,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Administrators Notice,

Notice is hereby given that letters
OF administration upon the estate Of
ID. M. Hill, deceased, have been grant
ed the undersigned by the Probate
Court of Audrain County, Missouri,
bearing date August /, 1895.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested 10 exhibit
them for allowance to the administrs-
tor within II year after date of grant
ing letters, or they may be preciuded
from any benefit of such estate, and
II such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the date they viii be
forever barred.
JNO. w. HILL,
l9-4t Adrniniatrntor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
A Withdrawal of Rev. ]. II. pritehett

On account of the great press of
work in the Littleby neighborhood
l change my announcement for
Rev. j. H. Pritchett from next
Friday, August IS, to Monday,
August 10, at II a. m. Let everybody
give attention. j. W. OWEN.
of course there will be preaching by
the pastor next Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THE Mexico fair came out imam
cially about even, which is doing very
well, taking everything into consider
alton. Nobody lost anything; on the
other hand, everybody made money.
This insures an old-fashioned fair on
a half mile track next September.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

IT is a pity that with all their ankle
ty to secure a meeting Corbett and
Fitzsimmons never come together ex-
cept in places where the police can
lump in and separate them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

ROBERT BoNNER's son Edwin says
that the s24, 1000 his father paid for the
right to publish Mr.. Beecher's story
Norwood" serially in the Ledger still
stands as the largest sum ever paid by
any story paper for a novel.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

RUMoR now has it that the Chicago
& Alton Railroad Company will put
on a fast passenger train between st.
Louis and Kansas City. 1t does this
to compete with the fast tram on the
Wabash Road. 1t is also understood
that the G. & A. is decreasing its Sec
ton forces.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
CHAMP CLARK AND RILEY HALL.
These Two Distinguished Statesmen
and Orators Will Lock Horns at
Mexico on the Question of
the Hour.

The LEDGER is authorized to state
that Hons. Champ Clark and Z. S.
Hall, both giants in the Fifty-third
Congress, will debate the question of
finance in Mexico at a date to be
named later, probably some day next
week.
Both men have n national reputation
and a monster crowd will be here to
listen to the debate.
The date will be named in a few
days and will be advertised thorough
ly. Watch for it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

Notice is hereby given hat final
of the estate of James j.
rainier viii be made at the September
term OF the Probate Court Of Audrain
county, Missouri, 10 be held at Mex
lco, Missouri, the second Monday in
1896. s. q. PALMER.
=" Curator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Sold Lionor Contrary to Law.

CENTRALIA, Mo, Aug. 12.-Dr. TIL.
Jones, a young physician and drug
gist of this city, and his partner, q.
Barnes, were tried here to-day. for
selling liquor contrary TO law and
permitting the same to be drunk upon
their premises. They yer convicted
and fined 500 and costs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Yes II Is Iawful.

WORCESTER, Mo, August lois it
lawful for a physician to place. a pa
tent under the influence of ether or
chloroforn4 without the presence or
assistance of another physician? Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

Mr., j. III. LoTrER, a citizen of Mo-
berly, writing to the Monitor OF that
city about the Mexico Fair, says:Very
often | hear about the great Mexico
MO- fair, so I thought on July 3oth
to take a look and e how they
run it. | was surprised. Mexico is
quite a nice little city. The people
seem to be prosperous and a large
crowd attended the fair. 1t looked
like all of Audrain county was there.
They had a splendid show of saddle
horses, the best l eve saw. The ag-
ricultural exhibit was not much, but it
brought lots of money to Mexico, and
evidences that Moberly ought to have
a fair this fall.
THE representative business men of
this city should g that Mexico and
Audraiu county are represented 1 n
the "Missouri on Wheels" advertising
trip to the East. The editor of the
LEDGER, who is now in the East, says
the grand source of the West are
not sufficiently known in that country
to be of any great value to us in the
way of immigration. The West is the
grandest section of the United States,
Missouri it's garden spot, and Audrain
county is good enough for any man on
earth to live in. By all means we
should let the people back there know
what we have out in this neck o.
woods.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
Notice Of Final settlemsnt

Notice is hereby given that final
settlement Of the estate of 7 4 pand
deceased, will be made at The g.
enbe term OF the Probate Court n,
AudraIn County, Missouri. to be- held
at Mexico, Missouri, the second Mon
day in September, 1895.
A. j. DOUGLASS.
18TH Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

WHETHER it be Grover Cleveland
or David B. Hill, William r. Morrison
or Arthur p. German, a tobacco sign
or a sugar bar'l, there'H be plenty of
Democrats on earth a year from next
November to vote with enthusiasm
for the regular nominee of the Ma
tiOnal Democratic Convention.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

ILLINOIS thinks Of setting apart a
day for a special thanksgiving. The
Horn Harvey debate and the legisla-
ture have both quit.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

FOR the past ten days the Weekly
LEDGER has averaged n new sub
scriber per day. Tolerably good for
the dull season.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

The most successful advertiser is
not the man who spends the most
money but the nan who spends his
money in the best way.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

wanton and ~unprovoked massa-
ere of peaceful and gentle women and
children in China is a form of crime
exclusively barbarous. 1t fixes the
place of China in the scale of civiliza-
ton and teaches US what kind of peo-
pie we have to deal with in that coun-
FRY
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

The beautiful courtesy with which
various presidential candidates exploit
other candidates a year before con-
vention time is only surpassed by the
unkind way in which the candidates
thus favored fail to appreciate the
anurtpay
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THERE'S no doubt that the woman
who wants to climb up the ladder of
fame can get up a good deal easier IL
she has boomers on.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

A LARGE reward should be onered
for the man who "wants but little here
helow.D
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

WE see that Miss Kate Field prom
ises to go to Hawaii to live as 500 as
her countrymen have contributed
money enough to e-establish old
John Browns fort at Harper's Ferry.
We now understand why the contri-
buttons are so slow about coming in.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

"LET the farmers agree not to plant
for one year and the world will
s~tarve," exclaims PETER. Very true;
and the farmers will starvo along with
the rest. 1t is not likely, therefore,
that such n method of solving political
and economic problems will be adopt
oil
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
STATE SECURITIES.
Gov. Stone and the Treasurer TO to
Inspect Them.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, August H.
Gov. Stone and State Treasurer Steph-
ems will leave on the 6 o'clock Missou-
ri Pacific train for New York to ex-
anime the securities held by the
States fiscal agent for the State de-
positors. They will go by Washington,
D. c., to be present at the National
Silver Conference on August ii, to
which they have been appointed del
egates by Chairman Bland of the Per-
tie Springs Convention. Chief Clerk
7. o. Towles, of the National House of
Representatives, will accompany them
as far as Washington.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THE action Of the City Council in
the effort to put water into the Gem
etery will be endorsed almost unani-
mously by the people of Mexico. 1t
is a venture, of course, but if water is
secured -and it is reasonable to be-
lieve it will be-the benefits will be
i~ncalcuiable. In less than two years
the enterprise will be self sustaining,
no to mention the beauty and attract
iveness that would be added to this
sacred spot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THE Rev. DR.. Joseph Pritchett will
lecture ut the M. f. Church, South,
next Tuesday evening. The LEDGER
a assure the public that it will be
worth three or four times the price
of admission -15c. IL there is a bet
ter pulpit orator in these parts than
Pritchett we are unable to call his
name. The proceeds of the lecture
go to the Epworth League.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15
D OF PUBLICATION.

w. \. BARNES,
Naintif,
vs.
CATHERINE CREIGHToN,N
Defendant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

The Shireman Clothing Company
will open for business sometime next
week in the store room under the
Central Hotel, which has been nicely
fitted up for them. This company
will carry an immense stock of goods.
Watch for the opening.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

CAPT. @. T. ALLEN has accepted an
invitation to address the Youngs Creek
Democratic Club next Saturday even
ing on the history and principle of
Democracy, and will no doubt give
the members of that organization an
interesting and instructive address.
He should have a good audience.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

=. b. COOK. President.
J. A. GL4ANDON. Secretary.
Attest J. f. MARTIN,
F.. Is. NoRRIs.
X. h. BUCKNER.
Auditing Committee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

THE press dispatches announce that
three out of four saloons in New York
City sold liquor last Sunday. AS soon
as it was noised about that Col. White
was in town doors flew open promis-
cuously and business commenced.
Our friends are not to infer from this
that the editor of the LEDGER drank
anything stronger than lemonade.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-15

hespcttlully,
5. b. Cook,
w. j. Boris,
G. w. LEWIS,
j. T. JOHNSON,
l.. b. NORRIS.
r. r. BUcKNER,
j. f. MARTIN,
Board of Managers.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18

ment and taxes. Very few states have
relinquished entire control OF their tide
lands.
The principal thing is 10 guard against
monopolistic control OF or water front,
and so far Aberdeen has been fortunate
iii that respect. What ought 10 be done
Is to secure more streets to tide water. 50
that the city may in the future build free
WharveS, 50 that commerce can come and
90 without paving toll to anybody. This
should be done at once while the land is
cheap. At present there are but two
streets plated to tilcwatet between the
Wishkah river and COW point. y street
600 feet wide ought to be opened near HE
permanent depot grounds OF the Northern
Pacific, SO that ocean steamers can load
and unload to the best advantage, with
out let or hindrance. This is OF more
importance to the city, we take it, than
the dis-establishmen of the harbor area.
We believe the city could secure this for
nothing by eXempting from city taxes
some adjoining property. Mr.. Bcnn has
intimated as much, and no doubt Nlr.
Weatherwax will do the same, they both
own water front at that point
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18
The Weather RepOrt.

The report for March and the first
week Of April, issued from the office Of
the Weather Bureau at Seattle, says:
"The past winter was more open than
usual, the temperature milder, and the
precipitation from rain and snow consid-
erably less than the normal. There has
been enough moisture, however, to keep
the soil in good condition for working,
and to terminate fall sown grain. During
February and the fore part of March the
weather was favorable for blowing and
seeding, and early planting. But the
last week Of March and first few days OF
April were SO cold and wet as to greatly
retard all farm work. Fall grain has
come through the winter well, as a gen.
eral thing. Some had to be re-sown in
eastern Washington, the severe freezes
in March having killed it out. Fruit
trees do not appear to have been injured
by the winter, and the orchards, where
we'll cared for, look promising.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18
EASTER.

The observance of Easter, commence
rating as it does the resurrection OF Christ
and, in Good Friday, the Jewish Pass
over, the ancient observance OF the Jews
in commemoration OF the deliverance from
death of the first born, symbolical OF the
delverance which the resurrection brings
is an occasion of equal Importance with
the Christmas festivities for without the
resurrection the birth OF Christ would
have been fruitless. AT the time OF the
passover the eldest con escaped death by
the sprinklng OF blood, but on this occa-
sion concentrating the passover the
eldest son, Christ, shed his blood that all
the world might escape eternal death,
and became the passover for all time.
1t is very fitting then that Easter be Il
day OF unusual rejoicing, and that the
day when Christ became the great Pass.
over should be likewise observed. II
comes, too, when all earth is bursting
into life from the death OF winter, and
the woods and fields rejoice in new
ness OF life, and the lilies, cmblcms o
purity, are lifting up their heads, As the
soul, released from sin, lifts up its heal
on this glad Easter day to him who Ia,
made the world SO fair.
1t is stated that on this Easter day
just passed that the sun, and the moon
and the stars conspired to make the an
niversary one OF special significance, and
for the first time since, arranged them
selves in exactly the same relative posi-
ton as they were on that day Whei
Christ burst the bonds OF death AMI be
came the first fruits OF them that slept
Be that as it may it is certain that .th'
heavens continually show forth the glory
OF God, and who shall say that ii on: ears
were properly attuned We might not OF
each occurring anniversary catch tht
strain Of the song they sung III the lon-
ago.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18
SUICIDE AS A MEANS OF ESCAPE

The suicide OF Paul Schultzc, late land
agent OF the Northern Pacific railroad
company, at Tacoma, is the cowardly
ending OF a man who but represents
class, who live without thought other
than to eat, drink and be merry, and
then when, through misfortune or in
difference, find themselves wrecked in
finances, and their regulations lettering,
rather than face the results OF their
actions and endeavor like men to atone,
step off into eternity and desert their
duty as child turns from dsagreeable
task There is growing tendency,
especially among German ratonalsts,
toward suicide as an escape from pending
trouble. What the condition of mind can
be which induces man to jump from
the troubles of this world into another OF
which he knows not of, is beyond com
prehension unless it be that man dies
like dog, and it is better thus to do,
even at the expense of few years Of life,
rather than undertake the hopeless
task Of retrieving fallen fortunes or lost
character.
Mr.. SchultZe was man OF consider
able force and ability, and how such u
man can look upon the acts OF his own
hand, as he did, having attempted
suicide once before and afterward tried
to justify himself, we do not understand.
1t seems to us that to man of his ability
human reason alone would teach some
thing better. That the powers which
man possess were created for a larger
field than this world and three score
years and ten allow, and yet the German
rationalists irrationaly teach the very
opposite. 1t seems the height OF irration-
alsm to voluntarily depart from this
world into one OF whose ills we know not
Besides, to the earnest man, there is too
much OF good in this life, and too many
opportunities OF doing good, to cowardiy
desert 1t because the way seems, for the
moment, a little hard, and the reward, in
this life, uncertain. True manlness con
sists in doing duty until the end the re-
ward will then come, ii not before.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18
THE HARBOR AREA.

There is but one side to the harbor area
question so far as the Wishkah river is
concerned, the lines ought never to have
been run, and no effort should be spared
until they are abolished and the river de-
clared waterway, the same as the llo-
qu;am. Should this harbor area be al
lowed to remain the city would labor
under Il continual disadvantage, and the
majority OF the present local board OF tide
land appraisers are evidently alive to the
advantage this would give their own
towns over Aberdeen for they have, in
defiance OF the injunction, run their basic
lines up the Wishkah.
In regard to the Chehalis river and the
harbor there are two sides to the ques-
ton. The object OF the reserve harbor
area is to guard against monopolies throt-
Ting commerce by getting control of all
the water front and charging exhorbitant
wharfage. With the area reserved the
state regulates the wharfage charges. and
should it all come under one control no
extortion could then be ptactised. On
the other hand it may be said that where
the land is leased the character OF the i'm
provements is not liable to be as substan-
tial as where the land is owned, and that
the rent to the state would be Il continual
drain. The rent, however, would prob
ably not exceed interest on the invest
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18
Grand Lodge a. q. U, w.

The Grand Lodge OF the A. o. U. W.,
held at Olympia last week, elected f. a.
Twitchell, of Seattle, &. NJ. W; Geo. w.
Race, Tacoma, G. f.; w. A. Inman, OF
Colfax, &. o.. Jas. NJ. Pickens, Chehals,
&. r.; a. Ammon, Seattle, &. 7. The
delegates to the Supreme Lodge, which
meets at Atlanta, Ga, are &. NJ. w.
Paine, Gagen and Hall. They were in
structed to vote for the amendment pro-
viding for $1,000 and $4,000 beneficiaries.
1t was decided to hold the next session
in Tacoma, although Aberdeen stood a
good second.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-04-18

The State Commander writes It's from
Lincoln, Neb., rs folows CATER trying
other medicines for what seemed 10 be
very obstinate cough in our two children
we triel nr. Kings New Discovery and
at the emf ci two days the cough entirely
lett them. We will not be without it
hereafter, as our experience proves that
it cures where all other remedies fail"
Signed I. ". Stevens, state Com. Why
not give this great medicine a trial, as it
is guaranteed and trial bottles are free at
j. Il. Evans drug store.