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Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
Benton CITY.

Everybody cutting oats.
Dr J. f.. Harrison is visiting
home felix's this week.
Miss Alma Ahlfcldt, who has
been staying wi tn her grandmoth-
cr, Mrs. T.. Nicely, returned to her
home in lhdd Onia Tuesday.
j Y, Mabry and daughter are
the guests oi MIR. and Mrs. II. NJ.
Hamilton.
II. n. Oldt lost II valuable mare
one day last week,
Benton City NJ. W. a. camp is
going to Wcllsville July 4th.
W. y. Mullins, j. q. Jones, b.
Morris and Il number of our boys
took in the excursion to Randolph
Springs Sunday and report good
! time.
II. b. Painter of Milwaukee,
Wis, is home on weeks's vaca-
ton.
Mrs. j. 5. Laws and son, of
Venice, left for Kansas City Mon
day for IL weeks visit.
Mrs. Joseph Hilderbrand is Wis
ting her parents in Truesdale this
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

ington, had two ribs broken the
other day by the kick of a horse.
John Hanger was in Laddonia
during the institute looking for IN
experienced teacher to teach the
Ringo school.
Farmers are very much elated
over crop prospects.
Mrs. ID. M. Price called on Mrs.
Joe Able and Mrs. Hattie J. Able
of st. Louis, last Friday.
j. w. Selby who has been spend
ing some weeks with his sister,
Mrs. ID. M. Price, has gone to
Medicine Lodge, Kas., where he
will join his two sons and make it
his future home.
John Franklin says he has POO
acres of the hest corn he ever saw.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
laddOnia.

Miss Kitty Smith, of Barry, Ill =,
visited her cousin, Miss Ida Grubb,
last week.
Mrs. G. Corner Barnes left last
week for Bonhcr, Montana, to join
her husband, who preceded her
several weeks ago. Mrs. Barnes
will be greatly missed by her many
friends here, and all wish her sue
cess in her new western home.
Miss Emma May, who spent sew
cral days with Miss Nellie Gray and
other friends here, returned to her
home in Curryyillc, Monday.
Miss Black, of Galloway coun ty,
is visiting her friend, Mrs. DR..
Lotion.
W. c. Byrgamyrc, Il student of
the Medical school, at Denver, Col. ,
is visiting his sisters, Mrs. G. A.
Wilder and Miss Fannie Byaga-
myrc.
Mrs. j. W. McCubbin returned
home last Saturday from I'M extend
ed visit To friends in Salisbury.
The instructors are not through
grading the papers of the teachers
that attended the Institute, and so
certificates have not been sent out
yet. For this reason we failed TO
get the list of teachers havin =
schools.
The glorious Fourth will be here
Wednesday, and we are expecting
. Il big crowd. The park is bcauti-
full, and if the day is fine, il will
he one of the largest gatherings
we have had for years. We have
no small poX here, and not even II
ease of the what -is-it!' and have
never had; neither do we want
any. We presume Mexico will be
well represented here on the Fourth
and the editor of the MESSAGE II
mong the number. Come, and en-
JOY the day with your many
friends.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
MOlinO.

A nice rain wouldn't he amiss.
Some of the young folks talk Ct
going to Centralia, others to Lad
donia on the 4th.
There never was Il better pros
pect for good corn crop.
Miss Georgia Dudley is the guest
of Mexico relatives this week.
Frank Cauthorn, who went to
Kansas last week to harvest, re-
ports plenty of work and wages
good.
Mrs. Thomas Schieffer expects
her mother, Mrs. Rodgers, and
sister, Mrs. Maxwell, of Palmyra,
soon.
Master Bob Johnson was tn,
guest of his little cousin, Marian
johnson, last week.
Mr.. Pat Cauthorn will ship {
nice lot of fat cattle to st. Louis
today.
Two small children of Mr.. anG
Mrs. DR.. Flynt came near getting
drowned one evening last week
but fortunately We're rescued il
time.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Thomas II. Peyton, of Ortiz
Fruit Farm, visited Col. w. A.
Faucet recently.
Earl Morris has purchased the
coal bank formerly opened and
worked by Ed Hawkins.
Thompson will not celebrate
this 4th. But look out for ucxt
4th.
The preaching at Ed Browns
Sunday night was we'll attended
1t was a good sermon.
Uncle Dennis O'Callahan is re-
ported much better.
George Bruce and family, of
Centralia, visited the family of
John Mechanics, Sunday.
Bud Greasy made business trim
to Moberly, Monday.
Married at the residence of the
brides sister, Mrs. George Meyers,
Mr.. Henry Rosenthal and Miss SUI
sic Board, Judge Squirting onicia-
ting.
Married at the residence of John
Me Jones, William Tiger, OF
Thompson, and Miss George Jones,
by Justice Elliot, of Thompson.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
III NeiehborhOod News. +
Wesley Chapel.

Mr.. and Mrs. Harris, of Lad
donia, spent the day with their
son, II. +. Harris, last Sunday,
Mrs. Joseph Able is GONZALES
cling from an attack of fiuX.
Amos Harris and family spent
the day with X. +. Harris on Sun
day of last week.
The Slavens boys on the old
Basket farm are in possession of
Il new Buckeye binder, They have
a fine crop of oats and it takes a
Buckeye to cut it.
Mrs. Geo. Dudgeon has return
ed home from Knox county, Ohio,
where she has been visiting her
aged father for over year.
Miss Ida Galloway was assisting
at the Hotel Dill, in Laddonia,
during the session of the Institute
Mesdames j. +. Hixon, j. w
Selby and ID. NJ. Price spent 1
pleasant afternoon on Wednesda,
of last week. Music, vocal ano
instrumental, was rendered by
those present. a sumptuous mea
was prepared by the hostess and
her daughter, Oracle. After par
taking of the same all parties
seemed glad they came.
John Braden, of Laddonia, i
applying the finishing touch o
paint to j. l.. Hixon's house.
The new road overseers are get
, ting in their work on our road
very nicely at the right time o
year,
John FAIRIES, Of Endicott, Wash
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
Santa Fe.

The crowd from here attended 4
moonlight ut the Misses Bcamon,
of near Strothcr, Friday evening.
They report a fine time.
Mrs. NJ. c. IIoyt and children
returned home Tuesday after
week s visit with the former'c pa
rents ut Whiteside.
McSsrs. Woodsie and Reuby Tn
derwood, of near Perry, were here
Saturday evening.
Miss Maud Quiscnhcrry left,
Friday, for Shclbina, where she
will visit her sister, Mrs. r. A.
Bailey.
Misses Eva and Mae Dull visited
friends in Perry, Saturday and
Sunday.
Il. 7. Drake left last week to
travel in the interest of Il religious
paper of Lexington, Ky.
Miss Bell, of Hutchinson. is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. II. l.. Rogers.
Joe Norman left last week for
Marshall, Mo-, where he will cngi-
nccr for the electric light plant, of
that city.
Little Claude Myers, of Perry,
visited his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim Davis, last week.
Henry Quinn and family were
the guests of Il. l.. Rogers and
wife Tuesday.
W. b. Meyers aud family were
the guests of n. a. Dull, Monday
night.
Miss Emma Ball returned home
last week, after three weeks Wis
it with her brother, of near Flori-
da.
Aunt Ligc Lou (colored) died
last week after IN illness of about
three months. She was buried in
the family graveyard.
Mr.. Will Lyons, of Waylmd,
and Mr.. Rob Criglcr, of Florida,
visited in this vicinity last Friday.
Mrs Sallic Wright visited in
Mexico last week. Her little baby,
Alaska, happened to quite ii pain
ful accident while there. While
playing with some children, it was
pushed down and its arm broken
IT is getting along nicely at present
writing.
Uncle David McCutrhcn is very
low.
Mrs. Jim Wallace, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. Quiscn-
berry, returned 10 her home in Pa,
riS, last week.
Hiss BESSIE Crump entertained
friends, Monday night
Walker Quisrnbrrry and EwrII
Drake were III Perry, last Tuesday.
Mr.. Emmct Fairbairn and fami-
| ~, of Perry, visited their parents
here, Sunday.
Miss Sims, of Salem, was th'
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, In
first of the week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
Suit in RepleVin.

Mrs. j M. Beagles and Mary
eagles are at law on another
count. Mr.. Beagles is defendant
against his wife for divorce-case
now pending in the Circuit Court
and he wants possession of mum
erous household goods, farming
implements, and SO on, which he
claims Mrs. Beagles has wrong
fully taken from him. He brings
suit in replevin and also asks for
500 as damages.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
WOOdmen Talk.

Mr.. Geo. w. Ham, Dist. Dep.
for the Modern Woodmen, is no W
located i'm this city and soliciting
members for the local camp, which
already numbers about $50 and is
steadily increasing through the
efforts of Mr.. Ham. In his district
the 9th Congressional, there were
nearly 100 adoptions in the month
of June. This order is the largest
and most prosperous Fraternal
Benefit Society in the world. 1t
now numbers $50, 900 and furnish.
cs sound insurance for 81 80 pei
81 900 per annum at average age
to men between the ages of Is and
-. Its fraternal features cannot
he excelled. Mr.. Ham is also a
gent for the Woodmcn Ace. Co.
which furnishes cheap accident in
surancc to WOodmen only. All
who wish insurance, either life or
accident, should see him.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
iarbcr.

Crop prospects very rnrotIrag-
ing.
l'arbor's new telephone is Il ma
tcridl thing now. Owned by j l.,
Sutton, W. Rcighlcy and &. A,
Davault.
Clyde Wilson of Dwight is visit
ing the family Of +. w, Tobias.
q. b. Brown died in Fulton last
Friday from n stroke of paralysis
which first attacked him scvcra
years ago. In his death we los,
one of our best citizens.
n. h. Mitchell of Nandalia was
business caller last Thursday.
The ladies of the &. =. churcI
gave AN Ice cream supper Saturda.
which was well patronized.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
"SuDeryisiOn" Committee.

The Audrain Teachers Institute
recently held in Laddonia appoint.
ed the following committee on Coun-
ty Supervision: j. n. Cross, A.
S. Faulkner, b. w. Hale, Il. c..
Harris, and X. w. Shannon.
The committee will take
active steps to bring the question
of county supervision before the
voters at the next annual school e.
lection.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
Egg Caused Wedding.

Poplar Bluff, Mo-, July l.
Several months ago Robert +,
Blakemore of kennett, IN a spirit
of fun, wrote his name on one of
a lot of eggs ready for shipment,
lie added that he was young, sim
gle and wanted TO marry. A few
weeks later q letter came from
Miss Emma Nicklas of Pittsburg
Pa, and accompanying it was hel
photograph. The correspondence
was continued and Saturday Mr.
Blakemore departed for Pittsburg
where the marriage will take place
on his arrival.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
The Riverside Institute.

The summer term of this institu-
ton will be held mt Mexico. Mo. =,
opening at 2:30 p. III. on Monday,
July 10th, 1900.
The sessions will be open and
free to all. This bids fair to be
the most important and interesting
meeting ever yet held by the Riv-
erside Institute:
LIST. Because of the class and
character of the lecture topics, and
the lectures themselves.
I'd. Because of the business
transacted relating to Il "perman-
ent organization" of the Institute.
No. preacher, if possible to pre-
vent it, should miss the Mexico
meeting, nor should any Bible stu
dent.
The announcement" sent out by
the executive committee provides a
number of first class lectures.
The First Baptist church mt Mex
leo cordially invites the meeting.
If the Lord be in the movement
it will be a great meeting-such &
meeting as no one can afford t(
miss. Come and be welcome.
Respectfully,
Il. $. Duncan,
Chairman Executive Committee
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
YOuneS Greek.

j. q. Crawford and Bob Guth-
RE talk of attending the National
convention.
John Sharp sold Ed. Smell, of
Monroe Co., 8 head of , year old
mules at $50 head.
We are sorry 10 chronicle the
death of Mrs. Maud Pitcher Over
welt. She was laid 10 rest in the
Long Branch Cemetery.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05
New Suits Filed.

j. b. Armstrong VS.. Gather
Berry.
f. ID. Alexander VS.. Clanton;
appealed from justice peace.
Edward Duncan VS.. $. ID. Will
son; revival.
Monumental Bronze Co. VS.. es-
tate of Il. Doty; appealed from
Probate Court.
j. r. Inman & Co. VS.. Pitcher
Jewelry Co; appealed from justice
peace.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

regu lar appointment the 4th Sat
urday and Sunday ut Bethlehem.
Rev. Burch is very enthusiastic,
instructive and entertaining spe ak
en-. May his life he prolonged in
this useful work.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

County School Commissioner
Bruce was not able to attend the
Teachers Institute on account of
the weakness he suffers from an
operation performed for append
citis. We sincerely hope Prof.
Bruce may soon recover robust
health.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

As we und erstand it, one of the
great vessels destroyed by fire in
New York harbor last Saturday
afternoon was chartered by the
Christian Endeavor delegates for
the trip across the sea for the
worlds convention in London.
DIR. Hinde and daughter, of this
city, were to be iu the company.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The School board mt Slater will
admit no pupils this fall who can
not show certificate that they have
been vaccinated.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

A crazy man on our streets Mon
day-crazy from imbibing too free
~ in one of our saloons. They got
his money and then pushed him in
to the street. He then wanted to
fight everybody and friends loaded
him into a two horse wagon and
took him out of town on swift
run.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The Teachers Institute meets
June II next year instead of July
II as we said on first page and as
the Institute first voted.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

w. ii. Booth and wife, of Ann
Arbor, Mich. well known here and
at Ccntralia, are visiting Mexico
friends.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Isaac Dyer treated the MESSAGE
family to Il fine mess of young po-
tatoes Tuesday. The samples We're
as large as Nebraska specimens.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Mexico developed another case of
so-called smallpox Monday. A ne
gro man aged %. He was sent to
the pest house.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

We have no smallpox here, not
even Il case of the" what- is-it" and
have never had-so says our Lad
dOnia correspondent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Bring your old Books and BIZ
bles in to j. Il. Sallec and have
them rebound. In Prohibition
Headquarters building.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The State Dental Association
meets at Louisiana next Monday
DR.. w. l.. Reed, of this city, is
president.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Fulton is going ahead with ar
rangcments for her street fair.
The merchants have subscribed o.
yer 50 900 towards the enterprise
Fulton street fair last year brought
to that city an average crowd OF
1000 persons each day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Old Books and Bibles repaired
rebound or recovered at j. f.. Sal
lees ook-bindery in Prohibition
Headquarters building.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The Knights of Pythias Lodge
in this city is investigating the
feasibility of owning its own hall
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The Immortal j. N" struck
town Monday. He is ever making
preparation to lift the veil"
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

John Sallec, of the Baptist Pub
fishing House, has opened book
bindery in Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

DR.. W. l.. Kendall, optician,
has opened a drug store at Benton
City.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The trial of Alexander Jester
comes up at New London next
Monday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

State Superintendent of schools,
Darlington, has returned to Jeffer-
son City after personally visiting
nineteen teachers institutes. He
says he has seen some excellent
work done, but expresses the be-
lief that the "review schools" bet.
ter known as County institutes"
have about served their best pur-
poses.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

All kinds of binding done at j
Il. Sallee's book bindery.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

The Shootman building, north
east corner of tho square, is being
RACED and modern two story bust
ness house, 43xll4 feet, divided
into two store rooms on the first
floor and Office rooms on the second
floor, is to take its place, The
walls will he of pressed brick with
stone trimmings. Plate glass
fronts on the first floor. Turner,
Jackson 4 Co, will occupy the
south part of the building.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-07-05

Fritz Doeblin, of near Rush Hill
was in Mexico Monday. Mr.. Doe
bin sa VS. he has the biggest croI
prospect he ever had. He has 100
acres of fine oats, field of 100 ac-
res of splendid looking young corn
besides good acreage of grass,
ii is apple trees are also loaded, the
his peaches do not promise so well
Mr.. Doeblin is one of the happ,
far mers this time, sure enough.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-20
CABLE TO THE SULTAN.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March T.
Gen. Greedy says there is only one
steamer a month between Manila and
the Sulu islands, so that the sultan is
heard from infrequently. If an insur-
rection should break out there just
after the steamer left, it might con-
tinue for a month before the authori-
ties at Manila or in Washington could
hear of it.
Some months ago Gen. Greedy fitted
out an expedition on the transport Pa
mama with about 212 miles OF regular
large-sized cable and fifty miles of
smaller cable, and the necessary ap-
paratus for placing it in operation, but
the steamer was wrecked off the coast
of Luzon The cable and other equip
ment was saved and is available for
use as soon as Gen. Otis details a sufti-
Gent force of men to lay it. It was
intended to connect the smaller islands,
Which are practically out of commune
cation with Manila and the outside
world. Gen. Greedy considers a new
cable extremely important and cannot
account for what seems unnecessary
delay.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-20
PLAGUE IN SYDNEY.

The question of incinerating the bod
les of the plague patients in sydney
has come up there in a very acut form,
according to the Sydney papers. The
body of Captain Dudley, who died of
the plague, was not cremated.
In regard to this the Sydney Tele-
graph says:
For the sake of allaying any public
alarm as to the mode of burial of The
body of Dudley, who died on Thursday
last, DR.. Ashburton Thompson was
asked yesterday whether precautions
had been taken to place disinfectants
in the grave in which the body was
buried. He replied: THE body was
taken in a launch from his residence
in Drummoyne to the quarantine sta
ton, and buried there. For the sake
of precaution a hole was bored in the
coffin lid and the coffin was filled with
a very strong disinfectant. Before it
was removed from the house it was
filled with disinfectant as it was-wrap-
ped in sheets which were also saturated
with disinfectant, and the whole was
finally wrapped in a sail. This also was
soaked in the disinfectant, and the cof-
fin was so taken to the quarantine
ground and buried with the sheets
around it. The grave was made deep,
on a steep slopefacing South Head.
Captain Dudley was a boat builder
we'll known in marine circles. He 1t
was who repaired the sloop Spray, in
which Captain Slocum made his cruise
around the world.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-20
SLAVERY IN GUAM.
Leary Abolished It On Washington
Birthday.


WASHINGTON, DC, March Capt.
Leary has issued another proclamation
and official copies, bearing the seal of
the governor of the island of Guam, has
been received at the navy department.
FEBRUARY 22 the birthday of the father
OF his country-a very appropriate day
was selected by Gov. Leary as the date
upon which slavery and peonage should
forever cease upon the island Of Guam.
Captain Leary discovered, after he had
been on the island some time, that
nearly all the wealthy families and
landowners and many others held in
peonage, form of slavery, most of
their servants and employees The sys-
tenn was the same as that which pre-
vailed throughout the Latin American
countries and in certain paf-s of The
southern states, Under the Spanish
laws a man who owed moneY was oblig-
ed to submit to the control of mis- Gre
dItor until the debt was PAID. There
fore, 1t was the practice for EMPLOYERS
to advance wages or to permit emnloyt $
to run up accounts at their supply
stores which they were unable TO pay
and as long as these dabts and &c
counts remained unpaid the debtor was
not allowed to leave the employment Of
his creditor without his formal written
consent. Nor could any laborer obtain
employment without bringing a certi-
ticate from his last employer that he
was in no wise indebted to him.
This system was carried to such an
extent that more than half the popula-
ton of Guam was held practically as
slaves by the other half, and Capt,
Leary was determined to abolish the
iniquity. Therefore on Jan. he issued
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-20

a proclamation in which the following
is found
Honest labor with just compensa-
ton, dignified by faithful consideration
of the mutual interests and welfare of
all persons concerned, should insure
prosperity to this community; whereas,
the existing abor-degrading system of
human bondage and unjust, indefinite
servitude or peonage, permitted during
the late Spanish control in this island
is, in fact, a system of slavery, and as
such is subversive of good government,
is an obstacle to progressive civilization
a menace to popular liberty and vio-
lation of the sacred privileges guaran-
teed by the constitution of the United
States.
Now, therefore, by virtue Of the au-
thority vested in me by his excellency
the president of the United States. I,
Richard p. Leary, captain United States
navy, governor of the isle of Guam, do
hereby announce and publicly proclaim
absolute prohibition and total abolition
of human slavery or peonage in the isle
of Guam on and after the 22d day of
February, A. D., 1900, and all persons
are hereby commanded to comply with
the requirements of this proclamation"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-20
COMMITTEES HAVE BILLS.
COUNCIL OF STATE ACTS ARE
REFERRED.
Acting Legislature at Work-Reports
May Be Expected This Afternoon
Third Reading Tomorrow.

At the meeting of the Council Of
State yesterday afternoon the follow
ing committees were appointed:
judiciary and Department of the At
torney General-A. G.. NJ. Robertson,
S. X. Kane and ]. L. Kaulukou.
Foreign Affairs and Public Instruc-
tion-Mark P. Robinson, John Ena and
w. c. Achi.
Finance-P. c. Jones, c. Bolte and
M A. Gonsalves.
Interior-A. V. Gear, j. A. Kennedy
w. F. Allen, p. d. R. Isenberg and
John Mott.
The committee on rules submitted
short report which was adopted. Very
little was recommended, the committee
feeling that no elaborate rules of pro-
cedure were necessary, and that COM
mon law was all that was required for
the deliberations. The most important
section of the rules prescribes that all
bills to be referred to the President of
the United States for approval shall pass
three readings in the Council. The 9TH
err sections have to deal merely with
routine.
Act 2, appropriations from current ac-
counts for public works, was read by
title, and the various divisions of it
referred to the different committees.
Act 8, salaries and payrOls, went the
same course; and Act 4, loan bill was
referred to the committee on Judiciary
and Department of the Interior.
All the members except A. V. Gear
and Cecil Brown were present.
The Council adjourned to o'clock
this afternoon, by which time it is eX-
pected that the committees will be able
to report If so, the bills Will be read
a second time, and may be ready for
third reading tomorrow afternoon.