Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-10-30
rlissouri Notes


The state veterinarian is telling the
farmers of cure for blaCkleg. The
cure was probably a Luckey discov-
cry.
A Salisbury paper speaks of writers
of note 1t is very apparent that
there is a reporter in Salisbury who
is not one.
The Kirksville negro base ball club
gave chicken dance" the other
night. In correct base ball parlance
1t was fowl ball
The society girls OF Marshall have
formed a club and style themselves
The Old Maids" 1t is dangerous for
any one else to call them that.
though. :.
The fact that two suicides occurred
in Centralia last week does not neces-
sarily mean that the town isn't good
place to live in. Think of the under
takers and preachers.
The following is going the rounds
Of the Missouri country press various
ly credited: God bless our wives.
they fill our lives with happiness and
honey they mend our socks and ease
our shocks. but Lord-they do spend
money"
a Moberly man. while building
fire Sunday. got piece of coal in his
eye. II required an hours work on
the part of two physicians to save the
coal
Elisha Fee. who Is more than 70
years of age. holds the bee hunting
record of the South Dickcrson neigh
borhood. So far this season he has
located twelve bee trees.
A Fayette girl and Il Keytcsville
young man made love over the tclc-
phone and were married Sunday. Yet
in days to come the can hardly blame
the telephone.
Marshal Slaughter of Faycttc as
sumed the role Of dog catcher one day
last week and filled the pound with
unlicensed CANNES. Then, before his
energy abatcd, he gathered up enough
more to fill cell in the caIaboosc.
About two hundred pcopl" made a
trip around the world in Carthage
| the other night IF real trip around
| the world could be made as easily and
| inexpeusively." says the Press, every
| body in town could become globe trot-
| teTs"
Ed Hall. a farmer living near Car
| thage. has harvested four crops of al
| falfa from a seventrcn-acrc field this
| year. He figures that he can sell the
| ,vtr 1,,,,. til
| A Mexico paper says a mad dog was
| shot on the square there the other day,
| which causes the jUcular Louisiana
| Prcss-Journa man to say; we are
| glad the job was done on tho square.
We hate anything undetermined, even
| on a dog"
\ man who left Fishery few
months ago aud entered the undertake
ing business in the state of Washing
ton. has written a letter to friends in
which he gives Washington 4 doubtful
sond-off. This is a grand counuE"
he says. my business is cNcyllcnt."
The much advertised ball game be
tween the Boomer girls and tn" Con
tralia team did not take place. The
audience failed to matolializo and
the manager refused to permit the
girls" to play in the face OF such a
| snub-and the absence OF Gatc re-
ccipts.
The Missouri hen has been doing n
! great deal Of business AT the old
| stand this year. The annual report Of
| the commissioner of labor shows that
| the value of the horses and mules
| shipped from tn" railway stations Of
| the state for the year was $7,9S9,24o,
| while the egg and poultry shipments
| yielded sl3.90S ,8O4.
Rushvlle pople. who were to have
| seen the President about minute.
| said at first that they were not disap-
| pointed when he failed To complete
| his trip. But the following. supposed
| to have come from Rushyillc looks
| differently:
| Now ROoseveIt's not comm ont.
Well, blast it, that makes twice
Thet Rushville's throwcd away her
work
Nv fixin' up so nice
| Fer Presidents tibet never come;
We're tired now NV it,
Old Rushvilles done her duty twice.
An now she's goin to quit
The next time thct a President
SEE he's a-comin West
| There's not man in Rushyillr
Thct'll change his coat an vest,
He'll see our station as it IS,
Wen decorate init
Fer RushvilIe's done her duty twice,
An now she's gOin to quit.
A Sullivan county man raised eighty
five bushels Of potatoes in four years.
beginning with but quarter Of one
tuber. That chunk Of potato must
have had an eye for business
The Brookfcld Argus has solved
the coal question. 1t Is advising frs
readers to use corn cobS There are
millions of them in Missouri this
year.
The women of the Macon Baptist