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Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
]NEIGHBORH00D NEWSl.
PRAIRIE LEA.

Elmer Cunningham is sick.
Mrs. Albert WOrsham is very
i'll with typhoid fever at the home
of her parents on Bean Creek.
Elmer Chapman of Centralia
was on the Lea last Sunday to see
his best girl.
j. o. Kunkel and family visited
Mr.. KunkePs brother, Henry, last
Tuesday.
Mrs. T.. Shrader of st. Louis
has been the guest of Mrs. Hol-
camp.
Tim Burk sold his farm to Hi
nois parties. Price, $40 per acre.
Tom Shire made trip to Moli-
no.
Miss Clara Cunningham and sis.
ter, Mrs. Duff of Chicago, were
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cum
ningham.
John Lain's horse ran off last
Thursday. Got in Jess Worsham's
cornfeld. Jess says it damaged
about twenty bushels of corn.
Two of our prominent farmers
will take trip to Colorado ant
Montana and New Mexico some
time in September
James Wefer bought 80 hea(
of stock hogs at 8 cents per hund
red.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
Obituary..
j. n. CROSS,
County Commissioner

Our Skinner correspondent
writes us:
1t is with deep sadness that we
chronicle the death of Sister Laura
She was born May 10,
1882, and died August ., 1902.
She united with the Baptist Church
when but II years of age and ever
lived a consistent Christian life, al
ways doing good toward others.
Her demise leaves saddened coun-
tenances and broken hearts. She
died peacefully, trusting in her
God. "Draw Me Nearer was the
first song sung, then Scatter
Seeds of Loving Deeds" both very
appropriate to the life of Sister
Laura. The funeral discourse was
now preached from |. Cor, 10Th
chapter, by Rev. Westbrook. Rev.
Westbrook now led in prayer, af-
ter which the song entitled my
Savior First of All" was sung.
The service was very touching and
appropriate turnout. The remains
were inferred in the cemetery at
Centralia. A large concourse of
friends and relatives followed to
the grave. Sincerest sympathy
extended by all TO the bereaved
family. Consumption was the
dreaded disease that took Sister
Laura from us.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT By LADIES
AID SOCIETY OF BETHLEHEM.
"Whereas, Our beloved Father
hath taken from us our dear frient
and neighbor, Sister Carrie Day;
be it
Resolved, That by her dealt
we have lost one whom we love,
and respected, one whose life ha
been spent working for the goot
of others and whose kind ant
sweet disposition has made us al
, love her.
Resolved, That we extend on
deepest sympathy to her bereave
+ husband and friends.
e What God doeth now we kno'
t not, but shall hereafter. He doet
all things WELL"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
SANTA FEE.


John Doyle and niece and neph-
ew of Laddonia were the guests of
Edd Hendrix and wife last week.
Miss Jones of Long Branch is
the guest of John Sherman and
family.
Miss Elizabeth Bates of Perry is
visiting relatives and friends in
and around Santa Fee.
Frank Coon and wife and child
and George Peak and wife of Col
umbia, and Dan Rogers, wife and
family of near Strother were the
gut SITS of Dock Peak and family
Friday.
NIessrs. Frank and Buford eau
the IN of Molino were the guests of
G. .. Lucas and wife one day last
wet k.
Lay Racliff of Nevada is visiting
Phi |. Quisenberry and family.
lid Hendrix and Perry Davis
ma lie a business trip to Mexico
Wednesday.
,ohn Miller and wife of Hanni.
bal are visiting friends and rela-
tiv' around Santa Fe.
Hrs. Ida Speers of Holiday
Wis ted home folks here last week
Hiss Lizzie Poage of South
Fo k has been visiting Miss Nina
Da sinner.
y. A. Dull and wife visited G
A. Hanna and wife of South Forl
Sunday.
Marvin Snyder and Nelson Dull
made business trip to Mexico
CdtuIudy.
Walker Quisenberry returned
home Sunday after several week.
stay in Fulton,
Miss Matte Snyder of Quincy i
the guest of her sister, Mrs
Edd Hardesty.
Mrs. Capps and daughter Mrs
Browning, of Molino visited rela
tives here Sunday night and Mon
day.
Born to Jack Westfall and wifi
last week, boy.
Rev. f. 7. Drake visited rela
tives in Laddonia Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
VANDALlA.

Miss Jennie Patton of Paynes-
vile is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. }. A. B. Keith.
Miss Nettie Neal is back in her
place at Webb's.
Miss Lena Reed has returned
from an extended visit in st. Jo-
seph. She was accompanied
home by her cousin, Mr.. - Will
liams, of Omaha.
Miss Frances Frost is i'll with
typhoid fever.
The following couples spent
Sunday at Elk Springs: DR.. Kyle
and Julia Kendall, Hardin McPike
and Mary Conway, DR.. Parrish
and Louisa Nardin.
Miss Bessie Myers of Elk
Springs was the guest of relatives
and friends here the first OF the
week.
julius Kramer of Louisiana was
a visitor here.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Culbertson
of Rush Hill will celebrate their
fiftieth wedding anniversary the
18th of August. Mr.. and Mrs.
r. F.. Reed and children and Mr..
and Mrs. l.. p. Culbertson Of this
place will attend.
s. +. Kendall and wife and j
b. Lewellen and wife are spending
the week camping at Elk Springs
Married, ut the residence of thi
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. g
G. Daniel, August 7, Prof. job,
!, Anderson and Miss Beulah Daniel
Rev. Partee officiating. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Anderson will 60 to house
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
AUDRAIN SCHOOLS.
Commissioner Cross Makes
Interesting Report.

The County School Commission
er's report to the State Superinten-
dent has just been forwarded. 1t
shows the following items:
Enrolment in the schools
white, males 2413, females 24O4--
colored, males 1873, females 200;
total, 5000. This is loss of 10l
from 1901. Thirty one districts
gained 1876 and fifty seven districts
lost 3S7. Farber shows the largest
gain, 81, and Mexico the largest
loss, Al. Four districts almost
within hailing distance of Mexico
failed to report, and they were
given same numbers as last year.
Only two schools had shorter
term than six months: they had
81 months each. 80 schools had
7 or 8 months terms. The aver
age length of school terms is III
days. There are three districts
with an enrolment of less than 10,
namely, Stauffer, Lawder and
Burke. There are four exception
ally large country districts. Hall
in southeastern part of the county,
81, of which II are colored child
rem. New Michigan, in the east
ern part, &C; Macedonia in the
western part, 81; Fox, northwest
of Mexico, 60. This last number
was taken from last years report
however. Only two districts report
trees planted-Duly 5, and Black
5. There are So districts in the
county and parts of 9 others. In
these SO schools there were employ
ed, white teachers-male 40, female
SO. Colored teachers-msle Z,
female .. Total, 142. There are
five colored schools: Mexico, Lad
donia, Vandalia, Martinsburg and
the Hall district. There are only
80 districts having libraries, not
withstanding the law positively re-
quires the Directors to spend at
least 5 cents per pupil, per year,
for the purchase of libraries. The
average wages paid are: Male,
$43I; female, $34M. The attend
ance is generally poor, perhaps or
account of bad weather curing
winter. A few schools fall below
SO per cent and many below SO pei
cent. The assessed valuation OF
property is 5000, 410.
J. n. Cross,
County Commissioner
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

keeping Immediately u. the north
east part of town in the residence
lately vacated Ivy Charlie Butts
and wife. We wish them unlimi-
ted happiness thru life.
l.. +. Bates of Perry, bright
and energetic young man, was in
town first of the week taking or
ders for a late map of Missouri
and the United States.
Mrs. M. Conway, our postmis-
tress, and daughter, Miss Mary,
will leave Friday for an extended
visit in Colorado.
The Christian Endeavor society
will give an ice cream social in the
Park Saturday night, August 1G.
Everybody invited.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
THE proposed improvements a

THE proposed improvements at
the county poor farm is being agi-
tated just now. Representative
citizens of Mexico have taken the
matter before the County Court
and urge that steps be taken. No
one has a word of complaint
against Superintendent Horace
Mundy. He is endeavoring to do
his whole duty, but the means are
too small and new buildings are
needed. Reports and suggestions
of different orders and societies
may be brought before the citizens
of the county thru the press. The
members of our County Court are
business-like fellows, broad mind
ed, and are interested in the best
care of the county's worthy poo
and helpless, and we feel SUR
they'll leave nothing undone tina
should be done.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
CENTRAL.
Many threshing this week

Many threshing this week.
Gertie Bybse is up from Moline
on Il visit.
Ruby Woods of Mexico is visit
ing Mrs. Brand.
Laura johnson and Beatrice Day
of lIopewell visited Mrs. Day at
Benton City last week.
Mrs. Roberts and son visited rel
atives in Vandalia.
Mrs. Edwards is visiting her
sister in Pike county.
Geo. Haley is sick.
Miss Alice Cook is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Newkirk, in this vicin-
ity.
Mrs. Cal. Barnes spent Sunday
at o. l.. Woods.
Charlie McGee of Mexico spent
Sunday with Russell Woods.
Laura johnson is chilling this
week.
Quite a number from this vicin.
ity attended union services at Mex.
leo Sunday night.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

THE Republicans have had a
good deal to say recent months
about the Acknowledgement of the
negro in Alabama. The other day
the Republicans of that state didn't
do thing but turn round and en-
dorse the state law, which tends to
the said Acknowledgement. Repubs
in Iowa endorse the Democratic
position on the tariff and now in
Alabama they endorse the Demo
Gratis as regards the negro question
The Democrats keep on working a
great mission even if they are not
in power in the nation.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

THE Fulton Sun makes the fol-
lowing editorial comment
Hon. Champ Clark, who spent
two or three days with Galloway
people, having an address to deliv-
err to a Sunday School celebration
and another to II Modern Woodmen
picnic, is quite at home among the
Galloway people. He is glad to
know the men and women of this
county, and he always has Il pleas
ant word for those whom he may
chance to meet. He can tell good
story, delights in answering ques'
ions about his work and is already
popular.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
SKIM ER.

Mrs. Catherine Bruce of Kansas
City is the guest of her son, c. l..
Bruce, and other relatives.
Miss Carrie Moore is visiting
friends in Mexico.
Miss Effie Bruce is home from
Chillicothe, where she attended
the summer school.
Mrs. Hollensworth of Independ-
ence, Kansas, is here, the guest of
her cousin, John F. VIM, and
family.
The meeting at Midway pro-
crossing nicely. Up to Monday
night five additions to the church
Glad to chronicle the news of
Mrs. Taylor Berrey's entire re-
covery from her recent illness.
Also Miss Minnie is much better.
Miss Fonnie Jesse delightfully."-
entertained number of hel
friends Wednesday evening OF
last week.
Judge Lewis sold two mules the
other day to Bird Bros. of Paris
for $3.50. james Chairman sole
three mules to the same parties
for $3.50.
Charley Farley is treating hi
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
lADDONlA.

John MuldrOw of near Perry
was in town Saturday hunting
stock hogs.
Misses Lena True, Margaret De-
lapOrte and Pearl Chrisman visit
ed Miss Edna Smith Sunday. Miss
True is just recovering from an
attack of fever.
A freight train of grain going
east Sunday morning came I'M
coupled when the two pieces of
train collided and and wrecked 4
or 5 cars and blocked the track,
about one and one half miles east
of town for several hours.
G. A. Wilder made some sub
stantial improvements on his prop
erty occupied by Mrs. January.
Jack Brown shipped car of
cattle last Sunday.
l.. w. Mccoy and family are
visiting his brother w. d. Mccoy
in Colorado. Will return about
the first of the week. w. H. Tue
has charge of the poultry bust
ness.
j. E. Lotion and family spent
Saturday and Sunday on Cuivre.
Jess expects to go prospecting for
good telephone exchange business
this week.
Ladies' Aid Society of M. e.
Church, South, served ice cream
and cake Saturday evening in the
DeLaporte building with good sue
cess.
Geo. w. Ramey and wife will be
at home to their many friends in a
few days when their fine, new res
! ucuCt VIII nave Dccu COtnplcItu.
E. X. Bernard is putting on the
finishing touches in paint and pa
per this week.
John Hall and Miss Leila Jones
of Cuivre were married last Thurs
day at Wellsville. We extend
congratulations.
Miss Maud Kennen and brother,
Edward, are spending a few days
with Mrs. ID. p. Moore at Mexico
this week.
46 tickets were sold by our sta
ton agent Monday for the excur-
sion to Quincy.
Mrs. Gaitskills mother and
father, Mr.. and Mrs. Gray, of
Barry, H., who have been visiting
here since the Fourth, returned
home this week.
Roy Boatman, who is now clerk
ing for j. C.. DeLaporte, attended
the New Florence picnic Saturday
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
IT is stated that Senator Mason

IT is stated that Senator Mason
intends to secure his reelection to
the Senate by coalition with the
Democrats. There may be some
thing in the rumor. Mr.. Mason
was opposed to the Philippine pol
icy, he favored general reciprocity
and the reduction of the tariff on
trust made articles and he opposed
the President in other policies.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

THE oil well boomers are still
after suckers. The shares you buy
pay a dividend from the start; yes,
if one of these fellows gets your
dollar he can pay you back 70
cents in dividends and still hold
you up for % cents. A big num-
Der of suckers, and he has made
his haul.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

house and barn and other ont.
buildings, just south of here, to a
neat and attractive coat of paint.
John Potts is painting his barn
with nice red coat.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

BRYAN down in Maryland the
other day declared to the people
that he preferred being a private
citizen; regards it as an honor
greater than that of king.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

THE price of gasoline goes mp
one cent on the gallon this week.
Rockefeller getting ready to make
a contribution to the Republican
campaign fund.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
movement

Iowa Republicans got on the
Democratic platform the other day;
they declare against any tariff that
"may afford shelter to monopoly"
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07

BEAR in mind, and don't forget
it, that the allied third party move
ment in this State is a Republican
movement.
Mexico Missouri message., 1902-08-07
THURSDAY. AUGUST 7, 1902

The Hon. Champ Clark, w. j.
Stone and Mr.. Cowherd are to be
the speakers at the Santa Fe pic
mic.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

Don't fail to read Wilson's adver.
t4sements every issue of this paper
We shall have something to say that
will interest you every time.
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BIGFORK NOTES.
(Correspondence.l

Prof. Maurice Kicker of Burling-
ton, Iowa. left yesterday evening for
his eastern home. He was accompan-
led by his wife and little daughter
Panied by his iwfe and little daughter
also by his father and his sister, Miss
Pearl Kicker, both of Des Moines,
Iowa, and Mrs. &. NJ Shelton of Bur
lington. The party have been spend
ing the summer at the biological sta
ton, Prof. Kicker being a member of
the station staff.
Yesterday morning Prof. Elrod and
Prof. Kicker returned from trip to
the glaciers, on the line of the Great
Northern railway near the main range
of the Rockies, Several days were
spent in the glacial region and much
tanned. Numerous photographs were
made of the great peaks and vast
ice fields. Goats were seen in abund-
ance and one grizzly bear. The trip
is regarded by the two professors
as the best of the season. =.
Bear stories are becoming quite
common in Bigfork. Signs are quite
common within three-quarters of a
mile from town, and one bear was
seen few evenings since a few hun
dred yards south of the Swan river.
Bigfork Aug. %.
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MILL CHAFF.
Correspondence


Mrs. Barnes and children left
Thursday on an extended visit in
Ohio, with relatives and friends.
Sam Sorenson has returned home
very weak. His many friends are
very glad to know that he is able
20 be out again.
Mrs. Pickett is visiting friends and
relatives at Grand Forks, N. d.
Mr.. Reeves, the road master, am
Mr.. Dickerman, of the Kalispell divi-
sion, were down looking over the
mill and picking plant, Wednesday.
Several Of the young people are
contemplating attending the Kalis-
pvl schools the coming year They
have excellent schools and no one
can make a mistake by sending their
children there.
Alfred Peterson, the livery man,
has bought Mrs. Lebeau's mich COWS
and hereafter will continue the dairy
business. Mrs. Lebeau's friends and
customers will miss her regular calls,
but she deserves the rest
Mr.. Pickett has returned from the
hospital, where he has been for the
past month receiving medical aid for
eryscipelas in the right leg, from
which he has suffered greatly.
Somers, Aug ~.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
MORE MEN FOR HAvRE.
Great Falls Machine Shops Will Be
Closed Within Six Weeks.

Great Faiis Machine Shops Will Be
Closed Within Six Weeks.
The working force at the Havre
shops will be largely augmented
within the next six weeks. Prepare
tons are now being made by the
Great Northern to close the Great
Falls shops and move the machinery
to this city. Many of the men en-
ployed in the machine shops of the
M. Harvey, general foreman of the
Great Falls shops has been ordered
to report for duty in the Havre shops.
He will have full charge of the com
pany's plant here, under Superintend-
ent Henry Yoerg.
At present, and for some time past,
less than 100 men have been at work
in the shops. The company is plan
ming to put much larger unmber
of men at work, irrespective of those
who will come from Great Falls. 1t
is estimated that $50 men will be at
work early in October.
The company has experienced some
difficulty in securing men and this,
coupled with the fact that much of
the work done at the shops has been
in the way of installing machinery
and getting the plant in first class
shape, explains the delay in getting
started.
Work of installing machinery and
getting the plant in operation has
been necessarily slow, but the plant,
in it's completed shape, is one of the
best appointed machine shops in the
west. 1t was built on up-to-date and
modern ideas, the fruition of years of
experience, and necessarily gives the
best facility for economical repairs
on rolling stock.
At no distant date the Great Nor
thern will build car shops here, Civ
ing employment to many more men
With the present facilities the shops
will be able to repair all the engines
of the Montana Central and this div
ision of the Great Northern for a
long time to come, but cars are only
repaired in emergency cases. A re
pair track has been built alongside
the shops where the repairs are made
during seasonable weather.-Havre
Plaindealer
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02

honest effort, believe, to come up to
the governments expectations.
CIVILIZATION has done for the In
dams as a people just about what it
has done for other races. We are not
meeting any new fate. We have got
ten schools and the cost has been out
OF proportion to the benefits is a ques-
ton that is open to discussion and
possibly much could be said on both
sldes. Civilization grinds up the In
dlan as people and his institutions:
Whatever civilization has done for the
Individual, it has taught mat the man
of sound judgment yields to the inevita-
bic and tries to take his place in the
scheme of things as they are with
becoming grace. The Indians have
something of the stole, something of
the philosopher and bit of optim-
ism In their makeup. We are able
to face the music. We are keen OBJ
servers and though not blessed with
the her1ditity that makes us a race of
inventors, we are not lacking in an
Initiative ability, and the creative may
come as we go forward. We will do
the best that is in us and shall not
be surprised if in ten or twelve years
the world expresses wonder at what
we have accomplished under the
white mans system of living.
1t may be that only a few of the
graduates of our schools have at
tracted attention after ending their
school lives. But let us look into the
schools of the whites. Take any col
lege. Out of 100 there will not be
10 who are ever heard of after they
have gone home.
1t is the same with Indians. Some
are men of ability and force Others
are commonplace. 1t is a big mis-
take to think that because a boy has
been given an education he will of
necessity make his mark in the
world. 1t all depends on the individ-
ual boy and the direction in which
his energies are employed.
The boys success is sure to be
greatly along the line Of harmony
with self and his surroundings.
When the Indian can get in har-
mony with his new surroundings his
energies will tell. That he has ac-
copied these new surroundings with
out the use of war paint is proof
that his hopes are high.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-02
100 MUCH POLITICS.
Mississippi Editors Will Quit Civ
ing Notices to Candidates.

zig lNOlICGS 10 SdnUIQdtGSs
A majority of the newspaper pub
fishers Of Mississippi recently resoIv-
ed to quit giving free notices to can
didates for state Offices. Each can
didate for a state office is to be charg-
ed 81 per notice by each Of the 500
newspapers of the state, thus requilt
ing the office seeker to put up $500
to get his name in the newspapers
of the state The action Of the Mis-
sissippl editors suggested the fol
lowing thoughts:
No class of men are more in need
Of newspaper advertising than candi-
dates for office; no class pay less
for newspaper advertising, while no
class get as much free newspaper
advertising. The newspapers are
themselves mainly responsible for
this. 1t is not necessary usually for
candidates to pay for newspaper ad-
vertising, because they get more than
any other class of men get, and get
it for nothing This will always be
the case while newspapers continue
to pursue the policy which they have
so long pursued of magnifying the
Importance of political contests and
filling up their columns with matter
about them, to the subordination or
exclusion of other and more import
ant news There are probably many
few of these Missippi papers now
threatening to ignore candidates for
not advertising which have not been
guilty of dumping on their readers,
day after day, and week after week,
a flood of stuff about unimportant
candidates in insignificant campaigns.
Indeed they often carry this to such
an extreme that those readers not
suffering from the same mania for
the political game turn away in dis
gust from their papers because they
contain nothing but politics" ne
real ews of politics and the intelt4-
gent discussion of politics are not
only legitimate but requisite in the
newspaper press but to make a fet-
ich of politics, as SO many papers do,
is serious perVerSlOn OF journal
ism and betrayal of the rights of
the reading public The real news of
politics and the intelligent discus
sion of politics are very different
matters from the political excesses
and debaucheries which SO many
papers plunge into during every con-
test for office, however trivial. Such
news and discussion certainly do not
require an lncessant stream of re
ports, gossip, charges and counter
charges, eulogies and ''roasts," argu-
ments and speculations inspired by
the candidacy of Jim Jinks and Tim
Toms for an office of no consequence
to anybody except in the few hundred
dollars it may pay Jim or Tim
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Dissolution of Guardianship.

Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween J. A. Ennis and D. A. Cole, do
ing feed and sale stable business
at Kalispell, Montana, under the firm
name of Ennis & Cole, rs this day
dissolved by mutual consent, said D.
A. Cole retiring from said firm. Said
J. A Ennis will continue said bust
ness, collect all accounts and pay all
debts of said firm.
Dated this 9Th day of August, 1902.
J. A. ENNIS.
D. A. COLE