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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
STRoTHER.

VIM. Reed was in Paris Thurs
day.
James wilkins and family and
VIM. Wilkins of Mexico were the
guests of Harry Crump and family
Sunday.
Miss Lucretia Vowel and Mrs.
R. l., Vowel were in Perry trad
ing Wednesday.
0wsley Mason bought a horse
from AID. Beaver last week for $85.
VIM. Kindred and wife have re-
turned home after weeks visit
at Goss.
Virgie and Annie Bledsoe and
Elsie Reed were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Turner of Long Branch
Saturday and Sunday
j. Il. Beemon sold two salves to
VIM. Sterrett last week for $50.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
SANTA EE

Opa Brown of Perry was in
town Tuesday.
Arch Ball and family visited
relatives here. several days last
week.
Protracted meeting begins at
South Fork Tuesday night, Oct.
9th.
Miss Effie Drake returned home
Saturday after a weeks visit with
relatives at Long Branch.
Quite a number from Florida
and other places attended quarter
ly meeting here Sunday.
Ernest Pitcher of Long Branch
was the guest Of Miss Alma Cam
plin Sunday eve.
Mrs. Blum and daughter, Miss
Carrie, of Long Branch visited
friends and relatives here several
days last week.
Before this is in print Miss Ger
tie Sterett will be Mrs. Wallace
Bybee.
Ire Davis and family visited rel
atives here several days last week,
Charley Rouse and mother OF
Arizona are the guests of relatives
here.
Mr.. Ellis and wife of Perry Wis
tied j. L. Crigler and family Sat.
urday and Sunday.
Mrs. Lord of st. Joseph is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. H. P,
Alexander.
Mrs. Bessie Heller and Miss
Oracle Camplin were in Perry
trading Saturday.
Miss Genie Carter is the guest Of
South Fork friends.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Gently visited his brother, Frank
Mrs. Fry returned last week
from Iowa where she made pleas
ant visit with her sisters.
Pete Parper will begin building
a new kitchen, for Bob Dye, which
will be a great improvement for
that place.
Mrs. w. P. Bali and little
daughter of Poeblo, Colorado, are
here visiting her fathers, ]. w.
Coakley. south of Rush Hill. Mrs.
Ball thinks there is no place like
Colorado.
Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Devaney
made u business trip to Martinsburg
one day last week.
A. B. Smock has purchased Mr..
McGaffin's farm, and will in 9
short time begin building.
frankie Erisman who is attend.
ing the University, spent Satur'
day and Sunday with home folks
here.
Mrs. KnolIenberg and sister
were shopping in Mexico Satur'
day.
Mrs Peyton is making a visit
with relatives in Kansas City.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
EAST LINN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel Grim of
Mexico are visiting Mr.. Grim's
sisters, Miss Sarah Grim and Mrs.
Rachel Barton.
Miss Francis Murray, after a
five weeks visit with her grand
mother, Mrs. Gibbons, returned to
her home in st. Louis Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Rhodes visited the
family Of Irving Matthews last
week.
Frank Fennewald is building a
new house and making other inn
provements on his fathers farm,
three miles south of Martinsburg.
Ben Buscher sold a yearling
heifer to Jim Scott for three cents
a pound.
Willie Huffman had both of his
feet mashed in a corn shelter.
Mr.. Isgreg rented j. w. o.
Hearn's farm for next year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Matthews
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Myers of near Wellsville.
John Turpin has rented Henry
Crews farm of 300 acres. Lutte
Diggs who now occupies the farm
will move to Martinsburg.
Guss Strauthide of Illinois is Wis
iting friends in this vicinity.
A. j. Cole who spent the greater
part of the summer at the Springs
says he is much improved in health.
The debate at the Edwards We'd
nesday was will attended. Among
the debaters were Jim Baker and
brother, Dave Dowdall, MIR. Ru-
pie and Will Erb of Montgomery
Co. and George Montague of near
LaddOuia. The subject for debate
was, Resolved, THAT capital pun
ishment should be abolished. The
judges decided in favor of the af-
tirmative.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
THOMPSON.

e. Hughes of Mexico was here
Wednesday.
Mrs. E. F. Elliott was pleasant
ly entertained by Centralia friends
Wednesday.
Miss Ped Harrison of Mexico
and her guest, Miss Tillie Wright
of st. Louis, are visiting Mrs. X.
II. Brown.
Clyde Cullers of Mexico was a
pleasant visitor to friends here
Tuesday.
Arthur Miltenberg returned to
his home in st. Louis Sunday af-
ter delightful visit to the family
of John 0'Brien.
VIM. Roach aud daughter, Miss
Pearl, have gone to Clifton Hill to
attend the funeral of a cousin.
Miss Mayme Sullivan visited
home folks in Mexico Saturday
and Sunday.
E. &. Spence is. in Fairbury, Ill.
John Wiseman and wife of Cen
tralia were recent guests of Mrs.
T.. Boone.
F. NJ. Tinsley spent Sunday in
Mexico.
Harry Householder went to st.
Louis Monday with car load of
stock.
Miss Martha Pool returned to
her home in Mexico Monday.
John O'Brien and wife and son
of Skinner visited friends here
Sunday.
j. w. Woodbridge spent Satur-
day and Sunday at Benton City.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
BEAN GREEK.

Joe and VIM. MOngler are in
Ray comfy where they went to at
tend the funeral of their brother
in-law, Henry Kombrink, particu-
lars of which are unknown.
Mrs. Martin of Galloway is Wis
iting her daughter, Mrs. W. H.
Wilson.
Lawrence Kysar went to Gala
way Saturday. His sister who has
been visiting relatives there will
accompany him home.
G. E. Robinson has sold his
farm at 1856 per acre. IT'S hoped
that Charlie won't leave us.
A certain young lady is much
offended at the item last week
stating that Everett came out to
see his brother. We humbly beg
pardon. Being somewhat busy we
failed to notice which way he went
from church.
Asa Ellington writes back that
he arrived at the Black Hills all
O. X. Found his uncle, Ben New
kirk, in possession Of the mines
and everything in firSt-class order.
s.. D. Willmgham's fine driving
horse, "Shug," which has been
very bad off with distemper is
again able to take short drives
and Shannon is overwhelmed in
the See Of delight.
Rev. j. S. Griffin's friends were
much delighted to have chance
to listen to an old-time gospel talk
by him Sunday morn from the
text, II. Tim, 8, 1917.
Now. really, what is the matter
with that Weaver scribei Rumor
has it that he is seriously affected
with heart trouble. His physician
says the complaint is incurable.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
PRAIRIE LEA
Joe Folk for Governor.

QUO yin lOr OONeTuOTs
Dave Rodgers was at Kirksville
as delegate of the A. II. T, A.
Tom Hook has shipped in two
cars of cattle which he in.
tends to feed this winter.
Mr.. Pears has built fine barn
and large corn crib.
Billy Rankin has given his house
fine coat of paint.
James Tassean is hauling lum-
Der for a large barn.
OF Roth has rented far m from
Rem Shearer and will move to it in
the spring.
Tom and John Clifton of Mil
faid, ILL.,, we're on the Lea. These
gentlemen were looking over the
Maxwell farm with the intention
of buying the same. Messrs. Cliff
ton are good farmers and stock
men.
Our Road Boss has been at
work repairing culyerts and filling
mud holes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
Trustees Sale.

Whereas, James d. Frasier (whO has
been dead more than nine months) and
Annie b. Frasier, his wife, by their GER
tain deed of trust dated April 12th, 1902,
and recorded in Book "a, page 1872 of
the deed records of Audrain county, Mis-
souri,, conveyed to J. G. Lalienan, under
signed trustee, the following described
real estate: Lots ten 1O) and eleven az
in block six (6), County Addition to Next
co, Missourl which said conveyance was
made in trust to secure the payment of a
promissory note therein mentioned and
described; and whereas default has been
made in the payment of said note and in
terest now therefore in accordance with
the powers conferred upon me in and by
said deed of trust and at the request of
the legal owner and holder of said note
l, the undersigned trustee, will expose for
sale andwill sell the real estate above de-
scrlbed at public sale to the highest bid
der for cash in hand on
Friday, November 70, 1908,
between the hours of nine o'clock In
the forenoon and five o'clock in the after
noon of said day at the east
front door of the Court House
in the city of Mexico, county of Audrain
and state of Missouri, for the purpose of
satisfying the debt and interest evidenced
by said note and the costs and expenses
of sale.
]. G. LAKENAN,
Trustee.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Kelly Quisenberry has moved
his saw mill into this vicinity and
expects to remain here all winter.
Miss Anna Hopkins dismissed
her school Wednesday to attend
the teachers institute.
Quite a number from here will
attend the protracted meeting at
the Christian church in Mexico.
Miss Sallie Andrews of near
vandalia was the guest Of her sis
ter, Mrs. John hampton, last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. billiard Wis
tied the family of Mrs. John
Smith, near Worcester last
Tuesday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
POWELL FORD.

Bro.A. w. Kokendoffer preached
to large audience at Sun Rise
last Sunday afternoon, We hope
he will come again.
Robert billiard and family visit
ed relatives near Benton City last
week.
M. N. Powell and sister, Ida,
were the guests of A. w. PowelPs
near Skinner last Saturday night
and Sunday. They found their
uncle, Mr.. A. w, Powell. badly
hurt from falling from high
corn pen, but was c0nvalesceHt.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

legislature passed the enactment.
To prevent the adoption of the
law cutting down his fees, Mr..
Speed confessed to the circuit at
torney, Joseph Folk, that he paid
Senator w. F. Lyons of Kansas
City a bribe of $SOO.Mr Speed was
succeeded by Judge Tracy and sub.
sequently Mr.. Flynn was appoint
ed.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
After Excess OH Fees.

st. Louis, Oct.26. W. Flynn,
oil inspector, and his predecessors,
Judge Daniel O'Connel Tracy and
R. B. Speed, of Nevada, are to be
summoned before the graud jury
this week to explain why they
have failed to turn into the state
treasury the excess fees which
they have collected above the reg
ular amount allowed by the statute
governing the conduct and man
agemeut OF the office. The law
provides that the coal oil inspec-
tor shall be allowed fees not to ex-
coed 81 1000 a year and sums in
excess thereof shall be RENTED to
the state treasurer.
In interpreting this law, passed
by the legislature in 1899, TO be
unconstitutional, the inspectors
mentioned retained surplus fees
amounting to $24,2Ol Mr..
Speed was the incumbent when the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

A Worlds Fair Information
Bureau has been established at the
Union Station in Mexico, in charge
of /. NJ. Richards, where infOrma-
ton will be cheerfully furnished.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

The MESSAGE completes its fourth
volume this week. Beginning next
week the paper will be changed
somewhat in form and will be en-
larged. The MESSAGE is getting
on "the sure foundation" and is
more prosperous than at any time
in its history.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
For Pictures of Scenes il
This County.

Have you a good photograph of
fine scenery, beautiful farm home,
notable live stock, anything in
short that will be conspicuously
representative Of this county as
different from other Missouri
counties! If so the Missouri
Worlds Fair Commission may be
able to use it in the $4,000 vol
ume upon the resources of the
State which the Commission will
publish. The official photograph
CT of the Commission, Arnold
Shanklin, will visit this county
taking photographs of school
houses and school children. There
are, however, doubtless other
photographs already in existence,
which show picturesque scenery,
attractive homes or buildings and
other things, taken at favorable
times and under favorable weather
conditions, which the Commission
might be able to include in its de-
scription of this county. Walter
Williams, Supt.of Publication
Administration Bldg, Worlds
FAIR, st. Louis, would be glad tC
receive copies of such photographs
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

A restaurant in Philadelphia al
ternates Scriptural texts with bus
mess epigrams, and the result is
something like this: THE Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away"
Watch your hats and overcoats;
Man shall not live by bread
alone;" Try our hamburger
steak with onions, only 20 cents;
Take no thought for your life,
what We shall eat or what we shall
drink" Welsh rarebit and Lob
ster a la Newburg to order;' The
wind passeth over it, and it is
gone, and the place thereof shall
know it no more;" We positively
cannot be responsible for umbrellas
or personal property"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

DR.. w. E. Cornett has located
in Rush Hill, moved from Wor-
cester. DIR. Cornett is an able
physician and has built mp a fine
practice in that locality of the
county. We wish him increased
s,,,oass
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Yes, it is a fact, Democratic
rascals deserve to be punished just
a little more than Republican ras-
Gals, for Democrats ought to know
better.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

That's pitiful story from st,
Louis of that man James l.. Blair,
lately resigning as an officer in the
Worlds Fair management. He
seems to have gotten away with
thousands of other peoples money
and when the law found him out
he collapsed under a nervous strain
and for several days he has been
at the point of death. True it is,
"be sure your sin will find you
out"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Kratz, the St. Louis fugitive
from justice down in Old Mexico,
lost SIS, 600 few days ago by a
bank failure in Mexico. Kraft
may lose more than a few dollars
before Folk and Uncle Sam gel
thru with him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

The Louisiana Press comments:
Gov. Dockery has put his foot in
it. He tried to throw the blame
of Missouri boodlery on st. Louis
and now his assistant private Sec
rotary and stenOgrapher has been
indicted on ten different counts
for completely in the naturaliza,
ton frauds. There is nothing to
be gained by deception. The
democratic party must accept the
responsibility for legislative cor
ruption in the state and throW
overheard its thieves, tricksters
and scoundrels. If it doesn't dc
so, it will go Overbourd itself.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Under the evidence given, the
verdict by the jury
in the case of the State
against Barnes at Troy last week
gives universal satisfaction to the
people of Audraln county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

There will be a supper given at
DR.. Flynt's i'll Moline for the BEN
eft of Mt. Zion Baptist church
Tuesday night, Nov. Bird.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

Ex-State Senator D. w. Majors
of Pike county will be in the race
for Attorney General next year.
The MESSAGE endorses Mr.. Majors
for we believd him to be capable
and a man whose political morals
are all right; man whom You
could trust in any position.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

G. & A. employees are moving to
Mexico. They are getting houses,
too, as close to the railroad as
possible, so as to be as close to
their work as possible. Railroad
interests are picking up in Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

That was a great speech deliy-
cred by ice Folk at st. Joseph
last Saturday. The gathering was
also a great outpouring of the
true Democracy on that day.
Read Mr.. Folks speech in supple
ment in the MESSAGE this week.
Boys, it's Folk for Governor;
more that way every week. The
movement is like e little leaven
which a woman took and hid in
three measures of meal and il
leavened the whole lump. Even
our neighbor the Mexico Intelli-
gencer shows some good symptoms
this week, an indication that the
editor will jump into theFolk band
wagon as soon as the pressure
grows just a little more.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

The teachers of the county are
with us this week. Welcome, ey-
cry one.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29
oENTRAL LINE

Miss Myrtle Ham and brother
visited the Misses Smock Sunday
Charlie Hudson and family re-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

The Master of the State Grange
of Pennsylvania recently asked
State superintendent Darlington
about the Missouri Idea' of
teaching agriculture in the schools.
He replied in part as follows: !:
Our plan so far has been to use
an official course Of study with ma
ture study running thru it from the
first primary grades eorrelating
this work with geography, Lam
guage and literature, leading the
child gradually to an appreciation
Of It's natural environments and
then in the last year Of the com
mon school course have definite in
structions given in Agriculture and
horticulture, based mainly on the
bulletins issued by our Agricultural
College. The thing kept in mind
from the beginning is that the
child must be put in close touch
aud sympathy with it's natural and
industrial environments.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-10-29

While the Republicans fail to
come to an agreement on financial
legislation Secretary Shaw contin-
ues to relieve an imaginary"
money stringency. Since Sept. l
he has placed $18, 489, 200 of the
public money in circulation. He
has accomplished this by depos'
ting government money in the
national banks to the credit of the
secretary of the treasury and re.
deeming United States bonds be-
fore they are due. Three years
ago Shaw threw it into the face Of
the Democracy that there was ne
money stringency; there were
more signs of it then than now.
The Lamar register., 1903-02-18
ONE PAINTERS HAPPY LIFE.
Mind of William Blake Filled VITA
Lofty Thouuhts.

Mind of William Blake Filled VITA
Lofty Thoughts.
William Blake. the poet and paint
er, whose delicate and mystical work.
both in words and on canvas. was
quite unlike that of any other man.
had singularly happy life. 1t was
full of discouragement and greatly
cramped by poverty. but of this he
seemed to take no account. His mind
was always filled with lofty and beau
tiful thoughts. and this world seemed
TO him but the entrance to a nobler
state of existence.
One day, when he was an old man,
little girl was brought to him. He
looked at her tenderly, stroked her
long curls, and said:
My child, may God make this world
as beautiful to you as it has been to
He had not been well for a long
time before his death. When his old
friend, the artist Flaxman, died, Blake
said:
81 thought l should go first. can
not think of death as more than going
out of one room into another"
little mre than year after that
he died. On the day of his death he
composed and uttered songs in praise
of God. SO sweet that his wife, as she
stood by, was enraptured by them.
MY beloved" he said to her, they
are not mine. No, they are not
mine!"
The Lamar register., 1903-02-18
A NEW DECALOGUE.
Ten New Commandments That Are
Plain and Practical.

A new ten commandments, which
the people of Reggie in northern Italy
have lately adopted is of wide inter
est. This new decalogue is not pri.
marily for grownups. but for the chill
dren of the town, and it is expected
that the little folks will, in their
schools. learn the ten rules by heart.
Love thy schoolmates, for they will
be thy co-workers for life.
Lows knowledge, the bread of intel
lect. Cherish the same gratitude to-
er and mother.
Make every day thou livest the oc-
casion for some good and beneficial
deed; always sow the seeds of kind
ness.
Honor good men and true women,
esteem all men as equals, bend thy
knee to no one.
Do not bear hatred to anybody:
don't insult people. The word revenge
shall not be in thy vocabulary, but
stand up for thy rights and resist op-
preston.
Don't be a coward; stand by the
weak and respect and love justice.
Remember that all goods of this
world are the products of labor. Who
ever takes the good things of this
world without giving their equivalent
in labor robs the Giligent Of their just
dues.
Exercise thy mind observe and
think and try to ascertain the truth
Of all things. Believe in nothing mys-
terious, in nothing unreasonable; use
no deception either toward thyself or
others.
Do not assume that to be patriotic
one must hate other nations or glory
in war. War is a relic of barbarism.
Let it be thy purpose in life to
hasten the day when all men. as free
citizens of free state, shall live in
peace and happiness, in true brother
hood.
The Lamar register., 1903-02-18
TEN VERY OLD MAPS
WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS YOUNG
Geography as Shown in the Eieh-
teenth century-Four Old Wagon
Trails Leading Westward-Before
Washington or ST. Louis Existed,

Washington or ST. Louis Existed.
An entertainment of much interest
from the standpoint of the antiquarian
was given recently at the Marquette
school in st. Louis. under the direc-
tion OF Miss Fanny M. Bacon, the
principal, the main feature of which
was the exhibition of ten old maps Of
portions of the American continent
They are the property of Mr.. Sidney
Clemensun of Boston, who secured
them while travelling in Australia from
a French counsel, and were loaned to
Miss Bacon.
Eight of them were made by Pow
NALL who came to America in 1853 as
royal governor to the colonies of Mas.
sachusctts, New Jersey and South Car
olina in succession. He returned to
England in 1861 and obtained seat
in Parliament The last part of his
life was devoted to antiquarian stud
les. These maps were published in
London in 1894.
The other two maps were published
in Paris in 1906. One of the English
maps gives the thirteen original
states: one of the French maps shows
seventeen stars and seventeen states.
None Of the English maps show Wash.
ington or st. Louis. The French map
does. There is no Chicago on either
of the maps. Cahokia and Kaskaskia
are on all of the maps. One of the old
maps gives the United States and
bordering Spanish possessions. gives
the four old paths across the country
upper" middle" lower" and "old
trading path" One shows an old
wagon road. where the railroad now
goes through-Harper's Ferry. The
endless Ia n in pAnnGpIynnia n a
shown, and the mountains in the
southwestern part of the old United
States" in which there is gap for
horses One map shows that Califor-
mia seemed to make old California an
island until finally travelling to the
head of the gulf 1t was discovered that
California could be reached by land
New Albion is shown on one of these
maps and Mexico stretches north
through the present United States"
On another map is marked THE
French ascend the river Missoury thus
high. And the Mississippi unknown"
THE Wabash. or St. Jerome. accord
ing to the French"
Many other interesting relics were
added to the exhibition, one of them
being a copy of the first charter of the
city of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, pub
lished at Kaskaskia. Illinois. in 1912.
1t belonged to the library of the late
General Rozier of that city. A pair
of slippers given by Pierre Laclede
to Miss Vale belongs to the same col
lection. A poem on the capture OF
Fort Kaskaskia in 177S. written by
Capt. St. Gem of Ste. Genevieve. is
now owned by Miss Chauncey Glenn
ent, pupil, who was in charge of the
precious collection. Many of the pu-
pills assisted Miss Bacon in the enter
tainment.-St Louis Globe-Democrat