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Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

COLLIER s WEEKLY is one of the
most popular publications of the day.
1t is up-to-date, neatly printed and
beautifully illustrated. In making
your arrangements FOR reading matter
during 1905 you cannot afford to be
without Golfers Weekly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

In accordance with the custom, Mex
leo Lodge No. s2e B. p. o. E will hold
memorial services at their hall Sum
day, Dec. 4, at $50 p. m. An appro-
pirate programme has been arranged
and the services will be impressive.
All Elks should attend and bring their
frfanAa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
Farm For Sale.

Eighty acres, 3 miles from Mexico,
good improvements. This farm must
be sold, and In order to do IL quick,
the owner offers to take 5000 for 1t,
300 or more down, balance on time.
W. HARDIN RIxEY,
dItwit. Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
How Presidents Safety Was Guarded.

Track patrolmen, o for each mile
|-Ila1.
Police details at Baltimore, Harris
burg, Plttsburg. Columbus and st.
L0uis-550.
Grew on presidential train-l5.
Crew on pilot train.
Secret service men on presidential
train-l2.
Extra men held 10 reserve by all
division engineers on the route-T5.
Extra engineers, fire men, trainmen,
telegraphers, yardmasters and switch
men-15.
Total number OF men On president
ial ~dutY-1923.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
Washers" Take Notice.

Speaking Of a very undesirable lot
OF characters Of which there are
several in this city, the MoberiY Demo-
crat says: wabash detective are on
the close look out for "mashers" OF
both sexes that hang about the depots
and after notifying such people that
their absence from the station would
be appreciated, will make arrests II
their hint is not taken.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

QUITE 9 number of weekly news.
paper throughout the west are In
creasing their subscription price per
year from , dollar TO 3 dollar and fifty
cents in the county where they are
published, and two dollars outside of
their home county. lie the eastern
states there are very few country
weekly papers published for less than
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
powell 3, Mundy. the well known

Powell & Mundy, the well known
shippers from Audrain county, MO-,
had 20 steers on Monday smarket tnat
averaged 1853 lbs and sold at s4-oo per
cwt.
Among the Audrain county, MO-,
patrons who had cattle here MONDAY
were Homer Mundy, W. B. Lewellen
and Powell g. Mundy, each having IN
a onde.car shipment.
j. W. Dowell, a prominent farmer
and feeder CT Audraln county, MO-,
was on Mondays market with load
of good steers OF his own raising ana
feeding, containing Is head averaging
1916 lbs, which sold TO Armour " 70
at 1886, the highest price paid ON TO-
days market. Their conditions to-day
was evidence that Mr.. Dowell under
stands how to get the best results from
his feed, and to get good prices even
when the market Is lower.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
ceives?

THE Martinsburg Enterprise was
damaged seriously by fire Wednesday
morning but will appear as usual next
week. The Enterprise man don't pro-
pose to let a little thing like a fire
bother him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

szo per rear. Country newspaper
men who are business men and meet
their obligations find that ft Is i'm
possible to publish . frst-class weekly
paper for cleo per year and make any
urnfit at all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

]. N. BASKET should be greeted
with a large and appreciatige audi
ence at the NJ. <. Church, South, to-
morrow night, when be lectures on
"The Lewis & Clarke Expedition for
the benefit of the organ fund of the
church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

Three hundred and sixty acres, In
Montgomery county, Mo-, all In tim
Der, we'll fenced. Timber will more
than pay for land. Price s12. so per
acre. l have cheaper land If wanted.
w. HARDIN RIxEY,
dItwIt. Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

One hundred acres, eight miles from
Mexico, Nc. Good 4-room house, barn
and outbuIldings. every acre can be
cultivated, no timber, 90 acres now In
corn, balance In grass. Price 80 per
acre. Terms b suit.
W. HARDIN RIxEY,
dItwIL Mexico, No.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

THE Offices of Coal Oil Inspector and
Excise Commissioner OF st. Louis
Should be put on a salary. Why
should these Offices pay five or 81,
times as much as a Supreme Judge re
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

LETTERS to Santa Claus will appear
In the evening LEDGER as usual. Be-
ginning about the middle OF Deem
Der the little friends OF the LEDGER
can reach Santa by way of this Office
all right and will get what they ask
for or something will be doing 10 Ice
n--
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

THE Martinsbarg Enterprise is four
years old and with each additional is
sue its pages assume a brighter look,
The Enterprise fully justifies its name
full OF hustle and hustle for welfare OF
the community il represents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

ST.. LOUIS is to have a permanent
pike" II the shows are kept clean 1t
will pay all right and prove a good
thing for St. Louis. Coney Island has
a "dream land which draws large
crowds from the best classes of people.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

WILLARD PoTTs knows the value OF
Mexico dirt and has bought ten thous-
and dollars worth of Mexico residence
property from Joseph Inflow, This
will prove a fine Investment.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

Mrs. Burchard, Of Martinsburg, Is
the guest Of her daughter, Mrs. Lon
Stevens, West Liberty Street. Mrs.
Burchard Is en- route to Waco, Texas,
where she will spend the winter with
relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

On January second the people Of
Mexico will vote on granting a gas
franchise. In the meantime the voters
should inform themselves SC as to vote
intelligently.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

THE wesgh-master can now watch
the teams in the hitching o tand there
win be no more complaints Of stealing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
Vacant Lots

/ have some fine lots for sale In
waddiagham Park. Call and get pfi-
ces. W. HARDIN RIxET.
dItsIt. Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

THE Ringo alley Is being paved
with brick. Every alley in the bust
ness part OF the city should be paved.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
Farm For Sale.

One hundred and sixty acres, three
miles from good railroad station near
| Mexico; we'll improved. Price $4,000
per acre. w. HARDIN RIxEY.
dltwlt. Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

About 50 head good quality and
only In medium flesh. Just right TO
make . good gain.
dI-wI Pollock & MUIR.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
FROM FULTON TELEGRAPH.

Samuel Craghead, Of Audrain coun-
ty, who purchased 100 head OF steers
T. p. Harrison, fed and sold to JACK
and Howard Muir, weighed them Mon
day, expecting to get cars to ship, but
falling to do SO will hold them until
Sunday. The cattle averaged l,4e7
pounds, and were sold to MI. Craghead
at an advance of 20 cents on the hun
dredweight, amounting to about $500
on the deal.
r.. @. Dunlap and bis brother. O. 5.
Dunlap, who are fattening q load Of
mules on their Richland farms, are
using COW peas as a main ration and
are loud In their praise of the effic-
acy OF the legume. They say as well
as making flesh, the peas put a gloss
on the hair that is a great advantage,
The brothers raised 20 acres Of COW
peas this year that yielded about II
tons to the acre, and are about the
first feeders In the Kingdom to try the
~fattening properties of the COW pea in
the mule pen.
Two-and-a.quarter a barrel seems to
be the ruling figure on new corn.
Jacob Maddox and son, Irwin Mad
dox, east of McCredie, sold a bunch Of
"a yearllng mules to R. r BuckneF, Of
Mexico, last week, the price paid be-
log s125 around. They vel of the
well known Maddox brand and were a
couple of dozen Of the best young
mules In the state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

Try Standard Poultry Food and no.
tice the increase In eggs
H. L. MILLER & Son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

A complete line Of modern heating
stoves. vi FERRIS & oAUTHoKE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

County Collector Alb Harrison Is
able to be out after an Illness,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

WANTED - At once, experienced
poultry dressers. Apply TO the Mexico
Poultry Co, Mexico, Mo. 3l36,38-1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND WIDOWS M
JUDKINs, F. o. JUpkINs, Epv,vnn
aE1T. CHARLES R~oLLISos ASn rv,s'
RAWLINGS, DECEASED. pa,..s'
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

Az least five thousand dollars should
be spent on the county jail al once.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
FROM R LEADER.

I'D Smith & Son bought mule colts
from the following parties: 4 colts
from o. Thornberg for $40; 4 from
VIM. Edwards for $500; 2 from VIM.
Hardin for sI00; 1 from James Hen
bricks for $50; / from Jas. Carson for
s35; 4 from II. @. Lyon for s2l0; 2 from
John finder for sS5.
Sebastian Bros, Of Columbia, sold a
fine all.purpose horse to Ben Muir, OF
Fulton, last week for $500.
FROM lHatton Cor FULTON SUN.
The handsome fourteen-room dwell
ing of Baxter Guthrie, which is being
constructed under the supervision Of
Messrs. John Toddie, Hugh Co%ttrell,
Mac Gamble and Ernest Jesse Is near
Ing completion.
Only a few Of the farmers have be-
gun gathering corn. The yield Is re-
ported comparatively light. With
drouth, light crop and another Repub-
lican administration, what is to be-
come Of the country?
FROM FULTON SUN.
The NC. Lawrence farm of 80 acres,
in north Galloway neal the Audrain
line, has been sold to 7. s. Honaker,
of Virginia, for %, $50.
Irwin Holman bought a mule colt
from ]. Shan Brown, of Audrain coun-
ty, at 500, and one from NJ. II. Patter-
son at 500.
Shan Brown, OF southern Audrain
county, bought 20 head OF 10l2-pound
steers from L. Y. Petty at $3.50 per
head. Mr. Brown expects 10 put the
cattle on feed at once.
Taylor Arnold, one Of the promi-
nent stock men Of East Galloway, lost
five jacks last week from their eating
wormy corn. Three more are III from
the same trouble.
/. W. Holman, north Of Hatton, sold
a pair OF horse mules to Alfred Barnes
Of Mexico, for q consideration Of s5l2.-
50.
FROM LIVE STOCK REroRrER.
j. r. johnson was an Audrain coun-
ty. No stockman who had cattle on
Wednesdays Market including Is
Of IIes ID average that brought
s4.05.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

The gates opening to the NJ. l
wood Springs Pike have bson ~" ~
for the season of l9O4-beatlDs ~" 4
great Worlds Fair just three h, \
Reuben Dill says au reyoir, bn ~ \
good bye. The year 1904 will l ous \ \
remembered-by the oldestipbshI,,' !
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

s J, "Tony'' Buckner is much 4,
ter and will be out in a few davs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
ORDER OF PUBLIoATIo,
A OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF AUDRAIN.

In the Circuit Court. January Term =,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
AuDRAIrs SUPPLY OF coss
Crop Estimated to be Un,Da.
Meet the Local Demapss4Ipielt 4
Five Cents Now tbs psorty.
Price.

TINS years crop of corn in Ana.
county will not be sutlleIent A%udratal
the local demand. Cattle ~ " Meet
already making arrangement y ~
corn from distant points. 70 shil|
For home corn the buyor,
paying forty.flve cents. This a \, nCsl
vance Of five cents a bnsb. = 40 "a
November Is. '' SlnOe|
Some corn has already been ,,,,..
from Nebraska. Joe C~opsla, u'ppad|
Thompson received a lead from !. 4
state that cost about forty.tbrsa y, 'Ds1
at Thompson. This corn wss Y. csal3
Che best quality and did not pi,s ~ W
faction. s"e atis
Prices furnished by Iowa ,,.-
range about thirty-fve Cent. slOssf!
car which makes the cost ahon, ~ n
five cents laid down here. 'O''l
win Atkinson, DOW on buslD...
Oklahoma, 9i!i probably shin ses
carloads Of corn from that tsr,, ,eseH]
From all Indications the wy,
price Of home corn will be aboDs NV, ~
i've cents Is the corn from a d,.s'a!1
cannot be shipped here for loss 0'apc]
4 WIN IHEr/
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01
raoM LIVE STOCK REroHFER.

]. r. johnson IA al Audrain coun-
ty, Mo. stockman sho had cattle on
Wednesdays MARKET including Is
steers, Of llea ID average that brought
s4l05.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-12-01

w. A. EDMossroN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

use her in the establishment of trading and trapping stations. The little craft made one voyage but on her return, laden with valuable furs, she was run ashore by the crew who thought to appropriate the cargo but who them selves fell victims to the Indians. It was not until a century and a half later that the lake commerce commenced to assume considerable proportions, but with the settlement of the Middle West the growth of the trade became steady and rapid until it has today assumed proportions which astonish the world.
 The men who have built up the lake commerce have created types of marine architecture especially adapted to its needs. Years ago, those strange look ing craft, the whale-back steamers, astonished the mritime world. They proved successful as carriers, although the type is now being abandoned in favor of such high-sided monsters as the steamer Augustus B. wolvin, which holds the record for the largest cargo ever carried on the Great Lakes, 12,2S9 net tons of iron ore having been stored in her capacious holds. The same spirit of enterprise which created the vast fleet of lake shipping was applied to the invention of methods for handling cargoes in the shortest possible time, Ni'h hO" HUI HI IhC WoIlu nave aDDll- ances for loading and discharginR yes- sells been brought to such state of perfection. There are the great ore docks at Duluth from which the ore pours in torrents into the holds of the waiting vessels. There are such means for handling coal as the 100. .O0O-ton storage plant at West Superior. Wis consin, where the coal is piled in hills many feet in height and then taken to the vessels by automatic conveyers. Of more familiar type of commercial utility are the huge grain elevators. Private enterprise created ships and port facilities. but the monster vessels would not have been possible and the giant loading appliances would have been unnecessary had not the govern ment lent its assistance by the con struction of costly public works such as the canal at Sault Ste. Marie.
 As result of these modern methods of vessel construction and freight handling the cost of transportation has been reduced until to carry A bushel of wheat 1000 miles costs but a cent and a half. At the same time wages have been kept up to the Ameri- can standard. Foreign vessels would share in the facilities for doing the business. and they would bring the American ships into competition with a greatly lower scale of wages and stan dard of living.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
BIG BOTTLE FREE.

Write a letter and we will send you the first dollars worth of Feminala free. You won't have to pay one cent for the big bottle, and to show you that we mean just that, we will send you an order on your druggist for one big dollar bottle of Feminala. The druggist will take 1t from his fresh stock and give 1t to you at no cost to you. We will pay the druggist Send no money-just write for a big bottle free Feminala cures women of those diseases peculiar to their sex. Femin- ala brings back the joys and pleasures of life to the sick and oppressed wo- men. Feminala sends the blood bound ing through the veins and gives yo1 the vim. the brace. the bounce of real life. Your dark circles disappear. You are no longer depressed-ready to cry, hysterical or weak. We prove all this to you free. We say send us no money give the great big bottle a trial. It's free. If you are satisfied, we will be repaid. The regular price of Feminala is, one dollar ($1.00) per bottle. Write to us, write today. write The American Drug Co.,, Box B-310. Montgomery. Ala.
 wk-su.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
The FoundIing's Mother and the Gold
 Digger Marry in British Columbia.

The FoundIing's Mother and the Gold
 Digger Marry in British Columbia. London Mall.
 A young woman without money or home abandoned her child on the high road between Scarborough and Whitby in the hope that some kind-hearted per son would befriend the infant. Then the mother in a fit of despair tried to end her life by taking poison.
 That was four months ago. Today she is the happy wife of young set tier in British Columbia.
 The story forms romance in real life. In the first place the abandoned ch,ld--a baby girl aged IS months was found safe and sound and taken to the house of John Leadley of the Town Farm, Cloughton, who tended 1t with the utmost care. From various parts of the country he received be- tween twenty and thirty offers to adopt the child.
 The mother was charged at the Po- lice Court with attempting to take her life, but her pitiful story secured a dis charge.
 While the case was sub tudice MT. Leadley received a letter from young settler in British Columbia who had read of the affair in a paper which one of his friends had sent from England. He asked for full particulars about the woman, and. if the case was genu- inc offered to give her fresh start in life"
 The conditions offered were that money for the outfit and passage for the woman and child would be sent, and that, on arrival in British Colum- bia. if the agreement between the man and woman were mutual, they would be married, and if not. the woman could either remain as housekeeper for her benefactor or a situation in another family would be found her.
 The writer, who inclosed his photo graph, stated that he was gold miner. originally hailing from Nottingham, and give references regarding himself which on inquiry were found highly satisfactory.
 MT. Leadley accomplished his mission of matrimonial agent with the utmost judgment, and eventually all arrange ments were complete, second-class ticket was purchased, and the mother and her infant sailed on July 21, and reached her destination on August 5.
 To give the finishing touch to an affair full of interest and romance the couple fell in love with each other at first sight, and were married by spe- cial license the next day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

cannot be engaged in trade exclusively between American ports, they may col lect cargo in several cities on the American shores of the Lakes and dis charge on the Canadian side or vice versa. In other words, they sail on a foreign voyage, going from one coun- try to another, and trade so conduct ed Is open to any foreign vessels which can reach the Lake and capture share of the business.
 These vessels are small in compari- son with some of the lake carriers, be- ing of about 1000 tons burden, but in the opinion of steamship men they can be operated with profit. Such ships are not adapted to the transpor- tation of iron ore but there Is vast amount of other carrying business on the Lakes. The boats are admirably fitted for the transportation if gram and the immense quantities of miscel- laneous commodities which help swell the total of lake commerce. There are said to be 400 foreign steamers which could be sent here to take hand In the business.
 To the thrifty Swedish vessel owner and the hardy Morse seaman the pros pect of taking 6 hand in the lake trade is alluring. Nowhere in the seven seas is there commerce to be compared to it. From the days when the Phoeni- clans, bound to Britain for cargoes or tin. sailed the Mediterranean, that sea has been one of the greatest of marine highways. but never has its traffic anproached the destiny of that which makes the great American Lakes the most crowded of the worlds water ways.
 When the lake commerce is repre- scented in figures, the quantities seem almost fabulous. In 1905, domestic freiaht receipts at the lake ports were
 nearly 57, 100000 tons. During that wear the freight carried through the Sault Ste Marie canals exceeded 34,- OoO,O ,OoO tons. The magnitude or the commerce on the Great Lakes IS striking tribute to what American en- terprise can accomplish in the creation of a merchant marine when unhampep- ed by ruinous competition.
 The Swedish invasion" has brought the question of American shipping home to the shipowners. shipbuildefs and seamen of Ontario and Erie and Michigan and Superior, who have long fancied themselves secure against for eign attack, while foreign ships have swept the shipowners. shipbuilders and seamen of the coasts out of American trade on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Of all the overseas commerce of the United States. only about nine per cent is now conveyed in Ameri- can vessels. American overseas tun- mage has shrunk from 2,496,000 in 1861 to S79,000 now, and not one new order for a steamship for the foreign trade has been given since June, 1901, to an American shipyard.
 The story of the Lakes to which the of the past season call attention is one of the interesting chap ters of American history. Who were
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

the earliest voyagers on these inland seas is lost in the mists of tradition. In Indian lore are stories of a race of men who came to the Lakes for copper and who preceded the red men as in- habitants of the Middle West. The Indians early navigated the Lakes and sometimes they made long voyages. Over two centuries ago, band of Iro- quois sailed in their canoes from Lake Ontario through Lake Erie to the De- troit River, across Lake St. Clair, and thence through Lake Huron to Point Iroquois where they fell upon the Illinois tribe and were defeated after a six days battle
 Next in series representing the de- veiopment of lake navigation would be a picture of the Jesuit missionary, tra- versing the Lakes to carry his cross and his creed to savage peoples in lands where the foot of the white man had never trod. Next there would come a representation of the hardy voyagers employed by the Hudson Bay Com pany. They have introduced a new method of transportation for in place of the frail birch bark canoe of the In- dian they travel in rude bateaux fash toned from wood cut and sawn upon the shores of the Lakes. The Hudson Bay Company were the pioneers in the work of improving the natural waterways connecting one lake with another, and there are still to be seen at "the Soo" traces of the little canal constructed by the company's men nearly two centur- les and half ago. It was nothing but ditch two and one half feet deep. but, 1t was as important to the lake traffic of it's day as are the great at~iocks through which pass, during the season of navi- gation, the endless procession of the great steamships Of the present.
 To the French belongs the distinction of placing the first sailing vessel upon the Great Lakes. The Chevalier de la Sale built the Griffin at a point near Buffalo in 1879. his purpose being to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04

ergy equal to 1.4ss. .3so-horse power, of which Great Britain figures for only II, ,906-horse power.
 The British Aluminium Company gets 7.oo0-ohrse power from the Falls or Foyers, and 1t expects presently 10 procure 17.000-horse power from Locn Leven. The North Wales Electric Pow CT Company Is about to tap Lake Lly- daw, on Snowdon, and hopes to obtain S,200-horse power for every working day of nine hours. Finally, the Scoscr Water Power Syndicate is s.> peering around in quest of waters that 1t can imprison at lofty levels and so gener- ate electric power. From Loch sioy' 757 feet above Loch Lomond. 1t is get ting $500 o-horse power, and at Ardlui. higher up. 1t proposes to get further energy. Even a modest stream that drops several hundred feet may be source of power.