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Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
BAPTISTS ENDORSE.
Resolutions Signed by a Mexico
Preacher and h e Other a
Brother to a Mexico Preacher.

jefferson City, Mo-, July 10
The joint session of the Riverside
and Central Theological Baptist
Institute closed a three day session
at the First Baptist Church in this
city this evening. The meeting
was largely attended 10y leading
Baptist ministers from all parts
of the State.
The life and works of Daniel, In-
Guiding his prophecies, statesman.
ship, dreams and visions, were dis
cussed at length, this being the
leading topic. Doctor j. p.
Green president Of William Jewell
College, was present and deliver
ed an address, as did several lead
ing Baptists.
A reception was given at the
Executive Mansion this evening
from 7 to 8 o'clock in honor of the
visiting ministers by Governor
Folk.
Before the meeting came to a
close h G following resolutions
were proposed and unanimously
adopted:
Resolved That we recognize in
Governor Joseph w. Folk a true
patriot, a loyal citizen and a
Christian gentleman.
"That we are in full aud hearty
sympathy with him in his efforts
to execute the statute laws of the
Commonwealth of Missouri.
"That we can assure him that
the people we represent wish to en-.
courage him to persevere in his
present efforts, and that they will
stand by him to the end.
"That we commend him to all
men in his rightful and legal eff.
forts to suppress all manner of
gambling, law breaking and Sab
bath desecration.
"That we sincerely trust that he
shall be able, by the cooperation
of all good citizens, to establish in
Missouri a higher condition OF
civic thought and action than has
ever existed heretofore.
&c. NJ. TRUEX,
u. S JESSE.
"SECRETARIES. ="
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
Home Seekers Excursion Rates

Via the Chicago & Alton or Wa.
bash r, Il.
On The first aud third Tuesday
of each month, to and including
December, 1905. Home Seekers
excursion tickets will be on sale tC
points in many States and Terri.
tories at rate Of one fare plus s.
for the round trip. Return Limit
2l days from date of sale. Liberal
stopOvers,
l. NJ. RICHARDS. /.
Ticket Agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Curtis and Harrison Field, last
Friday night, in passing Lawder
Bros place discovered the thresh-
ing machine to be on fire. They
rushed to the fire and with a few
buckets of water extinguished it.
But little damage resulted to the
machine but the fire was discover.
ed in time. How the fire originated
is not known.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
LAWSON A FAKE.
Stone No Opinion One Way or The
Other as to Folk.

Wellsville, Mo-, July 19.-Sen.
ator William Joel Stone of MissOu-
ri, in an interview here, paid his
respects to Thomas w. Lawson of
Boston as follows:
"LawsOn is a fake. He is telling
nothing new. We all knew that
the Standard Oil company is a
pernicious trust. Lawson has sim
ply fallen out with Rogers because
he couldn't get something he want.
ed, aud therefore he has turned
states evidence. That's all rot
about Lawson going to tell the
people how TO get their money
back. He can't do it. Yet the
people are hurrahing and waving
their handkcrchiefs at this fellow
who says he has made a million a
day on Wall street and can do it
again"
When asked as to what kind of
a governor, in his opinion, Mr..
Folk was making for Missouri,
the senator said: ri don't want to
discuss that. | must catch my
train"
Senator Stone stated, however,
that he hoped to see the state
Democracy harmonize and organ
i2e for the coming campaign.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

grand success, and that hereafter if
the binder twine trust does any
business within the broad confines
of imperial Missouri, it will do it at
prices which do not constitute rob-
berry.
Bully for Senator Biggs. When
| first wrote of his bill | said was
proud 20 be one of his constituents
and proud to count him among
mine. Of course that pride is in
creased by the success of his meas
ure. He is a plain farmer, but he
will have the satisfaction all his
days of knowing that he accom-
plishcd great benefactiOn for the
farmers of Missouri and set an
example of practical craftsmanship
which more ambitious men would
do well to follow, If the binder
twine trust can be dealt such q
blow as that, why cannot other
trusts be treated in the same wayl
If the Missouri legislature can do
that great good for Missouri, why
cannot every legislature do SINH
lar good for its State! No more
honest or modest or resOlute man
lives than Senator NJ. X. X Biggs,
May his tribe Increase
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
NUMBER 80
Accomplished a Great Benefaction.

Accomplished Great Benefaction.
Congressman Champ Clark, in a
news letter, pays this compliment
to Senator Biggs of Audrain:
Any fact that will encour-
age anybody to accomplish any
thing practical to curb the trusts
should have the widest possible
publicity, for it seems that it will
require the united and persistent
efforts of all who are necced by the
modern monsters to put a bit in
their mouths. In these letters some
two years ago told how one of
my friends, who is one of my con-
stituents and whose constituent I
was, State Senator NJ. II. X.
Biggs, had secured the passage of
a bill through the Missouri legisla-
ture for manufacturing binder
twine in the penitentiary, aud I
pre- dicted that it would prove
success. Many wiseacres, some of
them in high positions, shook their
pates gravely and resisted the bill
tooth and nail, prophesying all
sorts of worry and loss. am hap.
py to announce that at the end of
the first year t has proved
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
Carter Meat Market.

Home dressed meats, corn fe,
beef, Juicy and tender--sprinl
lamb. veal and pork.
F. p. CARTER's MARKET,
Phone 800. Harper Block.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Lloyd Brown, the lS-year-oId
son of Chas. u. Brown, Il promi-
ncnt farmer, moth of Columbia,
died last week of injuries received
from falling under wagon load
ed with oats. The wagon passed
over the body, crushing it badly.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
SSS9S9S3S $SSSSSSSSSSSg
OR EXPECTED TO HAPPEN

Isaac Dyer brought to the Mes
SAGE Office last Saturday a stalk of
buckwheat that measured 6S inches
in height. A lengthy one, don't
yer know. Mr.. Dyer sows n small
field of buckwheat each year for
his bees.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Mrs, Ira Householder of Wanda
liza is again suing her husband, Ed
ward Householder, for divorce. A
suit was brought in the Audrain
Circuit Court last March, but it
was dismissed later, The wife al
legged that her husband was abu-
sive aud cruel and often remained
away from home till near daylight
and o. m nights did not
come home at all, These charges
were eondoned, as limited above,
but now the same charges are
brought in a new suit. Drunken
ness is also charged. Defendant
has be,u keeper Of q billiard hall.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Ernest Fullington. formerly of
Mexico, a fellow claiming to be
operating a feather renovator
at Louisiana, says the Bowling
Green Times, got a bed and two
pillows from Henry Spears and
three beds from Mrs. Stearns of
Vera which he took to Louisiana
and sold, then skipped for Keokuk
Iowa. He was captured in Keo-
kuk aud will be brought to Louis
lana for trial.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

A. &. Sox, near Vandalia,
threshed his wheat recently and
the crop yielded 20 bushels 20 the
acre.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Do not blame your newspaper
man for what happens in the COM
mnnity. If there is anything in the
life of the place you do not want
to go abroad to the world, blame
yourself if it eXiSts-not the paper
for saying something about it. 1t
is the editors duty to make a ty.
biographical photograph of the
town each week and if you take Il
homely picture, don't kick the
instrument. but try to get a better
expression on your face next time.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

The store of j. w. Hines at
Benton City was entered last
Thursday night and over one hnn-
dred dollars worth Of merchandise
was stolen.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

City Engineer E. F. Ketter re-
ports that w. L. Reynolds, on
West Monroe in Mexico, has ex-
tended his property u feet into
the street. On Western avenue,
north side same street, the street
is but AZ feet wide where it should
be 60.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

The Laddonia Herald learns that
the Holiness people of Mexico are
to start n paper here soon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

The Modern Woodmen will
have a big picnic at Martinsburg
Tuesday, August Is. II. A. Over
baugh has general management.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Ben Phears, at Laddonla, is the
housemover for all that section of
the county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Rev. Frank Allen of Odessa
preached at the Mexico Christian
Church last Sunday morning and
also preached the sesmon at the
union service in Hardin Park in
the evening.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bellamy at
Laddonia will move to st. Charles
next month. Mr.. BelIamy is a
blacksmith and wOodworkman of
splendid ability.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

The Mexico Episcopal church
building is receiving substantial
repairs.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Chicken raisers at Vandalia al
low their chickens to run riot and
despoil their neighh0rs' gardens
and fruit. The Vandalia Mail
speaks of the subject in the fol-
lowing words: The law makes
fowls running at large wild
game" 1t has always been a par
ticnlar sport in Missouri to slay
Wild game, 81 this law opens the
way to a high old time among the
sports. And then, you know, one
does not need a license to hunt on
his own ranch. Another $1.15
saved. Seriously, people who
find pleasure and profit in raising
fowls should devise some means
10 keep them within bounds. We
are touching tender subj 9ct, It's
true, hut does it seem Just for
those who do not care IT, raise
chickens land thunder) to becom
PEELED to build chicken fence
around their premises for the ben.
eft of those who do. If you ex,
pect TO make a chicken ranch Lut
Of a lot 60xl20 feet, do the manly
thing and fence your fowls 10, OF
else do like the editors family
have done cut off all the fowls
oe- nails, close behind the ears, Ii
saves trouble and friends.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

1t is reported that w. P. Hall,
proprietor of the circus that re-
Gently showed in Mexico, was shot
and killed a few days ago at Rich
mond, Ind, in a difficulty with
one of the men in charge of a side
show.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Ben McVey is learning telegra-
ply at Laddonia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

II. L. Miller, the groceryman,
grabbed the bits of a horse which
was scared at an automobile and
the horse threw HIN to the ground
and fell on him. Mr.. Miller was
badly bruised and has been con.
fined to his room for several days,
but is recovering all right. The
horse was .hitched to a runabout
occupied by Mrs. Mord Fox who
stopped at Mr.. Miller's store to
make some purchases.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27
Notice Of Final Settlement

Notice is hereby given that Final Set
tlcmcnt Of the estate of Marlilcs Bybcc,
PrccaScd, will be made at the August
term Of the Probate court Of Audrain
county, state OF Missouri, u be held at
Mexico, Mo-, on the second Monday i'm
August, 1905.
NOBLE BARNES,
Administrator.
First insertion June 20, 1906,
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Algy-Haw, haw! The fellah mis-
took me for wax image and kicked
me to see If l was alive. Haw, haw!
Good joke. Then when he saw l was
alive he kicked me again because he
was SO mad. Served him right for be.
ing such donkey, I s0y.-PhIadel-
phia Bulletin.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Thomas Hook and family of
Mexico arrived home last week
from an extended visit to DR.. j..
w. Cox and family at johnson
City, East Tennessee. DR.. Cox
formerly practiced medicine at
Laddonia, this county. He is a
brother of Mrs. Hook.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

South Jefferson in Mexico is to
be paved from the railroad cross
ing to Hardin College, and the City
Council has let the contract for
the work to Dave Owen at 81 Az
per square yard and 40 0cents per
lneal foot for the curbing. The
Mexico Fire Brick Co. will furnish
the brick. They will be the vitri-
fed quality and over 100000 will
be used for the work.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

S. G. Bybee, well known in Au-
drain county, now railroad ticket
agent at Garnett, Kansas, has
bought Ethe roller mills at that
place for So, 500, for which he paid
the cash. Shelf farmed the old
homestead near Molino in 1898,
taking up telegraphy that summer,
and by diligent application and
frugal habits is rapidly climbing
the ladder to success. We rejoice
with him and congratulate him.
Mrs. Sarah Watts, aged IS
years, died at her home, near Un-
ion Chapel, last Thursday. Rev.
James Bradley of Mexico preach
ed the funeral Friday. Mrs.
Watts was the widow of the late
j. S. Watts. She was II splendid
Christian woman and a member of
the Christian church. The fol.
lowing children survive her: Mrs.
Susie Winant, Mrs. Frank Muir
and Mrs. Matilda Harlow, all of
this county; Mrs. Hodges and
John W, Watts, of Montana, and
Mrs. Sallie Jes sc of St. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-27

Laddonia has n colorel man
who is called the "best worker in
town" He's a "Brick." The
Herald thus speaks of him: 1t is
generally conceded by all that
know him, that the colored man,
Brick Fountain, is the best work
er IN town. This is saying a good
deal for we have some good work
ers. Brick only has one arm, his
left arm is of at the shoulder. He
lays most of the brick walks, puts
down granitOid walks, stacks hay,
mows grass, attends to elevators,
shovels grail, builds fences and
any general work. lie has good
ideas how to construct his work
and manages we'll.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
More Perilous Than War

If one compares the strength of the
corps of a few thousand clerks with
the $4,000 men in the regular army
we will lind that the percentage Of
fatalities in railway mail service is
much higher than in active army duty.
It is probable, too, that disease takes
Off a greater number of railway clerks
in proportion than it does soldiers.
This includes the army in the Philip
pines. where there is always more or
less trouble. 1t does not include the
three army officers killed, but they
would still not change the fact that
mail clerk service is more dangerous
than active life as soldier of Uncle
Sam.
Ii "peace hath her victories no less
renowned than those Of war" she also
has her dangers no less numerous.
Has any congressman thought of pen
siGnin:; MANNED and disabled mail
clerks or the widows and orphans they
leave? Probably he has, but if we
remember rightly it has not been doae.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
! Dos Fooled Ca t

Small and slim, he finally succeeded
in making his way inside the subter-
ranean chamber. Witnesses of his at
tack Of Dolphin stood in front of the
inclosure for half an hour waiting for
him to reappcar. but he did not come
out of the burrow
They were surprised soon afterward
to see Dolphin poke his head cautious
~ out of burrow which evidently led
to another passage connecting with
the underground chamber into which
he had lurod the cat. After surveying
the village with keen eyes. Dolphin
came out of the burrow and in re.
sporse to his sharp barks other prairie
dogs left their homes to come to the
surface.
While they were perchcd on knolls
late in the afternoon faint cries issued
from the entrance Of the burrow which
Green Eyes had entered. They wero
followed by the appearance of his head
and then of his body as he squeezed
out of tho burrow. His body was coy-
cred with dirt. and he had evidently
been compelled to dig his way out OF
his prison. Without making an at
tempt 10 attack the prairie dogs, he
hurried from TIC village.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20

tied fer rounded objects. This is
shown by the fact that, as rule. only
articles OF one kind are found in one
stomach, although seals Go not dis
criminate between fragments of bar.
nacles and fragments of gastropods.
Moreover. pebbles CT serpentine
and chalccdony are now and then
found on the hauling grounds, under
conditions indicating that they were
brought there by the seals. while the
pup seen gathering pebbles on LUX
amin did SO with great care, by no
means taking the first that came to
hand. The most striking example of
this discriminative selection is, per-
hars, shown by the pup which had
swallowed a buckshot while the
chance of finding such thing must
be at a guess about one in a million
Furthermore, it may be said that
as the fur seal regurgitates bones and
other indigestible things, the supply
Of stones must be renewed from time
TO time. That there is any connection
between the presence OF stones and
tie presence OF a giZzard does not fol-
lr.,, -
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
Defied the Goddess Pele

Queen Kapiolani, noble looking
chicftainess Of the island OF Hawaii,
was one of the first converts to Chris
tiaEity. She was over six feet tall
4 magnificent specimen of Hawaiian
womanhood. with the naughty air of
the ancient nobility"
She had immense power over her
fellow countrymen and resolved on be-
coming a Christian, if possible, to
break the hold of grinding and de-
grading superstitions which had long
enslaved them. She knew that in no
other way could she do this SO well as
by defying Pele. the goddess OF the
awful volcano of kilauea. who had her
abode in the very crater itself.
Her approach and her defiance were
most dramatic, for she wished TO inn
press her awe-strickcn subjects with
the powerlessness of Pele and the ON
:lipotence OF the true God. Slowly and
in state she made her way up the
nlountainside. while the people, trem-
bling and frightened by her audacity.
followed at a distance. The priestess
OF Pele warned her away. but she kept
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20

on. undaunted. On the edge OF the
crater shelter had been built, where
she passed the night, within sight and
smell Of the seething, boiling hell Of
fire.
In the morning she rose, descended
into the crater as far as it was pos
sible to go. and, standing upon the
''black edge" in full view Of the amaz.
ed spectators, who expected every
minute to see her scorched and with
cred by the angry goddess, she delib-
erately ate a bunch of ohelo berries.
which, as sacred to the goddess. no
one had hitherto dared to touch, and
Hung the stones into the awful fiery
Take as she cried out: "Thus do
defy .hec. o Pole! Jehovah is my
Col He kindles these fires and he
preserves me in breaking your tabus."
The:f by herself and few Christ
ian followers. n hymn of praise was
sung a 5rayer. offered to the true Cod,
and the dread power of the Goddess
Pele. and with her that Of many lesser
hea,hcn divinities. was shattered for
ever.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
G. hestnuts a Good Food

terials are lost. In the cooking of
both the chestnut and the potato by
baking the effect is much the same as
hy boiling: the natural water OF the
nut and of the tuber is partly expelled
as steam which swells or cooks the
starchy particles.
ChCstnuts lose but little OF their nu
tritivc constituents when boiled. but
they are best baked or roasted. as d.
ctetically also is the potato. 1t is a
pity that the chestnut is not appreci-
atcd in this country as it is in France.
where the peasantry find it very
sustaining and agreeable food. There
are enormous quantities of food in
the shape of chestnuts wasted in this
country and yet it is a particularly
economical form of food. for a given
area of ground. it is stated. produces
the maximum amount of food possible
when it is planted with chestnut trees
And SO the man with the chestnuts on
his red-hot tea tray conveys lesson
which might be taken more seriously
than it is
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
MIGHT HAVE SAVED
A Lot o; Tro1n,e From Too MucI
Sta;chy Food

A Lot o; Troaa'e From Too MucI,
Sta:chy Food.
A little boy Of eight years whose
parents did not feed him ON the right
Kind OF food. was always nervous and
suffered from q weak condition of the
stomach and bowls. Finally he was
,at,ca down with appendicitis and
eficv the operation tho doctor, know
ins that his intestinal digestion was
yery weak. put him on Grape.Nuts
twice a day.
He rapidly recovered and about two
mouths thereafter his father states
lie has grown to be strong, muscu.
lar, and sleeps soUndIy, weighs G.
p,,"ads. and his whole system is in a
tine condition Of health" Name given
bY Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
1t is plain that if he had been pu,
on Grape-Nuts at an earlier period in
his life, and kept from the use OF
foods that he could not digest. he new
er would have had appendicitis. Tha,
disease is caused by undigested food
decaying in the stomach and bowels
causing irritation and making for the
growth of all kinds of microbes, set
ting up diseased condition which il
the active cause Of appendicitis, and
this is more marked with people who
do not properly digest white bread.
Grape-Nuts is made Of the selected
parts of wheat and barley and by tht
peculiar processes Of the cooking Al
the factory all of the starch. is turned
into sugar ready for Immediate diges
ton and the more perfect nourish
fnent of all parts Of the body, particu
tar,y the brain and nerve centers.
Read the little book, ''Tho Road t.
'Wellyillo." found in each pkg.
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20

The chestnut contains less water,
more proteid, more starch. more fat.
but less mineral water than the po-
tato. The chestnut is, in fact, more
nutritious than the potato, says the
London Lancet, not because it con
tains different constituents, but be-
cause weight for weight it contains a
greater proportion OF them. The de-
ficiency in fat is made up in the po-
tato by pat of butter; in the chest
nut there is already an important pro-
portion of fat. The chestnut. however,
is the most digestible Of nuts. be-
cause it does not contain an excess
of fat.
Most nuts contain between so and
60 per cent OF fat Both the chestnut
and the potato provide nutritive
meal. rich in heat and enerSy-SivinS
material, and the starch in them is
peculiarly easy of digestion. For rca-
sons already given. the chestnut is
electrically superior to the potato, es-
pccally if the latter he boiled. as in
the process some of the nutrient ma
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20
Curious Habit Of Seals

r. A. Lucas Of tho Brooklyn Insti
tute museum, writing to Science or
the swallowing of stores by seals
says: $50 far as am aware. no salts
factory reason has been advanced TO,
the swallowing of stones by seals, and
this statement may probably be ex
tended to other animals.
"They are not taken in for ballast
Cor the empty seals keep down as cas-.
lily as the others: they arc not swal.
lowed for the purpose Of grinding up
food, for they occur in the stomachs
of nursing pups; they are not to al
lay the irritation caused by parasitic
worms, since the two are by no means
found together: they are ret taken in
with food, not merely because they
are found in the stomachs of young
seals. but in those adults that have
fed on squid caught in the open sea.
On page 6S volume Ill.,, Report of Fur
Seal Investigation it says:
SO 1T is evident that these things are
rot swallowed haphazard, but arc Sc
lected with considerable care from
among the articles sirewn along the
shore. and that a preference is eNhib-
The Bowbells tribune., 1905-01-20

Probably. few Americans realize
that the man in the United States rail-
way mail service is far more likely to
lose his life than the soldier in Uncle
Sans regular army. Cold figures
which have appeared in two official re-
ports of the government prove abso-
lutely' that he is.
Within the year ending June 80 last
only twenty-four OF Uncle Sans SOL
diers, in all the $4,000 on regular or
detached duty. were killed in action.
Twenty-one men were killed on duty
in the railway mail service during that
time. There were only four additional
soldiers wounded so severely that they
died or were obliged to leave the serv-
ice on account of these wounds. In
the railway mail service ninety men
were seriously hurt while on duty, be-
sides the twcnty-onc men killed. TO
make the showing still more surpris-
ing. 37S mail clerks were injured more
or less seye! ely.