Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-02
ADJOINING AuDRAIN.

AUJUIItlNG AuuhAIN'
PIKE. Louisiana policy holders
in the big insurance companies
have written State Commissioner
Vandiver proposing II plau of ac-
ton The letter is signed by john
w. Matson, G. O.. Butfun, w z
Stark, +. Bpehm, Jr., and others.
MIR. aud Mrs. SteveA Case, one
80 years young. the other 70, cele-
bruted their golden wedding last
Thursday.
Mrs. George Siekles can drive
nails. She was awarded the prize
at Yager's circus for the woman
who could drive nails the quickest.
Charles Main of Gazette has
moved to Vandalia.
Last week Mrs. John Parsons Of
Hickory Grove was goiug to leave
home for a short time tn visit one
Of her nrichbMrs and fearing a
tramp might enter the house in her
absence she hid her watch and
pocketbook in the yard not far
from the house aud left for her
visit. When she returned the ar
ticles were missing. The next day
one of the neighbors picked up the
pockrtbook in one place and the
watch i'm another. Two hound
pups had found the articles aud
took them to play with.
BooNE.-Hida Hashimoto o (
Toxic, Japan, is a student at the
Columbia Normal Academy.
Mrs. Dee Hurd Gooch, of Cen
tralia, will spend the winter in
Arizona for the benefit Of her
health.
Jim Caldwell of Harrisburg was
gathering corn when his team ran
away with him, throwing him
from the wagon and breaking q
rib and otherwise bruising him
considerably.
HE WAS DRUNK.
The Columbia Herald says:
For throwing a brick through
the window of a moving passengel
coach on the Wabash Saturda!
evening. Omar Myers, of Brown
Station, was fined 500 and cost,
and sentenced to three months in
the county Jail in Judge Stockton
court Tuesday morning.
The car into which the brick wa
thrown was filed with excursion
sists returning from the Missouri
Haskell foot ball game, and a wem
anfrom CarroltOn was struck inth
face. Myers was arrested by Dep
uty Sheriff Wilson Hall a
brought to Columbia Monda.
night. In court he pleaded guilt,
to the charge. alleging that hC
, was drunk at the time,
CALLAwAY.-N. l.. TOwnsent
of Fulton has bought the Davi
Dunlap farm, 230 acres, northeas
of Fulton, paying $4,000.
Miss Matte Belle Pratt af Ful
, ton was operated upon in st
Louis for appendicitis. She is re
gaining her former health.
The salary of the city clerk o
Fulton has been raised from 81
! 10 $50 a month.
q N. l.. Townsend, of Fulton
{ while boarding a moving trai
. missed his footing, and in hOldin
, to the hand-rail on the coach, puI
Q led two fingers cut of joint and il
/ iured the tendons on his left hand
I The accident happened in the Ful
q ton railroad yards, and the injure
n member was not dressed until tn
n train reached Mexico.
PREACHER GETS MARRIED.
S Lexington, KY, Oct. %. -Th
: Reverend Madison Hart Of Fultor
n Mo-, and Miss Nellie Barker {
! Rockland, Me-, were married her
e today at the home of Thomas Go
70 the Reverend Mr.. Hagan Of Gov
t ington officiating
Z The wedding was the culminj
"a ton of a romance begun hel
Il while the Reverend Mr.. Hart WI
W q Bible student. The bride of t
Il day was a dear friend of Mi
! Carey E. GOff, they having BET
' classmates at the Emmerson Co
lege Of 0ratory, and Miss Bark
was visiting her when she met Il
- = Reverend Mr.. Hart,
They have been engaged {
some time, and owing to the gre
distance apart they agreed to me,
t. aud marry at the home of thC
ID mutual friend, Miss Goff. Miss HG