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Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
SIN AT FARBER
But The Community as Good as the
Average Anywhere.

The Farber Forum published
the following letter last week;
Laddonia, Mo-, Oct. 81, 1905.
EDITOR FORUM,
Dear Sir;-I write you concern
ing a rumor which has justly dis
pleased many people of your little
town. A good man of your com
munity has written me that it is
reported there that l stated from
the pulpit at New Providence Sun
day that If there was a Christian
at Farber l failed to find one." In
the first place, the rumOr is a fab
rication of the rankest sort, for l
never even intimated a thing from
a distant pulpit that would injure
those Of whom l spoke. In the
second place, l would like to know
if Christian people think / conduc-
ted myself or spoke while in your
town during the recent meeting in
such a way as to make yOu1think
/ was a two-faced mani If / had
thought what l understand is said
that / told at New Providence,
would have said it in Farber. and
not at New Providence. AS &
matter Of fact l found sin al
Farber, as / find it everywhere ]
don't propose to hold up any fin
ite beings as tin gods before th'
world. nor do l make it my prae
tice to talk sweet to peoples face
and tell their faults at their backs
Farber has, in my opinion, goot
people in her churches, and / wa
never better treated than by soml
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
FROM CALIFORNIA.
Miss Iva Lee Lott Writes The Mes
sage an Interesting Letter.
Holtville, Cali. o ct. 20, 1905.

H0ltVllle, Call. y et,29, l9U5.
EDITOR MEssAeE:--
We reached the land of flow
ers" the 10th ult., and are very
much pleased with the surround
ings, but we missed our paper, The
MESSAGE, so much. 1t would be
like a message from home sure
enoughl We have not received a
copy of it since leaving Audrdin.
We asked u friend to have it
changed, but suppose be has neg
lected it, so please forward our
paper to the above address. We
enjoyed the trip so much, aud
came in contact with many Mis-
sourians. We had only one change
to make in the night and that was
at Imperial, fifteen miles from our
destination. The hotels in Holt
vile and Imperial are as fine or
finer than the best hotels in the
cities in Missouri, and these little
towns are in their infancy, being
only three or four years old. A
Missouri mau, Mr.. liams, was the
first we met when we reached Holt
vile, our banker and the president
of one of the water companies are
Missourians. We find the coun-
try made up mostly of Missourians,
so of course we are among good
people. We reached Holtville
about ten a. IN. the 18th and
rented a poultry ranch that eve
and moved to our new home the
next morn. Papa went to work
on a building the next morning
at FIVE dollars day aud the boys
with a machine at four dollars a
day with their teams. l procured
a job of bookkeeping and went to
work the next Monday at fifty dol
lars a month, aud l board at home.
The town is building very rapid
ly and they have planted park
of four acres in palms and pepper
trees, which will be a fascinatin G
spot when the tr e s are
grown. Everything most grows
we'll here, and we are planting and
harvesting the year around. There
is some beautiful scenery here,
among it the mountains, with the
Phantom Ship and other shapes it
takes from the effects Of the my
riads. The Colorado River is near
also Mosquito Lake. Society is
good here, and we have preaching
every Sunday at each Of the thret
churches aud Christian EndeayOr
also We And the people very so
eiable.
Cantelope raising is going to b,
the main business of the people
t this coming year, and we are tt
have a packing house for them
and they are building a powel
house.
We are very much pleased will
the country but still think Missour
is alright, especially the people, AM
they have to show us here. HopinI
2 to soon receive the MESSAGE / viii
close, with best wishes.
Yours truly,
. IVA LEE LOTT.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
A Solid Citizen.

DR.. w. F. Taylor has opened
mp office rooms over the 80 Cent
Store. DR.. Taylor recently moved
here from Columbia. He was
formerly located at Martinsburg
aud is well known to most of our
citizens. The Message is glad to
welcome him and his family to
Mexico, Message.
Mexico has thereby gained a val
liable citizen. DR.. Taylor is an
able physician and a splendid gen.
tleman in every sense. The Mail
heartily recommends him and his
excellent family to the people of
Mexico. .-Vaudalia Mail.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
ADJOINING AUDRAIN.

PIKE.-Theodore Quaite fell from
a ledge of rock thirty feet. He was
badly injured but not Qu(a)ite
killed.
Attorney E. T. Gooch, al
Louisiana, saw a would-be chicken
thief prowliug around his chicken
house IL o'clock at night. Gooch
fired his double barrel shotgun al
the prowler aud the prowler jump
ed the fence aud took down the
street at the rate of 40 miles an
hour.
The Louisiana aud Troy foot
ball teams played each other the
other day, Louisiana scorning IL
to Troy 6. The Press says the
fun was marred by too much fus-
continuous disputes and
contentious between some Of the
players and number of the spec
tators."
At the session Of the Women's
Clubs held at Paris, Mo-, last
week, Mrs. w. g. TinsIey of
Louisiana was elected secretary,
A Louisiana school boy told his
teacher that the equator is u men
agerie lion running around the
center of the earth. And another
SAID that a vacuum is nothing shut
up in a box.
The Louisiana Press copies an
article from the MESSAGE in refer
ence to that Fisher estate in Ger
many in which Mrs. j. b. Haw-
kins of Mexico has a share. The
Press heads the article in these
words: The Fisher estate. Ameri-
can heirs are still fishing for their
share"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
Farm Insurance.

All who want Fire and Light
ming and Tornado insurance should
come to see mel can write you in
the Phenix of Brooklyn, the great
farm insurance company, on most
reasonable terms.
JOHN w. HOWELL.
at Agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Of her people. wish all the best
that God has in store for them and
that your people will forgive me if
! have wronged them in any way
or failed to appreciate their many
kiudncsscs.
Yours sincerely,
w. G. RUSSELL.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

There have been about a dozen
eases Of typhoid fever among the
students Of Hardin College this
fall. Some Of the girls got scared
aud went home. But the sick
ones are all getting well and the
scared ones are returning and
taking up their studies again They
boil their drinking water before
thsy drink it out at Hardin now
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

R. L. Day, Of near Farber, is
out in Washington and California
visiting relatives d looking
around"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Henry Sanuebeck has moved his
family back to Mexico from st.
Charles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

The Middletown Chips says it
snrwed" the other night, but 1t
did not lie on the ground long
enough to be counted. Guess you
can guess what Chips meant to
SMELL.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Miss Alma Keiser Of Mexico has
recovered from her late illness with
typhoid fever and Monday resumed
her duties as teacher in the Lib
erty district. Miss Rhoda Hughes
was Miss Keiser's supply seven
weeks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

j. A. Thomas, near Laddonia'
has bought a 200 acre, farm neal
vaudalia paying $8, 500. He SOLD
his farm near LaddOnia at $50 an
acre. Jim got over that Western
fever and concluded to remain IL
Audrain.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Q. NJ. Berry of near Thompson
is home from visit to relatives
at Balliuger, Texas.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Miss Alberta Porter, daughter OF
Rev. j. j. Porter, formerly OF
Mexico, died at Joplin last week
of typhoid fever.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Louis G. Grady. Of Marc, H.
was here last week looking after
his newly purchased farm, the P
j. Penegar place, near Benton City.
Mr.. Grady will move to the farm
early next spring.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

R. S. Mckinney of Mexico has
been chosen as one of the aids, to
Judge j. B. CAN'T, Commander
in Chef of the ex- Coufederates OF
Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Mrs. H. r. Butts, Of Vandalia,
visited relatives in Mexico last
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

RAILS. The Odd Fellows at
Perry will build a hall of their
own.
Ilasco is the largest town in
Rails county. 1t has a population
of 1000. Sixty new houses going
mp in the place. 1t is the seat Of
the Cement Co.
The Enterprise says that Frank
Wilson, of Green Lawn, has moved
to a farm near Thompson, Au-
drain county.
Center, Mo-, November l.
Everett Shuts, aged 16, promi-
nent young man living near this
city, was thrown from a horse last
Friday evening, dislocating his
neck. He has been unconscious
ever since, The physicians who
are attending him say there is no
telling how long he may live in
this condition, but they say his
recovery is impossible.
MONROE. - 0rville Chowning,
near Madison, sold his S0-acre
farm for so, 800.
The Executive Board of Monroe
Baptist Association organized last
week by electing James G. Craw-
ford, secretary; John A, Gex,
treasurer, and Jack Blanton, sec
retary.
The 200 acre farm of Ed.
Wright, northeast of Paris, sold
the other day for So, 900.
The convention of confederated
women's clubs met in Paris last
week. 1t seems to have been a
very entertaining and profitable
gathering. The Appeal says that
one Of the ladies discussed house
hold economics and asserted that
one Of its missions was to impress
upon the women the necessity Of
serving nourishing food to their
husbands and sons. She ad-
vanced the theory that men who
labor are prone.to use stimulants
when their food is of such n ma
ture as to lack nOurishing qualities.
Certain men interpreted this as a
SLY dig at those wives and sisters
who drive masculine members of
the family to desperation by load
ing the table with olives, salted
peanuts, floral sandwiches and
conglomerated salads that would
give an ostrich acute dyspepsia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

CALLAwAY. AT Stephens store
the people signed a petition asking
d. F. Barrow to close up his drug
store-thought the store inimical to
the best interests of the community
and Barrow has wheeled the
goods away.
Miss Elma Grogau, ,l6 years old,
of Fulton, died in st. Louis with
tuberculosis.
Monroe Davis of near Reedsville
traded his farm for a stock OF
goods at McCredic.
j. L. Farmer at Wainwright is
very i'll with Brights disease,
Dick Berry bought the John
Cook 100 acre farm near Williams
burg for $1,000.
A new bell tolls on the Ashland
school house. It was a prize to tbs
school won at the Fulton stree
fair.
Calves in Billytown ueighbor
hood are selling at $40 per head,
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Nearly 300 hunters licenses
have been issued in Audraln.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Barney Hooton of Mexico is up
at Yates, Mo-, visiting relatives
and looking after property inter-
ests. N
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

E. G. starkey and John Reed OF
Mexico are carpenteriag down at
Benton C;ty-helping make that
place bigger city. They finished
a house lately for Mrs. Stockwell
aud are now working on one fol
Mr.. Sharp.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

G. Il. Rails, at Alton, ILL.,, gets
the MESSAGE.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
~ HAPPENED AND HAPPENING. ~

VIM. Hughes, Rhiuelandsr, Wis,
reads the MESSAGE.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

BOONE, BY mice nibbling some
matches 7. B. Hord's smokehouse,
at Harrisburg, was set on fire and
partially destroyed.
The State against Cottingham
for petit larceny was lately tried at
Harrisburg. Cottingham W S
placed under $500 bond to appear
at the next term of the Boone
county circuit court.
Frank Winn, at Locust Grove,i is
suffering from a wound caused by
sticking a rusty nail thru his foot
Prof. j. P. Blanton of COlum-
bia, formerly of Mexico, is achiev'
ing popularity as a lecturer in
Kansas.
The county Jail at Columbia il
haunted. Oliver Marshall, negro,
gladly paid a fine rather than stay
behind its bars.
The Centralia Guard says that
certain church members in that
town are standing in a poor light
in upholding the saloon element
against the city. The Guard com
mentsi The whisky Christian is in
the minority but if they were al
called into camp tomorrow there
would be dust and eobwebs on the
gates Of hell before the end of the
procession passed in.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

George Davis, who formerly
lived with his parents south Of
Mexico. enlisted in the artillery
service at Fort Kelley, Kansas, and
about three weeks since left the
command without leave, An Of
feer Of Fort Kelley was in Mexico
last saturday endeavoring to find
Davis, but be went back without
his man,
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
Wn, Hardin Eig,y.
Walter sVNh,
Attorney
FOR SALE!

24O well improved miles from Mexico Mo. Price
$4,000 per
80 acres 2% miles from Mexico we'll improved. Price
$35 90 per
100 acres, miles from Mexico well improved, Price
$4,000 per acre.
100 acres, miles from Mexico we'll improved. Price,
$42 80 per
We have farms all sizes and prices terms to suit We al
have almost any kind of city property you Here
small list of city property: dwelling lots and out
buildings Price $1,000.
room dwelling. lot, 81 ,75O.
room dwelling one large lot good barn Price,
$1,000.
room dwelling lots, aud outbudings Price, $O50OO.
2stoy frame dwelling lot 80x240, bath every
modern Improvement Price. S5,5OO
10 room frame, 2sory dwelling, every modern improve
ment, lot 6Ox240. Price, 900
you want buy sell trade kind of real estate
want to you, Our office is door north Of the
Southern bank the 99c Store the side Of Court
House
We insure your farm property in The Phoenix Ins CO.
OF Brooklyn N Y Yours truly,
RINEY q BuRCH, K1xiEs n
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Miss Polly Clendeuin is attend
ing Visitation Conventin St.LOuis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

Miss Alice Mollett, of this coun-
ty, spending the winter at Phoenix
Arizona, in remitting for the
MESSAGE says, Il am enjoying
the winter in Salt River Valley,
Arizona. It seems like the good
old summer time in Missouri. Am
having a lovely time, but can't do
without the MESSAGE"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09
Yours truly,
IVA LEE LOTT.

Miss Maude Azdell Of Laddonia
has accepted a position with the
Simmons Hardware Co. Of st.
Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

The Wellsville Record printed
this item last week: J. H. Crock
ett and wife and baby Of Mexico
returned Saturday from Washing
ton, where they have been visiting
Mrs. Coeketts p parep I s.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Appling Mrs
Crockett will be remembered by
our people as Miss Sophia Ap
pling.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

DIR. ]. B. Hawkins Of this city
last Thursday united in marriage
Ollie Moore, a popular young man
and prosperous farmer of near
Santa Fe, and Miss May Maddox OF
Butter county. We extend the
happypair our congratulations and
best wishes.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-11-09

ing, Visitation Conventln St'Lonis'
Mrs. H. r. Butts, Of Vandalia,
visited relatives in Mexico last
week.
Q. M. Berry of near Thompson
is home from a visit to relatives
at Balliuger, Texas.
r. L. Day, of near Farber, is
out in Washington and California
visiting relatives d looking
around"
Miss Alberta Porter, daughter of
Rev. j. j. Porter, formerly of
Mexico, died at Joplin last week
Of typhoid fever.
The Middletown Chips says it
snrwed" the other night, but 1t
did not lie on the ground long
enough to be counted. Guess you
can guess what Chips meant to
spell.
Louis G. Grady, of Marc, ILL.,,
,yos bere last week looking after
his newly purchased farm, the Z.
]. Penegar place, near Benton City.
Mr.. Grady will move to the farm
early next spring.
Barney Hooton of Mexico is up
at Yates, Mo-, visiting relatives
and looking after property inter
ests. N -
r. S. Mckinney of Mexico has
been chosen as one of the aids to
Judge j. B. CAN'T, Commander
in Chef Of the ex- Confederates OF
Missouri.
j. A. Thomas, near Laddonia,
has bought a 200 acre farm near
vandalia paying $500. He sold
his farm near Laddonia at $50 an
acre. Jim got over that Western
fever and concluded to remain IN
Audraiu.
Miss Alma Keiser Of Mexico has
recovered from her late illness WITH
typheid fever and Monday resumed
her duties as teacher in the Lib
erty district. Miss Rhoda Hughes
was Miss Keiser's supply seven
weeks.
e. G. Starkey and John Reed Of
Mexico are carpenteriag down al
Benton G;ty--helping make thai
place a bigger city. They finished
house lately for Mrs. Stockwel
aud are now working on one fol
Mr.. Sharp.
DR.. ]. B. Hawkins of this citJ
last Thursday united in marriage
Ollie Moore, a popular young mar
and prosperous farmer of near
Santa Fe, and Miss May Maddox O
Butter county. We extend th'
happypair our congratulations ant
best wishes.
The Wellsville Record printed
this item last week. j. H. Crock
ett and wife and baby Of Mexic,
returned Saturday from Washing
ton, u,where they have been yisitini
Mrs. Coekett's p pare . .
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Apphhg' mls
Crockett will be remembered b!
our people as Miss Sophia Ap
ping.
There have been about a doze
eases Of typhoid fever among th
students Of Hardin College thl
fall. Some Of the girls got scare
and went home. But the sic
ones are all getting well and th
scared ones are returning an
taking up their studies again The
boil their drinking water beio'
they drink it out at Hardin now.
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don't weigh above a hundred an ten
or twelve pounds. An just wish you
could of seen some sheets that woman
done up Yaller as a Chinaman, with
kind of a sour smell to EN- tn take
four good washes to whiten an sweeten
up them sheets.
guess I'll go out an stretch the line"
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didn't pour 1t out IN the saucer an
blow it, an took that as sign of favor,
something like Queen Esther felt when
that king with the turrible name held out
his scepter to her. l think that's one
O. the most interestin' stories in the Good
Book. l see it all acted an sung out in
a cantatty to mission / go to, an it was
just beautiful.
well, | fo1lered the chicken-pie up
with smokin' hot buckwheat cakes for
breakfast, an the next night l had a nice
little pork roast with Drowned sweet an
Irish potaters an little apple-sauce to
go with it. 1t took all I'd earned
at the wash-tub up to three o'clock that
day to pay for it; but | was goin' to that
ball at any cost. Puffer does enjoy a
nice roast of sweet pork, an after supper
he settled himself in his corner by the
nice, clean, shinin' stove, about the con-
tentedest man in our block. The next
night had some beautiful hot rolls right
out O. the oven an pot O. beans baked
to turn an big squash-pie an more
nice coffee.
Then Friday evenin' played my
last card. / had plump shad, Puffer's
favorite dish, baked a beautiful brown,
an nice, creamy mashed potaters an one
O. the cottage buildings that Puffer is so
fond of an that we don't have once in a
coon's age because it takes eggs to
make one an eggs come SO high in the
winter-time.
when Puffer had eat his fill he leaned
back in his chair an pulled out his watch
an says in a kind of an offhand way,
says he:
"'Wel1, Sally, if we're goin' to that
fool ball it's time we was gittin' ready.
Didn't l jist litter in my sleeve?
Now l never twitted him by sayin' l
thought you said you want goin', nor
nothin' O. that sort, as some foolish
women would of done. l says jist as
nacheral-hke: III jist throw a cloth
over the supper things an let 'em stand
until l come home, an I'll git ready
right away
Miss lilly, the little dressmaker,
come down from her tenement an done
my back hair for me, an crimped my
front hair, an give me the loan of real
handsome red-silk sash an red bow
for my hair, an I'd no call to be ashamed
of my looks did have a turrible feelin'
O. vict'ry when l walked off with Puffer;
but 1 tell you never let him know it.
Lal if women would just have little
more tact, they'd have less trouble
keepin' their husbands in leadin' strings.
"Now, if I'd went to twittin' Puffer
about how he'd vowed he wouldn't go
an then changed his mind, l bet you
he would have backed out at the last
minute, an then I'd have missed the ele-
CANT time we had, for we did have a
beautiful time Puffer enjoyed it too.
Why, he even marched in the grand
march with me and danced in two
quadrilles. Dunno when ever see him
quite so gay.
Its jest as l say: man can be
wheedled an sort O. toled along, when
he can't be drove. You know a balky
boss will sometimes walk right along if
you hold a nubbin' O. corn few feet
from its nose; an on the same principle a
man will often foller right along if you
appeal to his stummick. an let his heart
alone. A mans a queer critter any
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money on this wedding" he said. 81
shall have to feed them and keep them
warm all this winter" He left us and
went to the dining room to the company
of his decanters. His task indeed ap-
peared hopeless.
The persons assembled in this hunting
party were all of high rank and most of
them large landowners From their
conversation l gathered that merely
to try to induce the peasants to be
cleaner and to observe a few of the
laws of morality was at the risk
of their lives; and-what outsiders do
not seem to realize-that they all were
resolved to do it, in spite of the peril.
They all thought that the great mistake
of the Government was in suppressing
the liberty of the press, and in persecu-
ting the Nihilists so severely. If the
Nihilists were permitted to publish their
foolish ideas, there would cease to be
any glory in being Nihilist.
Our own sentimental Nihilist, Princess
Nobaloff, admitted to me before | came
away that she was beginning to see many
things about the peasants in different
light, since she had been staying in the
country.
1 visited this hospitable household
for nine days, and | think they were the
best nine days in succession that l ever
have had. The conversation was never
f1ippant and in an extraordinary man.
ner all seemed able to join in one general
talk, each expressing his opinion with
animation, yet impersonally. They were
well informed about the politics of
Europe and of America. The women
took part in the conversation on abso-
lutely equal standing with the men. To
my mind, found there the ideal equality
of the sexes: the women never spoke of
womens rights, for it was understood
that the rights of women and of men
were equal but different. Neither in
sport, any more than in conversation, was
there an attitude of superiority on the
part of the men. The manners of all
were perfect; yet this did not prevent
great frankness toward one another
They struck me as strong nerved per-
sons in spite of their continuous smoking
and drinking of tea that was half brandy.
A remarkable incident had occurred
shortly before my arrival Princess
Nobaloff was out walking, without arms
or an escort, when she came upon young
bear. When she returned home she was
covered with her own blood, and her
clothes were torn to pieces, but behind
her she dragged the young bear, dead,
his fore-paws tied together with her
cambria handkerchief, twisted into a
cord. 1t seemed to me that the trouble
with women like her was that there was
no proper outlet for their energies.
In the nine days that 1 was with my
sister, they did not go on any hunting
expeditions on my account, because l
was tired out with travelling, and had
before me the return journey to New
York, which took me forty-seven days. !.
The whole party escorted me days
journey on my way, and made me believe
that they felt sincere sorrow at parting
from me. They were to go on to Count
Borloff's, two weeks trip, and much
nearer Siberia, in a few days, children,
governesses and all.
The man who escorted me to CONSTANT