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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
PENNsY AWARDS PRIZES
$3.50 to Be Distributed Among Super
Viscrs and Assistants.

Philadelphia, Oct. l2.-F'ive thousand
end i've hundred dollars in premiums
will be- distributed among Pennsylvania
rsiiioad supervisors and their assist
ants for the best line and surface be-
tween Jersey City and Pittsburg and
| Philadelphia and Washington during
the past year. The annual inspection
WIS completed in Jersey City. and the
awards were announced here. as fol-
lows
For the best line and surface between
Jersey City and pittsburg and Philadel.
phia. Z. NJ. Wisman. supervisor. $500.
and l.. J. Fairbanks. assistant super.
visor, $500 OF supervisors division c,
located between Monmouth Junction
and Croydon. OF the New York divi.
sion
For the best line and surface on the
Philadelphia division. J. c. Quicker,
supervisor. $500. and John Atlee. $500,
OF supervisors division No. 3. located
between Coatcsville and Dillersvillc.
via Lancaster cut
For the best line and surface OF the
middle division. John w. Swenson. su.
pcrvisor $500. and c. A. Pfalzgraff. as.
sistant. 5000. OF supervisors division
No. I. located between Longfellow and
Huntingdon.
For the best line and surface on the
Pittsbnrg division. George Ehrenfeld
supervisor. 5000. and c. NJ. Hickey. as
sistant 5000. OF supervisors division
o. 10. located between Portage and AL.
toona including the Horseshoe Curve
For the best line and surface on tho
Maryland division. j. s. Elliott. super.
visor. $500. and Michael Lipman. as.
sistant. 5000. OF supervisors division
No. 3. located between Havre de Gracs
and Bay View, Baltimore.
The $1,000 prize for the greatest i'm.
provement during the year betweer
Jersey City and Pittsburg and Philadel.
phia and Washington was won by II
5. Nelly. supervisor and A. +. Preble
assistant supervisor. of division No. .
Philadelphia division. located between
Dillersville and Dock street, Harris.
burg
w. T. Covert, supervisor of division
No. l. embracing the West Philadelphia
yard was awarded the 500 prize fol
the best main line yard.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
HIS ANGELS WERE FEMALES
Sculptor Destroys Figures to Settle
Discussion Of seq.

New York. Oct. ll.-Gutzon Bor.
nuneiation and OF the Angel OF the
Resurrection. which were intended to
have adorned the walls of the great
cathedral OF st. John the Divine 1T
Morningside Heights announced that
he had destroyed the two figures. Mr..
Borglum did so because Of dispute
which had arisen as to whether the
figures should be masculine or femi-
nine. The sculptor had created his
conceptions of the two angels In the
form OF women and his work had been
sharply criticised on that score.
Mr.. Borglum said that he had re-
ceived a final opinion OF one OF the
church authorities that the figures
must he masculine. and he added:
II went to the cathedral and with
q chisel and mallet smashed the an
gels into hits. felt like the veriest
vandal in thus completely wrecking
what ! knew to be works OF beauty
and power did so TO put a stop to
useless discussion and to prevent
an, use being made of the figures
other than had been originally In
tended.
Il am absolutely astounded that any
clergyman could stand in the presence
of 30 or 20 images of purely religious
and spiritual character and see moth
ing In them but sex And now that the
whole unpleas matter is over. am
just as sure as ever that the feminine
side OF our race must be our chief
source of artistic inspiration and will
so remain. absolutely unaltered by all
pedantic controversies"
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
MUST BE vAccINATEp
School Teachers Who Think IL .
BLUFF" May Lose Positions.

Vay 1CDS TpoihtOnSs
Harrisburg. Pa. Oct. ia dispute
between the teachers and school direc
tors OF South Middleton township
Cumberland county. wherein II wai
reported to State Health Commits.
sioner Samuel G. Dixon. the directors
have threatened TO discharge teachers
who enforce the state vaccination law,
and characterizing DR.. Dixons circu
lar letters on this subject as bluff
has elected a communication from
DR. Dixon to the secretary OF the
school board stating that the law will
be enforced. To a representative OF
the teachers who visited him tho
health commissioner said that teach.
ers who disobey the law will be prose
cuted. and that II the school directors
resist carving out the departments
instructions they will be arrested on
view.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
MUTlNY ON SHIP AT SEA
Captain and Four Of Crew Of Schooner
Harry A. 5erwind Murdered.

Wilmington ~ c., Oct. IL. - The
murder OF Captain Rumill and four Of
his crew OF the four-masted schooner
Harry A. Berwind In a mutiny while
the vessel was bound from Mobile to
Philadelphia. is the story told in a
special dispatch from Southport. The
schooner Blanche II. King. Captain J.
w. Taylor. bound from Brunswick. Ga,
TO Philadelphia. put into Southport.
bringing In irons three negroes, all
that remained of the crew OF the Harry
A. Berwind. The captain. mate. cook
and an engineer. who did hosting work
aboard the latter vessel. apparently
their bodies were thrown overheard.
and the body of fourth sailor, a ne
gro was found lying on deck, where
he, too had been killed. The Harry A.
Berwind was bound to Philadelphia
from Mobile. which port she left Sep
TENDER %. She was sighted 80 miles on
the Cape Fear bar by Captain Taylor
whose attention was attracted by the
reckless manner in which the Inflated
vessel was being steered. her course
threatening to run down his own YES.
sci. Captain Taylor and crew boarded
the vessel and placed the negroes in
irons. bringing the two vessels of the
bar. when one of them was towed In
by Wilmington tugs. The tugs have
returned for the other schooner. but
gale is prevailing on the outside.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
BIG CONTRACT ANNuLLEo
Canal Commission Will Feed and Care
For Employees.


For Employees.
Panama, Oct. i2-The last action OF
the Panama canal commission before
sailing from Colon for New York was
the annulment OF the contract awarded
to j. +. Markell. OF Omaha. Neb. for
feeding and caring for the employees of
the canal. The reason for this action Is
that Chief Engineer Stevens. through
the department of materials and sup
plies. under Messrs. Jackson and
Smith. Is handling the commissaries
successfully. rendering unnecessary the
arrangement with Mr.. Markell. Pro-
tests made by the employees against the
arrangement. II is believed. also in
fuenced the decision.
1.-THE contract with Mr.. Markell was
to run five years. and II was estimated
that II would involve s50.00O.000. Hud-
gins & Dumas. one OF the other firms
bidding for the contract. protested
against the award to Mr.. Markell. alleg-
ing favoritism and charging that the
latter was enabled through a leak In
the Office of Chairman Shonts to gain
information about the other bidders.
which aided him in bidding success
fully. The protest was forwarded to
President Roosevelt. who referred II TO
Chairman Shonts for report and later
decided that the contract would stand. ]
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14

Democratic Ticket.
For Comptroller:
GORDON I. ATKINSON,
of Somerset County.
For State Senator:
JOHN P. MOORE.
For Members House of Delegates:
w. LEE CAREY.
ORLANDO HARRISON,
l.. PAUL EWELL.
For Sheriff
HENRY J. ANDERSON.
For County Commissioners:
EDWIN II. TAYLOR.
JOHN l.. ROBINS.
For Surveyor:
SAMUEL NJ. CULLEN. Jr.
For Wreckmaster:
LITTLETON b. BIRCH.
Election Day Tuesday. Nov. 9TH, 1870
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
CAN'T HANG THIS MURDERER
Suffering From Justification, Il 10 I'm
possible TO Break His Neck.


Chicago. Oct 10.-Because OF pc
culiar freak of .-... Robert Gar
diner. a prisoner ia the county jail
here. charged with ths murder OF Az
mes Morrison. may csc; pc the death
penalty. When he was arraigned In
court his attorney. William buckner
startled the court by turning to AS
sistant States Attorney Barbour and
saying This is case where II won't
do you any good to ask for the death
penalty. They can't break this mans
neck II they do try To hang him and
you may lose him altogether by hang
ing him and failing to execute the sen
tence in full" II appears that the
prisoner Is suffering from Justification
Of the vertebrae and tissues of the
nock According TO Professor Steffen
son. OF Rush Medical College. only
five cases similar have ever come tf
the notice OF the medical profession.
Attorney Buckner declares that the
hardening OF bone and tissue has pro
cceded so far that II would be impos
sible To bring any strain upon the pa
tents neck that would be sufficiently
severe TO cause any discomfort Other
than slight straining OF the muscles.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-10-14
WILL MEET IN PHILADELPHIA
National League Of Republican Clubs
Chose Quaker City For Convention.

Chose Quaker CITY FOR Convention.
Ct Louis. Oct 1.-THE executive
committee Of the National League OF
Republican Clubs decided that the
next convention OF the league shall be
held in Philadelphia on June 7. Is and
10. 1906 Ont Of II votes cast, Phila.
dolphia received 10 and st. Louis I.
The holding OF the convention In Phila.
delphia next year will commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the converting
of the first national Republican con.
vcnt.on. held in Philadelphia on June
II. Is and 49, 1856.
Municipal Ownership Plan Defeated.
Chicago. Oct. 10. - Mayor Dunno
placed his contract plan" for munich
pal ownership before the city council
and II was defeated by vote OF IS
TO rs. The plan provided for the or
ganization of a corporation and the
issuance OF certificates under what is
known as the Mueller law. Out OF the
sale Of these certificates the first 90
miles OF street railway was TO be con-
structed. paralleling existing lines. II
is expected that the mayor will now
abandon this pltn and bring In it's
place his alternative or "city plan"
Editor Of Washington Post Resigns.
Washington. Oct. i2.-Scott C. Bone.
for many years the managing editor
Of the Washington Post. resigned that
position. To take effect Immediately.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

here. Corn and grass is growing
by leaps aud bounds.
Geo. Il. Ferris has reroofed his
residence.
Milt Sayer is building a fiue cot
tage opposite his home for rent,
Something we have been needing
for some time.
j. w. Wilkins and wife spent
Sunday in Vandalia.
Clarence Denmark seems TO be
holding his own with the typhoid
fever, so far.
Theron Leet has taken a place
with JIG, DeLaporte's Cash Hard
ware House.
Jas. Hall, Jr., was married to
Miss Ella Smith at the home of
the brides father, John A. Smith,
last Wednesday. The bridal party
took the train at Martinsburg
where a generous rice shower Oc-
CURED. They will spend a few
days at Minneola Springs, Mont
gomery county, returning Sunday
when an Unfair will be held at the
residence of the groOm's father.
May success and happiness attend
them.
Mrs. Gilmore is improving and
we hope to see her out in a short
time.
VIM. Brandon has taken a Sec
ton on the Il. r. again. lie sold
back his interest in the blacksmith
business to Bellamy Bros.
Il. w. Pearson has been away in
Kanass on business. He thinks
Kansas lands a good investment,
near the part where August ALL
feldt IS located.
S. Il. Mapes is with Wilder &
Pearson now, until school begins.
Geo. w. Ramey had Bro. Bell to
paint a fine sign on his large stock
barn. Also had a well sunk 200
feet and found fine supply of wa
ter. JC.DeLaporte furnished him
the wind mill pumping outfit for
it, also a fine speeding cart for eX-
ercising his trotting stock.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
IAoae...----N---.-saaNAl
NEIGHB0RH00D NEWS.
MARTINsRuR0,

DR.. Taylor and son, Charles,
are visiting friends in st. Louis.
Mrs. j. l.. Pierce and Mrs. II.
B. Rice and children of Laddonia
took the Burlington here Saturday
for Troy where they will spend n
few weeks visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. w Taylor, Mrs.
John DAVIS and Miss Pearl Chris
man made a flying trip to Laddon-
ia Sunday.
Miss Melia Rogers visited in Lad
donia first of the week.
Miss Mary Harrington of War
rensburg and the Misses Tolberts
and brother of LaddOnia visited
NJ. Il. Rogers Saturday,
j. l.. Pierce of Laddohia visited
our town Tuesday.
Miss Maggie TorreysOu and her
niece, Miss Marguerite Torreyson,
of Laddonia left here last Saturday
for Seneca, Kansas.
II. P. French, cashier of the
Bank, is on the sick list.
Several more n W dwelling
houses will be erected soon in
town. HIP. French and DR.. Lanier
will be the next to build.
B. Holderman has an aunt and a
sister visiting him from st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Of her sister, Mrs. r. Armstrong.
Miss Sadie O'Brien of Skinner
aud Will Gilmore of Concord were
Sunday guests of E. F. Elliott aud
wife.
Walter Henderson is home from
a visit to Auxvasse.
Tom Daniel Of Centralia visited
his grandparents here last week.
DR.. r. W. Dyrrey of Mexico was
here on a professional call Mon.
day.
Chas. Clark and wife spent Sun.
day with Mexico relatives,
Chas. Walden and Walter Hen
dersOn will leave for Nebraska
Thursday to be absent several
months,
Miss Eta Henderson returned
from New York Monday where she
has been attending school for the
past ten months.
Kay Spence was here from st.
Louis Sunday.
Miss Huelett of Concord was the
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Il. F. Ell
liot Saturday.
Rufus Davis is home from a
business trip to Moberly.
Cant & Considine shipped 3 car
loads Of hogs to st. Louis this
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
LADDONIA.

In the Mayors Court Brown
Bros, druggists, were found
guilty on two counts for illegal Ii
quOr settings. Fine was $40 on
each count, and court adjourned
until next Thursday when II other
cases are to be tried. We hope no
guilty man will escape. E. C.Ken-
men, attorney for the city, w. II.
Logan, for defendant.
Bro. Greer's sermon on true
patriotism was fine, at the Chris.
tian church last Sunday morning.
Miss Madge Gill of Perry re-
turned home last Sunday after a
week spent attending Miss Sallie
Vandeventer's house party.
Miss Mabel Underwood of St.
Louis is visiting Miss Margaret
DeLaporte. Miss MabePs father,
Ace Underwood, lived in Laddonia
a few years ago.
Pete Brashears has commenced
building a Groom cottage home on
the site bought of Peter Pierce.
"Doc" Palmer is drilling another
well for Jack Brown. This is the
third one on Jacks farm.
lie believes in water being handy
and good for his stock.
The rainy season seems to be
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
UPPER BEAN CREEK.

Harvesting is somewhat delayed
on account of wet weather.
We are glad TO see Uncle Louis
Hubert out again.
Otto Ackerman and family of
Rush Hill visited his brother, PC.
Alderman, Sunday.
w. II. Wilson celebrated the
Fourth by skinning a $50 COW.
Eubanks sold one bay work
horse at $40 to John Gilpen of near
Mexico.
Villa Byars spent Monday
night with his old friend, Law
renee Kysar.
Bud BOzarth sold j. II. Ware a
load head of pigs at 5 cent a Id. to
go the last half of July, also a load
Of sheep.
Homer Mundy and wife spent
Saturday and Sunday with Sefe
Eubanks.
Now is the time to strengthen
the fences as stock is so much
more apt to be breaking in wet
weather.
MILFORD Reighley and Jap Will
bingham have purchased for them
selves ii new Indian pony apiece.
They have been exercising them
The past few days.
We would advise our friend
Phillip Shire to take care and
keep his bull frogs in hiding. Else
he might go the way our geese have
gone.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Moline

The nice rains have given new
life to the corn and gardens and
everything looks encouraging,
Not very large attendance at
Sunday school last afternoon on ac-
count of the rain.
Mrs. VIM. Mundy and Miss EN-
ma Mundy of Mexico went to Tex
as one day last week to see Mrs.
Josie (uee Mundy) Brison who is
very ill.
Emmett Winterhalter and Bob
Mundy are in Kansas City.
Miss Ora Oleson of Fulton is
the guest of her cousin, Mrs, Os-
ear Martin.
Thos. Showers and wife were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Price Mar
shall.
Some of the friends of near here
attended the funeral of Mr.. Lee
Crigler at Santa Fe last Monday.
lightning killed Il good horse
for Edwin Settles one day last
week. Another stroke hit the tlue
of his kitchen, damaging it so bad
ly he had to build a new one.
The protracted meeting com
mences at Midway to night, July
10.
John Ellis bought a brand new
surrey last Friday.
Tom Stewart and family were
the guests of his nephew and niece
Lin Stewart and wife, last Sunday,
Mr.. Theodore Freeman aud Miss
Leta Martin, a niece of Felix and
Joe Martin, were united in mar
riage at the church last Saturday,
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
BEAN GREEK.

Rev. j. s. Jesse will leave about
the II inst. for a few weeks So
jOurn in the state of Texas.
Rev. L. Il. Bradley has been
called to the pastOrate Of a church
near Cedar City and filled an APP
pointment there Sunday.
NJ. w. A. Camp, No. 03S7, held
an open session on Prairie Lea
last Friday, in consequence of
which, Neighbor Chas. Tanner has
a field of corn we'll worked, which
is very fine prospect. NeighbOr
Tanner has been suffering all
spring with stomach trouble which
caused him to get behind with his
cultivation, a very unusual thing
for Charley, and we hope he may
speedily recover.
Venerable Consul r. II. Stuart
knows how to handle field force
as we'll as preserve order in a lodge
room.
Some statistical cuss has figured
out that Il wOman's kiss is worth
80 times as much as a mans, but
Prairie Lea No. 2 says he has no
trouble swapping even.
Louis Hubert is on the sick list.
The fraternal bonds grow
stronger in the Farmers Union.
At our last meeting the trade
cards were distributed among the
lads. By these cards they are
easily identified by the outside
world, especially their merchant,
Great results are being accom-.
plished which demonstrates the
need of farm organization.
Master Ray Rogers is spending
the week with his sister, Mrs.
Harve Robinson, in Monroe cOun-
| ty.
Our hustling blacksmith, Chas.
Hubert, finds himself very busy
these days.
Shannon Willingham is develop
ing into first-class painter, giving
good satisfaction in each case.
The great controversy, country
VS.. town, between q. E. Maddox
and R. NJ. White in the Ledger is
very interesting if only each would
stay out in the open and the one
not persist in 'pOking fun" at the
other from his corner surrounded
Ivy his most trusted seconds.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Worcester.

James Ware was on the st.
Louis market with 400 lambs last
week.
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mil
Ter, July l, daughter, and to Mr..
and Mrs. G.. Berry, the same date,
n son.
Worcester now has a barber
shop. Mr.. Bcerup will wait on
his customers every Wednesday
evening and all day Saturday. Mr..
Beerup is a barber of twenty. five
years experience.
The coal miners at the llafucr
coal bank the other day found a
hens nest with "A eggs. The nest
was in an abandoned slope and
some thirty feet back under the
hill. Next.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
LIBERTY.

We think this rainy weather is
fine on Prairie Leafs new kind of
frogs.
j. T. DUNCAN sold two yearling
steers to j. j. Johnson.
Miss Dora Kelly left last Friday
for Buffalo, N. Y, for a months
visit with relatives.
Mrs. Wilson Thomas is enter
tanning her grandmother, Mrs.
Henderson, of Galloway county.
John Thomas and family of Full
ton are visiting his father here.
Mrs. w. S. Edwards is on the
sick list.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we won't tell
about that big watermelon patch
we found the other day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
THOMPSON.

Louis Boughtin left for Bowling
Green Tuesday where he will work
as night operator.
Miss Bessie Tanner of Moline is
the guest of Mrs. Il. Cawthorne.
j. o. Tinsley was here from
Mexico Saturday.
Sims Consldine who has been i'll
is reported improving.
r. II. Brown spent Sunday at
Mexico.
Miss Hattie Horton of Mexico
was a recent guest of Miss Matte
Lang.
Miss Martha Pool left for Kan
sas City Thursday to be the guest
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
SKINNER

SNlNNEH
A nice, refreshing shower most
every day.
Haying time is here and
the busy move Of the sickle. will
be heard early and late.
Rev. q. C.Mitchell filled his reg
ular appointment at Bethlehem the
LIST Sunday.
Ice cream supper at G. NJ. Fox's
known as the Chas. Hill farm, on
Thursday night, June ID. Every
body cordially invited.
A little scrap occurred over
near Skinner Saturday after the
ball game, not over ball game
however. Result, black eye for one,
several scratches for others. Come
on, now, boys, be good after this.
Lee Halloways' children visited
Walter and Jim Halloway's family
lately.
Mesdames Turner and Mexican
of Mexico were the recent guest Of
their nieces, Mesdames frankie
Ellis and Ollie Holloway.
Misses Mae and Pearl Carpenter,
daughters of M. l.. Carpenter of
Mexico, spent a week or ten days
with j. Il. Bakers daughters,
Misses Ethel and Otie.
Miss Eighty-One Turley closed a
very successful three months term
of school at Fox last Friday ,aweek.
A little picnic in the woods.
Mrs. j. L. Carpenter still con-
tinues i'll of heart trouble.
Dunn Bros. were in our midst
last Saturday, buying aged mules.
They bought several from John
Quinlan.
7 h e Liberty Sunday School
postponed their Childrens Day ex-
ercises indefinitely.
G. Householder sold four cotton
mules to Milt Householder.
Billy Neidershutte sold a good
three year old mule to Chas. House
holder for $4,000.
Judge Squirting sold a thousan d
barrels of corn to Milt Household
er last Saturday, aweek, for So 80
per barrel.
Sterling Carter purchased a
wagon and a big 4 Mccormick
mower of r. M. Thomas last
Thursday.
Ezra Petty sold good span of
mules recently for $4,000.
Sterling Hickman and family
spent a week at Clifton Hill, Ran
dOlph county. While there Sterl
tried most awfully hard not to have
a spell of fever, which he succeeded
in doing
The Skinner base ball team de-
feated the Thompson boys last
Saturday, the second time in a
match game. Score, II to IL.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Toasts To The Lid. "

Marshall, Mo-, July 11.-Forty
Mayors of fourth-class cities of
Missouri sat at banquet here to-
night, listened to an address upon
"The Lid, I'm which the course of
governor Folk was heartily com.
mended and appauded rouudly.
Prosecuting Atty w. G. Lynch
responded to the toast THE Lid"
for Attorney Robert B, Ruff, who
was unable to be present. Mr..
Lynch said III part:
ut is a pleasure for me to APP
pear before you tonight to speak
regarding our excellent Governor
and his enforcement Of the law in
our grand old State.
"Mr. Folk entered the office of
Governor with a great mass of the
people hoping he would fail to car
ry out his declarations made dur.
ing the campaign, that if he was
elected Governor of Missouri he
would run the boolders ont and
close up the saloons.
ri am in favor of Folk and the
."Lid." No one can object to the
enforcement Of law and every de-
cent citizen is for it.
"SuloOnkeepers cannot object
any more than other merchants,
aud when other merchants OBJ
serve the law, saloOnkeepers
should, too.
| am glad to say that in our
county the lid is on, and has
been for a great while"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
LawsOn'S False Note

Omaha, Neb., July IL "I
merely joined with the Fairbury
people in extending an invitation
to Thomas w. Lawson to speak
there" said Governor Mickey here
today.
III was not averse to meeting him
at Fairbury, bat found it incon-
yenient to do so,
"Some of the things Mr.. Law
says regarding trusts and the
enormously rich men of the coun-
try are true, but it seems to me
that Mr.. Dawson is not precisely
in the best position to arraign
plutOcracy.
Would he not set better ex.
ample if lie were to give back his
own fortune, made in stocks, be-
fore preaching what should be
done with other fortunes. 1t APP
pears to me that there is a false
note in the Boston mans last ut
teranees.