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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-15
Walter Morley
The Fence Man.

Has just received a car Of woven
wire fence and car of hop wire. An
other car of fence to arrive about
March Goth. Buy now at special prices.
A large stock of pickets, dressed and
split cedar posts, shingles, gates and
gate hardware and all kinds of poul-
try fence. All at lowest prices.
SALEM FENCE WORKS
go Court Street, Salem.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
WOROEsTER.

E. NJ. Crooks took load Of
beef cattle to st. Louis Monday
night.
On account of whooping cough
Dye school closed till after the
holidays.
Rev. Bradley was chosen pastor
Of Littleby Baptist church. Preach
ing date also was changed from
first to fourth Sunday.
The corn crop is shucked. The
average is considered about 40 bu.,
some 10 bu. less than was expect
ed
The election Of NJ. w. A. officers
resulted in the reelection of last
years officers. After adjourn
ment the entire camp was invited
to a sumptuous supper given by
j, R. Fegan aud G. a. Barnes and
harmony and peace prevailed till a
late hour.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
= YOUR NEIGHBORS "

Mrs. John Beal visited relatives
in st. Louis this week.
Mrs. Walter Campbell is enter
tanning Miss Edrie Cole of Kansas
City.
Mrs. Mundy and daughter, Miss
Cordie, are visiting Mrs. Ira Shep.
herd at San Angelo, Texas.
Misses Marylon and Addie ALI
son Of Martinsburg visited rela.
tives in Mexico this week.
G. q. McCarty and daughter,
Mildred, of st. Louis, visited j.
w. Beatty and wife in Mexico this
week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Ian Jones left
yesterday for a three months visit
with Mrs. Jones parents at San
Maria, Cal.
LaddOnia Herald: Mr.. and Mrs.
&. G. Kennen and their sons, Al
bert and Neal, left Tuesday for
California where they will spend
the winter. Kenneth will remain
here to attend school. We wish
them a pleasant journey and visit,
aud safe return.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
POWELL FORD

Miss Lille Hendricks recita
was enjoyed by an appreciative au,
dience.
Mrs. DIR. w. r. Rodes and Mrs.
Bette McMurtry of Mexico, spent
last Thursday with Mrs. VIM. Nc,
Murtry.
Mrs. Ellen Mason spent a few
days last week with Elder Taylor
and wife, of Moberly.
Mrs. Tina billiard spent a week
with relatives at Fulton and Aux.
vase.
f. b. Cook shipped a nice drove
of fat cattle last Monday.
Glad to hear that Mr.. Mord Fox
is better and able to be out, but
sorry Mrs, Fox is not doing Sc
we'll.
Miss Badgie billiard sold 2 calves
to j. p Powell last Monday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
STOCK AND TRANSFERS

|. M. Fletcher, out at Rowena,
is buying up calves, paying around
$la per head.
The Windsor Hotel in Mexico
has been sold to S. A. French Of
Monmouth, Ill.
G. y. Bybee sold so head of
stock hogs to James Ware at "a. so
per hundred pounds.
j. j. Moomaw, east of Worces.
ter, sold three mules recently to
Roy Bird of Perry for $40.
Harte McGOwen, out Rowena
way, took his geese to Centralia
and sold them at SIC per Id.
Emmett Crawford has sold his
store and merchandise at Rowena
to a Mr.. Hayden at Centralia.
Dan Quinlan at Rush Hill traded
for 80 acres of land one mile south
of that place belonging to j. D.
orear and j. T. Baker Of Mexico.
A quarter section of the same
tract of land sold to an Illinois
man at 1868 an acre.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

w. B, Jennings of Moberly was
here in the interest of the Wa.
bash Monday.
Will Hamilton aud wife were
brief visitors to Mexico Thursday.
Mrs. NJ. jackson of Mexico was
the gnest Of Mrs. g. E. Sims Sat
urday and Sunday.
Miss Carrie Jesse spent Sunday
with homefolks here.
j. A. Simpson went to Chicago,
Tuesday with a load of cattle.
Chas. Clark shipped 2 car loads
of cattle to st. Louis via The Wa
bash Tuesday.
Cant & COnsidene shipped one
car hogs aud 2 cars sheep to st.
Louis first of the week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

DON'T miss a good thing. In
other words be sure to watch the
next issue of the MESSAGE for the
opening chapters of our new serial,
Under the Red Robe" by Stau-
ley j. Weyman. 1t is IA good
thing; The best thing, we are
told, in the way of fiction this gen
Grafton has known, aud we are
cougratulating ourselves on being
able TO offer it to our read.
ere. If you but read the opening
chapters, we know you will wait
impatiently for each succeeding in
stallment, for it is the kind of a
story one will sit up all night to
finish. Remember the opening
lehapters will appear in our next
ISSUE Read them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
THOMPSON,

r. Il. Brown of Mexico was a
business visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. G. E. Sims has recovered
from an attack of grip.
w. Il Brink, wife and grand
children of Halllsville were Sum
day guests of E. F. Elliott aud
wife.
Joe Considine is erecting a
dwelling here which will be oecu.
pied by ], NJ. TRULY when com.
pleted.
John G. Fecht and wife of Cot.
tonwoOd Springs visited here Sun
day.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Miss Maud Wallace of Mexico
has been rendered a free scholar
ship for six months in either vocal
or instrumental music or elocu ton
at the Conservatory OF Music aud
ElocutiOn at indianapolis, Ind. She
is one of ten young women of this
State made this offer. 1t is a cour-
tesy aud favor to be proud of.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

"FLAT Rock" community in
Mexico and all its dirty append
ages is a disgrace to the city. How
much better it would appear if all
that section were cleared of the
negro shanties aud the place built
up with nice new cottages and
moderately built dwellings occu.
pied by white people. The negroes
in that section occupy one of the
choice land plats of the city. If so
many Of the occupants were not
thugs with characters blacker than
their faces it might be inst a little
better. but as the situation is at
present, a Hercules is, needed to
clean fhe Abges6 stables,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
AW
THE GRIM REAPER

The infant child of MIR. and
Mrs. James Eubanks died Mon
day.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs.
james Eubauks died of whooping
cough. Rev. W. h. Paschal
preached the funeral Monday
afternoon.
Miss Emma Patterson, formerly
Of this city, died at her home in
New Orleans a few days ago. Her
two brothers here, Charles and
William Patterson, were ut her
bedside.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

WEBSTER Davis, ex-MayOr of
Kansas City, ex-member of McKin-
ley's cabinet and Boer sympathizer,
who Topped to the Democrats in
1900 has topped back to the Re-
puhlicans. Says he is Roosevelt
Republican. Well, what of thatl
Roosevelt appropriated all of his
best thunder from the Democrats,
aud now if the Republicans refuse
to follow Roosevelt where will Da-
Wis flop next7
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

U. $. Senator Mitchell is dead.
He was under indictment for crime
and his associates refused to pass
the usual resolutions. Mitchell
should have kept himself unspotted
from sin. That's what the people
demand in their public servants
hereafter. The schemers and graft.
ers and designing politicians are
having rocky road in these latter
days.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
Assignee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given to the creditors
of j. A. Goolsbay, that on the Is day of
January, 1906, at the opening of court,
or as soon thereafter as counsel can DO
heard, shall apply to the Audrain Coun-
ty Circuit Court for discharge from my
rust as assignee of j. A. Goolsbay.
e. A. SHANNON,
Assignee.
Dec. :, 1906.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Down in Oklahoma they rule
newspapers out of the mails which
contain announcements of names
of persons who win prizes at card
parties. An instance down there
just a few days ago. Uncle Sam
iG just little inconsistent; he has
his own lotteries in drawing public
lands, but won't let the young
folks play cards!
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

A man was fined 800 in the st.
Louis police court the other day
for winking at Mrs, Ida WaldrOn.
High price for wink.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

THEY hanged a woman on the
charge Of numbering her husband
down in Vermont the other day.
Don't care what she had done, we
wouldn't hang a woman nor a man
either. It is a relic Of barbarism.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Gov. Folk says that railroads
giving passes to State officials is a
species Of bribery and the Begin
ing of corruption in most State
legislatures. Think we can see
where the Governor is right.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

THE new Christian church in
Mexico is TO he dedicated next Sun.
day morning. 1t is one Of the
costliest aud han dsOmest church
edi6ces in the State.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Richards, rs
years of age, the mother of Mrs.
j. Fl. Ssllee and Miss Minnie and
Frank Richards of this city, died at
her home in South Mexico last
Tuesday morning. She had been
an invalid for six years. She was
born in Monroe county aud was
married to- John M. Robards at
Columbia in 1850. Deceased was
a faithful member of the Christian
church. Rev. A. w. Kokendoffcr
conducted the funeral service yes.
terday afternoon. The interment
was in Mexico cemetery.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

CONTRACTOR Dave Owen has
completed the paving on Jefferson
street from the railroad past Har.
din College south to the Boulevard.
1t is IA good job and was done
promptly. You will see more paw
ing done in Mexico next summer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

The Modern WoOdman camp at
Cant are going at it right, they
are to have a hall and meeting
place their own aud paid for.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

The Mexico Christian church is
to inaugurate individual commun.
ion service. Fac h commu.
meant will be served his
own little cup. The idea is that it
is safer for health.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14
THURSDAY, DEC. IA, 1905

WE urge our correspondents to
send in their news letters early in
the week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Dr.. E. D. Vandeventer Of Lad.
dOpis ives in Mexico on business
Tuesday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

If you contemplating purchase of this kind,
earnestly believe will be to your interest inspect the
magnificent assortment we offer for your selection The
qualities superb the designs and extremely beaut
full and we KNOW our prices to be lower than equal quail
tiles be had anywhere else in this city. We have large
assortment of Stones set in ring brooches etc. varying in
price from $3.50 up to magnificent gem, $325OO We
sell diamonds upon any terms or conditions that you
buy them elsewhere
Always Your Moneys Worth.
Pitcher JGwGIry Company.
South RinGO Hotel
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

DoN'T let up on the talk for a
county fair.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

This sale will continue until january 1906,
and consist of Wagons, Buggies, Surries, Victor
Talking Machines, Records, Ranges, Stoves,
Graniteware, Aluminium Ware, Tinware, Axes
and Hatchets, Razors, Knives and Forks, Wash
ing Machines, Feed Cutters and Corn Shelters.
WILLIAM STEFFENS, +: Mexico, Mo.
8ESs Would sell whole stock at wholesale
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1905-12-14

Dec. = 1906.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
How TO Make Mince Pies.

Mince pie has an especial claim to a
place ut the Christmas dinner, says
Country Life. Our forefathers called
it Christmas pie. The name was chang
cd by the Puritans and Quakers, whose
mouths had 10 water for il i'll vain so
long as il was called Christmas" 1t
is interesting to know, by the way. that
nince pie developed from a thick stew
made of mutton and raisins. In small
households Christmas pie sometimes
takes the place of the pudding, some
times reigns entirely in its favor. but,
in large ones, one may be as lavish as
one can afford, for it is n marvel what
unbiushed for appetites people bring
to Christmas dinners. A good rule for
mince is: Be stingy with suet and ap-
pies, generous with raisins and cur
rants, and use quite a little brandy
for your stomach's sake.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
HABiTC OF SQUIRRELS.
How These Little Animals of the For
est Survive Winter

| While certain members of the suuir-
! rel tribe store their winters supply OF
| food i'll hollow trees. | think most of
them hide 1t on the ground, under old
| roots, brush piles and even beneath
| heaps of dead leaves. Their tracks in
the winter woods seem to bear this out
| While it may be that this frequency
| of the tracks indicates a scarcity of
food and the travelling about desire
TO find Il supply, belle - in the main
that these outings of the squirrels have
definite destination, because when
you see them skip across the snow
stop short and scratch u hole down to
the ground, bringing up supply of
nuts or cones placed there in the month
OF plenty, you are apt to attribute their
luck more to good memory than to
any haphaZard speculation.
OF the squirrel family the most prom
inent in winter is the black. He
seems to be flowing over all the time
with pent-up energy. which keeps him
in constant motion. and you sometimes
feel that you would like him TO be able
TO talk and tell you how pleasant il Is
to have the joy which flows from q
glad heart. Now watch him jumD from
limb to limb, rush headlong down the
trunk and course across the snow in
long, graceful bounds. with no aDpar-
ent purpose but to exhibit the happi-
ness within him.
His red cousin once in awhile NAV
he seen at the entrance to his homo in
the heights Of some tree. but i'm him no
sign of exultation. He looks around
for spring to come and clear away the
snow. and no amount of coaxing will
cause him to utter a note of scoldinr
or alarm. Not all the red squirrels.
however. keep to the trees Many of
them through want of food have to
take 10 the earth, and their track in
the deep snow is q heavy f1oundering of
labored bounds as they go from tree to
tree in search of the scanty provisions
hidden beneath the surface. Here and
there we find the gumny scales OF the
pine cones, the shells of the acorn. the
seed cones of the birch and cedar. scat
tered about on the snow, showing the
food on which they subsist In greater
contrast to the delicacies just named. |
often one will find during long and Sc
we're winters that the squirrels have at |
tackled the hemlock trees by stripping
them of their bitter seeds. When one |
finds this. IL is evidence of great want, |
and merciful act would be to bring
some food and scatter Ii about to as |
suage the pangs of hunger which these |
little Fellows are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16

the part Of a coward and spy, and In
doing il you have cast imputations on
me. Tonight l do not make il a per
sOnal matter. but tomorrow. if you are
still i'll the county of Sussex, or if with
in six months you show your face here,
/ give YOU my honor that | will horse
whip you first and shoot afterward. You
know whether / am a man TO keep my
word
He turned pallid with fear. said not
a syllable and without more than one
sneaking. furtive, frightened look M
ne skunk away and the next morning
left the country for his health's sake
l was still lettering in the hail when
Gorham came and told me how he had
managed TO get Master Lovelace away.
and as l was prnising him for his
smartness Awdrey came.
as all safe now, Geoffrey?"
Yes. sweetheart; you can dance with
a free heart
"a free heart:" she echoed. playing
on my words and smiling
$50 far as all that is concerned"
All that was very terrible while it
lasted. But you did splendidly."
"A penitent had TO earn his forgive
ness. Audrey. Is it earned?"
Not quite earned yet. You gave me
Up very readily to Sir Burton. you
know" she cried and withdrew the
hand she had slipped into mine, moved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
How to Make Raised Dourhnuts

necessity of the colonial Christmas
table was generous plate of raised
doughnuts. y formula for these. which
is contributed by n famous New Eng
land housekeeper, is as follows: \ cup
full of lard or butter, two cupfuls of
milk, cupful of yeast, three cupfuls
Vt sugar, four or five eggs, nutmeg and
n pinch of salt. Warm together the
milk and lard, then add the yeast; stir
in flour enough to make batter. and
let it stand overnight: then add the
other ingredients. knead soft, and let
it rise again; then roll, cut out. and let
1t rise before frying. Sprinkle with
sugar and spread, not pile, on a plat
ter over which napkin has first been
laid
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16

some PAGES away and stood glancinc
at me. demure in face. but with eyes
alb alight with smiles.
How can l earn it? 1 did what I
did for the best
You are bad at guessing riddles"
she laughed
she's under the mistletoe. Godfrey.
Don't you see:- cried GOrham from the
doorway. with a laugh.
MaTplot. Gorhamr' exclaimed Aw-
drey. blushiDG rose red Bat before sle
could turn TO run after him 7 had
caught her in nay arms.
IL * Christmas eve. sweetheart, and
i am clown OF "A penitent" / wins
pered as l kissed her.
You deserve TO he punished for your
dizziness" she protested.
Then give il me back. Audrey"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16

and hall ,ookIng nightly III at ease
and uncomfortable. while Audrey was
far more distressed than before and
had been weeping.
"You have been away, Sir Godfrey =
said The captain.
Il am not aware that / am your pris-
oner or accountable TO you for my
movements" I answered brusqueiy.
II think you have carried this farce far
enough In truth. shah hold you re
sponsible for the outrage to which ]
have been subjected. Because j chose
TO leave here and gallop TO Hardinge
for change OF costRme your fellows
forsooth, must needs come Gathering
after me. firing their muskets and ac-
tually putting my life TO the hazard.
You'll find them now hard stuck in the
bogs on the other side of Muttlebury
haunch. But the thing is intoIeraole.
Come. Awdrey. let US go 10 the guests
and leave this gentleman to do his
will"
The captains face darkened as / said
this, while Sir Burton Frendergast
gave me an ugly. sneering look. And
when Awdrey put her hand on my arm
she showed in her fingers slip of n
note and whispered. Take II. Dan
GER
This farce has gone far enough. Sir
Godfrey, as you say cried Prender-
CAST. growing angry and coming TO us.
Mistress Awdrey will remain in my
charge. Have a care" he added in a
whisper which could not reach the cap
tain's ears II know the secret of this
statue and shall tell it unless Mistress
Awdcey purchases my silence in the
way / have told her"
could have struck him for his mean.
cowardly threat, hut l masked my
temper
Probably she win put herself in nv
hands, Sir Burton. seeing that she *
affianced TO me-
III she does not wish To ruin her
father and you all she will tell YOU
rather that she is aftanced 10 me. Sir
Godfrey. A word from me and this
thing will be known. And 1 am in
deadly earnest"
But the gafne was not lost yet for all
that knew that my ruse had drawn
of nearly all the troops and that If
could but smuggle Master LoveAce out
of the statue he could get away easily
from the house with one OF my men tn
act as guide.
| stood moment as II thinking in
great perpfexity. and then. giving Aw-
drey, who was very pale and fright
ened. n significant pressure of the hand
that lay on my arm, released it
IL see no other course. Awdrey. but
TO comply. You had better take Sir
Burton's arm and 20 to- the ballroom.
We must set things going or the whole
county will think we are mad"
His face lighted with triumph as he
held out his arm and my sweet Awdrcy
placed the tips of her fingers upon IL,
while i turned To Gorham and. under
pretense of giving him some directions
about the evenings arrangements.
whispered that he was to get the Pris-
oncr out when had cleared the hall
and send him away with my man as
guide
exchanged n few sentences with the /
captain, who stood piueking modify at !
his mustache. and then went after Aw-
drey.
All the guests were now in the great I
ballroom and. signaling to Audrey To /
come with her partner 10 me, I took
my stand close to the door OF a small
room that hay between that and the
dining room. maneuvered 50 that /.
Sir Burton stood between me and the .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
How to Give Appropriate Presents.

Every one wants To give appropriate
Christmas presents, but not every one
succeeds in doing SO. 4 little thought
would save many blunders. Don't give
the girl who lives in a boarding house
room large pictures or smashablc brio
a-brac- When she moves she will have
To give them all away. Don't give a
green sofa cushion TO friend who has
blue drawing room. Don't give any
body anything you would not care to
have yourself. This refers TO gift
editions OF the poets with padded COW
crs and gilt decorations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
Terry In Tanned.

Terry McGovern is reported to be
tame as kitten since his victory over
Tommy Murphy. and the signs all In
dictate that he has abandoned his hur-
rah ways OF the past for the straight
and narrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
And 1 held her happy. bIushing face

close TO mine.
If l do it's under compulsiOn.''
That's new name for mistIetoe."
cried Gorham again as he ran off to
join the dancers
We fingered Il moment for that which
was under neither mistletoe nor com
pulsion and then followed him. forget
ting all ahout the recent crisis and as
happy pair Of lovers as all SUSSEX
could find that perry Christmas eve
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16

Aims Of a higher order, even though
they be not fulfilled, are more vaIua
bic than lower ones entirely fulfilled
Goethe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
Nick Is Anxious.

Nick Hollywood. CoaIdaIe. Pa. chaI
lenges all boxers who make 115-11S
pounds. His manager is Hugh NJ
Boyle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-16
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Established 1874.

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Americas lns. Co. Philadelphia. Pa
Cecurity Ins. Co. New Haven. Conn.
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