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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
A HEDGE FENCE CASE.
Interesting Trial TO Come Up at the
January Term of Audrain Cir
cult Court.

A test case as to the legality Of
cutting hedge fences along public
highways is to come mp at the Jan.
uary term of the Audrain county
circuit court. 1t is to be a hard
fought battle, we understand, and
there is more than one roadoverseer
in the county who will be interested
in how the case is disposed Of. The
Centralia Guard tells of the matter
as follows:
s. j. Bovine, Jr., the anti-sign
board roadoverseer of the Lawson
district, was served with ipjunc-
ton papers this week to stop him
from cutting the hedge along
Newt Ess' farm.
MIR. Bovine recently had all OBJ
iectionable and unsightly sign
boards taken down, had new
bitches cut as the law directs and
was proceeding to have all hedges
cut to the height prescribed by
law, when a resident of the dis
trict, one Newt. Ess, strenuously
objected TO having his hedge dec.
minated. There was consider
able feeling stirred up over the
matter and when Mr.. Ess realized
that Mr.. Bovine intended cutting
the hedge in compliance with the
law despite his protests, he went
to Mexico and had an injunction
served upon the intrepid road
oyerseer.
Mr.. Bovine says this move
does not displease him in thu
least, as the law is very plain upor
the question of cutting hedgei
along public highways, aud il
case the law will not stand tn,
test the time to find it out ant
know its weakness is now.
This suit will be of interest t,
every road overseer in the state "a
it is to be fest case. The cas-
comes up at the January term o
the Audrain county circuit court
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
OF COURSE NOT.
Saloons Do Not Help the M oral and
Material Status of a Town

Here is how the Farber Forum
tells it and how that paper
lays down the law to those who
may sell liquor contrary to law in
that town hereafter:
The petition of A. Norman
for license to conduct a saloon at
Farber came up before the County
Court at Mexico Friday. OF
course a fight was on hand. The
petition was challenged on the
charge that it contained illegal
signatures, and, enough names
were Topped off the petition to
bring the humber Of names down
below the required majority, re-
shifting in the Court refusing to
grant the petition. The defense
was represented hy r H Cullen,
and the petitioners by Ernest
Giant, Of Mexico, and j o. Bar
row, Of Vandalia.
Mr. Norman closed his saloon
Friday night and ANS quier
alnne the Potomac
Let ns hupe lIte malter' is set
lied, 50 far rs the salApN is con
eerned
/ The prophecy that salooI
would help Farber has provel
false lts material ana mora
status is lower now than when "a,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

SJuLe OF MISSOURI [ IN Lne circuit court
County of Audrain TO Januaryterm, 1907
Emma d. Sexton, Plaintiff,
John w. Lyon, Defendent.
Now this October 4th, 1906, comes plain
tiff by her attorneys and show to the
Court that the defendant John w. Lyon
cannot be found, aud that the sheriff Of
Audrain county. Missouri, has been nm
able to lind said defendant since the is
Suance'O of the writ OF scire facaS herein
and that for which reason said writ has
not been served and said defendant fail
ing to enter his appearance herein, aud
this being Il proceeding TO have revived
aud continued Judgment and the lien
thereof upon the lands, tenements and
real estate of the said John W. Lyon.
rendered by this court on June 9th, 1895,
in favor OF Emma ID. Sexton and against
John w. Lyon for the sum of 5000 and
q per cent thereon, together with her
costs.
IL is therefore ordered by the Court
that publication be made herein notifying
the said John w. Lyon and all other per-
| sons interested in this proceeding that
this suit has been commenced against
them, the object and general nature oil
/ which Is To revive said Judgment and the
| lien thereof. as aforesaid, and now YOU
said John w. Lyon are hereby notified
| of the fling OF the abOYe proceedings,
and nulesS you be and aspear at the next
regular term OF the Audrain county cir
! cult court, To be- begun and held at the
court house in Mexico, Audrain county
] Missouri, ON the ard Monday in January
| 1907, and on or before the first day of said
term appear and show cause why Sucl
! Judgment should not be revived and th,
lien there OF continued.
And tits further ordered that cop,
hereof be published IN the Mexico Mis-
sonri Message. a weekly newspaper pub
4 iished In Audraln eOunty, Missouri. tol
tour weeks successfully the last insertion
Il ta be at least l5 days before the first dal
i lotneXt term OF Court.
State Of Missouri
! County of AudraiR -
/. w. II, Morris, clerk 0f the Circuit
court within.a and for the County and
state aforesaid. do hereby certify thai
the foregoing is a full true and complet
cOppOi the Order Of Publication IN cas-
OF Emma n. Sexton VS. John w, Lyon a
full Of the same now rSmalus on file anC
OF record IN my office
Witness my hand and official seal
Done at office IN the City OF Mexico
County and state aforesaid, this lst
day Of November a. n., i96
lSRAL. w II. NORRIS, Clerk.
w. A. Edmonston. Atty for Pl'n
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
Asks for Divorce.

The st Louis Republic states
that Mrs. Mary d, Vogelsaug who
while schoolgirl eloped from
Mexico, Mo. with DR., Edward j.
Vogelsang, SON of Henry Yogel-
sang, the wealthy grain merchant,
TO Honton, Mo-, ending her school
days and beginningy as she al
leges, tire real troubles of life, has
fled 4 petition for divorce, year
having elapsed since their separa
ton
Mrs Vogelsang is the daughter
Of MIR. and Mrs !. M. Bnrhop 81
this city
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
Hurt by the Cars.

VIM. McFadden. G. & A. rail.
road emplOye, was picked mp by a
train crew last Friday evening at
the railroad crossing inst north Of
Francis. He was either knocked
from his train or fell. The in
jured man was brought to Mexico
and his wounds dressed by DR.. N.
R. Rodes. Mrs. McFadden ar
rived Saturday to care for him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

A revival meeting was held ne
celstlyat Providence church il he
east part Of this county which re
suited Ii S3 additions to the mem.
bership The meeting was held BY
Rev Russell, pastor Of the Meth
odist church At Laddonia, who
was assisted by Rev. Draper Of
Armstrong, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

saloon was first started No one
will dispute the statement.
Aud now we say this much, that
the man who sells liquor in Far
ber contrary to law is in danger of
prosecution, aud the fines will be
the limit.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Charles Brown, west of Mexico,
was tried in the city court last
Saturday on the charge Of selling
meet without license. The jury
acquitted him, on the point that
the meat sold was a product of
Mr.. Browns farm.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
81 HAPPENED MD HAPPENING. gE

Charles s. Duty aud family Of
this city have moved to Cpntralia
to reside.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

John Shuttle, cOlored, is serving
ten days in the county Jail on a
charge of disturbing 1.-THE peace.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Harry Hutton has entered upon
his duties as constable of Salt Riv-
er township. VIM. Barnett is his
deputy.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

VIM. Blanchard down on Cui-
vre, this county, had a public sale
yesterday aud will move to Okla
hema.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

B. F. Fox and Thomas Hook
have formed partnership in the
real estate business.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Miss Leah Cauthorn of this city
recently underwent a course of
treatment for her eyes in St.Louis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Joe Ricketts,, son of j, T. Rick
etts of this city. has accepted a pO-
sition with the Lincoln Trust Co.
of st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Mrs. H. q. Doyle, of near
Wellsville, visited the families of
her brothers north of Mexico last
week, Joe and Felix Martin.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Jess Lorton Of this city will
have charge of the new hotel at
Francis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
CATCHES SHARP "NIGGER. "
VIM Barnett Runs in a NOrOri-
Gus Pike County Crook.

VIM. Barnett, the detective, ar
rested Henry Gillum, colored, last
Saturday afternoon wanted at
Louisiana and Palmyra on the
charge of breaking into stores at
those places.
Barnett says he can tell tn ief
as quickly as he looks at him, tho
he never saw two thieves or crooks
that looked alike. Barnett had
spied Gillum in town the day be-
fore and suspicioned that he was
not just as white at heart as he
ought to be. Saturday afternoon
a card came from Louisiana de-
scribing Gillum. saying he had
broken into some stores tn ere, and
asking for his arrest if he came
this way.
1t was not long till Barnett had
his man. Gillum was full of IL
quor when arrested. Stole eight
cloaks in Louisiana worth SIS
each and also had two fine silk
dresses 'he was getting ready tC
dispose of-to make some yellow
gal step high,
Gillum is thought to have a pal
in Louisiana who is uncaught.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Frank F.eFletcher, after a visit
to his sister here, Mrs. John Beal,
has returned to his home at Inde-
pendence, Kansas.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Mrs. M. l.. Taylor has returned
to her home in this city from an
extended visit to friends at Fay
cite.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

The Santa Fe Record says that
6. A. Heizer and family moved
from that place to their new home
in Mexico last week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Miss Marie Richards of Perry
who has been a student at Hardin
College here, on account of i'll
health, has been obliged to return
home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Mrs. Martha A. Harper, of this
city, 84 years of age, h as been
confined to her bed by lines about
l6 weeks. Very little hopes of her
recovery.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lehnen,
down on Cuivre, this county, are
entertaining a brand new son at
their home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

A. 6. Mildred, who number of
months ago left Mexico to take up
his residence at Fort Collins,
Colo, was elected to the Office Of
justice Of the peace rerently of his
(Larimer) county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

H. E. Miller was in runaway
the other day. His horse scared
and threw him out of his buggy on
his head. But he escaped with
only a few bruises.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

Dir. Joe L. Bridgford, formerly
Of this city, now Of Macon, was re-
Gently chosen president of the
North Missouri Dental Association
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

STRAYED.- .-VDne Duroc Jersey
boar, weight about $50 lbs. Re-
ward for information.
j. @. LOWER, Rush Hill, Mo.
r. F. d. No. 3.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
MOTOR POWER.
Electricity Forced to More Work
and Freaks When Will 1t Com e
to This in Mexico?

We notice that the famous
home without chimney" built
at Schenectady. N. Y, by II. w.
HilIman, heated as it was by cleo
tricity, is to be replaced by more
modern house in which the appli-
cation of electricity will be made
use of to heat the building, do The
family cooking, warm the water in
the bath tubs, heat the maids
curling iron and light the owners s
perfectos.
Nor will this be all, for all OF
the doors are to open and shut by
electricity, and burglars will be
kept away thFn novel scheme of
automatic illumination and the
ringing of bells. The laundry
will be equipped with motors aud
the tubs with electric coils fol
heating the water ia large quauti.
ties. Even the lawn mower, will
clip the grass by motor power
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

j. e. Goodrich and A. Hutchi-
ison, two faithful railroad boys of
Mexico, let nothing but good read
ing come into, their homes. Phe
MESSAGE there has the company
Of The Rams Horn" and
ether great religious publications
Judge Heaton, of the Audrain
County Court, tells the Farber Fo-
ram that he was at Denver in
1859, when the only house there
was a two.story log structure He
says there were abopt rs tents oc-
cupied BY miners, aud only one
woman IN the place Because
there was but one woman there,
thesForufn thinks, was why the
Judge eame back
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

The Paris Appeal says that
Newt Snyder, near Santa Fe. has
a freak appetite for tobacco Dnr
inc the cold months he chews alb
the fine bnt just as soon as the
weather gets warm, he eau,t stand
the taste ~ the weed For two
reasons, then, we guess Newt.
would rather have the good old
simmer time all the lime
lsaac DSer, southeast of Mexico,
brought \ big hog 70 the loeai nar-
ket here Iast Friday II was i
| lwhopper weighed $50 pounds.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
Order of Publication.

State of Missouri In the circuit court
County of Audrain TO Januaryterm, 1907
Emma d. Sexton, Plaintiff,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22

State of Missouri In the circuit court
County of Audrain ! ToJanuBry terml9O7
Edmonston & Cullen, partnership
composed OF W. A. Edmonston and
J.. II. Cullen, Plaintiffs,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-22
All Holiday Goods on Sale on This DaI
December list.
Buy Your Christmas Goods Early While
Stock Is Complete.

imported China, Fine Glassware, Toilet Cases, ]
Candies until you have seen line. Best values in
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-09-13

turned to blacksmithing, which was
her husbands trade. In the last Is
years she has reared family Of four
children, and as her husband failed In
health she has worked more and more
into the business until now In the
suburb of College View she does ali
the work offered, with the aid of three
of her children.
Horseshoeing is the only part of the
business at which Mrs. Wilcox balks
She is able to prepare a horse for its
shoes, but owing to the handicap OF
skirts cannot affix the shoes to the
animals hoofs In the style long ap
proved by blacksmithing.
Mrs. Wilcox is 40. She has a clear
complexion and her hardened muscles
are evidence of the long hours she has
put in at the forge.
During her girlhood days she re-
ceived good education and was a
teacher when Wilcox married her at
Roselle, Kan. In Kansas married
women are not wanted as school
ma'ams and, barred out of teaching,
she turned to the forge.
81 like the work." she says. AT first
the tendency of people to stop and
stare was disconcerting. But now
don't mind 1t. know of no other
woman blacksmith in the country.
Most of my work is In using the
sledge, making horseshoes, repairing
wagons and farm implements, sharp
ening tools and the like. ] am kept
busy all the time. One of the girls
take care of the house and the other
three help in the shop.
1.-TWO OF my girls, aged IL and 10
respectively, are expert bicycle repair
ers. One makes from five to eight
dollars week at this work. The old
est is natural-born mechanic. She
can take the most complicated machin.
cry to pieces, tell what is wrong, re-
1 pair 1t and put it together again.
my husband is now in Mexico for
his health. The work is hard upon
him, but the rest of us like IL and
thrive upon it.
MY oldest girl went out last sum
mer with thrashing machine outfit
and was with 1t all summer. She cut
bands, fired the engine. fed the sep
arator and did part of the cooking for
the men. 1t is hardly girls work, but
1t does not harm her. She is as 1.-the
and strong as young lion and In
bicycle races has proved more than
match at long distances for the
young men in the neighbor God.
81 still have a license to teach and
shall turn to that this winter. when
the hlarksmithinp ie dullaet lilo
this work better than the schoolroom.'
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|ERE'S A VENUS AT LAST.

the beauty of the great statue is still
the beauty which we all admire, de-
spite the great difference between it
and our women of to-day.
In height Miss Montague, La Milo"
is five feet eight and three-fourths
inches, exactly the stature of the
marble Venus, according to estimates
by experts. Miss Montague weighs
166 pounds, but four pounds less than
the authorities believe the Venus
would have weighed had she been
a living woman.
La Milo's" neck is 10 inches, half
an inch less in circumference than
that of the statue, had the latter been
a woman of equal height with her
living prototype. Their bust measure
ments are alike, and, most remarkable
of all, 81 inches is the span of the
waist of these two contestants for SUI
premacy in the field of womanly per-
lection.
This closeness of measurement Is
perhaps one of the most noteworthy
comparisons ever made, for it proves
that the modern woman can be almost
identical with the figure Of the Miles
ian Venus, and still command admira-
ton. Alas, 1t also proves that mod
ern conditions cannot bring a woman
to such perfection of details in her
measurements, for Miss Montague
skaters that expectancy the moment
she begins to tell how she came to
achieve such ideal lines and proper
tons.
81 am distinctly a child of nature"
she said. II do not conform In any
great essential to the twentieth cen.
fury mode of living. 1t is only to
prevent unpleasant attention and COM
ment that wear garments approach
ing to-day's fashions; while as for cor
sets, have never had any on, and
never shall"
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AIR IRRIGATION FOR
THE GROWING OF CROPS
SUCCESS Of an Indiana Farmer IN n
Clay Farm.

VIII " Rocker, attorney, who, fol.
lowing severe injury in a Monon
wreck several years ago, returned to
the sod as farmer to restore his
shattered nerves, has attracted the at.
tention of the department of agricult.
ure at Washington, and the indica-
lions are that the credit will be given
to him of being the father of a new
method of irrigation and drainage.
Secretary Wilson and his experts
are watching the results that are fol-
lowing the trial of Rockers discovery
or new system on his farm two miles
east OF Broad Ripple, Ind.
He is succeeding in accomplishing
the feat of making two-and some
times three-blades grow where one
grew before; of raising So bushels of
corn on land that for years averaged
between 80 and 40 bushels; of grow.
ing so bushels of oats to the acre,
while his neighbors are growing only
% or 30, and of rehabilitating and re-
invigorating poor, misused, clay land.
According to the experts of the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton, he is doing this by methods that
are absolutely new, and that, while
expensive, are profitable.
The Rocker farm lies ON the ele.
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than five feet in any place. and from
that to nine feet under the surface OF
the ground
What is the result? Well. there It
is" and he motioned to the field on
his S0-acre farm. my corn crop last
year ran SS bushels to the acre. and
though this crop was planted on June
10 this year--after some of my neigh
bors had cultivated their fields twice
1T is a perfect stand and l believe
that 1t will run 100 bushels to the
acre. | have cut my 25-acre field Of
alfalfa twice, and II Is blooming a
third time now"-later he walked into
the field, and 1t came high above his
knees. my oats crop last year ran
81 bushels to the acre, and this years
crop, which l will cut next week, Is
good one. This road-under which
the tiles runs an ordinary dirt road
that used to be almost impossible,
but now it is a good road, even In the
spring, where 1t runs between my two
40-acre tracts.
Il have put from S72 to SIS under
every acre of the farm that l have
drained thus far, and my net earnings
last year off of the SIS acres--15 being
in woods--was $1,000 This Is net
paid my tenant and his helper the
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dom" stretches into the back country
for six or eight miles, as far as the
timber reaches--a back country that
hides valleys with green trees $50
feet high and dozens of half hidden
homes were live the simple woodsmen
of the Philippines.
Eight years ago, when Orr first went
to Dalupaon, the people of that re.
gion were living in huts built In
trees. With Orr came small saw.
mill to square the logs, shipbuilding
plant and civilization. With him
there came also people of the Taga.
log race who spoke the dominant dia-
leCt Of the Philippines, and they en-
deavored to teach these Bicols, which
was the name of the people who lived
in the trees, as much civilization as
they knew, and more comfortable
way of living as they knew it.
John Orr rules his people wisely.
He knows the Filipinos, and treats
them from their point of view rather
than from that of the white man.
When they are bad he treats them
like little children. If he knows that
the offense was committed with mis-.
chievous intent he "spanks" them as
one would naughty child. The Fill
Pine will accept just punishment and
will follow one who has administered
it wisely.
All the men Who work for Orr are
paid in cash on Saturday of every
week. If they like, they can buy at
his store, and If they prefer they can
go to Pasacao or Neuva Carceres. But
the stores are always there with plen-
ty of rice and provisions, SO that a
man would not starve should poverty
or famine catch the country.