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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

One want begets another The
harvest Is uneommOnly big this year.
and the demand for agricultural nipple,
ments Is on a corresponding scale. In
some quarters the announcement il
that all records have been broken.
Such activity means busy times and
lots Of work in the manufactures OF
mowers and reapers and other up.to.
date machinery for farmers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Mr.. F1atter-Dearic, do YOU think
We can get the piano through the door
OF our new hat?
Mrs. Flatter-I wasn't thinking SO
much about the piano as about my
new hat,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Who denies that the world is grow.
ing better? asks the Omaha Bee. A
man has been sentenced to seven
years In prison at Goldfeld. New, for
selling fake mining stock. Life Is go.
ing to lose some Of its attractiveness
IN the west II II is made a crime to
fleece a tenderfOot by the mining
stock game.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27
BaLtimore's Fire Protection.

;imore's biggest fire occurred. In Feb
ruary. 1904. favors pipelines built
down the center of the streets aud
provided AZ regular intervals with I'M
derground plugs. to which Adiu stable
hydrants. SO constructed that long
stretches OF hose would be unneoes-
sRry. could be attached.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

4 ce-educational college in Ohio Is
reported to have been responsible for
10000 weddings during it's career OF so
years. This looks as II the co-educa.
tional system il not as bad as some
persons say Il is.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Once there was a deaf man who
wore a perpetual smile on his face.
why is It that you never cease to
smile?" wrote friend on n slip OF
paper.
Because" replied the deaf party.
Il can not hear the foolish things
people say"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Just as the express train stopped
at a large station in the Midlands a
lady rushed out OF carriage to see
after her luggage. the station being a
transfer point. and, promptly turning
TO a porter, she demanded:
Are you engaged. porter"
NO. madam" was the latter's curt
reply. I'm a married man"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

The butcher was busily attending TO
his customers when a little boy APP
preached the counter and, with limo.
cent manner. asked:
Have you any dry herring, SIR"
Yes. my SON" answered the butch.
or. looking beneyolently down at the
little boy.
Nice Little Boy-"Aw, why don't
you give 'em a drink"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

4 Chicago professor predicts that
English will be among the dead Ian.
cuages in the year 1000. However.
when It is considered that the Ian.
guage has been pretty well used and
abused without showing the wear
most persons are sanguine enough to
hope that Il will live little longer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

The Pan.American idea continues to
find favor. The president has APP
pointed nine delegates TO the Pan.
American scientific congress. to be
held In Santiago, Chile, in December.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Your face is familiar" said the
passenger with the goggles. Haven't
] run against you somewhere before? >"
No, sir" answered the passenger
with the hunted look in his eyes.
You've tried a dozen times or more
to run over me, but have always
been able TO dodge in time"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

WI Ting.Fang has eight ancient
rules which assure a person that he
can live for 200 years. The rules must
be the limit OF unbearsbleness. OF
somebody would have tested them by
this time.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

The English papers have combined
10 boycott the word sufiragette. They
discovered that It's use was no assur.
ance that q circulation solicitor
wouldn't get painful of dishwater
where he had been counting on n kind.
~ welcome.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Tests Of reinforced concrete barges
and pOntoons have been conducted by
the Italian government since 1897, and
the results have been so gratifying
that several more OF the strange con.
strnctions have been ordered.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller.
Jr., have a second son. The outlook
for that youngster is brighter than II
Is for the second son of the king Of
Spain.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27
A Clash Of evidence.

Tramp Tin the road)-W'y don't YOU
go in? The dogs all right Don't YOU
see I'm Vaughn is tail:
Second Tramp Cat the gatel-Ics,
and 'e's growlin' at The same time. |
dunno which end to believe.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

In order TO keep up the supply Of
billiard balls several hundred ele.
plants have to be killed every year,
billiards Is an expensive game.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

One point in favor of the dircctoire
gown is the fact that II could not pos.
sibly be as bad as some OF the imag.
NATIVE artists picture g.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

A Wilkesbarre judge has an.
nounced that debts for sheath gowns
are uncollectable in his court II is
poor style that cannot chronicle its
own peculiar fOolishness at the
start.off,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Efforts are being made in London to
further the emigration Of British won.
on 10 South Africa.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

\ teacher OF physics once asked n
bright boy OF the class how many
kinds OF force there were. and was
astonished to receive the following
reply;
Three. ma'am. Mental force. phys.
ical force and police force"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Sweden is sending to the United
States for some OF her sons who have
forsaken her and have made a success
OF careers in this country.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Ofdce Boy-The baker Is down.
stairs aud wants to know why you
didn't answer his letter about last
months bill.
> Editor-Tell him he forgot to in.
close a stamp
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Japan's new prime minister says
his one aim will be to preserve the
worlds peace. but thus far he has not
ordered the Japanese navy to sink
itself.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

II is proposed to build a medical col.
lege at Lucknow as memorial OF the
visit OF the prince of Wales in 1905,
at cost OF 81 100000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Alfred Soderman of Worcester,
Mass. has succeeded In growing po'
tatoes and tomatoes on the same vine.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

Nine. Jeanne Marni has just won
uo Chauchard prize given by the
Societe des Gems de Lettres OF France.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

The schools OF London are to have
ioghorns, but not. II may be. as a
symbol OF the pedagogy OF old Eng.
land.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27
GETTING Names.

How did you get so many sigma.
lures to that petition?"
Well, a great many of the sIgners
really approved OF It and the others
were kind OF battered to be asked for
their autographs. "-Washington Star.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

The Erasa widow isn't the one who
sees that her husbands grave u ksps
green.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27

frage?" and Have the Bible and rS-
ligion anything TO do with ~"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
TRAGEDIES

Andy Engebretson, a tailor. vas
found dead in his room in a hotel at
GAINESVILLE
Charles Bass superintendent OF
mine at Coahnont, Ala, was held up
by negro and fatally shot.
Lottie T. and Ida Kap.an. sisters,
re pectively 10 and II years OF age,
we're found dead asphyxiated by illu-
minating gas in New York.
Seventeen persons have persisted in
a storm which lasned the Newfound-
land coast for forty-eight hours. In
all, ten fishing vessels went ashore.
Two negroes are dead and three
italians are believed to be fatally in
jured as the result of a mine explosion
at the King coal mine at Norwood, w.
Va
j. A. Holt. an engineer on the
Southern railway. was shot to death
while in the cab of his engine at Dur
ham. n. c. No c,ew has been found to
the murderer.
John Morey, aged 46 years. well
known farmer living east of Waupaca
was instantly killed at a street cross
ing when struck by a Wisconsin Cent
raj passenger train.
Charles w Blow. manager OF he
American Linseed Oil company,
Crown works, shot and killed himself
al his home in 81 Loris. Worry over
a ick son is given as the cause.
Ward Burlingame, for twenty even
year chief clerk In the dead letter Of.
flee at Washington, u. G., and private
secretary Of four Kansas governors
and three Kansas senators, died of
heart failure. aged " years.
Fire from an overheated kitchen
stove burned the Shapiro block in
Priceburg Pa, four persons perishing
in the flames. The victims were
Abraham Shapiro merchant, hi son
Arthur and daughter Anna, and his
motherin-law Mrs Sarah Blatski
Mrs Emma Russell Chesebrough.
wife of we'll known yacht designer
al Bristol. Il t. shot herself IN the
head with a revolver. One lister. Mrs.
Samuel p Colt. Is the wife of the
president OF the United States Rubber
company
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
LIQUOR INTERESTS
BECOME JEALOUS
RESOLVE THAT ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE is MENACE TO QUE
tube OF COMMUNITIES.

Washington. Dec 10.-That the
wave of opposition throughout the
country 10 the liquor trade seems to
be receding. was the keynote of the
reports of the various state organiza,
lions made yesterday to the national
liquor league The coneensus of opin-
ion expressed at the convention was
that the best interests of the liquor
trade will be conserved by having the
number of saloons limited according
10 population
Resolutions We're adopted declaring
that the industry has been over-leg-
isiated over-abused and over-taxed in
the furtherance of a creed or cult
that is basically un-American and at
absolute variance with every prin-
ciple of liberty. civil righteousness.
economics. common sense and COM
mon JUSTICE
1t was further resolved that the
'anti-saloon league is menace to
good government, the quietude of
communities and vested property
rights. and exists for no other purpose
than to provide occupation and reve-
nue. for members of a close corpora
tion by processes of perpetual agita
ton; that local option is but another
name for prohibition and is equally
conf scatory in its assaults upon
property rights.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.

Edwin P. Hanna. the solicitor Of the
navy department. Is. seriously III.
Assistant Secretary OF state Rob
ert Bacon. who has been i'll with ton
silitis, has entirely recovered.
Daniel J. Keefe of Michigan. presi-
dent of the LongshoT emen and Trans
portation WORKER Union OF America
was sworn in as commissioner general
Of immigration.
Attorney general Bonaparie mas de-
fined a real compound" as relates 10
whisky as enough viii ky to make
it a real compound and not mere
semblance OF one
The United States heads the list OF
boot and shoe exporting nations OF
the world, the value Of exports IN
sos aggregating S11470,0o0. accord
ing to the bureau of statistics
The interstate commerce com
mission refused TO change its opinion
in that $3.50 per 100 is suihcient lot
The transportation OF furs in bales anu
boxes from St. Paul TO New YORK.
Separated statehood for Arizona
and Few Mexico at thu session was
advocated by delegations from tne
territories which will camp out III
washington until their object mas
been attained.
The honor of dropping The hrst ohl
into the hopper at this ses ion leii V
representative Oyeretreet OF INDIANA,
,yitb measure for an increase oil ~
n4r cent in the enlisted strength Oh
the army -
The indications are that the Jap
a.asa.A merican entente, designed to
nroteet the territorial integrity Oh
China win be the subject OF great
deei NJ debate in executive Sc son OIL
The senate during the present Sc ssioh.
The president has acce pied the res
ipnation of Second Lieutenant Gavin
p Titus. Fourteenth United STATES
infantry. the first man TO scale lhe
walls of Pekin in August, l9oo' uurihs
the boxer trouble . Lieutenant TITUS
win engage in business.
President Roosevelt has appoihteo
Rufus Thayer of the District OF 90
lumbia as Judge of the United states
court at Shanghai. China, succeeding
Judge Lebbius !. whitley resigned
Judge Wiley was for long time un-
der serious charges, but was exoner-
ated. His re ignation Is voluntary
The report of the commissioners OF
Indian affairs f. f. Leupp, suggests
the transfer to the several state gov
ernments OF the Grand Junction and
Fort Lewis schools, Colo; the school
al Genoa, NeD; at Chi,occo, Okla; at
Lha,1berlain. s. D.; at Morris, Mimi;
and at Carson, Neb.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
100000 A DAY
LOSS OF WAGES
SUCH CHAIRMAN YCAKUM DE-
cLAREs WAS RESULT OF RE
CENT PANIC.

Chicago, Dec. 10. Pierpont Nor
gan, alter the atigues of a day spent
largely in refusing to be Interviewed
f5t publication and dodg ng photog
raphers. sat at the banquet board OIL
the Chicago association OF commerce
last night while b. F. Yoakum. chair.
man Of the executive committee OF
the Rock Island-Friseo lines, discussed
Our Country and Our Railroads.
Mr.. Yoakum declared that the panic
OF last winter caused a shrinkage in
the payrolls OF the railroads 81 100000
O day, largely as the result OF mis-
directed arbitration against the roads,
He averred his conviction that an es-
tabl.shed railroad policy by the gov
eminent is necessary, out it must be
a stable, centralized one under which
the railroads can plan construction
years ahead. He said 100000 miles o
road will have to he built west and
southwest of Chicago 10 care for the
increasing population and commerce
The railroads alone he said. cannot
solve the transportation problem Of
the country. but he government must
adopt as broad and comprehensive a
waterways policy as has been pursued
by the capitalists in building railroads.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16

will remain until fully restored to
hea tn.
King Edward has had some diff
Guilty in shaking OFF the cold and
touch of rheumatism from which he
has been suffering. He was Obliged to
remain in the house a week, and viii
90 TO a resort on the south coast
where the weather is milder-
An explosion in the magazine at the
military station at Calcutta resulted
in the killing of eleven men an" the
wounding of twenty-six others, al
natives It was at first reported thaI
the accident was the work OF agita
tor bun this rumor was quickly dis
proved
The new cabinet OF Presideni-eiecl
Hose Miguel Gomez of Cuba, is semi
oficiallv announced as follows: Sec
Rotary of state. Justo Gar ia Velez;
ecretary of Justice Pelayo. Garcia;
secretary of the treasury Mercenne
Diaz de Villegas; secretary OF govern
ment, Eusebio Hernandez; ecretaTy
of agriculture, Ortelio Folio, secretary
of public instruction, Canon Mesa
secretary of public work., Benito La
euerela: secretary of sanitation Dr.
Nicholas Alberdi
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
oRIrIlARv

Laura Roxana Hilbert, aged 80. the
Oldest inhabitant of Wood county. is
dead
Thomas 3. Coon died at his home in
xxi 3ourn, aged G2 years. Mr.. Coon was
. r. phew 9 John b yIiet, formerly
~ Milwaukee,. and went to Kilbourn
u boy with Mr.. Vliet when he sur
yeged the ground for the location of
the village of Kiibourn.
DR. Ernest A. Matthaei. who had
been a praeticing physician in Chi.
cago for fifteen years. died Saturday
at Sierra bIadre, Cal. whittier he
went in search Of health last spring.
He was a native of Chicago and a
graduate of the medical school of the
University of Illinois.
Frederick A. Thomaa probably the
oidcst commission merchant in Chi
cago, died suddenly at his home in
Rogers Park of heart failure. Mr.
Thomas had been in the commission
busine $ in Chicago for forty years.
Five years of that time he was on
River street and the balance al 121
South Water street He was born Dec,
81, 1881. in New York state. He came
west with his parents when YEAR
of age and located at Rockford, where
his father long practiced as ply
stefan. In 1856 he came to Chicago and
at first engaged in the manufacture of
pick ed cabbage which was sold to
the United States army. During the
war he was one of the sanitary com
mission that went to Fort Donelson.
He was the originator Of the Califor-
MIA Fruit Refrigerating line. which
was afterward sold to the Armours
and Swifts.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
DOME Sic

The National Council of Jewish
Women elected Mrs Hugo Rosenberg
of Pittsburg president for three years.
a discharge in bankruptcy was
granted 10 Mrs, Caroline Leslie Car.
ter Payne. the actress. Mrs. Payne's
liabilities amounted 10 st9l4lS and
her assets to $5T9e6
The trial OF In Whang Chang the
Corean, charged with the murder of
Durham White Stevens. American ad
wiser to the government of Corea waz
begun in San Francisco
Valuables worth over 100000 are
reported to have been taken from the
home of Mrs. George Wood. wealthy
Philadelphia recu e as She lay dead
in her home October 10.
Governor Curry OF New Mexico is
in Washington to renew the fight for
statehood for Nav Mexico and Ari
zona. He conferred with the president
who Is II full sympathy with the
movement
Fifty.hye OF Ohios eighty-cirhl
counties are dry Seven are Wet
This is the re alt OF six months work
of the Ohio Anti.Saloon league since
the Rose county option law Went in.
to effect
May Irwin the actress. Who was
stricken with illness az s. Louis. has
failed 10 show Improvement thus far
She has developed tonsilitis and prob
ably will not be able to resume hel
engagements for two weeks.
The statutes governing the newt,
Instituted Persian council are shortl,
10 be made public The council VIII
be composed Of fifty men. thlrtv.twc
notables and eighteen merchants
They viii remain in office for two
years.
Francis J Heney has so far 70
covered from the effects Of the woun,
inflicted by Morris Haas on Novemhoi
l@ that he wa abe 10 leave the hos
pital for Kenifeld Cal wher, h,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The name 'Elgln Butter" on car.
load OF the product made in Indiana
was the issue in lawsuit heard at
Elgin, III
one tiny dog al the New York dog
how. which opened at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel in New York was sold
for 81 500
The Jane sville aerie OF Eagle has
decided to give the Mercy hospital an
endowment of siO0 a year to be used
for caring for sick members if any
should nee d asst tance.
Steel laying on the sections of tho
Milwaukee road in Montana GRO sing
The Rocky mountains has stopped,
and viii not be resumed until the
snow thaws next spring
The Dumbarton bridge and eutoff
over San Francisco bay. saving fifty
miles of travel will be completed and
regular trains will be running over
the new route late In February
The long ocerdue ship Haddon Hall
arrived at Seattle. 2I5 days from liv.
erpool II was only by the best he
roic fight that the boat was prevent.
ed from laundering in the south At,
lantic
one of AIRS Aurel Batonyi's two
uits for divorce has been diseontin.
ued in New York to make place for
the second suit. which contains the
twelve allegations of the first suit and
two more IN addition
Health Oficer A. H. Broche OF 0sh.
kosh has received notice from the
state board of health that that city
Is TO be made one ii the centers for
free distribution of antitoxin for diph,
iberia TO poor patients.
Coal operators, mine owners. en-.
giueers. practical miners, scientists
and officials at Pittsburg for the Amer.
lean mining congress, participated in
the formal dedication OF the federal
governments laboratory and testing
station
After closed season OF six week
fishing was resumed ~ Two Rivers
There are eighte"E gasoline boats and
one tug fishing out OF this port. The
boats will fish as ,ong as They are
able to get to Their nets without n-
reference from ice and slush.
Jus, six minutes were required by
a jury TO declare a. r Gilbert as.
sistant general freight agent OF the
Chesapeake aud Ohio railway. not
guilt, OF the charge Cf allowing re-
bates 60 w r. Johnson 4 Co. grain
dealers al Richmond, V2.
Fire in schoolhouse at Sayre. Pa.
endangered the lives of many pupils
The children fed panic stricken to.
ward the door, but Miss Harriet Sa.
mons, teacher, soon checked the
stampede and all passed out unin.
jurcd
In the case Of Gustave Den Donckers
against the Bundy Lumber company
at Merrill for damages 20 the amount
OF S25.o0o for personal injuries re-.
ceiyed while in the employ OF the
WordeE Lumber company, compro
mise was effected out Of court ana the
! case settled for $500
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
CHARGED BY BUFFALO.
Thrilling Expe rience OF a Timber
Cruiser in Montana.

Cruiser in Montana.
Spokane. Wash, Dec. 10.-Charged
by a herd of buffalo which drove him
into a treetop. where he was forced
to remain until near.y dead from ex-
posture. was the experience of James
Thomasson of Couer d'Alene, Idaho.
"a miles east of Spokane, a govern
tieEt agent on the Ffathead Indian
reservation, in extern Montana
Thomasson was cruising the big do
main when the herd made the charge
He skidded quite a distance on his
snowshoes ard then managed to
Chamber up a tree. just as the en-
ragged buffalo reached the base. The
beasts. remained an hour paving the
snow and throwing their weight
against the tree. When the animals
returned to the canyon ThomaSson
climbed down and went to camp.
Antigu-The Amigo Telephone com
pany viii Immediately install a new
GOO multiple latest improved switch
board at a cost OF So GEO. Earfy in
the spring much aerial work win be
replaced BY coudaits, several thousand
feet OF cable win be strung. and sever
al miles Of lines added to the present
county extensions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
on. anon Restores Sac. eh.

Raciut Wis. Dec. f0.--At the st.
Luke's hospital an operation was per
formed uron the jaw OF Frank Chris
Hansen a bicycle dealer, which re
stored his speech. Eleven years ago
Christensen was struck In the mouth
by rifle ball. the force of the bullet
imbedding one of the teeth in the jaw,
Unsuccessful attempts were made to
remove the bullet and tooth. On &C.
count OF the wound the speech Of
Christensen was impaired Il became
worse and the man submitted to an
N-Tay examination and the operation
was decided upon
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-12-16
TRUST
IS INCUBAT|NG

Chicago Dec. 10.--Seventy-tive the
aters between Chicago and San Fran
cisco including the playhouses in
Omaha. Denver and San Francisco are
TO be merged into one conpany, &C
cord.ng TO a Chicago report which
credits the story TO an authoritative
source. klaw and Erlanger are said
to be The prime movers in the exten-
sion OF the so-called trust, although
others are declared TO be interested,
owners and lossees of the playhouses
in a great number of western cities
are reported as speeding toward Chi
cago 10 confer with Erlanger, and the
attorney for the combine.