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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
The Strobe Conn Nuptials.

We quote the following from
the Rails Co. Times:
Wednesday evening at s O'Clock
at the New London Baptist church
Rev. Truck, pastor of the Mexico
Baptist Chuch, officiating, DIR.
Robert G. Strobe, of Mexico, No,
and Miss Jessie Lee Conn, of this
city were united in marriage.
Misses Martha Brashears of Han
nibal and Elizabeth Watson Of
this city were the bridesmaids.
A. d. Hamilton of Mexico was the
best man. DR.. Will Caldwell of
Hannibal and j. U. Watson of this
city acted as ushers. Geo. Conn,
brother of the bride, gave her
away.
Immediately after the ceremony
the bridal party went to the home
of Mrs. Agnes Rector, where re-
freshments were served. The bride
and groom left on the night tram
for Mexico, where they will board
for a few days and then go 20
housekeeping.
The bride is the eldest daughter
of Mrs. Amanda Conn, west Of
New London, and is one of Rails
cOunty's best young women. She
possesses all the necessary quail
fications to make DR.. Strobe an
ideal wife. The groom is a son of s
L. Strobe and wife of this city
He is a practicing physician in his
adpoted home and has built up a
large and lucrative practice. He Is
highly regarded in the medical
profession.
The Times joins the numerou.
friends of the high contracting
parties in extending congratula
tions and best wishes to them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
Mr.. Veerkamp Dead,

Bartholomew (TolD Veerkamp
died in st. Louis Tuesday of last
week. With his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bartholomew Veerkamp,
both now dead, he formerly resiI-
ed at Rush Hill, this county, The
body was shipped to Mexico
Thursday and was taken to Little
by Methodist church cemetery for
burial. Just a month before his
mother was buried at the same
place. His death was the result of
an attack of pneumonia. The body
was accompanied to Mexico by
Prof. w. E. Veerkamp of Neosho.
Mo-, and Mr.. and Mrs. Anhony
Veerkamp of st. Louis.
Deceased was a relative of Mrs
L. Steppleman of this city.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
Judge Murray's Hopes.
S. Ed. Kendall.

The Fulton Gazette said last
week:
Northwest Galloway farmers
who attended stock sales in Full
ton Monday were enthusiastic
over the outcome of the Mexico
electric road mass meeting and
were congratulating themselves
that it would be only a few
months until that part of the
country would have rail connec-
'tions with the outside world.
Among the most jubilant of these
was Judge Thomas F, Murray,
east of Stephens Store, who is a
member of the board of directors
of the Company and has been ono
Of its most sanguine promoters.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

fully, was fined 5000 and sen.
fenced to eight months in the
county Jail.
The New Florence Optic says
Geo. Kemp and wife Of Mexico
came down Sunday morning and
spent the day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Moses G.. Lavender. Mrs. Kemp
was formerly a resident of this
place and is better known to our
people as Miss Minnie Bast.
Comments the Frankford
Chronicle: Last Tuesday after
noon Mrs. Heith Jones Of this
place received the sad notice Of
the death of her brother, Harry
Huff, who had been killed in the
coal mine at Vandalia, where he
had been employed for sometime.
We learn that he was at work tun-
neling in the mine, when the roof
caved in on him, crushing out his
life. Deceased was born and rear
ed in this vicinity, and has been
employed in the mines for several
years. He leaves a young wife, a
sister, and father and mother, to
mourn his untimely death. Homer
Griffith, another FrankfOrd boy,
dug him out from under the mass
of slate, coal and earth under
which he was buried.
The Circuit Court is in session
in Galloway county. There are 40
cases to be tried and u of them
are for divOrce-nearly one-fourth.
That s a big chunk Of infelicity
for one deal.
Petitions for the submission of
prohibition amendment at the
next election are being circulated
in Monroe county. They are being
Inumerously signed.
On Thursday eve about 10
o'clock, while attending an oyster
supper at Victor, Monroe county,
Miss Kate Burnett suddenly threw
up her hands and fell back dead
without a struggle or uttering a
word. She had been in her usual
good health, except for a slight
headache. She was 27 years of age
and a consistent member of the
Baptist Church.
Dave Gregory, in southern
Rails county, is suffering from gall
stones and is reported quite i'll.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

ed One-fOurth. This is not all, the
farmer does not even, at prevail
ing prices, get near the price for
his produce as is paid by the col
Gunner, as it passes through -
many hands, and each one makes
a profit. For instance see the beef
trust. Our hogs and cattle are sold
to shippers and shipped to st.
Louis, or Kansas City, or Chicago,
there slaughtered and the meat
shipped back into all the towns
for sale, and by the time it gets
to the consumer the price is nearly
doubled. | think the cold storage
has something to do with prevail
ing prices at certain seasons of the
year, and the wheat pit atalltimeS,
as the latter creates ficticious
prices, it can and does govern
prices at the will of any man who
has money enough.
Another reason is, so many far,
mers have gone into the cities AM
towns and become consumers in.
stead of producers.
Manufactured goods have not
kept pace in price with the pro
ducts of the farm, and this being
the case the manufacturer cannot
advance the price of labor as the
laborer requires to meet his de
mands.
If there is no check to present
conditions | fear there are break
ers ahead. Many towns and citie'
offer bonuses to manufactures il
order to build up the towns. Bet
ter offer bonuses for the people t,
go to the country, where they ca2
live cheaper and better, where
man can raise his family free from
the temptation and extrawa
gance of the city. There is no bet
ter school than the country school
where the boys can go home even
ings and do up the chores, and o.
Saturdays help along with tn
farm work, instead of being i
town engaged in base ball, foo
ball, or lettering around in idle
ness. AS the old adage says, tn
devil finds work for idle hands {
do, So stay in the country, tn
towns are too full now.
| think as education has b.
come a craze in order to keep tn
boys out of the towns that thre
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

or four school districts properly
laid off should build a graded or
high school building. This would
keep the boys at home, where they
would be free from the extrava-
gance and temptations of city life.
Again, there are too many boys,
often being weaned from the farm,
often getting a taste of city life,
want to study for some profession.
But the prosperous outlook for
the farmers at present prices Of
produce makes this look like a
foolish move, as all kinds Of pro-
fessions are overdOne.
Only a few days ago one of our
best citizens told us that owing
to misfortunes he was compelled
to 60 on a farm to raise his family
but said that that misfortune
proved a blessing in disguise.
Here | insert a statement made
by j. j. Hill, the great financier:
1.-The hand that feeds us is getting
tired of its task. 1t has found the
steering wheel of the automobile
more thrilling than the plow
handle, and kid gloves softer than
husking gloves, and they have
ceased to labor, to lie in the lap Of
idleness and luxury" He further
says, GLOW are we to prevent
financial storms of frequent oc-
curence of destructive force?"
Mr.. Cowen Of Fort Worth, Texas,
a leading cattle man, says that
consumers Of beef need not ex-
pect the price Of beef to fall as
cattle are not increasing and are
not now equal to the demand, and
that cattle men are thinking Of
importing cattle from the Arge1-
tine Republic for consumption II
the United States.
With the above facts before us,
with all the discomfort, strikes
and fanaticiSm, with the head Of
| our government aping the pomp
and extravaganza Of crowned
one party in power for over a haf
century, we see the result. Fifry
years ago we had scarcely a dozen
millionaireS but by favorable legis-
latiOn to the combinations Of
capital we now have many who
have their billions. In order to
have further legislation in their
favor they spend millions of their
illgotten gains to perpetuate that
party in power. We have had the
oil scandal, the sugar scandal, the
Panama scandal, the Tennessee
enough to fill a page. Then we see
coal scandal and smaller scandals
the extravaganza Of ROoSevelt's 5
cruise around the world with the
battle ships and Mr.. Taft's late
Ijunketing trip.
1t would seem wise for us to
turn back to the teachings Of
Washington and Jefferson as our
boasted home land will soon be as
Rome, and pass into history.
Let us notice the sad effects of
the great wealth that has come TO
those who have been favored.
They are extravagant in the ex-
Itreme and have set a fast pace,
and many others with small means
| try to pattern after them, and the
result is that in order to keep in
sight they must resort to dis
honest methods. In order to cover
Iup their tracks-See what follows
. all kinds of theft, shame, prison
walls, murder and suicide, closes
the chapter.
Your respectfully,
S. Ed. Kendall.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16


prizes, all on cattle fed at the Col
lege. These fat cattle will be re-
turned to the College and used
in the Short Winter Course in
struction which begins January
4th. The Missouri boys, also, won
on horse Judging and an Armour
Scholarship valued at $4,000.
This scholarship will be awarded
to some Agricultural College
student who is working his way
through the University.
Phenomenal prices prevailed for
animals sold at auction after the
fat stock show at Chicago last
week. The load of ShOrthorns that
won first money brought $l5 per
cwt. Fifty two car load of cattle
brought an average of $11.44; i
loads of short-fed steers averaged
$S.41, and a load of fat heifers
brought $3.50. The prices were 81
to 81 above recent years. The An
gus breed brought the highest
average, 10 car loads averaging
1923 lbs. bringing an average of
$12.0S; 20 loads of 1339-lb Here
fords averaged $10.86 and II loads
Of 1249 lb. ShorthOrns, $11.46. The
champion steer, an Angus,
brought 18c pound on foot. A
car load of Shorthorn calves from
Colorado, brought 5000 per
head. They averaged 450 lbs. The
premium car of hogs, Berkshires,
averaged 405 lbs. and sold for SO.
Four cars of Berkshires sold for
an average of 1910; 5 loads IF
Duroc-Jerseys brought an aver
age Of 1886; 2 loads of Hamp-
shires, $3.50; a load of Poland
Chinas, $3.50.
A Monroe county farmer plant
ed selected high bred seed corn
and plain corn in the same field.
The high bred seed yielded
seventy-fve bushels to the acre
and the common corn yielded only
fifty bushels to the acre.
Live Stock Reporter: "The
farmers have been unable to ac-
complish much work the past
week or ten days owing to bad
weather. First we had heavy
rains, then a heavy snow and cold
weather, " remarked James Millar,
of Galloway county, Mo-, while
here recently to a representative
of the Republic. "The snow,
however, will be of vast benefit
to our wheat and thoroughly pro-
tects it from the cold snappy
weather. There are fewer cattle
and hogs on feed in Galloway this
winter than there has been in some
years. There will be considerable
short feeding and a good many Of
the feeders who ordinarily feed
during the winter months are
simply going to rough the cattle
thru and fatten on the grass next
summer. "
Starr & Afflick, west part of this
county, topped the market for this
season with 239 head of the
"Star" western yearlings last
Friday at the National Stock
Yards. They averaged "a pounds
and brought $685..
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
Files Slander Suit.

Frank Morris and Gus Tillman,
both Of near Martinsburg, are n
trouble, Morris has filed suit in
the circuit court against Tillman,
reciting in his petition that the
latter accused him of stealing a
razor, The suit is for $1,000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

DIR, j. c. Parrish of Vandalia is
being mentioned by the Republi-
cans as a probable candidate for
Governor. The doctor is shy and
thinks it ought to be Mayor Kreis-
man of st, Louis or some other
fellow.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
Lutte DIGGS SUES
Clinton Jesse Coming Back
Lewis Ketter, Farmer.
w. H. Turner'S Chicken House
Frank Reeves, Gardener.

Gently sold 20 good calves to-
James Bates at $26 per head.
James Bates sold SS two year old
ewes to jeff Bates for 1928.
Emma Collins sold tract Of
land near Farber to Winona
Washington for 5000.
o. D. Gray sold to B. r. Middle
ton four. lots in Fairview Place
for $3.50.
E. G. McCarroll of Vandalia
won a ribbon at the State Poul,
try Show in st. Louis last week on
his single comb Rhode Island Red
pullets.
Lutte Diggs near Rush Hill is
suing the Chicago & Alton r. R.
for 1881 for damages, alleging
that a car of cattle he was ship
ping to market was handled rough
ly and the stock injured to the
amount of the above sum.
G.. w. Jaggers, northwest Of
Skinner, sold 60 acres of land to
R. P. Price for $4,000.
Powell & Mundy and Lewis &
Sims bought four loads of cattle
at Fulton the other day and had
them on the Chicago market
Thursday. They brought $3.50,
with one steer out, at $3.50. The
cattle cost 800.
DR.. D. F. Luckey, state veteri-
marian, will try to have adopted
an ordinance requiring every herd
of dairy cattle that furnish milk
to Columbia dairies to be tested
for tuberculosis. He offers to make
the test for the owners free of
charge, and thinks every dairy
man ought to jump at the chance
and have the inspection made.
The Doctor thinks tuberculosis
hogs and cattle have been shipped
from Columbia, Hallsville, Harts-
burg, McBaine, Centralia, and
other points in Boone County dur
ing the past few months.
A shrewd man in a neighbOring
town hit upon a novel scheme TO
cause his neighbOrs to keep their
chickens shut up. He ties kernels
of corn to shipping tags on which
he has written: "Keep your chick
ems at home" 1t is said that the
chickens swallow the corn and
carry the tags to their owners,
thus delivering the message as
surely as any postman could. This
scheme is said to work in 9th or
cities in Missouri where it has
been tried.
We understand that G. T. Jesse,
who moved to Hereford, Texas, a
number of months ago, has got
tired of that country and will
come back to his fine farm near
Thompson, in this county. A
thousand times welcome, Bro
Jesse. We've only one time "a
live, and Gods country up here
is the best place we have heard OF
to live and die in. Come back
come back.
L. N. Ketter of Mexico a couple
Of weeks since bought the Johr
Moore 205 acre farm at $46 pei
acre. 1t is a fine piece of land, il
/ the Bean Creek neighborhood--
the German church stands on one
corner of it-and Mr. Ketter righ
at once put on it value of 81, ,00t
above what he gave for it. His sol
Lewis will farm it. Lewis will neet
cook when he gets out there, bu
then there are plenty of charming
and worthy girls on Bean Greek
w. II. Turner butehered tw,
hogs the other day from whicl
he rendered 26 gallons of lard
Turner raises other live stocl
besides chickens, But he is MAX
ing money with his chickens. Hi
young pullets are laying egg
right along every day, He has
hen house you should see. 1t ha
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16

the building exposed TO the sun
15x3 feet, covered only with a
screen wire, and this he keeps
open summer and winter. The
chickens always get plenty of air
and never quit laying eggs.
Manure has a high commercial
value in stimulating yields of field
crops andtherefore represents cash
to the farmer engaged in animal
industry, says the Drovers Jour
nal. AS compared with CONNER
cial fertilizers the excreta of a
horse has an annual value of $27,
cattle $40 per head, sheep 81 and
hogs $12. If the farmer would
compute the number of animals
on the farm and add the annual
value of their drOppings if saved
and applied to the land he will dis
cover that the total amounts to a
very considerable sum.
The Live Stock Reporter says;
Lewis Smith, a prominent young
farmer and stockman of Audrain
county, Mo-, was on the market
Tuesday with two cars of hogs.
One load averaged 296 lbs. and
topped to days market, selling ut
1882 1-2. Mr.. Smith lives in the
east end of Audrain county and
was taught the art of farming and
feeding by his uncle, Henry Smith,
one of the pioneer feeders and
most successful farmers in the
state and also one of the most
hospitable gentlemen that the
writer of this ever had the pleas
ure of knowing. While here Mr..
Smith made the following remarks
about the condition in his section
of the country: "The farmers are
all through gathering their corn
and have their winters work well
under way. Feeding will be done
this winter only by a very few
farmers, for cattle and hogs are
so scarce and corn so high, that it
is pretty risky business these days.
We raised a pretty good crop this
year and turned out rather better
than was expected. All our small
grain yielded well and on the
whole the Audrain farmer, as
usual, has nothing to grumble
about. We have a great deal of
rain of late and our roads are very
bad at present and will likely re-
main in that condition till spring.
I am greatly pleased with the
courteous treatment | receive I'll
the National Stock Yards and my
stuff always brings me satisfao-
tory prices here"
Frank Reeves of Laddonia, is
an intensive" farmer. On one
town lot this. year he rasied all
the garden truck he used on his
table and sold $40 worth besides
Joe Considine and Judge Alex
Carter have bought the A. w
Wagner 200 acre farm seven miles
north of Mexico, paying a little
above $45 an acre. They got q
bargain all right.
Joe COnsidine bought % 20C
pound hogs of Zell Fisher last
week, paying $3.50. Mr.. Considinc
was in Perry first of the week buy
ing stock. s.
Joe Considine topped the st
Louis market Tuesday of las
, week with 80 fat cattle, which
brought him 1926.
Henry CAN'T came in from
Omaha last week with five lOad
, of cattle; two cars for himself an,
one car of 960 ID. steers for Judg,
? Baker Barnes which cost $44
and two loads, $50 pounds, at $4. G.
: for Joe COnsidine.
2 The Missouri Agricultural Col
lege exhibited a calf bred on tn
College farm which won tn
I Champion Calf prize at the grea
1909 international Live Stoc1
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
"oH, DAT PossUMi"
Drunkard Harnesses Cow-Mon-
roe County Girl Falls Dead.

Rev c. c. Long, pastor of the
Baptist church at Centralia, has
resigned and will take up studies
in Chicago University.
The Courier says that there s
an ugly rumor floating around in
Centralia atmosphere to the effect
that certain young man who
recently attempted to take his own
life was led to attempt the rash
deed because gamblers in that
town got him into a poker room
and robbed him of his summer
earnings.
Ed. Charles Swift has been
called to the pastOrate Of the
Christian church at Auxvasse.
Rev. Sam Woods of Auxvasse
and Miss Tate of Williamsburg
were married Tuesday of this
week.
Mrs. Bette Paisley, aged 70
years, living with her son, Larkin
Paisley, near Oak Level church in
east Galloway had her neck brok-
en- when an Old-fashioned coun-
try sled in which she was riding
was overturned Tuesday after
noon of last week.
Mrs. Sam Hatcher of Auxvasse
is visiting her son, Boyd Hatcher,
at Emerson, Neb.
Rev. Aspey, who is to be pastor
of the Paris Baptist Church,
opines that we lay too much stress
on the necessity of will power and
too little stress on the need Of
won't" power. Had you ever
thought of this. brother?
The town of Warrenburg voted
out her saloons at an election held
last week.
The Buffum Telephone Co. in
Fulton sued a drummer for 30
cents. Well, we have heard Of
things looking like 80 cents, and
we guess this is one.
w. j. Roberts of Sturgeon is
suing his wife, Dora Roberts, liv-
ing in Centralia, for divorce. He
claims desertion. They were mar
ried 30 years ago and have three
children.
4 j. L. Mcdonald caught 80
opossum and sold them on the Full
ton market last week. ooh, dat
'possum!"
DIR. j. f. Crewdson of Louisiana,
, Mo-, told the tuberculosis League
at Montgomery City a few days
: ago that the Legislature should
: pass a law demanding each couple
{ applying for a marriage license in
Missouri shall exhibit a clean bill
: of health. He said cleanliness and
: open air were the preventives and
the cure of those afflicted with this
disease. Close and filthy rooms are
5 breeding nests for tuberculosis
S germs, he said.
2 A Grundy county farmer came
home drunk one night not long
( ago and became the victim of al
s irrepressible desire to get still
drunken. So he determined tC
hitch up his horse and drive tc
Trenton for more whiskey-that
D being about the only town in that
t section where you can get booze
/ in abundance. Just as he was
}, about putting the finishing
! touches on the harnessing arrange
e ments he said to himself, "Thi'
o horse has horns" He brought ou
: his lantern and found he had har
r messed a COW to the wagon. HI
S muttered. "I'm drunk enough
e now," and unhitched the beas
f and went to bed to sleep it off,
y The Perry Enterprise says: TIN,
y descendants of "Uncle Jeptha
}, Lake met at their sister 's-Mrs
v Jas. w. Coons-hOme, near Lad
donia on Thanksgiving day, an'
). had a big Thanksgiving Dime
and family reunion. All eight .
kbo abil d,oy, x,,a,.a yNracanf Gal
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-16
WILLTAMsrOwN

u M. Seaver arrived home from New
York and Maine Saturday evening.
Supt. Of Schools Fl. D. Casey and
wife arrived last Saturday and art
awaiting the arrival Of their household
goods They viii occupy q. 3. VIII
bur's house on Hin street
N. B. Robinson left this morning fol
Camp Martin on Lake Champlain where
he viii spend week OF two fishing
Bert" is an expert angler and we pre-,
diet that many 6nny denizens Of The
lake viii be victims to his skill.
4. D. Poland and wife returned from
their visit to Waitsfeld yesterday Tom
reports a fine catch Of speckled beauties
for the last Of the season.
The school directors have secured the
services of Miss Leighton, graduate
Of Drawn University, for the high
school
q g. Staples has recovered from his
recent illness 50 that be is able to do
light work
Miss Clara Badger was in town over
Sunday visiting at the home Of her
brother Chas D. Badger.
Randall Wood met with an unfor-
tunate accident Saturday, his leg being
broken by the kick OF a horse.