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Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
10 Years Ago.

Miss Sallie v. Roden, OF Oklahoma
City, Okla, formerly of Mexico, died
at a hospital in st. Louis.
VIII Steele, formerly Of Mexico,
had charge of the electric light and
water works plant at Slater.
Frank McCord was very Ill Of
typhoid fever.
John w. Coakley and wife left for
an extended visit in the East.
E. c. Bowers, Of Mexico, and Miss
Dempsey were married at shelbina
Mo.
Miss Helen Gould passed through
Mexico in her private a to Full
ton, where she visited Westminste'
College.
Theodore J. Williams and Miss MAJ
ME Cauthorn were marrid by Rev
s. D. butcher.
Jos. c. shriver, of Ell Reno, Okla.
and Miss Matte Key wer marrieI
in this city.
w. P. Quisenberry, aged 62 years
died at his home In this city.
next year or two. Many r beinI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
10. 20 and 80 Years
Ago This Week


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Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice Is hereby given that final
settlement Of the estate Of ]. D.
Tucker, deceased. will be made u
Tho KIaaasah4--tAnsa-nf tho pnnhdf
Court OF Audrain county, Missouri, 10
be held at Mexico, Missouri, on The
second Monday in November, 1909.
30-td F. X. Jesse,
Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that ina
settlement of the estate Of Rowland
Greene, deceased, will be made At
the November term of the Probate
Court Of Audrain county, Missouri, to
be held at Mexico, Missouri, on ts
second Monday in November, 1900.
Delilah F. Greene,
sat Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
NOTICE OLE FINAL SETTLEMENT.

NOTICE OF FINAL Settlement
Notice Is hereby given that final
settlement of the estate Of Matte 3
Ellis, deceased, will be made d
the November term of the Probate
Court Of Audrain county, Missouri %
be held at Mexico, Missouri, on as
second Monday in November, 1909
30-td Allie Ellis,
AdmlnistratiL
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
OF FINAL SETTLEMENT,

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that fnd
settlement Of the estate Of W. u
Houston. deceased, will be made a
the November term of the Probate
Court OF Audrain county, Missouri, 10
be held at Mexico, Missouri, on lie
second Monday In November, 1909,
32td A. S. Houston
Adminigtratm
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

Miss Mary Purdy, stenographer
and bOok-keeper for the Sturgeon
Header, was the guest Of her sister,
Mrs. W. A. Boggs Saturday and Sun
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

PATTON, the Wheat King, has
cleaned up millions on cotton. The
crop shortage failed 10 leave his
bank account in a similar condition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

JOHN DEE has gone after the
Hookworm. Perhaps oil viii proFe
as deathly to this parasite as TO the
deadly Jersey mosquito.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

THE number of automobiles being
sold in Audrain county should have
a decided effect on the improve
ment of county roads within the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

President J. w. Million, of Har-
din College, recognized as one Of the
foremost educators in the West, viii
appeal on the lecture platform this
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
CIDER APPLES
WANTED

John Zimmerman, l "a nu.'
southeast Of Bsntna CITY No.
igrtnds Apples On Tuesaa,o -~,
buys all the Cider Apples he can wy
1885, John Zimmerman
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
The Girls sotry.

According to her story she met
Burg three weeks ago. He took her
automobile riding almost every day
and last Sunday night as they were
returning from church, she says, he
proposed marriage.
She refused to become his wife,
she says, telling him that she had a
sweetheart in Kansas City.
Her story of the abduction was
dramatic. In great detail she told
how Burg drove up to her home in
his automobile Tuesday night and
Threatened to kill her If she would
not accompany him. She got in the
automobile. They drove TO a garage
and hired a larger car in which they
drove 25 miles to Wellsyille.
At Wellsville. she said, they re
manned all night in separate apart
ments at a hotel. Wednesday, still
under compulsion, she said she board
ed the train with Burg.
When he went in the smoking car
she told her story to the train crew
ION her arrival at Union Station sh
was told by Conductor Walsh tina
Burg had left the train at NNs@4asar
tier avenue.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
EnaIIsh Queen Pralses COOK.

Hamilton, Mont, Oct %.
Queen Alexandra, Of England. thro
a letter received tonight from Doc
tor Maurice Francis Eagans Ameri-
can Minister to Denmark, conveyed
her greetings to DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, and expressed absolute conf
denee in his polar achievement.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

A shot from a riot gun persuaded
w. S. Gregory, Of st. Louis, former
iy of this city, TO halt as he speed
ed up the smooth, new rock road
from Black Bridge, East st. Louis,
through National City, ILL.,, Thursday
afternoon The man behind the riot
gun was Mai. w. s. Burroughs, city
marshal of National City. In shoot
ing at the automobile tires he was
acting under orders from Col. Bob
Monroe, who has had many COM
plants recently Of speed limit viola
tons and has adopted drastic meas
ures to break up the practice.
Mr.. Gregory was taken before a
justice and fined $25 for speeding.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

Eta Henry, Of this city, whose
Wild escape from her halt brothers
home near this city in a motor car
Tuesday evening with Emanuel Burg,
Of Centralia, later charging the young
man with abduction while riding on
"a Wabash train, arrived in Mexico
at an early hour Friday morning and
was a guest at the Ringo Hotel.
Her brother, Henry Henry, OF Van
dalia, who forwarded her money to re
turn on, met her at breakfast Friday
morning and escorted her to his
home. The girl refused to say
much concerning her adventure ant
seemed worn with her stay in thu
police station at st. Louis where she
was held until arrangements for he.
return home could be made witt
some member Of the family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

Il did not force Miss Henry to ac-
company me-" said Burg. "She was
not threatened and she ran away Of
her own accord. When we were
the train at v~andeventer avenue.
near st. Louis she asked me to leave
It was arranged that she would wait
for me at Union Station. When
went there / couldn't find her and
came back home"
Girl Registers as Mrs. 6oycer
Miss Henry and Burg arrived il
| Wellsvfle in an automobile Tues
day night and went to the Ellsworth
Hotel where the young woman regis
tered for both: "Mrs. c. Y. Boyc'
and Husband"
They remained at the hotel unit
| Wednesday afternoon when Bur
bought a cloak, a skirt and a hat TO
the young woman and they boardeI
a train for st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

u-aannHnamE pngrtmaees +srh~
Budweiserian stfdios by out-of-town
topers has received a serious set
back. A railroad conductor who
runs through this city, on n OF
the Trunk Lines, says the new
law against carrying "drunks'' or al
lowing liquor being imbibed on the
cars is a good one and is making
itself felt
Every Saturday night he has been
in the habit Of carrying a party OF
/ regular visitors TO the Joy Juice
places here and they have proved
more or less troublesome. After the
| new law went into effect making 1t
| an offense for a conductor to carry
men intoxicated he started in to
put a auietus on the weekly DRINKS.
Now" said this particular col
lector Of cardboards," / carry a Sat
urday night party that resembles a
Sunday School picnic. The first
week after the law went in the same
party of "drunks" boarded the
train. One Of them is given to be
ing a little bully and when | entered
he drew his flask and started t.
take a long drink.
81 stepped forward and in a few
vvords told him what would harper
If he did and that II he wasn't qule'
iii would put him OFF. furtheI
stated the first man TO show h
was in anyway under the Influence
OF in~toxicants would be showed of
r at the next station. I'll tell yo'
that law is a good one"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

Mrs. Eta Tucker has moved TO
Denver, Colo, to reside.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
M-ontsomery. oct. Is.

Doctor w. A. Homphill, convicted
and sentenced to two years In the
Pcnitenthry foV performing an oper'
alton which resulted in the death
az Miss Elizabeth Gleason. the Ian.
coin County school teacher. VIII
have until the spring term 90 pre-
pare for a new trial, granted sew
erai months ago In the Circuit ccur'
at Troy.
The regular fall term has been
held aud his case vas not called.
There VIII be no opportunity to heal
tho case until spring unless a spec
lal session Is held by Judge Barnett
whch Is unlikely.
Or. HcmphAi and the former Meth
oalst preacher. Clyde w. Cow, who
also was convicted in connection viii
the death Of Miss Gleason. both an
out on bond.
Cow Is asking for a new trial, buI
4 has not been granted He received
a four year sentence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

A ease OF mistaken identity caused
John w. Halliburton Of Carthage,
Mo-, one of the most widely known
lawyers Of Southwest Missouri, faith
er of John Halliburton, 20 years
old, the former Missouri State Uni
yersity student, who mysteriously dis
appeared from Columbia, to engage
in a frultless search for his son, in
this city yesterday.
Mr.. Halliburton investigated the
clew yesterday afternoon, according
to Edward c. Grow, former attorney
general, and found that the young
man seen with the party Sunday was
not his son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

6dlHHlOuB MOu's W. 80
While the greatest disorder pre-
vailed and before a divided audience
Of friends and bitter enemies. Doc
tor Frederick A. Cook tonight de-
nounced Edward N. Barrill az a
falsifier. The explorer then made
an affidavit on the stage and was
sworn by a notary public that he
had been to the top Of Mt. McKin-
lev on Sept. 1896.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
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Chicago. III. Oct.

CnlcagO, Ill.,, Uct. ~.
Facing the possibility Of being
placed behind prison bars Thursday
John X. Walsh Wednesday pull.
Cd himself out of the financial slough
He made the final arrangements
which will not only insure the pay
ment Of his debts In full, but will
leave q handsome competence for
himself and family. He closed
an option with the United States
Steel Corporation for the sale of his
railroad properties for a sum approx
mating $27, OO0, 900.
With the money paid down for his
option, said to be 500, 900, Mr..
Walsh Thursday paid the In.
terest on the note of $7,121, ss7 held
by the clearing house banks. which
interests amount to $71,121, and
VIII then have three months more in
which to close up the details of the
transfer OF his properties.
Five Secret-Service men have been
detailed to watch him day and night.
The sale by Mr.. Walsh Of his rail,
road properties for a sum that will
so enable him, II is said, to nav in.
to the Golfers Of the Chicago Nation
al Bank sufficient money to declare
a dividend of 100 per cent upon thai
stock and stlll leave him a com
Portable fortune, is considered by tn,
lew financiers who knew about /
wednesday a marvellous achievement
Columbia Mo-, Oct. 30.
After the Missouri Synod Of III,
presbyterian Church of the UniteI
states adjourned here, the delegate
met as a convention Of citizens an,
by a vote Of 40 to 5, Endorsed III
movement for a Statewide prohibI
tlon amendment to the Constitution
Of Missouri.
Judge William II. Wallace. who /
at the head OF the movement. wa
strongly Indorsed also. The synod
sHuhg as a court Of Jesus Christ
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

After three years of litigation, Har-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

next year or two. Many are being
sold In Mexico as well as in the
o~ouptry,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04
STOCK HOLDERS mrsrINo

For shs Purpose of l~uorsssl0, i,
ltaI stock. S'p
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

33.4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-11-04

w. P. Quisenberry, aged 62 years,
died at his home In this city.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
TRIBUTE TO LABOR PRESS.

Secretary Morrison had the following
to say of the Labor Press in his report
to the Toronto A. F., of L. convention:
1.-THE LABOR PRESS IS BECOM-
ING MORE AND MORE A VEHICLE
THROUGH WHICH THE MEMBER
SHIP IS BEING INFORMED AS TO
THE NECESSITY OF ORGANIZA-
TION. THE ENCOURAGEMENT
THAT CLEAN CUT LABOR PAPERS,
THAT HEW TO TIE LINE OF
TRADES UNIONISM, CAN GIVE TO
THE ORGANIZED WORKERS IS DIFF
FICULT TO ESTIMATE. THEY ARE
OF INESTIMABLE BENEFIT. A
CITY CENTRAL BODY, WITHOUT
AN OFFICIAL ORGAN, HAVING THE
RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE OF
THE RANK AND FILE OF THE OR
CANNED WORKERS, CAN NOT AC-
COMPLISI TIE MAXIMUM RE
SULTS.'
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
MUST STAND FIRM.

MUST STAND FIRM
The time has arrived when every work.
ing man should consider what he is doing
to better his condition
American freedom is too sacred to be
sacrificed upon the altar of monopolics.
Principles should be everything to the
wage worker, next to his God, his family
and his country. We put. principle first
because it leads to the latter Show us a
man who reads and learns how to better
his condition, who is not striving to shake
of the yoke of oppression that now sur.
rounds him. Show us the head of a
family who, through long years of toll
with careful forethought and the God.
given assistance of loving helpmate is
not striving to better the condition of
himself and little ones. Principles should
be everything to us, and fcaitly to any
other cause a secondary consideration.
If we don t strive to maintain our priu.
ciples, ou- PROFESSIONS are but Il mockerv,
and enemies scott at the efforts we under
take for the amelioration of the toilers,
We must be firm and steadfast in our
fight against oppression. We cannot af
ford to live on sentiment or memories,
but must buckle on the armor and strive
by united efforts to gain that which is
vouchsafcd to us by beneficant Creator
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25

Criminal thoughtlessncss is Il crime for
which society has, time and time again,
sent men to the gallows. 1t has veen the
cause of countless failures and disasters.
Were 1T not for the thoughtlessness or in
difference of large proportion of our
membership trade unions the constant
campaign against convict, child and other
underpald labor would be unnecessary
But it is still necessary, and will continue
so until our inert members wake up and
purchase only fair made, union labeled
goods 1t is hardly a square deal to
expect your fellow worker to patronize
your union card or label if you ignore his.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
READ AND THINK

The workingman who doesn t believe
IN trade unions ought to read little and
then think aSlittle. Prior to 1920 the
work day was eleven to twelve hours, or
from sun to sun. In that year the asi-
tation for teu-hour day became quite
common and resulted in quite a number
OF strikes. The merchants, manufacturers
and employers generally pledged them
selves not to employ laporers unless they
agreed to work twelve hours for dollar
a day.
From 1880 to 1865 the ten-hour con-
tests resulted in a number of strikes and
loekouts. The conspiracy laws sent hun
dreds of our wageworker fathers and
grandfathers to Jail, the military was
called out on the slightest pretext, and
the ten-hour agitators were openly de.
nounced as a lazy, worthless gang of
loa1ers and drunkards. The loss in wages
through strikes and lockouts resulting
from this agitation APPOINTED to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
We are reaping the benefits of their
efforts, privations and punishments Are
grateful to those stanch old union
sires! An you fellows who work but
eight or ten hours are reaping the bene.
hts OF unionlsm. Arc you willing to ac-
eept these benefits without giving union
ism your good will and support in re-
turnf Think this over as you go to and
return from your work. Unionism needs
your cooperation.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
TRUE PATRIOTISM.

If Charleston citizens would make it a
point to patronize home industries there
would certainly be an improvement in
conditions all around that would surprise
even the most pessimistic of our people.
Take the items of stogies and cigars
purely a luxury-Charleston could give
employment to at least three hundred ad.
ditional stogie and cigar makers if the
domestic product was called for and in.
sisted on by those who consume the pen.
tertiary and sweat shop product from
other cities
So ON down the line in every industry
there is room for Improvement
The mechanics employed here spend
their earnings at home The major Dor
ton of their wages goes into the arteries
of trade and their little savings are de-
posted in local banks. The money sent
away is lost to Charleston
1t is foolish and suicidal policy for
our merchants, especially the cigar stores,
to neglect home industries. On the con-
trary, it would be an act of business sag
acity for them to boost and patronize the
local enterprises whenever and wherever
they can.
Let us all make it n point to patronize
home industries, and thus help make
Greater Charleston
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25

The Rev. Charles Stelzle, whose know
ledge on the labor press in general is per
haps greater than that of an other man
not engaged in publishing one, says that
the labor press is the fairest in the
world, because it has admitted to its col
umns criticisms against itself which no
other paper would dare do. The labor
press exists for the whole labor move
ment, and not simply for a part of ii. >
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
thursday, NOV. %, 1909
LABOE'S WATCHWORD,

,nW ttdnI by omr friends nnd
minister u aiHginu 'pbnkr- tn ni%n
Jn,tie~ ,nio arr either indite, pn :,
=, Wigent or h0stie, and, ,CheneDer Op-
porfmnity affords, secure the election
# intelligent, honest, earnest t,-ndex-
r"nixtx ,rith, unbIcmished, paid M
am cards in their DOxse&siOn.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The A. +. of L. committee on the La
Dor Press at the Toronto convention ex
pressed itself on that subject in the fol
lowing manner in its report which wal
unanimously adopted
The position of your committee on the
subject of Labor Press is clearly express
as follows:
We desire to express our thanks tc
the editors of the official journals of our
\ ational and International Unions as well
as the bona fide labor press. We fully
realize many of the disadvantages under
which the editors of bona fide labor pap
ers have to work, but we desire to com,
mend them for untiring efforts and de
votion to our cause. However, we realize
that there are publications issued which
masquerade as labor papers, but which in
reality are but vulturcs upon the body
polite, and whose columns are open to
the highest bidder, particularly those bid.
ders who are in opposition to our move
ment. For this class of so-called labor
papers we have nothing but the utmost
contempt, but would urge upon our men,
bcrs and friends, wherever possible, to
give their support to the regular bona fidc
labor papers.
'W We desire to add that there is not a
pseudo-labor paper published anywhere
in the country that the local labor move
ment in the vicinity of its publication is
not i'll Il position to know that it is such,
and if the labor movement in a vicinity
where such publications exist will exert
its influence in the proper direction, it
will be but question Of a short time un
til papers of that character have been put
out OF existence, to the lasting material
benefit of the bona fde labor press and
the labor movement.
The Labor Press is one of the best
avenues of education available to the
Trade Union movement. Its subscribers
are found in all parts of the country and
in the aggregate are numerous. If prop
erly utilized, it can wiel. wonderful in
hncncc in moulding public opinion
Through its columns the same thought
can be impressed upon thousands of
minds, in widely scattered communities.
at the same time. 1t could be made the
means of conveying, correctly, the posit-
ion of organized labor on the question of
inJunctions and other Legislative measures
which we are interested in, thereby Great
ing greater unanimity of action than
could otherwise obtain
Your committee recommends that the
Executive Council be instructed to in
vestigate the subject of creating press
bureau, from which plate and other pre-
pared matter might be furnished at cost
to papers desiring the same, in such a
manner as not to conflict with the laws
of the Allied Printing Trades, and if
found feasible, proceed to establish and
operate such an institution
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25

If the union men of West Virginia
want an Employers Liability Act and a
measure protecting them against the in
human guard system they should man
lfest it by action. Affiliate your local
with the state Federation of Labor, thus
uniting labor s forces and give it that
power which will command the powers to
heed the call of the masses for that which
they are guaranteed under the constitu-
ton.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-11-25
CURE THE LUST FOR BLOOD.

The entombment of several hundred
men at time by mining accident
is something that no longer shocks us
We have become hardened by the FIRE
quent repetition of these horrors
The Romans nailed to the cross their
revolted slaves.
Modern capitalist society Stays its
slaves in hecatombs even while they, in
all obedience, are engaged in piling up
it's wealth.
Never before were slaves so cheap-aud
their lives SO worthless as now.
The mining capitalists paid not a cent
for their mining slaves. And the places
of the latter will soon be filed by others,
who will sooner or latter share the same
fate.
Capitalism is by its very nature, its
infinite greed for profits, absolutely dc.
void of all human considerations.
If there is to be any restraint upon its
lavish expenditure of human lives, that
restraint must be imposed from without,
by the non-capitalistic elements eff So.
ciety, and principally by the workers
themselves.
In the monarchic countries of Europe
the labor movement, with the aid of
philanthropists and far.sighted statesmen,
has put curb upon the Unsuitable lust
of the capitalistic Moloch for human vie.
Tins.
In Democratic Republican American
we are told that the destruction of human
life must proceed without let or hind
rance.
We are told that the nation has not
the power to pass comprehensive system
OF factory laws, uniform throughout these
United States, for the protection of the
life and limb ana health CT the workers
We are told that such laws would be
unconstitutional.
1t is up to the labor movement-tbe
socialist party, the American Federation
of Labor, and all other labor organiza
tions-and all the friends of humanity
to put an end to this iniquity, to force
upon our ruling class a new interpre
tation of our Constitution, one that shall
convert it from an instrument of cannbil
ism into an instrument for the welfare
of humanity-N. Y. Call.