Mexico Missouri message., 1910-02-17
CENTRALIA BOOMING.
Ewell Powells Trouble-Two Old
Boys Run a Foot Race.

The babe Of James HILBERT, in
the neighborhood of Venice, has
been i'll with measles.
Mrs. George Black of Auxvasse
has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
Azdell, of Laddonia.
Miss Maud Wilkerson, of Mos
cow Mills, according to the Troy
Free Press, is visiting Mexico
friends.
The mayor of Fulton, Don p.
BARLEY, says his city is satisfied
with local option and if a vote
was to be taken again the major
ity would be larger than before.
Paris, Mo-, Feb. 1O.-Near
Maud, in the northwest corner Of
Monroe County, this afternoon,
John Baldwin, an elderly farmer,
and Walter Sidener, 20 years old.
quarreled about corn rent. and
Sidener shot Baldwin in the fore
head with revolver, Baldwin
probably will die. The young man
is a nephew of Captain Thomas
Sidener, who was executed in the
Civil War along with nine other
Confederate soldiers, at Palmyra.
Mo, by orders of General John
NJ. Mcneil of st. Louis.
Centralia is another one of those
towns that has not yet gone dead
because it voted "dry" on the
liquor question. The Prarie Queen
is on "a regular boom. The congre-
cations of the Methodist and
Christian churches have announc-
ed their intentions to build new
churches in keeping with the pro-
gress of the city.
eyes, | was here when the
store of j. L. Stephens was blown
up, along in the fifties," said w.
L. Anderson to the Columbia Her
aid the other day when the re-
porter mentioned the building
which has just been torn down on
the corner of 9Th and Broadway
"There was "a lot of business done
there and many interesting things
happened there. I'll never forget
the time that Ned Campbell came
= in the store and told Mr.. Stephen,
he would trade him a barrel OF
, corn for a sack of salt. The pro
/, prietor said he would trade, anc
3 gave Campbell little sack o.
table salt about eight inches long
: "All right, said Campbell
l that IS an awfully small sack, bu
S it's my proposition, and II
5 stick to it. I'll bring in the corr
next time l come to town" Anl
:. he did. In a few days he appeared
d with an old rife barrel full o
q corn, and poured it out on tn
: show case in payment for the salt
= Mr.. Stephens had to admit tina
y the trade was complete.
g Ewell Powell, raised nea
IS Florida, Monroe county, Mo
n killed two men in Oklahoma las
g summer during a quarrel over
e claim and Powells has been senter
l. eed to two years in the peniter
.e tiary therefor. POwells himsel
q was riddled with buckshot by tn
,; two men he killed. He asserts thg
IS the parties fired first and he wa
G, on his own land. Friends in MOI
" roe county are raising funds
s. finance an effort to secul
=; Powells release. They call h
., trial in the Oklahoma court
ar miscarriage of justice.
Is The Monroe county court h
is, practically eliminated the office
ST. county highway engineer by r
ed ducing the salary to 5000 a yea
us The present incumbent got $10C
OF for his last years work and ser
nd ed as surveyor free. He will n
10 accept reappointment. He clair
" it would take the 5000 to keep
team 1t leaves the county witho
a bridge commissioner and coun
OF surveyor.
he The sarcastic Horse Editor