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Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
SUES FOR $4,000.
Mrs. Vandeventer Seeks to Re-
cover From the r. 4.

Mrs. Lucy b. Vandeventer has
entered suit in the circuit court
for $4,000 alleged damages
against the G. & A. railroad, for
the death of her husband, Dr. f.
ID. Nandeventer, who was killed
by Il c. & a. train at Laddonia on
the night Of the 4th of July last
Dr. Vandeventer attempted to
cross the tracks, it appears, just
as the train came up and his body
was hurled upon the platform.
falling perhaps 30 feet away,
striking Mrs. Ben McVey who was
standing on the platform and who
was also severely hurt.
The petition for the suit recites
negligence, among other things
and that the train was running at
a very high rate of speed, con.
trary to the city ordinance.
f. c. Kennen of Laddonia and
p. II. Cullen and Barclay and
Fauntleroy of st. Louis are the
attorneys for the plaintiff.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

the following paragraph: Prac-
tically every resident of Audrain
county, Mo-, knows j. j. John
ston, and there are very few
farmers or feeders that can give
him any pointers regarding the
feeding game. j. j. has been in
the business for many years anG
says CIT PAYS TO MAKE
THEM GOOD" lie had three ears
Of cattle and hogs of his own
feeding here Monday, including
fifty-six Angus and Whiteface
steers averaging 938 pounds at
$685., and fifty-two hogs averag-
ing 225 pounds at 1920, both sales
representing top prices that day.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
Sue for $4,000.

Enoch Gentry as guardian and
curator of Viola Nadine and Ash
burn Gentry, minors, children OF
the late Curtis Gentry, has
brought suit in the circuit court
for $4,000 alleged damages, sus-
tanned by the death of the said
Curtis Gentry, who was killed by
a Wabash train, a year since, a
couple of miles this side of Cen
tralia. Gentry was working with
a gang of section men when a pas
senger train was seen approach'
ing and, the petition claims
Gentry was ordered to remove &
jack they had under the rails
when he was struck by the engine
and instantly killed,
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
Annual Memorial.

The Mexico Lodge of Elks hel I
their eighth annual memorial
service at their rooms last Sun
day afternoon. The following
eulOgies were heard on deceased
members:
Frank BrutOn, by E. D. Graham,
w. L. Harper, c. NJ. Basket.
DR.. j. Frank Spence, j. D
Orear.
James d. Price, Wallace Fry.
Buckner Harrison, L. NJ. White
The regular memorial address
was delivered by Rev. w. A. Shul
.lenberger.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
A Citation.

Joseph Weinand has brought
citation proceedings in the Pro
bate Court against John Leniton
and family to establish the where
abouts and to establish the owner
ship of three diamond rings said
to have been the property of the
late Mrs. Joseph Weinand, form
erly Miss Daisy Leniton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
A Surprise Wedding.

Mr.. Crockett Woolery, Deputy
Sheriff, who is son of Sheriff
j. b. Woolery, surprised his
friends Sunday afternoon by tax.
ing unto himself ii wife, in The
person Of Miss Bessie Crockett
The wedding took place at the
home of the officiating minister
Rev. II. |. Cobb. The bride is the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charla,
Crockett, who live south oI
Thompson.
1t is a most worthy yom.
couple and we wish them every
JOY that welded life can give.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
Odd Fellows Elect.

The I, o. o. F. lodge of this city
elected the following officers for
the ensuing year last Thursday
night:
Noble Grand, Alpha NJ. Owen.
Vice-grand, Leo Hanley.
Fin. Secretary, S. j. Sanford.
Cor. Secretary, Il. NJ. Gamble.
Trustee, Henry Preeht.
Treasurer, w. N. Boatman.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
Mission Workers.

The missionary society meeting
Of the Methodist church of Cen
tralia, McCredie and other points
met with the Mexico church last
Thursday and was a great success.
The work was taken up with en-
thuSiasm. Mrs. w. u. Rowland
served as chairman. Interesting
papers were real and discussions
entered into by the following
Mrs. J. O. McClintic. Mrs. II. L.
Davis, Mrs. c. w. Gather, Mrs.
James Roy, Mrs. +. d. Graham,
Mrs. S. p. Emmons, Mrs. Willis
Carlisle, Mrs. w. l.. Reed, Mrs. r
P. Hopkins, Mrs. Frank Sanford
Mrs. Z. O. Martin, Mrs. Jorn
Beal and others.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Ono of she 500-pound weights to
the big clock in the Court House
broke from its fastenings Monday
and fell to the flooring and beams
below The court house oecH
pants thought for a moment thai
maybe the old building was taking
a tumble.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
MRS. ELLIS TURKEYS.
Cunningham's Mules - Didnt I
Beat H. @. Hutchins' Corn.

Robert Peck out Rowena way
has shipped in 10 tons of cotton
cake to feed to his stock.
The Laddonia Herald says that
Bob Ferris lost fine pony re-
Gently. 1t was tied in a stall and
jumped over into the hallway, and
in jumping back it broke it's neck.
Mrs. Clyde Ellis, of Youngs
Creek, sold a number of big fat
turkeys on the Mexico market re-
Gently which brought her near
$500 per head.
Warren Zumwalt, near Mont
gomery City, raised 400 pounds
of popcorn on half an acre of
ground.
The Montgomery County Poul-
try Association will hold its an
nual show at Wellsville, Dec. 18th
to 18th.
w. Il. Cunningham, of Lad
donia, is caring for a fine grove
of cotton mules, from three to six
years old, all broke.
Henry Downing, a farmer re-
siding near Elsberry, harvested
1876 bushels of corn from five
acres. He also had a 16 acre field
that averaged 81 ID bushels to
the acre. He lacks a bushel Yet
Of coming up with the(yield the
Message reported last week for
H. c. Hutchins corn yield in Au-
drain county.
A closing out sale of eighty
five pedigreed Jersey cows in
Shelbina amounted to 81 $50 or
an average of $137.20 pei head
for the cows and heifers.
Fulton Gazette James Over
felt, three miles northeast oi
Auxvasse, let the firm of which he
is a memberAtkinSon & Overfelt
have twenty fat hogs Wednesday
He put them in to the firm at $6.2c
a hundred.
Perry James, north Of Gran
vile, kept a close account of tht
expense of the % head Of 49,
pound hogs he recently sold a
$3.50. They were spring pigs O
his own raising. The expense
was $7O3 each and the income
$16.40 each, leaving a profit o
$215.50.
AL. Robertson, near LaddOnia
has put lightning rods on hi
three barns, scale house and res
idence.
Powell & Mundy sent load o
hogs to the st. Louis market las
week that averaged POI pound
and which brought $40.
Edgar Martin, of Molino, sol
his buggy horse recently to Johl
Trimble, of near Santa Fe, TO
5000,
Corn is selling for 40 and 5
cents bushel in Molino neigl
borhood.
w. II. Adams & Son, IA mile
northeast of Mexico, will have
public sale of 81 head of liv
stock, farm implements, feed, etc
on THURSDAY, Dec. 10Th. Som
geed offerings Don't forget tn
date,
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

f, NJ. O'Brien, of Wisconsin,
visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. V. O'Brien, near Mexico, last
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Harrison Brown, attending
school at the State University, Wis
tied his parents in this city last
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Joe DOnnelly while working on
the electric railway one day last
week suffered a severe fracture Of
his right ankle by a heavy board
falling upon his foot.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Uncle" Gum Hanna, near
Santa Fe, who has been quite i'll
for several weeks, is recovering
his health again.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
A STORE ROBBED.
A Justification for Chewing Gum
Draws 80 Days in Jail.

charged with petit larceny-for
which he drew 30 days in Jail.
Albret Wilcox, of Ashburn,
wanted to join the Eagles without
paying the initiation fee or riding
the goat; ne stole some Eagle
books and an Eagle pin and an
overcoat and now he must answer
to the law.
Rev. and Mrs. II. C. Ostrom, OF
Fulton, will leave next month to
engage in missionary work in
Japan.
The citizens of Wright City an1
the surrounding neighborhood
held a meeting Wednesday night
to discus sthe question of estab-
fishing a township high school.
Misses Alma Sublett and Miss
Annie Tucker, both Of near Halls
vile, won prizes in needle work in
the contest of rural schools held
recently at Columbia.
A lot of young fellows chari-
varied a newly welded couple at
Bowling Green a few nights ago.
The groom much to the astonish-
ment of those mischief bent joined
in on the beating" and one of the
youngsters carried his head in
mourning" the next morning.
Long Branch store was broken
into recently and about $100
worth Of goods were stolen. A
negro boy was suspected. He
was arrested and confessed anu
was lodged in the Paris Jail.
Justification at last for chewing
gum. The Fulton Gazette gives
lit: "W. Ed Jameson, the Fulton
real estate agent, got back to
town from Shamrock, a distance
of twenty-five miles, Saturday
afternoon, on one measly little
piece of chewing gum. Mr.. Jane
son, with his son, Boulware, was
at Shamrock that day on business,
going in an automobile, and on
, their return, when mile south OF
the village, the copper pipe
which conducts gasoline from the
tank to the carbureter broke
loose at both ends and caused the
machine to stop. Father and sOn
tried to stop the leak but in vain
until Mr.. Jameson noticed that
Boulware was chewing gum, ant
, asked for a fresh cake of the wax
, But a moment was required tC
f soften it and apply it to the hole
e in the pipe. The gum was band
, aged into position with splint'
and wire, and the machine
started. Once started, it was no
, necessary to stop on the entire
|, trip to Fulton"
;, 1t is told that a Paris 1--WE gues
6 it, Paris, No. farmer and hi
wife recently lost their last hog
9 They agreed not to say anything
!, and they would know the frs
! person mentioning their loss wa
the thief. Sunday they entere'
Q the church and the minister rea,
out his text: 81 have meat to ca
;, that you know not Of" Nudginl
. his wife the old farmer whispered
Maria, we never did suspect him
:, did we"
q Field Afford of Perry won
four dollar hat off John Ryan O
% Vandalia at each of the campaign
l. w. j. Ryan was looked upon d
- an old bachelor but two years ag
- he took unto himself wife. Alfor
had won so often off him that h
ran another risk; he told him ths
If ever the stork visited his HON
to go to the furniture store an
T get the best cradle and have
,r charged to him. The baby arri'
n ed few days ago and Afford
going to have to pay this time,
lg
s. The Martipsburg Oracle says
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Miss Annie Paris and mother
have moved to Mexico from Rush
Hill. They bought a little home
from G. w. Younger, Mrs. Paris
was a resident of Mexico about 80
years ago. She is past 80 years of
age.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

The Martinsburg Oracle says
II. D. Worrell, Mexico's populer
jeweler, established his business
there twenty-three Years ago. Mr
Worrell has large trade and is
AN extensive advertiser
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
Ducks Roost in Trees.

Laddonia, Mo-, Dec. 1.-Dr. j
D. Barton of this city has -four
ducks that roost in trees each
night just as chickens do.
Outside of their~queer sleeping
places, they resemble other ducks
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08
THE x. g. POULTRY SHOW.
Audrain County People Win
Premiums-An Interesting
Interview.

The following Audraln county
people won premiums in the big
Poultry Show at Kansas City last
week:
s. c. Buff Orpingtons: Mrs.
w. f. Hitch, first hen; Mrs. r. L
Afford, Vandalia, first pen.
R. C. White Orpingtons: E.
f. Reynolds, Vandalia, second
cock and third, fourth and fifth
pullet.
S. C. r. I. Reds; L. c. Nc az
roll, Vandalia, first pen.
S. G. White Leghorns: w. H..
Turner, Mexico, third hen.
The following Audrain County
people won in the big show held
at Centralia few days ago:
Barred Rocks-J. T. Beatty,
End; cock, first: hen, Bird pen.
Black Langshans-NIrs. C G..
Bledsoe, 1st hen; 1st cockrel.
S. G. Brown Leghorn-W. S.
Eller, End, 4th and 5th; pullet,
3rd pen.
White Crested Black Polish
w. T. Wilkerson. LIST
cock; 1st, End, 3rd and 4th pullet;
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, hen and 1st and
2ni hen.
Houdan-W. 7. Wilkerson, 2nd,
cock; LIST, cock; 2 hen; 1st, 2nd
3rd, 4th and 5th, pullet; 1st and
2nd, pen.
We are glad indeed to see our
Audrain people getting interested
in poultry. "There's millions in
it."
The showing of fancy poultry
| serves a more practical puopose
than that of drawing eXclama-
tions of wonder from visitors
Scientific poultry raising is fast
becoming the principal business
= of the Missouri farmer.
"We have succeeded in clinch-
, ing the first lesson of poultry
raising with the farmer" w. O.
Knorpp, of Pleasant Hill, at the
Kansas City poultry show, SAID
That lesson is that it costs no
more to raise pure bred bird
than a scrub After that the rest
l is easy, and the farmer has come
4 to look on his henyard as of mucn
t Importance as his wheat field
l The care of the hens has been lef!
:. too long to the women on the
0 farm, and looked upon as part OF
e her 'pottering,' like her flower
: bed. Not that the women are not
S as capable of raising good poultry
e as the men, for many of them arr
t more capable, but the farmer
c simply did not believe the matter
was of enough Importance to claim
IS his attention.
s "That is all changed now. am
:, high class poultry shows have
g done much to change it. What
It used to be poultry fancy has be
s come poultry business, and t
d mighty profitable business, too.
d Every five Years the American
It Poultry Association issues it
g book, Perfection" " which set
!: the standard for all breeds o
4. poultry, BY that book the fan
cier's birds must stand or fall. /
a describes every mark, ever!
IT feather which are characteristic
$, of the pure bred varieties, and tn
IS fancier has only to be honest wit
20 himself to tell how closely he ha
4 succeeded in keeping his breed
he pure. R. Z. Seyler of Des Moines
't who was at the show says tn
he reading and studying of poultr
Id literature is one of the mos
it marked features of the new scier
v tifie farming.
is "And the farmers are maxim
use of every new theory, food o
appliance that's of proved value.
S he said, 81 believe the feedins
ar housing and care of poultry
SIS given as much attention today b
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

A furnace was recently install
ed in the Good Water school
house, near Rowena.
Mexico Missouri message., 1910-12-08

Mrs. Charles Bronough of Bat
tie Creek, Mich, is visiting her
mother here, Mrs. Lamertine
Lakeland.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21

blithely sing and the chipmunks leap from bough
to bough, the Wizard of Wnsted is at his best His
mind dwell almost tenderly upon all the children OF
his brain.
"Out there somewhere said he, indicating the
lake, with the biberon in his hand, SIS the Sherifs
giant frog. He came ashore day and we man
aged to get photograph of him. and then he jumped
off the pier when. he realized what had happened
Everybody remembers the Giant Frog OF Winsted,
pictured long ago, tall the persons who
stood him and wide barn. The lake is
said have half an inch after his plunge back
into its bosom.
Professor Michael Pupin, the eminent authority
on electricity, who is connected with Columbia uni
versty, lives far from the retreat OF the fame
maker of Wnsted. His farm bore tragedy for an
automobile ran over Getrulda, the mother OF as fine
a porcine litter graeed Connecticut The
curly tailed orphans in despair. They plncd
for food ard mother and refused ordinary fare. The
Professor mounted storage battery of nursing bot
ties in trough, pig high, and in the form of plate
driving rack or saw buck The necks of the bottles,
with their rubber feeding appliances placed
through the holes bored in the side OF the rack and
the bottles being thus placed with their bottoms
up and we'll secured afforded rapid feeding by gravi-
tation. The young porkers took to this substitute
in avid aud joyous fashion, evidenced by
the swift moving of their tails They all fourished
In the chill spring they accustomed to lie
down by the kitchen stove until the advanced
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21

pole and basket ran like possessed to the gar
den and brought in her beak worm after worm so
that he might go his excursion we'll provided with
bait.
"It was a good story" remarked the Wizard Of
Winsted "and true. although another man got il
first, but 1 made New York with it in time"
How many boys have been saved from reckless
ness by the simple warning which came from Win
sted in the story of the rude youngster who dis
turbed his teacher in school by blowing into and
bursting paper bag, and in doing broke both bag
and hand
All the accounts which the Wizard commits to tha
wings of the morning have attached and al
ways suitable ones What would named Otis
E. Gillette do for instance He would be resourceful
attacks of mosquitoes the bare citadel of his brain
and had picture of spider painted on Ii
top OF his bald head, which frightened away every
pest within lighting distance
Phineas Aldrich captured % skunks in one day,
selling them for $8O25. and it was a gentleman of
similar name who had many of these interesting
animals as household pets, great was their ad-
mration for the bonhomie and cheerfulness which
he had ever displayed.
When the president Jared on opossum in the south
Winsted and its enyrons not to be outdona
One old settler declared that he kneF wildcat soup
to be beyond compare; second recommended con-
somme de woodchuck; third was sure that black
lynx puree would fill the bill
Peanuts win the hearts of squirrels near Winsted
and that appetency of theirs resulted great saw
ing for Mr.. Thomas Hicks. One appreciative rodent
on the payment of 10 goobers was acruO-somed 70
brush off Mr. Hicks shoes with his busly tail taking
the end of it in his teeth and swinging backward and
forward imparting that brisk action necessary "a
perfect polish
1t was only last May at Winsted that trout (nos
Peter) bit and hung to him for quarter Of
mile as he finally relnquishing his hold when hs
came to inviting stream
These are only few of the traditions on which
the mind of the Wizard delights to dwell as he sits
on Sunday afternoon listening to natures teaching|
and taking deep draughts at the Pierian sprn,
Peace be to him at Wintergreen, where the laursl
grows and the white blackbrds sing and long life 10
Peter IN the impid pool and al ravens hatched by
hand.
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21
The San Francisco Sunday Can

r.n;niscent mood, 81 have often wondered VINO ---
Wild man wase Do you suppose that oiu DS 49,
p1,,t could have started all that to keep tue -
dren from, getting into his blackberries'
Who c,n ever forget the spook OF WonksunNAmon'
who rose flaming wrath out OF inc Hoo -
club house there and with primitive Diuogeon pu
sred the merrymakers nearly to the Lttchheld hne.
- -. rrood Ghost story and the descriptions OF
the spirit gathered by the able correspondent iNSe
were duly reproduced in pictures and never 10 'n|
dav has that ghost of the silent frozen lake ~
laid.
VERSATILITY AND VIM IN HIM
Meteorological information of all kinds comes fro1
Winsted 1t is not recorded that late one Octoo~
Mrs Ellen M Wright was picking raspberrles 0y me
quart and that dahlas still IN bloom n s'o--
armed matron had been brought from Canaoa 10
wash all little children in Winsted and put them 10
bed amid squalls Where but in that Connectcu'
town and who but Louis Timothy Stone could haVe
discovered eha the decision would have been reached
by Mr. and Mrs Josiah Whtscomb to change occu-
patons He to stay at home and wash dishes; she to
work in the factory.
How the news SINNERS out OF Winsted When tne
indefatigabIe Wizard nvokes the muse' In one ois-
patch he announced that Minister Roekhiu was PACK
from China that pig running wild for two months
had been captured, that five large rattesnaSes anu
vioets had been seen as harbingers OF spring ana
a new order issued on the railroad was to make all
conductors look the younger.
1t is nearly time for the floating islands on Goose
pond, in the Berkshres, to begin circulating Ihey
break adrift occasionally and then fishermen sitting
on the Sargossa like cut holes in the sod, drop
their lines. through and haul up gudgeons in great
and considerable quantities.
Who can drive from his mind that beautiful lyric
entitled "Wets Want Wicked Pumpkin Pie, based
on guile of certain who placed moro
spirits than vegetable in the pastry which they sold
in temperance town? What of the squirrels, which
threw lnlburger cheese at a who had tormented
hem? How time fiesl They have long since re-
encd of their unsavory deed and died in the odor OF
sanctity When the discussion concerning race sui
eide its height did the wires from Winsted
sing with the story of the barber blessed with an
eleventh child and who Immediately called upon
by delegation of democrats, who insisted that he
accept nomination for the legislature?
LAY OF GRATEFUL HEN
Mr.. H. C. Spaulding had the grateful hen which u
for her board dug worms for him. The bird
whenever she her master going for his fishing
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21
In the Chill Spring
Ghcy Were Accus-
toned to Lie Down
by the Kitchen Stove

sufficiently to permit them to wander in the open
and to achieve sty.
WILD MEN AND WRAITHS
What memories cluster about old Winstedi How
the the wire fifteen years ago
wild man loose, terrorizing country Posse. How
much?
How the reporters went by shoals to be received
at the station by the Sage himself then slender and
with the bloom of youth in his cheeksf How he
conducted them through swamp and field and briar
patchl Shall that memorable Sunday be for
gotten when distracted farmers reported that they
had seen monster with eyes of fame, with his great
shock of blood red hair and his purple eyesa How
the hero of Buena Vista had fired at him and the
creature had bounded away leaving in his wake a
thin crimson trail Ah halcyon days thosei
Wizard of Winsted, it has been many day since
you have Brought such tale as that
DO you know" commented he "as he slipped In
The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21

looking down beheld the smilng-yet perhaps it
was all imaginaon-the knocking countenance of the
intelligent Peter
The Sage tossed bit of soda cracker to the Tun-
neng Trout and of the depths shone the eyes of
the creature, which seemed all confidence and
trust
One of the charming places the estate of Louis
Timothy Stone. where the prophet rests while the
ravens bring him food, is completely shut in by the
giant pine trees where for years the dried needles
have been accumulating in a carpet in which ones
feet sink ankle deep His favorite seat however, is
by spring in the center of his demesne, between
the upper and lower vegetable gardens, and from
its cool waters a simple lifting of rope brings
to light basket filled with bottles of cooling and
sparkling drink The glasses brought frigid
from the same delectable source, and here, where
the water rls from natures fountain and the birds