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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30
Married Last Week.

Mr.. w. R. Harvell, a railroad
man located in st. Louis, and Miss
Eta Eastman, of Laddonia were
married the 22nd inst, Ed. j. d.
Greer, of Mexico, officiating Miss
Eastman was formerly CORES
pondent for the Message from
Laddonia. She is a bright young
woman. We extend Mr.. and Mrs.
Harrell our best wishes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

Mrs. G. NJ. Dashner of Point
Pleasant, West Va, has returned
home after a pleasant visit Mt
John Dashner's, northwest of
Santa Fe.
Mrs. Paris and Master Orville
her brother, Clabe Key, and
family last of the week.
Mrs. Yes Henderson, Grandma
Henderson, Mrs. Spears and
Grandma Fairbain visited in Per.
ry Thursday.
Johnnie Miller and family and
Miss Bell of Hannibal are visitors
at John DOwell's.
Mrs. Vance and children of Cen
tralia were the guests of her sis
ter, Mrs. Dell Carter, recently.
Abner Wilson of Moberly visit
ed his daughter, Mrs. Mitchell
Simpson, last week.
Mrs. Bess Heizer entertained
the Endeavor Society Friday
night. Refreshments were served.
George Willingham and wife
are visiting at her fathers, Jack
Stevens.
Little Nellie Wilkerson visited
her aunt, Miss Lizzie Hunt, last OF
the week.
Fred Quisenberry, Doll Hanger
and Jake Sharp and family were
Mexico visitors Friday.
Willard and Mary Harbit IF
Strother vicinity visited their sis
ter, Mrs Jess Capp, north of
town, Saturday.
Erwin McDonold and family o.
Perry spent Saturday and Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Ralph Lew
ton, SOutn OF town.
Tom Smell of Centralia is visit
ing Aunt Mary Crigler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Hale We're
seriously hurt Saturday evening.
Their horse became frightened at
a pile of concrete blocks and ran
away. Turned the buggy upside
down and threw Mrs. Hale our.
bruising her up terribly. Ernest
held on the lines until thrown
against telephone pole, getting
his head fearfully cut and bruised.
1t happened just in the edge of
town and a score of their many
friends soon arrived and carried
them to the home of Leandar
Heckard where they are being
cared for. 1t is a miracle how
they came off as well as they die
Little Glenn Lynn who was with
them in the buggy got out with
just few scratches.
Charlie and Roy Wright of Mex
leo spent Saturday and Sunday
with their uncle, Charlie Wilker
son, out on the Santa Fe Lane
They came over on their bicycles
Bro. Mcqueen filed his regular
appointment at the Christian
church here Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30
Burned by Live Wire.

Lloyd Adds, "a years of age,
was found by George Lee last
Monday near a telephone pole in
a helpless condition from a burn
of a live wire. He had fallen from
the telephone pole, where he had
been working and where he came
in contact with the wire. One
arm was badly lacerated above the
elbow, almost burned to the bone.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30
pelightful children,s paH.


Last Sunday the Message editor
in company with Mr.. j. W. Plum
kett and daughter, Miss Helen
Plunkett, and Mr.. Tom Bruce, en-
iOyed the Children's Day program
at Sunrise Christian church.
northwest of Mexico, also enjOye
a sumptuous basket dinner with
those good people. We are under
special obligations to Mr.. G. NJ.
Fox, the superintendent of the
Sunday school, Judge Alex
Carter, Mrs. A. w. Powell, 9 Miss
Minnie Powell and many other
for cOurtesies shown us.
The children's service was
delightful one-cOuld not have
been beaten anywhere, county or
town. Some of the numbers are
worthy of special mention, but it
was all so enjoyable that we give
the program here in full without
comment.
SOng-Pupils of the school.
Welcome address Margaret
Selb.
Neutrality-suspicious., Homer
Hebel.
Recitation-Children Praying.
Ada Dudley.
Candle Drill-By eight small
children.
Recitation-"Not 50 Easy.
Russell Selb.
observation-disclosures Mason.
Duet-"Dear Old Summer.
Mary and Miller Morris.
Recitation-Out of the Win
dow, Lillian Bybee
Banner Drill-By l6 children
Recitation-When I'm Grown
up, Mary Hebel.
Recitation-Old Deacon Homer,
Mary Leah Carter.
observation-disclosures Man. MI
Ter Morris.
RecitatiOn-Verna LOwery.
SOlo-Gladys Kissler.
Recitation Don't GrumblC.
Keep Still, Pansy Smith.
"Sunrise by seven pupils.
Recitation-Don't. Willie John
son.
Song-Mary Cordelia Mason.
Recitation-Freddie'S Kindness.
Cecil Johnson.
Recitation-The Maiden's Mis-
Sionary, Lola Bybee.
Solo-Unanswered. Annie Bled-
soc.
Recitation-God Bless the
Children, Bette Burgess.
Recitation-A Child's Refec-
tiOnS, Christine Schultz.
Duet-Playmates, Olivia Carter
and Hobert Cook.
RectatiOn-Edith Stuart.
Recitation-When | Am Big,
Paul Burger.
Solo-Close to Thee, Eta Clark.
Daisy Drill--By eight pupils.
Recitation-The Busy Bee.
Grace Henderson.
Dialog-The Gospel Apple, Rus
sell Cook and Emmons Carter.
Address, Rev. st. John Hal
stead, of Columbia.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30
Aged Colored Woman Dead.

"Aunt" Beck Woolery, about
so years of age, died in this city
last Sunday. She was taken to
Auxvasse for burial. In slave
times "Aunt" Becky belonged >
the Curd family at Fulton.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

Miss Laura johnson has return
ed from Jacksonville, Mo, where
she closed a very successful term
of school recently, We under
stand she will go back and viii
have charge of the same school
next year
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

Mrs. Nina Boatman Sproul, Of
Paris. Monroe county, formerly OF
Mexico underwent an operation
for gall stones at her home one
day last week. She seems to be
recovering nicely It is the sec
one operation she has undergone
for this trouble in about a year.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

The Laddonia Baptist sunday
school made a donation of song
books recently to the West Lick
Sunday school, near. Worcester.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30
Miss Lena whitson's Essay.

Miss Lena Whitson Of Mexico
has won fourth place, in the con
test conducted by the State Board
of immigration for the best essay
on missouri and Her Resources
We congratulate Miss Whitsoa.
It is an honor worth while when II
is considered that there We're hun
dreds who contested A ten acre
farm will be given to each of the
winners of first place.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

Wallace Rogers, of near Colum-
bia, spent first of the week with
the family Of James Kennan OF
this county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-06-30

Miss Ethel Hardine, of Chicago
is visiting relatives here,
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
The Salvation Army.

The completion of its handsome and comfortable home by the local branch or post of the Salvation Army is more than a source of pride to the officers and soldiers of that organiZa ton; it is a vindication of it's early claims to a field of ever increasing usefulness in this city The Hartford Post is planning a $100.000 building to be known as the Peoples Insti- tute," modelled after the Peoples Pal ace of Boston. It will include a hotel and other features of the Boston insti- tuition, not for the benefit of the down and out club, but for men who are de- pendent upon modest salaries.
 The significant feature of the growth on the part Of the army is the withdrawal on the part of the gen. eral public of their prejudice against the methods employed by the soldiers. The army has stood fast to its orig inal methods, firm in the faith that their methods are the best fitted to reach the class sought for. The com munity has learned to realize that the drum and the trumpet and the tam bourine and the singing are but inn plements in the hands of the mission
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
A Bad Civic Exnerinent.

To obtain public revenue from vice is plainly evil in principle and per nicious in practice. This simple prop osition lies at the basis of the move ment which long ago in England. and later in the United States, banished the lottery as an official means of replenishing the public treasury. It has remained for the town of Hot Springs. Ark, to attempt to utilize gambling as a source of support for municipal government.
 The frankness of the expedient only emphasizes it's abhorrence. To close the gambling houses efnbarrasses the municipal exchequer. Hot Springs needs the money, and, moreover, it's the faro table, the roulette wheele or forbids the local licensing of garnb- ling privileges. Therefore, it is pro posed that the simple course be adopt ed of enforcing the penalties pre- scribed by statute. There will be reg ular, formal raids once a week on the local temples of chance The fines will be imposed and collected with placid regularity. The gamblers announce their willingness to pay without pro- test. The presumption is that they prefer to private blacknlail a public fine, whose source and destination are known of all men. Thus it is proposed to establish in the United States a species of Monaco, with the differ ence that the municipality. instead of proprietary prince, shall reap the proftS.-Washingt gton Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
COST OF LIVING WITH AN AUTO. Lun1Ler Man of Massachusetts Con-
 templates 1t with Some Alarm.

we are still suffering from the aft CT effects of the strike out in Minne- apolis." said Thomas H. Shevlin, a lumber manufacturer of that city who arrived yesterday.
 '.An the side tracks are filled with cars and in consequence all sorts or deliveries take about 30 days longer to strafghten thfnoU out.
 'T have been tremendously interest ed in the problem of the high cost of living, and I believe it comes more we have got into than from anything else. Tn my opinion the automobile has done more to increase the cost of living than than any other thing.
 '"rhat may sound strange, but the fact is that almost everybody in the west who could scrape money enough to buy car has one; farmers have come to consider them necessity, and your tailor is apt to have one.
 Why, it costs as much to support an automobile as it did an average family l 5 years ago. A few years ago a few men had yachts, and few who had made money came to New York to live, Now everybody thinks he ought to have an automobile, and he wants to get to the city Every father wants to send his son to college, when in nine cases out of ten it is detriment to the boy, who ought to be set to work. There are too many folks reading books and too few learning to use their hands.
 The growing unredSOnaDieHeSS ana the inefficiency of labor is another con- tributing cause to the high cost of liv- ing. and the desire of people to live in the city is a powerful factor If more people would take to the land and raise those products whose prices are the cause of so much kicking the question would solve itself.
 Tn my opinion the only thing that would bring this about would be some terrible diversity. Still I believe we are in for at least three or four years of good times."-N. Y. Sun.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
Science vs. Life.

An officer in the medical corps of the regular army has filed protest against tine reduction of food of sol dieTs to what is termed a scientific
 basis. The figures as to starches and
 prcteids may work out in the labora-
 tory. he says, but they fail to leave a. satisfying feeling in the stomachs of enlisted men
 The conflict between science and life is one of the most interesting phenom-
 ena of modern times. Things have a trick Of doing just so among the test tubes and retocts. The chemist makes a new steel that is harder than any other ever discovered. The assayer can save every trace of gold out of a sample of ore. The food specialist knows facts which are so tremendous
 he has to have 3. language of many joiated words to tell about them- Yet the laboratory steel and that produced by the same formula in the mills are often two very different materials No
 stamp mill, cyanide or chrolide pro- cess, or srYneIter, ever succeeded in talk
 ing all the precious meJal-out of orei The human body, in some irritating
 way or other. insists upon having some thing more than pure nourishrnen+. It has become used ito getting waste mat eriaIs also and wont be happy un- less 1t does.--ToIedo Blade.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
ELECrRIFicATioN OF THE
 NEW HAVEN ROADS LINES
Results So Far Indicate Decided Sue cess-Bis Saving Over Steam.


 New Haven, March 10.-The results of the identification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.'S lines; of the trial of the new electric freight locomotives and of the new experimental electric structure at Stamford, have now gone far enough to indicate the decided success of the early extension to this city. It sug- gests also ultimately the electrified ton of the whole main line of the company between New York and Bos- ton. With enough of the line cleo trified hereafter to make the test com not less than 25 per cent. over steam in operation, while the cost of the new arch design of superstructure will hardly exceed per mile ope-half the costs of that already in use between Stamford and New York. The actual cost of the electricity at the company S power house at Cos Cob, not counting ly between five and seven mills per kilowatt.
 The identification to New Haven, when carried through, will mean a power house at this city as well as at Cos Cob- There will also probably be a power house at Harlem to care for the large business especially in freight on the Harlem division.
 A high officer of the New Haven company, speaking of the subject some days ago, predicted that the op- eration of the electrified line to this city would show results that would be revolutionary in railroads. The esti- forty miles from Stamford to New Haven have been put in the hands of the com pany'ss experts, but have not been made public.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
BALLINCER-pINCnOTT INQUIRY
ExSecreary of the Interior Garfield Witness Furnish
 ed the Only Sensation

Washington, March 10.-James R. Garfield, ex-secretary of the interior, was finally excused from the witness stand at the Ballinger-P inves- tiSation late today. His final half hour before the committee furnished the sensation of what had been up to that time decidedly dull day.
 The Gusgenheims' Interest in Coal
 Lands.
 MT. Garfield said that MT. BalIinger, after having been commissioner of the land office, submitted to him on September IT, 1908 an affidavit signed by Clarence Cunningham, containing the statement that the Guggenheims had no interest whatever in the Gun ningham group of coal claims in Alas ka, whereas the record of a recent hearing before the senate committee on territories shows that prior to the making of the affidavit the Guggen- helm syndicate was given an option of d. half-interest in all the Cunning ham claims.
 Attorney Brandeis. who was ques- tioning MT. Garfield, followed up these declarations by reading from Secre- tary Ballinger's report to President Taft on September A. last, concerning the Glavis charges the statement that MT. Ballinger suggested to Mir. Gun ningham an amendment to an affidavit made prior to the one which he pre- sented to Secretary Garfield in Sep tember 1908, and that Cunningham made the amendment by explaining in detail what he meant by certain terms used in his former affidavit.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
Now That He Is Dead.

There is much reason for believing that if he had been content to shut his eyes to the things he saw and to hold fhs tongue about them, George L. Lil- ley would have been with us today. He was not that polite kind of con gress1nan. He spoke out, freely and very bluntiy, in the committee room and on the floor of the house. He told the people that their money was being Squandered-and worse. He told them that business methods and business sense should be used in the country's affairs, as they are in the successful merchants or manufacturer affairs. Because he did SO, he was marked for persecution and political destruction. We all remember how bitterly and ruthlessly he was pursued. His enc mics did not succeed in destroying him: they had reckoned without Con- nectcut. But 1t will always be believed here that they hurried him to the grave
 Since his death we have seen two successive secretaries of the navy striving to bring about that applica- tion to government business of busi- ness sense and business methods for which George L. Lilley pleaded. And Secretary Meyer, this winter, finds himself up against the sullen resent nerpt of departmental bureaucrats and their allies in congress because of this belated attempt at reform.
 Now that Gov. Lilley is in his grave, here's Nelson w. Aldrich telling the senate that if he were a business man and had a fres hand he could cut down the g'overnrnenta expen ditures by $500, ,00e,000 9 year. In a special dispatch to The New York Herald we find the Rhode Island senator reported as saying:
 "A little investigation on the surface shows the government is either. run on obsolete methods or none. at all. i There is no man who has, given the subject attention who does not know that 10 per cent. of the yearly appro priations can be saved by the adoption of business methods. The American people are not distrustful of real meth ods for reform. They are not distrust- ful of the truth with reference to the way public business is conducted. We have not only obsolete methods in de- partments, but we have duplication in bureaus"
 George L. Lilley did not live to see his vindicatioon. At this rate it prom ises to be of a remarkable complete ness.-Hartford Courant.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
Pinprickinqs.


 The solid and sensible majority in both Germany and Great Britain de- sire, we must believe, an enduring peace between the. two nations, but the yellow journalists and the reckless politicians have been doing their best to bring on trouble. While the parlia- mentary campaign in the British Isles was in full swing both conservatives and liberals had much to say about Germany and German conditions; the politicians were out after votes and pfuct1ing feathers from the German eagle was much in fashion. The war scare waE worked for all it was worth, and a veritable bOgey was created by former Premier BalfOur; on the other hand the political allies of that great statesman commended the German policy Of protection as worthy of Brit fsh imitation, because it gave pros perity to German manufacturers and rorl1ingmen. British tariff reformers, advocates of protection, could not say enough in praise of what had been ac- com plisf1ed by the German tariff, while liberal free traders sought to show that Germany was being ruined by protection It was asserted that Brit ish worfling1nen ate bread like nobles. while their German rivals had ~only black bread" fit for serfsi Then it was discovered that the English royal family was fond of this self-same black bread, and some curious politi- clans immediately sent across for sample loaves. And so the talk ran, and the German people were alternate " angered and amused.-Mexican Her. ald
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
LOGAN EULLITT FINED $1o,
 WHICH HE REFUSED TO PAY.
He Sought to Serve Subpoena on May
 or Reyburn of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, March 10.-Logan M. Bullitt, whose arrest late yesterday aft ernoon on charge of annoying Mayor Reyburn caused a sensation in polit- ical circles in this city, was given a hearing before City hall magistrate today and fined $10 and costs, which he refused to pay. His attorneys took an appeal, and pending action on this Mir. Bullitt was again placed in cell They claim his arrest was unlawful.
 MT. Bullitt is one of the prominent men of Philadelphia and a son of the late John C. BulEtt. the framer of the charter under which the city is gov erned. He, with other citizens iden- tified with the reform movement, have field suit against Mayor Reyburn and other city officials in connection with an $S,000,000 loan the city is about to make. They charge the city officials are not obeying the law in connection with the expenditures of public mon ey.
 MT. Bullitt yesterday sought to per- sonally serve a subpoena on the mayor in the matter of the litigation, and be- ing unable to gain admittance to his office, stood in the corridor of City hall to wait until he came out. MT. Bu1litt refused to leave at the request of the mayors private detective, and under orders of the director of public safety he was arrested for disorderly conduct. MT, Bullitt's attorneys after his hear ing appeared in quarter sessions court and secured from a judge an order for his release on $500 bail The bond was produced and MT. Bullitt went free.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11
Fiiinino unifnrn,s.

The uniforms of these Fflipinos, " says Lieut.. R. $. Reyes, L. $. N., were marvellous creations, but some of them V oIld hardly be considered decent in Broaway. First came the cavalry, mounted on ponies and carabaos. no two of the riders dressed alike. Here and there rode an ugly .Nisayan, su- preme1Y happy in an old high hat and q breech- clout, while others had not a rag ron thenT- save a high collar. com ing well LID under the ears. Some of the rifiemen and bolomen had sort of Eton jacket, made of any color of cloth to be had, and marched brave1y along in that, without even a breech- clout
 s-The popular dress. however, was the breech- ciout of nipa leaves; high hats, Eton jackets and collars being beyond the means of the majority I remember renarktng to Porter who stood beside me in my room, that should like to see just one company of our cavalry dash into the square; they would drive the whole eight or ten thousand caricatuEes clean out of the island He laughed and said he could well believe it."-World Wide Ma gazine-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-11

MT. Garfield said that in giving him the affidavit MT. BaIlinger left the impression that his action was entire Iy casual and that he had been re- quested by friends in Seattle to leave it on file for whatever it might be worth MT. Brandeis then called at tention to the fact that the name of MT. Ballinger's law firm was printed on the backing of the affidavit.
 Mir. Garfield Examined and Cross Ex-
 anined.
 The eX-secretary of the interior was examined and cross examined as to his administration of the office which he gave up to Mir. Ballinger on March ,, 1909. In explaining what he did as to the withdrawal of lands without specific provision of law, MT. Garfield declared he was working in the inter est of the people and to prevent mon opolistic control of power sites and consequent extortionate prices to the consumer When he had concluded his testimony Mir. Garfield took a seat beside Clifford Pinchot and with arms on each others shoulders they sat for some time in smiling discussion of the days events.
 A P Davis, chief engineer of the 'recla nation service. followed MT. Gar field on the stand. MT. Davis said he preferred not to testify, unless direct ed to do so by the committed Chair man Nelson gave the direction and Mir Davis started his testimony when adjournment was taken until tomorrow morning.