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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Joe Alderman and wife, north
east of Mexico, shipped Their
household goods to Kansas this
week where they expect to reside
in the future.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Ote Freels of Laddonia has been
here looking after a fine mare he
shipped recently from Iowa which
has been very sick.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

R. R. Arnold, Jr., has bought the
George Brown 234 acre farm,
three miles south of this city, pay
ing $40 per acre.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

A daughter was born in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Logan
Beamer the 9th ult.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Miss Ola Brown, who died in
Laddonia last Saturday, was a
cousin Of Mrs. Robt. NJ. Painter Of
Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Joe Weinand, formerly of Mex
leo, was fined $4,000 at Salisbury
last week for violation of the local
option law.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Mrs. Mollie McFaddin, of near
Moline, is reported quite sick with
grippe.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03
RAGSDALE'S CASH STORE.

at their office in Buckner's Drug
Store, or by addressing inquiry
to Lock Box 444. Mexico. Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

A fire escape is to be put up at
the North Side public school
building.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03
Miss Ethel Massey remains very
ill.

Almer Mundy is a new Message
subscriber.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

L. P. Crigler was in st Louis
on legal business this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

DIR. S. G.. Adams became very i'll
Monday. He is now better.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Theodore BusSen died at Mar.
tinsburg last Monday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

R. L. Coldwell renews for the
Message. w. G. Bailey subscribes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Mrs. Bertha Snidow is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Russell
Squirting, of the Skinner neighbor-
hood.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

6 Roy Barclay has accepted a
Position with C.P. Malone, the dry
goods man.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Miss Margaret Clark visited
Mrs. p. II. Cullen in st. Louis last
Eeek.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

John Boeger paid the Message
a busiress call Monday. He thinks
that the wheat is so badly "heav-
ed" out of the ground that the
Kansas plan of rolling it will do
no good. A heavy rain would help
more.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

value, half price, Sc,
10 inch clear glass cake stands,
zoe value, half price, lOc.
2 ut. glass water pitches, 25c
value, less than half price 10c.
so dozen table tumblers, worth
&c, half price, lie.
100 near cut sugar bowl with 2
handles, SOC value, half price, lSC.
"a pair Japanese sugar and cream
er, value up to 75c pair, for this
sale, the pair, 25c.
SPECIAL In GRANITE WARE.
6 at. granite pudding pans, 10c.
Largs wash basin in granite, 10C.
Our 2jc enamel ware sale will be
continued during March. Choice
of these large piece for 2jc. 5 at.
coffee pot, IA at, dish pan, 6 at.
Berlin kettle with cover. Import.
ed Austria blue and white pudding
pans, handled sauce pan, 10 ut.
water pals. Choice 25c.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Miss Edna Cant of Thompson
closed a six months very success
full term of school in the Eureka
district, near Benton City, last
week. 1t was Miss Edna's first
term. There come good reparrs
Of the faithful work she wrought
in the district.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

Our excellent friend j. E. Mol
let called at Message headquarters
this week and handed us the fol-
lowing renewals: Mrs. H. C.. Beck
man, C. A. Mollet and Henry
Schrumpf. Thanks, friends, to all
of you.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

At the Spencer sale 7 IL dozen
hens were sold. Joe Considine
bought the whole lot, paying from
$1,000 to $11.25 per dozen. One
brood SOW brought 1890, and
three little pigs brought 5000
each.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03
Half Price Sale On
Glass and QueenSWare

About 1000 pieces in this lot, shipped us
through mistake. We have adjusted the
matter with the manufacturer so that we can
give you our saving in these low prices.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-03

A. II. T. A.
OF WORCESTER, NO.
Meets Monday night on or
before fu II moon in each month.
D. L. ROGERS, President.
VAL ELDEL, JR., Sec.
CLARENCE A. BARNES |
AttOrney-At-Law,
Mexico, Mo.
Southern Bank building.
have money to loan on
farms and town prop
erty at low rates and
best Of terms. Call or
write.
Sd, STOCKS, Mexico, 10,
AlOnzOC. WhitSOn
Attorney-at-Law
Notary Public
4 Doors East N. E. Conner Square
Mexico, MO.
C. A. WITHERSP00N,
ABsTRACToR OF
LAND TITLES,
MEXICO Mo
ONCE: South Side of Square
S. D. STOCKS
AttOrRey.at.Law and Notary Public
E SIDE SQUARE, MEXICO, MO.
The Farmers Town Mo-
tUaL Fire Insurance Co
MEXICO, MO.
If you insure in the home
company you will build mp
HOME INTERESTS instead
of EASTERN INTERESTS
and save % per cent or more
FIRE and TORNADO
\ TOWN and COUNTRY.
W. L. FOWLES, Secretary
L -
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
CALLED HIS BLUFF.
offered Criticizing Preacher Job AS
Chief of Police

offered Criticizing Preacher Job AS
Chief Of Police.
Because he delivered a sermon from
his pulpit denouncing the city officials
for not enforcing the law and express
ing the fervid hope that he could be
chief of police for a while, Rev. J. J.
Lace, Methodist minister Of Greeley,
Colo, has chad his bluff called.'
The city council last Saturday offered
him job as policeman, with fine
chance to become chief of police
In offering the job, the council asks
the preacher:
"Can you distinguish between a
woman who is bad and one who is
just giddy7
FCan you tell the difference between
a poker game and plain cribbage?
'Can you tell when a man is drunk
enough to be sent to jail, and when
he is only hilarious enough to be sent
home?
"Can you distinguish between young
couples, innocently spooning in the
park, and those who should be ar
rested?
'Will you walk your beat frsm in
the evening until the next morninge"
If the minister qualities the council
makes this offer: CATER a year, if
you have demonstrated your ability
to detect criminals, catch bootleggers
and keep your own skirts from the
muck, the council will come to you
with open arms and ask you to take
the job of city marshal. For years
the council has been looking for a man
to fill that position who has the per-
sonal reputation of Joseph, the pa
tience of Job. the wisdom of Solo
mon and the courage of lion.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

DeC. oU, 10
Dear Sir:
In January 1908 I purchased
two acres Of land near Kissimmee
for $1OO During the Spring and
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
FLORIDA IS CALLING

The Southern Colonization
Company, the largest Real Estate
firm in the United States, has just
completed arrangements to place
upon the market very large tract
Of prairie land in the South Cen
tral part Of Florida. The reason
why this land has not been placed
under cultivation long ago, is be-
cause, heretofore, this large tract
has been so far from market,
which made it impossible to de-
liver the crops at a profit, but
now the Company itself is build
ing railroad right down through
this tract Of land, which will at
once place the products Of this
soil in touch with the markets of
the world.
This land is located where we
have an ideal climate, on the Kis-
simmee Prairies, where our lands
are located. The highest tenn
perature ever recorded is SO de-
grees and it seldom ever gets be-
low 40 degrees. above zero. The
rainfall averages about SO inches
year and the water supply is
excellent, as good water may be
obtained at a depth of Is to 80
feet and Artesian wells are sue
cessful at 100 to 500 feet.
The soil consists of sandy
loan and is underlaid with clay
sub-soil.
Any kind of fruit and vegeta-
bles can be raised in this part of
Florida that can be raised any
where, even in California, on
cheaper land and without irriga-
tion, and besides that, we are
nearer the market which makes it
very profitable to the grower. It
is an easy matter to raise as much
when proftably cultivated on 10
acres of this ground, than is often
grown elsewhere on 16O acre
farm. We can show many orange
groves within few miles of our
land that cannot be bought for
$1,000 an acre. Our lands will do
as well.
The following is what man says
about truck farming in our part
of Florida:
"Kissimmee, Florida.
Dec. Sd, O8.
Dear Sir:
In January 1908 I purchased
two acres Of land near Kissimmee
for 800. During the Spring and
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
THE REAL VALUE OF UNIONS
BY Robert Hunter.

stonecutter receives for the labor OF
his one life.
Think of this and then consider how
tragic it is that one must actually per
suade werkingmen to believe in indus
trial unity.
1t is almost impossible to believe that
any class of workers should be blind to
the value of unionism or 10th to suffer
almost anything to achieve it.
And what astounding evidence Of
working class stupidity it would be if
the workers of this country should with
out fight allow their unions to be
crushed and their right of organization
taken away by the capitalist legislature
and courts.
The value of unity is so clear, the
gains for those who have united are
so evident and the necessity of organ
ization for all workers is so great that
it would seem that men if they have
Intelligence to fight for anything they
would surely fight for this.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
HOW SINGLE TAX WORKS.

One effect of taxing land values and
exempting improvements is seen in
Vancouver, B. C. where since this pol
icy has been put in effect the Canadian
Pacific has agreed to let the city regu-
late all wharf charges on new line
of cement quays over 5000 feet long
where formerly nothing but mud fats
lay idle. There will be no wharfage
robberies and cinches in Vancouver.
Portland, wake up!-Portland Labor
Press.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

Summer | worked and cleared the
lands, fenced same and put up a
small barn at an additional cost
Of 5000. Up to October, 1908. I
had sold about $500 worth of
vegetables. At present l have:
$4,000 celery plants, 1000 straw
berry plants, 10000 lettuce plants
5000 cabbage plants, 10000 Ber-
muda onion plants and three
fourths acre Of sweet potatoes.
This crop is looking fine. Could
not be better. Estimating this
crop at prices obtainable in Kis-
simmee, it's value is $500.
Yours truly,
D. ROTUNDO."
What do you think of this kind
Of return? You do not need
large farm to have an independ-.
ent living in this part of Florida.
Our next Excursion will be
Tuesday, September Goth, at
which time the Company will start
a private car from Lincoln, which,
they will carry to their lands and
return for the benefit of their
customers.
Our lands are sold from $15
to $25 per acre and on easy terms.
We will sell all the way from 10
acres to all a man can pay for,
but we will not load man up
with more than what is profitable
for him. Our 10 acre tracts we
will sell for $25 per acre, on terms
as follows: $1.OO per acre down
and $1.O0 per acre each month
until the same has been paid for.
We will sell 20 acre tracts on the
same terms. Our large tracts we
| will sell with one-third down and
we will make easy terms on the
balance.
Call on us before the above date
and get more information and get
some literature on the subject. Do
not let this opportunity pass, it
may never call again. Take It
now while it is within your reach.
We have many things to tell ysu,
but space will not permit, there
fore, we invite you to call at our
Office.
Southern Colonization Company.
! Rooms 1 and g. No. 40 South
18th Street.
Frank E. Schaaf, Local Mana
ger.
James R. Mccain, District
Manager.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
AUGUSTUS II. HYERS, HAVELOCK
Machinists' Union--Postmaser

but none like you have. The girl work
ers of your city belong to the second
and third generation-a generation of
which the mothers have been ground
down by machine labor. In the west
the sapping process has not got beyond
the first generation. In consequence the
women workers of the west have more
vitality.
''If immigration to this country
should be shut off suddenly she con-
tinued, lit would only be short time
before we would feel our great physical
loss. The strong peasant women comes
over here and transmits her strength
to her children and that is why our
girl workers have more vitality than
yours, for it is in the west that the
peasantry of Europe settles. But I be-
| lieve we are ait the turn of the tide.
I think better times are coming for our
women workers. The question is whe
ther the intelligent women of our coun-
try will join with us to make the tide
rise higher and hurry on tia better
day.
Mrs. Robbins said of tho wealthy
women who trade in the shops:
"They are stupid. I don It mean nat
urally stupid. They are surrounded by
high wall over which they cannot
look and to the top of which they can
not climb. 1t is these women we want
to teach. 1t isn't that they have a
lack of sympathy or rnat they wouldn It
help if they knew, for 1 think they
would
Mrs. Robbins said that in Europe
more was done for the girl workers
than in this country. In several for
eign countries, she declared, the hours
of labor We're properly apportioned so
that there were eleven hours of rest
between working days and greater at
tention was paid to sileh matters as
sanitation.
/ The average wage of the woman
worker is $27O a year, she said, "and
you must remember that average means
below, as we'll as above. In the textile
industry something like two-thirds of
the workers are getting Sc a week.
Deduct room rent and the price of
meals from Sc a week and what have
you left:
{" Is it not very difficult for girl
to lead an honest life under such con-
dit;ons?' Mrs. Robbins was asked
eyes. and the marvel is that SO
many thousands of them are good hon
est women. as | know they are re-
/ piled Mrs. Robbins.
| "Why, I have known girls to live
on nothing but rye bread and olive
oil in order to scrape together enough
money to buy new hat or new
dress
| "What is the remedy for such
condition of affairs?''
Gone remedy is trades unionism.
Organize the women and teach to think
and act. Another is the ballot. | am
an ardent suffragist Everybody is
who ever tried to do anything for wo-
men workers.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
PLIGHT OF WORKING GIRL.
Mrs Robbins Compares the Condition
in East and West

Thecondition of the working girl in
the west is much better than that of
her sister in the east, so said Mrs. Ray
mond Robbins, president of the Wo-
mans National Trades Union league,
who has an intimate knowledge of the
subject on which she speaks, through
her long study of industrial problems
and broad sympathy for her less for
tunate sisters.
"Few of the girls in the west start
to work at the ages of IL and 13 years,
as they do heSe,'' she said.
1--WE have our - 6bor problems,
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
THE MACHINIsTs' UNION
A Little History Of One Of the Livest
Of Local Organizations.

Machinists Lodge No. 269 of Lin
coin and Havelock was permanently
organized during the winter Of 1904.
At that time most IF the railway men,
bers kept their membership under the
hat Later the railroad managers real
lied that the organization was not an
tagonistic, but was formed for mutual
protection and benefit, and then the
railroad boys came out into the open.
The contract employees were in the
majority at first, but later the rail-
road members became most numerous.
Today the membership is over hun
dred and still growing. Meetings are
held twice a month. alternating be-
tween Lincoln and Havelock. About
- per cent reside in Havelock the
rest in Lincoln.
No. 269 is a olive bunch 1t is
always helping others well as TAX
ing care of its own. A little bit about
some of the charter members may be
of interest:
C. III. Lingle, for years the local s
efficient secretary. has just completed
an entirely new automobile for Lin
coin company. John Curran has been
recording secretary ever since the hills
were holes in the ground. Every time
he is reelected he declines. then the
boys compel him to hang on. II. F.
al al rh
he has travelled around quite bit.
Still he hangs on to his 269 card. In
1908 Ralph Lash quit the machinists
trade for good, and went into the mar
ket gardening business. Just as he
was about to harvest bumper crop
along came that disastrous July flood
and away went the crop down Salt
Creek. Then Ralph came back to the
trade. John Malstead is the president
at this time, and is the comedian of
the lodge. He has made so good that
he is now serving his third term Peter
Kohl, the secretary, has opened a gar
age in Havelock and expects to be able
to use a few machinists in due time.
Frank BOehme is the keeper OF the
funds. Personally he is philanthrop-
list, but when it comes to expending
the lodge funds he gets so excited he
mixes two or three languages. cred y
Eckland is the business agent and he
is on the job all the time. The lodge
affliates with the Central Labor Union
at Lincoln and with the State Fedora
tion of Labor. By the way, Nels
Stonestrom, now with the U. P. at
Omaha, helped organize No. 269. So
did N. C. Broker, who is working at
the Lincoln round house.
It's always a pleasure to meet this
live bunch or any of it's members,
and The Wageworker is under many
obligations to all of them.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
DoUGHERTY MADE GOOD.

There are those who believe that a
state labor bureau should be run wholly
in the interests of employers and care
fully ignoring the interests of labor.
-Wageworker.
And there are some in Oklahoma who
feel that way yet none of them had
the nerve to sacrifice themselves on
the democrats ticket against Charley
Dougherty. He was the only state
officer in the primary election who had
no opposition.-Oklaho Labor Unit.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02
WHICH IS THE WORST?
Western Woman Asks Two Embarrsss
ing Questions.

Can the worst that has even hap
pened in the prize ring compare with
short weighing the government. which
is the people?
How about the CHG man who
pounces upon little child-on
thousand little children-and puts them
to work in factory that destroys their
bodies and their souls?
Or. what of the ''big merchant"
who. by the club of hunger. compels
his women employees to labor long
hours on semi starvation wages Mrs
LaReine Helen Baker, Spokane Wash
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

The strike Of hodcarriers at San
Francisco was settled on August up
on the understanding that all hodcar-
riers who are not attending brick
layers and plasterers shall work only
eight hours a day instead of eight
hours and half and that they shall
be paid for full day, receiving the
same as the other hodcarriers who
work the extra time.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

Another general clothing strike is
under way in New York City. Fifteen
Thousand tailors, of whom 5000 are wo-
men, quit work in 800 factories on
August 4, demanding fifty-three hour
week and an increase in wages. About
$4,000 more are expected to quit work.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

The wages of thousands of paper mill
workers in New Hampshire, New York
State, Vermont, Maine and Massachu-
setts were advanced an average of 5
per cent ON August by the Interna
tional Paper Company.
The wageworker., 1910-09-02

The San Francisco Labor Council has
approved the proposition to speate the
office of female factory inspector, sug-
gested by the Woman 's Union Label
League.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-29

us across the court to the fountain OF
publication. Just as we were about
to enter the temple we heard a call
that made our blood run cold.
"Our guide hastened to see what was
wanted and several sheiks beckoned to
us to leave at once. We had our san
dals removed by men, who hastened
toward us for this purpose. Our guide
told us that he was wanted and that
he must leave us. He tried to have
us accept the services of a dragoman
to conduct us from the mosque.
Members of our party protested and
he remained with u.s. The attitude of
the sheiks, as though prepared for an
attack, was not alluring, and felt that
at any moment we would be shot at.
Our guide finally took us to the Chris
tian street, which led us to the Joppa
gate. An empty carriage passed and
several Of our party took 1t and drove
to the hotel.
I'VE learned the details of the shoot
ing later. 1t appeared that a woman
member Of the party that had preceded
us in the mosque had been shot in the
face. A priest in the mosque held the
man, who was on the point Of reloading
his revolver and who was within twen-
ty-five yards of our party. The car
riage used to convey the injured wom-
an, Miss Moore, from the mosque was
the one in which Mrs Anna L. Tiche-
ner of Newark, and Mrs. Lebkkeucher,
Of East Orange, drove to the mosque.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-07-29

.ie picked up the book, ana rapidly
turned the pages, marking here and
there with cross He passed the book
to Margaret.
Get out these I have marked, like
a good girl, Margaret, and you'll soon
have in what you need"
Then, with hasty good-by, he was
gone.
In the morning he had not returned,
and Margaret sat long with the little
leather-covered book in her hand, idly
turning the pages. The places marked
with cross were not many. She
had counted and recounted the ones
which were reasonably sure to pay.
The sum total was pitifully made
quate. Even If every one he had
marked paid in full and at once, there
was an alarming deficit. There was
nothing she could do.
But suddenly, as that thought came
to her puzzled brain, another followed.
There was something she could do
ooLlctLluS tudL Wuulu ocI IuluSo
straight for the present and leave a
little margin for the encroaching fu-
ture. In moment the impotent
leather-covered book had assumed the
proportions of the purse of Fortunatus.
There were dozens and dozens Of
visits with no check after them. Her
father had not intended to send them
out, but If she did, and the reluctant
bills were safely paid, who could be
anything but glad about it?
Once decided, she wrote rapidly in
her large, firm hand, so different from
her fathers. The table was soon lit
tered with bills. On those of longest
standing she wrote, please remit"
When the rural postman arrived, she
had load for him. And then she
waited.
The waiting was not long. That
evening there came timid, hesitating
knock on the door where peremptory
summons so often sounded Margaret
threw 1t wide. For moment she did
not know the woman who stood before
her, shawl thrown over her head.
But she knew the voice.
IT'S Mrs. Halloran. Miss Margaret,
my dear. I've brung the money. Tell
me, is 1t sick the doctor isl"
"Why. no. Father is quite well,
but"
rs it yer mother worser, thin?"
mo-" answered Margaret. what
made you think so?"
Wont ye tell me what's wrong, my
dear?" persisted the woman. "Sure.