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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
BEAVER DAM.

We are afraid our fruit is all
killed by the late winter weather
The leaves on the trees were
frozen. Gardens are injured, too
Joe Crews sold load of cattle
to Chas. Powell at 6 1-2 cents. to
go the middle of July.
Samuel Crews, son of j. 7.
Crews, died at his fathers home.
April 20. He had been in poor
health for some time, still his
death came as a surprise to many
of his friends. He was 26 year,
and 13 days old at the time of his
death. He was married to Miss
Lenora Kelley, Feb. u, 1910. Be
sides his wife, he leaves his par
ents, five brothers and two sisters
to mourn his death. Sam was a
highly respected young man, He
numbered his friends by his
acquaintance. Funeral services
were conducted at Beaver Dam
church of which he was mem,
ber, at 3 p. m, Thursday, by Rev
Royal Jesse. The body was laid
to rest i'm the Beaver Dam GENE
terry. The sorrowing family have
the sympathy of the community
Al Kelley of Laddonia and Mrs
Riley Hodges of Rush Hill attend
ed the funeral of Sam Crew,
Thursday.
Miss Brown of Thompson ha
been employed to teach the Ceda
Grove school,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Runaway Girl.

A 16 year old girl giving her
name as Dollie Smith and her TO-
cation as Mexico, Mo-, has been
airing herself in police circles in
Chicago. 1t turns out that she
was in Mexico a day or two bur
that her home is with her aunt,
Mrs. Nellie Sullivan of Sedalia
Her name is Laura Turnbull, and
because of fancied ill treatment
she had left her aunt, stolen some
money and started out to gain
newspaper notoriety. The last
she gained. Now, what is coming
to her is good sound thrashing
and return to her home where her
aunt should be encouraged by
a sympathizing public TO keeT
her tucked down to good hard
labor at sewing and household
duties till she came to her sense,
enough to go to school and try tt
learn something.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Miss Stewart Dead.

Miss Willie Stewart, daughter
of G. w. Stewart of st. Louis. died
in that city Thursday, April 21.
afteran operation for appendicitis
The remains were brought to this
city and inferred at Elmwood
Miss Stewart was a former Hardin
student and was a granddaughter
of the late Judge VIM. Stewart
She has many friends here who
mourn her untimely death.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
LIBERTY.

A horse driven by Mesdames
Clarence Adams and Ben Adams,
of Liberty neighborhood, stepped
thru a rotten culvert Sunday and
was badly crippled. The ladies
had to leave the horse by the
roadside and seek assistance t.
get home. Hubert Warden had Il
similar experience at another cul-
vert in the same neighborhoOd.
while riding horseback. Those
people are hoping the road
engineer will visit their region be-
fore the office of County Highway
Engineer is abolished,
Sam BiSe who bought the 81
acre farm from Frank James j.
cutting the walnut logs there,
from and hauling them to Bentor
City to be shipped to st. Louis.
A. A. Duncan closed an eight
months term of school at Liberty
Friday. This is his fourth yeal
in this district.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

Plenty of snow and the coldest
weather ever known here at this
time of year, at least by your cor
respondent. 1t does not take an
expert to tell about the fruit, it is
killed. B. F. Pulls has three large
apricot trees just as full as they
could hang. They were as large
as your thumb, but they are killed.
He was so anxious to have a crop
of them, but they are too early for
this climate.
j. II. Turner lost a good mule
colt few days ago.
Charles Sellers sold wagon
load of hogs for 1896. How is that
for one wagon load?
w. d. Pulls and family visited
.B. +, Pulls and wife from Satur,
day until Monday. He came out
with the view of attending
church at New Hope, but tn,
weather was so bad he did not gel
there.
David Oyer has gone on tn,
mutual; gone on No. 6 line, W,
are glad to have him on our line
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
MIR. Foster Dead.

Joseph Foster, age II years
died at his home in Mexico at 5
p. m. Thursday, April 21. Funeral
Saturday from the residence con-
Quoted by Rev. w. NJ. White and
interment at Elmwood cemetery
Mr.. Foster was a native of Ohio
but had lived in and near this city
for 81 years; 38 years ago he
married Miss Martha Green of
Santa Fe, who with six children
survive him. The children arc
VIM. and jeff of Oklahoma and
Charles, Maude, Margaret and
Mrs. Alice Staples of this city. The
pallbearers were VIM. Freeman
Isaac Dyer, Frank James, Henry
Kunkel, John Crum and Joe Kelly
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Gordon Hotel Changes Hands.

Columbia, Mo, April 21.-The
Gordon Hotel here changed hands
today. Doctor E. P. Smith is the
new owner. Many distinguished
men have stopped at the Gordon
Hotel under Mr.. Gordon's man.
agement. Governor Folk made il
his headquarters during his stay
here for. the Edward Butler trial
six years ago. William j. i3ryan
stopped there several times
Seven years ago a banquet was
given there to Mark Twain.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Miss Nina Stallings closed an
eight months term of school at
McClintic. near Rush Hill.
Parents, pupils and eacher were
out for a picnic and open-air ex-
ercises. They had the picnic and
the Open-air but the rain cut short
the exercises. Miss Stallings will
attend school at Fayette next
year.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Washington School Closing.

Last Thursday Miss Zola Beal
closed a very pleasant eight
months term of school in the
Washington district. A few Of
the parents were at the, school
early in the morning to hear the
lessons, but the larger number
attended the afternoon exercises.
All of the eighteen pupils who
participated acquitted themselves
with credit and their bright faces
attested the hearty interest they
felt in the success of their various
parts.
The program is too lengthy to
be given in full but / beg leave 20
mention a few numbers. The
recitations of Julius SchleeScl
Margaret Rutter, Edith Rutter,
Lula Schleeter, Nellie Rutter, Leila
Brenton, LYDIA Hudson and Lena
Brenton were excellent. Doe.
Harris gave a recitation, "The
Corn Hunt. "
The story, "The Wise Owl, 4"
was dramatized by Grace Dudley,
Mary and Bart Willingham, Ar
thur Winter and Evert Dudley.
Another story, "The Boys
Coats" was first read by LYDIA
Hudson and then acted by Clark
Moody, Grace and Evert Dudley,
Frances and Mckinley Brenton,
Margaret Rutter, Mary Willing
ham and Arthur Winter. Helen
Plunkett OF the Mexico school
favored the school with a song,
"The Toy Balloon" Lewis Brel-
ton was a candidate for the Sth
grade graduation.
Clark Moody carried off a prize
for perfect attendance and good
scholarship. His record of six
years perfect attendance remains
as challenge to other schools.
Who can beat it? Grace and
Evert Dudley also received prizes
for good attendance and scholar
ship. Leila Brenton won a prize
in spelling, and Mary Willing
ham won the spelling pfize-in the
third grade. Arthur Winter and
Edith Rutter received prizes for
excellence in class work. These
prizes were hand painted pictures,
painted and framed by their
teacher. The pupils of this school
are orderly, attentive, and have n
mind to learn, and show a marked
improvement in the years work.
The parents have reason to be
proud of the showing made in the
class work, as well as in their
ability to appear well in public
exercises. The pupils have thru
the year maintained "a debating
club and have acquired some skill
at off-hand speeches.
A. A, T.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

I j. H. Swindler of the Mex-L-M0
Poultry Farm, received 300 pleas
(ant eggs from the National Game
Association Monday. State Game
Commissioner Tolerton secured
the eggs for Mr. Swindler who has
them in the incubator. The birds
will be given to farmers to raise,
The pheasant farm in Denver
from which place these eggs were
sent, is extensive and has fine
birds of several varieties.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Mrs. Clarence FarnswOrth and
son, of Farber, spent several days
lately with the family of Sam
Martin near AuXvasse Mrs,
Farnsworth has for about six
months been unable to walk. She
is now fast regaining the use of
her limbs and Ncan walk with
slight assistance.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
MExICo's BLIND POET.
Miss Lily E. G.. Hendrix Gets Fine
Mention in the st. Louis
Republic.

That the blind are observant
that impressions of natures 5
physical facts in all their subtle
ness and charm may be as ac-
curately conveyed to the mind
through the ear as through the
eye has been abundantly demon
stFated in little book of poems
just published by Miss Lily E. G.
H endrix of Mexico, Mo.
The songs display a marvellous
receptive capacity for nice dis
tilnctions of natural phenomena.
Those who do not know that tne
author has not seen since a child
j3 years old would never guess i
I'm reading her descriptions an /
pictures of natures scenic charm,
infinite in detail.
4 The little book entitled
f"Gleanings" also contains very
sensitive understanding of the
problems of life.
Looking through the eyes Of
others is the golden rule, is it
not?" she says. And, as the
golden rule is good so its effect is
good. Through the eyes OF others
/ understand much better than ]
could with only my own. The
former way is much more disin-
terested and broader. 1t might
be well for those who have eyes
to not use their own exclusively. .
\, Such is her philosophy of life,
which has sweetenod her verses
and made them wholesome. She
~ does not live, as it might be sup
posed by those who do not under
Stand, life of darkened eXclu-
.jsion from the world, but enjoys
J myriad existence in its delights
through her sympathy with many
lives. This quality, together with
her sensitive ears and a vague
memory of a period in her life
where there was intense, vivid
light are the aids with which she
creates her musical mental visions
Many of the verses are not alb
stract and imaginative, but prosy
little scenes of her life in the
South, of long, lazy, hot sunlight
hours, of magnolia blossoms, ans
the grooming Of the old black
nanny as she soothes the i'm
patient baby.
Miss Hendrix is self-supporting
Through her poems and music
SShe is a graduate of the Missouri
I School for the Blind. Her homo
! is exemplary in cleanness an'
order.
The verses are illustrated by A
! Widman, a st. Louis newspaper
man.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Halley's comet does not show
up as conspicuously brilliant as
expected, In fact it is disappoint-
ingly faint and requires a power
full field glass to discover its
whereabouts in the early mora
ing.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

The Laddonia Herald says:
Mrs. John Watkins went to Mex
leo, Friday with her sister, Miss
Edna Gannaway. who left thlt
night for Montana. where she W i'll
live on a farm she drew sever al
months ago.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Forty-five Graduates.

The North Side Public school
will graduate 45 eighth grade stu
dents this year. Commencement
exercises for this class will be hell
at the High School May 21. Prof.
Mitchell and his corp of assist
ants are doing good work.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

1t is just announced that Gov.
Hughes of New York is to succeed
the late Justice Brewer ON the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Colonel CIay's daughter, Mrs
j. W. Zevely, was operated on y
appendicitis at the Jewish Hos
pital in st. Louis. She is recover.
ing and considered out of danger
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

c. d. Mason, of Indianapolis.
Ind, is the mOtOrman on the new
electric line. He and his family
are here to reside.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

A milk COW belonging to Geo.
Watterson of near Perry was
bitten by rattlesnake few days
ago and died a short time after
The cow was lying down and was
bitten on the shoulder.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Frank CawthOrn. one of the
popular telegraph operators at
Thorn, son. was here last Satur-
day and handed us a plunk on re-
newal.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Boatman OF
Lancaster, Ohio, have the sympa-
thy of Mexico friends in the loss
Of their new born baby. News Of
its death was received here Tues
day.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Mrs. NJ. M. Corder of this city
asks the Post Dispatch to locate
her son, George, who was last
heard from at Fairmount Park,
Long Island. He was raised here
and was formerly a jockey for
W. z. West.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28
Mark Twain.

Mark Twain), the great man of
whom it is Said he has created
more smiles than any other
American, is dead. The end came
at "Stormfeld," his country
home, at Redding, Conn, Thurs
day, April q, at p. m.
Of his four children only one
still lives, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitch.
In 1870, he married Olivia L.
Langdon of Elvira, N. Y, and it is
since her death in 1904, that
Mark Twain s decline began. But
the crushing blow came the day
before Christmas, 1909, when his
tavorite daughter, Jean, was
found dead in the bath tub at his
Redding home.
The Commercial Club of Han
nlbal telegraphed request that
the remains be laid to rest i'm his
native city on the Mississippi, be-
side that Of his mother, father and
brothers. However, Mr.. Clemens
body will rest beside that of his
wife, his son, Langdon, and his
two daughters, Susie and Jean. in
the family plot in Elmira, N. Y.
The house in which he was born.
at Florida, Mo, was torn down
and the timberS made into
souvenir canes and sold at the
Worlds Fair in st. Louis.
A dispatch from Paris, Mo-.
quotes the words of B. C. NJ. Far
thing, friend and school mate Of
Mark Twain, the original IF
"Huckleberry Finn" The Mes
sage has several readers who are
related to Mr.. Farthing, among
them Mrs. w. n. Boatman of this
city and j. A. Farthing of Van
dalia.
Farthing says: "Men who
made the old days are gone. Even
the long sweep of the majestic
yellow river seems to have
dwindled and lessened. The noise
of its, traffic, the music of its many
tdeep-throated voices are prae-
tlcally no more. The man who
caught them and warmed them
into human words for the delight
of the world, is no more. | can see
the gray-haired man who died at
Redding, as he stood at the win
dow Of the old Courier Office at
Hannibal, bargaining with me and
his younger brother, Henry, for a
mite OF a boat that lay at the
river s edge | can see the shocky
halr, the quizzical gray eyes, and
the kindness, yet, withal the
shrewdness, that shown from
them. The racial love of adven-
ture was in him ahd the spirit Of
the river famed it into flame.
1t is recalled that Mexico S
author, James Newton Basket.
accompanied Mark Twain to ST.
, Louis in 1903, when he was a
: guest at the State University, ST.
+ Louis, and other points in the
State.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Miss Frances Reed spent sew
eral days in ST. Louis last week,
She accompanied a cousin from
Centralia on a shopping tour
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

r. w. Hunt, foreman of teams
on the construction work of the
Electric Road, is a new subscriber
for the Message,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Roy Barkley has severed his
connection with Malone's Dry
Goods Store and goes back to f.
NJ. Ragsdale of the Cash Store.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Prof e, d. Lee Of this city has
been re-employed to teach the
New London schools.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

Mrs. F. NJ. Clark and two inter-
esting children, Helen and Frank,
of LaGrange, ILL.,, are visiting
Mrs. Clark's parents here, Mr..
and Mrs. w. l.. Kent.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

w. E. Allison, southwest of
Mexico sold 80 lambs a few days
ago to Mr.. Creed of Galloway Co.
at So. to be delivered in June.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

The Benton City public school
will close its years work this
week,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-04-28

He can't be dead, can he
The man who wrote Huck Finn,
And told us all about old Tom;
Who made us laugh and made us
cry9
Sholy a man like that can't die
He'll come agin.
He won't? Oh, go away!
Mark Twain's as live as met
He's just gone off to take trip
First thing you know he'll came
right back
And tell a joke'll make you crack
You wait and see!
I'm wrOng2 Well, may lie so,
But there's one thing / VOW
Ole Huck amt dead, nor neither
! Tom
Them boys'll live THOUSAND
years;
So what's the use o. shedding
tears,
I Or mourning now2
Armstead r. Holtcombe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21
TERRIBLE STRAIN
RESULTED NOT AMISS
A Lenoir Lady, After Two Weeks
Grinding Labor, Feels
Better Than Ever.

Lenoir, N. CD am not tired at all,
and am stouter than have ever BEEN"
writes Mrs. Kate Waters, of Lenoir, N. c.,
although have just finished two
weeks wash. lay my strength to
Cardui, the woman's tonic. have taken
a lot OF il and | can never praise it
enough for what it has done for me. |
can never thank you enough for the ad-
vice you gave me, to take Cardui, for
since taking il look so well and am
stout as mule"
You are urged TO take Cardui, that gen.
tie, vegetable tonic. for weak women. Its
use will strengthen ard build up your sys
TEN, relieve or prevent headache, back
ache and the ailments of weak women.
II will surely help you as ithashelped
thousands of others, in the past SO years.
B-W Ne TO: Ladies' Advisory Dept, Chatta-
noogl Medicine Co, Chattanooga, Tenn, ior Special
Instructions, and 64-page book, Home Treatment
for Women" sent in plain wrapper. on request
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21

I am now enjoying. Mrs. SARAH
LoUsIGNoNT, Ala s. Livingston Street,
Brookfield, Mo.
The Change of Life is the most criti
cal period of n woman's existence, and
neglect of health at this time invites
disease and pain.
Women everywhere should remem-
Der that there is no other remedy
known to medicine that will so sue
cessfully carry women through this
trying period as Lydia L. Pinkham's S
Vegetable Compound, made from na
tive roots and herbs.
For 80 years it has been curing wo-
men from the worst forms of female
s-inhammation, liberation, dis
placements, fibroid tumors, Irregular;
ties, periodic pains, backache, and
nervous prostration.
If you would like. special advice
about your case write a acOnfiden.
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkhan, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice Is free,
and always helpful
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21
ROOSEVELT IN BOSTON.
viii Address the Greatest Political
Meeting Ever Held.

Boston Mass, Oct. 2l.-Theodorc
Roosevelt will deliver the principal
address tonight at what is expect
ed to be the greatest indoor polit-
ical meeting ever held in New Eng
land. The Republican Club of Mas
sachusetts secured the new Boston
Arena, in st. BOtolph street, as the
place for the gathering, and 5000
people can be seated Half of the
great hall has been reserved for
members OF the club, and the re-
mainder will be thrown open to the
public. Former Governor Bates, the
president of the club, will preside
and Governor Draper and Senator
Lodge will make htef addresses
prior to the appearance OF Colonel
Roosevelt
Mr.. Roosevelt arrived in Boston
this morning and was met by Sen
ator Lodge, whose guest he is dur
ing his stay In Boston. The after
noon will be spent in consultation
with Senator Lodge and other re
publican leaders OF the Bay State. II
is admitted that the G. o. p. cam
paign managers are a tifle wor-
red over the situation and fear that
rhe result in Maine may be repeated
In this state unless the disaffection
of republican voters Is Immediately
stopped. That Colonel Roosevelt will
be able to turn the tide OF revolt
is the confident hope OF the repub-
lican state ami congressional candi-
dates, who now realize that the pro
gressive spirit among Massachusetts,
voters is too strong to be resisted.
Previous to his address, Colonel
Roosevelt will be entertained at din
ner at the Union Club by a commit
tee Of the Republican Club of Mas
sachusetts. consisting of Col. Roger
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21
Mrs, Barclay Goes Free.

Topeka, Kan, Oct. 20.-Mrs. Stella
Barclay, charged with kidnapping Mar
ion Bleakley, the famous incubator
baby, from the home Of her mother
Is again free woman, the charge
being dismissed following the agree,
ment between the mother and focter.
mother. Mrs. Barclay adopted the
child from an incubator at the st.
Louis worlds fair. The mother trac-
ed the child to Mrs. Barclays home
and since then there has been con-
tinual litigation. The baby has been
twice kidnapped.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-21
TO OIL OCEAN TRAILS.
Project to Benefit Ocean Travel is
Under Serious Consideration.

London, Oct. 2l.-At meeting Of
the British Association of Hydro
graphers today the project of the
United States photographic Office to
oil the routes of the ocean liners
between American and European
ports was taken up for serious con
sideration. The plan has been sue
cessfully tried on a small scale, and
English scientists believe that it
might be made feasible to oil the
Atlantic highway. 1t Is alleged that
the oil would reduce the perils of
transatlantic passage to a great de-
gree and would render sea-sickness
almost unknown, except during the
most violent storms. The effect OF
the oil Is to quiet the waves, and
1t is alleged that the cost of oiling
would not exceed $50 trip, as only
little oil Is required. There Is
one great practical objection to the
scheme from the point Of view OF
the steamship companies. That Is
that sea-sick passengers eat little
or nothing, and that II all passen'
gers were rendered immune from
NAL de rem, the cost of supplying
food would be doubled or tripled.
For this reason 1t is not likely that
the suggestion OF the scientific gen
tlemen will be received with any
degreeof enthusiasm by the ocicials
of steamship lines.