Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-09
SURROUNDING AUDRAN.
Mrs. Kennett Hurt-A Pike Coun-
ty Sampson Catches Foxes

iaNdN county, is VISITING relatives
in New York.
George w. Martin. late of Mex
leo, now occupies the VIM. Gilbert
place, west of Auxvasse.
One of Auxvasse's merchants
shipped to the st. Louis market
500 rabbits one day last week.
Mrs. l.. d. Kennedy died at
Frankford Wednesday of last
week, leaving an infant six days
old.
Louis Benedict, Is years of age.
died at his home in Perry last
week. He was a native of Genoa,
Italy.
The AuXvasSe school has 33
pupils from adjoining districts
enrolled. There ought to be some
consolidation of school districts
over that way.
Ten minutes after the circuit
court at Fulton had divorced al
woman one day last week an
other man had applied at the
recorders for a license authoriz-
ing him to marry her.
Bill Magee of Pike county
caught 10 foxes last week in
steel traps 1t is thought that this
will save some fox chasing this
summer and also save some farm
ers their lambs and hen roosts.
Mrs. DIR. ]. w. Berry of Aux
vase was operated on one day
last week for obstruction of the
gall bladder. DR.. w, w. Mac
farlane was assisted in the oper-
alton by Drs. Rodes and Moore of
Mexico.
The loser in a wager at st.
Charles last week rolled a peanut
"from Ben Raus' saloon to the
Frenchtown fire hail." going the
distance on his hands and knees
and rolling the peanut with a
toothpick held in his mouth. Pass
that toothpick on to the next fool
Mrs. NJ. l.. Kennett. of West
Cuivre, happened to serious ac-
cident last Tuesday week. In COM
ing from the hen house she step
ped on a rusty nail which went
through her shoe and in to her
foot inficting most painful
wound. At this time she is get
ting along as well as could be eX-
pccted.
Uncle Sam might be interested
to know that at the Curryville
weekly debate in Pike county this
was the last subject; Resolved,
That the Postal Banking Syste,H
Should be Repealed. " After some
powerful appeals of oratory,"
says the correspondent, "the
judges decided in favor of the
affirmative" "
James Moss and VIM. Bell near
AuXvasse are counted two mighty
lucky men They each married
a huStling woman, il is said.
They got few hens for the wife,
and she s doing the rest, so 10
speak. These two men drove n
four-mulc team hitchcd to a farm
wagon 10 AuXvasse a few days
ago and marketed seven cases of
new hen eggs.
Litigation over a dead hog be
tween farmers of Pike County,
Missouri, which has been going on
nearly a year and a half, was dc
cided by the st. Louis Court of
Appeals last Saturday. The hog
was alive when the suit was insti-
tuted. After the death of the hog.
the date of which the record does
not give, the suit was continued to
determine who was entitled to the
ownership of the animal EXclus-
i've of attorneys fees. the costs
amounted to about 800, several
times over the hogs living value.
The ease was decided in favor of
James A. Ne Millcn, the plaintiff.
, His farm adjOins that of Samuel
; |. Elder, who held possession of
the hog when the litigation was
: begun. Elder claimed that the
animal. which is referred to as a
SOW, got into his premises through
. a dividing fence and damaged his
I corn. He held the SOW for the al
? legged damage. McMillcn iDsti
$ tuted a replevin suit in the Jus
p, tice Court, valuing her at $50, and
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