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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
Secure Am Accommodation

Through the efforts of our accommo-
dating express agents. Edw. Lind and
wife, the Wells Fargo Co. has estab-
lished delivery and collection system
which will be greatly appreciated by
our people. Starting Monday morning,
those living within the district encom-
passed by the Southeastern Main street
crossing on the north, John Thayer's
residence on the east, Dtwson's resi-
denee on the south and McKittriek 5 on
the west, will have allexpress delivered
to them, and by telephoning to Mr
Lind may have the express wagon call
for any outgoing packages. A modern
delivery wagon has been purchas, d,
and Dan Wise will have charge Of that
end of the work. For the convenience
Of patrons, branch money order Offices
have been established with An 1erson &
Sauer and Theo. johnson. Mr. Lind
and wife have been endeavoring to
bring this about for some time, aud
come in for a goodly share of common
dation because of the success Oh Their
pndaay ora
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
RURsL NEWS ITEMS
Contr,bu,ed bY the Cen-os'a
Live Corresponaen,.
Observation-Disclosures
JEFFERSON

SPRINGvILLE. Defender Media Graham was
no from Chaseburg a week ago.. Mrs Ruth
Derr has been helping Mrs. VIII Mills sew for a
few days 500. Ladies aid society OF the Methn iisc
church held their annual bazasr and supper in
the old store room on Thaa ksgiving day aud even
ing Will Mills and !. 81. Groves have rew
corn shredder Mrs. yfos. NJ. buchanan was
taken to st. Frances hospital ~ la Crosse ON the
End, for an operation for gall stones. She wss nc
companied by Dr. Morley her ply stefan. aid her
sister. Ms Edith German --.-- Frances ii Older
accompanied Margaret DriRkwine 10 Sparta for
visit Genie Older was st home from NirnGna
for short visit on the 80 Mrs. E. H. Officer
and daughter Myrtle OF ViroQua were guests If
friends mere on Saturday and Sunday 49,, Clad
German has purchased a car Of toll $40. Tel ack
WINNING had corn shrtdders on the End instant.
Rev. Hartwell % Virocua occupied the pu pit in
the Methodist church on fhanksgivilsE. 49, Edna
Groves who teaches near Retreat spent Thanks
giving at home Dell Anderson and family Of
Virooua spent spsrt Of Thanksgiving day here.
i. Mrs c. A. Graham is assisting her sister move
to Minnesota. where they have purchased a farm.
..... Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Spellum were guests
Of Blaine Wheeler and wife yesterday. JONES.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
STERLING.

WEsr PRAgRIE. becember Henry Austin was
a business caller in this locality Friday :. Mrs.
Frt neh of De Soto ia here for indefinite visit
with her daughter Mrs. Carry A. B. Forum
passed through here Friday cnroute to his home
at Virnqua. after passing Thanksgiving at the
parental home. The J. ri. Vance family ate
Thanksgivi turkey at the home Of Mrs. Vance 5
sister at De Soto. .... Miss Blanche Jasperson
visited over Saturday and Sunday at the DIR
Christianson farm. -. Training and high school
students arrived "Wednesday night to enjoy
Thanksgiving vacation at home Miss Eila
Thompson of ViroQua visited with her grand
parents Mr. ard Mrs. Chsse last week Mr..
Shilling is drilling well for Mr.. Ramsett. i.
Tom johnson shipped poultry TO Chicago the first
Of last week. Mrs Julia flikke Of Mason City,
Iowa. is visiting friends ard relatives here.
Gertrude and Mrs. Jake holland did shopping in
Viroqua Saturday ...... WI Nelson drove down
from Viroqua Friday on business. >. Services were
held IN this church sunday morning. MOLLY.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
cLINToN.

SUGAR GROVE December Fired Nelson Is
threshing out timothy seed Cor Tom Pierce 49,.
MIR. and Mrs Jesse Parr and children visited at
Gus Markets yesterday Rev. Vincent preached
here Saturday night. Services again week from
next Sunday. go. Frank Calhoun is hauling logs
TO Fred Nelson's saw NIL, 49,. Mrs. Sas Call
houn and daughter Carrie attended church at
Dell Sunday Sandy Robins Is making els
tern for Rome Perkins go. VIA Adams wife and
son Miles returned home Saturday from the north.
where they have been hunting Blanche Clarke
and Charlie Richardson Wis ted Mr. aud Mrs. Willie
Caisouns yesterday ..... Mrs. Cora Nelson visited
her sister, Msr. George Clarke Sunday, Jay
Henry and new wife Of La Fargo. spent Thanks
giving at the latter's parents. Mr.. and Mrs Rob-
bert Clark .... Revival meeting begin at Dell to-
night. Chas Parr ana family have moved from
Cashtop back on their farm Flessie Moss
holder. lola Applemafl and lzora Perkins visited
the school Friday afternoon. i Mr.. and Mrs ParF
Of Viroqua, attended church here Saturday night.
Miss Sinnis has been boarding at VIM. Dolens the
past two weeks, but win return to VIM. Adams
this week :. Lenore Terhune has been staying
with her uncle and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Cal
houn for the past two weeks. BUSY BEE.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
CHURCH NOTES

Brookville ladies aid will meet with
Mrs. Sam Lake, for dinner, Thursday.
December IA. Everybody invited
Springville Epworth League will give
a shadow social in the old store build
ing Friday evening of this week.
Ladies are requested to bring baskets.
Services at the Synod West Coon
Prairie next Sunday at 1920 a. m; co m
munion services at Viroqua at 2:30 p.
m. A collection will be taken for ben
eft of the organist.
Don't forget the bazaar and donation
supper at Bishop Branch Saturday
night, December 8.
AT Bishop Branch church December
8, the annual bazaar and supper. Every
one cordially invited.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
=OYITUARY=
rDWApDF SCHUBERT

This good citizen Of Genoa died Tuesday. Nov
ember D. after an illness Of four m0nths from
paralysis. He vas born February z. 1891. N Hill
brughansen Sexe MeiHfugen, Germany. ard came
10 this country when l6 years old settling az New
Orleans, and later on moved % Illinois In lb1O
be came 70 Wisconsin. where he has always re-
sided since. He leaves widow and seven child
rsn-Mrs Henry Lamprich Of Cape Girardeau
Mrs VIM Brooks Of Stoddard. Mrs. Mat Gussett
Of TrempeaIeau. Mrs Henry Lupie, Albert. Henry
and Edward Schubert. who all live IN the neigh
hood Of the old home besides thirty grand child
rem and seven great grand children. Mr.. Schubert
was faithful member Of Of the German Lutheran
church His whole life was devoted 70 the com
fort and happiness Of his family and 10 all who
knew him.
Funeral services we're held last Friday at the
church with Rev RAIDER in charge, iHterment in
the cemetery near BY. p.
good old German father devoted man 70
home family and church. passed % his reward on
Saturday last al the home Of his son Fred on As.
bury Ridge when Reinhoid Ludwig Summerfeld
died a. the ripe axe o. 9 years ard mouths. he
was born ia Germany August 8. tcls, and came %
America In 1881 lis wife died r the oid cpan-
try. He has two soHs. Fred aad Reinert. 10Th re-
siding in Firoqua town Funeral was conducted
from the place where ne died on Tuesday inter-
ment IL Nlr1Qua cemetery
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
TAX NOTICE FOR CITY OF VlROQUA

NOTICE is EEREBY GIVEN. THAT THE
~ tax roll for the City Of Vroqua, for the year
1911 is in my hands for collection and that shall
* ready 70 receive the taxes charged therein at
my Office at Hotel Fortney from December Is.
1911 All taxes must be paid prior 70 January 81.
1872 no collection fce8 viii bn chared on taxes
paid prior to January q. 1912 hut two per cent on
the amount Of the tax VIII be collected thereafter.
The water tax must be raid before January 81.
1912: thereafter ten per cent will be due on all
water tax for 1911. remaining unpaid.
AMrNp HELLAED. City Troasarer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
G. A. re Bleed OFFICERS

At Monday nights meeting of AleS
Lowrie Army Post the following vet.
Grams were elected officers and dele.
gates:
Commander Henry c. Costing.
Senior Vice Commander-A. e. Morrison.
Junior Vice Commander Daniel Wise.
Surgeon-C c. Brown.
Chaplain--Luther II. Glenn.
Quarter Master-John w. Brown.
Officer of Day--O. p Hill
Officer of Guard-Theodore Cornell.
Patriotic Instructor-C. E. Morley.
Delegates to Department State EneaH-l Jment-
G. C. Brown, j. Henry Tate.
Alternates-J W. Brown. J. w. Gilman.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
WORK OF CITY COUNCIL

City of Viroqua, November %, 1911.
Council met with Mayor and all alder
men present. Minutes of last meeting
approved.
Bills allowed: Standard Oil Co. gaso-
lene, $50. 25; Salaries: John Weber $50,
M. H. Graham $50, Geo. H. Clarke
SIG &c.
On motion of Alderman Spellum the
sympathy of the council was extended
to Alderman Morrison and family on
the sore affiiction that has come to them
in the death of wife and mother. The
motion was adoped by rising vote.
On motion council adjourned.
GEO. III. CLARKE, City Clerk.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

1t is learned that all the personal
injury cases growing out of the burning
on the steamer y. s." near Genoa,
two years ago, were amicably settled
out of court at Winona, recently. A
number of parties at De Soto and else
where in this county, sued for personal
iE,iurinc suafained
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
VIII Hardships Never Cease

1t is told on a young man of Union
township who is paving tender atten-
ton to young woman in Greenwood,
that the Greenwood farmer required
him to husk corn for two whole days to
pay for the oil and fuel used for his
benefit. The scheme is good one and
the farmer is pleased with the result.
-Hillshorn Sentry
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
Won VIII Mako no MistaI<e

If any citizen has not already wit
messed a play by the Dougherty Theatre
Company, they take no chance in doing
SO. They are all right, are putting on
good interesting plays and have the
snap and catchy air that takes. All
the week they remain at the Opera
house with a Saturday afternoon matt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
We Do The Business

We are in the business to take care
of your needs in storm sash. Don't
wait till the snow flies before ordering
your goods. We take measurements in
any place in the city and guarantee
sizes to fit. Phone No. 80.
TIBBITs- CAMERON LUMBER Co.,
Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

EVERYBODY Send for free sample Of Success
Magazine t. The National POst--the healthy. Wig
oruus and sensible American home magazine con
tssuing the thrilling Oppenheim Story The Girl
OF The Thirty Thousand. and receive also our
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

Ard still nearer, cone sadder or more
painful to home, community and dis
tracted parents and sisters in the ac-
cidental death, by his own gun, of
Floyd Spencer Robson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs j. Spen Robson, who live two
miles south of Viroqua. There is none
to tell the real facts of the affair, the
accident happening when Spencer was
alone in the field on his parents farm,
while out for days hunt for rabbits.
He was for time in company with
men and boys at a neighbours, depart
ing from that place after noon. He
failed to return home at dusk and
search was instituted, the body found
about dark. A jury swosn By Justice
Pollard, viewed the remains, listened to
testimony of surgeons Minshall and
Lauder and others who were sworn, and
gave unanimous verdict that death
was accidental. Just how the accident
happened will never be known, but the
awfulness of the affair and grief is
appalling.
Spencer Robson was a student in VII
roqua school grades, bright, manly
boy, born at Liberty Pole twelve years
ago last October. Funeral was con-
Quoted at the home on Monday after
noon by Rev. Buffers, burial at Lib
erty Pole.
The parents and two sisters express
appreciation for tenderness and sym
pathy and assistance in this time of
affiiction
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
MONEY TO LOAN

On farm property. Funds always on
hand, no delay. Interest reasonable.
/ also buy mortgages. Address, or call
on w. ]. Hickiseh, $40 Pearl street, La
Crosse Wis
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

WANTED 10 BUY "A good stallion for
breeding purposes three to eight years
old. Must be good weight and sound.
Please let me hear from you at once.
Inquire Of or address A. J. Favor, Vir-
qua, Route 8.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
20 Dancer slgnaI WhistIe

c. NJ. Sandon was laid up few days
because of his short journey through
the air, off from load Of corn stalks.
Some think that he was praeticing the
mack Of balancing which, Nnen per
fected, would enable him to pass the
brakeman's examination on the Ont ario
& Northwestern railway. &C ntsri o
Headlight
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
Lost and Found

STRAYED From my pasture, in JEFF
fersou, about November lst, dark
red yearlipg muley steer. Finder notify
undersigned. Lewis Holen, Viroqua,
Route No. 3.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

Choice roses, carnations, lilies and
violets. Floral designs and decora-
tions for all occasions. Write or phone.
CAPITAL CITY GREEN House Co.,
Phone 179. Madison, Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
Wanted

WAETED-An elderly lady to assist
in family with five children, ages s
months TO IL years. Call on or address
DIR. r. S. fainter. Readstown, Wis.
Please give references.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
CITY of viroq1a, December 5, 1911

City OF VlrOqua, December ., IyII
Mayor and all aldermen present.
Minutes of last meeting approved.
Bills allowed for repairs, w. H. Stog-
dill 81 20, Irwin Henry 50, Thos. Cor
such ST. 30, Standard Oil Co., gasolene,
S27. so.
Treasurer's report for November
made, showing balance on hand 1929 Sc,
found correct and adopted, and placed
on file.
GEO. H. CLARKE, City Clerk.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
The Rabbit Market

We are in the market to buy S., 200
rabbits, for which we will pay eight
cents a piece. ROBERTSON & DAHL,
The Farmers Store, Viroqua.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

In future the viroqua Hotel will serve
regular meals at rs cents. Barn room
and dinner at so cents. Come and see
US. NJ. w. TwININc, Landlord.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

During soft periods Of the past
menth small quantities Of tobacco has
been removed from the poles. Very
little. however, in this locality.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

For SALE One fuIl-blood Poland
China boar, 10 months old Call on or
address F. NJ. Deunison, (Newton,) vi
roqua, Route No. 3. 1872.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
a Receot;on
CUT FLOWERS

for boys and girls at Towner's, Satur-
day afternoon, from to3 o'clock.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

FoR SALE Single buggy, recently
painted and in good shape Also good
second hand harness. Inquire of Err
nest Lepage, Viroqua.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
Will Please Your Fancy and Fit Your Pocket Book

Live Merchants of Who Appreciate the Benefits of Adj
Invite the Peblic Buy Their Stocks
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
EXTREMELY DISTRESSING
TWO CHILDREN KILLED WHILE
HANDLING GUNS
Friday and Saturday are Fatal Days in
Two Families-Tragedies That
Take Daughter and Son

Tragic fatalities have been brought
suddenly to two families of this sec
ton, profound sorrow being expressed
on every hand for the sorely afflicted.
The death of the boy and girl from fire.
arm is the sad tale that comes to all
too frequently.
Friday afternoon last, at the farm
home of Amund Swain, five miles north
east of Viroqua, little daughter, HUI
dab, aged ten years, was instantly killed
by the firing of gun in the hands of
her seven-year-old brother. She was
shot through the temple. and death
was instantaneous. The two children
were handling a gun placed within their
reach hy u neighbor who was returning
from hunt. 1t is one of the saddest
tragedies we have been called upon to
chronicle
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

WANTED Young married man to
work on dairy farm. c. V. Porter, vi
roqua.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

Al Coon VALLEY Lutheran church. b. Pastor
sgvde December j. M Olius Rsnuiux u Fair
yies Nor tzaa and Mas Anna l.. Hage u Coon
valley DAUGHTER 81 ". and Hrs. Lara Hage- The
rr0orn s son Of former residents Of Coon. The
yoang couple viii farm ID M0ntana.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

For SALE "A full-blood Der hir G
boar to sell or exchange for bull calf.
Call on or address Albert A. Peterson,
Yiroqus. Route 2. 1872.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

Al Ia Crease Noyenher e. b. ~ Fsviile Nf.
Lester G. West o. Ped McDud md Gizl &able
BAXTER 81 La CO.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06

For SALE Horses, one marc and
one gelding two years old One Moline
wagon. 80 inch, nearly new. 70ODe-
Laval cream separator c G. Olson, third
house east of Bekkedal's warehouse,
Viroifa
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-12-06
WANT AID. COLUMN
Insertions Under this Head 5 CITE
per Line. No AID Taken for Less
Than IS Cents.
For Sale

For SALE-seven full-blood Hamp-
shire boars, 81 months old; with or
without pedigree. Call on or address
George Spencer, Viroqua, Route No. 6.
Proctor telephone line No. 90.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
Opium Den Raided.

Mayor Willard Potts and Night
Watchman Quincy James and
Sam Wallace went to the home of
" Aunt" Sophia Young, a re-
spectacle colored woman, in the
east part of town. last Saturday
night and arrested two negro men
and two negro women lately from
Kansas City. The quarto were
under suspicion as bad characters,
and when the officers went in up
on them they found a regular
opium layout in the room and one
of the men caught hitting the
pipe" There was one pipe, one
small brass Chinese lamp. some
wire for inserting the pills" into
the pipe and ten or $12 worth Of
cooked and raw opium. The out
fit, with the prisoners, was taken
to the City Hall.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
A BOTTLE AND MARRIAGE.
Girl Sends Note Down River And
Catches Mexico Man.

independence, Mo-, March "a
a romance which began in a bot
tie led today to a Justice court,
where Grace Stafford, Is years old
of Hardin, Mo, and Edward Till
man. % years old. of Mexico. Mo-,
were married.
1.-Two years ago." said Tillman,
Miss Stafford placed her name
and address in a bottle and threw
it into the Missouri River at Mis-
souri, City. 1t foated down to
Glasgow, Mo, where it was my
good fortune to find it.
81 wrote. Grace answered.
Later | asked her and she said yes.
! ask You, were we not intended
for each other?''
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
EAST HALLSVILLE.

Mrs. Belle Pigg returned home
Monday after a week S visit with
her sister, Mrs. Mary Toalson, of
Columbia.
r. l.. Allen traded a three year
old mare to Turner Durk for a
span of work mules, paying $3.50
difference.
Willie Durk and wife spent Fri
day and Saturday at Sam Ridge
ways.
Mrs. Willard Harden died at
Jim Harden's Tuesday morning,
at 6 o'clock. The remains were
laid to rest in Mt. Zion cemetary
She leaves a husband and baby
also many relatives and friends to
mourn her loss.
Will Berry visited at Jefferson
City Saturday and Sunday.
Silvia Logdon of Sturgeon
spent Saturday and Sunday il
this vicinity.
William Vancourt is suffering
very badly mashed foot, caused
by dropping log on it, being I'M
Ible to walk without the aid of {
crutch.
Dave Belrose and wife moved
TO st. Louis last week where the!
will make their future home.
Mrs. Tom Farthing of Columbii
| pent few days with home folk
here last week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
COUNTY TEACHERS.
Three Dozen in the Examination
Last Friday and Saturday.

County Superintendent of
Schools, l.. J. Shobe, assisted hy
Mrs. Shobe. held examinations for
teachers certificates last Friday
and Saturday in Mexico. just 80
persons stood the examinations
and out of that number but two of
them were men-G. c. Rawlings
Of Centralia and W. T. jacob of
Martinsburg. 1t looks as tho the
teaching profession in Audrain il.
being pretty well abandoned to
the women.
Among the subjects on which
test questions were given were the
following: Z. 5. History. Civil
Government, Agriculture, Ad-
vanced Science. Physiology. Ped
sgogy and Advanced History.
The list of those who took the
examinations was as follows:
Mexico-Graee r. Hatcher.
Hermie Gibbs, Esther Harrison.
Minnie Stallings. Matte Dodd.
Alberta Slaughter. Mary Lucy
Berrey, Pearl Barnett, Josie Da-
Wis. Ethel Southe Dull.
Benton City Martha S
Stauffer. Edna RICHTER.
Martinsburg-Wm. jacob. May
Jarboe, Irene Gallaspie, Alice
Reymer, Edna Earnest, Olivia
Seeker.
Farber-Nola Athey.
Laddonia- Ambria Quinn.
Ruby Webber, Beulah Talbot,
Della Talbot, vernie Levick, Mel
lie Bellamy, Laura billiard, Ed
die Cunningham, Matte Talley.
Rush Hill-Gertrude Nagel. Lii
lie Lower. Emma Epperson.
Thompson-Edna Cant. Mary
Murphy, Elizabeth O'Brien
Claudia Lease.
Centralia-Myrtle Bryson, G. e
Rawlings.
Clark-Nettie Mallory.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
WEEDS in Illinois.

Walter Dugan Of this city, son
If Mr.. and Mrs. John Dugan, was
married last Monday morning at
CarrOllton, Ill. to Miss Caroline
Franks of Fulton, No. Mr.. Dugan
was not of age. He failed TO get a
marriage license at Fulton. Later
he got one in Mexico, it is said,
under an assumed name. But he
got the paper that carried him
thru at CarrolltOn. The couple
returned thru Mexico Monday on
their way TO Fulton.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
BARN BURNED.
Fine Horse Loses Its Life. Third
Fire in Four Years.

Pollock Milling Co. lost another
barn by fire last Saturday night,
near the site of where two others
have been burned in less than
four years. 1t looks like the work
of incendiarieS.
The barn destroyed Saturday
night contained two carloads of
fertilizer. two tons of hay. some
harness and a quantity of feed.
Two big iron gray horses. for
which at one time Mr.. Pollock had
refused $500. were also stabbed in
the barn. One was gotten ont but
was badly burned and it is
thought it will die and the other
was burned 10 death.
The fire department did quick
work but nothing but the frame
of the building was saved.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-30
MEXICO BOY COMMANDS.
Hero in School Fire. Loses His
Personal Effects.

Wellesley, Mass, March 81
Regardless of the. her0ism and
presence Of mind of Whitley John
son, son of Mrs. Robt. johnson. of
Mexico, Mo-, Rock Ridge Hall. an
exclusive school for boys in this
city. was burned to the ground
Saturday. Young Johnson led his
fellow students in fighting the fire.
The fire was discovered while
the boys were in their classrooms.
Young Johnson assembled his
classmates and took charge of one
Of the lines of hose in the building
fighting the fire bravely and Civ
ing much aid to the city fire de-
partment.
A strong wind, however. de-
feated their purpose and drove
them from the building. The boys
were so intent upon extinguishing
the fire they forgot about personal
effects until they had all been
burned.
The loss is said to total about
AS, 900 Stanley Wood, a nephey
of Mai. Gen. Wood. was injured
by a falling window sash, and
young Johnson, who was the hero
Of the fire. had several narrow
escapes from falling timbers and
brick.