Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-04
SURROUNDING AUDRAIN.
Centralia's New Federal Building
Mr.. Kemp to the Philippines
- That Bull Dog
Buster.


elected as principal of Wes,
School in Fulton.
Congressman Shackelford is
pushing bill in Congress for the
erection of 100000 Federal
building at Centraia.
Another new farmers mutual
telephone line was completed thru
the Creech neighborhood. in Lin.
coin county, last week
Prof. George Cowman, of Mon
roe county. has secured the APP
pointment as government teacher
in the Philippines at 81 500 per
year.
4 High Hill man last week con-
cluded to take the Keeley treat
ment when his bull dog Buster"
refused to let him come into the
yard drunk.
The Baptist church at Troy has
arranged for its revival meeting
this fall. Rev. j. II. Dew, the
leading State evangelist of Mis-,
souri,, will assist.
Elder L. j. Hampton of Louis
lana has accepted a call to the
Madison Christian church for half
of his time. He was pastor there
fifty-one years ago.
About thirty men of Mont
gomery City have published a
statement that they will have the
names Of saloon petition signers
published in the paper.
w. S. Hopkins, who has rela-
tives in and around Mexico, has
accepted the position Of assistant
cashier of the AuXyasse Bank. He
takes the place of S. S. Harrison,
resigned.
Capt. NJ. T. Moore, of Fulton,
an uncle of Sam, Pe!ide and f. r.
Locke Of this city, is to receive
from the State $1,360 for land
swallowed by the Missouri River
near Cedar City a number of
years ago.
Andrew Carnegie has offered
Fulton $4,000 with which to eS-
tablish a public library. The gift
will be made on the conditiIn that
the city furnish the site and main
tain the library at an expense of
81, 200 a year.
Prof. Frank Grow has been EN-
plOyed to teach the South Fork
school. near Santa Fe. It is an
eight months term and Mr.. Crow
gets sos a month-the highest sal
airy of any other rural teacher in
Monroe county
Mrs. Warren Tucker of
Sturgeon with suicidal in
tent, shot herself in the
temple Wednesday night of last
week, causing death instantly. She
had been in i'll health for a long
time. The husband is a brother
of J. ID. Tucker of Centralia.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs.
August Wartman, of Montgomery
City, who died of the measles and
asthma within a few days, wero
buried in one grave last Thursday.
They were 10. y and 9 years old.
The triple grave was 6 feet wide
and Z feet long. Nine of the fam
lily were i'll at one time, but the
other six are recovering. The epi-
demic is subsiding.
Aunt Jersey Holiday, negress,
said to be 1l5 years old, died at
her home north of Paris last Fri
day. She was born in Richmond,
Ky, brought to Boone county.
Mo-, by John Maupin in the early
'thirties, and subsequently be
came the property of Clifton
Maupin in Monroe county. She
has son over 70 and had one
daughter who died at the age of
50.
This one is from a Randolph
county editor: "NOt a thousand
miles away from here or a recent
Sunday a farmer in church very
eloquently supplicated the Lord
to help the needy and poor in the
community. When going home
his little son very artfully re
marked: Say pa, if had as
much wheat and corn in the barn
as you have ! d help the poor my
- Al.