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Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16
Marriage Announced.

Mr.. Hume Long, a prominent
young farmer living north of
Sturgeon and who is a SON of ),
NJ. Long, and Miss Grace Bassett,
a highly accomplished young
woman of Liberty, Mo, are to be
married Monday afternoon of
next week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16
A Church Nursery.

Columbia, Mo-, Nov. 9.-The
Columbia babies will be taken
no more to the Methodist
Church auditorium here. They
will be left in the nursery-the
pastors study-and will be tax.
Ell care of by women students
III the University who are mem.
bers Of the Philathea class OF
the Sunday school.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16
Odd Fellows Initiate.

The Mexico Odd Fellows had Il
big initiation last Thursday night
Ten good men and true rode the
goat, as follows: Rev. j. G.
Handy. Jesse Goodson, w. S. FL
Ter, w. W. Wilson, Thurman
Stallings, j. II. Ware, c. l.. Cald.
well, Everett Stewart, j. Il.
Nichols and Norman Crowell.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Rev. G NJ. Aker, former pas
tor of the Mexico Methodist
church, is pastor of the church
at Columbia.
Brother, it has occurred to us
if the Philatheas may not need
the sermon just about as SER
iously as those mothers. How
about that!
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16
Little Child Dead

Ihe little three year old
1o'' OF Mr.. and Mrs. ID. G.,
Ir'ker :. of Shelbyville, H.,
"e' last Thursday night. The
mother before her marriage
W was Miss Neva French of
,Il'S VII city and is Il sister OF
rrS' j, Z. Dmkee and Mrs.
o. S' Cave here, who attend,
el the funeral.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

NJ II. lIcizer was figuring on
the co-incident Of the figure one
in the date in the calendar for
last Saturday-the llth day of
the llth month Of the l9llth year
a. d. Said it happened that it
was his wedding anniversary. He
was married just 2G years before
to Miss Annie Fisher, at the old
Will Fisher place, out north of
Mexico, Mr. Hcizcr is good in
figure, and is still a young man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

q. $. McGavic, manager Of the
Mexico Nulcanizing Co., has in
stalled "A Gwynn-Bacon steam tire
vulcanizer in his establishment.
He is with Joe b. Daniel, The Fix
1t Man.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

At the box social held at Union
school house, south of Mexico,
Friday evening, Nov. Bird, $26 was
realized. Miss Emma Green
proved to be the most popular
young lady present, her box
bringing the highest price, $3.50.
y nice little program was render
ed before the sale of the boxes.
Miss Stella Williams is the
teacher at Union.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Rev. j. w. Keltner Of Mexico,
who has had charge as pastor of
the Baptist church at Martiusburg
for some time, has resigned and
the first of the year will take up
the district association work for
his denomination in the State.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

DR.. and Mrs. W II. Rodes, Miss
Ped Harrison and Rev. \. A.
Wallace attended the 50th ami
Nersary of Rev. John f. c0wan 5
pastorate Of the AuXvaSSe Presby.
tcrian church last Saturday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

George Dean, southwest of Mex
leo. was thrown from his wagon
last Saturday afternoon when his
team frightened at an engine. He
was considerably injured and
bruised but not seriously, it is
thought.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

W. +. kindig, southeast of Lad
donia, has traded his l35 acre
farm to w. Y. HILBERT for a 2l6
acre farm in Galloway county and
in the exchange gives $3,125 "to
boot.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Mrs. Pate Morris of this city
was operated on for gall stones II
few days ago, She seems to be
getting along as well as could be
expected.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Mrs, 7. +. Roden Of this city
was called to Mobcrly last week
on account Of the eSriOus illness
Of her father at that place, Mr..
John Winn. Mr.. Winn died later.
He was 81 years old.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Hugh Robinson, a brother of
Mrs. j. w. Keltner of Mexico, an
aviator, fell 80 feet from his ma
chine at Whichita, Kansas, one
day last week and broke his collar
bone.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

The auctioncers at $. p. En-
mons big Short-horn cattle sale
in Mexico last Thursday were j.
I. johnson, j. q. Ford and }. \.
Stephens.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Ken Ilulen has reconsidered
and will retain his position as
driver of the city fire wagon. He
will not turn farmer for a while
vet
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

\ son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Oren Oswald at Nevada, Mo,
Thursday of last week. Mrs. Os-
Wald was formerly Miss Lucy
Campbell of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

That excellent fellow Robert
Walter Of Rush Hill was in to SEE
the Message a few days ago and
renewed for the paper
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Wesley Hendrix of Buell.. Mo,
has moved to Rush Hill and will
conduct a livery stable.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

The Message was honored with
a pleasant business call a few days
ago from Mrs. F. +, Okey Of near
Benton City.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

DR.. Geo. r. Prewett Of Hawk
Point, Mo, will locate in Martins
burg for the practice of medicine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Born, on the Sth inst, to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Duty, of near
this city, a son.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

George kabrich left this week
for Florida where he will spend
the winter.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Ab Muir ma, resigned his posi-
tion with DR.. p, f. Coil and will
go to Omaha, Neb., to live.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Our Benton City letter arrived
too late for publication last week
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Mrs. Howard Imam Of Benton
City visited relatives in Fulton
last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Earl Brown of Santa Fe was re-
ported very sick last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Wilson Poorman Of Rush Hill
has been adjudged incapable Of
managing his business affairs and
w. f. Roberts has been appointed
his guardian.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

G. w. Russell of Benton City
has brand new automobile.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Mrs. j. w. Million attended Rhe
State Teachers meeting in Hanni-
bal last week
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

VIM. Frazier and f.. +. Elliott
renew for the Message.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

We are glad to enroll X. V. Day
as a new Message subscriber.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

Mrs. j. b. Botkin visited in st.
Louis last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

'arret Barnes was in st. LOU.
last week on business.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-11-16

VI. l.. Argo of near Mexico has
to Clinton, Ill.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
Queer Handshakea.

Joseph Jefferson and Wilton Lack
aye were one season in the same com
pany. 1t was the custom of Mr.. Jeffer
son to take curtain calls and make a
speech to the audience. He liked it,
the audience liked 1t, and everybody
but Lackaye liked It Lackaye con
tended that no actor should step out OF
his part and make a curtain speech.
One night Mr.. Jefferson made bis
speech and afterward happened TO
pass Lackaye as he was going to his
dressing rooms.
well. Wilton" jefferson said, how
did | do tonightY'
oh" Lackaye replied. ut was the
same old story You went out there
and made the usual blunder"
"Blunder?" Jefferson exclaimed
what blunder did ! maker"
why" Lackaye replied. you said
AS | look into your faces feel that
should like TO shake hands with each
and every one"
Whats wrong with thatT Jeffer
son demanded.
Wrong with IT." Lackaye retorted
ITS absurd. John Drew's face is
the only one ever saw that you could
shake hands with"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
WARE THE SOAP SWlNDLER.
If You Do Get Caught Help Your
Friends and Neighbors Not to Be.

Not long ago slick tongued fraud
calling himself an agent for the
Woodbury. Soap company" went
through the country taking orders,
says the Rural New Yorker.
Ten dollars and half was the sum
asked for the soap, box Of 200 cakes,
and twenty-five cakes extra If cash
was paid down. and there was q pre-
MUM of forty yards of administer
carpeting or rugs, furniture, etc, as
the housekeeper might require-a very
wonderful bargain this, but so won
derful that 1t is surprising what a
large number of persons bit at the
bait stranger threw at them and
with the hook showing so plainly, yet
they forked over the money asked for
the goods. and he delivered to them
the twenty-five cakes Of soap as ex-
tras
He told his victims that his partner
was to follow in a week with a four
horse team and deliver the goods. but
neither himself nor partner has ever
appeared. 1t Is said that he took over
$500 in one town alone and skipped
many houses, probably fearing tele-
phones. as inquiries might be raised.
This money was taken mostly from
farmers, many of them borrowing the
money from neighbors or kinsmen, so
eager were they to get such bargain.
Such human sharks preying on their
kind should be dealt with as the ma
rine ones are.
Why does the rural community con
tinue to invest its hard earned dollars
in the schemes Of strangers where
there isn't even % cents of It coming
back when there are honest mer-
chants who would be glad to take or
ders for such goods?
The trouble is that people who get
so badly taken in do not, as a rule,
expose such rascals and allow their
neighbors and the community to get
bitter also when the next green goods
promoter comes around. People
should never allow such things to pass
unnoticed. When you get stripped
among thieves" expose them. turn on
the light of publicity. and the travel
ing frauds at least win learn that the
highways are too hot for them TO
travel on and the people are too en-
iightened to give them an ear The
exposure Of such rogues is the duty of
every disinterested citizen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
kuRIos FROM CORRESPONDENTS


o. have a Plymouth Rock hen here
that is laying eggs with a pinkish
white. She has already laid three in
twenty.four days, and | should like to
The fat around your hens egg ma
rhine impedes the work Of the muscles
as they push the egg along, and they
consequently bleed. Sometimes only
a tiny clot appears in the egg; again,
the blood mixes with the albumen, and
you have that pinkish white
Q.-Please state where there is
market for duck eggs, how they COM
pare in price with hens eggs and what
color Of shell is popular A.-Duck
eggs find their best market In the city,
where the white popular shelled eggs
sell at a higher price than chicken eggs
to the Hebrew element
Q.-What do you think of fish scrap
as meat for breeders and chicks? What
is 1t made Of? Alt is very good if
fresh. 1t is made Of ground Goldfish
heads.
OIL exhibited Pekin ducks last win
ter at two shows, entering the same
two birds at both. One duck was
creamy white and the other white, but
otherwise they were alike in weight,
shape and style. At the first show the
creamy bird won first, the other sec
Ond. At the second show 1t was the
reverse. Which judge was right? A
II both ducks were alike in other re-
spects the first judge was right, as the
Standard calls for creamy white"
OIL notice quite a number of poul-
trymen recommend tobacco dust for
body lice on poultry. Is 1t ever fed to
fowls for intestinal worms? Ave
never heard OF its use for such pur-
pose except in case Of sheep, where II
is fed to kill the stomach worm. A
sure remedy for worms in poultry is
a handful Of oak wood ashes TO every
two quarts Of mash twice a week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19

vhay. too, One last drink und den I
shall brace oop, und when you hear Of
me In congress you can feel proud dot
you adwiced me. All right, my gallant
hero. Can you send oudt for III"
"For what"
"For dot beer. Get at least two
quarts"
but shan't buy you any beer.
Don't try some games on me, old
bum"
mo beer" he shouts. Don't you
help me to brace oop und be a mann
mo, sir"
Don't you want to see me in con.
gressW
Il don't care"
"Ah, ha! You rouse my hopes, but
dash 'em to earth You gif me free
advice but TO increase my thirst. Cob
bier, you vhas a blamed old hypocrite
und l gif you my compliments und
walk oudt"
Cop Resents Competition.
Ike XII lht u MUM Oil hti nNAh wv
makes me dizzy ten minutes, und he
slams der door so hard dot der glass
breaks in pieces. like to hat him ar
rested for damages, but when | go
oudt to der sidewalk to look for po-
liceman dot red headed officer comes
und pushes he inside und says:
How vhas all disI ! see you gif
some advice free"
YES"
ooh, you do? You try to be bigger
dan policeman, do you? You like
people to understand dot you vhas a
great man und | yhas nOpody?"
II shust glf some advice" | says
"Vhell, | shust gif you some advice,
old man. You stick by your cobbling
und let advice alone. If any one wants
advice he comes 10 me. You vhas
here to mend shoes und vhas here
to advice Ply golly, but guess you
like to get me off der force. eh?"
mo"
81 pellet you do, und | pellet you
vhas a wicked old rascal, und / fell 1t
yhas my dooty TO-
Il Do Better TO Ask.
Und he backs me oop against der
wall und hits me three times NIT his
club, und when | falls down und my
wife comes in und cries oudt dot
vhas killed. dot policeman says:
mo, he isn't quite killed. He Will pc
all right again in aboudt three months,
but if he likes to give some more free
advice und take AWAY my bread und
butter und dignity you Will be some
widow womans und dis shop vhas for
sale cheap
Dot evenings der little Sherman
tailor from Smith street drop in TO see
how | gets along, und When tells him
how dot advice vhas he holds oop
his hands und says:
Man. man. you vhas a bigger foo
all der timer
How vhas dotl"
"In America, If you ask SOMEBODY'S
advice he vhas pleased NIT you; il you
offer him any advice he takes you
for an idiot or rascal. You old dun
derhead, you shall go by der poor
house und nopody but you shall be t
blame for ii! Advice! Advice! Why
If you gif AWAY one quart Of peanuts
free it vhas better dan all der advice
In der worldp
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19

a doctor bill Of $50. don't want TO
pay him. If move over to New Jer-
sey Will be all right!'
Il can't say aboudt dot" l says.
But Why noti Dot sign says ad-
vice"
ut vhas some odder advice. 1t
vhas advice to you not TO get drunk
ind lick your wife"
"Oh, | see You advice und you
don't advice. Well, l haf some ad-
vice to gif you for nottings. You
vhas an old liar und fraud. ind If
you vhill come oudt l shall make your
heels break your neck!'
Woman Had a Black Eye.
In fife minutes a woman comes in.
She hat black eye ind vhas weep
ing. II vhas two minutes before she
can speak to me, ind den she says:
"Cobbler, | can't live dis way no
longer. | vhas ready to go und drown
myself. | like some advice about my
husband, und If you gif IT to me you
shall hat all my shoes to mend"
Did your husband gif you dot black
eye?"
He did. und he pulls my hair und
throw ME downstairs. Shall | run
AWAY from him und marry somebody
else, or shall stay on und be killed.
Il vhill tell you how 1t vhas," ] says.
You 20 by der police court und get
some warrants und hat dot old william
sent to jail und disgraced. He yhas
only some loafers"
What? You call my husband
names"
Il do. A man who Will strike a
womans is a brute und should so to
Jail"
How dare you talk like dot to mel"
she yells, ash she grows red in der
face. y like you to understand, sir,
dot MY husband vhas one Of der best
men in his wide world, und vhas no
womans TO hear somebody abuse him.
but didn't he black your eyer
"He does, but l try to black his
first"
He throws you downstairs"
But | try to push him out of der
window"
'Vell, 1t was my free advice to you
dot he vhas a great big loafer, und if
you don't put him in jail you
stop! II you say one word more
shall pull out all der hair on your
head Cobbler, you yhas one of der
meanest men | ever met, und shall
60 barefoot ten years before l shall let
you fix my shoes for me- | Will tell
my husband, und he Will come here
und make you whoopw
Wants Advice and Beer.
pellet | shall take dot sign AWAY,
but before | can do so an old bum
comes in. try to keep him oudt, but
he sits down und begins to cry und
says:
"Cobbler, I hat been looking for ad-
vice for more ash three months, und
may heafen bless you for your kind
ness. You see how 1t vhas NIT me. II
vhas all my fault dot vhas bum,
und now l like to brace oop und be
somebody You shall gif me advice"
"Yhat aboudt7"
about my future. Do you advice
me to take one last drink und brace
oop und go to congress2"
II do"
"shall dot last drink be some beer
or some gimp
at vos better dot you drink beer,
guess"
"Bless your noble hearth hNiiAf DOT
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
FEATHERS AND EeesHELLs.

In gang Of six chicken thieves
captured at Marietta, Pa, was a wom-
an who dressed the fowls and sold
them at market. Rather fowl work
for fair female.
When eggs are allowed TO accumu-
late in the nest they not only are
broken and start egg eating, but they
encourage the hens to be broody. If
eggs are removed as they are laid a
turkey will lay as high as seventy in
season.
Refrigerator eggs from Australia are
frozen so hard that a London dealer
threw one at his office wall and made
a hole in the plaster, but did not crack
the shell. A lawyer, astonished, took
three home TO surprise his wife. He
banged them down on the table where
she and her fashionably dressed
friends were playing cards, when-oh
Inconsistency egg busted. They had
thawed
With a corn crop of 3125,713,O00
bushels the green duck crop will ex-
coed all records. There is now one
medical quack to every 800 of the pop
ulation, and our college incubators are
still turning the fresh green product
out at fearful rate.
In March a California incubator
manufacturer was running his factory
day and night and was yet back
$500 in orders, and the day was once
when there was not an incubator in
this country. Today over 100000 are
sold annually. Take that, pessimist
To our friends who got ratified over
that reciprocity treaty for fear ii
would food this country with fresh
eggs we Just rise long enough to re.
mark that Canada's surplus eggs for
a whole year would supply New York
city for just one day Eggs for nog
aren't included.
When an egg is broken in a setting
the smear not only imperils the hatch.
ability Of the daubed eggs, but also
makes the shells rough, so that there
Is friction when the hen turns her eggs
and thus more breakage. Such eggs
should be washed in warm water and
at once be returned to the hen
If old eggs hatch at all they hatch
late and give poor chicks. AS incuba.
tor chicks should not be fed the first
day, these late chicks get their first
meal too soon or the early chicks from
the fresh eggs get theirs too late
Never be fresh yourself, but always
set all fresh eggs for success.
When you give a chick feed as soon
as 1t comes from the shell you overtaS
its digestive system, and that is gen.
orally It's finish. Give the chick a day
to assimilate the yolk and then feed
little, but often.
To win market for fine eggs ano
poultry these days is easy, but to
win back confidence after imposing or
customer is seldom accomplished
The fellow that sticks to business and
the Golden Rule is never branded as 4
knave or fool.
2o'MS"Hs~"~~S.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
piIarims and Puritans.

The pilgrims We're a body Of English
who emigrated from
Holland and settled Plymouth colony
in 1920. The PuritanS were a body Of
nonseparatist religious reformers from
England who in lG29-30 founded and
settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The two bodies united in 1862 under
the name of Massachusetts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
co ADVERTISE LIKEWISE.

How did the little busy bee
Get such q reputation?
Why his names great throughout the
earth,
In every tribe and nation.
He bas o buzzer for his biz VA
And buzzes while he's busy. IL
His store Is surely a beehive.
He's busy til he's dizzy.
How did that little yaller hen
Get 10 that rung so high2
Was she borne there by an airship
or did she just up ny?
She cackled, then she laid an egg
And cackled awful after
To let folks know about that egg
She almost raised a rafter.
Thus II you have a thing that's good
And wish the folks 10 buy II
You'll surely never do Hle stunt
II you sit and keep quiet.
II that old hen didn't advertise
Her eggs would just get rotten.
Shed get the ak right in the neck
And quick would be forgotten.
c. NJ. BARNITZ.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
The Bride and
Groom Will
Remember You

with a great deal Of pleas
ure, if you select a gift OF
utility and beauty. We
have made it a real study
to offer suggestions to pro-
spective gift givers in order
that they may select some.
thing that will be highly
appreciated.
Different things appeal
10 different people so that
a knowledge of the person
to whom you are about to
give is necessary. 1t will
be a pleasure for us to show
you a number Of different
articles which we have in
stock at a large range of
prices.
An appreciated gift by
no means signifies an ex-
penSive gift as you will
learn from a visit to our
establishment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-19
GIVING ADVICE.
German CobbIer Tries New 0cCu-
patton For a Time.
1T GETS HIM INTO TROUBLE.
Woman Resents Aspersions on the
Husband Who 5aeked Her Eye.
Bum Wanted to Reform by Drinking
Two Quarts OF Beer.

copyright, 1911 by Associated Literary
Press.l
~ NE day | finish oop all der cob
Il bling in my shop, und What !
VI ID shall do now | don't know.
ask der druggist und der coal
man ind der butcher, but dey can't
tell me. ask der old umbrella mend
err, und he looks at me long time
und says | had better go by dot hot
place. SO / lights my pipe und sits
down to think. Maybe 1t vhas two
hours before have some bright idea.
Dot night | put sign in dor window
dot reads:
Come in ind see der cobbler. He
Will gif you advice free"
open my shop early In der morn
ing ind vhas all ready for customers
when a man comes In md says:
"Cobbler, | see II vhas free advice
around here ike some Of 1t. owe
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-17
INDIANS BEAT AGED
COUPLE NEAR NORTH YAKNIA 4

North Yakima, Wash, April 15.-
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lusby, an aged
couple who are occupying. rented In
dian land near Alfalfa, were attacked
sometime after midnight Friday and
SO severely clubbed that the man will
die. His wife, who went to his res
cue, was unconscious until this even
ing, when she revived enough to say
that an Indian named Johnson was
the assailant, and that another In
dian, Billy George, ACCOMPANIED him.
Their house resembled a shambles.
The Indians are in jail at Toppen-
ish, and neighbors of the Lusbls are
so incensed that feeling is running
high, and there has been talk of a
lynching, the more pronounced as the
man Johnson is said to be a "bad"
Indian. 1t is said that he had been
fed at the Lusby home but that his
demands for money had been refused