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Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
CENTRAL HEATING PLANT
FRANCHISE GIVEN TWO
READINGS MONDAY EVE

PROPOSES TO GIVE THE MEX
Ico POWER COMPANY PRIvI-
LEeEs TO LAY MAINS FOR
CENTRAL HEATING LIANT IN
THIS CITY
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15

DR.. Branstetter. OF Vandalia, was
In this city Monday
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
LAND SALES

Paul Il. Hudson to G. M. and Dora
Hoag, E. so feet of lots 9 and 10,
blk B., Boulevard Add, Mexico, Mo-,
$250O.
w. w. Fry, Jr., to Minerva John
son Nelson. Lot 4, blk 2, South Side
Park Add, Mexico. $4,000.
Henry Schwabacher, Jr., to Geo
P. Maxwell, Und IL int, in 92.7O
acres in Sec. 14-51-7. $24SS,a7 IL.
Ray Rodgers to August ]. Deich-
mann and John j. Reubling, 200
acres in Secs IA, 10 and 22-5l-6 for
$11,5O
A. G. Beshears to E. w, Sparks,
lot l20x12O feet 100 feet Southerly
from blk 81, original Vandalia, for
$1,000.
Mary NJ. McFadin ct al to James
H. Bolts. Quit-claim. 14O acres in Sec
g-52-S. 81.
Henry Schwabacher by Executors
to George p, Maxwell. Executors
Deed. Und. 1-2 int. in 92.7O acres in
Secs. 14-51-7,
Mary E. Hutchinson toJ, I. Fields
121.6 81 acres in Sec. 7-51-5.
Geo. M. Ferrel to John h. Ferrel
Und. 1-2 int. in lot 2, blk 81, origl'
nal Vandalia. $3.50.
w. r. Gwillim to Geo. M. and Lau
ra NJ. Ferrel, lot 159.04x60 1T 120 f
Easterly from N w. cor lot 1, orig
inal Vandalia.
CentraI-West Construction Co.
to Fannie Briscoe, lot 8, blk s, Trol
ley Heights Add, Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15

One lot of Swiss Embroidery
Flouncing, q in. wide, with seal
loped edge mad eyelet worked
many patterns to select from
worth 75c per yd., your choice In
our Summer Sale. per yd
acc.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
,cr CREAM SUPPER AT MoLINo.

ICE CREAM SUPPER AT MollNo'
The ladies' of Mt. Zion church will
give an ice cream social at Molino
Thursday evening, June 22. to which
everybody is cordially invited. This
entertainment will be held near the
electric car line and very convenient
for the people of Mexico to attend.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
MORE GOOD NEWS

Itching Scalp and Dandruff viii Van
ish and LuxurIant Hair will fol-
low.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15
Summer Sale Continues-=.M~=

Rare values that picked Rice Dry Jubilee Sale
at about 6Oc on the dollar; prices, usual very low
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

The men in the machine shops
(they are men" down at Salem
now and not "cons") were work.
ing 10 hours a day and getting
nothing for 1t. West reduced their
hours to nine, and allowed them
three hours Of the nine for them
selves you work six hours for
the state and three for yourself
and you'll get paid for the three
hours" was the new order. That
machine shop is doing better work,
more CT it and several men are
working out patents that will prob
ably make them self-supporting.
Does it pay? Listen to the gov
ernor:
81 hope in three years, maybe in
two, to make the penltentiary self
supporting. Not only that, but l
hope to make it a paying institu-
tion so that it will not need to ask
the legislature for any more appro-
priations for buildings, equipment
or grounds"
The new system is not a happen
chance. 1t is carefully worked out.
The State Prison Aid society works
with the state parole board and
governor to find rsmunerative en-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

ployment for paroled men. Men
that have proven reliable and eff
ficient on prison work are recon-
mended for parole; IA job is Sc
cured them. If they get a better
one they can take it. But THEY
MUST WORK! And cvery man of
the so paroled in the last three
months has made good.
Governor West intends to
change the old adage that sit takes
a thief to catch thief, and will
act on the belief that 1T takes a
convict to catch a convict. He
said today that the next time one
of his "honor men" makes a break
from the work that has been as
signed to him outside the peniten-
tiary he will select two or three
convicts on whom he believes he
can implicitly rely and will send
them forth to capture the fugitive.
He will go even further than that
and will supply the convicts with
guns.
That the convicts so delegated
would make their attempts to
catch the fugitive only as mat
ter of duty is another part of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
COST OF LIVING
STILL GOING UP

cent higher than in 1890, and
|316 per cent higher than the av-
|erage price for the 10 years 1890
to 1899.
Comparing 1910 with 1909 the
group of commodities showing the
greatest increase in prices was
lumber and building materials,
which was 10.7 per cent.
One of the significant facts
shown by the report is the In
crease in price of food. Food as
a whole increased 3.2 per cent in
the average price for 1910 as
compared with 1909. Among the
"a articles showing an increase
in price were pork, bacon, lard,
coffee, hams, dressed poultry,
eggs, butter, mutton and fresh
beef.
There was an average increase
of 81 per cent in price of cloths
and clothing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
Especial Correspondence

WASHINGTON, July 24.-The
government bureau of labor Off
cially corroborates the fact that it
costs more to live now than it
ever did before. If anybody has
had any doubt about that fact the
labor bureaus report just issued
ought to convince him.
The bureau has compiled Stats
ties covering the prices of 257
commodities in 1910, as COM
pared with 1909, and with the 81
year period from 1890 to 1910.
Its inquiry is based on Wholesale
prices.
1t finds that the 1910 prices
averaged per cent higher than
1909, 1911 per cent higher than
in 1900, ACT per cent higher than
in 1897 (the year of lowest prices
in the 21-year period, 1876 per
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

vors the proposed agreement with
the United States, and thus far
has had but little opportunity to
voice its stand on the matter.
An indication OF the feeling to-
ward the measure is seen in the
unanimous vote of 1t by the leg
islatures of Saskatchewan and AL
berta. Manitoba is the fountain
head of opposition to reciprocity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
LAD OF NINE
WOULD WALK EAST

Clarence Fuller. aged 9, of Ia
coma, clad in nothing but a bath
ing suit and a pair of blue jeans,
was picked up by officers at
Puyallup Saturday as he was man.
fully trudging along the railway.
He said he was going to Mime
apolis to his grandma, who "is
good to him."
1t is the third time he has
started to walk to Minneapolis.
Bell Fuller, his stepfather, of
East 10Th street, brought him
back.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
BY DANA SLETH


SALEM, July 24Does Vests human square
policy prisoners cash?
Figures talk:
brick making
brick day. West called in delegation and said:
fellows blame
nothing will make 10000 brick day
I'll give half of what max the 10000"
But fellows Loaf GOVERNOR" said the
spokesman
ANY who loafs will to the stove foundry and
with
the
beating mark, the
getting brick
aside a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
WILL CONTEST
TEXAS WET
VICTORY
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
AUSTIN, Tex, July 24.-Al-
though the face of the returns Of
the statewide prohibition election
will show an estimated wet" ma
jority of something under five
thousand, a legal fight to deter
mine the result is certain. The
most accurate estimates place the
total at 100000, but the official
count will not be completed be-
fore Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
Will Use Huge Tower
To Kill Hail Storms

(Dy United Press Leased Wire.)
PARIS, July 24.--The Eiffel
tower here is to be transformed
into a huge "parahail" and Just as
parasol protects person from
the sun the "parahail" will protect
Paris within a radius of 20 miles
from hail.
M. De Beauchamp, declared M.
Wolfe before the French Academy
of Sciences, already has succeeded
in protecting an area OF three
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

kilometers from hail by means of
an electrically charged tower
eighty feet high. This area can
be extended to 20 miles when the
1000 foot structure is SO charged.
The Eiffel tower, in addition to
being a favorite sightseeing OBJ
iect, is already used for wireless
experiments, to transmit time to
ships at sea, parachute expert
ments, rifle practice against diri-
gibles, etc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
Monday, July "a, 1911.
WESTERN CANADA
WANTS RECIPROCITY

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
WINNIPEG, July 24.-Politi-
clans today declare that the keen
interest displayed in reciprocity
by representatives of western Can
ada may prolong discussion of
the proposed pact in parliament
far into the summer, and possibly
into the fall months.
Western Canada strongly IA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
MONSTER FIRE IN
CONSTANT|NOPLE

(By United Press Leased Wire
CONSTANTINOPLE, July "a
Thousands of people are homeless
and 5000 buildings are destroyed
here today as a result of con-
flagration in the Stamboul quar-
ter which 1t is believed was start
ed by incendiaries in league With
the old Turk party.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
HOTEL MEN MEET

(By United Press Leased Wire
SEATTLE, July 24.-About 200
hotelmen, representing $4,000
900 in hotel properties, are in the
city today as delegates to the
State Hotel Mems association.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
BIG NORWEGIAN
STEAMER COMES

The Bjornstjerne Bjornsen. the
largest vessel flying the Norwe-
gian flag, came to Tacoma today
to load lumber. She will take on
100000 feet for lumber for
Australia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
Treating Convicts as Human Beings Pays
Dividends In Dollars and Cents, In Oregon

PRISONERS NOT ONLY TURNING HARDENED CRIMINALS
INTO USEFUL CITIZENS. But Is GIVING THE STATE A
REVENUE FOR FURTHER EFFORT TOWARD PENAL RE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
MAY NOT HOLD
AN INQUEST

Coroner Shaver is still unde-
cided as to whether an inquest
will be necessary in the case of the
killing of little 5-year-old John
Thor, struck by an automobile
driven by Frank Benson at South
18th and State.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

OSWALD WEST
governors theory. So far as is
known the idea is one new to
prison history and when used will
probably be the first instance Of
the kind in the annals of convict
hunting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24
Distinctive
Wedding
Gifts

Just as long as there
are weddings to think
about, there will be peo-
pie looking for some
thing different = some
thing a little out of the
ordinary--in the way of
Wedding Gifts.
For months past this
is just what we have
been doing, that we
might be better able to
help you now.
In Silverware, Cut
Glass, in dainty bits of
personal" jewelry i
our stock contains many
a piece that has been
chosen for this very
charm of distinctiveness
IF you are looking for
something different"
at a price you won't
mind paying, just drop
into our store--cool and
comfortable even these
hot days-and let us
show you.
yl3O PACIFIC AVE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

EXTRA-One lot of splendid ca or
Plumes as big leader at. ........9 fsJJ
EXTRA-Just few small Plumes of very
good quality specially Ct 90
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-24

We want to tell you of the good
quality of these plumes-we
want you to know that they are
imported stock, all plucked from
the male birds, are hand finished
and tied, fine hard flues, with a
rich lustre and plenty of "life"
they are plumes that will stand
all ordinary climatic conditions.
The assortment contains black
and white, willow plumes,
French plumes, single and in
punches, read over these prices:
90 French Plumes. punches of q 5000
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
LIVES ON TWO BITS 4 WEEK

MIDDLETON. Conn. Sept. 2l - Because ability To live on 23 cents q week for food has been quesliDuad. George IT, Ward, - years old, Dhe champion pedestrian If the ComeeticHD valley. has invited the editor of thc New Britain Herald to come 10 Middleton and spend a weeks vacation with him. Ward promises to keep the editor well fed and ro return him to his home feel ing better than ever before in his life. although the food for both of them will cost but 52 cents for the week. The principal article on the menu ia oatmeal. Al noon he dimes lightly oH peanut butter and crack CTS. Fer supper he has oatmeal or $ ,me other cereal, The same as at breakfast. Tea is his only stimulant. On Sundays he usually enjoys treat of pancakes. Ward has been living Oh this diet for the past three years and is the picture of health. He walks L. miles each day. He eX- poets to live to be loo years old
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
WOULDN'T WAGER SHE EVER
 MARRIED ANYTHING IN PANTS


 BOSTON. Sept 2t.-'I would not Wag one cent that was ever mar. ritd la anything in pants--life is too short said May Pepper Wander hiIt. t.e noted spiriWalisric medium. when asked il sne intended to cover the $ooo challenge of George w. Pep per rhaJ she could nor produce legal proof of ever being married to me. ''
 In the next breath she said that no rcaeonabl. person could doubt that she had been married 10 Pepper in 1892.
 As a proof of her marriage the present Mrs. Vanderbilt asked how il would nave been possible 10 se- cure, as she did, a divorce from Mr. Pepper of she had not previously been j.ined To him in wedlock. Mrs. Pepper was originally Mary Ann ScannelI She created sensation in New York about four years ago by marrying Edward Ward Vanderbilt, a rich lumber merchant, whose daugh ter, Minerva, Immediately sued to have him declared mentally incom- p"teut.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

their stories of adventure. An en- And then q word of sympathy for the loneliness of it all, so far away from the things naturally dear to such men.
 The young engineers never had a chance to escape. and if they had they wouldn't have taken it. Two weeks they fingered at the widows plantation. Each evening they were dined and wined. and in the moon light the widow strolled, first with cue and then with the other, in the broad, peaceful garden. If there was any detail of their past lives. or their plans for the future, that these young men didn't tell the widow, it was only because it was forgotten in the fascination of her dainty loveliness.
 And the girl told each man con fidences, with an appealing resigna- tion, and a little mournful smile at her own troubles. She had tried so hard to be brave and make the best of things, and now her plantation, her home that she loved. was to be left out in the wild. desolate terri tory. II would be so easy for the unfeeling authorities to move the line just a few miles and what diff ference could it make to them? It made all the difference in the world to her The first young engineer said he'd move that line if it cost him his job. Oh, would he really? How could she ever thank him
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
THE STORY OF A STATE IINE The & @ % S*%" the

One December u. rnius d hludrcd years az the scattered SeJu- IFS ol pemiscot county and New Madrid, sleeping ill their low cabins in iso- lated cIearings, were awakened by d noise that made The most reckless of them shuIder. l. Was deeper and hoarser than thunder. and il had q rumble almost articularo, like some great. wounded, angry animal. Men and women rushed ou side and as they reached their doors. the earth began to move up and down in l,ng shudders, like the swell of waves Great trees waved and bowed and crashed against earn other and were split open by some unseen force Immense Assures appeared in the earth from which black dust and sand, and oOzy slime belched forth, places that had been high ground sank into the earth and grassy hol- lows disgorged masses of earth and sand that made them little hills. The Mississippi river ran northWard in great troubled waves Lakes became dry ground, and where there had been dry ground lakes appeared.
 Near the settlement of Little Pra- irie. now Charlottesville, the valley of the St. Francois river sank ten feet. or course, the first violence of the shock died away. but before the people could recover from their panic there came other movements of the earth, accompanied by dreadful rumb-
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
LAST NIGHTS SHOW
 ONE OF THE BEST YET

In many ways the musical comedy A stubborn Cinderella" put on last night by the Sherman-Cleycldud Opera company, was the best thaf that aggregation has put on sinCe it's arrival The songs were bright and catchy and the choruses were particularly good.
 One of the biggest hits of the week was made by the Pony ballet. in which the chorus was seen t5 better advantage than in any Of rhc operas put on. not excepting The Honeymoon Trail. The audience was so well pleased with this that half a dozen encores were demanded. Another big hit was made by d quartet composed of Messrs. Clcye- land, Westerman, Ralston and Shy der, in If They'd Only Left Poor Adams Rib Alone" This was en- Cored several times.
 Many other of the songs were much appreciated.
 The attendance was nearly as large as on any of the first nights Tonight the company will put on The Rajah," two-act musical comedy, said to be one of the best in it's repertoire.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
SEAL CANCELS DAWSON TRIP

Aceo.dia- "H received bos" last night by a@.. r.. l.. rI.u.I from Captain Sa#l H.. -.sa#aae White Scal aa- aa.,,I .cr propas- cd trip .o Dawson and rru-l .,l all her obligations tu I.n steamer Evelyn. of lire N-.T.t-. The Eyolu k scheduled 10 max. 'Hr uIP 10 Which rse an Wednesday. Wa1a mo reason i~ given .. CaWHI Sptoule, in his j-Ie-am s.r Ec#e. day rr Ill l9udcn, lor his ,a1ng ot plan, ii ts -urml.cd ,00 u. &.t is probably going down river to the assistance ot .Hp Julia Bu HHj. Il boat has not tceu heard from sine. leaving Kotlih ou the 1i.a. Tha Julia F. has aooH. l,0tu rHs of freight for Fairhanss. and her non appearance is d cause of grave ans
 icty to some f the local merchants.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

earthquakes continued for almost two moutia, until February, 1872 Then they gEeW less in violence. but throughout the year the earth trem- bled like a coWed thing.
 The Man Who Stayed.
 Nowhere were things worse than al Little Prairie, and nowhere was there more widespread consternation. Men said il was country cursed of c q, and gathering up their fam lilies, and what few possessions the earthquakes had left them, fled with all haste ill boats and on foot to the north. Little Prairie became the empty shell Of a town. But there "as ne man in the village who would not go. He was a Kentuckian and his name was J. Hardeman Walker. He had come to the New Madrid country to make a home, and il would take something more than earthquakes to drive him away. So he stayed and bought great tracts of land, for land was cheap in the country believed to be doomed. By and by people began to come back to Little Prairie H. Hardeman Walk CT was a great man in his own country, fer he had proved that his faith in the land was the kind that moves mountains and also is not disturbed when mountains are mov- ed.
 Ii you will look at the map of Mis- souri, you will find jog in the far southeast corner where the bound
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25
:. :. :. : :. :. :. :. :. :. : :. :. :. :.
FOR PlONSHIP OF
 THE MINOR LEAGUES

LOS ANGELES Cal. Sept. 24 A great p2st-season baseball se.ics for the minor league championship of the United States will be played this fall by the pennant winners of class A leagues. if plans of Judge Thomas F. Graham president of the Coast league mature. He has made known his plans fer the ser ies which will be the most spectacH- lar series eyer played in the minor leagues He says the plans are well under way and confidently expects they will be adopted by the East eru. southern, Association and Coast leagues.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

ary reaches down and takes in a tract Of land that looks as if il ought to be in Arkansas, according to all reasonable rules of geography mak- ing. This postscript to the state consists of PemiScot county. most of Dunklin county. and the lower third of New Madrid. Had it not been for J. Hardeman Walker. the man who stayed, this territory would never have been in MMissOur at all
 In 1918 there began to be talk of admitting Missouri to the union. The boundaries of the state first propos ed would have left the territory where Walker lived. south of the new state, in Arkansas territory
 The wrath of J. Hardeman Walk CT, when he heard of the proposed arrangement has been the subject of lurid stories for years after al most everything else he ever did was forgotten. After he had come tueIe anu Stdyeu tleIe tHiOuSH tHt months of destruction and given the best part of his life for the country. they proposed to leave him outside the state. Walker rushed up to the capital where the territorial legisla- ture was in session and told that legislature things for it's souls good He travelled over his own section of the country, rCusing the settlers tc protest against being left out. Still there eemed to be some doubt about the country of the earthquakes. Then J. Hardeman Walker went to
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

enough, and - she'd always known she could trust him. Perhaps the engineer stole kiss at this climax tradition is chivalric enough not to tell
 The next night the other engineer heard a similar story, and was just as eager to make any sacrifice to help her So the line was run miles to the south and the engineers went away. and by the time the state au- thortes had discovered the change they decided it wasn't worth while to send another expedition to cor rect such a triflng irregularity. The people down there seemed to want to be in, anyhow, and everybody was satisfied
 And the Widow Never Married.
 The young engineers? Oh, they went away and engineered some more. They hated each other very cordially for a while, but it is to be presumed they got over that in the course of time. No, neither of them ever married the widow. She didn't need any engineers around the place after the boundary line was changed. though they were awfully nice boys. And when the young men were old men, and happened to look at a lar corner in the far Southeast, per haps they smiled reminiscently But they didn't tell their wives about it. Kansas City Star.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-09-25

Washington. 1t was d long, hard journey from the Mississippi to the national capital. but Walker was not the man tG let small obstacles stop him.
 With him he took his old muzzle- loading shotgun, not with any inten- tion probably of ridding the country of any budding statesmen. but just to let them know at the capital that he was in ealne st Walker had con ferences with th.se who were hold ing down the seats of the mighty at that time ani the things he told them must have caused almost as much excitement as senate golf tournament does these days.
 "Pemiscot county wants t0 he part cording to the reports that came back to the earthquake country afterwards, and We are ngt going 10 be ter ritory any more. If you won't let us in, we'll have revolution and start nation of our Own.'
 And then the powers decided to reconsider. and when Missouri be- came a state. in 1921. the little jog that contained Walkers plantation and the rest Cf the county came in. too.
 The Story of a Beautiful Widow.
 There is another story of the ir- regular boundary line that they still tell among the cabins of the swamp country. This legend leaves J. Hardeman and his shotgun out of