Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-15

AZ - 4 splendid Investment and IL dc
serves a close investigation BY an,
one who wishes TO accumulate som,
capital.
joe Ricketts, is the secretary an,
is making a most efficient official.
Miss Martha Frost, formerly Sup
erintendent of the Associated Chart
Ties of this ely. has been appointed
investigating Secretary OF the Wom
ans Club. of Paducah, Ky. Mis-,
Frost's choice is made the subject Of
several complimentary notices in the
papers of that city.
Miss Frost is greatly missed here
by the poor who found her like a
mother to them. The good work she
accomplished in Mexico alleyIated tn
sufferings of many and made Mexic
a name as one of the progressive cit.
les in the West who cared for its
poor in the most approved fashion.
Kenneth c. Kennen, son of L. C.
kennen. of Laddonia, was issued II.
cense saturday morning to practice
law before the Audrain county bar.
Mr., Kennen graduated from the
law department Of the State Univer-
sity this June. He took the bar e K
animation before the State Bar Com
missioners at Jefferson City last
spring.
Kenneth ranked well in-his class
and is a bright young lawyer.
Z. R. Locke of the Mexico Elec-
trio Light & Power Company is
home from a business trip to the
State of Illinois. En- route home Mr..
Locke stopped off at Hannibal and
spent several hours in visiting the
meeting of Commercial Clubs of the
towns of Missouri.
Mr.. Locke says he was very much
embarrassed when, shortly after ar
irving there, he met some friends
and was informed that there was not
another Mexico man at the conven-
ton.
Mr.. Locke speaks highly of the
Hannibal Commercial Club, host for
the visitors, and says the Country
Club, and park to which 1t joins, is
a most slightly place. The banquet
was held there.
The Hannibal Commercial Club, he
says, is a live wire. The dues there,
it is said, are arbitrary, but no man
who becomes a member is allowed to
pay a fee of less than twodollars.
This amount a be exceeded in any
sum.
At the banquet held Friday even,
ing, Walter Williams, of Columbia,
was the principal speaker. Others
who talked ere Governor Herbert
Hadley, Senator Lloyd, and John R.
Kurd. Every address was well
worth time spent in listening" said
Mr.. Locke, "and the meeting was a
great success"
Those lads who expect to join
the Boy Scouts and enjoy the camp
this summer had better get busy and
qualify for Tenderfoot Scouts, for,
within a few weeks, the ranks will
be closed for this event. The new
officers of the Boy Scouts organiza-
ton and the Scouts Council has
been elected and within a few days
will meet,
The new officers are:
w. W. Fry, President.
J. W. Million. First Vice Presi-
dent.
Will wilkins, Second Vice Presi-
dent.
Council
S. NJ. Locke, F. A. Morris, Ver-
nor Morris, ]. A. Brown, Willard
Potts, A. H. Whitney, t. j. Williams.
Tonight the Boys will meet in
the armory at 1880 for the purpose
OF being measured for uniforms and
receiving instructions for qualifying
for second-class scouts. What a
Scout must do to be a second-class
Scout is as follows:
/. Have at least one months SER
vice as a Tenderfoot.
2. Elementary first aid and ban
daging.
3. Signaling, elementary knowl.
edge of semaphore or Morse alpha
bet.
A.. Track half u mile in twenty
five minutes; or. if in a town, de-
scribe satisfactorily the contents of
one store window out of four, OBJ
served for one minute each.
s.. Go a mile in twelve minutes at
Scouts pace.
6. Lay and light a fire, using
not more than two matches.
Z. Cook a quarter of a pound of
meat and two potatoes without cook
ing utensils other than the regu-
lation billy.
s.. Have at least twenty-five cents
In n savings bank.
8. Know the sixteen principal
points of the compass.
(Troy Free Press)
A meeting was held at the court
house in Troy one evening last week
in the interest of the proposed cleo
trio railroad running from Laddonia
to st. Charles by way of Middle
town, Olney, Troy and Old Monroe.
Some officials of the road We're
present and explained that the object
of the meeting was to take some ac-
ton looking toward securing a sub
scription Of $25, 900 in bonds to be
issued by the company. 1t was ex-
planned that the bonds are to run 30
years, bear five per cent interest
payable semi-annually and to be Sc
cured by a first mortgage on the
roadbed, rolling stock and all other
property now owned by the company
and all that may be acquired by the
company during the life of the bonds
The company is asking nothing at
tho hands of the nublic DeYOnd a