Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-06-01

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ing raised in Europe. he said.
Fitchburg. Mass, May 25.-Travel
ing $500 miles from Fulton. Mo-. Il
Fitchburg with a patent for a safet,
on s%hotguns which prevents then
from being fired accidentally, Nelsol
Durham, 20 years old, sold the paten
Tuesday to a Fitchburg gun factory
The youth is a son OF a farmer. q
near Fulton, Galloway Co., and dur.
ing his spare hours perfected his In
vention. He is a picturesque charact
er and has attracted much attention
here. Like all native Missourians, b
has TO be Shown" and this is one
reason why he was successful in hav
ing his patent accepted. He received
a large sum.
AL the meeting of the Board Of
Directors of the Mexico. Santa Re &
Perry Traction Company. Wednesda
afternoon, the proposition Of the Don
oven Construction Co., to complete
the electric line to Santa Fe was
turned down.
The directors appointed several
committees, the most important Of
which was the one named to con
fer with the Fruin Bambrick Con-
struction Company. The building OF
the road to Santa Fe is the one
main object of the company at this
time. Every effort also is being
made to complete arrangements for
the construction OF the road South to
Columbia. Some conclusion may be
reached In the next ten days.
A third committee was appointed
to confer with the citizens Of Mexico,
LEDGER SPECIAL.
Houston, Texas, May 25.-An limo
walton in the installation of phono-
graphs In the public schools of Hous-
ten is icing tried to cultivate the
tastes of the children for the higher
classics instead of gutter ragtime
melodies as wei! as for the training
the young minds in grasping principle
of harmony tune and time.
The monographs are installed by
Miss Vinirred Subway, director of
music and so popular have the mach
iles become taat pupils seek to re-
main after school and hear again some
of the old masters OF classic produc-
tons in the great ,pera houses Of to-
day No ragtime records arc allow
ed nor the late songs of vaudeville.
Only the best is produced for the
training of the young mind and the
results are apparent. Recently a Wis
itor at the Dow School was astonish-
ed when a little girl Just in her teens
stepped to the piano and played the
Soldiers Chorus from Gounod's
Faust" as the march for the pupils
to march from the building. Casey
Jones'" steamboat Bill" or Il Love
my Wife But Oh You Kid might
have been just as effective in produc-
ing the march time but they are
strictly tabooed.
Delegates to the third annual con.
vention of Missouri Master Bakers, be-
ing held at the Southern Hotel, st.
Louis, say that housewives are not
good bread bakers any more and are
discussing ways and means to in
duce the housewives to quit eating
the bread they bake themselves and
buy the bread the bakers make. Mike
eorgie Of the Model Bakery is a
delegate to this meeting.
Mexico society women, who are al
50 housewives, say they can bake
bread, but they do not bake II, part
iy because they have cooks to bake it
for them and partly because, il the
cooks baking does not suit them,
they can buy good bread at the bak
cry. Wherein they partly indicate
their own baking and accord due hon
or to the bakers baking.
Bakers Boast of Bread.
The bakers go further, however,
and say they can beat all the women
at baking, the cooks as well as the
housewives, because they know more
about 1t and have better facilities for
doing 1t. They make the bold asser-
ton that half of the indigestion in
the land is caused by homemade
bread.
Charlie Bonsall, a brother Of ]. r.
Bonsall of this city who has been in
TT. Collins, Colo. for about II years,
is in a serious condition at his broth
er's home in north Mexico.
Charlie was slugged and robbed in
Kansas City last Thursday flight. He
was en- route from Colorado to Mex
leo on a visit. The robbers got $25
or $50, besides his suit case.
He is said to have been waylaid
by thieves and a knock on the back
of his head almost fractured the
skull.
Though the physicians say they
have hopes for his recovery, the pa
tient was delirious Wednesday night.
He was brought from Kansas City
to Mexico Saturday night.
Mexico City, Mexico, May 26.>-Fran
cisco De La Barra at loon to-day
took oath of office as provisional pres
ident. He pledged himself to uphold
national honor and rule only until or
der is restored and president and vic
president are elected by the popu-
lar election and can be installed. He
said he would not be a candidate for
the office at the election.
Yesterday, Genral Diaz's last day
as President, saw thousands Of dol
lars worth of property damaged and
dead and wounded strewing the park
in front of the national palace.
The case of Eunice Artemesia