Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-07-20
SURROUNDING AUDRAIN
Smallpox at Louisiana-Child
Dies From Eating Matches
Mr.. Langford Hurt.

gOmery City last week passed a
resolution that the time had come
when the negroes must have a !
newspaper or periodical which will
chronicle the school, church and
other news regarding their race
thruout the State. 1t is stated
that the paper will likely be estab-
lished at Mexico, Louisiana or st.
Charles.
The annual picnic at Barneyville
will be held mt the same grounds
on West Cuivre this year, July
29th, the last Saturday of this
month.
A county convention of churches
and Sunday Schools will be held
in the Christian Church at Middle
town on July 2S, 20 and 30. Bas-
ket dinner served on the ground.
The Middletown Chips says that
Joe Langford suffered mashed
foot while baling hay on his faith
er's farm on West Cuivre recent
: ly. He was putting some hay in
the press when his foot got caught
, in the machine. The horses were
stopped soon after the accident and
his foot extracted. 1t was a mira
. Gle that several bones were not
!. broken. He will be able to he mt
, work again soon.
t o. A. Stephens of Pike county
I has been having a serious time
2 with his foot which was injured
some time ago. About three
0 months ago he stuck nail in his
: foot and it healed and seemed all
right. One day recently it com
menced to give him trouble and it
had to he opened before he got re-
lief-particles of rust and cloth
being taken from the wound.
{ Not bell is being tapped in the
Y churches in Louisiana on Sundays
1 now-public gatherings of all
4 kinds have been discontinued till
the smallpox has been stamped
I out. Fifteen cases among the
whites and one among the colored
people have been reported. A
Mexico doctor reports that he has
y sent 50 prescriptions of internal
n vaccination, as preventatives, to
: different persons of that town.
IS Zelma Ruth, daughter of Mr.
) and Mrs. Richard Carruth. died OF
', whooping cough complications
{ near Hallsville recently.
" 1t is announced that the Baptist
churches of Little Bonne Femm,
. Association will hold their annua
meeting this year with the Aux
vase church, beginning Tuesday
: after the fourth Sunday in August
The district includes the churche
of Boon and Galloway counties ant
part of Montgomery county. Th
three-days' program includes bas
ket dinner and services under
!, big tent, preaching by some of tn
on denominations big guns.
- Halle the twO-year old daugh
as ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Nichol
to of Ashland died last week fror
ri- eating sulphur matches on Frida
as of the week before. Poison enter
ed the child's system and brougl
81 on other internal trouble that n
he suited in death.
Dd Fulton has tired of two tel,
as phone systems and is asking th;
IN. they be consolidated.
lr- Insurance companies doing bus
II ness in Sturgeon have been ge
'es ting more than their share of los
an es this year. Taking the last fi'
tn years, three of the companies clai
me to have lost So, 900 more than tn,
collected there in premiums.
he The Riverside Baptist Institut
nv embracing Audrain, Montgomer
''' 1t. Charles, Warren, Callawa
&C Rails and Pike counties, is in st
i"' " sion in Montgomery City IL
IN week. j. L. Muir of Bowlil
"' Green is presiding. j. w. NJ
- = lion, president of Hardin Colleg
" Mexico, will discuss THE Bill
-, 80" md the Public Schools.
NO Talking about picnics," :,
&. w. Tanner to the Farber
rum the other day, Il recL on v
st. never attended one of the Santa
md licnics. Everybody over tb,
urns out and lends helping lar