Mexico Missouri message., 1912-01-18
TRAIN DRINKING CUPS
ARE TO Be ABOLISHED
SURROUNDING AUDRAIN.

raging at Ashburn, in Pike Co.
The Baptists at Troy are to
build a new house of worship, to
cost $4,000.
The little daughter of jim May. |
hood, of Center, fell with an
eight.weeks old baby in her arms
breaking its leg above the knee. |
Rev. j. W. Mouser, at one time
pastor of the Christian church a. |
Centralia, died recently at his
home in Kansas City, aged 73
years.
Capt. David Guitar died last
week at his home in Columbia at
the age of "a years. He had lived
in Columbia continuously since
he was a year and a half old
Claiming Beeth at Frankford
was getting some chutcs ready
last week to put up ice and one of
the chutes got on one of his legs
with its weight and the bone was
broken and he is cripple for a
while.
Georgia Jones, the Centralia
negress who stole $3.50 from
Bart Cox recently and who was
out on parole for forging Dan
Evans name to a check, was sent
to the penitentiary for the crime
of forgery, having violated her
lparole.
Jerre Jones, west of Fulton,
raises pole-cats. He says his oc-
cupation is not especially
odoriferous. 1t is like anything
else you tackle; a matter of get
ting used to it. He prepares the
cats hides for the market and
gets another product from the
skunk, smellless" oil.
A Jefferson City newspaper
may be facing a heavy suit for
damages. 1t published story
last week to the effect that Miss
Lizzie Galbreath of Galloway Co.
had married a st. Louis ex-con-
Wet. Miss Galbreath, who owns
and manages a farm of 100 acres
in Galloway, says the story is un-
true in every particular.
The jury at Columbia last
week III the case of the State of
Missouri VS.. George Perkins for
the violation Of his oath before
the grand jury, returned a YER
dict, assessing the punishment at
: a fine of 800 and costs. Perkins
was arrested for telling of facts
that happened in the grand jury
room at the October session, when
he was a witness.
The st. Louis Christian AdvO.
70 cate comments: Fulton voted
wet" December 18th by llO ma
c jority. 1t was simply victory
for the ignorant colored voters o.
that city, supplemented by the MS
ual white gang that trains in thi
camp. This, we presume, mean
e that this college city will be rIn
:, for four years by the whlslke.
Il whites and the negroes. Watcl
IS Fulton grow now,
s. Justice of the Peace T. y
u Cooper of Clarksville announce
IS that he would perform the MAJ
J. riage service free during the cl
lie suing leap-ycar for Calumc
o. township lady peppers. Whc
e, Justice j. A. Howdeshell Of Ar
q NADIA heard Of Squire Cooper
s. proposition he went him one bet
le ter and announced that he Wi
marry free of charge, durln
1912, any "old maid" whcthe
y she popped the question or not.
VIM. w. Soldiers dIed at IN
home in Columbia, Friday, Janr
re ary 5th, Of heart trouble, at IN
u age Of 81 years. Mr., Scldcrs wa
native Of Ohio and emigrateG t
IN Missouri in 1871, and later oWnc
" a farm north of Laddonia, whrr
n he married his wife, Miss Alice /
Sprague. To this union five chi
dren were born. who with I'll
n, wife, survive him. He lived
5 Centralia for % years where h
IS, had many friends. He was
good neighbor and a true rrien
and his death is sadly regretted
The funeral was with Mason
-. hOnors.