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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-06
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-06
SPLENDID RACE TRACK.

Tie race course hAs been pronouno-
e ore q ;hs best y the country
and i has already been greatly In
proved for the state Fair and FL
posit.ou this fall Both turns have
been made wider and t1e cushion II
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-06

Feed your chickens on wheat, bette
than corn or chops. For sale at Sic
by Your groCeryman or the Ardmort
Milling Co. 10
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-06

net tcr Instance, '4:4soo ~ ts
given Il the heavy horse class It's
year Is against S3s-. las; yes.
NAKED Increases have also Dee-
made = TIE Horse snow classes. TIE
s1eep. swine a11 poultry dspsr,Ee-n
ard al the various other Departments,
me to-A. .-crezse beng something
Ike g ..t
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
OAKLAND STOCK FARM.

Theodore II. Selb had a safe
last Friday. Sale very well at
tended, considering the bad roads.
Mr.. Selb is undecided as to his
course in the future. Hope he
will remain among us. The ladies
Of Trinity church served dinner
at the sale.
The heavy snow of the season
fell Saturday. Mr.. Ground Hog
has two weeks yet, in which to
vent his fury of winter.
Trinity ladies have organized a
ladies aid society, and have
elected the following officers
Mrs. Mary Canada, president
Mrs. Mabel Householder, vice.
president; Mrs. Arthur Pauln
secretary, and Mrs. Octa Platte
treasurer.
Rev. II. /. Cobb, now pastor OF
the Norborn circuit, came dowr
last week to look after his farm
Sowed seven acres of clover seeC
last Thursday and then walked
from George Deans to Mexico
expecting to catch the electric
car to Harris Station, but was
left, so walked out to F. II. Har,
ris farm and spent the night. All
glad to see him.
Frank Summers spent Satur-
day night with Gordon DowelI,
west of Mexico.
Very few at Trinity Sunday for
our monthly service. Bro. Rice
has had several bad days at our
appointment.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Going After Things-The Sub
way, The Electric r. r. and
Other Matters.

Twenty-six business men dined
together at the HoXsey last Fri
day at noon.
President Worrell talked about
the proposed new public library g,
also referred to the new jail
proposition. Stated that out of
$50 FARMERS interviewed only about
four said a word disparaginly of
the propoSition-were ovcrwhelm-
mgly for the proposition.
A motion was unan,mou,A. =.
adopted extending an invitation
to all farmers and stockmen to
Join the Commercial Club, to help
boost Mexico and the whole
county.
Col. w. Il. Kohr. of the Military
Academy, made an offer to the
club of the Drill Hall at the
Academy for the proposed Ma
chine Gun Co. promised Mexico
by the State War Department,
which he thought could be re
modelled at "a reasonable cost.
A motion was adopted to join
the Missouri Federated CONNER.
cial clubs in the campaign faNor.
ing the move for the separation
of city and county taxes.
Judge W. w. Bolts made a
statement regarding the electric
railway situation. Steps mus1
be taken Immediately to put the
road on a new footing and extend
it south and complete it from Mo
limo to Santa Fe.
The proposed subway under tn'
railroads was discussed and wa
agreed upon as public necessity
The Club will extend its as
sistance at the Farmers Insti
tute to be held here next montl
in organizing a Boys Corn Grow
ing Contest for the county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
MARTINSBURG ITEMS.

Joseph Jacob returned to Fer
gerson, Friday.
George Weaver returned home
Monday from week s visit with
his mother in st. Louis.
Mrs. Henry Meyerpcter is very
sick at this writing.
Mr.. Hardesty moved to
Moberiy Monday,
Ed. Hayes visited in st. Louis
latter part of last week.
Joseph Tillman who has been
sick for some time died at his
home Monday morning, Marcn 4.
lie leaves a wife and seven chill
dren to mourn his death.
Joe Neihouse and wife are Wis
iting the former s sister, Mrs. Joe
Fennewald.
Mrs. Frances Meara is on the
sick list.
VIM. Pike went to st. Louis
Monday.
Loren Tate entertained several
of her little friends Saturday.
John Olsen left Friday for his
future home.
Miss Katie Pouk is visiting the
Misses Jacob.
Mrs. John Asbury is on the
sick list.
Joseph Sandbothe received a
car load Of corn Monday.
A car load of cinders arrived
here Monday for the walk from
the Burlington to town.
Ward Barker moved on the
Geo. Brace place Wednesday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
I'll DEATHS
LAST YEAR.
But The StOrk Comes
Back With 430
Births.

County Treasurer Noble Barnes
shows us the reports from the IL
registrars for births and deaths
in Audrain county for the year
1911. The registrars are bound
by law to report these matters
and they get 25 cents for each
birth or death reported or %
cents for a report whether there
has been a birth or death in his
district or not. The reports are
made to State Registrar Frank b.
Hillar, NJ. D., Bureau of Vital
Statistics, Missouri State Board
of Health. The total cost for this
county for the reporting last year
to the State Registrar was $160.-
Us.
The following are the reports
for the several registrars for Au-
drain:
DR.. W. W. Bland, Vandalia, Ga
births, 80 deaths; DR.. W. T. Todd
Cant, 20 births, 2 deaths; DR.
VIM. May, Farber, 4 births, ]
death; E. L. Scott, Rowena, 81
births, 20 deaths; DR.. j. f. Flynt
IMolino, 1S births, 3 deaths; one
negative certificate; DR.. W. f
Cornett, Rush Hill, 81 births, i
deaths, one negative certificate
DR.. T. H. Diven, Martinsburg, l!
births, II deaths; DR.. T. NJ. Mon
roe, Laddonia, al births, /
deaths; A. J. Douglass, Bentol
City, l birth, 3 deaths; DR.. T. NJ
Greenwood, / birth, l death Wal
lace Dearing, Mexico, Ia births
% deaths; Emil NJ. Jungbluth, {
births, 6 deaths.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
LADDONIA ITEMS.

Robert Ferris was a Bowling
Green visitor last week.
Mr. and Mrs. j. l.. wilkins of
Bowling Green spent last week,
the guests of their many old
friends here. Mr.. Wilkin S health
is much improved.
Mrs. j. c. De Laporte visited
her daughter, Mrs. Clyde John.
son, near Farber from Thursday
till Sunday.
Miss Ruby Allen visited the
Misses HobSon and attended the
school entertainment Friday.
The people of town and com
munity are greatly cnthused oven
the prospect Of opening a coal
mine here. The money has about
all been raised for the expense.
Mrs. Della Mapes and daughter
Ethel, left Friday for Benton
City to reside, where they will
conduct the telephone switch
board. Mrs. Martha Dill will as
sist Ethel while Mrs. Mapes cares
for her mother, Mrs. Davis, who
is very sick at the home of hel
daughter, Mrs. Lewis Austin, al
Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. Staples of Denver
Colo, are visiting Mrs. Staples
brother here, j. II. Brown ano
family.
Cunningham e. Moore nave
been to Iowa and purchased a cal
of fine draft mares which they
will sell in Mexico Saturday
March 9th.
Miss Lula McVey came home
from Louisiana Tuesday where
she had a position with the
Buffum telephone for severa'
months.
Theron Leet was a Clarksvillc
visitor Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
SToCKMEN PLAN FIGHT.
State Meeting to Be Held in Mex
leo This Month.

Marshall, Mo-, March 2.-Dcle-
gates from Columbia and Mexico
and other points in Missouri, rep
resenting live stock associations,
met today and consolidated to
work against the Live Stock Ex-
change, planning to sell their own
stock instead of sending it to the
commission firms.
Speeches were made by H. o.
Allison of Columbia, secretary of
the State Cattle Feeders Asso-
citation; Sherman p. Homston Of
the same association c. f. Clark
of Mexico, president Of the Mis-
souri, Live Stock Association, and
b. f. Mcclure of Sedailia. All
agreed one commission firm
would be organized to ship their
stock because of the recent eX-
orbitant charges made by the
commission firms in selling the
stock for shippers. Arthur Nj.
Guthrey, president of the Saline
County Live Stock Association,
which is affiliated with the State
Cattle Feeders Association, pre-.
sided, and Frank l.. Brown was
secretary.
Committees will be appointed
to meet in Centralia March II to
formulate plans to organize a live
stock commission company in the
National Stock Yards in East ST.
Louis, and this committee will re.
port at the state meeting of all
live stock associations in Mexico
March 18th.
A large sum was raised t.
establish commission agency
and to employ a secretary To 50
licit subscriptions for stock i'll tn,
commission firm.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
BOY CORN GROWERS.
An Organization to Be Formed in
Audrain County.

Keep in mind that a Farmers
Institute is to be held in Mexico
the first part of next month. AT
this gathering S. NJ. Jordon
"The Missouri Corn Man." will
organize a Corn Growers Asso-
citation for Audrain county.
The Missouri Corn Growers
Association was organized in
1903. The Association has grown
and prospered until now its mem
bership includes the foremost
corn growers and breeders Of this
State.
In 1906 it organized, in CO.
operation with the College OF
Agriculture and the State Board
Of Agriculture, the Missouri Boys
Corn Growing Contest, which has
done more to introduce the use of
pure seed of standard varieties
and to create a greater interest IN
better corn, than any other move
ment that was ever started along
this line. Last year more than
$500 boys were enrolled in this
contest and much good is being
accomplished thru this means OF
showing boys some of the oppor.
tunities that intelligent farming
affords.
1t has created an interest in i'm.
proved seed which is meaning
much to the agricultural interests
of the State, not only in corn
growing, but other phases of
farming operations as well.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

The snow storm Saturday was
as bad as we have had this win
ter. Drifted considerably but not
in roads so bad.
Mr.. George Austin Spencer was
the guest of Miss Lillian Lanham
Saturday.
Everett Gilmore will work fo'
j. O. Sims this season.
w. ID. Barnes and children
were the guests of j. l.. Smith and
family Sunday.
Mrs. Rediger's father, Mr.,
Rich of Illinois, visited her last
week.
Mrs. j. f. Lanham sold -
thorobred langshang hens for $l2
to Sam Craighead,
Since our last writing Uncle
Mart Jennings, an old and honor
ed friend and neighbor, has pass,
ed away. He had heart trouble
Was sick only one day. A large
concourse of friends and relatives
met at Union churcp, south OF
Centralia, to pay the last tribute
of respect to him. His funera.
was preached by Rev. Helser OF
Centralia, after which the remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery
at Union. We truly sympathizt
with the relatives in this their sac
hour of bereavement. We Know
what it is to say good bye tC
father.
The new four room house OF
the Crews place is about com
pleted. Fred Miskell and RObert
Farmer did the work. The house
will be occupied by Gus Mildred
this year.
Jeff Jerman, John Rediger, W
! d. Barnes and others are hauling
saw logs. The log yard will be on
Lee NTiller's land Parker Den
ham will move his saw mill il
soon and saw them up.
Mrs. J. f. Lanham is weaving
carpets. She is aiming to weave
near $50 yards.
J. O. Sims bought nine head o
hogs of Hall Jones last week.
Will Dennis and family visited
at j. l.. Smiths Monday.
| j. f. Lanham and family visit
ed b. +. Pulls and wife Sunday
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
From The Panhandle.

Under date of Feb. 26, 1912, A.
W. Worsham, at Hedley, Texas,
writes the Message as follows:
am enclosing one dollar to
keep the good old Message com
ing to my address. | am panied
to see recorded the deaths of so
many of my former good neigh
bOrs back there.
We have had a pleasant winter
here. Only three or four weeks
of snow and cold. The thermome.
ter went down to IL below zero
for a short time. We had a sur
prise the 10Th. The snow blew
and drifted for 15 hours, but the
sun soon came out and melted it
away.
The farmers around here aIe
thru sowing oats and are now
busy blowing for their cotton.
had friend back in Missouri ask
me how land rented here. | rent
ed 100 acres, 60 acres to be broke
out. This crop free. Third ana
fourth rent on cultivation; 1OO
acres of pasture free. The grass
goes free with the farming land
here. Sod land here is not hard
to breat out, but we have some
grubs to contend with. A tree
looking like a peach tree and
about as large, having thorns on
it like locust, grows on the mix
ed land. That tree is our fire
wood. People welcome the renter
here, but there are so many dead
beats stopping in from East Tex
as and New Mexico that it makes
it hard on a new man until he is
known.
We like it here. Ny wife was
not pleased at first, but a VISIT
back to Audrain convinced her
that this is a better place. Mis-.
souri, is fine old State but we
like it better here every year.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
SECRETLY MARRIED.
Announcement of the Wedding
Made Known Last Week.

Mrs. Ruth Mckinney, known MS
Miss Ruth Lemon in Mexico, who
is a daughter of DR.. T. w. Lemon
of Fulton and a granddaughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Pearson of
this city was married August -,
1911, to Mr.. Il. G. Riley, but the
announcement of the marriage
was not made known until last
Saturday Mrs. Mckinney was
employed at Westminster College
in Fulton. She met Mr.. Riley
while he was a student in this
school in 1910. They married
last summer while both were en-.
gagged in Chautauqua work. Mr.
Riley is now teacher Of Botany
and Agriculture in the Clinton
(MoD High School.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
Audrain Boy a Stock Judge.

R. P. Atchison, son of Ed. AT.
Gibson, the auctioneer, of Wor-
cester, this county, according to
a statement received by the Mes
sage from the Missouri College OF
Agriculture, was eighth among
the IL men who received honors
at the fifth annual live stool,
judging contest held the 18th OF
last month. We congratulate the
young man; he has honored him.
self and honored his county.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

A Champ Clark club has been
organized among the students of
Westminster College at Fulton
Charles c. Liebler and James
Lemon, Mexico boys, are members
of the club.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
BORN NEAR MEXICO
WINS AF0RTUNE.
A STORY THAT IS FULL OF THE
ROMANTIC.
Woman Traced From Soldiers Camp
Birthplace.

The memory of seamstress
for a friend of forty years ago,
has established the identity of the
father of Mrs. Elizabeth Vantinc
of Los Angeles, and proved Mrs.
Vantine was heir to a fortune.
Thru a decision of the Missouri
Supreme Court recently affirming
the decree of the Boone County
Circuit Court in the case of Van
tine against Butler, Mrs. Van
tines career was established as
one of the most romantic in the
history of the West.
Several years before the Civil
War John Butler, a wagonmaker
in a New York village, married
beautiful Jane Gordon, a cousin
of Michael McGrath, who after
wards was Secretary of State of
Missouri.
The couple moved to Boone
county. Just before the war,
Butler, after a quarrel with his
wife over differences in their re-
ligious beliefs, drove her from his
hime, as brought out in the evil
dence.
Some time after that, at Stur-
geon, a child was born to Mrs.
Butler. She was penniless. A
troop of soldiers, we have read,
took them both and cared for
them, just north of Mexico.
Butler served four years in the
South with the Union Army MS II
wagonmaster. When he returned
from the war he married again.
They were divorced. His next
wife died The fourth Mrs. But
Ter converted him to the faith
that had caused his quarrels with
the mother of the baby with the
trooper godfathers.
Butler grew rich. When he
died five years ago he was known
as king of the Blackfoot. " lie
was widely known for his eccen-
tricities, one of which was a lit
tie chapel dedicated to the creed
of his first and last wives.
His will left his estate to his
wife. Nothing was said of the
child by the first marriage.
But Gillispie & Conley, at
torneys at Columbia, Mo, heard
the story of the Daughter of the
Regiment. " They traced her to
Paris, then lost the trail.
B. c. NJ. Farthing, school boy
friend Of Mark Twain, furnished
the clew that led to the discovery
of the heir.
Jane Gordon, the mother, in
1864, the story ran, let a stage
driver named Wyman, who fell in
love with the little ck.haired
soldiers pet, adopt her. But Wy.
mans wife later objected to keep
ing the child. Then Mrs. L. r..
Wetmore Of Paris adopted her, as
Jane Gordon had died.
The child that was, now Mrs.
Vantine, a grandmother, was
traced from the WetmOre home to
Los Angeles.
The case hung on the testimony
of the seamstress, She rcmcm-
bered Mrs. Vantine'S mother as
Jane Gordon and her history.
Mrs. Vantine will obtain one-sixth
of the Butler estate.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

Miss Pearl Morris, Deputy Cir
cult Clerk of Adair county, Wis
tied her parents in this city first
of the week, Mr.. and Mrs. Werner
Morris.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

The Mexico Presbyterian
church is planning for the build
ing Of a new parsonage, ana a
large new Sunday school room
may also be built near the church.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
PUTS MEXICO ON
The MAP AGAIN.
TO GET A RAILROAD FROM R0LLA
TERMINUS, ST. PAUL.
The No., Ark. G. Gulf R. R. Now in Pro
gress Of Construction.

Get your map of Missouri just
now and locate Rolla, Mo-, Belle,
Mo-. Mexico, Mo-, and st. Paul,
Mimi, and then read the follow
inv article which appeared few
days ago in the Bland (Gasconade
county, Mo,,) Courier. 1t is
another advertisement for Mex
leo, at least, and later, if we may
be further shown" it may pre-
sent a subject for the considera-
ton of our commercial club:
The Missouri, Arkansas and
Gulf Railroad, which is now I'M
der construction south of Rolla, is
almost certain, so it is said, to be
extended to st. Paul, which is its
terminus. The towns in Missouri
which the new road is sure to
touch are Rolla, Belle and Mex
leo. This has been settled beyond
all doubt.
Hearing that a corps of survey
ors had arrived in Belle to make
a survey from Belle to Rolla, Il
reporter of the Courier went there
for the purpose to find out some
thing definite of the prospects.
Our reporter was introduced to II.
D. Dennie, of the St. Louis Union
Trust Company, which company
is backing the new enterprise to
the extent of two million dollars.
He was accompanied by E. NJ.
Howard, also of st. Louis. They
had their surveyors, Mr.. Payne
and Mr.. Poole, both of Rolla there
and on Monday morning they
started to make the survey from
Belle to Rolla. 1t will be about
month before this survey can be
completed and the right-of-way
secured and as soon as this is
don e ground will be broken
and active construction commenc-
ed and pushed until the road-bed
is completed to Rolla. Barring
all accidents and unavoidable de-
lays, these men assured us that
trains would be in operation be-
tween Belle and Rolla before
wheat sowing time. Mr.. Dennie as
Sured our reporter that the road
would not stop at Belle, but would
be extended to st. Paul. The
only sure point that the road
would touch Missouri would be
Mexico, in Audrain county. Work
north of Belle will not begin un-
til the road is completed to Belle,
Our reporter asked the men if
they had any idea as to where the
road would cross the Missouri
river and they said they did not
know. That this question would
be entirely left to the surveyors
and that even they did not know
until they made several prenmI
nary surveys. Mr.. Dennie said
smllingly, 1--WE never cross a river
until we get to it. :"
We are going to keep our read
erS posted as to the further pro-
greSs of this new and worthy en-
terpriSe. This road when com
pIeted will haul the product of
The great northern states to the
Gulf of Mexico and will be an
epoch in the history of our nation.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

S. P. Cunningham, Otto SchOpp,
c. P. Arnold, and Theo. Williams
of Mexico have been summoned
to serve on the Federal Grand
Jury in st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

Miss Flora Sumner formerly of
near Worcester, this county, was
married recently to Mr.. Eugene
Cain of Idaho.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

Born, to Prof. and Mrs. Edgar
Lee of New London, on Feb. 2S, a
daughter. The little one has been
christened Hazel Virginia. Mrs
Lee before her marriage was Miss
Bennetta Barkley of this city.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

E. c. S. Miller returned a few
days ago from a four weeks en-
joyable visit with relatives at
Burlington, Iowa.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Laws left
this week for Brookfiad, Kan.
where they expect to make their
future home. They own a beauu-
full little farm just outside the
west corporate limits of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07

Mrs. Josephine Kennett and
dat ghter, Miss Helen, visited in
st. Louis this week.