Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1913-04-10
COUNTY NEWS

ty Court here Tuesday.
John Abbay is home from Reno
and San Francisco where he has been
the guest of relatives. Mr.. Abbay,
while in Frisco. saw Joe Cauthorn.
formerly business manager OF the
Ledger and now circulation mana
ger Of the San Francisco News. Mr..
Abbay said Joe took charge of the
paper when Il had a circulation of
$4,000 and the management told him
he had year to make II 10000. In
three months time he had reached
the goal set by the management and
expects TO have $4,000 by June first.
While in Reno Mr.. Abbay says his
brother told him Of the johnson JEFF
fries fight. His brother stated that
when Johnson administered the knoch
the immense crowd left the build.
ing without uttering a word they wer
so overcome with surprise and cha.
grin. Mr.. Abbay had delightful tri
Miss Grace Boyd. of McCredie, was
in Mexico Tuesday.
The Rev. Leslie F. Potter, formerly
rector OF st. Paul's Episcopal church
in this city, has accepted a call from
Kirkwood to a Chicago parish.
4
Born to Judge and Mrs. Chas. Bled
soc, Monday night, fine lob. son
Both mother and baby are doing
we'll.
Mrs. Dan Dudley is the guest Of
Kansas City friends.
Fulton, Mo. To The Star: Hither
to any attempt on the part of the leg
islature to restrict the liquor trade
has been opposed by the politi
ticians on the ground that no politi
cal issue was involved. If thu
sale of liquor has not been a politi
cal issue, 1t is bcausee the politi
clans have not been burdened with /
high sense of their duty or becaus
they have not had the courage Il
face the question fairly.
i The country no longer can be dc
MED voice in the things that al
feet the morality Of the city. Urt
an and rural population are the sam
people, interrelated andmutually serN
iceahle one to the other. There
no wall of separation between then
The city is to the country what tn
hub is to the wheel. The dives cree
ed In the city by the undesirable elt
ment can be successfully combated
!, by the municipality only as II is bac
, cd by the moral sentiment and th
honest ballots OF the rural districts.
No act OF our legislature In r.
, cent years has been Of greater in
portance 70 the people of the stai
than that which made the Count
/ Unit Bill law.
POOLE HARRISON.
Kansas City Star.
Al Poole Harrison is Mexico bC
r attending Westminster College
Fulton.
Willis Street Of Columbia, WI
., fined in the Boone County circuit
court on Monday $1,000 for sc
ing liquor in dry territory
N Mrs. e. r. Price and Mrs. G.
Gibbs have gone to Cape Girardei
/ and Sikeston to visit Anderson al
Q Renfro Gibbs.
The Presbyterian meeting ju
closed was most successful one al
there were 30 additions to Z
church.
The following joined the church 3
ing the meeting: Spencer Boyd, b
sic Dyke, John Dearing, Frank De-
ing, Mrs. Chas. Ellis, T. j. Ecton
> Mrs. Clemma Ecton. William Glent
Hildegard Heidbreder. Arnold HI
BREEDER, Raymond Heidbreder, Hell
=. Heizer, Hilda Harrison. Elzea Han
i son, Effie johnson, lima Martin, Ma
a Miller, Olivia Myers, Charles Mye
!, Frances McCue. Henry Precht, M
Elizabeth Precht, Elizabeth Prec
/. Mas Rowland, Robert Roberts
- Priscilla Sannebeck, Catherine San
a. beck, Mrs. Ned Turner, Forest Won
4 man and Loyal Wonneman.
i C. C. Rosselle, principal of
s North Central School, was appoin
- member OF the County Text B'
Commission by the County Court
:. Tuesday, to succeed Miss Elijah
!. GIL,
=, The governor will appoint anot
a member and these two with the U
!, ~ Superintendent of Schools will
: pose the commission, which adopts
=, text books for the schools in