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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Robert Skinner: live out in
the neighborhood of Skinner,
north of Thompson. That place
was established as a postoffice
about 10 years ago. 1t was named
for my brother, Alb Skinner, who
was the first postmaster and kept
a store there for five or six years.
He afterwards farmed for year
near Molino and is now managing
a store in Carroll County. He
likes merchandising. like farm
ing and am trying to stay with my
job.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Joe M. Barks: | lived many
years on "A farm north of Laddonia,
in Rails county. My father was
the late Rev. j. V. Barks. In the
eighties | hauled corn from our
farm to the market at Laddonia.
| had a brother, DR.. S. B. Barks,
who located at Laddonia and who
died there some years later. Fol-
some time now | have been edit.
ing the Herald at Sweet Springs,
Mo. A former Mexico citizen
Warren Hedges, now lives in oul
town. Oscar Lewis of MexciC
married one of his daughters
Mr.. Hedges is engaged in the Goa
and feed business in Sweet Springs
While at Mexico he managed {
dairy. | had not seen John Beal O.
the Mexico Message for 80 year.
but | was able to pick" him a
the Pertle Springs gathering o
newspaper men last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
JNO. NICHOLSON
-.s -: PLEADS GUILTY
Judge Barnett Gives Him Life
Sentence.

John Nicholson, the man VIII,
was accused of burning his wifi,
and adopted son at Vandalia, OF
the night of June 20, was haled
into the Circuit Court at Mexico
last Monday afternoon, promptly
at one clock, and before Judge
]. W. Barnett he plead guilty to
the charge. Nicholson looked as
he plead, shrinking and guilty
Prosecuting Attorney A. G. Whit.
son read the indictment and in
answer to a question by the Judge
Nicholson replied firmly, "Guil.
ty." Judge Barnett reminded
him that he was pleading guilty
to one of the most diabolical
crimes ever committed in Audrain
county, and then asked him if he
did not wish to change his plea.
Again he replied, Guilty, / wish
to throw myself on the mercies of
i the court. " The court then ac-
!cepted his plea and sentenced him
F. to the penitentiary for the rest of
'his natural life.
The Message gave quite full
account of this awful happening
Past week. We are glad that
Ehere is to be no trial and the
dreadful details further display
fd. 1t is better for the public
3nOrals and besides the State is
paved the costs to prosecute.
4 1t was thought at first that
Nicholson committed the deed on
ccOunt of the $1,000 life insur-
nce on his wife, but it is strongly
nsplcloned now that he was in
htuated with his beautiful Is
fear old step-daughter, Bessie
e wanted her and wanted every
pody else out of the way.
Nicholson's preliminary trial
pas held at Vandalia last Sunday
morning before sunup and then
he was hurried back to Mexico. :.
His daughter, Bessie, is said co
Pc bright little woman. Last
Sunday at the Sunday school of
fhe Christian church at Vandalia.
put of an enrolment of 175, she
tvas given a prize which she had
Avon for not missing a Sunday
FROM the school in the past II
hOnths.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
New Division at Booth.

A trip on the Chicago & Alton
Past shows an immense amount of
Pork going on at Booth which is
70 be the new railroad division.
is said that about % crews, or
FPbout 100 men, will be transfer
fed from Mexico to that place.
fhey will make their homes in
P'owling Green, and a few of
fhem at Louisiana. This from
khe Bowling Green Times tells
low they are making things
Fount:
Thru the courtesy of Ola FL
tnore, the Times editor motoreC
sout to Booth Tuesday morning
sWork on the new round house
turn table, office, cinder pit, Goa
schute, etc, is progressing nicely
About 70 hands are at work. Thi,
IS said to be the best work of it
class on the road. 1t is mucl
more extensive than the Booth o
Years ago."
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Capt Ben II. Dorsey, U. S,
Army, retired, ! of Santa Cruz,
Cali, has been detailed by the
War Department to the Missouri
Military Academy as instructor in
Military Tactics and Commandant
of Cadets. He has four sons who
will enter the Academy and he
will be here September 1st.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
Rain in Summer--Longfellow

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overtlowing spout
In the country on every side,
Where far and wide,
Like eopard's tawny and spotted hide,
Stretches the plain,
To the dry grass, and the drier grain,
How welcome is the rain
The farmer sees
His pastures, and his fields of grain,
AS they bend their tops
To the numberless beating drops
Of the incessant rain.
He counts it as no sin
That he sees therein
Only his own thrift and gain.
These, and far more than these,
The Poet sees
For his thought, that never stops,
Follows the water drops
Down thru chasms, profound,
To the dreary fountain head
Of lakes and rivers underground;
And sees them when the rain is done,
On the bridge of colors seven
Climbing up once more to heaven,
Opposite the setting sun.
Unto his wondering eyes reveal
The Universe, as an immeasurable wheel
Turning forevermore
In the rapid and rushing River of Time.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
Miss Clark Dead.

Miss Bessie Clark, born
August 90. 1881, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clark of
this city, died at the home of her
parents last Thursday afternoon.
Miss Clark had been i'll for nearly
a year. She was a faithful mem
ber of the Christian church and a
Jealous worker in the Sunday
school. For nearly eight years
she served as cashier in +. A.
Morris grocery store. Besides
the parents she is survived by
two brothers and two sisters, all
of this city-John and Henry and
Misses Ida and Margaret Clark.
The funeral was held at the
Christian church Friday after
noon, conducted by Rev. w. A
Shullenberger. Burial in Elm
wood. The grave was banked
with beautiful floral offerings
Miss Clark before her death chose
the following to be her pail bear
ers: f, A. Morris, Tom Bruce
DR.. j. f. Harrison, Joe Luckie
VIM. Yoakim and Overton Nc
Connathy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Will Morris: Don't like to say
anything against old Missouri but
| didn't expect to run, up against
such dry fields and lawns, | like
California but would like it better
If all of our friends would move
out there and be with us. As to
Farm Adviser-it's about the big
gest thing going ifthe people will
only listen to him. see j. N. Cross
out in the Golden State once in a.
while.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mr.. Otto Rohlfng, of this city,
and Miss Willah Mae Whitney
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. II,
Whitney, also of this city, were
united in marriage last Sunday
night at the home of the officiat
ing minister, Rev. j. f. Ayscue
The young couple are highly pop.
ular and many friends extend
them best wishes. Mr. Rohlfing
is agent for the American Express
Co. here.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

9. M. Bradley; / live out west
of Molino. The rain last week fell
in localities here and there. We
had a good rain at MoIino but over
toward Paris they got a root-soak- =
er; field now and then too wet
to plow. The weather man will fix
things some way, | hope, to save
us.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Miss Marie Rose, of the Mexico
Ledger, and Miss Zola Beal, OF
the Mexico Message, who attend
ed the Missouri Press Association
gathering at Pertle Springs last
week were appointed members OF
the "stunt" committee which
planned an afternoon entertain
ment for the editors.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mrs B. A. Thornburg and
aanghter, Miss Ethel, are home
from their trip to California. They
cut their visit short little; Mrs
ihornburg said she wanted to get
pack home where she could see
something green growing anc
'"here she could get warm. NJ
trouble about getting warm bacl
IN old Missouri at this time, tina
much sure.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
Cornett- Taylor Nuptials.

Mr.. VIM. w. Cornett, a promi-
nent farmer and stock raiser of
Cuivre, Audrain county, and
Mrs. Sarah V. Taylor, an excel
lent Christian lady of High Hill,
Montgomery county, Mo-, We're
quietly married at the residence
of Mr.. Thomas Ellis, near Wells
vile, on Thursday evening, june
Goth, Rev. r. E. McQuie of Mont
gomery City officiating, Here S
best wishes extended Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornett.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mrs. Belle Miller has not moved
to Kansas, as the Message stated
couple of weeks since. She
sends the Message to friend in
the Sunfower State, and we got
the item bungled and stated that
she had moved out there. Mrs.
Miller is at present visiting the
family of r. b. Kerr near Molino.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

harrow, small shovel cultivator.
and mower-wheel drags are
mighty good tools to keep in use
One farmer near Ccntraha has
been doing excellent work recent
ly using n sixshovel cultivator
with binder truck wheels wirrd
on behind as drags.
To grow a crop of corn requires
large quantity of water. About
three hundred pounds of wafer
are required for every pound OF
dry matter in the corn, about four
hundred pounds of water for
every pound of dry matter ii
wheat, and about five hundred
pounds for every pound of dry
matter in oats. 1t is extremely
difficult to raise a good crop Of
oats in very dry season. Corn is
good dry weather plant in com.
parison.
If IT does not rain keep stirring
the top soil about once a week.
and if it does rain, stir the top
soil just as soon as it will work
well, and thus conserve, any
moisture which may be added by
the rain. When the corn gets too
big to cultivate with ordinary
cultivator tools, keep stirring the
soil by dragging a wheel
or some other such device between
the rows. This practice should
be followed until the crop is
made, depending somewhat upon
the season.
With a rain soon there will be
an opportunity to plant the oats
ground to cowpeas, cane, kafir
corn, milo maise, or millet. Cow
peas should be drilled in with a
grain drill at the rate of from
one bushel to a bushel and a peck,
or drilled with a corn planter at
the rate of about twenty pounds.
Cane, kafir corn, or milo maise
may be drilled in with a grain
drill at the rate of from three
pecks to one bushel, or with a
corn planter at the rate of about
fifteen pounds. NIillet may be
sowed broadcast and narrowed in
at the rate of three pecks per
acre. A mixture of cowpeas with
cane or millet is better than either
cane or millet alone for the sake
of the soil as well as for the
quality of forage.
Rape may also be utilized as a
late forage crop sowed either in
the corn or by itself. This should
be sowed at the rate of four or
five pounds per acre.
f. w. Rusk, Farm Adviser.
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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Charlie wilkins: leave this
week for Colorado. Expect to be
gone three or four months. If |
like it better than good old Au-
drain, after visit back here |
may go out there and locate.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

r. A Boyd: My sister, Miss
Ella Boyd, has been visiting my
family for a week, also my aged
father, j. A. Y. Boyd, is with us
both of Concord. Father will Gel
ebrate his Goth birthday the 18th
of this month. He is healthy and
wonderfully active for. one of his
age.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Hardin College Alumnae is pre-
pairing to give a "Two-Ring Cir
Gus" latter part of next month.
The proceeds will be for the bene-
fit of Alumnae Hall, proposed
new wing at Hardin which is to
cost $25, 700.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mrs. j. f. Domnitz has moved
back to this city from Phila-
delphia. She will make her home
here with her brother, Robert
Nicholas. 4 !!
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Llttleby Farmer: Two farmers
out this way, Mark Givens and
Henry Smith, haven't had rain
enough to wet a handkerchief. We
are keeping the corn alive and
wheat is in the shock; will cut
oats for feed but will have no
grain. Louis Kircher keeps on
hauling lumber for that new
home.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Fulen and
little daughter, Louise, of Vim
cennes, Ind, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. John Beal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

A daughter is a new member of
the family in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. +. F. Ketter since June
25th.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Mr. and Mrs. f. S. SappingtOn
of this city have moved to their
farm near Lamar, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03

Bliss Margaret Rosser of Cen
.ralia visited her friend Miss
Neu Pearson, in Mexico last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-07-03
SOME INTERVIEWS.

q. w. Flea: No news. just
everybody talking of crops and
weather. People cutting meadow
but it won't make anything.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
GEN ERAL.

Governor SulZer was impeached by
the lower house of the New York Leg
islature following an all night session.
The vote stood 20 to 40.
The formation of a National Cath
olic Woman's league and an address
by T. B. Minehan, of Seattle Wash
on "The Catholic American Citizen"
were features of one days session of
the American Federation of Catholic
oScieties at Milwaukee.
In making a physical valuation of
railroads the Interstate Railroad Com
merce Commission will divide the
United States in probably six terri
tories. Commission headquarters and
headquarters of the Eastern territory
will be at Washington. Headquarters
have not been selected, but one prob
ably will be at San Francisco.
The sessions of the Grand Encamp-
ment Of knights Templar of the Unit
ed States began at FL Jebel Temple
in Denver, when Governor Ammons,
on behalf OF the state, and Mayor
Perkins on behalf of the city of Den.
yer, welcomed the governing body to
state and city, and response was made
by Grand Master Melish. Immediate
ly the public ceremony was conclud-
ed, the secret session opened. AT the
first regular meeting of the Grand
Encampment reports of committees, so
far as prepared, We're submitted an6
eulogies of members who have died
in the last three years made.
The date for the official reception
of the Grand Army of the Republic
by the people of Chattanooga, Tenn,
on the occasion OF the forty-seventh
annual encampment, has been fixed
for September 10, the first day of the
meeting Commander-in-chief Alfred
B. Beers, of Bridgeport, Conn, has
wired his official approval of the pro
gram.
David c. Preyer, an art critic of in
ternational reputation fell from a win.
dow in the fifth floor of an apartment
house in Central Park, New York, and
was instantly killed
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
WESTERN.

Former Mayor l.. w. Sven was
shot, the safe in the West Liberty Ia,
postoffice partly wrecked and street
lamps shot out by three bank robbers.
Prayers for rain in the parched re-
gions of the West were offered Sun
day in several Chicago churches. Dur
ing the services the tattoo of showers
on the roofs was heard.
Ore shipping has assumed normal
conditions again at Duluth and the
fleet of vessels that was thrown out
by the strike on the ore docks has
been put on regular schedule again.
Four bystanders were shot serious
ly and three others less seriously
wounded in a riot on East South
street in Salt Lake City when a spe-
cial policeman waved an American
flag in the face of an l. w. w. ora
tor.
At El Jebel temple in Denver before
the routine business session was COM
mensed, there was presented to the
grand encampment an ebony scepter,
suitably inscribed, the gift of the SOW
ereign great priory, Knights Tenn
plar of Canada.
The condition of the most seriously
injured of the forty-two men who
were caught in the rear-end of the
Barnum and Bailey circus train when
it was crashed into by Rock Island
train returning from the Denver con
clave, near Richfield, Neb., was so sat
isfactory that Omaha doctors held out
high hopes for their complete re-
covery.
Plumed Knights barred unstained
swords beneath a Colorado sky cast
with fleecy clouds, and in white
plumed squadrons waged a war of
peace and good will toward their fell
low men. Behind the crash of religious
music, played in martial cadence,
10000 knights Templar marched
in Denver Tuesday. 1t was the flower
of modern chivalry that passed the
multitude on the streets and pressed
reverent feet on the asphalt cross
that veneered the parade ground at
the grand masters stand. 1t is told
that 100000 persons viewed the pa
geant and watched the red-blooded
days of religious strife transformed
into a spectacle of peace, a pilgrim
age of humanitarianism.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
FOREIGN.

1t is said that, finding no support
from the other powers, both Russia
and Austria have abandoned their in
tentions to demand revision of the
Bucharest treaty.
The morning service at Westmin-
ster Abbey in London was interrupted
by twenty suffragettes, who repeated
the scene enacted in st. Paul's cathed-
raj by chanting Save Emmeline Pank-
hurt"
A general strike throughout Italy
was proclaimed in a manifesto issued
by the Syndicalist and Socialist Work
mems organizations at Milan. The
manifesto urges all workmen's unions
to take immediate action and to carry
on the strike to the bitter end.
The first skirmish in the diplomatic
war between Mexico and the United
States took place and was won by
John Lind, President Wilson's person.
al representative, when he managed
to be received unofficially by Foreign
Minister FREDERICK Gamboa at Mexico
City.
ooihVo lhC AultIlCdn
ager of the gold mines at Un-San, in
northern Korea, was sentenced at
Seoul, Korea, to an eight months pen
al servitude on a charge of manslaugh-
ter for killing a Chinese mine en-
ploye, who, in the absence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mason, attacked their twelve
year-old daughter.
Official dispatches at Alden, Arriba,
announced that a camel corps of Brit
ish native troops had been ambushe
by force of 1000 dervishes near
Burao. The British killed and wound
ed include two officers and about six
ty men. Many thousand followers of
Mad Mullah are on the warpath.
C. r. Guertler, constructing superin-
tendent of the ]. G. White Engineer
ing Company of New York and at
Honolulu in charge of work on the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Compa-
ny's new stations, was shot at a beach
resort by J. w. Marshall, superintend-
ent of the Waiahole Water Company,
and died later at a hospital.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
SPORT.
Standing of western Lengue Clubs

Pitcher Gwynn was released by
Manager Gear of the Topeka Western
League Club.
Jersey City and the Toronto Inter
national league teams broke league
records at West Side park at Jersey
City, N. j., when the teams battled
twenty innings to tie, neither team
scoring.
William Whitaker, pitcher for the
Keokuk baseball team of the Central
Association, set what is believed to
be a worlds record when he pitched
twenty-one consecutive innings in a
doubleheader between the Keokul<
and Waterloo teams Keokuk won
both games, the first l to 0, and the
second, which went twelve innings, 2
to Q. But five hits were made off
Whittaker's delivery.
Knight Benny Chavez made vi
cious crusade into Branniganland at
the Stockyards stadium, in Denver.
and wiped out all stain that had fas-
tened itself on his escutcheon by rea-
son of previous setback admins,
tered some two years ago when he
made a former attempt to pull down
the foreign colors. Chavez gained an
unquestionable decision over Patsy
Brannigan of Pittsburg in ten fast,
clean rounds.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
GAMBoA AND LIND CONFER.
U. S. Will Oppose Mexico Recognition
Till Constitutional Election Is Held.

U. S. Will Oppose Mexico Recognition
Till Constitutional Election Is Held.
Washington. - Dispatches to the
State Department from John Lind de.
scribed his visit with FREDERICK Gam.
boa, Mexican minister of foreign rela.
tions.
1t was understood on good authori.
ty that the conversation extended be.
yond the mere formalities of a social
call.
senator Gamboa and Mr.. Lind
talked briefly about the situation and
Mr.. Lind is declared to have set at
rest rumors that he was coming to
interfere directly in Mexican politics.
The general understanding in Off
cial circles is that Mr.. Lind had in
mated that the American government
would continue to oppose recognition
until a constitutional election was
held
The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
WASHING NGTON.

Within forty-eight hours the Navy
Department started two light draft
vessels for Vera Cruz.
The Senate confirmed the appoint
ment of Annear and Wheeler as super
intendent and assayer of the Denver
mint.
Fire which started in an air shaft
and broke through the roof of the his
toric Ebbitt house in Washington Gre
ated CONSERVATION among the guests,
but did little damage.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement of the con
dition OF all national banks of the
United States at the close of business
on Saturday, August 9.
The Senate finance committee has
reported fayorably upon the nomina-
tions of Thomas Annear as superin-
tendent and Frank e. Wheeler as as
sayer of the Denver mint
That the tobacco trust instead of
being dissolved by the decree of the
Supreme Court of the United States
has increased its monopolistic control
of tobacco manufactures was asserted
in the Senate by Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, in discussing the tobacco
schedule of the tariff bill.
Banks, which borrow or loan money
for speculative purposes. will be de-
MED any portion of the $50, 100000 of
government funds about to be deposit
ed in the national banks to assist in
moving the crops and the entire
amount will go to institutions that
earnestly strive to meet the currency
demands of the agricultural sections.
An unsuccessful effort to land Rep
resentative Kindel of Colorado on the
interstate commerce committee of the
House was made during the Demo
cratic caucus. Keating and Seldom.
ridge of Colorado moved his apont-
ment in place of Decker of Missouri,
but We're voted down, the plea be-
ing that Missouri was entitled to the
vacancy. This leaves Kindel with no
committee.
Senator Thomas of Colorado told
the Senate that the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company controlled
the lead market and the majority of
the lead mines and shat he was not in
favor of giving any duty, except such
as was necessary for revenue pur-
poses to the product controlled by
that concern.
President Wilson nominated the fol
lowing Colorado postmasters: Mich
ael F. O'Day Lafayette; Henry Clay
Monson, Jr.. Steamboat Springs; T. j.
Horan. Crested Butte; Joseph w
Beery. Saeuache.