Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-05
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GREAT SUCCESS

Tuesday morning Sterling L. Will
liams delivered a splendid address on
"The Sunday School World in Ac-
tion" to a large crowd in the tent. Mr.
Williams is a splendid talller and his
remarks were listened to attentive
ly.
Miss May C. Mcdonald gave a
Home Economics demonstration in
the Ledger building to an interested
group of women. Miss Mcdonald is
an expert in this work and what she
had to say was decidedly worth
while.
Baby Show Success
Because of the large number of ba-
bies entered in the Better Babies con-
test the judging started Monday af-
noon at the Elks Club. There were Z
babies judged the first day and So
were judged Tuesday.
One of the judges announced Mon
day the discovery of a simple trouble
in one of the babies, that had it been
allowed to continue would have de-
veloped into something serious later.
This is merely one case of the excel
lent results the Better Babies con-
test.
The Baby Health Contest at the
Elks Club is attracting a great deal
of attention and by noon Tuesday al
most one hundred Audrain County
babies had been entered. The contest
has three classes for country and
three for town babies:6 to l8 months
18 to 80 months, 80 to 40 months old
The babies are judged by experts and
the score cards will be given to the
parents when the contest closes. In
connection with the contest, Tuesday
afternoon, a program was given and
the following made talks: Mrs. r. D..
Worrell, chairman; DR.. J. G. Moore,
DR.. ]. F. Harrison, DR.. R. c. Strobe,
the Rev. S. W. Hayne, the Rev. W. A.
Shullenberger, Mrs c. w. Green,
state chairman, Home Economics De
partment, Missouri Federation OF
Women's Clubs, Columbia. Mrs.
Green's address was on "How Mis-
souri, Takes Care of Her Babies"
Some of the entries in the contest
follow:
Gale Shullenberger, Gordon Shear
er, Dorothy Shearer, Helen Louise
Clanton, John Henry Snoddy, Mary
Lucille Ragsdale, Caroline Elizabeth
Llewellyn, Everett Eugene Stewart
Elmer Lewis Green, Warren Oscar
McIntire, Helen Louise Squires, Orla
Elton Johnston, Carl Edwin Harri.
son, Hazel Jewel McCawey, Violet
May Davis, Harold Arthur Davis
Jas. Wilson Hancock, Earl Ellis Bra
den, Ross Gary, Minnie Lee Harrison
Mary Frances Mckee, Butler Humes
| Richard Valentine Smith, John Col
Inns Hofsess, Hermene Ida Jungblutl
John Collins Day, Carl Richard Day
Bernadine Marie Bartels, Ross Tay
lor Barnes, Wilmuth Mason, William
Wallace Bledsoe, Ruth Roberts, Cy
rus Clark, Maurice Noble Barnes, Ir;
Belle Rudasill. Philip Marchan
Brown, Celia Phillip, Edward Pick
ney French, Robert Mansfield Cor
coran, Mary Ellen Pitcher, Ralph W
Settle, Earl w. Parsons, Elizabetl
Marie Mahan, Virginia Pryor, Lelii
Martha Stqltz, James Willis, JUNO
Edmonston, Ellen Guthrie Whitley
Charles Brown Clark, Ralph Rich
mond Luckie, John Alfred Acton
May Fike, Josephine Crockett, Leo
nard May Alexander, Mary Langtr
Washington, Ara Nelson .:tandsfel
David Campbell, Sylvia Joy Waggen
er, Sydney Crider Carpenter, Fran
ices Pearl Sterner, Katherine Louis
Bell, William Edward Burt, Rober
Louis Crawford, Jane White, Mar
: Barbara Ketter, William De Wee
J Rusk, Ravina Rusk, Mary Elizabet
, Lewis.
DR.. Leonard Haseman, of the Mis-
souri, State Agricultural College, wa
chairman of the farmers meeting
the tent, Tuesday afternoon. tn
meeting was for the purpose of di!
. cussing farm pests and their contr'
and the following Audrain farmer
told of their experiences: F.
:. Cook, Moline; J. H. Smoot, Thoml
c son, Justin White, Mexico; Rip Pei
y son, Mexico; w. A. McMurtry al
Frank Pierce, Benton City; Edg;
Kent, Mexico.
The Sunday School conference CO
s Quoted by DR.. H. E. Tralle, Tuesd'
+ AFTERNOON, was held in the Ledg
d building. A good crowd was prese
and those on the program were Mi
Josephine Wallace, L. B. Hawthorn
DR.. Bourne, S. E. Stratton. Bent
City; Sterling L. Williams, Liberty
r Prof. E. A. Trowbridge gave
demonstration of live stock judgi