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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
BURKE ITEMS

Jack Willingham is visiting
his parents this week. Irwin
Fry from Chicago is visiting Tom
Hite. Farley and Harley Rode
cape visited relatives near Car
rington recently. Mr.. Heneseley
recently moved back into Burke
District. Will Willingham and
wife visited relatives in Perry re-
Gently.
Miss Margaret Holman has
been very sick.
We no longer hear the hum of
the silo filler or the saw mill !;
they are both gone. Spencer
Davidson is back at school. We
are getting a good steel bridge
on the county-line.
Burke school has ordered a
new library. Reed Burke is
feeding a fine bunch of cattle.
Ed. Lawrence has moved back to
the country. Jack Willingham
visited Burke school Wednesday.
c. T. Elroy sold four calves to
Curtis Pryor at 500 per head. c.
c. Davidson traded cows with
Milvin Boyce last week, a Short
Horn for a Jersey COW,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

The Vandalia Mail says that
quite a number of farmers met at
Grow schoolhouse Friday night
to plan some way to help bust the
sugar trust. Hope they will sue
ceed for things need sweetening
at our house and the sack is about
empty. The Illinois Oil company
has promised to help if the farm
ers will stand by them and use
their goods. Unite, farmers, and
stand by the men who have re-
duccd the price of oil one half.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
Give WOMEN
THEIR RIGHTS

Thru the Message Mexico and
Audrain county women invite
the men to vote for Amendment
Thirteen on November second.
Will women do the men S
work In Europe at present, un-
der war S urgent needs, we see
women acting as police, tram
conductors, postmen and chauf-
feurs. While girls are the news
boys, older women are Justices
OF the peace. In that crazed
land the civil government affairs
are being calmly directed by
women while the men are driven
to kill one another by the powers
higher up i'll military affairs.
AT the same time the duties of
woman's S sphere are not being
neglected. There are only the
very young and the very old men
at home, so that women are till
ing the fields and marketing the
produce. Never has more sewing
been done, never more nursing.
Young boys and girls take an
equal share of home keeping.
When war is IA country chief
end, boys need to learn to cook at
nome if as men they must cook
in camp.
Paris is said to be big school
for the municipal training of
women. This is best. The hys-
terra of the emotional women of
past years Of war has been given
an outlet, so to speak, in tie
business-like direction of govern
affairs.
Now since the European
women are showing an active
patriotism in war can you doubt
heir fitness for patriotism in
Tines of peace?
Missouri women could do as
much, but we trust the men of
.hese great United States will
never again be drawn into war
With It's sacrifices. In the land
where men boast of freedom as
is greatest, asset, the women of
heir own flesh and blood ask the
men to enfranchise them, that
hey may vote for the laws which
Iftect their welfare as much as
he welfare of the men.
Prejudice is an idol Worship
'ed by men who will not be con
'lnced that women are human
'elngs with Independent minds
II their own. Failure to carry
ne thirteenth amendment this
all can only result in redoubled
iforts by the women for its ulti-
nate success. Why waste further
lme by not giving women their
ights9
Carrie B, Sproul.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
Carrie B, Sproul.

Our young friend, Frank S.
summer, north of Mexico, attend
ing Central College at Fayette,
sends ms an invitation to partici-
pate in celebrating the completion
of the campaign which has increas-
ed the endowment of that great
school to half a million dollars.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
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Some Views and @and Interviews


nome up TWO miles east of Cen
ltralia. The drouths come and %
but i have never been forced t,
buy any feed since 1881. | feet
some stock every year, but it i,
always my own raising, and tn,
feed feed is always my OWL
raising. | like the farm, OF
coul'se-the most Independent
business in the world.
Prof. w. Clyde Johnson:
expect to have Mr.. l.. B. Sipple.
OF the Agricultural Department
of the Kirksville Normal, with
me in some of my visits next week
to the rural schools of this county.
Mr.. Sipple is live wire. He
was partly raised in Audrain and
is son of L. H. Sipple, now of
Fayette. Farmer Rusk and !
Will also visit school together u
week or two to stir up interest in
the great Roundup to be held in
Mexico the first week in next
month.
Is. Wickman: | was riding
thru the woods few days since
and little limb bounded and
struck me on the upper eyelid OF
the left eye. 1t paralyzcd the
the upper part of my lread above
the eye andI am still thus affected.
| don't know what to think of it.
1t gives me cutting sharp pains at
times.
E. w. Lierheimer: | don't
think much of this prophesy of
some that if the ground does not
get soaked down good and deer
with water this fall and winter
there will be a drouth again next
year. Let's not be hunting ca
lamity. l don't know what gov
erns the fall of the rains, but seed
time and harvest is not going to
cease from the earth.
Hosine Hassen: Yes, I'm called
the Busy Bee' man. | was
born In Palestine, within 80 miles
of Damascus. Eleven years ago |
started on my trip to the United
States, the land of the free and
the home of the brave. Passed
thru the Mediterranean and land
ed at Marseilles, France. Went
on thru Paris, crossed over the
English Channel, then on to Lon
don and to Liverpool. Took ship
over to Canada aud then passed
into the United States, the goal
of my life. l don't think the war
in Europe will cease within
year. Pm now a thoro American.
7 on couldn't force me back into
the old country. I'd fight for
Uncle Sam if he should call me.
Miss Dorothy Rodhouse: 1 am
here from my home in Columbia
on visit among Mexico relatives.
| advertised my place in Mexico1
for sale in the Message and re-
,eived replies from the adlet in
Centralia, Columbia, Mexico, Chi,
,ago, and persons in Oklahoma
and Texas. / think the Message
IS all right any way you take it.
1t is a fine publication.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
COUNTY COURT
PROCEEDINGS

The County Court in regular
monthly session transacted tn,
following business last week:
Bills allowed IL. b. Deaton
bridges, $500; David Fouser
bridges, 1912; r. l.. Heizer,
bridges, $3.50; Guthrie g. Son
coal at Jail, $1,000 Ricketts, 4
Emmons, ID. G. Co., supplies Jail,
$3.50; o. f. Tucker, supplies Jail,
% cts; l.. w. Roberts, supplies
Jail, 5000; Mexico Power Co.,
supplies Jail, $l4.97; Worrell
Mfg. Co., supplies Jail, $4,000;
Llewellyn & Sons, supplies Jail,
$500; La Crosse Lumber Co., ce-
ment for bridges, $4,000; c. ii.
Dickey, bridge lumber, $41 40;
b. A. Powell, cement for bridges,
$37.00; j. b. Nevins, bridges,
$500; j. A. Morgan, same,
$3.50; l.. c. Henry, same,
$3.50; E. w. Lierheimer, same,
$3.50; Rucker & Son, same, $2S
Mexico Fair Association, 800;
E. o. Snedeker, road work, $21 ;
Mexico Ledger, supplies County
Treasurer, So; Standard Pig. Co.,
supplies Recorder, $23.35; Bux-
ton & Skinner, supplies recorder,
$25.37 Geo. ID. Barnard Co., sup
plies Circuit Clerk, $16.26; Bux-
ton & Skinner, same, $4.60
Standard Pig. Co., same, $3.50
II. II. Grafford, stamps, $50; S.
d. Stocks, supplies j. p, $105
j. D. Miller, supplies Court
House, $2.45; Arctic Ice & Stor-
age Co., same $10.40, Mexico
Power Co., same, $30.03; S. w.
Telephone Co., Circuit Clerk, |
$3.50; S. w. Telephone Co.,
Pros. Atty, $3.50; Guthrie & Son, |
supplies county farm, $9.55; NJ.
B. Guthrie & Co., same, 5000;
Geo. II. Kunkel, same, $3.50;
Ike MCGOWAN, same, $12.46; j.
P, Powell, same, $2.05; Jos.
Steinman & Son, same, $3.50;
Roy Barnett, guarding prisoner,
$500; Central City Chemical Co.,
supplies Board of Health, $15; Z.
P. Deal, State Treas, supplies
patient sanitarium, $27.SS; John
8yars, bridges, $22.35; Gerom
Mfg. Co., supplies Court House,
S11.37; Llewellyn g. Sons, same.
t4.OO; j. w. Barnett, phone at
ail, $12; j. II. Sallee, superin-
endent of Schools, rs cts; j. H.
Sallee, supplies j. p, $1.OO;
J. B. DeVault, supplies Supt, of
schools, So; Mexico Message
;ame, $2.5; w. c. johnson, salary
Supt. of Schools, 800; w. C.
Johnson, stamps, So; j. W.
5eamer, bridge lumber, $34.7O;
r. S. Mckinney, Acct. r. and B.
Jom., $62; Herman Geiseker
bridges, $43,04; Otis Purdy, sup
'lies, County Farm, $3.50; Otis
'urdy, Board of Health, IS cts.
Alex Carter, two days justice
md mileage, 5000; C. C. Bled-
'oe, same, SIG; j. w. Beagles.
same, $11.s0; Ned Holt, auto
bridge inspection, So.
Criminal cost bills aggregate
S2OO.95.
John Young was given 35
sacks of cement to build two cul-
'erts on the public road east of
lis home, northeast of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Miss Margaret Million, daugh-
ter of Prof. j. w. Million of this
city, enjoys the distinction of being
the youngest Junior at Missouri
University. She graduated from
Hardin last year and is but 1G
years of age.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Arthur Snedeker of near Lad
donia, a former student in Mexico
High School, is now full fledged
telegraph operator and has an as
signment at Glasgow.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Gus Steinman, the shoe man,
has the finest display of Indian
arrowheads in his show window
to be seen in the State.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Mr.. Carl Marshall and Miss
Edith Metz, both of Galloway
county, were married in Mexico
last Thursday, Judge w. w. Bolts,
officiating.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Mrs. Geo. Newgent of Molino.
accompanied by Mrs. John Gill
bert, is at Columbia to have her
eyes treated by a specialist.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

The wedding of Mr.. Charles
Tillman and Miss Matilda Fen
newald is announced to take
place at the Martinsburg Cath
Ollie church soon.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Mrs. Susan Evuly of Laddonia
orders the Message sent to her at
Albany, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

A township Sunday school con-
vention was held at Rush Hill last
Thursday by the Audrain Sunday
School Association. Large atten-
dance and fine interest, C.M. Fox,
secretary of the county associa-
ton, presided. Mrs. F.P. Dye of
Vandalia, superintendent in eIe-
mentary work, was present and
gave valuable assistance.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Mrs, Barnebey has returned
=. nome after visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Geo. Newgent, and friends
near Molino.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Mrs. E. A. Collins, of Stephens
College at Columbia, is visiting
Mexico friends.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15
Some Haps Far and end Near

Rev. A. E. Burch closed unior
revival meeting at Troy with Bic
conversions.
Pearl West of Pike Co. tried tc
commit suicide in St. Louis. She
said her father drove her from
home.
Mark White, near Macon City,
lost six cows from their eating
white lead paint.
Bowling Green raised a sub
scription of $25.33 for help of the
wounded soldiers of all sides il
the European war.
The Journal of the Missouri
State Medical Association SAYS
that the United Doctors were
trundled out of Paris recently
where they had advertised their
usual unfailing methods of treat
ing diseases, free of charge aU so,
l5 and $50 per.
The Pike Co. Post says Bowling
Green needs a pure food commit
tee. Dogs and cats with sores on
their bodies are allowed to come
into grocery stores and the flies
enjoy the edibles.
Ernest Hoffman of Auxvasse is
in hospital for treatment for Sc
rious throat trouble.
The editor of the Warrensbure
Democrat sees little to be thank
ful for in this vale of tears. my
gracious" he shrieks, it looks
like things never hit just right.
Last year sugar was twenty lbs.
to cart wheel and we had no
peaches. This year peaches are
plenty and sugar has gone out OF
sight. Darn a poor man anyhow" :"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Miss Lizzie Ridgeway of
Thompson is visiting her father,
Henry Ridgeway, at Yuma, Colo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-15

Il. M. Lake, the contractor, will
will erect two two-story brick
buildings in Laddonia, one for the
Odd Fellows and the other for
Homer G. Azdell. They will take
the place of buildings recently
destroyed by fire.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-04
War News Fifty Year. Ago
tFrom the Richmond Dispatch. Dec. =. 1850.

Tho enemy appears to have accumulated a
the Richmond front line From .Eliiotts Hill
the number OF tents visible has been largely
Increased in the last three days At IL eiocis
stirring music, and there were other indica-
lions OF renewed activity the Richmond
front
General Early officially reports to General Leo
that General Rosser, with Payne's and his own
brigade. encountered the enemy tho 9th
ultlmo Moorheld. and, after brisk little
fight, captured forty prisoners and one piece OF
artillery. all they had. On the 2sth he sur
pieces of artillery four siege gums 500 prIs-
oners and large number of horses. He
Rosser also captured Piedmont, destroying
several United States government buildings.
Ohio Railroad engines: did much damage to the
railway line. burned several buildings and col.
Rosser and tho bravery of his men deserve ali
praise" says General Early.
Tho latest news from Georgia is very encour-
aging. The report that the Federals had reached
Millen was ill-founded. They were repulsed
before they got there. 1t appears that If
sherman gets to the seacoast at all, he will do
SO with tho loss OF at least half OF his army.
Hoods army. All that get Is from the
Northern tt, papers. which tell us that Hood made
Tenn. and wes repulsed This is evidently
untrue. as II is known that the Confederate army
was marching towards shelbyville. Hood can
the Columbia route and attacking Thomas behind
his intrenchments He designs either to pene
trate Kentucky to occupy East Tennessee.
The Northern military-wrters believe he intends
the latter and then come to General Leo in
Virginia
There worthy the name from
the Petersburg front yesterday. There Is every
indication that the Federals have decided to go
into and to stay in winter quarters and people
coming from Petersburg Of the opinion that
there VIII be very little news from that section
until towards the springtime.
1t Is reported to the War Department that
eel lip1y wifi n Snlen
commissary stores, the most OF which have been
captured from the enemy
In the Confederate Senate yesterday, Mr..
Garland, of Arkansas, offered bill entitled IAN
act to increase the efficiency of the army by the
employment of FREQ negroes, and also slaves in
certain capaclties.' The bill was referred to
the Military Committee.
There is continuous Sailors and Soldiers
Fair being held in Boston. Among the ingeni-
Gus contributions to 1t by the State prison
convicts is small house contrived that by
the opening of the door figure of Jefferson
Davis suspended to gibbet, comes up through
u chimney, and from the other chimney negro
man comes up to view the gruesome scene.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-04
..Tbe Wolf OF Wall Street"

CONVICTION of David Lamar. "the Wolf
~ of Wall Street," and his sentence to
two years imprisonment in the penitentiary
afford gratifying evidence of the unpopularity
of the pursuits in which Lamar was engaged
That he was able for SO long time probably
to pursue the manner of life which gained
him notoriety and fear is capital ilustra-
ton of the naive credulity of that centre of
the country's financial system, where he
found his victims.
According to the evidence, Lamar called
Lewis Cass Ledyard of counsel for the Nor
gan firm. on the telephone, pretended that
he was Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, of
Pennsylvania and offered to sidetrack a
congressional investigation being considered
MIR. Ledyard did not prove quite SO credulous
as others on whom Lamar is said to have
played the same trick and the result is con-
vtction and impending imprisonment instead
of financial profit.
The amazing thing Is that he found any
victims-and, II report be true. he had lnred
many into his net. His bait was the Wall
Street belief that pretty much any govern
ment official Is an actual or prospective
crook, willing TO betray his country for
price. When men acquire that idea and hold
to 1T with sufficient frmness they are the
easy prey of shrewd swindlers Of the Lamar
type. THE Wolf of Wall Street." at any
rate, waxed sleek and fat by the sale OF in
fiuence AID power he never possessed
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-04
Belgian Refugees in France

correspondence of Associated Press.l
PARIS. November 25.--"'There are
now more than 100000 Belgian refu-
gees in France" Monsieur Berardi.
committee, has informed tho Associ-
1ated Press.
"France has received them with the
greatest consideration and generosity
he said; the government allowing
them the same amount as their own
unemployed, 20 cents day to each
head Of family, plus 10 cents for
each child This. of course, is suffi-
cient to. keep them from starvation,
but nearly all Of them have other press
Ing needs. as they fled In n majority
OF cases with insufficient clothing and
lacking other necessities. We are do
ing all we cam. aided by the French
finding employment for such as are
able to work, but France has her ow m
stricken population in the northern de-
partrnents to care for, and Belgium is
obliged to appeal to other generous
nations for these people whose need.
as tho world knows. lis not their fault.
Monsieur Berardi said Belgium would
never forget what America has already
done for Brussels, where the popu1a.
tion was on the verge of starvation.
The first refugees That arrived were
sheltered at the Cirque de Paris and
at the Northern Terminal, but these
quarters, siimmarily prepared. were in
adequate for the accommodation Of so
many persons living almost entirely in
common. Now several hundred canal
and river barges are being fitted up
with more comforts and sanitary arr
rangernsnts for their reception. Hun
dreds Of children who have lost their
parents have been adopted by French
and Swiss families, and many owners
OF villas In the country. have placed
then, at the disposition OF Belgian
families.
A movement Ia on foot, to establish
e emi,rrste nut me nro s@e g saiJ
to be no moro likely to succeed than
the suggestion to send them to CALI
fornia. The Belgian, as q rule, is not
inclined TO er1izrate.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-04
Last Stand at Armngeddon

IN DETERMINATION of the Progressive
IL party. or what is left of 1t, to keep it's
organization intact, is pleasing news, SO far
as 1T goes, to all Democrats, whose regret
will be that larger proportion of those who
stood at Armageddon cannot now be rallied
TO its banners
Wherever the Republicans in the last
s congressional elections regained seats that
they had lost two years before, the Progress
sives had disappeared practically as n politi-
cal unity, most Of the individual members
having returned to their former Idols of
high protection-both of infant industries
and full-grown monopolies. Wherever the
Progressives still toiled and voted for their
candidates, the Democrats retained all OF
their advantage
1t would be pleasant to think that there
was more vitality in this latest contender
for national and State political honors AS
that belief is not possible, the Democracy
must be prepared to face united Republ-
cansm and t4 show at the polls that ii is
the majority sparty OF the country. A
plurality no longer Will suffice.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-04
The Voice Of the People
Says Ant,.unrnse sentIment Grows.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Observation-Disclosures sentiment is stronger in
Richmond to-day, It is said, than II a year
ago; and tho writer. In mngling with the people,
determined opposition among them to female
acknowledgements. Working In particu-
lar have walked up to the fact that the intri-
cacies OF business operations cannot be under
stood by outsiders. nor interfered with by them
without endangcring the successful running OF
tho whole machine and bringing loss upon all
connected with IL.
In nothing has this been clearly demon
strated than In the recent action OF suffragists
concerning short hours for women Employees
In business enterprises having short seasons
the millinery and suit buslness--arc enabled
to meet their expenses during the dull months
by extra hours and extra pay during tho busy
What 1t means to them to be deprly ed
OF this source of revenue at time Of terrible
financial depression, with the cry OF the unem-
ployed In the streets, is more easily understood
large institution deciares: They are doing
more harm than good" while girls In promi-
nent department store say: working won ell
getting very we'll, and had better be
let alone
In short. the general verdict in Richmond
to be that the leaders of the suffrage
movement are fanatics" (pardon the epithet; II
is n quotation). well-meaning theorists with "a
zeal not according to knowledge" crushing in
understanding OF business or political situations
and. consequently, no ability to grasp them In
their entirety. The logical conclusion. therefore,
Is that they unsafe guides, showing mis-
chievous tendencies In advance OF the possession
OF the ballot suggestive of untold evil should
they acquire It. OBSERVER.
Richmond, December ., 1914.