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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
NV Garden Close.

"A tiny garden close is mine.
: Mere handkefchiefs of green and
bloom
So small. our hands may almost CLASP
Across the leafy room.
And yet 90 vast my garden is
Such vistas there of fruit and flower,
It holds the magic of the Spring
The miracle of Eden's Bowers
Within my garden nesting songs
Mount ever on melodic bars,
While over are the arching skies.
The moon. the myriad world of stars.
No realm Of earth could offer more
Than this Infinitude to me !
Who has so fair garden close
Has boundless kingdoms for his feel .
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14

FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Please announce James Grsntham as
q candidate for the nomination for the
Office of County Superintendent Of
Schools for j fferson County. subject
TO the action of the Democratic primary
Nay % 1914.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
Political Announcements,
FOR THE STATE SENATE.

l hereby announce myself as can
didate for the Democratic nomination
for State Senator from the 18th Sens-
toriaI District of West Virginia, sub
ject to the action of the voters at the
Democratic Primary May %. 1914.
Respectfully,
HpANK Prey WITH
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK.

| hereby announce myself candi.
date for Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Jefferson County subject to the action
of the Democratic Primary.
CHARLES w. CONRAD.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
notice..

.All memoirs of thes Independent
Steam Fire Company are requested to
meet in their Hall on Tuesday evening.
May 10, at 8 o'clock. Important busi-
MESA a: D. BARR, Secretary.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR PRESIDENT
OF BOARD OF EDUCATIoN.7

2 Y g ts1 w = z 2 2 VA 7 VIZ =
Please announce Mr.. Henry c. Page
as a candidate for president of the
Board of Education of Charles Town
District. His candidacy will be sup
ported by MANY VOTERS.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FRANK BECK WITH.
FOR TIE STATE SENATE.

announce myself as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for State
Senator from the 18th Senatorial Dis
trict, subject to the decision of the
voters at the Democratic primary, May
%. 1914. SAMUEL ]. HODGES.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. ]

FUR CUUNTY CUMMISSIONER. =
Please announce Mr.. WILLIAM M.
BURNS as candidate for County
Commissioner for Charles Town Dis
trict, subject to the action of the DEM
ocratic Primary. He will be supported
for the Office by MANY VOTERS.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. I
We arc authorized to announce MR..
CHARLES H. MOORE as candidate
for County Commissioner for Charles
Town District, subject to the action of
the Democratic Primary.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

| hereby announce myself candi-
date for the House of Delegates. SUBJ
j ct to action of the Democratic Pri-
mary. MILTON W. BURR.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14

New Garden Seed are in, buy of Mil
er's Pharmacy.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14
FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.

FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. "
Please announce Mr.. B. e. Beavers,
as candidate for reelection as a mem
Der of the Board of Education of Charles
Town District. He has been faithful
and efficient, and will be supported at
the primary on May 49,, by Many Pa
irons of The Schools.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14

The members of the Epworth
League will give reception in honor
of Rev. and Mrs. Frank A. Tyler in
the NJ. E. Church, South, on Thurs
J day evening, May IA, from 8 to 10
o'c.ock. All members of the Church,
Sunday School and League, and all
friends of the church are cordially in
yited to attend.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-05-14

Mrs. J oh n W. Gibson i'-ill with pusu
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
BIG INTERESTS STRUGGLING
Amendment to Initiative Law Forbds
its being Applied TO Any
Taxation Subject.

An Argument for Popular Government
Prepared by Missouri Popular Govern
ment League.
The proposed amendment to our
initiative law forbids 1t to be applied
to any taxation subject. THIS OPENS
AN EASY PATH TO ANNUL THE
PEOPLES POWER ON ALL 9TH
Err SUBJECTS.
Joseph w. Folk is right when he
says that If the enemies of popular
government succeed in hobbling the
initiative and referendum In regard
to the subject of taxation the next
step will be to hobble 1t in another
subject, and then another. 1t is only
a question of time until all our i'm.
portant and vital rights viii be taken
away. Today 1t is taxation. Tomor-
row 1t will be something else, prohi-
bition or woman suffrage, or control
Of corporations, until the people, in.
stead of deciding everything, can de.
eide nothing.
The initiative should be applied to
ALL subjects.
The big interests" are struggling
for the throne in Missouri. The com.
mon people have become too impu.
dent; they must be punished. They
favor the initiative principle. and, as
the entire law cannot be taken away
from them all at once, 1t IS to be am.
putated on the installment plan.
Is It reasonable to suppose that the
authors Of bill that has been care
lessly, or perhaps intentionally, made
defective have any honest designs
whatever in regard to the peoples
rights? This is the situation as re.
CARDS Amendment No. / today. It Ia
the duty Of all good citizens to Join
in the fight against Amendment No.
until the iniquity that is being at
tempted is thoroughly exposed to
every voter in the state.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
JOKERS IN AMENDMENT NO. I
Read the Various Misleading State
ments, Reflect and Then Vote
Against No. I.

An Argument for Popular Government.
Prepared by Missouri Popular Govern
ment League.
First Joker: Lines 20 and % OF
the amendment say: Initiative petit
tons shall be filed with the county
clerks of the respective counties not
less than four months before the cleo
ton"
Lines "a to 2S are as follows:
within 30 days after said petitions
are filed with the respective county
clerks Of the respective counties said
initiative petitions shall be, by said
respective county clerks, laid before
the county courts
Lines 80 to "a: "At least three
months before the election at which
they are to be voted upon, they shall
be certified by the respective county
courts"
Suppose a few county clerks decide
to kill an initiative petition. Or sup.
pose only orc county clerk decides 20
do 81. All he has TO do is to hold the
petitions till the end OF his 80 days
and the judge has no opportunity to
examine them!
Second Joker: Lines 30-31: "If
the signatures thereto are found to
be genuine signatures of voters they
shall be certified"
All that will be necessary to kill
any good petition under this law will
| be for the enemies Of good govern
ment to slip In few false signatures
on the petition. when the people are
not watching. Fair play, isn't it2
Third Joker: Lines 90 and 9s tc
1903: THE powers reserved or con
tanned in this section as aforesaid
shall not be used to authorize
or confer local option or other local
powers in matters of taxation in OF
upon any of the counties, municipal
ties or political subdivisions OF the
state or to repeal, amend or modify
these provisions"
Never! World without end! For
ever! Eternally! II we want t
make any change in five years or II
10 years, or If our great-grandchildrer
want a change rs years hence, the
door is closed No change can bC
made. The edict is perpetual.
This one provision alone ought t,
defeat Amendment No. 1. 1t is thu
work of shrewd and calculating mel
who want to put something over
while the people are asleep and til
our hands for the next century.
, Vote against Amendment No. 1.
is flatly against the interests of pop
ular government.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

Amendment No. I Seeks to Have Us
lose the Benefit Depend
ent on Possession.

An Argument for Popular Government
Prepared by Missouri Popular Govern
1. AS il stands, our Initiative Law
is a check against all special inter.
ests.
The fact that the people have the
right to initiate laws makes 1t unnec-
essary for them to do so. No laws
have as yet been enacted in. Missouri
directly by the people, but dozens Of
good laws have been enacted by the
legislature that would otherwise have
been defeated. This is true OF all OF
the IA states where the initiative and
referendum are now In force.
A news item in the st. Louis Re-
public recently gave the name OF a
policeman who had carried a pistol
for 80 years and had never been
called upon to use it. The very exist
ence of the pistol prevented the ne
cessity for its use; it promoted law
and order. The very existence of the
peoples power through the initiative
has the same effect.
2. It is favored by all parties and
by an overwhelming majority Of the
people.
1t has been voted for by the people
of 10 states, but prevented from ope-
ration by the legislature in two of
them and defeated by means of
jokers In three others, which is what
Amendment No. is trying to do in
Missouri.
t., 90 Ntnhtoian hn fol "a
of its operation" were left to the leg
islature. They have never supplied
the details.
In Wyoming, where It carried six
to one; in Mississippi. where it car
ried three to one, and in New Mex
leo, where it carried two and hall
to one, it was killed by different
kinds of jokers, all different from the
one proposed for Missouri.
| In IS of the 10 states where It has
carried the vote stood 1,576,312 for tc
| 712,505 against--over two to one. Ii
one state, Nebraska, the vote stood
1S9,20O for to 1915 against-nearly
~ to one. The percentages were uni
formly larger In the western agri
cultural states.
Attacks are being made upon It b,
enemies on all sides. It is being com
PEELED to fight for every inch of thu
way, but its friends have never de
serted it, and its enemies are bein,
driven to the most desperate ex
tremes Of trickery and fraud to in
duce the people TO abandon 1t.
No real believer in the rule of tn,
people can take any other view thai
that embodied in the Fundamental
principle of the initiative and refer
endum. AS William Jennings Bryal
has so happily phrased It:
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
FIVE REASONS FOR RETENTION
Do Not Tamper With Initiative
Amendment, as II Seeks to
Abrldse Rights.

An Argument for Popular Government,
Prepared by Missouri Popular Govern
ment League.
1. Our present Initiative and Ref.
erendum Law is check against all
special interests.
2. 1t is favored by all parties and
by an overwhelming majority of the
people.
3. The people have a constitutions
al right to 1t.
4, The fight against special inter
ests proves its value to the people.
8. II Is the peoples weapon-ths
key to Our House."
Our initiative and referendum law,
which is one of the best In the world.
should be left unchanged. The pro-
posed Amendment No. is an at.
tempt to entirely destroy the real
power of the law through inserting
"jokers" that make II easy to prevent
petitions from being filed. This dis
honest amendment should be defeat.
- m an overwhelming yete. q
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
Said Of The Audrain
County Roundup.

The first week in November has been definitely decided
the date for the County Roundup This is obe round up
of all the important of the It, expected that
all of the following interests will be represented at this time:
The County Sunday School Association The County Medical
Asso'n. Dairy Association. Poultry Association Commercial
Clubs and Booster Clubs Road Overeers. Teachers Schoo
Directors. Farmers and Stockmen Boy Corn Growers.
The morning hours will be given to exhibits demonstrations
the will be sectional meetings of al
the different interests In the evening all of the people will come
together big meeting of interest ALL At these evening
the best lecturers and musical talent will be in the
Better Babies Contest mot pretty but beer will be held
detailed program will be published it is arranged
Something interest everyone the county 1t hoped tina
everyone will plan attend much of the week possible Watc
the Message for advertised Farmer Rusk
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
POWELL FORD

The roads and weather fine.
Grass is good. Most every one
planning to SOW wheat i'll this
neighborhood. VIM. Mason will
put in 200 acres of wheat.
The Willing Workers of Rising
Sun church spent the day last
Thursday with Mrs. Wallace
johnson. They will meet first
Thursday in November with Mrs.
S. P. Carter, of Duly neighbor-
hood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Newberry
of this vicinity have more GU
cumbers than any one we have
heard of. They have almost sc
gallons put up for pickles and
have given some to their neigh
bors.
Miss Mabel Cook who took ill
last Thursday Is resting better,
but not able to be up as yet.
Many are canning green beans
in this locality. Milford Berry
has commenced to drill a well.
Mrs. Belle Black of Laddonia
visited Mrs. Rachel Powell and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. j. 0.
Dowell and family Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week. Mrs.
Robert Powell and daughter,
Miss Frances Powell, of Duly,
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Rachel
Powell and family. Add Dowell
Of st. Louis spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. o. Dowell. NJ. n
Powell sold three calves to Earl
Carter Wednesday morning
Thursday morning one took sick
and died. Don't know what was
wrong; the right front leg be.
came stiff.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
BEAN CREEK

Miss Laura Goddard is quite
ill.
Phalander Shute has traded
his PAP acre farm. Will have a
sale next week. He and his fam
lily will leave for Mississippi
county, Mo. We regret very
much to give up these good peo-
pie from our midst. Mr.. Pruss-
ner of this vicinity will have a
sale next week. He and his fam
lily will move to Mexico. Homer
Greed is sporting a new buggy.
Stanley Eubanks has a new run
about. George Mangler has
given his dwelling house new
coat of paint. William Hester
burg filed his new silo last week.
Charlie Spotswood and little
daughter, Frances, of Mexico,
were the guests of R. S. Byars
and family Sunday and Monday
Miss Blanche Robinson was the
guest of Miss Nora Blum last
Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
w. ]. BRYAN.

"The principle of the initiative and
referendum is Democratic. 1t will
not be opposed by any Democrat who
endorses the declaration of Jefferson
that the people are capable of self
government, nor will it be opposed
by any Republican who holds to Lin
coins idea that this should be a gov
eminent of the people. by the people
and for the people,
Amendment No. 1 is an attempt to
hobble the initiative and referendum
and should be vigorously opposed by
all good citizens. DO not be misled
by those who claim 1t will do no
harm to the Initiative" Read It and
you will be convinced that you ought
to vote against it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
480 Acres
for $222

Think Of it! You
can file on a 800 acre
homestead in Wyo-
ming for only $22,and,
under certain condi-
tons, buy an addition
al 100 acres of Gov
eminent pasture land
adjoining for $l.25
per acre. These lands
are valuable for mixed
farming, dairying and
livestockraising.
This is a splendid
opportunity for a man
without money to get
a good start. Write
me today about a To-
cation before the good
land is all taken up.
S. B. Howard, asst.
immigration Agent, R.
387b 1894 Farnam
Street, Omaha, Neb.
7. |. Marshall, Agt
Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw,
President of the National Ameri-
can Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, who speaks in Mexico
October 10Th, comes into Mis-
souri, from the West. She has
already in this campaign made
South and North Dakota, Mon
tana and Nevada. She expects
to speak in Nebraska, Missouri,
and Ohio. DR.. Shaw is said to be
breaking her record of two years
ago when three states We're VOL.
She then travelled more than
1000 miles, making speeches
sometimes three times a day, in
door sand out, catching trains at
D a. m, going without sleep and
meals, and kept it up for three
months. The persons who saw
her do it said it was enough to
kill most any man. And then,
when it was all over, she did not
retire to the springs and plaJ
golf-as many campaigners do
but went right back to her Office
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
SPECIAL FEATURES
IN THIS ISSUE OF
THE MESSAGE:

News of the war in Europe.
How Preachers Could I'm
prove Their Sermons "a lay
editorial.
Making scapegoat Of the fam
lily cat.
Missouri gaining in manu-
features.
Tax dodgers dig up S5,0OO,OOc
in Ray, Carroll and Clay coun-
ties, Mo.
Unhappiness, in married life
due to lack of something to talk
about.
Rev. II. !. Cobb, who lives
southwest of Mexico and who
breaches for several congrega.
tons in the neighborhood and
beyond Montgomery City, tells OF
Ex-Vice Presidents big farm in
st. Charles county. Bro. Cobt
thinks 5000 acres is too much
land for any one man to own.
Married in Chicago.
Relics of Audrain in Mexico
store show windows for Hardin
Alumnae Pageant.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

The visiting postmasters to
their State convention here this
week were taken on an outing to
Moline over the electric line
Tuesday. The postmasters were
so pleased with Mexico and the
treatment they received here up
on invitation will hold theii? au.
nual convention here again next
years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

For Sale.-A good family mare,
in foal. Work anywhere.
Gentle for woman or child to
hitch or drive. Nice bug
gy and harness go with
sale if purchaser wants it. Also
second hand hard coal burndr,
good as new for the money. Call
on or address Mrs. DR.. Hawkins,
Mexico, Mo. 1t
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

For Sale. My home place on Fair
ground Ave-, in west Mexico,
4 acres, house, barn, poultry
houses and cellar. An excellent
opportunity for anyone wanting a
good home place with plenty of
room. If interested write Miss
Dorothy Rodhouse, Columbia, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

The Mexico chapter of the
Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton has endorsed the move for
votes for women. Mexico ladies
are enthusing considerably over
this question.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

The three youths arrested the
other day for hopping trains
have been paroled with the un-
derstanding that they get into
school at once and faithfully
stick to their studies for the re-
mainder of the school year. Even
so, the taxpayers must turn over
the cash to keep the schools 60
ing, and the kids should get a lit
tie compulsion also-if they
won't take good thing when
it's offered to them free.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

Mrs. Ed. Graham entertained
for Mrs. Charles Rodgers Sun
day School Glass of the Metho-
dist church last Friday after
noon. There are so ladies in the
class. They will fill a Christmas
barrel of toys for the Christmas
shipment to be sent to Europe.
If we have our guess right many
of the little boys across the pond
in the war zone at that time will
need other joys other than toys
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

j. A. Farthing, a veteran
blacksmith, who has been in that
business in Vandalia % years,
has sold out and will take a rest.
The Message knows Mr.. Far.
thing; he is worth more than a
fathing as a high-minded citizen
and gentleman.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

The announcement that the
Mexico Shoe Factory would close
down next month, for all winter,
and maybe longer, seems to have
been only a wild rumor. The
factory will not close down, or if
it does it will only be for a short
time.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
For Sale

1876 Acre Farm, 8 1-2 miles
from Mexico, cheap.
Let me tell you of good in
vestment in Louisiana lands. Ex-
cursion Oct. 9th.
j. w. Daniel, Real Estate Agt.
Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

The Audrain County Demo
cratic Central Committee has
opened headquarters in Mexico.
A poll of the county is to be
taken to ascertain the number of
Democratic voters.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

Prayers were offered last Sun
day all over this country that the
awful war in Europe may soon
cease; that it may be the last Of
war this world may ever see.
And so mote it be.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

YOU CANNOT AFFORD to
miss attending the Pageant Thurs
day afternoon or evening. 1t is
real History in which you are in
terested and it is full of fun.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

Wednesday, Oct. 7. Miss Mary S.,
of Ricketts, & Emmns d. G. Co. !:
Send me some more Pageant
books. Have sold all / had and /
Can sell many more. !"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08
What is a Pageant?

If you do not know after
Thursday, October 9Th, it is
your own fault. You should
have a book to understand it
well. The book costs 25c.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

WANT ITEMS.

Apples For Sale.-Five miles
mort hand / mile west of Moline,
on the z. B. Hunt place, and al
so 30 stock hogs. c. b. Wilkerson.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

"War in the East. Peace in
West. Praise God for Woodrow
Wilson"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-10-08

Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Clark and
Miss Toy Clark are visiting in
Phoenix, Arizona.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-01
Surprise Party

A genuine surprise party was
held at the H. Goodman home in
Roy, Monday evening in honor
of Mrs. Goodman's birthday by
a number of her friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodman were
invited to spend the evening
with Mr.. and Mrs, Wilcox and
during their absence friends
came with freezers of ice cream
and other delicacies. Jack-o-
lanterns were hung in the trees
turning the leaves into living
jewels and casting a halo, like
the haze around the midnight
moon over the scene transform
ing it with glow of beauty.
Within the house the scene was
still more brilliant. At the pro-
per time Mrs. Goodman was
permitted to discover the illum-
ination and the surprise was
complete. The realization of the
love and appreciation Of friends :
present and absent, Were ex-
pressed in the involuntary excla-
nation "Oh! Ny! Ohv'.
Music, cards and refreshments
held the self-bidden guests well
into the wee small hours when
they departed with all the usual
compliments and congratulations
adding to them "MasseItoff''
which in the good old Mother
tongue" means Good luck",
peace and plenty.
The Spanish American. [volume] (Roy, Mora Co., N.M.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-01

Anacito Comes and his son,
VicintO had an alteration Mon
day and the young man made
threats which caused the father
to come to town and swear out a
peace warrant against his son.
The young man was arrested,
plead guilty to the threats and
was placed under a peace bond to
insure tilial respect and good col-
duct in future.
They are both good citizens and
we hope will reach a better un-
derstanding in future.