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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-04-29
LOCAL ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Timely News Notes of
Happenings in Parma
and Vicinity.


Boise, Friday.
Willie Jurries came down from
Nampa last Thursday night to
take back the car he had left ov-
er here the first of the week.
If YOU are in need of a wagon,
buggy or harness, see the Stude
baker Bros. Go. at Parma. Chas.
Lanning, Local Mgr 8 30
r. G. Martin left Wednesday
foI the Bruneau country, where
he expects to spend the summer
with bis daughter Mrs. Tyndall
and family.
Miss Nina Pierce Of Arena Val
ley was a week end guest of her
sister Miss Ruth Pierce. return
ing home sunday.
Ella Martin, a prominent citi-
zen of Wilder, was in town, Sun
day.
Coming down from Boise, Sun
day i'll the StarkeY car were the
Misses Margaret Roberts, Flor
ence Roberts, Shirley Fisk, Irene
Starkey, Jennie Compton and
Lessrs. Blaine Starkey and Ed
Jones. They spent the day visit
ing with Parma friends and Miss
Irene Starkey remained here for
a few days to visit in the R. b.
Mitchell home.
Have you seen the new INDl-
VIDUAL ice cream dishes at the
Stockton Pharmacy?
A deal was closed last Thurs
day between Ellis Wy'ner and
Thos. Martin in which MT. Mar
tin becomes the owner OF the Wy
mer house on Parma Heights
and Mr.. Wymer becomes the
owner of the remainder Of tbs
Martin ranch northeast of town
Mr.. Wymer expects to build q
house on the property at once
| and work the land.
You can get more for CASH al
Tanners than any place else.
Ward Humes of Wilder was q
business visitor i'll town, Friday
J B. English was transacrine
business in Caldwell. Friday.
Mrs. A. H. Lang and Miss
Christianson, of Mccall. who
spent the week end in Parma, re
turned home, Friday.
MI. and Mrs. Herman Usadel
shipped their furniture from Pay
ette last Friday and wilrIlve 10
the future on their ranch il
Arena Valley. =
DR.. and Mrs. R. J Cluee, J c
Blackwell, F. e. Fisk and G A
Tanner went TO Boise last Fri
day where they attended "a meet
ing OF the Shrine's that uighf.
r. f. Robb % Boise Who
connected with the firm Of II "
Arnold n Coz. Was husinrs
visitor in town Tie hast Of til
week.
Dr.. j. W Easteroi Meridian
. a forner Parma resident las
week purchased an automobile
Mortgages and notes bougi
and sold Al MYERS. DA{dssl
Idano. over Baser K iiarr
store If
A. B. CHrinai was in CaldWel
( Wednesday.
( A. large number of horses pu
4 chased by the frm OF Haley
4 Johnson in this vicinity, We
! taken to Caldwell, Wednesda
They are said to have all sold {
: a good price.
: The Stockton Pharmacy US
the new INDIVIDUAL ice creai
dishes.
James Timmins Jr., who 7
Gently underwent an operate
for appendicitis at st Luke's he
pital Boise, has completely l
covered, and returned hom
Wednesday.
Mrs S. P. johnson who Wi
taken to a Boise hospit
successfully underwent an o
Grafton for appendicitis, and
expected home this week.
In its trip to the southern part of
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
20 Years Ago.

The two-year-old child of Mr.. ant
Mrs. John Leniron, of Santa Fe, died
Of the measles.
Ebert Sims, a prominent farmer
living southwest of Mexico and Mis-
Mortie Cox, also of this county,
were married.
A house belonging to James A.
Walker, near Rowena, burned. The
loss was 5000 and the insurance
$500.
Rufus Rogers, an aged citizen of
Martinsburg, died.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Atchison, near Worcester, was i'll
with spinal meningitis.
P. W Harding was in Chicago at
the bedside of his wife, who was there
for medical treatment.
"Aunt" Mandy Lew, a former
slave of the Guthrie family of Mex
leo, died.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
G. W. L is DEAD.

G. W. Bailey, 10 yers old, died al
the home of his daughter, Mrs J. II
Wilkins, on West Monroe St., early
Thursday morning. Senility was the
cause of his death.
The funeral was from the Viii
kins home, Friday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, the Rev. J. D. Greer o%fficiat-
ing and the body was buried in
Elmwood cemetery. Mr.. Bailey had
lived in Mexico for over thirty
years, where he was a plasterer. He
was a splendid gentleman with many
friends. His wife and three children
survive. The children are Mrs. Will
kins, Mrs. Henry Ernst and Joe
Bailey all of Mexico. Mr.. Bailey was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, North. The Ledger joins in
extending sympathy to the bereaved.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
10 Years Ago.

The engagement of Miss Annabelle
Arnold, Of this city to David Moss,
of Mount Vernon, Washington wa
announced by r. r. Arnold, Miss Ar
nold's father.
DR.. P. E. Coil was City Physician.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Paul st.
Vrain, a son.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Dor
ton, a daughter.
Judge Duke William Sumner, 81
years old, one of Audrain county s
most highly respected citizens, died.
Mrs. Ann S. Kemp, of this city,
celebrated her Goth birthday.
1t was announced an additional
mail-carrier would serve the the out
lying residence sections of Mexico.
J.. o. T~insley's new home in Wad-
bingham Park was nearing compile
ton.
W. A. Morris was president of the
First National Bank in Mexico. r.
R. Arnold was cashier with s.. J.
Buckner as assistant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
GIRL WE'D BY O

WELL KNOWN HERE
Miss Eugenia Campbell, a cousin of
Mrs. M. J. ~Sannebeck, of this city, was
married recently to John Peter Schol-
ton, Of Samarang, Island of Java,
Dutch East Indies. The marriage was
by proxy and the bride left immed-
lately to sail and meet her husband
when they would wed again. The we'd
ding was performed in both places
simultaneously although the bride and
bridegroom were 10000 miles apart.
Mrs. Scholten was married at Den
yer, Colo.
Mrs. Scholten has sailed for Java,
and upon her arrival there a relig-
ious ceremony will be performed.
Scholton is a Dutch reservist, and is
managing a large coffee plantation
in Sumatra. Permission for the mar
riage by proxy was granted recently
by DR.. ]. j. Houwink, Consul for the
Netherlands in st. Louis, and was to
circumvent the requirements of the i'm
migration laws of Holland. She went
through the unusual ceremony be-
cause she wanted to be wed in hel
native land.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
M. NJ "A. VICTORIOUS.
Defeated The University High School
AT Basket Ball, Friday Night.


In honor of it being the first match
game in their new gymnasium the
Missouri Military Academy quintette
defeated the basket ball team Of
University High School, of Columbia,
Friday evening. The score was "a
28. The cadets have gotten some
practice since their last game and
are rounding into excellent shape.
They will have a splendid team be-
fore TIE season closes, basket ball fans
say. The Mexico boys played the Wis
itors of their feet in the first half but
we're somewhat outclassed in the last
period. At the end of the first half
the score was 1913 in M. M. AIS
favor. Captain Seip Of MN. A. three
6 field goals and s fouls out of Il
chances; Mayfeld threw 6 field goals
and Karlson, l..
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
10, 20 AND 30 YEARS
AGO THIS WEEK.
80 Years Ago.

Charley Morgner and Henri.
Preeht bought Ed wade's lunch
counter.
L. H. Celebrate, formerly with ].
H. KunkeI, was with Mahan and
Geer.
DR.. White, of Frber, was to locate
at Auxvasse.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Mason,
a daughter.
Sam Britt, a negro prisoner in the
county jail, knocked down Sheriff
Atchison's son, Harry, and escaped
jail.
A dwelling belonging to Dave
Tomlinson was slightly damaged By
fire.
E. W. Lee, representing the groc-
cry firm of Greeley, Burnham G. Co.,
of st. Louis and F. II. Mitchell, with
the Stillwell meat people had an Of
fee over the post Office and made
Mexico their headquarters.
Edwin Silver and Frank Brown,
both well known in Mexico, entered a
partnership in the law business in
jefferson City.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
NEGROES SLIT OPENS.

Fayette, Mo-, January 22.-The
case of Bud Davis, a negro, who is
suing nine business men Of Shelby
County for $500 damages for the
whipping they gave him last April,
went to trial Thursday in the How
ard County Circuit Court. The case
was brought here on a change of
venue from Shelby County.
1t is alleged the defendants took
Davis, who is a negro bootblack at
Shelbina, a short distance from Shell
bina and, placing a rope around his
neck, STRUNG him up" and whipped
him with buggy whips, then drove
him in an automobile a short distance
from Paris, No., and ordered min TO
never to return to Shelbina. Davis
alleged offense was smashing plate
glass windows and threatening to
burn the property of the defendants,
Dispositions taken in the justice
court in Shelbina, where the defend.
ants all pleaded guilty to whipping
Davis and were each fined 500 and
costs, were read Thursday.
The defendants are: John C. Jew,
EFT, Ernest Jewett, Fletcher Affiick
Otis See, E. j. Colburn, William P
Jewett, R. M. Spaulding, R. L. Bittee
and Tom Collins.
Davis was on the stand THURSDAY
afternoon and told of the attack o.
him.
The jury is composed of farmers
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
THOMPSON

Wheeler Cant left for Omaha,
Tuesday night on business. He is
contemplating on moving to that
place March.-There was a law suit
in Justice (Judge) Thompson Court
here Saturday. L. E. Davis VS. Al
Monk. Monk sued for damages his
cow had done in his cane patch and
got judgment for 81. Mr.. Davis paid
the 81 and costs.-Ben Spencer's sale
was well attended Monday. Every
thing sold fairly we'll. ]. R. Brown
was the auctioneer. H. E. Pearl
clerk. Wheeler Cant received a car
of % Tuesdy from Clear Lake,
Iowa.-Joe Payton and wife enter
tanned the Hoppers with a social hop
last Friday evening.-There will be
preaching here Saturday and Sunday.
Regular pastor will fill the pulpit
w. H. Pulls of Centralia has rented
the DR.. Carper farm neal here for the
coming year and will move to 1t
March LIST. Homer Wigham was in
Centralia last SATURDAY on business
Mrs. H. E. Pearl who has been on the
sick list is better.-Ed Lee of Mex
leo "a here Wednesday buying
horses, but only purchased one of
H. E. Pearl for S85.50.-W. M.
Thompson expects to move to his
farm soon, but is still going to be in
the Hardware and Blacksmith bus
mess .here.-Miss Frances Wolf is
visiting her sister in Centralia.-Ed
Grimsley and wife of Vandalia are
here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Lovelace.-Bob Hill sold one horse
TO Ed Pearl for $75.-Mrs. Minnie
Wilson who has been staying with
Mrs. ]. d. Pulls this winter will move
to her farm the LIST of March-Henry
Hampton was in Centralia Sunday.
W. X. Pulls was here Monday on
business.-Wheeler Cant and wife
were in Mexico SATURDAY and Sunday.
Mail carriers are very late getting
in now on account of late start and
bad roads.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

The stockholders of the Farmers
and Traders Bank held their annual
meeting at the banking house III
Auxvasse last Wednesday and the fol-
lowing directors were elected for the
ensuing year: r. R. Buckner, Will
liam H. Yates, William G. Meyer, II.
G. Thomas, Hiram Threlkeld, ]. P.
Deardoff, George Python and H. A.
Meyer. Immediately following this
meeting the directors met and the fol-
lowing officers were chosen: R. R.
Buckner, President; W. H. Yates,
Vice President; H. A. Meyer, CASH
Ter; H. H. Watson, Assistant Cash
ier.-Auxvasse Review.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
APPLY FOR

Three applications for the last nat
uralization papers have been filed
with Circuit Clerk Z. F. Elliott to oe
taken up at the next term of court.
These papers will allow the holders
the full right of American citizen
ship and are granted only after the
applicant has lived in this country
even years.
The applicants are Esak Schnaid-
erman, known as Isador Taylor, Of
Mexico, who came to this country
from Russia in 1907; Christ Mates
Rush Hill, who came from Germany
in 1885; Louis Sonwalt, Rush Hill, q
German who has been in this c%ountr!
since 1881.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
John c. stapel to Marry

Tn engagement of John C. Stapel,
University of Missouri yell leader, to
Miss Portia Penwell was announced
at a tea given at Christian College
Columbia Thursday afternoon. Nj.
Stapel, whose home is at Rockport,
Mo-, is a senior in the School of Jour-
nalism and is well known in Mxico,
He is a fine young man with a host
of friends. Miss Penwell lives at
Topeka, Kas., and has been a student
at Christian College for six years.
The Ledger joins friends in extending
best wishes to Mr.. Stapel and Miss
Penwell in advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
MEXICO BowLERS TRIM


1t was a close match and boti
teams worked hard. The Mexico
boys, however, seem to have the edge
on the bowlers from the "Prairie
Queen" and brought home the bacon
Wednesday evening at Porawski''
bowling alley. The final score was
2204-2134, q difference of 70 pins
This is the second consecutive de-
feat for Centralia by Mexico, but the
visitors are game and will try tc
come back" Blattner rolled the
high game for Mexico and Green top.
pied over more pins than other Cen.
tralian.
The tabuIated score is as follows;
Mexico / 2 Total Ave
jackson 118 1853 1874 395 131 2-S
Bruce 127 1874 149 41O 1876 2-3
Blattner 1866 I'll lat 484 161
Sexton 144 ISL 157 452 $50 2-S
Hazard 1866 144 1863 46s 154 1-S
Centralia 1 23 Total Ave.
Diggs 112 121 1879 1862 12O 2-3
Pool 1876 142 1S9 416 1873 1-3
Morris 1874 112 1879 ABS las
Green l19 1872 1877 46s 1866
White 1875 1873 1876 453 ISL
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
SHANNON
TWO MORE FOOL

Jefferson City. Jan. 21-Represen-
tative E. A. Shannon, of Audrain
county, introduced two bills Wednes.
day afternoon. One was regard
ing te misbranding of food and the
ing the misbranding of food and the
other was a bill creating a deputy
for the State Food and Drug Commits
sion with a salary of $500.
A constitutional amendment grant
ing the ballot to women was intro
duced in both houses of the Missouri
Legislature Wednesday. The meas
ure was introduced in the Upper
House by Senator Craig, and in the
lower by Representative Roney of
Jasper County.
The introduction of the amend
ment came as a surprise as leaders
in the suffrage cause in this state
had announced that no such amend
ment would be offered at the present
legislative session.
If the amendment passes both
houses it will be submitted to a pop
ular referendum in November, 1915.
Representative Bond introduced d
bill making it a misdemeanor for
owners to allow their dogs outside
their own premises. Another dog
bill was presented legalizing the kill
ling of dogs caught killing poultry or
sheep.
A bill making it a misdemeanor to
hold boxing contests and another pro-
hibiting boys under 81 years from
billiards or pool unless the
owner of establishment has written
authority from parents or guardians
to allow the son or charge to play,
were sent up.
Representative Cornelius introduce
ed a bill creating a State dairy board
the State inspectors greater
power for investigations.
At the request of the Daughters Of
American Revolution, Senator
Greene of jackson County put in a
bill which designates June ID of each
year as Flag Day" in Missouri and
makes it a legal holiday. 1t is the
natal day of the Stars and Stripes,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Presiding Elder Conner Ill.

Montgomery City, Mo-, in. TO-
Rev. R. H. Cooper, former Methodist
pastor here and Presiding Elder of
the Mexico district, is i'll. Mr.. Cooper
left here a few months ago to become
travelling agent for the Missouri Con-
ference of the M. E. Church, South,
to assist in raising a large endow-
ment fund for the support of old and
infirm preachers in Missouri.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
WANT CITY PARK.

Fulton, Mo-, Jan. 21.-The first step
toward getting a city park for Full
ton has been taken by the City Coun-
Gil, which has directed the City At
torney to draft an ordinance calling
for a $4,000 bond election.
The Council also appointed a Park
Board, of which Councilman l. w
Holman is chairman and on which n:
has as associate members Councilmer
W e. Huggett, j. A.. Martin and
City Engineer Elmo Baker.
The site available for a park is the
pasture of the Missouri Shoot fol
Deaf.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
May Have Big Revival.

Rev. A. B. Culbertson, presiding
elder of the Mexico district of the
Methodist church, was in Fulton,
Wednesday, visiting members of his
church hurt in the tabernacle acct
dent a fortnight ago. Mr.. Culbertson
said that the ministers of Mexico
have been discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
Of a large revival for that city and
Mr.. Culbertson was asked to learn Of
the progress that had been made in
the Fulton revival, with a view of
using these facts in starting a move
ment in Mexico.-Fulton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
The line ups follow:
Alabama To Be Dry.

Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 23.-
Alabama will become a prohibition
State July 1, under two related meas
ures, which became law Friday night
without executive approval.
Within a few hours after Gov. Hen
derson had vetoed the bills, and ask
ed that the prohibition question oe
submitted to voters at a special cleo
ton, both houses voted down his pro-
posal and repassed the bills by over
whelming majorities. The vote i'll
the House on repassage was 70 to 20
In the Senate, "a to 10. The prohi.
bition measures re-enact the prohibi-
ton law repealed in 1911, after il
had been in force two years. Under
the 1911 local-option law all bui
eight of the 81 counties have votef
dry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Rightsousness By Law.
, The Editor Of The World:

TO The Editor OF The World.
In your yesterdays leader, Drink
and Despotism," you wax eloquent
in your contention that in the hal
cyoh days Of Democracy, National
Prohibition would have been thought
a joke, and properIy-frst, because
Democrats did not believe in making
men righteous by law" second, be-
cause Democrats believed in personal
liberty" third, because Democrats
believed "that in all matters personal,
domestic and social, regulations
should be liberal" And we wish it
were so now.
May l ask you, then, first, what
law is for if not TO make men right
eous? Because the fundamental way
of making men righteous is through
the physical, mental and moral edu-
cation Of individuals, hal does not
mean that the correction by law o.
abuses in the social order is not a
supplementary way. And any one
who is thrown in with our defective
classes to any extent should be quick
to see that law will do the biggest
single thing it can to better their
manhood and womanhood when it
takes liquor away from them once and
for all.
May | ask you second, if it is not
a recognized principle that, where
a thing is known to produce much
EARN and no good, it is not to be
thought of as interfering with per-
sonal liberty to prohibit it's use?
Would jefferson have opposed China's
prohibition of the use of opium ?
Again, a higher form of liberty than
the power to do as one pleases is the
power to do as one ought; and since
liquor so grips many that they are
no longer free to give it up, / for one
favor conserving the higher kind of
liberty by taking away, if necessary,
the power. If | had a brother whom
| was certain liquor would ruin if he
got at it, | should do all in my power
to prevent their oming together. |
shall do the same for other brothers
who are doomed to damnation because
of it.
Third, are you sure all the horrors
of Caesarism you predict in the event
Of National Prohibitions coming to
pass would really materialize? 1t is
a debatable question and l shall not
on it. | only call your atten-
ton to the fact that what you have
said on it initiates not against Pro-
hibition itself but only against Nat
ional Prohibition.
| am a Jefferson WILSON, World
That type elected Lin
coln President on the issue of human
bondage. The type prefers good Dem
its conscience is human be-
fore Democratic and if Republicans
see the light first, its heart may
break but it will vote against the ty-
rant Rum.
The World a do for the drunkard
what Lincoln and Beecher did for the
negro. You have it in you to be the
mightiest moral force of today.
Subscriber.
York World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
LETTER OF GRANT WRITTEN
IN MFXTcO TELLS OF WA


A letter written by Gen. U. S
Grant, from Mexico, to his father, is
one Of the priced possessions of John
H .Gundlach, Of St. Louis. Mr.,
Gundlach is an enthusiastic collector
Of historical documents and recently
paid $3.50 for a letter written from
Gen. Grant to Secretary Of War
Stanton.
The letter written by Grant, then a
colonel, from Mexico was dated Aug
ust Bird, 1861. 1t was to his father
and in it Grant described the feeling
which he found in Missouri, original
ly favorable to the union, but believ-
ing that the South will win, and be-
lieving, too, hat the ultimate object
of the North is to extinguish slavery
by force. He commented on the
startling character of current rum
ors, saying, "My regiment has been
reported cut TO pices once that /
know Of, and | don't know but often
er, whilst not a gun has been fired at
u.s.. He spoke Of his own success IN
building up discipline and soldierly
spirit in his command, but asked that
this part of the letter be not read to
others, "for l very much dislike
speaking of myself"
Gen. Grant was in Mexico during
the early years of the war and his
regiment csmped in the west part of
town near where the home of E. K.
Locke now stands. Many Of the older
citizens remember Gen. Grant, who
was then a colonel.
In a letter to his wife written at
Ironton, Mo-, Grant wrote as fol-
lows: "Tell Jesse Zone of his chill
dren) he must be a good
boy and learn to read. If / can draw
my pay regularly" the letter con-
81 will supply you literally.
First, however, / must send about
$500 more to the store to pay Hugh
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

Among the Bedouin women of the
nomad Arabs the ease and Incidence
Of harem life is unknown.
From early childhood she must
serve, first her father and then her
nomad husband. Arab maids of s
and 10 years tend the sheep and
goats, wandering alone out on the
desert for miles from the camp; but
they are safe
Bedouins, as a rule, have but one
wife. Being Moslems, they are al
lowed four, but few avail themselves
of the privilege. Perhaps one wife is
all the average Bedouin can support.
In all the Mohammedan world no
man takes more than one wife, unless
his means permit him to keep the
extra woman in comfort. 1t has
been said, too, that n desert woman
is all the average Bedouin can man.
age.
Suffragettes For Centuries
In a way, these nomad women have
been suffragettes for centuries.
From our point of view the Bedouin
woman is a e slave, with no
rights az all; yet tribal customs ac-
cord her certain considerations, and
if her husband mistreats her, she is
able to make it very lively for him.
All the lusty lunged women of the
camp leave off milking the camels
and join with the aggrieved wife in
a joint assault on the offending hus-
band. They gather about his tent,
screaming out abuse and heaving on
his helpless head all the ~invective
and vilifications in which the Arab
tongue is so ~copiously rich.
l have eel such a man, humiliat-
ed under the singing jeers of half a
hundred angry ONE and tainted
by the derisive shouts of the amused
male spectators, flee from his tent,
mount his horse and gallop away,
utterly routed by the women.
Woman's Place In The Tribe.
For years war has been waged in
termittently between the Jebbel
Shammar and Aeneza tribes west of
the Euphrates, and it is said that a
many of these desert conflicts when
hundreds Of spearmen have persisted,
the combatants on either side were
encouraged by Bedouin maids mount
ed on swift camels, who kept to the
front, shouting cheering words to the
brave and reviling the laggards,
with whitening Arab sarcasm
Lady Anne Blunt, who Travelled
among the Euphrates Arabs with her
husband, speaks thus of the Bedouin
women:
AS girls, they are pretty in a
wild, picturesque way, with
cheerful, good natured faces.
Some of them get real influence
yer their husbands,a and through
them, over the tribe. In more
than one sheik's tent it is in the
woman's half of it that the pol
itics of the tribe are settled.
They live apart from the men,
but are in no way under IS
traint.