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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-29

pass. Then the Bulgar artillery
caught the range of the entrance to
the pass. and after that all attempt
ing to enter We're killed.
For five hours the artillery wreaked
terrific slaughter on the nonresisting
SeFvians, who only huddled together
like sheep and turned their backs to
the storm Of high explosives and shrap-
mel The great mass of Servians in the
rear rushed forward on those ahead
and showed them to death. 1t was
like a panic stricken crowd rushing
from a burning theater Then the
Servians threw down their rifles, and
the Bulgars took back to Prisrend 49,
600 of them as prisoners.
Those who escaped began at Lum-
kulus struggle for life worse than
the struggle to escape the Bulgar
shells.
1.-The first contingents were compos-
ed mainly of men with infected
wounds and feet covered with blisters.
Daring starvation. they arrived in
Scutari in thirteen days after leaving
Prisrend They had gone through a
veritable hell, and | doubt if any but
the giant Servian fighters could have
done it.
"When the men left Prisrend they
had three days supply of bread.
When that was finished they had moth
ing more except what they found by
the roadside When a horse fell from
exhaustion the soldiers Immediately
skinned it and ate chunks of raw meat
torn with bayonets from the carcass.
saw many soldiers eating raw horse
meat with apparent relish. One of the
soldiers made soup of a donkey's leg
bones The Servian Crown Prince AL
exander saw a man eating the raw in
sides Of a horse"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-29
STARVING SERBS
EvADED BULCARS
Barefoot, In Snow, They Lived
on HOrSeflGSh Alone.
WERE GUT OFF AT PASSES

Only Those Who outfooted the Butea-
rians' Cannon Were Able to Escape.
Road of Retreat So Narrow That the
Regiments Were Forced to March In
Double File.
cago Daily News Louis Edgar Browne
tells of the sufferings of the Servian
soldiers who made their way into Al
bania after the crushing defeat of their
army at Prisrend.
Three routes of retreat" says Mr.
Browne, were open to the army. The
main route was through Lumkulus, at
the junction of the Black and White
Drin rivers. Another route was
through Jacovitza and Ipek into Monte
negro, and the last was from Prisrend
southwark into Albania via the old Ro-
man road to Di5ra, Elbassan and Du-
raZzo. All three are absolutely i'm
passable for vehicles. Each is nothing
| more than u mule path over high, pre-
cipitous, snoWbound mountains.
I The last orders Of the general staff
read, Fail back on Scutari and Du-
raZzo, using the three passes But
the Austro-Germans and especially
the Bulgars advanced SO rapidly that
| the Serbs were unable to cover the
retreat, for by suddenly invading
| Montenegro the Austrian troops cap
| tured JacOvitza and closed the Ipek
passes SO quickly that scarcely 1900
Serbs retreated that way.
Reiterated In Double File.
sThe invasion Of Dular By Bulgar
/ bands armed with mountain batteries
closed the Dular route, and only tile
Lumkulus pass was left for the retreat
Of 10000 men. For twenty miles il
the Drin pass three men cannot walk
abreast. The army retreated snake
like in double file. the line extending
mile after mile. the troops shutting
along like desponGent, beaten men.
at the entrance of the pass, twenty
miles from Prisrend. were 10000 meI
struggling madly to enter and escape
the enemy. Lumkulus pass is like
funnel The Drin river. draining tn,
plain of Prisrend. dashes through
narrow gorge. The Servians all trie,
to get through the pass at the sam
time, Five days after the defeat a
Prisrend- 5000 men had entered tn
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THE ST. AUGUSTINE
CHARTER COULD BE
ADAPTED HERE
CITY MANAGER MILLER SAYS
COMMISS lON-MANAGER PLAN is
THE IDEAL ONE FOR ANY
CITY.

CITY.
To a representative of the Daily
News, City Manager Miller, of ST. Au-
gustine, stated Monday that he would
under no circumstances advise the
adoption of the commission charter
to be voted upon by the citizens of
Daytona next week.
Mr. Miller pointed out that it is a
serious mistake to have paid commits
sioners, and no city manager. Under
this plan each commissioner handles
some particular department of the
city government-you might get a
wholly incompetent man in charge of
the sanitation department or some
other personally incompetent to han
die the various departments, explained
Mr. Miller. who contends that the com
mission-manage plan under which st.
Augustine is working, is the ideal
plan for city government.
The St Augustine charter is pat
termed after the charter of the city
of Dayton, Ohio, and with one or two
little imperfections is, in the opinion
Of Mr. Miller, almost perfect.
! Mr.. Miller stated that he would be
glad to come to Daytona and explain
to those interested the commission
manager Cor st. Augustine) plan. He
stated that from what he had heard
of Daytona he believed the charter
used by St. Augustine could readily
4 be adapted here.
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FOUND ~ MAYS BODY.

Surgeon Finds Knife, Button and
Screw Ring; He Will Live.
Here is what a military surgeon sex
cayated' from a wound in the thigh
OF a British officer who fell at Loos:
Blade of a pocketknife
Bone handle of the same knife.
Button from the victims trousers.
Screw ring from the head of a Ger
man shell.
The wound fully exposed the femural
artery. but did not break it The pa
tent will recover.
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II. MEACLEY, A
NEUTRAL" WRITES
ABOUT THE CHARTER
eeEsTs THE INADvIsARlLlTY
iF ADOPTING THE "oRLANDo'
iHARTER WHEN BETTER FORM
IAN BE HAD.

Tor Daily News:
list given out by the short ballot
= anization which was corrected up
70 January &c last shows that there
- 81 cities in the United States
- Ter commission form. This includes
~ cities under any kind of short bal
government. OF these Cities Jan
Wy ], 1914, Is were under manager
MN. This number will be increased
p Is January /.
he Municipal Journal says: "A
g. mittee on municipal program OF
~ Municipal League, composed OF
y Well-known professors, editors and
81 CTS, with VIM. Dudley Foulke as
ca irman, prepared and reported at
~ meeting of the league November
y tentative outline of a commission
lager plan of city government"
be plan endorsed by these experts
~ ND be seriously considered by Day
Y - voters before taking on the "Or.
10" charter to be voted on Janu.
N 4 next.
ebruary 8 we elect charter board
I'VE citizens to prepare a new
rfer. This board is to be elected
Hher the Orlando" charter carries
lot The charter they prepare vii
Foted on by the people about july
Il We vote in the Orlando char
~ We will elect three commissioners
ruary 8, and turn the city govern
q over to them. Then If we carr!
charter prepared by the chartei
ID to be elected February 3, W.
have to change the whole cit.
ernment again about July l. IN
2 expense caused by all this VII
hom $4,000 to $4,000.
DIV, as a business proposition, !
as TO me it would be wise {
let this Orlando charter Janu
4. Then when the charter boar
aected if those who favor the "Ol
90 charter are in the majorlt
can have the Orlando chartel
i understand that all the friend
the Orlando charter favor tn
nger form in preference; in fat
manager form will have no opp
- and without doubt will be II
ID about July /, whether the 20
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PROMINENT V0lUSIA
| COUNTY REPUBLICAN
| ENDS LIFE BY SHOT
LlFELESS BODY OF C. RI. CURTIS
FOUND UPRIGHT IN CHAlR-A
BULLET HOLE IN HEAD Elk
sPlAINED TRAGEDY.

sSitting in chair on the front porch
Of his beautiful home at Bluffton, on
the st. Johns river, the lifeless form
ofC. H. Curtis was discovered Christ
mas morning. A bullet hole in his
head and a 80 caliber revolver beside
the body told the tale His end had
come by his own volition-
A coroner's inquest held by Judge
McCrory returned verdict Of sui
eide.
AIR. Curtis was one of the pioneers
of Volusia county. Losing his Wife
by4death, he lived alone on magnlri
cent orange grove overlooking the st
Johns river, near yolusia landing. FOL
many years he was very prominent
in syolusia county politics, being
staunch Republican. 1t is stated thai
he attended every Republican conven
ton ever held in the county. De
spondency is believed to have prompt
ed the act of self-destruction.
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case of circumstantiaI evidence
against her, she is arrested and taken
to headquarters, where she is held for
trial on a charge of murder.
Who Gerald really was and how the
tangled skeins of destiny were finally
unravelled make a charming, convinc-
ing and intensely interesting mystery
story.
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Only Those Who outfooted the Butga-
rians' Cannon Were Able to Escape.
Road of Retreat So Narrow That the
Regiments Were Forced to March In
Double File.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-29
Different Times

THE girls used to keep me waiting
when 1 drove up in a buggy. l notice
they never keep you waiting long when
you drive up IL a motor carr" Why
is that?" The girls know how quick
ly a model gets out OF date as well
as we do
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-29
Ifsyou read it in the Daily News
is pretty apt to be just that way.
The Main Trouble.

"Ah wus thinkin'," said Rastus john
cling what a nice. peaceful-laike
world dis here universe would a oeen
If it wasn't for de movements OF os
human underjaw."
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ORIGINAL UNCLE TOM DEAD.
Creator of Hero In Harriet Beecher
Stowe Play Lived to Be Eighty two.

Stowe Play Lived to Be Eighty two.
d Daniel Worcester, who was known
as the original Uncle Tom of the
dramatization of Uncle Toms Cabin"
is dead at the Vermont Soldiers home,
aged eighty-two.
Mr.. Worcester is said to be the last
survivor Of a company which produced
the drama for the first time in Lowell.
Mass, in 1851
He served In the civil war In the
Twenty seventh Connecticut regiment
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
kmLING A Gnnn nous

ALONG the line Of trying to kin a
good town by knocking and fault
finding, the Fulton, 10, Sun editor
tally says:
TN g recent local option election
held In the northern part Of the state
we are told that an alleged letter was
published, claimed TO have been
written by a citizen Of Monroe City
telling what havoc had been played
in that town by the county going dry
The letter said that business wal
wrecked, there wal no improvement
being made, the weeds were growing
high along the streets and the town
going TO the bad generally. We have
been pretty intimately acquainted
with the town for more than thirty
five years and made a visit to it the
other day 10 see how badly it was
wrecked. We found the wreck so bad
that notwithstanding the fact that
that the city had in the last two
years put in a municipal system Of
water and system, that they
were now tearing up the business
streets and had tractors and teams
blowing them up 50 that a concrete
paved street could be put in with a
tarvia top. Many Of the residence
streets. which had been graveled q
number Of years ago. were being
eoFered again with macadan, In the
last year q number Of handsome new
homes had gone up IN new additionos
which had been opened, and we learn
ed that there was not a vacant house
in the town and parties desiring 10
move IN were unable to procure
homes. It is really too had for a nice
little city Of two thousand inhabit-
ants 70 be SO utterly put out Of bust
mess in that way because saloons
were voted out.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
Notiee Of Trustee,s SAFE.

WHEREAS, n. H. Gray and
his wife, Mary L. Gray, BY their Ger
tain deed Of trust duly made, signed
end acknowledged on June the 10th,
1906, and fled for record in the Office
Of the Recorder Of Deeds Of Audrain
County, Missouri, on June goth,
1906, and recorded Ia the deed Of trust
records Of said county and state IN
book 20 at page SO, did convey to
the undersigned, as trustee
The West half Of the Southwest
Quarter fN) Of Section One ~
Township Fifty 500 Range Nine
(el West, containing in all eighty
(sO) acres more or less all situate
and being in Audrain County, Mo, in
trust to secure the payment Of one
certain ~promissory note in said deed
Of trust described: and whereas
said note 10 past due and unpaid. and
default in the payment thereof has
been made by the signer thereof.
NOW THEREFORE,, at the request
Of the legal owner and holder Of said
note, and IN pursuance Of the pro.
vision Of said desd Of trust. / win
sell at the East front door Of the
court house in Mexico, Missouri, the
above described land on
Saturday, Nov. 10th, 1915,
between the hours Of o o'clock In the
forenoon and five o'clock in the AZ
ternoon Of said day. for cash, to the
highest bidder, at public yendue. for
the purpose Of paying said debt and
costs Of executing this trust.
.35-4t c. r. Clark, Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
SPEAKER CLARK FOR
REASONABLE DEFENSE.


HON. CHAMP CLARK. Speaker
Of the House, is not in favor Of an
immense standing army or the best
navy in the world, but favors a reas-
enable and efficient defense. The New
York World approving Of Speaker
Gark's position on this matter, edi-
torially says:
Judging from Champ clark's let
ter to The Worlds Washington cor
respondent on thes ubject, the Pres
ident is wise in asking a conference
with the Speaker on the subject Of
national defense. Fully awake to the
importance Of preparedness, Mr..
Clark has neither lost his head nor
his democracy.
Probably the greatest Of our needs,
as he views the matter, is men train
ed for military command. To this
end he would double the number Of
cadets at West Point, detail army
officers to schools and colleges as in
struetors, and by suitable legislation
provide for a National Guard which
in case Of need would embrace at
least 1000 citizen soldiers, TO some
extent drilled and disciplined.
Preparation Of this kind, Of course
Is antagonists TO the lurid schemes
Of excited or interested persons who
recommend q great standing army
and the largest navy in the world
but Mr.. Clark recognizes, as mos
Americans do. the necessity of pro
noting a SANE efficiency
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
.sTheY Am Come Rack.g

Roy f. Cable, formerly of Mex
leo. now Of Windsor, Wisconsin, on
November Bird is going to have an
enormous big auction sale of a large
lot of live stock and farm machinery,
grain etc. As Roy is selling out in
Wisconsin, we hope he will come back
to Mexico. You know "they all come
back, and Roy as a live wire can
help make a bigger and better city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
JUDGE BARNETT ASKS FOR
A SPECIAL GRAND JURY

A petition from 0rruis Judge J.
D. Barnett was hlsd with Circuit
Clerk Ep~ ?. Elliott Thunaay OFT
.Ober IS askng the Auarain County
.cOurt to can a grand Jury for the
November term Of the Circuit Court
which eoavsues Nouday Nov. p.
The Grand jury Is ths result Of Pc
titions presented Juage Barnett
from Mexico aud LAadonia requesting
an investigates Of alleged violations
Of the local option and gambling laws
IN Audrain county.
The petitions and cal for the
Grand Jury are on aie IN theoasce Of
Circuit Clerk Elliott ne calling Of
the Grand Jury, which ordinarily
eouvenes regularly in March. comes
a complete surprise
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
Notice Of Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, r. j. Morrison, !, !,
widcwer, by his certain y
Of trust duly made, slsls
and acknowledged on January
1905, and filed for record in the ons
Of the Recorder Of Deeds of Aud'. Z
County, Missouri. on January
1905, and recorded in the deed Of "
records Of said county and stals (
book ~ at page Alb, did convey :
the undersigned as trustee "a
The North half (h) Of the N0ls
half (h) Of the Northwest iCplS
IA Of the Northwest quarter zl
Section Five 60 and the North Il 4
"a Of the North half (h) o.
Northeast fourth (hl Of the wa n
cash quarter fM) Of Section sn "
all in Township Fifty (50) Range y
Ci0), west Of the 18th p. m, coritaa's -
20 acres. more or less, in Aus i
County, Missouri. In trnss
secure the payment OF 81
certain premissory note in sala ~
trust described; and VIZ u
said note Is past due and unpalas' \,
default in the payment thereCl
been made BY the signer thereon !.
NOW THEREFORE,, at the reqs N
Of the legal owner and holder Oh Z,
rotc, and in pursuance Of the
Of said deed Of trust, 4,
sell at the East front door Il
court house IN Mexico, Missouri
described land on
Friday, Nov. 10, 1915, a,
the hours Of Q o'clock y Y.
and Ave o'clock in me Il
ternoon Of said day, for cash, K
highest bidder, at public yendus' n
The purpose Of paying said deO'
rosta Of executing this trust.
IS. M. Locke, Trus'ss
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
MEElCOlHs On THE NEW
BAPTIST CHURCH BOARD
ne State Board c~snbinins Mazy
Fuaetisns Has Been Orssnized
Meeting in kansas

KaasAs cisS, Oct &-An ore-ni-
zafian meeting az TIE new executive
board Of the Missouri baptist Gen
lcrAl Association appointed Al tie "a
cent conference At Trenton. No. WIS
held recently in the First Baptist
Church. Ln~ood Boulevard ard
Park Asenns. OfHrsrs usrs elected
and committees appointed. Plans for
increasing the ehdency Of denomin-
shonal colleges IN Missouri were dis
eussed
The new executive beard does
AMY with. the former state missions
and homie and foreign mission boards,
and win have general Supervision
ever an Baptist missionary, sducA-
tIoHal and philanthropie work Of the
STATE. Approximately 100000 a
year viii be received and disbursed
~ the executive board
These officers Of the new board
were elected: E. ". Stephens Of Col
umbia. No, chairman: DR.. J. c. Arm
strong, viee-ehzirman ard Dr. J. E
.DiIlara Of ST. Joseph. recording Sec
rotary. The Rev. Joseph P. Jacobs
was eleeted general secretary Of mis-
sions for the state. Miss Aretta Bes-
wick Of St Louis was chosen state
secretary of wUuAn's work Thirty
Of the thirty-one members Of the
board. from al parts Of the state, at
tended the meeting yesterday. 1
Committees were appointed as fol-
lows:
Executive-The Rev. J.. c. Arm
strong, the Rev. J. e billiard, St
Joseph; the Rev. W. S Abernethy.
the Rev. R. K Maiden. the Rev. C.
u Miller, Lex Mcdaniel and Mrs. B.
r. Reese.
Home and Foreign MissiOns-The
Few. ". S. Abernethy, the Rev. Char
les Burden, ST. Joseph; the Rev. E.
L Rodgers, Trenton; S. H. Lawren-
&c. Doniphan. and Mrs. H o. Sever
anee, Columbia
Philanthrophy-The Rev. W. j.
Williamson. st. Louis; Howard P.
Smith, Palmyra; C. P. storts. Stat
CT; the Rev P. t. Hartman. Bolivar,
and Mrs. E. T. Trueblood, St. Louis.
Finance-Howard P. Smith, Pal
myra; W H. Griffith, St Joseph; ].
p. Graham, st. Louis; the Rev. W. C.
Fitting, St Louis; the Rev. W. J. viii
hanson, St Louis, and AErs. J. A.
Guthrie, Mexico.
State Missions-w. II. Griffith, St
Joseph; J. P. Graham. 81 Louis;
the Rev. j.. c. Armstrong, C. r.
storts. Slater. and the Rev. f. l.
Rogers, Trenton.
Education--J. ". Million, Mexico;
n. J. Evans. Liberty; John T. Nor
ris. carrOllton; John Berghauser.
Nevada, and Mrs. J. J. Brown.
Promotion-The Rev. W. G. Bit
ting, st. Louis; the Rev. J. Z. Dill
lard, St Joseph; ], W. Million, Mex
leo; the Rev. r. K. Maiden and Mrs.
A. L. Reeves.
To District the Stated. j. Evans,
Liberty; the Rev. c. B. Miller, John
I. Morris, carrolton; the Rev. c. B.
Miller, John 7. Morris, carrollton
the Rev. J. C. Armstrong and Mrs.
W. D. Sheppard. Springfield.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04

THE most optimist man in the
Republican Party is Chairman HilIes,
who processes to entertain the belief
that there is as much Republican in
terest in the 1916 nomination today
as there was in that 1912, when Mes
srs. Taft and Roosevelt had each
other by the ears. Mr.. Hilles names
only a few aspirants, but simply TO
read the list embracing Burton.
Weeks. Sherman, Cummins, Borah,
Smith. Brumbaugh and others is al
most enough 10 start a run Of fever.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04

STATE Highway Engineer Frank
Bufum was in Mexico this week. and
informed the Ledger that some of the
Audrain County roads needed work
badly and needed it right away. He
says he don't understand why the
county does not buy a modern road
grader, and keep it going during this
kind Of weather day and nieAt. Mr..
Bufrun says there is no excuse for
Audrain not having as good roads as
there are in the state, if not better.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
ExECuTRIx NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that letters
Of administration upon the estate Of
JESSIE L. WHITE, Deceased,
Of Audrain County, Missouri, have
been granted the undersigned, by the
Probate Court Of said county. bearing
date October is, 1915.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to me for allowance within six
months after date of said Letters or
they may be precluded from any ben
eft of such estate and If such claims
be not exhibited within one year from
the time Of the publication Of this 10
tice, they will be forever barred.
34-4t Sarah E. Little, Executrix.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
COR CROP.

UNDER the heading Of the -thret
blzoh corr crop the Blsedsrs' Gar
cite Of oieAgO. s.ys.
Nobody knows hor god o. how bad
e sues TIE Department Of Agrieul-
ture can maze as 70 the ,Osal yields
II TIE great crsps A three-biIlion-
bashel prOssction Of Urn for 1915 Is
announced Il has been = drylana
year. The best crops are On the up
ards Even the dy-fRrmers Of the
uyst have = lot te show this season
for their ispor. Inns : due u course
to an exceptional general precipita-
ticn. What these yentaresone cass
may get in tie future time alone can
tell For one thing. ist Us an be duly
thankful: a proyidentialiy favOrabis
September matured many . field Of
com that Stood in inninsr, danger
from frost What proportion Of the
com win measure Up to standard corr
nereial grades remains to be seen
That there Is a lot Of soft grain is
obvious. Those whose lands iackea
drainage and some who have light
yields through the operation Of IN
favorable conditions beyond their con-
trol viii rot be specially eonsoled
BY this three1bilioh-bushel boast.
The country at large, however. Is TO
congratulated on such an extraordin-
AIRY general result IN agricultural
Ee4lth.
With a record Of wheat, no end Of
oats and luxuriant forage, there
seems little in sight but the @strangle
hold" Of foot-and-mOuth restrictions
to start an unprecedented wave Of
prosperity. Everything waits on a
clean bill Of health ali around. Speed
the day And whatever you DO, do not
interpose opposition. 1t is too ex-
pensive.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-04
,rroeErHER FOR 4 DAIRY.

THE Mexico Ledger trusts that j.
". Lee viii take charge Of he dairy
proposition for Mexico. as we feel
confident he is IN every way well
qnalifed for this important under
taking. Not only the people Of Mex
ico. but the people Of Audrsin Coan-
~ generally should be glad to CO
operate with Mr.. Lee IN this enter
prise, as il viii be worth thousands
Of dollars To the county as a whole.
The dairy interests Ct Asdrsin
County are becoming more and more
important every year, and with a lit
tie careful management should prove
che Of our most successful and bene-
fetal enterprises. A first class dairy
viii go . long ways toward making
Mexico a city, and win result in the
expenditure Of large sums Of money
with the farmers Of the county.
That's the way 70 bring prosperity
to q community.