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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Ing water is pure and their lice are
killed.
Several men have gone to work
already to fix up their places to take
better care Of their stock Others
are already planning 70 have more
clovers, alfalfa, etc. TO feed hogs
on. Still others are putting in con
crete wallows to keep them free Of
lice and to get better breeding
animals, especially sires. If this
trip did not help to do something
like this it would be one day thrown
away, but such is not the case. The
interest that all took in the whole
trip from beginning TO end would
not indicate that they went for mere
idle curiosity, button the other hand
Il WAS very evident that they went
70 see how best they could better
their individual conditions as we'll
as that Of the entire county. OF
course, al cannot have Joe Battle
farms, neither do they need them ,
but they do need to put in practice
d few things seen There, and we
firmly believe that much good viii
be the result Of the trip. "
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

The merchants who advertise in
The Journal want the people Of
Lee county to do their trading in
Leesburg. They have the goods
and are not ashamed to ask you to
come see for yourself.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

A man OF public affairs must
equip himself so as to carry on a
few law suits without interference
with his regular duties.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Tammany Hall is to move farther
uptown in New York. This is as
near as Tammany comes to join the
uplift.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Rather than incur the suspicion
Of crooked methods, fair D. A. R.
voters win insist on voting the
straight ticket.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Suing him for $4,000 is no way
for a republican boss to treat a re-
turning prodigal son.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Though June is the month Of
weddings, many Of the impatient
ones elope in April.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

No contributions will be considered
unless written plainly upon only one
side Of the paper and writer's name
furnished the Editor. We assume no
responsibility for views expressed in
communications
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Thaw has A alienists and so Wit
nesses to assert that he is sane, and
to make it sure he says so himself
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

AS nearly as one can make out,
Mr.. Sunday is an evangelical pull
motor.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Even after peace is declared, the
reading public win have a long
course Of war fiction to go through.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

AT last the mayor Of Terre Haute,
who has been sent to prison will be
satisfied with one term.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Obituary notices. cards Of thanks,
resolutions Of sympathy and all SIM.
lar notices, other than those given
in the paper as news items, must be
paid for at the rate Of five cents per
printed line.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Jack johnson has sailed for Spain
where formerly he possessed extern
sive castles, recently destroyed.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Why not send General Scott over
to Europe2
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Advertising rates reasonable and
win be furnished upon application. All
bills for advertising muct be paid by
the 9Th of each month to insure fu-
ture insertion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1915-05-06

Marriage is a lottery in which a
blank is man whose wife has to
take in washing to support him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
SHALL DEFECTIVE BA-
BIES BE KILLED?

UNDER the heading of letting the
defective babies die, the New York
World editorially says:
"Praise and blame mingle for DIR.
Haiselden of Chicago, who purposely
omitted an operation to save the life
of a malformed and defective baby.
Legally, his act is not like hasten
ing the death of a suffering patient.
Euthanasia is a crime, but nj rule
can decide when a surgeon must OPP
crate. In the Chicago case, only the
charge of criminal neglect is possible,
and it would fail in view of the moth
er's consent to the physicians judg-
ment.
Early nations exposed weak chill
dren to die; less commonly the aged
and infrm. The Spartan practice, at
a time when Greek culture was very
high, is well known. in the
Aryan cradle-land the exposure
custom explains the wolf-baby
tales that suggested both Kipling's
modern Mowgli and the old Roman
allegory of Romulus and Remus.
Northern Europe, which drowned the
grown-up coward in mud under a hur-
die, was not tender of ailing infants.
Such aids to Darwinian selection
heightened valor and vigor. War
now lessons them by taking the
bravest and strongest while science
prolongs the lives of the feeble. Yet
the moral value Of mercifnl standards
of conduct offsets their racial disad-
vantage. This is hardly the year to
call for more Schrecklichkeit toward
babies.
Such questions can never be finally
determined. The Spartan mothers of
Chicago finds most of her sex in dis
agreement, yet some indorse her
choice. A neighbor learned in the
law is silent as a Judge but approves
as a man. Even the physicians are di-
vided. Perhaps none of them speaks
a wiser word than DR.. John B. Muir
ply, notable among life-savers by his
invention of the surgical button: ma
ture handles such cases very we'll"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
50 KILLED IN

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 2.-Fifty-pine
persons killed and &C injured is the
hunting toll in 1S States for the sea-
son, which ended Sunday, according
to statistics available here Monday.
Last season Ill persons were killed
and. 162 wounded.
Dragging shotguns through fences
and other accidental discharge of guns
again claimed a majority of the vic
films in various States. Scores of per-
sons hunting deer were shot by fell
low hunters, who mistook them for
game.
Michigan leads in the number of
killed with IA, Illinois comes next
with IL deaths. In Wisconsin nine
hunters were reported killed.
No estimate of the amount of
game killed in the various States is
made, but it is believed the 1000
deer killed in Wisconsin and Michigan
last season will remain the record for
years.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
A Splendid Fellowship Meeting

The members of the Presbyterian
church and congregation gathered
Tuesday night at the church for one
of the most enjoyable evenings they
have ever had together.
The men constituted themselves in
sdvertantly into a receiving line some-
what to the embarrassment Of. them
selves but to the delight of all the peo-
pie. The young folks had good social
chats together. The little folks pre-
sent had "deestrict school" in the
Primary Room. And everybody had a
good time. The Ladies of the Stod-
dart Society served refreshments in
beautiful bounty after the cafeteria
fashion. About two hundred people
were present.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Union Service Thanksgiving
Stock Buyers in Fulton.

j. 7. johnson, the well-known auct-
ioneer of Mexico, and W. E. Cunning
ham Of Laddonia, were among the
Audrain County live stock men at
Fulton stock sales day and they pick
ed up some mules. Mr.. johnson
bought a pair Of three-year-old mare
mules from Elmer Moore, south Of
/ ulton, for $275. He also bought five
sucking colts, among them being
three horse mules and two mare
mules, paying $40 to $50 a head fol
them.
Mr.. Cunningham included in his
purchased a team of eight-year-old
mare mules that he got from S. M
Boswell Of the Shamrock neighbor,
hood, for which he paid $500. He
bought five head altogether and they
cost him from 500 to $3.50 apiece.
Will Lee of Lee Brothers of Mex.
leo also made his usual trip to Fulton
Monday, and picked up a large mum.
Der of horses and some mules.-Ful
ton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
NO CHANCE FOR CUPID HERE
Detroit NeWs.1

1t takes an oath of immunity from
matIimony to get a job as matron of
the city hall these days. And here's
a girl who has taken the oath. Miss
Clara Kosch is her name. Not that
she wanted the job as badly as all
that, but just because she didn't care
a whoop for Cupid.
81 have met the young man be-
fore" she smiled from her perch on
top of the eligibility list, 'and / know
/ will have no trouble in keeping
, away from him. 1t was no trick, nc
great sacrifice, for me to promise
Wouldn't marry. | had said before
Pm through"
The city has had much difficulty in
ieeping the office filled on account OF
Cupid. When the last matron mar
Iied city officials made it a require
ment that the applicant forswear mat
romony.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
GAG NOVEMBER TOLL.

| London, December 3.-Three more
British steamers and the Greek steam
er Tariffs of 1904 tons gross have been
sunk, presumably by German sub
marines, making a total Of Sc British
steamers sunk with a loss Of GAG lives
since November 1, according to re-
ports received by the Board of Trade
and made public Thursday
Total net tonnage of the lost British
ships was 67,76S.
In the same period the loss was re-
ported of 35 British sailing vessels
of 4977 net tonnage with six lives.
So far as the figures show only 20 Of
the steamers were sunk by German
warships and 10 by mines, but 495 of
the lives lost on steamers sunk by
German warships.
The crew of the Greek ship Tariffs
was landed at Malta. The British
ships sunk today were the Colenso,
1882 tons; Orange Prince, 1896 tons,
and the Malinche, of 1868 tons gross.
The crew of the Malinche was saved,
but no mention has been made of the
fate of the crews of the other two
British ships.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
TIRED SOLDIERS SLEPT
AS THEY MARCHED ON

New York, Dec. 3.-Stories of the
sleep of soldiers on the march are
not uncommon enough; but DR..
George w. Grille states that of the.
several hundred thousand men who.
made the forced march from Mons to,
the Marine, nine days with but the
Slightest rest, the great majority.
slept on foot. The UNMARRIED testi--
mony of the soldiers was that every
enc slept at times.
''rhey passed through villages a.
Sleep" the doctor said. when sleep.
deepened and they began to reel, they
were awakened by their comrades.
They slept in water, on stones, in
brush, or in the middle of the road as
if they had suddenly fallen in death.
With the oncoming lines of the en-
envy, no man was safe who dropped
out of the ranks, for no matter on
what pretext he fell out, sleep con-
quered him. That the artillerymen
slept on horseback was evidenced by
the fact that every mar lost his cap"
Doctor Gross of the American am
bulance, tells of the exhaustion of the
men at Meaux, where he found a
large school building packed with five
hundred wounded men. Some were
lying, some dead, but all were asleep.
BLEEDING, yet asleep; legs shat
tered, yet asleep; abdomen and chest
torn wide open, yet asleep" he said.
"They were lying on the hard floor,
without hay or straw. Not a groan,
rot a motion, not a complaint-only
sleep!"
When removed to the hospitals,
some of the soldiers slept for two or
three days and nights continuously.
1t may be remembered that it has
been said hal on a hospital train
thrown into the Ourcq by "a broken
bridge during that retreat the suffer
ings of many of the men caught in
the half wrecked coaches were lessen
ed by the same anaesthesia of ia
tigue.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
pELLAGRA CAN BE PREVENTED

PELLAGRA CAN BE PREVENTED
Washington, Dec. 2.--The United
States Public Health Service anoun-
ced that pellagra, which has caused
the death of thirty thousand people in
this country within the last five or
six years, can be prevented by an APP
propriate diet without any alter
alton in the environment, hygienic or
sanitary"
DR.. Joseph G~oldberger, surgeon in
charge of the pellagra Investigations
for the public health service, has
proved by a series of comparative
tests a practical working hypothesis
for the prevention and cure of pelle-
gra. His experiments were made in
orphanages where there were large
numbers of the diseases victim prior
to his efforts to prevent it.
The diet of the sufferer before the
experiments commenced consisted
largely of cornbread, grits and mo-
~lasses, with meat only once a week,
and no eggs, and not, much milk for
the children. Doctor Goldberger in
creased the fresh animal food and the
peas, greens, lentils and other legum-
inous protein foods.
Doctor Goldberger gives some
general recommendations for the
communities in which pellagra is
prevalent. He says:
'In order that a suitable modiica-
ton in the diet of the. population
chiefly affected may be brought about,
/ would recommend:
Il. An increase in the diet of
fresh animals and leguminous foods,
particularly during the late winter
and spring. (a) Ownership Of the
milk COW and increase in milk produc-
ton for home consumption. (b).
Poultry and egg raising for home
consumption. (c) Stock raising.
Diversification and the cultivation of
food crops, including an adequate
pea patch. (e.) Provide markets,
particularly butcher shops, through
out the year.
80. A reduction in the diet of the
carbohydrate ~(starchy) foods. (a)
Improve economic conditions. (b)
Make the other, class of foods cheap
and readily accessible"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
DRESS CoLoRs SHORT.

London, Dec. 6.-The fashion ex-
perts say the eolors available for wo-
mems wear are about fifty tones short
this season. This shows the number
of colors in ordinary times, for a WIDE
range is to be seer now in show rooms
Some of the smallest dressmaking
houses are paying attention to PASTE
tints, and,f for indoor toilettes, there is
a little run on peach and apricot, soft
orchid tints and putty tones, the palei
greens and cloudy blues. More and
more gray is to be seen, chiefly foi
street wear, and, of the shades pc
culiar to the season, there are half
dozen at least, including that wal
time product of the dyer's art, TO-
the color named after the famous
French gun. Warm browns and bron'
re browns are also very much II
vogue.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
WELL DRESSED YOUNG GIRL.
(McCall's Magazine.

The sensible girl will prefer the
simplest, neatest, most youthful styles
while she is under IS. So many girls
lost a chance to be real beauties in
boyish shirts and neckties and achieve
only a bad imitation of a lady of
fashion. The girls in fashionable
families have beautiful clothes, but
the beauty is always of color
texture and fnish-never anything
startling or conspicuous. Wells are
very bad form for girls under IS, ex.
cept for stormy weather; and jeweled
combs or hair ornaments should never
be worn except in the daytime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
- - ss &,
PRINCIPAL POINTS
IN THE PRESIDENTS

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
The United States has remain
ed studiously neutral.
The Wilson doctrine of Pan
Americanism contemplates the
partnership of all the Americas,
instead of a guardianship by the
United States.
The administrations Mexican
policy a proof that the United
States seeks no political suzer-
ainty or political control.
A strong army and navy are
needed for national defense, to
be supplemented by the Militia
and a "citizenry trained to arms.
A great merchant marine is
needed for commercial indepen-
dence on the seas, for national
development, national efficiency
and as a naval auxiliary.
Additional revenue is needed
to meet demands for national
defense.
Borrowing money is not prac-
teal. The country should pay
as it goes.
Hyphenated Americans have
been a disgrace to the Nation.
New laws should be passed to
deal with reasonable activities
of foreign born citizens.
Reform in the government Of
! Porto Rico and the Philippines
I: is very desirable.
a. - ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
H HOLIDAYS SOON.
Hardin and M. M. A. to Have Extend
ed Holidays This Year.

Hardin College and Missouri Mill
tary Academy will both give long
Christmas holidays this year from
Friday, December II to Wednesday,
January 5-almost three weeks. The
public school will start their holidays
Thursday night December % and will
continue to Tuesday morning, Janu-
airy a..
Both Hardin and M. M. A. have a
large enrolment for Oklahoma and
ON this account have heightened their
Christmas and New Years holidays.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Robbers at Bachelor.

Saturday night between II and IL
o'clock five men in a surrey drove
into Bachelor-three going to the
home of the merchant, Tyler Bernard,
ordering him at the point of a revolt
yer to stay indoors, while the other
two blew open the safe, securing about
$300-$185 of it being government
money.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
ENLARGEMENT OF THE
SKINNER JoTTINGs.

labor we jot them down, for your n
tertainment and our behavior.-The
Rev. Hardisty preached at the Ladies
Fall Saturday night to a good sized
crowd.-udge H. 7. Squirting has
treated his domicile to a new coat of
paint lately. She ure looms now.
A Literary Society was organized at
Duly school house Friday night-The
new steel bridge near W. II. Mallory's
is being put up at present.-The new
steel bridge at the Meyers crossing
is being rapidly pushed to erection. 1t
is certainly a good one and the job
Of erecting is unsurpassed.-George
Meyers and Judge Baker Barnes got
out a load of light hogs on Thurs
days market that brought satisfac-
tory prices at the National-Bruce
Bros, and others got out a load of
nice ITO pound porkers on the st.
Louis market Friday good enough TO
bring top Of their class $3.50 per
cwt. Moody Commission Co., hand
led them.-Hugh Rudasill bought Of
+. P. Carter 1000 bushels Of snapped
corn and hauls it at SOC per bushel.
"A talker is a man of words; a pro-
Queer a man Of deeds. We can get
along without the one, but neve- with
out the other.-Carl Jesse sold : of
shucked corn delivered to Scott RiGg-
way at So cents per busAel.-thas.
Tanner and Flood Patrick had a
"hoss" trade the other day whereby
Chas. became the possessor Of a good
draft chunk and $1,000 in gold aud
Mr.. Patrick the owner of a fancy driv.
ing mare which he turned to his sou,
Kitchie.-Miss Lola Baker of Moline,
spent a few days with Mrs. Gat9TCod,
recently.-Harry Day bought a good
chunk of a driving horse at c. C. Nc
Gees sale for which he layed down
$125 we underestimate. T. S. lling
purchased a good COW with a young
calf at above named sale, paying
Sis for herewith a few more good
crops things will sure hum in Aud
rain. Automobiles are always in
sight and the aeroplunes will soon be
making their fight.-Young man,
young lady have a high ideal in life
move steadily on though be set at
times, toward the zenith of your high
est ambition.-At C. C. McGee's sale
things brought good prices we hear.
breeding ewes brought something
over $500 per head.-Chas. Dickey is
making his saw mill ring on j.. G.
Crawford's and Otto Towards. He
certainly turns out good lumber, too.
Mrs. Milton Householder entertain
ed her sister, Mrs. Joseph Alexander
of Lupus, Mo-, about a week around
Thanksgiving time.-Our farmers r
still busy as worker bees harvesting
their corn. Some are through; others
nearly SO; and others will finish about
next March,-not because, either, the
corn's so heavy.-James Chapman
built an auto barn on his valuable
farm not long ago. Uncle Jim is al
ways at identifying his premises
and helping the vicinity.-C. M. Ber-
rey had a load of 200 pound hogs on
the National market Monday good
enough we predict to bring top.-C.
NJ. Fox brought in a double deck of
lambs from the st. Louis market Sat
urday, purchased at SITS per cwt.
Mord also has a load of fat cattle he
will market this week. Here's hoping
he will hit a good market.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Ships Car of Wheat.

M. B. hurry and hands were load
ing a car of wheat at McCredie, Tues
day that was to be shipped to the
Yantis Mill in Fulton. The car con-
tanned about 800 bushels and was
raised on Mr.. Murry's farm in the
Hereford neighborhood. He received
S1.O7 for the cereal.-Fulton Sun.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
I~Dprepe rscApRs WITH
GIVE TO THE GOOD
FELLOW FUND NOW


If you cannot subscribe $1,000 to
the Good Fellow Fund, you can at
least give a small contribution which
will be highly appreciated. 1t is not
the amount you give toward a move
ment of this kind, but the spirit in
which it is given that really counts.
Every citizen of Mexico, who is able,
should make a contribution toward the
associated charity fund. The list of
contributors grow every day.
The following subscriptions have
been made to the Ledger's Good Fell
low Fund to be expended by the or
gsnized charity association of Mex
leo, composed of representatives from
all Of our churches:
TT-.z- C---- Ul--I
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Mrs. Elizabeth wyIde Dead.

Spokane, WASH, Dec. A, 1915.-Mrs
Elizabeth Wylde, widow of George W
Wylde, formerly Of Audrain County
later a resident of Spokane, Wash.
died December LIST, 1915, at the Sac
red Heart Hospital in Spokane, fol-
lowing an operation for Gall Stones
She is survived by three children,
Sylvia, Homer and May. Funeral ser
vices will be conducted from their
home Sunday, Dec. 9Th.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Clark Won't Run for Governor.

Washington, Dec. S.-Speaker
Champ Clark said Sunday night the
newspaper stories in Missouri that he
might run for governor were all idle
talk. 81 never give them a moments
thought" he said, mot worth dis
eussing. Idle talk; idle talk"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Dawn Z Gran'ma's


go down t. Gran'ma's house .
lever says a thing about
be quiet as a mouse,
lets me run and stomp and
bit,
rs she thinks it's just a shame
.ep a-scodin' girls and boys
things they did the same
/ they was youngsters-Mak-
noise.
les me cookies, too, and cake,
Nets me lick the batter crock,
\ have the stummick ache
It's down in a chair to rock
|nmick ache away. She knows
stories than is in my book,
Nv time she laughs she shows
teeth that have a purity look.
VS. keeps a lot of toys
h the closet In the hall,
b / bring the other boys
Us she'd like to own us all.
lot she did owl me-
rse, l love my Ma, but then
Z why Gran'ma's can't be
be boys, and Mas for menl
Ia;oh MitchaIl Uodocs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

The Grand Jury has decided that !
had a right to move my shoeing shop
to the building on west Jackson street
two doors east of the Hospital where
] will have a good hitch lot.
309-3t wit Joe D. Pratt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

Jonesburg is going in for street
lights and as a tax for that purpose
cannot be levied before the May cleo
ton, it is planned to defray the ex-
rense by popular subscription.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

The Southern Methodist church at
Longwood burned November %, caus-
ing a loss of $500; sparks from a
chimney set fire to the roof. A buck
ct brigade saved the adjoining parson-
age.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
STEAMER WITH 521

Dec. IA dispatch to the
egraph says the steamer
b sunk in the Mediterran-
dispatch adds that forty
ivors of the disaster were
ut that five officers Of the
b forty-seven Lascars are
The Umeta was a steamer
ions net.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

Table Linens, Towels, Blankets and
Comforts for Xmas Presents. A large
assortment at P~oisson's Dry Goods
Store. d2w1
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

Judge Cleaver of Rails County,
NO., is making a pleasant visit with
r. R. Menefee and Roy Nealy and fam
lily.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

E. E. Cantrell is home from a bus
mess trip to Illinois. Mr.. Cantrell says
he never saw travel as light on the
railroads as at present.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

DR.. N. R. Rodes is home from San
Antonio, Texas, where he went to at
tend the funeral Of his fa~ther-in-law,
Joseph A. Potts.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

Little Media Streif, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. E. Streif, who has been
very i'll, is reported much better and
out Of danger.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-09

The police Of st. Louis are driving
out the beggars and hoboes just as
they did the fake charity proposition.