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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23
EPISCOPAL.

Services are held I'm Melville hall. q
:. Lafayette st. Sunday school at 10 a. n
II. o. Cuffel. superintendent. Bible stud
at IL 90 a. m. Miss Lois Thompson, lead
er. Berean class on Wednesday evening 4
the home Of Mrs. Mary Cordray, 1871 5
LAFAYETTE ST.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

free Methodist Pennsylvania av aud
Rush ST. T. y. Foulk. pastor sunday
school $50 a. m. Oscar Batson. super
iutendeut. Preaching services az 10 80 a.
m and 80 p. m.
Special meetings arr still iu progress
Mrs Ada van Antwerp of Jackson. Mich.
viii have charge ~ the service Tuesday
evening All are welcome
River Park Free Methodist Fourteenth
and Vine SITS. +. :. Jennings. pastor. sun
day school 30 a. M Preaching 10 30 a.
IN Young Peoples meeting 80
Fuseu s T. Meeting p. M Mishawasa
Iua ktVer PARK. Preaching Z 80 y.
FRESBHTERIAN.
iiTst-Cor Washrr cton AZ. and Lafav-
efte a.. Rev Charles g. LippincOtt. -. T..
minister. Rev. Howard j. clifford. asso-
late minister Miss Charlotte N. Par
ridge. assistant 70 tho minister Public
worship 10 - q. m. and 30 =. Bible
Scbooi 80 q. fn.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

llJ T. JEFFERSON blYd. Kay \. Bid
superintendent. Sunday school ut
o'clock with class for All.
Evening service at : 20 with half hour
OF Old fashioned song. Pat EmmOns will
speak on his past story
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-23

Wednesday evening at O'Clock teachers
training class; Z 80 o'clock, prayer meet
ing
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
THE WHITE HOUSE BABY

THE first baby born in the White
House in twenty-five years, the first
boy born there since Tyler's time, is
deeply and legitimately interesting
to many millions of people.
Excepting the four children of
Major Donelson, Jackson's secretary,
the White House babies have all be-
longed to the immediate families of
Presidents. One, Esther Cleveland,
was the child of a President. James
Madison Randolph, Jefferson's grand
son; Mary Louise Adams and Tyler's
grandchildren, Letitia Tyler and Rob
ert Jones, are dead. Julia Grant,
daughter of Gen. Fred D. Grant, now
Princess Cantacuzene in Russia, was
the only Presidential grandchild born
in the Executive Mansion in more
than seventy years until Master
Sayre made his appearance.
The children of the White House
have been a more numerous body.
Robert Lincoln is the dean Of the
corps, ex-Secretary of War, ex-Min-
lister and man of affairs.
As long as both Presidents and
babies are of interest to normal
humanity, White House children will
W to attract attention and
sympathy. Fortunately, Master Sayre
is too young to be spoiled by know
ledge Of the commotion he has caus-
ed.-New York World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
"Time Flies"

Time Flies"
1t was the town clock which utter
ed this bromide as the reporter en-
tered the Court House dome and ask
ed for an interview.
ayes Sir, Time Flies" it continued,
"And ! am aiding its fugit. l feel
rather run down, just now and would
like to go on a strike but as some
authority on paradoxes has said
Every time a clock strikes it simply
does twice as much work.
"This has been a great year in
Mexico. Regardless of my exalted
position in the community / take an
active interest in every public move
ment worth while. It's funny the
Commercial Club has never taken Of
fetal notice Of my efforts. ! give more
of my time to the public than any
citizen in Mexico and most of the pub
lie meetings are called by me. It
used to be was the poor mans time
piece but they have Ingersoled me
out of that position in this day Of in
tensive advertising.
"The drouth affected business, il is
true, but much has been accomplished
in 1914. The underwriting Of the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
WAS NOT GUILTY.

Arthur Logan, of Columbia, form
erly of Mexico, writes the Ledger he
has been freed of the charge of en-
bezzling S2S3, which he had as stake
holder at the time Of the Missouri
Kansas foot ball game. He ives ar
rested on this charge by Columbia
authorities. Mr.. Logan e again at
wirk in Columbia in the barber shop
where he has been employed for sew
eral months. He worked. in several
shops in Mexico and had a host of
friends here, who will be glad to learn
he was innocent. He married a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. john
Deckard, of this city.
In regard to his real name being
Lamont Gardner, which was charged
by the authorities, he says his step
fathers name was Logan and his
middle name was Arthur hence he
has gone under the name of Arthur
Logan for a number of years. He
was married under the name of
Lamont Gardner however he says.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
A BEHIND THE BAR.

AMONG saloon proprietors, wheth-
er they attended the bar or not there
was an extra mortality Of 70 per
cent; and the causes of death indi-
Gated that a free use Of alcoholic bev-
erages had caused many of the
deaths. The hotel proprietors who
attended the bar either occasionally
or regularly had as high a mortality
as the saloon keepers, i. e, the life
time was reduced about six years on
the average on account of their occu-
patton. The mortality among those
connected with breweries was about
one-third above the normal. The
large class of proprietors Of whole
sale liquor houses had an extra NOR
tally of about one-ffth. In the
fourteen subdivisions of the trades
connected with the manufacture or
sale of alcohol, there was only one
class which had a normal mortality,
and that was the distillery prophet
ors. The facts regarding the adverse
effect on longevity of engaging in the
LIQUOR trade are such that, if they
were generally known, young men
who are easily tempted would be de-
TERED from entering this business
Arthur Hunter, chairman Contra.
Bureau Medico-Actuarial Mortality
investigation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Notice Of Trustees Sale.

WHEREAS, u. P. Warden ana
Alberta Warden, his wife, by the,
certain deed Of trust duly made, sign
ed and acknowledged on February 10
1918, and filed for record in the or,
of the Recorder Of Deeds Of Audrai,
County, Missouri, on February 10
1913. and recorded in the deed of tr,,
records of said county and state u
book SO at page e07, did convey IA
the undersigned, as trustee, the SouN
west Quarter Of Section Nine(9), ana.
the East Half Of the Southeast Qua,
Ter Of Section Eight (S), all in Town.
ship Fifty (5O), Range Eight 81
West, in Audrain County, Missou5
in trust 10 secure the payment of On
certain promissory note in said dee
of trust described: and wheres
said note is past due and unpaid. an
default in the payment thereof hs
been made by the signers thereof.
NOW THEREFORE, at the reque,
Of the legal owner and holder of SAIL
note, / will sell at the East fro
door Of the court house in Mexio
Missouri, the above described lanu
on Friday, February 9TH. 1915, NJ
tween the hours Of 9 o'clock in M
forenoon and five o'clock in the IA
ternoon of said day, for cash, to d
highest bidder, at public vendue, n
the purpose Of paying said debt al
costs Of executing this trust,
Witness my hand this 2Srd day J
December, 1914. T.
44-4t Walter Higbee,
T. n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
BOOZE SHOP REGULATION
BILL INTRODUCED THUR.

BILL hIAso'
Jefferson City, Jan. 22-The House
Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
approved the House bills requiring
dramshop keepers to get two-thirds
Of the signatures of taxpayers within
a radius of five blocks where a pro
posed saloon rs to be opened.
In the rural districts when a hcen-
Sc is sought in town or city where
there is a university or normal school
the applicant must obtain the sigma
lures of the taxpayers within a rad
Jus Of FIVE miles
The committee also recommended
the passage of a bill prohibiting
tables and chairs in saloons, and
makes it illegal to have stained glass
windows or screens in dramshops.
Representative Barbee is opposed
to druggists dispensing whisky in al
opathic doses, and in a bill he wishes
an act created prohibiting pharm-
acists from selling less than four
gallons Of alcoholic stimulents, except
dentists who may require whisky for
medicinal purposes for patients.
Senator Cain introduced a bill that
would give minor children the right
to choose between parents in case OF
divorce. Cain said courts often de-
cree that a child must live with one
parent when the child prefers to &c
with the other.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

Hardin Gymnasium, the Missouri
Military Academy gymnasium, the
Hospital, Round Up week, the fund
for the extension Of the electric line,
the Good Fellow fund, the fund for the
Belgians, the establishment of the
Glove Factory and in fact many other
public enterprises. / watch them all
modestly from blind my appraised
hands.
"Fd like to take a day or two of
rest. When the winter rains are fol-
lowed by a fall in temperature my
hands some times freeze for several
days but rs soon as a thaw begins
Tom Riley over and sees that
| loaf no longer. | consider myself a
leading citizen and up-to-the- minute
in everything.
Before the town went Dry | used
10 be blamed, by certain citizens, who
found their wives awake when they
slipped into the house at 2 a. M, shoes
in hand and breath in alcohol. In
those days ! was extremely glad l had
to keep my hands before my face.
Even today the episodes Of certain
young men in Mexico are rather a
shock to my calloused nerves."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
The Mechanical Milk Maid Is Here

"0ld Boss" Daisy and the rest Of
the gentle faced milk cows in the fine
dairy herd of E. C. S. Miller near
this city, were startled one day this
week when they were relieved of
their rich warm milk by machinery.
A few of the animals were a little
bit skittish at first but most of them
took to it like a baby to a new rat
tie.
Mr.. Miller has two of the latest
model milking machines and they 10
the work in about half of the time re-
CURED when undertaken by men.A gas
SUPPLIES the motive power forthe
mechanical milk maids. What once
took an hour for two men practically
takes thirty minutes now.
The machines were taken on trial
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
R. MIDDLETON L
ON "sTOCK SALES DAY"

ON 2AOAh G-N661 8NA
B. R. Middleton. q leading horse
and mule man Of this section, ad-
dressed the Commercial Club at the
luncheon Friday in regard to the
Stock Sales Day. He said 1t would
be absolutely necessary to get the
buyers and sellers TO Mexico before
such a day would be a success. To do
this he suggested that the CONNER
cial Club see the farmers and stock
men and get their promise to be here
with stock for sale. On the other
hand he suggested that buyers from
all over this section be modified Of the
sale in such a manner that they would
be here.
1t was voted by the Club that the
committee in charge of the matter be
allowed to set the date for the OPEN
ing Sales Day earlier than April Bird,
the date formerly set, if it desired
and that each member of the club
work diligently to bring the buyers
and sellers to this city. II was fur
Their voted that the day be extensively
advertised.
On vote of the Club, the matter of
investigating the mechanical auto.
mobile tire of J. W. Burgess, Brook
field, was left to the discretion Of
the committee in charge.
An expression of sympathy to Pres
ident and Mrs. Fred W, Pitcher in the
loss of their little daughter was
voted.
The club went on record as favor
ing the organization of a National
Guard company in Mexico subject 10
feelings of the individual members
towards the proposition.
The report of the committee ap-
pointed by the club in this matter
appears, in part, elsewhere in this
paper. The committee is composed
of Col. E. Y. Burton, David H. Rob-
ertson and H. B. Mckinley.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

The recent announcement that IL.
L. Smith, a prosperous farmer o.
Audrain county, who resides near
Littleby station, had paid $4,000 for
two silver black foxes, and would
make a business of raising them for
the market, caused some little ON
ment but was soon forgotten beneath
the more startling head lines Of the
ever-present war stories in the press.
That romance has played an importt-
ant part in such an industry perhaps
never entered the head Of even o
single reader of the notice. And,
vet, there are few businesses today
with whom this much coverted friend
of the writer has not been an inti-
mate associate in its earlier days.
When Mr.. Smith brought the foxes
into this country from Canada,
where they were purchased, he paid
a duty of $500 at the border. II
nothing unforeseen occurs Mr.. Smith
expects to have a litter of puppy
foxes on his farm this spring. Their
fur should bring from 5000 to $1,000
a pelt as silver fox il in demand in
the market and none too plentiful.
Many years ago on Prince Edward
Island, in the Gulf of st. Lawrence
some ranchers conceived the idea of
taking young foxes from their dens
and raising them in captivity, keep
ing and breeding them in conditions
as nearly like the wild life as pos
sible. These early men,-Dalton,
Oulton and Tuplin-suceeeded in the
venture, having a natural ability for
handling wild animals. Their story
is romantic enough. They isolated
their fox ranches in hidden corners
of distant farms, and pursued the
new business with the secrecy Of
a moonshiner, or of a miner who
struck a vein of gold, for if their
work had become known. they would
have been ruined by rivals. They
worked in the greatest secrecy, in
constant fear. When the time came
for shipping furs to market, ruses
were invented to cover the fact of ship
ments so much larger than those Of
trappers. Where the ranchers failed
was in giving evidence of a prosper
ity savoring of riches. A determined
neighbor played spy, and discovered
the diamond mine in the shape of a
ranch full of the priced black silver
fox. Then the secret was out. Now
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Z. A. Shannon Didn't Do IL

1t was not E. A. Shannon, of Aud
rain county, who introduced the bill
in the Legislature to prohibit fishing
during the month of April, May and
June. In a letter to W. E. Sharp,
Mr.. Shannon says the guilty person is
Mr.. Shannon, representative from
Jasper county. The st. Louis Repub-
lie should be more explicit when they
write the shannons up.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Audrain's New Industry
Raising the Silver Black Fox

all the island is on fire with the pos
sibility of riches. For the past three
years every man or group Of men
who can buy a bit of quiet woodland
and two pair of pure blood foxes
starts a ranch with all the ceremony
attached to forming a stock com
pany. Women also are conducting
ranches. Stock in these little COM
panies II you please, has paid as
high as three hundred per cent. the
first two years.
Just at present few pelts are taken
on Prince Edwards Island but each
pair Of foxes is sold for establishing
ranches for breeding in captivity;
and that is how the sudden big
money" is made.
The fox takes but M wife, and
that for a lifetime, and he is her
constant protector. In his wooing he
must not be disturbed, During the
months Of December and January
they live their romance in such timid
yet naughty reticence that even the
ablest keeper dares not let himself
be seen. It is difficult during these
weeks even to pass within the pen
the necessary food TO sustain the wild
lovers. If the keeper is maladroit II
barking dogs are often near if too
many sounds of man and his activities
are borne on the breeze, the appre-
hensive lover devotes himself entire
" to the protection of his mate every
sense, e nerve alert-and so passes
the mating season for that year, and
the rancher misses a litter which may
profit him thirty thousand dollars
within four or five months.
March and April are the months
when the furry black babies huddle
and cuddle in the deepest recess Of
the artificial den with which each
pen is fitted. Mother watches over
the pups; father, the other side Of a
wire fence at this time watches for
outside dangers and gives the alarm.
Here also is danger. If the mother
takes fright from a barking dog or
other trifing sound, she will carry
her babies from the nest, one by one,
and bury them in the freezing mud
and snow,so that the enemy may not
find them. Then it is that the
rancher must be on the alert to take
the precious pups away from the
pen entirely, and nurse them in the
kitchen with the help of some con-
venient cat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

by Mr.. Miller and he is so pleased
with the results he will likely secure
at least n more to augment his bat
terry. The relentless advance of prog
ress has shattered another poetic
vision. Only yesterday we sang:
Where are you going, my pretty
Maid?"
Going a milking, sir" she said.
But today the belladonic glance of
the Milk Maid and her halo of sweet
perfume of new mown hay have been
been supplanted by the pop-pop of the
gasoline engine and the odor of Mr..
Rockefeller's millions. With the dis
appearance of this pastoral heroine
1t IS quite plain the only sparkling to
be done amid bucolic surroundings
viii be by the plugs" of the mech.
anlcal milk maids engine.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

THE bill making It possible under
the Constitution Of The State Of Mis-
souri, 70 have a City Manager in a
town the size Of Mexico is a splendid
one and means more efficient govern
ment The present plan is ore that
makes such business methods impos-
sible no matter how hard a City
Council and Mayor may work to that
end. In places where a City Man
ager is in charge conditions have
been completely revolutionized-bst-
ter government for less money has
followed and the plan is no longer a
theory but a proven success
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
THE DURABLE SATISFAC-

~
REFERRING to the real satisfac-
tory things of life, the Breeders Gaz-
cite ed~itorially says;
Many things we do give us pleas
ure more or less; some of these may
be fleeing pleasure and some the
pleasure that endures Perhaps after
all he is the richest man who has ac-
CURED most of the durable satisfac-
tons of life. Some of these are the
fields that he has made fertile and
rich; the trees that he has planted
that have graced and beautitfed the
landscape, that have sheltered the
birds and been a solace to weary men
in days of fervid heat; the homestead
with its appropriate house, fitting the
place well, surrounded with approp-
rate trees, shrubs and flowers, and
within the little family of boys and
girls, All Of these may be classed as
durable satisfaction. Beyond them
lies another group just as real and
just as important. Here we class the
friends one makes, those to whom he
has been able to give service and do
kindness, the men who have become
better men just from such con-
tact. The fact that the men
look up to one, respect
him and love him, not for what he has,
but just for what he is, must indeed
be considered as one of the durable
satisfactions Of life All Of these
things arc easily and beautifully nur-
tured in the country. The mere ac
cumulation of acres and dollars counts
for little beside these other acquisi-
tons, the durable satisfaction of life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
Pat Reynolds Runs Railroad.

Pat Reynolds formerly of Mexico
and veteran maintenance of way man
for the Chicago & Alton railroad is
now in charge of the Helena, Ark.
Interurban line, said to be one of the
most remarkable and best paying
railroad properties in the United
States. Linwood Hope, a Centralia
boy, who was engineer on the Mexico,
Santa Fe and Perry line, was former
ly general manager of the Helena,
line. This line is six and a half miles
long and the freight business alone
is sufficient to pay dividends on the
investment.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
IoHN BRAGG KIDD DEAD

John Bragg, the 20 months old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. b. Kidd died at
the home of Mrs. Kidd's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Woolery, Thurs
day evening. Death was due to a
complication of troubles following a
severe attack of pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kidd, whose home Is
in Lafayette, Ind, came to Mexico
about the middle of December to
spend the holidays. The child was
taken i'll and had been in a serious
condition for three weeks. The Led
ger joins other friends in extending
sincerest sympathy to Mr.. and Mrs.
Kidd in the loss Of their little son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

THE Louisiana, Mo, Press Journal
editorially says; "The Press-Journal
has been laying for Mexico for some
time and we have at last got some
thing that will put one over on that
town. A former Louis
lana woman is reported married to
Gen. Villa, the unconstitutional con
stitutional leader in Old Mexico.
Guess that will hold our Mexico for
awhiler
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28

Members of both families Wednes.
day denied that any engagement ex-
lists between Miss Ruth Robertson Of
Mexico, Mo, and Clifford Garrison Of
st. Louis. Such rumors have been
circulating for some time. Members
Of both families deny the current
rumors and The Republic is able To
print an authorized statement to that
effect.-Thursday's ST, Louis Rep
ublic.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28
In Memory of Mary Ellen Pitcher.

In Memory of Mary Ellen Pitcher.
Darling Mary Ellen,
Child Of promise rare,
Lent to US a little while,
A jewel bright and fair.
Voice Of tender beauty,
Eyes Of heavens W blue,
Charming ways, and cunning,
Found so oft in few.
Greetings kind and gentle,
Came from her sweet lips,
Casting rays Of sunshine
As adown life's way she slips.
But the angels called you,
Darling, come up and play"
And you said to them, Sweetheart,
am come TO stay"
So charming Mary Ellen
Goodbye. Just a while,
In the home of angels
l will know "your smile"
Mrs. Z. d. G.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28


Twas in the hush of the midnight hour
The cock crew shrill and lone,
When in the grace of a little child
The King came unto his own
No regal palace ablaze with light
Awaiting the tiny guest;
A home he found in a lonely stall,
A throne on a mothers breast
It was Himself, the Christ, the King
Who came to that far off land
With love divine in His deep dark eye
And life in His dimpled hand.
1t is Himself who shall come again
Is the door unattached tonight?
The birthday feast, is it all prepared?
The gifts-are they ready, quite?
He gave Himself-His life for ours,
His love for u comforting,
His faith for us on the toilsome way,
His joy hat our hearts might sing,
His peace for sitting life's Gallilees,
His health for our weary frame,
His strength for weakness that faint
ing falls
His grace for our cross of shame.
And we, o Christ with the kinly
brow
We give thee ourselves alone
With the door unattached and a wei
come now:
We bid thee come to thy own.
Mrs. Geo. W, Adams,
1902 f. Monroe ST.,
Mexico, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-01-28


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