Mexico Missouri message., 1915-12-30
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Mrs. Cleveland Dead.-A Wedding
AnnOunced-New Year Greetings

just in time to make Christmas seem
real, making it possible for Santa
to use his sled and reindeers.
The tree at Bethlehem was declared
off but Santa's reindeers visited the
tots and grown-ups at their homes
Preaching at Bethlehem Saturday
and Sunday by Rev.J.M. Fl enshreep
of Centralia.
Mrs. Minnie Weaver has been ill.
Jack Dayenport's two children, i'll
of the grip, are convalescent.
Mr.. Walter Surber is seriously i'll
of pneumonia. has trained nurse.
C.M.Berrey shipped double deck
of western yearlings that placed
about 500 on right side his ledger.
Elmer Gatewood's cattle, shipped
lately, bro't $3.50 on St. L. market,
weighing about 1900 pounds.
On nearly every hand do we hear
of Santa's visits to young and old.
He always brings good things in
days of peace and plenty Miss Mil
dred Cook treated her pupils at Gate
wood"jes befo' Christmas" Little
ones were in the hight of glee.
Joseph Heller came in Tuesday
from Dalton, Nebraska, for holiday
Wedding bells ring soft and clear,
foretelling the marriage of Joseph
Heiser and Miss Lizzie Ridgway
The ceremony will be at the home of
the bride-elect, C. T. Jesse's, at 8
p. m, Saturday, January 1, 1916.
Rev John Jesse will say the words.
They will depart Immediately for
Dalton, their future home. Here's
wishing them not one continual
round of pleasure-that is impossible
in this mundane sphere but such
an abundance of pleasure that the
necessary admixture or adversely
may be helpful rather than the re-
verse.
The death of John Cleveland the
22nd inst. took from us a good man.
Honest, upright, Woodworking, was
he. Had a comfortable home and was
ready to live comfortably. Saturday
morning early the Death Angel took
the wife and she, too, passed into the
great beyond. Samuel, of the U. S.
Army, and Mr.. Cleveland's son, got
in Thursday night. Mr.. Cleveland's
body was laid to rest in the Liberty
Cemetery Friday and hers on Sun
day. Both possessed traits of char
acter which led friends to believe
their hope for a better world was
bright. Sixty summers had he lived
and she not quite so many. Sam and
Sebastion are the surviving children
with brothers and sisters and host
of friends, do they leave. Mrs. Gibbs,
her sister, is dangerously i'll of pneu-
monia, the same that swept away the
others. We hope for her recovery.
The new year, 1916, will soon have
its way here. New resolutions made
and kept are strengtheners of charac-
ter, Resolutions made and broken are
weakening to character. 1t behooves
us to make good ones and keep them.
Tho thy father and brother forsake
you and say all manner of evil things
against you, then the Lord will take
you up. Do good for evil, holding
malice toward none, but charity
for all.
~ bhO ooAlOAt Ills SOAp 20 VI hOipSAS
and magnificent array Of readers, do
we wish. dear friends. the bells to-
ring loud and clear. all blessing for
a glad New Year.
The young men of our county and
older grown-ups, cheer up, Leap year
is nearly here and with this, as OF
all leap-years, we believe things viii
hum. We learned way back in by
cones that woman could do more
in one year with one day added than
man could in three. This fact with
in itself should give us hope and
cheer, and we see 1t starts of good
with Joe Heiser. Wishing all the
readers an abundance Of pleasure all