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Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
MENICOAN M
VENTS CQ[LAPsIRLE

Ray Z. Fleming, of Crosby. y
.oming, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. !
Fleming, of this city has invert.,
coIlapsible box and patented it
Fleming says this box can be a
for any purpose the same as any q,
box. crate, etc, and when emptied
be folded up and shipped back. "
folded it takes up about One-tl
the space as wnen opened. Il
car loads Of these boxes can be
turned in one car when COLLAPSED
This box can be used instead
barrels for shipping flour, 81,
coffee nnd other such articles and
be made into any size. Crates
lemons, oranges, apples, eggs
chickens might also be built on
same plan. This is said to be on,
the most useful inventions Of
present day and Mr.. Fleming i,
be congratulated on his sple,
work. He formerly lived at Men
and has many friends here. Al n
emit he is master mechanic and !
electrician for the Biz Horn Coll
les Co, at Crosby. wyo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
Newspaper Advertising

Here a few don's to be observed in
writing newspaper advertising:
Don't give a list of goods that are
always carried in a store of your
kind without giving prices. If you
are in the dry goods business /, peo-
pie know that you carry calicos,-
the price is what interests them.
Don't run the same advertisement
week after week, but change your
copy at least every week.
DON use twenty inches of space
and try to put forty inches of adver-
Using into it. One thing well adver.
tised is worth more to your business
than a dozen articles poorly ex.
plotted.
Don't write your advertisement
hurriedly. Anything that is wortt
doing at all, is worth doing well.
Don't get the copy of your adyer
tisement to the newspaper at the las
minute. Have it ready and in tn
hands of the editor several days be
fore the date of publication.
Don't advertise just now and then
but keep at it all the time. A small
space used constantly is worth NOR
in final results than a large space
used occasionally.-Nels Darling il
Butler Daily Democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
THE COST OF ADVERTISING

WHO pays the cost Of advertis-
inng?
Five years ago a certain automo-
bile manufacturer output was a few
thousand cars, which he sold for a.
bout $1,000 each.
During the present season he il
building more than two hundred
thousand cars, which are vastly bet
ter than the former output, and his
price for them is less than $500 each.
Extensive advertising has brought
this vast number Of buyers, thus en-
abling him to equip an enormous fac
tory where ears in such large num-
bers can be turned out much more
cheaply.
The same condition is found in
practically all lines of business. Ad-
vertising reduces the cost to the 0 n
sumner and improves the quality be-
cause of the large volume of sales it
brings.
In buying advertised goods you not
only get the best value for the mon
ey, but a reliable manufacturer
guarantee Of Satisfaction or money
refunded."-Fprm and Fireside.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

Commercial potash, largely used for
the fertilization Of corn lands is be
coming scarce as a result of the Eu-
ropean war. "a number Of eompan-
les are now selling fertilizer that is
below the guarantee says Il. A..
Trowbridge, professor of animal hus-
bandry in the College Of Agriculture.
ITO protect the farmer against such
fertilizers we have prepared a bulle-
tin showing just how all the fertiliz-
ers sold in Missouri actually stand.
Any farmer a obtain a copy by writ
ing the Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton. If the inquiry states the general
condition of the land, what crops
have been grown on it and to what
use it is expected to be put, in add
ton, he will be advised as to type Of
fertilizer needed. This bulletin will
show which fertilizers, among tht
many that we have tested here, il
suited"
Missouri stands in the very fore
most of the front rank in the war OF
tuberculosis, the white plague among
cattle.
DIR. d. F. Luckey, State Veterina
rian, in his 1914 report to the Stat
Board of Agriculture gives unan
swerablc reasons why the state Grad
%ication work has in result added 81
to the selling worth and keeping val
ne of every head of pure bred cattl
in Missouri.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
SUES For 5000.

Suit has been filed in the Circuit
Clerks Office for DR.. 7. NJ. Monroe
against the Chicago and Alton Rail-
ROAD Co., and John A. Brown, an en-
gineer in the employ of the railroad
company. DR.. Monroe asks $4,000
for personal damages. A suit on the
same charge under a different statute
brought by DR.. Monroe resulted in a
hung jury in the How'd county Cir
cult Court some time ago
The plaintiff charges an automobile
in which he was driving in the city
of Laddonia on July II, 1918, while
crossing the railroad tracks was
struck by an Alton train and he was
badly injured. He claims his right
leg was broken, his back badly
wrenched, his nervous system shat
tered and his health otherwise ser
iously impaired so that he is unable
to attend 10 his business satisfact
orily. He claims the engineer gave NJ
signal for the approach Of the train
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
IMITATION FOR ALL
TO sTOCK SALES DAY

The committee in charge OF the
Monthly Stock Sales Day in Mexico
are sending out communications by
mail to the farmers and stockmen in
various sections Of Audrain and adj
Joining counties. The committee
however, finds it impossible to write
directly to all and the letter which is
published below is a general invita-
ton and request to be present
The indications, from reports re-
ceived, are that a large number OF
buyers and sellers viii be in Mexico
on Feb. 9Th, the first sales day, and
that the Monthly Stock Sales Day
will be re-established in Mexico.
The letter is as follows:
Mexico, Mo, January rs, 1913
We are very anxious and are max
ing an effort to bring about the old
time monthly stock sale in Mexico.
The first of these sales viii be Sat
urday, Feb. 6, at Court House Square
and thereafter on the first Saturday
Of each month.
We have the promise of at least
twenty men who say they will be pres
ent on Feb. 6, to buy in the lines they
handle, horse, mule, cattle, etc, buy
ers.
We want to ask you to assist us
to the extent of bringing some horses
and mules and cattle Or whatever you
may have to sell and offer them thai
day.
Now, if you and others will help to
start the monthly stock sales, it vii
be established and conducted same as
Columbia, (Mo.), Fulton, (Mo.)
F~rankford, (Ky.), and Lynchburg
(Tenn.)
Please reply.
MONTHLY STOCK SALES DAY
COMMITTEE.
For further information address
the committee as above.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

IF the government Of Russia car
ries out its present intention to alb
olish permanently all forms of al
coholic beverages, the saving in hui
man life viii be enormous. 1t is not
too much to say that the loss of IL
million men as the result Of the pres
ent warfare could be made good in
less than ten years through complete
abstinence from alcoholic beverage
by all the inhabitants Of Russia
Arthur Hunter, actuary New York
Life Insurance Company to Associa-
ton Of Life Insurance Presidents.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
VETO RILL

Washington, D. c., Jan. 29.-Pres-
ident Wilson vetoed the immigration
bill yesterday because of the ~literacy
test provision. In his message Pres
ident Wilson said in part:
ut seeks to all but close the gates
of asylum which have always been
open to those who could find nowhere
else the right and opportunity of CON
stitutional agitation for what they
conceived to be the natural and in
alienable rights of men, and it ex-
cludes those to whom the opportun-
tiles ofelementary education have been
denied, without regard to their char
acter, their purposes, or their nat
ural capacity"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
THE FARRMER,S EATS

ALONG the line of the American
farmer always having the best Of
food, the Breeders Gazette of Chi
cago editorially says:
1t is "hog killing time. On many
a farm may now be seen the pole CT
plenty with cleanly-scraped hogs hang
ing pink and cold, promising sausage,
spareribs, backbones, souse, scrapple
and "cracklin' bread.
Somehow cracking bread, corn
pones, Johnny cakes and ever spoon
corn bread are passing. Still there
are many with whom these really.de-
lectable dishes find favor. Such
friends are sure to delight in the de-
cision that in the pellagra charge
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
After Old Booze

Fulton will be a dry town a year
from this February if the men who
attended last Sunday afternoons
meeting at the Forsythe tabernacle
keep the promise they made there.
At the end of a strong forty-min-
ute address on "Booze, o rthe Shiny
Trail" the evangelist asked the per-
sons in his audience who would prom
Use to vote against the saloons at the
next local option election to stand,
and nearly everyone of the 1900 or
LOO men in the house rose.-Fulton
Gazette.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
THE IDEA

SEVERAL have asked what the
Trenton Idea is.
The best and briefest reply to this
query is: "a community interest in
which both people of town and sur
rounding country arc made TO real
ize the benefit of cooperation, and
realizing it cooperate for max
imum results"
The citizens of Trenton Mo-, and
those who live on farms contiguous
to the city, are working, all the time,
night and day, for the improvement
OF Trenton and its trade territory.
These men and women fully realize
the Importance of building this little
city up and that its growth means
not only an advance in the land val
ues adjacent to Trenton but that by
improving the town they further
their own social and economical ron
ditions.
The Trenton Idea followed the or
ganization of a Commercial Club in
that city which had a membership of
$50 members to start with. The
Club sent to Kansas City for a
speaker from the Chambers of Com
merce and asked that he come and
tell them what activities to follow.
The gentleman arrived. His first
question was:
"How large is Trenton ,"
He was told about $500 people.
He did not seem pleased with thc
reply and asked how much territor,
it covered?
He was told the city was abouI
two miles square.
What, two miles square. 70.
could not build a large city in tina
area, was his remark.
This question started a disturbanc,
in the minds of a few live wires
among them Thomas N. Written, tn
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

KELLY POOL in his Centralia
Courier editorially says: Probably
the hardest working member of the
State Senate is Robt. D. Rodgers, Of
Mexico. He works necessarily at the
Job morning, noon and night. As
chairman Of the Judiciary Committee
he holds one of the most important
positions in the Senate and n that
carries with it a great deal Of hard
work. Senator Rodgers takes moth
ing for ~grsnted-he examines every
Measure and thoroughly posts HIM
self as to its merits. He is seldom
absent from his seat and keeps con-
slant tab on the law-making game.
This is the third general assembly We
have been in touch with and we know
something of the work of the members
of each, but we have never known a
more careful, constant, persistent
worker at the law-mahng job than
sturdy, reliable, dependable, Bob Rod
gers
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
HELEN KELLER HERE 9Th

Miss Helen Keller and her teacher,
Miss Sullivan, now Mrs. John Macy,
will lecture at Hardin College Aud
itorium, Tues. Feb. 9th.
The story of Helen Keller and her
teacher, Miss Sullivan, is one of the
most marvellous educational stories Of
modern times. Miss Keller became
blind and deaf at the age of nineteen
months, and although she has not
been able to use the senses of sight
and hearing since then, she has, be-
come a highly educated woman. She
was graduated from Radcliffe Col
lege, the female department of Har-
ward, 1914, receiving the degrees of
B. A., cum laude with honor.) 1t
would seem incredible that a person
who practically could never see or
hear should be able to take up higher
educational studies with marked dis
tinction, and even, become the author
of books. One of her books which
she wrote in college, "The Story of
My Life" has been translated into
fifteen languages.
Mrs. Macy in her lecture will des-
cribe the circumstances which led to
her becoming the teacher of Miss Ke'-
Ter and will detail the methods by
which she instructed Miss Keller and
thus opened the out side world TO her,
which seemed locked forever. All
who have had anything to do with the
training of children realize how al
most superhuman must have been the
task Of teaching Miss Keller to speak
for the first time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

THE committee from the CONNER
cial Club in charge of the movement
to organize a National Guard Com
pany in this city was well chosen.
Col. Z. Y. Burton, head Of the Mis-
souri, Military Academy, D. H Rob
ertson and H. B. Mckinley, both Of
whom have seen actual service in the
state troops. Their report was most
comprehensive and if the movement
is successful Mexico will undoubtedly
have one of the best companies in the
state. Let us hope these gentlemen
will meet with hearty cooperation
and succeed in organizing a full cont
pany.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
$4,000 SUIT IS FILED
AGAINST SHOE COMPANY

Suit was filed in the Circuit Clerks
Office. Thursday, by Prosecuting At
te-ney. A. C. whitsen for the State
of Missouri VS.. The International
Shoe Co., for s74,OOO charging the
shoe company with closing their fac
tory in this city in violation of sec-
tons sO42 and SO47 Of the Revised
Statutes Of Missouri of 1909, which
according to the papers in the case
means the shoe company must pay
$1,000 a day, fine, for the "a days 1t
has so far remained closed.
In the words of the petition filed
by Mr.. whitson 'The said defendant
has abandoned and discontinued the
shoe factory aforesaid in the city Of
Mexico, Audrain county, Missouri,
since the 18th day Of November 1914
as aforesaid without first repaying
and restoring the funds and money
aforesaid, so paid by the citizens of
the City of Mexico as aforesaid as an
inducement and consideration for the
location construction and operation
of the factory aforesaid.
wherefor the plaintiff prays Judgment
against defendant for said sum OF
$4,000 together with costs herein;
and plaintiff prays that the rights
and franchise of the defendant de-
rived from or enjoyed in this state
be forfeited, and hat defendant be
enjoined from transacting any bus
iness in the state"
Sheriff ]. w. Barnett served the
papers in the suit on A. A. Gallagher
local superintendent Of the plant
Thursday morning. Mr.. Whitson says
the statute has been on the book since
1909 but so far as he knows it has
never been tested. He says the Ian
guage of the law is plain and that hi
believes the shoe company is liable
for the fine for which he sues.
The case has been docketed for the
March term of Court.
When seen, Thursday afternoon
Mr.. Gallagher said he knew nothing
of the obligations of the shoe com
pany to Mexico, but as he had under
stood it those obligations were pait
some time ago, after the factory hat
been run in the city for a certain
length of time. He said the sho'
people are hard run at the presen
time and are unable to open thei
factory in this city. "0ther towns il
Missouri are worse off than Mexic'
along this line," Mr.. Gallagher said
"In my opinion, the shoe business il
Mexico is dead, this suit killed it." h
continued. No cooperation is goinI
to stand to have outsiders tell it hoy
: to run its business, according to Nj
Gallagher, who said he understood
the Mexico shop was to have bee
opened in the next month or so.
~
The shoe factory building in thi
: city was to become the property Q
the company conducting the factor
! when 100000 in wages had bee
paid out. This was done sometim
ago and the deeds turned over TO III
o~perators,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan, 2s.-The
joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the State Constitution giving
women the right to vote, passed by
the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1913,
was ~reintroduced in the House this
week. If it is again passed the people
will vote on the question next Nov.
ember.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
GIRL BURNED.

Vandalia, Mo-, Jan. 2s.--Miss Nan
ME Chiffon "a Vandalia society girl,
is minus a large part Of her abund-
ant black t~resses, as the result of a
hairpin she was wearing exploding
and igniting her hair.
Miss Chiffon was sitting about
three feet from a hard-coal base-burn-
er reading, when there was a slight
report and her head was enveloped
in smoke.
She caught up a pitcher of water
and poured it on her head. Her scalp
was badly burned.
Miss Chiffon was wearing heavy
hairpins, believed to be rubber. They
evidently were celluloid.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

MEXICO needs an AID Club. The
Junior editor of the Ledger has Sc
cured tie data for such an organiza-
ton and a meeting of merchants and
newspapermen will be called shortly
to consider such an organization.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
a short statement of what the Neosho
Ad Club accomplished and what can be
duplicated here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
THE NEWSPAPER THAT WINS

AAhL ANaNN
FROM a talk on Reasonable Res
trictions on the Freedom Of The
Press" given by Charles H. Grasty,
formerly editor of the Baltimore Sun,
at one time a resident Of Mexico, be-
fore the American Sociological Assoc
iation.
"only men Thoroughly experienced
in the workings of journalism can
keep in the straight and narrow path
when. according to the ordinary bus
mess view, there lies another and less
difficult road to success. No business
man ever yet succeeded in journalism
without first forgetting all that he
previously knew about business. In
all dealings with advertisers there
must be the s~trictest adherence to
public standards. If he is entitled to
the ordinary consideration of a bus
mess customer, his enjoyment of such
consideration will establish proceed
ents and analogies that logically lead
to the utter destruction Of the pub
lie character of journalism.
"The paper that is dickering and
swapping with the advertiser can
never be on such terms with the read
err as to make the advertisers use of
its columns profitable to him. The
paper that puts commercialism first
will never have a place in the family
circle. The esteem and affection
without which no newspaper can be
a successful salesman are not bes-
rowed on the newspaper that con-
Germs itself chiefly about salesman
ship. And the newspaper that bar
tiers away one iota of its indepen-
dence, loses not only its own soul, but
the whole world as well. 49,
"when l speak Of public opinion, J
mean the common thought and Com
mon n Of most" and it is thi,
which should give shape and direct
ion to journalism. The editor Of to
day does no go about his work with
consciousness of the laws Of libel, bu'
at all times he is sensible of'the sam
forces that are maturing public judy
ment all around him. The news
paper that offends the prevailing
sense of right and good taste newt
ably suffers a loss of prestige, and i
is through the play of forces of thi
kind, rather than the restrictions o
constitutions and laws, that newspa
pers are held to their obligations
1.-THE substantial assets of a news
paper are not physical-they are no
; presses, type and real property. Tn
: big figure on the credit side of tn
ledger is always the figure opposit
l "good WILL" Good Will is accumulat
Z ed public approval. The history c
every successful paper will be foun
: to lead lack to an idealist, who cleal
j ly understood and unfiinchingly car
$ ried out the public obligation on tn
y part of the newspaper first, to prir
. the news; and, second, to CONNER
{ fairly on it.
> "In recent times men have had
> bring to this work moral and int
y @lectual qualities approaching geniu
They had to be martyrs and hero'
5 men who were willing to den
themselves friends, and, humanl
speaking, many of the dearest thins
Il of life, in order to print the new
e without fear or favor. We shou.
u now be approaching a clearer con
d mon ground, where public opinion ar
lie journalism can meet eye to eye."
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

tn news that Republicans in I'M
Gle Joe Cannon's district bought and
sold votes may not move the Jovia1
gentleman to say a word but the
further statement that they intend to
confess no doubt will offer an oppor,
tunity for the politician from
Da(m)nville; to exercise his caloriC
vocabulary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
Leslie's An Right

Leslie Grow, one of the "a,
students of the vandalia High Sch
is getting a bit of morning exer.
by walking down, coming back On
evening train. When a boy vi
five miles to attend school, he is
doing it altogether for fun.-Fsr
Forum.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

A MEMBER of the faculty Of the
State College of Agriculture paid
Audrain county a deserved compii-
ment the other day when they sand
Earl Rusk was the best farm agent
in Missouri. Those who have come
in contact with Mr.. Rusk in his Of
fetal opacity as well as a private cit
izen hold him in the highest regard,
1t is to be hoped some suitable ar
rngement can be made toward keep
ing him here on the job.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

SPECIAL cooperative sales by the
merchants on Stock Sales Day, each
month, when real bargains would be
offered, should aid materially in draw
ing patronage to Mexico. If these
sales could become SYNONYMOUS with
the stock sales the cumulative effect
would soon be felt. The success of the
Stock Sales Day depends entirely on
its wide advertisement and continued
stimulation and the same is true of
cooperative sales. Once each is es-
tablished the results will grow.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
Tate Heads Fulton Club.

Fulton, Mo-, Jan. 27.-Dr. J.. NJ.
Tate OF .Calwood Tuesday night was
elected president of the 1916 Ban
quet Committee of the Fulton Bus
iness Mems Association. Sparriel
Mccall, a Fulton banker, was reel
ected secretary and treasurer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

OWING to some trouble with our
machinery today we were unable to
issue the local special feature section
but one of its principal stories, a let
ter General Grant wrote while in this
city during the civil war viii be FOUND
in today's edition.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

Notice is hereby given that
testamentary upon the esta'
Margaret B. Headington, dee
have been granted the under'
by the Probate Court of A
County, Missouri, bearing dat
uary 18th, 1916. All persons
claims against said estate are re
to exhibit them to me for alIo
within six months after date 0
Letters or they may be eS'
from any benefit of such estat
If such claims be not exhibited
in one year from the time Of tn
lication Of this notice, they sb
forever barred.
John W. Howell, ES'
First publication Jan. 81, 1915
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

IT took ten Ears TO carry the ledger
containing the French National debt
from Bordeaux TO Paris when the
cauital was re-established. We
suspect some Mexico merchants not
on the cash basis, have ledgers almost
as large.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

ACCORDING to a dispatch in the
st. Louis Republic, Saturday morning
all Of the State Offices will be inves-
tigated and the inquiry will cover as
far back as the term Of Governor H.
( Uadlev.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
Odd Fellows Give Their Hall.

At a meeting of the Odd Fellows,
Thursday evening it was voted to
allow the Ladies of the Maccabee free
use Of the !. o. o. F. hall for their
state meeting which will be held in
this city some time in March.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04
Ponce de Looming.

Col R. M. White of Mexico, pres
ident of the Missouri Historical So
ciety, which has headquarters at Col
umbia, has gone to Florida to escape
the snowballs. He writes back to The
Mexico Ledger that he is on the trail
OF Ponce de Leon and expects to
drink the waters of eternal youth.
Mexico, be it remembered, went dry
about a year baek.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

ST. LOUIS shouldn't feel so bad
becaule Billy Sunday called it a
aCess pool of He'll" The famous
evangelist has gone further than
that and said New York is too wick
ed TO try to save.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-04

CONGRESSMAN Gardner has ex-
pressed a willingness to spend S70,-
OO0,0 900 to put the country in fighting
condition" We have seer some rip
roaring American citizens get this
conditions over so cents.Isn't he shoot
ing high?