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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
SELMA

Selma, October 21.-(Special.)-A large
amount of cotton seed is being held here
for $50 a ton, farmers being convinced
that high prices will continue.
j. B. Atkinson, corporal in Battery A,
Birmingham, now stationed at Douglas,
Ariz., has been promoted to sergeant
major, according to advices received
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. L..
Eakers, who are prominent citizens OF
Selma.
Selma is asking the retention of Post
master D. NJ. Scott, acting adjutant-gen-
eral of the United Confederate Veterans,
Alabama division, by an almost unani-
nous vote, petition for his reappoint
ment having been signed by almost
everyone in the city. Postmaster Scott
has been in office eight years. his sec
ond term expiring shortly.
About $50 laborers employed by the
government following the recent floods
will not be paid until next week owing
to the absence of Captain Sturdivant
in Milwaukee. Some dissatisfaction ha s
been expressed by local merchants as
a result, it having been expected that
the men would receive their money to-
day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
A. ]. Thompson

Sylacauga, October 21.-(Special.)
Following short illness, A. J. Thomp
son. a well known business man, died
early Saturday morning He is survived
by his widow, two daughters, one son
and two sisters. The funeral will be
held Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
Mrs. willie Ellis StanIand

Funeral services of Mrs. Willie Ellis
Stanland, aged SS years, who died in
a local infirmary Thursday night, were
held from the Shaw Undertaking COM
pany's private chapel at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning. Interment followed in
Elmwood cemetery. She is survived by
her husband and several children.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
Bankhead and Gambler Speak

Red Bay October 21.-(Special.) -Sena-
tor John II. Bankhead and Representa-
tive Gambler spoke here Thursday night
to large assembly of voters In the
interest of President Wilson and his adj
mnistration. They reviewed at length
the administrators work. and predicted
that the President would be reelected.
The slogan seemed to be peace, pros
perity and plenty if Wilson was re-
elected: and disorder and reimbursement If
the republicans were returned to power.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
CORDIALLY RECEIVED

I'VE were very cordially received by
the evangelist" said Mr.. Jackson, and
were driven over the city in his car, and
given trip through the factory of the
Cadillac company. Mr.. Sunday was
very familiar with Birmingham and
the conditions here. and stated that he
had had his eyes turned toward Bir-
mingham for some time. During our
conversation Mr. Sunday said: Il be-
leve The Age Herald is the best news
paper Of your city. I have seen num-
her of copies of the paper and notice
that it has considerable prestige among
The metropolitan dailies of other cities.
had frequently seen 1t quoted in these
papers and in other sources" He asked
me several questions regarding the per-
sonnet of the paper, all of which I was
Glad to answer and showed him a tele-
gram from e. w Barrett, publisher and
editor of The Age-Herald. He asked me
to give the editor his regards and thank
him for the message.
Mr.. Jackson stated that money was not
q consideration in getting Mr. Sunday
and that he had refused to discuss his
compensation for coming. He made it
plain. however. that all the Protestant
churches must be in one accord in want
Ing him to come, and must be in readi-
ness to lend their cooperation Unless
the evangelist is assured of this he can
not be persuaded to come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
To Ask Big War Credit

Berlin, October 21.--(Via Sayville)-The
German government will ask the Reich
stag for new war credit of 1000 0O0,0 600
marks, says the Oversee News agency
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
remarkable instance of the ser,

A remarkable instance of the service
of birds to agriculture is the eimina-
ton of the thistle and the caterpillar
from New Zealand by the English spar
row, and another Is the saving of Aus
tralia agriculture from grasshoppers
by the strawnecked ibis, which eats
thousands of grasshoppers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
Triangle Super Productions
At Regular Admission Prices
PROFESSIONALLY THE TWO BEST FEATURES THE WEEK
Sunday Monday Tuesday
Douglas Fairbanks
In the Hit of the Season
" Manhattan Madness F"

Haywood Broun dramatic critic of the n Y Tribune said
Of the picture
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
ROUGH STUFF OyERDRAWN

THAT rough stuff you hear about the
evangelist doing while in the pulpit, is
very much overdrawn. He uses good
language, plain and simple, so that any
one can understand. Thursday night j
attended meeting for men only, Mrs.
Sunday, the venagelist's wife, being the
only woman present. and he did not say
n single thing that would not have been
perfectly all right for any woman to
have heard. Then again we heard him
speak to about 400 lawyers in the after
noon He was as nice with his speech
there as if there were ladies present,
also.
ut is wonderful the effect the evangelist
and his meetings have on town and the
people. 1 was told that Detroit Is not
like itself since Mr.. Sunday arrived, and
l firmly believe that this meeting will
put Michigan on the dry map. Yes, [
think with the coming of Mr.. Sunday to
Detroit, liquor is doomed in the entire
state
According to Mr.. jackson the evangel-
list is getting the support and cooperation
of some of the wealthiest men of the
city. He is living in the home of Mr.
Leland, president of the Cadillac Motor
company, and is being co-operated with
by a number of other millionares. The
newspapers and the people of Detroit
are warm in their praise of the splendid
work Mr. Sunday is doing there.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

In a watch made for exhibition there
is a wheel that makes a revolution in
four years, operating a dial which shows
the years, months and days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22
Wednesday, Thursday Friday
Dorothy Dalton
With Howard Hickman
In
1.-THE Jungle Child"
A Real Sensation in the
Film World

The Jungle Child"
Tupi Amazon worthless American
to
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Twin
Dalton
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-22

j. H Arnold this week sold at Atlanta
three head of Hereford cattle for $780,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1916-02-19
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DO
IT
NOW

Right now while Winter
is on and you can spare
your automobile better
than any other season Of
the year is the time to
get it overhauled and
made ready for the
splendid DAY S to come in
the Springtime.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
M. U. GOES DEMOCRATIC
600 Democratic Votes Cast by Stu
dents in Columbia.

John P. Collins, Of st. Louis, vice.
president of the Students Democrat
ic Club of the University Of Missou-
ri, was in Mexico Saturday afternoon
on his way to Hannibal.
eve were able TO get about six
hundred Democratic votes out of the
student body" said Mr.. Collins.
about four hundred of these were
absentee votes. The University is
Democratic, the ratio being about two
and one-half to one"
Mr.. Collins said that more than hall
of the University students are not
able to vote, because they are not of
age, or live outside Of the State.
VIM. Gardner, a son Of Col. Gard
ner, is an enthusiastic member of the
Democratic club. Boone county is
planning a big county celebration for
next Wednesday, said Mr.. Collins
in Which every Democrat in the coun-
ty, is expected to take part. There
will be a big daylight parade and a
torchlight parade at night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
BECOMES An AIR HERO AT 10.

PARIS, Nov. II. - Flight Sergeant
Savage has just brought down his
fifth German aeroplane. He is he
youngest French flying man to be
mentioned lin dispatches. He is only
10 years old, having been born Feb
ruary, 1897. His uncle, who brought
him up, says:
"He is just a kid, with a girls
face and not a shadow of mustache.
His one desire since he was IA was to
become an aviator. At 16 he was APP
prenticed to a small areoplane build
err. He worked hard, and under the
direction Of the aviator he built q
machine, to which he added some small
improvements. He had just gone to
Valenciennes to try this machine
when war broke out and he had to
make off, leaving the aeroplane be-
hind, which presumably fell into the
hands Of the Germans. After one
year of war he managed to get taken
into the aviation service, got his pi-
lots license last March and went to
the front three months ago. When
saw him on leave for six days, a month
ago, he had bagged three enemy ma
chimes. He got his fourth and fifth
in the last fortnight"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
KILLS SELF N WELLSV|LLE
Ledger Special

Ledger Special
WELLSVILLE, Mo-, Nov. 10. -
William Cluster, eighteen years old,
a senior in the Wellsville high school,
shot and killed himself this morning
at 7:45. Cluster, who was a bright
and likable youth, was working his
way through school and no reaso is
known why he took his life. No note
was found after the shooting.
Cluster was a brother Of A. B,
Cluster, a business man of this city
and a member of the Elks lodge at
Mexico. Young Cluster, among other
work he did to earn expenses, swept
out the jewelry store Of w. W. Har-
baum. He went TO Mr. Harbaum
early this morning and asked for the
key to the store SO he could sweep
Mr.. Harbaum said there vas no need
to clean the room as it was not dirty
Cluster insisted, saying that he would
dust the show asses.
When Harbaum entered, thirty
minutes later, he smelled burned pow
der and upon Investigation found
Cluster dead. The body was in q
sitting posture where it had slipped
to the floor after the youth had fired
t,I$r 90 ooJ,hxo ratyoIunf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
WASHINGTON LIBEL UP AGAIN

OLYMPIA, Wash, Nov. THE
case of Paul R. Haffer, who was prese-
cuted at the instance of Col. A. E.
Joab of Tacoma on a charge Of SANDER
ing the memory of George Washing
ton, has just been argued in the SUI
preme court. A decision may not
be rendered for several months.
Pierce County Jury convicted Half
fer and Judge E. w. Card administer
ed sentence of four months in Jail. In
a letter to a Tacoma newspaper, Half
fer had charged Washington with be-
ing a slave owner, a person who had
no friendly feeling for dry law condi-
tons and one whose language at times
conveyed nothing in the nature of
mollycoddle impressions.
Colonel Joab then prosecuted Half
fer under a state law by the terms Of
which anyone maliciously publishing
matter that tends to expose the mem
DRY of deceased persons to hatred or
obloquy is held guilty of gross mis-
demeanor.
In his trial Haffer produced what he
could from history in support of his
criticisms Of Washington, all of which
49,. TooL .of.41l - 4ho nakt.4un
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
]. ". BURLINGTON CHOSEN
OF THE CLUB

At a meeting Of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Mexico Commercial
Club Friday evening, ]. W. Buffing-
ton was elected Secretary CT the Mex
leo Commercial Club to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of R.
E. Race. Mr.. Burlington will give the
position only part of his time.
Before Mr. Burlington came to Mex
leo and when he was contemplating
opening his law office in Louisiana,
that city offered him the secretaryship
of their club. There were several
other applications for the office.
The club has a number Of impor-
tant matters before it at this time
and among them a factory propo-
sition.
L. r. Ferris, who recently resigned
as President, is acting until a new
official is chosen. A meeting Of the
club will be called shortly to elect a
head. S, M. Locke, of this city, is be-
ing prominently mentioned among
others to head the organization
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16

tie home Of Mr. IT Z y
Friday evening uoNer
gram was given pO
Mr.. and Mr.. rh.J.r
tertained for dinner Mondov ouon.
complimentary To Mr.. and Ms arth,ss
Whitney. The table was eertorod
with chrvsanthemprs co,,or. 49,
laid for Mr.. md Mrs A u whitno,
of Jefferson c;tv M, AM. uTLs..
Mrs. II. q Rucknar NJ aad M,
Frank Kelso. Mrs nurear NJ. 49,
Mrs. Arthur wbitnev. and Miss Aonoe
White.
Tha R;nn,s n.n.h4om
w w Williams, Tresdsv afto.noon
"a t,roa attendance mas rrasont r.
tersstiny accounts % he st,ts cow
vs nt;on which mat II Hann;boI ,ro,a
,sran T., M = 60 M@
Jones, md Mrs. w. w. Williams.
The following officers were elected for
the coming year: Mrs. C. F. Clark,
Leader; Mrs. F. P. Van Ness. Vice.
Leader; Mrs. johnson, Secretary; and
Mrs. E. L. Cass, Treasurer.
Honorable John D. o,Rear and M
Wallace Bassford were honor p,ests
at a dinner. Tuesday evening. given ,v
Messrs. 81 and Nate Phillip. Tbe
table was conferred with a large has
ket of red roses The place cards
pictures of President Wilson. were AZ
every cover except Mr.. E. B. Keath's.
and owing to his peculiar ideas he
found one Of Judge Hughes. Covers
were laid for Messrs. Cortez Edmon-
ston, A. P. Green, P. E. Coil, Maurice
Phillip, J. E. Streif, T. J. Williams.
Sam Sharp, Dan Cauthorn. Henry
Llewellyn, DR.. H. /. Turley, and DR..
Med Bolts.
Mrs. R. r Markvvo,l and NJ. T.
D un.o.I.. - a. -
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
MEXICO MEN SUBPOEHAED
FOR LEWIS TRIAL MONDAY

Edward J. LaIly, from the office Of
District Attorney Harvey, in St. Louis
was here Friday serving subpOenas
on several Mexico citizens. These
men win go to st. Louis to testify in
the trial Of Ora and Roy Joe Lewis,
for the murder Of Patrolman John
F. McKenna, in st. Louis on the 18th
of last April, which begun there on
Monday.
In his confession made in st. Louis
after his arrest ii Kansas City, Sept.
"a, Ora told how he and his brothers,
Joe and Frank, came to Mexico on the
9Th day of last April and stole cop
per wire from an unused stretch Of
the Mexico-Santa Fe railway. The
wire stolen was valued at $1,000. AS
they were leaving Mexico after toe
theft they stole a bicycle belonging to
John Fish, Jr., from before his home
t--a 318 East Love street. Ned
Holt, who saw two ears standing near
the scene of the theft that night has
been called as a witness, as well as
John z. Fish and his son, John, Jr.,
Charles Dean, living about one mile
southeast Of Mexico, near whose farm
the robbery was committed, has also
been summoned. Aubrey Jones, an
employee Of the Hoxsey-Sunnen Mo-
tor Company, at whose garage the
Lewis boys left their car that night,
will testify at the trial, and Judge W.
w. Bolts, president of the Mexico
Santa Fe line has also been sum-
moned.
Motorcycle Patrolman McKenna
was slain at an oil station at Whittier
street and Delmar evenue shortly af-
ter Z a. m.,April Z, shortly after the
boys returned to st. Louis from their
trip to Mexico. Roy Lewis, in his
confession, said hal the shot was fired
by Ora, who also admitted it in a con
fession made after he was returned
to st. Louis.
Two hours later Patrolman Dillon
was slain in the garage at the zeal Of
the Lewis home at 1853 Athlone ave-
nue.. Dillon's body was found several
days later in a ditch in st. Louis
County, where the Lewis brothers had
buried it.
Frank Lewis, the eldest of the bro
theirs, and the leader, who was one Of
those who committed the robbery
here, and Oscar Lewis, another bro
ther, are also under indictment, but
they are still at large.
The Lewis brothers were automo-
bile bandits and wire thieves who had
been operating extensively in st.
Louis County. Patrolman McKenna
went to his death when he attempted
to arrest Ora and Roy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
NEW BURLINGTON ROUTE
HAS been SURVEYED

The much talked of Burlington
railroad that has been surveyed
through Madison a number of times
now seems certain Of being built.
A carload of machinery was unloaded
at Hunnewell the first of the week and
a force Of workmen, in charge Of the
Chief Constructing Engineer for the
Burlington, are making ~soundings at
points on Salt river in Monroe county
to secure a suitable site for the cree
ton of a railroad bridge, says the
Madison Times.
The plans of the Burlington not on
Iy call for a new line, but it is to be
made an electric block system line
from Moberly to Quincy.
The proposed new line will go
through the north part of Madison and
according to the survey will ruin a
number Of nice homes. Madison peo-
pie, however, are highly elated over
the prospects of a new railroad and
before many months we can boast Of
first class railroad service.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
MEXICO GIRL
ELECTED IN KANSAS

Mrs. Victoria Sanford, who was
Miss Victoria Gregg, of this city, a
sister of William Gregg, of Mexico,
was elected Recorder of Deeds of
johnson County, Kansas, according to
a telegram received here Thursday.
Mrs. Sanford was a candidate on the
Democratic ticket and her success is
all the more notable in that johnson
county is normally a Republican dis
trict.
Mrs. Sanford served a number Of
years as assistant for her father,
John Gregg, who was Recorder of
Deeds Of Audrain for twelve years
in the early eighties. She is a most
capable woman and her experience
will make her not only an efficient Of
ficer, but a most valuable one.
Mrs. Sanford lives in 0lathe, and
the Ledger joins her many friends in
extending congratulations upon her
success in politics.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
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Years AgoThis Week
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
GARDNER PROMISES PART
NERsHIP WITH THE PEOPLE

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 10. = The
st. Louis Republic late last night re-
eeived a telegram from Governor
elect Frederick D. Gardner, who
with his wife, is in Union City, Tenn,
at the bedside of his father who is
quite III. The message stated in part:
"From present indications Z have
been elected. Although the major
ity is small, under existing condi-
tons / am satisfied. l am even more
grateful that President Wilson seems
to have been reelected than !, per-
sonally, have succeeded. / am deeply
grateful to the people of the State.
l can't find words to express my ap-
probation to my loyal friends. "
81 do not for a minute expect that
| can do this work single-handed.
l know the Legislature elected Tues
day will contain many progressives.
81 shall depend much on the peo-
pie. | believe / can help in lining
up popular sentiment behind the Leg
islators, as they undertake the kind
Of constructive legislation that State
needs. The problems before us are
too big for the Governor, and too big
for the Governor and the Legislature
= but they are not too big for Mis-
souri,. What a couple of hundred Of
ficials cannot think out, three mil
lions and a quarter Of Missourians
can.
"When I think of this promlem, of
business reorganization, which so
many state are struggling with
and which the Federal Government
must tackle in the immediate future,
l I'M impatient to get at it. We have
a wonderful opportunity in Missouri
to break ground here, Just as we have
in our insurance and banking legisla-
ton.
why shouldn't we set a new mark
in our public business affairs? What
l lack in faith in myself / make up
in faith in Missouri"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
LEDGER CANNON A
Annouced Cleveland's Election Many
Years Ago.

The Ledger cannon whose duty for
the past forty years has been to au-
nounce Democratic victories, was fired
by its official director, Chas. Dobyns,
Friday afternoon, when the results
of President Wilson's reelection was
beyond a doubt.
1t failed to herald Wilson's election
four years ago, because it had mys-
teriously disappeared from its resting
place in this office. However, sew
eral months ago it came home and evil
IDENTIFY is as lusty as ever "They all
come back"
People have been calling the Led
ger for two days asking why the can
no had not been fired. One Republic
a friend told us his little daughter
woke up Thursday morning and ask
ed in a frightened tone, Daddy, has
the Ledger cannon gone off YETI"
Charley Dobyns, who is recovering
from an accident witha motor car,
got up from a sick bed to fire the can
non.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
no INDEX ms MAN-PCWER.

OTTAWA, Ontario, Nov. IL. The
twelve newly appointed directors Of
national service, who have been in
conference in Ottawa with Director
General Sir Thomas TAFT, have given
out a summary Of their conclusions
and proposals in regard to ways and
means of utilizing Canada's men :
power to the best advantage for the
rest of the war.
There are four main reeommen-
dations:
In the first place an inventory is
Ito be made of the man power still
left in Canada, classified, as far as
possible, according to individual ap-
titudes for national service and ac-
cording to national economic needs.
In the second place, the director IN
each district is empowered to grant
certificates and badges to men who
offer to enlist for active military SER
vice, but who are declared to be CIV
ing greater value to the state by re-
naming at work in their W occu-
patton.
In the third place, men who here
after enlist and are afterwards found
by the district director to be more
needed in their old occupation may
be released from the military forces
to resume that occupation.
The fourth main Recommendation
ia for the establishment Of women's
national service boards, with q view
to registering available supplies Of
woman labor and securing the proper
distribution Of that labor to fill the
gaps left by the enlistment of men,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
sHoUsE WON, RECORD COUNT
Plurality is Largest Seventh District
Ever Gave a Representative.

HARMED, Kan, Nov. II - Con-
gresham Jewett Shouse, formerly Of
Mexico, Mo-, on complete returns
from all counties in the Seventh Dis
trict except Haskell, has a plurality
in the Seventh in excess of $500.
This is the largest purality given a
candidate for Congress since the Sew
enth District was formed. The larg-
est previous maiorities were given
Madison, 5000, Neeley, 5000, in
1912. Shouse carried Simmons own
county by 700. Shouse has carried
twenty out of the thirty-two coun-
ties Of the district.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
A MOMAN mol SIR Inn CoNGREsS.

HELENA, Mont, Nov. 10. = Miss
Jeanette Rankin has been elected to
the House Of Representatives of the
United States. She is the first woman
ever elected to the position. Sweep
ing the primaries in this state, Miss
Rankin has made one of the hottest
campaign ever waged within its bor-
ders.
Here is the platform that landed her
in Washington: National woman suf-
frage, child welfare, tariff revision,
prohibition for state and nation, and
greater publicity in congressional
records.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-16
BOOSTERS PARADED SATURDAY
w. w. johnson Does Not Have to
Kill Wife's Chickens.

When the early news came to this
city that every indication pointed to
the election of Hughes, w. W. john
son, n of our leading Democrats,
said he had four old D~emochatic zoos
tiers at home that would be massacred
should Wilson fail to win. The roos-
tiers were the property Of his wife,
but this in no sense changed his pur-
pose regarding their landing in the
pot.
Saturday afternoon, in a decorated
motor ear, and with his horn blowing
loudly, Mr.. johnson paraded the down
town section of the city with the
emblems Of victory safe and alive
roosting c~omplacently on the folded
top and wind shield.