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New-York tribune., 1916-07-25
Women Await Suffrage
Views of Candidates

The women Of New York have or
gained themselves into a vast waiting
army.
All over the city yesterday-in their
political alliances, in their suffrage
headquarters and their clubs-there
was the atmosphere of holding opinions
10 ambueh until party leaders make
known their stands on the Susan Is.
Anthony suffrage amendment.
The women are waiting Tor two
ihings-whether Charles +. Hughes
viii come out for suffrage in his speech
O. acceptance Monday. or whether
President Wilson Will declare himself
IN favor Of IL before then.
viii Know in Week.
IN q week we shall know how they
stand" the women were saying every
Etere. "Then We can 90 ahead
"Ne are going 10 be for the one who
g for U.S." said Miss Anne Martin,
sader Of the party.
Hughes enthusiasm surged high yes
frday afternoon at a meeting Of the
uecutive committee Of the WOmen's
aoos evelt League for Hughes in the
aotel Astor. With Miss Alice Carpen-
nr. the president, in the chair, and
'Who's for Hughes?' as q triumphant
slogan. q brilliant campaign programme
gas mapped out.
Reception to Open Campaign.
The official beginning will be a re-
eep..on al the Hotel Astor next week,
w.th Sir. and Mrs. Hughes as the guests
Of honor. If Mr.. Hughes does not yet
understand how many women OF the
city are backing him the Women $
Roosevelt League believes that ne VIII
ind 10 out on this occasion.
IN September the Women's Roosevelt
League win open three recruiting sta
tons-oue at Times Square, one al
Fiiy-ninth Street and Broadway and
one in the downtown district-wlth
young society women in charge.
Another feature Of the September
Programme will be the utilizing Of
empty stores in the vicinity Of Fifth
Avenue as Roosevelt League shops,
where literature will be given out,
meetings held and unique campaign
IDEAS Introduced. An automobile sta
Hon will be opened during the lunch
hoar IN Wall Street.
Invitations Out This Week.
The first invitations TO join the
"oomen's Roosevelt League FOR Hughes
..iI be sent out this week by Miss
anne Morgan. chairman of the mem
oeishlp committee.
Among those present at yesterdays
committee meeting were Miss Carpen-
,Csf' Ars. Clarence Burns. Miss Belle
Tieene' Miss Harriet Sisson Gillespie,
t's Edward S. Van Zile, Mrs. James
Osnteld, Dr. Sarah MacNutt, Miss
,,onya Leycn. Mrs. Herbert Keen and
4is; Mary Spencer Blackford, the
IVY appointed executive secretary,
tuO recently organized Pennsylvania
~ ,.e Pennsylvania Women's Division
national Preparedness.
I"t women's committee Of the Ma
1oAal hughes Alliance reported yester
.y mat rs plans for the campaign
NJ. gosio not be made public until after Mr..
Ssues .Sgs ) acceptance speech. But they
mat new members were joining
os s A"iance az such "a rate that large
ISe NJ, corps was kept busy.
Mss anne Martin, chairman Of the
Imam Party, left Washington yes
,,,uey Tor the West, where she will
,.solge az a conference for the Ma
S,..- S.-i Woman's Party in Colorado
'"'ng' from August 10 70 -
New-York tribune., 1916-07-25
CEMETERIES.

THE wOODLAwN CEMETERY.
3a,d ST BY Harlem Train and by Trslion
Lets Of small siss for sAlA
oGcA. - IsSt 2Sd st.. l. L -
New-York tribune., 1916-07-25
DIED.

Christensen, Mary Honey, j. De W.
r T. Hughes, Lisle c.
Frankland, Fred. W Pendleton, j. N. jr.
Gunther, J.J.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
CAR BREAKS WINDOW

Friday morning, Mrs. Lizzie Nelson,
of Rush Hill, driving an Overland car,
lost control of the machine and crash
ed into the big plate window of Low
ery's Tin Shop on South Jefferson
street.
Mrs. Nelson turned north on Jeffer-
son from Liberty street. She lost
control of her car in trying to avoid
other vehicles in the street and ran
up on the sidewalk just north of Has
kell's Garage. The car tore down the
sign before the stair entrance to DR..
X. R. Bragg's office and carried away
the post by the door before it struck
the corner of the window of Lowrery's
Tin Shop. The car crashed into the
corner Of the window and shattered the
plate glass. Every particle of the
glass was broken from the window
frame and scattered over the sidewalk.
Fortunately no one was injured. The
fender of the car was bent and one
front lamp damaged. The crash of the
falling glass could he heard for blocks
and a large crowd 500 collected.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
advertisement

By a petition of less than thirty
thousand voters of a voting popula-
ton of nearly eight hundred thousand,
statewide prohibition is again before
the petitions were in general circu-
lation for many months, only the small
number of signatures mentioned was
secured. This may have been due to
the fact that the temperance organi-
cations were divided on the subject,
the older organization failing to ap-
prove the raising of the question at
this time. The proposed amendment
is in more drastic form this year than
it was six years ago, when the propo-
sition was defeated by a majority of
218, 900. Although there was no wide
spread demand for a reconsideration
of the question of state wide prohl-
bition, the state is again put to the
expense of an election on the subject,
and the people will have to vote on it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
O M RULE IN MISSOURI.

Twenty-seven years ago a local op-
ton law was passed by the Missouri
General Assembly, which permits each
county in the state, and cities Of over
$500 inhabitants to withhold from or
issue licenses to dramshops, as the
people of the respective cities or coun-
ties may determine by their votes.
This is true HOME RULE. 1t en-
bodies the American principle of self
governments. Your COUNTY has
HOME RULE - you have dealt with
the liquor traffic without OUTSIDE
interference = that is American and
| Democratic. But why should not the
LARGE CITIES have HOME RULE,
too, and be permitted to deal with
the liquor question as seems best to
them, without OUTSIDE interior
ence? You don't want the CITIES to
govern YOU in this matter; why
should YOU want to govern the
CITIES?
Don't you think that if your county
is permitted to be "wet" or "dry," as it
may elect, that the CITIES SHOULD
HAVE THE SAME RIGHT? Isn't
that fair? ISN'T THE HOME RULE
la SQUARE DEAL FOR CITIES
AND COUNTRY ALIKE?
If you think the prohibition rule
should be made to work BOTH ways,
lvote AGAINST the prohibition amend
ment.
If you think a MAJORITY SHOULD
RULE, vote a gainst the prohibition
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
THE SOUARE DEAL.

The fair man stands for the square
deal-doing unto others as he would
be done by. He believes it is a poor
rule that won't work both ways.
If you are that kind of a man, we
want a word with you on the matter
of state wide prohibition.
You have prohibition now in your
county through local option-IF A
MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE FA-
VOR IT. The large cities regulate
the liquor traffic via the High License
System-a majority of the people
favor it.
Would you think it fair to give the
large cities in Missouri the power to
vote salons upon your COUNTY re-
CARELESS of your protest in the the
matter? Of course, you would not,
and the cities have no power o dis
position to do such an unjust thing.
That's one way the rule works.
On the other hand, do you think it
fair for YOUR COUNTY to vote the
saloon out of the LARGE CITIES re-
CARELESS of their protest in the mat
ter? You have the power, and you
may do that very thing. That's the
OTHER way the prohibition rule
DOESN'T work.
If the large cities have nc power to
make the county "wet," why should
the county want to exercise its arbi-
trary power to make the cities dry?
Should not the county DO AS 1T
WOULD BE DONE BY? A square
deal for the "dry" counties, yes; but
why should there not also be a square
deal for the CITIES? Should not
the prohibition rule be made to work
both ways.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19

(From Saturdays Evening Ledger.)
One of the most brilliant social
events of the season will be the mar
ris.ge tonight at $3.50 o'clock of Miss
Ruth Lewis, daughter of Mr., and Mrs.
George Lewis, and Prof. F. c. Stoy,
which will take place at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley B%lattner, with
Rev. A. A. Wallace officiating, The
bride will be attended by her sister,
Miss Lucy Lewis, as maid of honor.
Major Strock will be best man. The
bride will wear an exquisite gown OF
Venetian crepe and lace. She will
carry a shower bouquet of white roses,
The maid of honor will he gowned in
flesh colored embroidered chiffon.
Her flowers will be pink roses. Miss
Jane Rodgers will play the wedding
march. Mrs. Ruble, who will be re-
membered here as Miss Monimia Tay
lor, will sing. She will veal a clot!
Of gold dress. Her flowers will be pinl
roses. Little Mary Virginia Melsoi
and Helen Brown, wearing dainty lin
gerie dresses, will serve as ribbon
bearers. Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Truck, O.
st. Louis, and Mrs. Tommins and son
of Atlanta will be the out-of-towl
guests Misses Franc, India, Effie ant
Margaret johnson will serve in tn
dining room Misses Willie Robnett
Lottie Cornett Martha Johnson ant
Mrs. Clayborn Jackson will pour cot
fee Mr. and Mrs. Stoy will max
their home in Mexico. Mr.. Stoy is
member of the faculty at Mcmillan
High School.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
MRS.. CARPENTER WINS
FIRST IN AUTO PARADE

Mrs. Charles Carpenter took first
prize for the best decorated automo-
bile in the big automobile parade
Thursday afternoon. Her car was
decorated in purple with white doves.
Mrs. ]. 7. johnson, in a car decorated
with yellow, and carrying votes for
women banners, took second prize.
Mrs. C. A. Mitchell took third in a
Japanese car, and Mr.. Will French's
car, driven by Miss Dorothy Morris,
took fourth. Mrs. C. B. Luckie took
fifth prize
Those driving decorated cars in the
parade were Mrs. ]. T. Johnson,
Shields Moore, Miss Dorothy Norris,
C. B. Luckie, Mrs. Billie West, Mrs.
Fred Strauss, ]. N. Bailey and Mrs. c.
A. Mitchell.
The judges were Mrs. F. F. Ryan,
Mexico; Mrs. H. H. Anderson, Kansas
Cit; Mrs. Frederick 7. Hatch, st.
Louis.
In the drawing for the twelve prizes
offered for the u~ndecorated cars the
following numbers won in the order
named. The holders of these numbers
are asked to inclose the ticket in a
letter addressed to the Secretary Of
the Commercial Club, who will issue
an order for the prize:
First, 14s; cecond, 141; third, IS;
fourth, 155; fifth, las; sixth, 1852;
seventh, 149; eighth, 1856; ninth, $50;
tenth, 143; eleventh, 1885,. twelfth
1877.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
Twenty Years Ago.

Mexico was arranging to have a big
Democratic rally. Those appointed on
the decorating committee YER Mes
danes S. P. Emmons, Harvey Corder,
S. B. Cook, John A. Guthrie, S. N.
Evans, ]. C. V. Baskin, j. c. Buckner,
R. M. White, C. T. ALE, ]. B. Freeman,
Misses Nancy Dempsey and Georgia
Null.
The County Christian Endeavor So
ciety convened at Laddonia and the
following officers were elected: Pres
ident, A. A.. Sox, MI. Carmel; Vice
President, j. A. Detienne, Laddonia;
Mexico etaoni W WI etaoishrdluato
Secretary, Miss Matte Cauthorn,
Mexico; Treasurer, H. A. Adams. The
following press committee was APP
pointed: Miss Julia Morris, H. H.
Hobbs, ]. A. Detiene, H. C. Shobe and
Miss Daisy Coatsworth.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
tAdrri@mehl (Advetsmnt) advertisement
STATE ;i:'''-''' WIDE PROHIBITION |I]FIIEjII IN ' MISSOURI.
advertisement }

You believe in the majority rule
that's why your county is "wet" or
"dry"-A MAJORITY OF THE PEo-
PIE ARE RULING. When Missouri
votes on the "wet' and "dry" PROPOSE
ton November 7th, should not the ma
iority rule? Of course, it should, say
you, and SO say we all, but it may not.
If the state gives a "dry' majority, all
the state will be "dry," a majority
ruling-that's ONE way the prohibit
ton rule works. But if the state
votes "wet," a majority not ruling
that's the OTHER way the prohibition
rule DOESN'T work.
A "wet" majority of 100000 will not
make one additional foot of "wet" ter
ritory in Missouri, while a "dry" ma
jority of one vote will make ALL Of
the "wet" territory "dry." In other
words, the prohibition majority rule
does not work BOTH ways. Is this a
SQUARE DEAL? Is it FAIR and
RIGHT? If a majority can make ALL
the state "dry," why should not a
majority make ALL the state wet?
WHO SHALL ANSWER?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
Cause of Constipation.

Constipation results from a lack OF
moisture in the residual matter OF tne
food. To effect a permanent cure
more water must be taken into tne
system. Drink a full glass Of water
half an hour before breakfast ana
about the third of a glass, an nour
and a half after each meal, also eat an
apple or banana before freaktasT ana
before going to bed. Make sure Inas
your bowels move just after preakIas'
,ybntber there is an inclination or not
when n medicine is needed take Cham,
herIain's Tablets as they are mild and
GENTLE in effect, but no medicine should
be taken when operations a be in
Suced naturally each day. To effect a
permanent cure time and patience are
required as bad habits are more ca
sily formed than broken. obtainable
! everywhere. ADV.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
S. S CONVENTION IS
ADVERTISING MEXICO

The State Sunday School Associa-
ton, whose annual Convention will be
held in this city November IA, Is and
16, is advertising the meeting and in
cidentally Mexico, in three columns Of
plate matter which are sent to papers
all over the State. These stories tell
of the convention and bring Mexico
prominently before the public in each
article.
There will be many prominent men
here for the meeting.
Henry F. Cope, of Chicago, general
secretary of Religions Education Asso-
citation, comes especially to serv in
the college and college students con-
ferences.
Frederick D. Kershner, now editor
Of the Christian Evangelist, st. Louis
was, until recently, President of Tex
as Christian University, will present
a wonderful series of three Bible stu
dies on the theme: "How We Got Our
New Testament"
Prof. Albert E. Buss, of st. Louis
a cornetist and song leader of wide
reputation, will lead the music.
Among others there will be : DR.
George C. Fracker, R. L. Flynn, Mrs
H. E. Tralle, of Kansas City; Mise;
Muriel White and Susan E. Ramsey
W. H. Danforth, Lansing F. Smith
Mrs. Rolla Watson, of st. Louis; Hugh
Stephens, of jefferson City; c. B. Den.
man, Pennington; F, S. Myers, Greer
City; Rev. P. D. Mangum, Paris;
Frank Rucker, Independence; Prof. NJ
Martini, Liberty, and many others.
There will be IA separate confer,
ence sessions; Elementary (3), sec.
ondary (3), adult (3), officers (2)
county officers ~, COLLEGE ~, college
students ~. Any Sunday Schoo
worker may attend = no credential!
necessary. Particulars may be haC
of Missouri Sunday School Associa
ton, Fullerton Building, st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
10, 20, 80 and 40
Years Ago This Week
Ten Years Ago.

In a shipment of sheep received by
]. T. and W. W. johnson from Mon
tana was one sheep with six perfectly
developed legs. The two extra legs
projected from the right shoulder and
breast of the animal.
j. W. Boles, of Auxvasse, was
elected vice-president of the Missouri
Sheep Breeders Association, which
met at Sedalia.
Engineers started surveying the
route of the Santa Fe-Perry electric
line.
Misses Marie Houston and Edeth
Gary we're visiting in Kansas City.
A young man, giving his name as
Louis Mendel, of East st. Louis, was
found by ]. W. Woodbridge, hiding ii
Mr.. Wooldridge's room in the RingC
Hotel. The young man was arrested
and sentenced to thirty days in Jail fol
trespass.
DIR. F. B. Shaw, of Mexico, was ap'
pointed as a government meat in
spector. He located in st. Louis aftel
the appointment.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
IT|NERANT SCULPTOR SETS
UP STUDIO IN MEXICO

An itintrant sculptor, giving his
name as John McCord and his home
as Philadelphia, made his appearance
in Mexico Friday morning and estab-
lished his studio out of doors. The site
chosen was a small clay bank west Of
the railroad bridge. His tools were a
pocket knife, a small wooden paddle,
which he carries in his pocket, and a
pail Of water. His materials, a bank
of common clay.
With these scant tools and material
he worked from eight o'clock Friday
morning until six that evening and un-
der his hands there grew upon the clay
bank the figure of a mother and babe,
reclining. He called it "Cast up by
the Sea-"
."Call me a bum, a tramp, an timer
ant sculptor, or whatever you WILL" he
said, in answer to questions Friday
evening. 81 make a trip over the coun-
try every year to get into the open and
tramp about doing my work until cold
weather drives me indoors.
"I have been doing this sort of
thing for twenty-four years, following
the fairs and going wherever there
may be people to see my work"
A card BEARING the invitation "Drop
a penny here for the artist" explain
ed the source of his income, and a
goodly pile of small change lay near
the card.
When questioned concerning his life
and his work, he replied:
81 have nothing to say of my life;
make your story as romantic as you
care to, just fix it up to suit your
self"
The "Itinerant Sculptor" talks like
a man of education and seems to thor
oughly enjoy his unique vocation.
The artist returned Saturday anC
added on Indian head and the head Of
a lion to his work of Friday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
CONSIDER THE COST.

A total Of $7,121,227.61 was paid by
the liquor industry to the government
of this State and the local subdivi-
sions thereof during the last two-year
period, in LICENSE AND INSPEC-
TIoN FEES ALONE. The regular
taxes paid by the distillers, whole
s%alers, retailers and various other In
dustries allied with the so-called IL
quor industry, do not enter into this
total. If this source of income is wip-
ed out, this seven million of dollars
will have to be made up. THE ONLY
WAY TO MAKE IT UP is TO IN
CREASE THE STATE, CITY AND
COUNTY TAXES. The taxpayers
will have to pay seven million Of dol
lars additional taxes. Why should
Missouri consider imposing seven mil
lion of dollars additional taxes on the
people of the State at this time? Can
Missouri and the counties and cities
thereof afford to wipe out this income
Of seven million of dollars?
The taxpayers of Missouri are ask
ed to wipe out over half the income of
the State during the next biennial pc
Rod without putting anything in the
place of it, and the farmer and mer-
chant and mechanic and banker and
professional man in Audrain County,
or any other county in Missouri, in
which saloons have been voted out by
the people under u existing local
option law, is asked to increase his
taxes about fifty per cent, in order to
deprive st. Louis, Kansas City and
other large cities of the privilege Of a
regulated liquor traffic, which the peo-
pie Of the cities desire. Taxpayers
will no doubt carefully consider this
proposition before voting for state
wide prohibition. Other people may
try governmental experiments of all
kinds without any feeling of respon-
sibility, but the taxpayer foots the bills
and he has to count the cost. dw1t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19

Mrs. Will Lee was in st. Louis this
Eeek.
Mrs. c. II. Ruble, of Fort Worth
S the guest of Miss Eva Miller.
Mis- Anna Mcclure has returned
from a visit in jefferson City.
Mrs. W. II. Coons, of Fulton, spent
several days in Mexico this week.
Miss Chloe Young, Of Jonesburg, is
the guest of Mrs. Charles Carpenter.
Mrs. R. B. Finley and daughter have
returned to their home in Marshall.
Mrs. George Will Robertson and son
have returned from a visit in Buncc-
ton.
Mrs. H. H. Anderson, of Kansas
City, is the guest of W. G, Burks and
family.
Mrs. C. W. Digges, of Columbia, was
the guest of Mrs. L. B. Hawthorne
last week.
Mrs. George Young, of Montgom-
cry City, was the guest of Mrs. Chas.
Carpenter this week.
Mrs. C. W. Forester has returned
to st. Louis after being the guest Of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ". ]. Rizey
Mrs. Livingston had as lunch guests
Thursday, Miss Eva Miller, Mrs. C. R
Ruble, of Texas, Mrs. Austin Lewis
and Mrs. Young, of Illinois.
Mrs. L. N. Gordon returned to hei
home in Kansas City Friday, after be.
ing the guest of her parents, Judge
and Mrs. W. W. Bolts.
Mrs. Seeman Atterbury, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Joe Goodding, of La Plata, ant
Mrs. Howard Stevens, of Colorado
were the guests of Mrs. ], B. Fry thi.
week.
Mrs. C. r. Ruble was the guest o.
honor at a line party, Wednesda!
afternoon, given by Miss Eva Miller
Refreshments were served at Lew
ellyn's.
Mrs. Edwin TofTendarger, of Ro
chester, Illinois, will arrive next weeE
to be the guest of Mrs. LYDIA Doss
Several functions have been planned
in her honor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
ADVERTISE

amendment.
If you believe in HOME RULE, vote
against the prohibition amendment.
A "wet" vote is to leave the COUN-
TRY DRY" as it NOW is, and to
leave the cities "WET" as the NOW
ARE. Isn't that the FAIR WAY to
settle the matter - doing unto the
cities as you would have the cities do
unto the country, making the Home
Rule work both ways?
Constitutional prohibition would at
a single stroke decapitate this prin-
ciple of Home Rule and destroy at a
blow the inalienabble right of local
self-government.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
j. v. RUTTER REPORTS
LIFE ON BORDER QUIET

When there are $4,000 boys and
young men stationed in a town of little
more than 1000 population in ordina-
ny times, there is bound to be some
thing doing" said John ". Rutter,
who has just returned from a twelve
days business trip to Texas.
While there Mr.. Rutter spent the
larger portion of his time at McAllen,
a small town of a little over 1000 in
habitants in ordinary times, but now
the New York troops, about $4,000
men, are stationed there. In Mercedes,
near by, and McAllen there are $4,000
troops. Many of them are anxious to
return home; a few of the more belli-
gerent feel disappointed because they
have had no chance to fight the Mex
leans.
"The people of McAllen are reaping
a harvest selling food and souvenirs
to the soldiers" said MI. Rutter, "and
mani of the country folk have NOV
ed to town to set up small booths on
the street to sell to the soldiers"
The New York camp contains about
forty acres which is laid out like a
park, with wide streets, lined with
palms and fruit trees.
To give some idea of the great num-
Der of soldiers stationed in Texas, Mr.
Rutter told of a parade in San An
tonic on the fourth of October, dur.
ing which it took seven hours for the
soldiers to pass a given point.
Now that the soldiers are there, thu
native white population of McAller
far outnumbers the Mexicans and lit.
tie trouble is caused by them, but ir
normal times the population of Meal
len contains three Mexicans to every
white.
81 heard of no serious trouble be.
tween the two race while there
stated Mr.. Rutter, "but when l wa'
there last year, the Rangers were hav.
ing a hard time keeping the Mexican
population under control, and strin
gent measures were resorted to to pre-
serve order"
1t seems that the presence of thu
soldiers there have a soothing effect
on the naturally turbulent natures o.
the Mexican population.
Accoring to Mr., Rutter, Texas il
being filled with home-seekers as wei
as with homesick soldiers.
"While I was there" he said, "Johl
Sherry, a real estate dealer of Oma
ha, arrived with three cars Of home
seekers. He was followed by E. Stew
art, of Sedalia, Mo-, who brought il
two more loads of homeseekers."
Even amid home-seekers, Mexican
and soldiers, the Missouri mule still
leads. "While there 1 attended a BIZ
mule and horse show" said Mr.. Rut
ter, "and a pair of mules from Nilsson
ri won the first prize for the bes
pair. A horse shown by Corneliu
Vanderbilt, who is stationed at Nc
Allen, with the New York troops, wo
the blue ribbon among the horses"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-19
He Likes Good Old Mexico, Mo

An old subscriber to the Mexico
Weekly Ledger, renting from Pat
ton, California, says: "Please renew
my subscription to the Weekly Ledger
for another year. 1t is just like a
letter from home. l lived in the VI
cinity of Mexico some twenty years
ago, and like dear old Missouri, and
especially Mexico. While we have a
fine country out here, and a dandy
climate, l am still for Mexico, Mo"