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The Dolores star., 1916-01-28

this reason. is intensely curious to
know what goes on upstairs-how the
rooms are arranged. what the furni-
ture Is like. and how the presidential
folks spend their time when at home.
Fifteen years or more ago the
White House was half Office building.
Today, however. the White House
thanks to its reconstruction by Mr.
Roosevelt, at cost OF $500. 00O-is
the most admirably equipped and most
comfortable palace in the world.
The White House now has tan
The Dolores star., 1916-01-28

W AsHINGToN floor Of the White
visitors weekday,
carefully guarded intrusion by the public
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
POWELL FORD.

Another big rain Monday night,
most we have had any time this year
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lewis spent
Sunday in Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milford Berrey and
M. N. Powell and Miss Powell attend
ed memorial services at Elmwood
Cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Frances Mason, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Mason, is recovering
from an attack Of measles.
Born, May %, 1916, son, to Mr..
and Mrs. Jake Newberry.
M.N.Powell owned a COW that gave
birth to twins. One he sold to Earl
Carter for $40.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will McMurtry, en-
tertained Mrs. McMurtry's mother,
Mrs. McPheeters, of Mexico, last week
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
BEREA LETTER

Ira Mayes and wife had as guests
Sunday Geo. Gardner and wife and
Frank Erdel and family of Rush Hill.
Nova Miller and Miss Myra Miller
visited in Centralia Sunday and Mon
day Their cousin, Miss Katie, ac-
companied them home for visit.
Oscar Martins visited in Molino.
Sharp school house has new roof.
WV undy sold a house and small
tract of land west Of Moline last
week to NJ. A. Franklin for $500.
DR.. F. P. Wood of st. Louis was a
business visitor in Molino this week.
Miss Cora Mundy is spending a few
weeks with relatives in Vernon Co.
J.A.Cauthorn purchased new bug
gy this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
BEAVER DAM.

The gras and oats are good. Hay
crop looks fine. Too wet for farming.
Wheat may make half crop if the
fly will let the rest of it alone.
j. N. Waugh sold to Reed Burk 80
head of shoats at $40 per hundred.
Herbert Patterson delivered hogs
in Mexico Monday. Cam McElroy and
w. NJ. Orbet also delivered hogs in
Mexico Monday.
R. A. Herring spent Sunday with
his brother in Auxvasse.
Harland MCGOWAN spent Sunday
with relatives in Mexico.
A rain and hail storm in this vicin-
ity Friday, but no serious damage.
Miss Elizabeth billiard of Mexico
is spending a few days with friends
in this vicinity.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
HIGH HILL LETTER.

Mrs. Green Cant visited relatives
here recently, she goes to Omaha,
Neb., soon, to visit her son, Henry.
The Monday and Tuesday rain was
the most disagreeable of the season.
C. 3. Sellers delivered another fine
lot of hogs to Centralia parties.
S. T. Torreyson, candidate for as
SCISSOR, was the first to visit this
section.
Chas. Sellers brought 80 stock hogs
from w. T. election at $3.50.
Philip Daily and wife recently
spent the day with B. F. Pulis's.
Lee Miller bot - shoats from Pu-
lis for $125; Lee is successful hog
raiser.
Uucle Orris Sims who has been
quite i'll is getting better.
]. F. Edwards, at Excelsior Springs
for his health, is reported much i'm
proved. G.. w. and J.J.Pulis of Knox
Co., are visiting their brother, B. F.
Rev. T.R.White had large and APP
preciative audiences at his regular
services at New Hope Saturday and
Sunday.
All the children have recently Wis.
tied Aunt Margaret Pulls who is i'll.
Mrs. Mettie Brown of Centralis
has been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Orris Sins, and her son
Cleveland Brown.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
CIRCUIT COURT IN SESSION.
Judge CAN'T Tackles a Docket Of 295
Generalization Being Disposed Of
Promptly.


Circuit Judge e. s. Can't opened
Circuit Court promptly Monday
morning. 1t was his first experience
here since his appointment by Gov.
Major to succeed the late Judge J. d.
Barnett.
number of criminal cases were
first heard.
Jaes Russell, colored, was sentenc-
ed to two years in the penitentiary
for larceny.
VIM. Briscoe, coIored, two years for
larceny.
Charles Farmer, two years for So
domy.
Arthur Cox, white, IL months in
Jail and a fine of 800 for carrying
concealed weapons.
Dora McHugh, white, two years on
the charge of robbing a white man.
John Jones, petit larceny, fined
5000.
Charles Muster, local option viola
ton, six months in Jail.
James Corder, disturbing the
peace, 500 fine.
]. P. Sanford was appointed
Deputy Constable of Salt River town
ship.
Alice Lewton, granted divorce from
Ezra A. Lewton. 3S.
The first trial by jury came up
Tuesday afternoon. Charles Archer
against ]. w. Smith regarding a sale
of cattle.
Verdict in above case, $500.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Alice NJ. Johnson and c.
II. Johnson, her husband, by their |
certain deed of trust, dated the oath
day of April, 1918, and recorded in
the Recorders office within and for
Audrain County, Missouri, in Book
40 for recording trust deeds, at page
1923 thereof, conveyed to the
undersigned trustee the following de-
scribed real estate, situate in Audrain
County, Missouri, to-wit:
All of Lots Five (5) and Six
CD in Block Four ca in the County
Addition to the City of Mexico, Mis-
souri,.
In trust to secure the payment
of certain promissory note in said
deed of trust fully described and set
forth;
And, whereas, default has been
made in the payment of said note and
the interest thereon, and the same
is now due and remains unpaid;
Now, therefore, 1, H. G. Nc
Clure, the trustee named in said
deed of trust, at the request of the
legal holder of said note, will, or
FRIDAY, the Both day of June, 1915
between the hours of o'clock a. m
, and 8 o'clock p. m. of that day, pro
coed to sell the above described rea
estate, at public vendue, to thu
highest bidder, at the East from
I door of the Court House in Mexico
;. Audrain County, Missouri, for cash
y to satisfy said debt and the cost
t and expenses of executing thi
: trust.
II. @. Mcclure, Trustee.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
ARE IN NEW QUARTERS.
The Western Union Telegraph Go.
Arrange to Greatly Enlarge Their
Service.

Effective this week the Western
Union Telegraph Co., believing that
Mexico has a bright future, extended
their hours of service and employed
an additional operasor.
Their office is now located in the
Ringo Block, facing South jefferson
street, and is open continuously from
7:45 a. M to 10 pm. When the
new furniture is installed Mexico will
have one of the finest and best
equipped Western Union offices in
Missouri.
Miss Lizzie Burnett will remain
with the company. She gives faithful
and careful service and is known by
everybody.
The company will have two mes
sengers hereafter instead of one. The
new arrangements will be convenient
and accommodating.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
PRAIRIE LEA,

Friends of Robert Dairs are sorry
to hear of his serious illness. He is at
his cousins home in Kansas.
Tom Shires' smiling countenance
was seen as he passed thru, running
the engine which hauls the grading
outfit. The roads are much improved.
Warner Deboe is working for Fred
Norris. He will move his family soon.
Mrs. Wheeler is visiting her moth
er, in Ackley, Ia. Mrs. Weaver is car
ing for the home in her absence.
Misses lola Beal and Annalee Cobb
visited at the George Erdel home
the first OF the week.
The Ruse family attended Memo.
rial service in Mexico Sunday
Frank Erdel and wife visited al
the home of Ira Mayes first of week
A party and dance was enjoyed BY
a number of persons from the Lea a
Paul Wyss', or Pete Peterson,) Wed
nesday night, May S1st.
Members of LiStleby Sunday schoo
are practicing for Children's Day ex
ercises for the third Sunday in June
Jim sipple and family of Laddoni,
came over by auto Friday evening
visiting at the J. r. Shook home. Mrs
Shelley accompanied them.
Frank Shelley and family wer'
visitors at the Rogers home Sunday,
Too much rain for work, but fin,
for grass.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Judge S. c. Groves says that fine
mare of his brought him horse mule
colt this season. 1t is the seventh mule
colt and every one before this had
been a mare. He says he will always
be able to pay for the Message if that
fine mare keeps on raisin' mules.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Miss Ethel Snidow of this city
who is just home from Oklahoma
where she taught thru the past year,
returns this week, having been elect
ed to teach Mathematics thru the
summer moths of the State Normal
at Durant, Oklahoma. Miss Snidow
is regarded as one of the best teach
ers in the West.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

DR.. Theo H. Winans will attend
the annual meeting of the Interna-
tional Homeopathic Association at
Philadelphia, June 21-24, and will be
absent from June 10 to 20.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

e. P. Johnson sold two loads of
fat cattle on the market this week
which brought $1O.65. They weigh
ed LAB pounds. He had fed the.
cattle since last December on ra-
ton of shelled corn, timothy and
clover hay and Ralston's Purina Fa-
tena molasses feed.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

J.F.Betz and family of Guthrie
have returned home after a weeks
visit with the families of ]. j. Wood,
B. F. Miller, and KIP Ball. Miss Nina
will enter M. s.U. for the summer.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Pimpell's New Cafe will be opened
Saturday June 10th. Dinner will be
served by the Baptist ladies. Take
your friends to dinner Saturday at
PimpelPs restaurant.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

The interests are still pounding away
for preparedness" They got the la
boring men into parades in St. Louis,
Chicago, New York, New Orleans and
other large cities last week. We
wonder how many thousands of them
were coerced-for fear they might
lose their jobs. If VIM. r. Hearst
and his like could be conscripted it
would all be better TO our liking.
Hearst owns million acres in Old
Mexico, and if he could have had his
way he would have had our American
boys down there long ago to be shot
at, specifically and really, to protect
his ranch and interests, while he
stood away back and looked on, safe
himeslf all right. No one man
ought to be allowed to own a million
acres of land in Mexico or anywhere
else.
H
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

The w. c. T. U. will meet Friday
at $3.50 pm. at the Club Room at the
Public Library; Mrs. Pearson, leader,
and the subject is anti-narcotics.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Misses Elizabeth and Anna o'Brien
left this week to attend summer
school at the State Normal at Cape
Girardeau.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Powell are
visiting their son, Elmer Powell, at
Hardin, Mont. They expect to be
gone about three weeks.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

The Ladies of Rising Sun church
will give an ice cream social at the
home of Forest Weaver, near Moline.
Saturday evening, June II.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

J.W. Hammett of this county had
26 head of 1929 pound steers on the
market few days ago which sold at
$1O.10. A good price, all right. Mr.
Hammett conditioned the cattle him
self, and he is proud of the price he
got.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Wheat prospects in this county are
better than promised some time ago,
but it is yet poor enough. The pros
poets for corn, oats and gras, how
ever, were never better, it is said.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

FRESH MEATS AND GROCERIES,.
The Best Goods for the Least Money.
Cash Paid For FAT STOCK, HIDES
and PRODUCE. Both phones.
Frank A. Sannabeck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08
JOHN W. HOWELL

Real Estate, Loans and Insurance.
Gives special attention to NOtariaI
Work and COnveyancing.
ONCE: French Bldg, Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Mrs. Clyde Blackman of Cedar City
is the guest of Mrs. j. ]. Wood.
the guest of Mrs. j. j. Wood.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Miss Mary Buckley is home from
a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Buckley
at Pittsburg, Pa.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

o, E. Snedeker, near Worcester,
has quit the farm and will rust up
for year or two.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Miss Percie Fuhrer of Benton City
and Miss Blanche White left yester-
day for Columbia to attend U. of Mo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Irwin and Louis Fuhrer of Benton
city we're in Mexico on business yes
terday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

]. T. Swift, the Indian Runner
Duck man, was in Mexico Monday.
He very kindly remembered the Mes
sage in substantial way.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

- 1t is estimated that the average ma
nure pile will breed 100000 flies per
ton.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Rats are the most expensive animal
which man maintains.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-06-08

Clean water, clean food, clean
houses make clean healthy American
citizens.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27
HUGHES GIVEN
GREAT OVATION
BY BOSTON|ANS
SAYS HE WILL BE AN
AMERICAN PRESIDENT
And Have the Ablest Cabinet
in the Country-Chcers
Interrupt Him.

BOSTON. Oct. 26--Chares +.
Hughes tonight told an audirnce which
filled ROStOn's big arena that he pro
posed to be an American president, II
elected. unswerVed by any SUGGESTION
Of foreign Influence.
And / propose" he added, that Il
7 am elected, We shall have the aDlG5t
cabinet that this country can suppl?.
Mr.. Hughes also declared that he
would maintain American rights and
that he had "absoluteIy no patience
whatever with the idea than an Amer
lean citizen following his lawful pur.
suits. in any part Of the word should
be left unprotected by the country
from which he came"
Mr. Hughes had prepared hi" speech
in advance and while nr adhered 10 It,
in substance, h, mad" radical changes
of it's phraseuIugy in delivery. Tie
reached the city after Two addresses
al Hartford and Providence untired
and apparently in good spirits. The
big audience gave him five mlnNe
cheer when he entered the hall and
time after time interrupted him with
applause and cheers during the dcliT-
cry Of his speech.
Mr.. Hughes declaration Of his inten.
ton to be IAN American President II
elcCleu, "dS llLtlI upitI W IhNNi3 anu
applause at the conclusion OF every
sentence.
"If am elected as expect TO be-,
he began. The audience stopped him
with cheering and from various Sec-
tions of the hall came shouts OF You
will be-
An American President.
"If l am elected. as i expect 10 be-
he began again, we shall have an
American administration with eXclu-
Sively American policies devoted 10
American interests. propose 10 be
an American president unsweryed by
any suggestion of foreign Influence.
I'VE are living at time when il is
necessary for the United States to
gird itself that it may take its proper
place among the nations OF the world
under the conditions which will ensue
at the end of this war It cannot be
done unless we realize the vast i'm
portance of the public business, and If
! | am elected. propose that We shall
have the ablcsl cabinet that this coun-
! try can supply.
| THE privileges Of American citi-
, zenship are not for the executive to
grant or withhold. They exist; they
exist prior To anyone's election. They
| constitute part of the sacred trust
which the executive must faithfully
fulfill. 1t is Il recognition Of the rights
OF citizenship that we righfully eX-
pect from our government.
But ! do not want to be president
! that few privileged persons may
grow rich" he declared; 81 do not
want to be president Of country
which aims its policies to promote the
welfare Of limited fw. | want to
sec the great plain people Of this
, country prosperous"
Conception Of Duty
In his speech here tonight, Mr..
Hughes said:
mo man can tell in advance what
unexpected demands the next four
years may present. but one whose con-
[Cont!ned on Page TWelve.)
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27
.RUMAN|ANS BLOW
Up A BRIDGE AND
CHECK GERMANS
LATTER MAKE ADVANCE
IN OTHER QUARTERS
The French Repulse Counter
Attacks Near Verdun-
Italians Advance.

= Except for the announcement that
the Rumanians before their retreat
from Tchernavoda blew up the big
bridge spanning the Danube river.
thecrbv placing an obstacles in the
way of the advance of the Teutonic
Allies from Dobruja into old Rumanla,
if such 4 move was intended by them,
little fresh knowledge of the real sit
uation in that sector Of the worlds
war has been youchsafed by either
the Rumanian or Teutonic Allied war
chancellories.
According to Petrograd, the force
of the violent blows which Field
Marshal Won Mackensen had been
delivering in his rapid drive north.
ward in Dobrudja has slackened
somewhat, although Berlin asserts
that the Teutonic Allies are still MAX
ing progress against the Rumanlans
and Russians.
Along the Transylvanian front the
Rumanians and Austro- Germans are
still engaged in hard fighting at var
ious points. Berlin repores that in
the Trotus valley, south of Paroituz,
and on the roads to Sinaya and Cam
plung the allies of the Central Pow
ers have met with further successes.
On the other hand, Bucharest asserts
that the Austro-Germans have been
driven from the entire western from
tier OF Moldavia, northern Rumanla,
suffering heavy casualties, and that In
the UZul and Oituz valleys the Ru-
manian arms also have been success
full.
Counter Attacks Fail.
Again the Germans have delivered
counter-attacks - four in number -
against the newly won French posi-
tions, at Douaumont, in the region OF
erdun. but like all of their efforts
since the big French drive of Tuesday
they were successfully withstood.
SIMILARLY violent attack against
the British in the Stuff trench, north
of the Stuff redoubt near Thiepral,
was put down. Elsewhere on this
front there were only artillery duels.
In the wooded region of the Car
pathian Mountains, the Germans es-
Sayed assaults against the Russians,
but according to the PetroSrad war
office their efforts failed.
In Volhynia, to the west Of Lutsk,
the Russians. without previous artll-
lery preparation. attempted to storm
with infantry a German position. The
German artillery broke up the sortIe.
|. Two villages southwest of Lake
Doiran, on the Macedonian 'front.'
Golobrda and Laisitsa-haye been
captured by the French. Elsewhere
in this theatre the fighting is being
done mainly by the artillery. The
Austrians are holding an intense ar
tillery fire on the Italian positions IN
Gorilla.
The British mine sweeper Genista
has been torpeiCrd and sunk with the
los os fall Of her officers and 73 Of
her crew of SIS men.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27
RELATION II
j. {. To TIE
EUROPE IN NAR
ABLY DISCUSSED BY
PRESIDENT WILSON
In Address at Cincinnati
Says This Country WILDE
Strong After War.

CINCINNAT1, O.. Ocl. 26.-Taking
advantage Of Il strenuous visit TO Gin
cinnati 10 discuss the relation Of the
United States 10 the European war,
President Wilson today declared that
this is the last war that involves the
world that the united States can keep
out Of He gave as his reason his
belief that the business OF neutrality
is over" and that war now has such
a scale that the position Of neutrals
sooner or later becomes intOlerable.
He added that the nations ot the
world must gel together and say no
body can hereafter be neutral as
respects the disturbance of the worlds
peace for an object which the worlds
Cninion cannot sanction"
After denying the Republican claim
that the business prosperity Of the
United States during the last two
years has ben due 10 trade created
by the war, the president ridiculed
predictions that after the war Europe
will overwhelm this nation by its
economic strength and dump in the
United States goods now being stored
up for that purpose. He asserted
that exports of everything that goes
to supply armies makes only one per
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-27
NINETEEN KILLED
when HOSPITAL IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE

FAF.NHAM, Que. Oct. 26--Nineteen
persons five children, eight women and
>ix men were believed late tonight 10
AVE lost their lives N the fire which
DESTROYED ST. Elizabeth Hospital early
oday. There were 2lS persons in the
lospital, of whom liz were children,
e; aged women and the other servants
md assistants TO the grey nuns.
The fire, the cause Of whicn has not
)een determined, still smouldered ut
midnight, making it impossible 10 as
.ertain accurately how many Of the
inmates Of the hospital had perlshcd.
The property damage was estimated at
;135, 900. partly covered hy insurance.
One reason for the difficulty in def
nitely establishing the loss Of life, 1t
-as said, was that the majority of the
inmates Of the hospital were without
...Iatiyes or friends. Those who PEI
shed are believed to have been en-
ombed by tons Of debris.
An investigation as to the cause ol
he fire disclosed that blaze started
n a chimney of the hospital TuesdaY
light. 1t is The theory Of the authorl'
les tha; this s1nouldered and broke
,ut again last night
Many OF the nuns. II was said,
isked their lives in efforts TO save
laTientS and children entrapped IN INC
.ospi;al. Famed by a strong breeze.
ne flames, unchecked by the small
,ts OF water the t!remen were able 20
arrow on them. swept through Sne
uiltinc with lightning speed cutting
# the inmates in the various depart
Itnts.
The electric lights went out soon aft
:. the fire starred and the nuns and
Il er rescuers had TO work in the dark.
len who went into the building sad
hey had TO carry out patients with
theirs hanging onto them. A number
the rescuers were lost in darkness
nd had narrow escapes.
One nun, single handed, Is said 10
ave saved the lives of forty-f1Ve child
en-. She stood on balcony on the
aird floor. on which the children had
cen cut off. and handed them to the
u---- an ladders below.