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Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
County of Audrain.

Before me, a Notary Public in and
for the State and County aforesaid,
personally appeared John Beal, Who,
having been duly sworn according to
law deposes and says that he is the
editor, publisher, business manager
and owner of the Mexico Missouri
Message.
Known bondholders, mortgages
and other security holders, holding l
per cent or more of total amount of
bonds, mortfEges, or other secur-
titles, none.
JOHN BEAL.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this End day of October, 1915.
(Seal .Ino. w. Howell
Notary Public.
NY commission expires Nov. /, 1917
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
Ladies', make our store headquar-
tiers next week. BuclIner Drug Co. 4.
MRS. THOMAS.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Thomas, 81
years old, after a long illness, died
at her home in this city Monday af-
ternoon. The funeral was held at
st. Brenden's Church yesterday
morning, interment in the Catholic
cemetery.
The husband, LATE Thomas, sur
wives, besides one daughter, Pearl
Cloe, 9 years old. The mother, Mrs.
Mary Aubuchon, resides at Martins
burg.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
"NIGGER" SHOOTS
HIS SWEETHEART.

George Jenkins, colored, became
Jealous of his sweetheart, Lily Huff
man, last Sunday afternoon and stole
Sheriff Barnett's revolver and went
to the girls home and shot her dead
He then came down town and gave
himself up to the officers.
Lily Huffman had but one arm.
She lost the other arm in a railroad
accident near the passenger stations
here several years ago. Jenkins
worked for the Sheriff, and that's
how it came he knew where to find
the revolver. Jenkins is in Jail.
Next week he will appear before
Judge CAN'T and throw himself on
the mercy of the court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
The November Petit Jury.

The County Court has chosen the
following for the Petit Jury in No
vember:
Salt River. Lewis O'Brien, Mil
ford Berry, Milt Householder, A. X
Luckie, c. A. Mildred, T. M. Dowell
>Loutre. w. j. Baker, j. w. Dow
ell.
Cuivre. ]. E. Northcutt, j. ID
Lewellen, F.. p. Jacobs, Geo. MOsby
j. T. ClitherO, Hiram Culwell.
Linn. Frank Skelly, d. r. Eris.
man.
Prairie. w. c. Shoup, Thomas
Bolts.
Sailing. j. c. Terry, John Spell.
man.
Wilson. Charles Householder
John O'Brien, Jr., John Blum.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
Buckner is agent for Il. p. $
Paint, best line on market.
ATKINS-McCOWAN.

Mr.. Durby Atkins, % years old,
and Miss Gladys MCGOWAN, 15 years
old, were united in marriage Tues
day, Judge Alex Carter officiating.
Mother of bride, Mrs. Ruby Meow
an, gave consent for the marriage.
The couple will reside in Boone
county.
Have you tried Duncan Ice Cream?
Served only by Buckner.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
ONE WAY TO SAVE MONEY.
RN PatrOniZinp

The New and Secondhand Store.
For all kinds Stoves, Beds, Chairs,
Mattresses, Suit Cases, Trunks, Rugs,
Dresses, and everything needed in
the home. If you want to buy or
sell, call on G. II. Randle.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Ben Sims, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. Sims, southeast of Mexico, suf-
fered a broken leg Monday when the
horse he was riding fell with him
He will be laid up for a time.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
WANT ITEMS.

FOR SALE;---New and up-to
date furniture, stoves and rugs, sew
Ing machines on easy payments. Can
furnish your homes or rooms COM
pletc. Buy now and pay later.
SAM MORRIS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

DR., j. B. Hawkins of this city be-
longed to a family of IL children.
He is now the only child left. His
last surviving sister, Mrs. Minerva
Lemon, S3 years old, died this week
at Waynesville, N. C.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Born, Sept. 10, 1916, to Mr.. and
Mrs. H. L. Holbrook, of near Benton
City, 1-2-pound son. They have
named him Lester Colbert.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
Money to Loan.

am now prepared to make loans
on good farm land security for s.,
7 and 10. years time at per cent
interest," Terms easy.
JOHN w. HOWELL,
ct Mexico, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Robert Don Carlos, County Clerk
of Clay County, Mo-, is visiting his
friend. Milt Householder, northwest
of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
JOHN w. HOWELL

Real Estate, Loans and Insurance.
Gives special attention to Notarial
Work and Conveyancing.
Office: French bldg. Mexico. Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Champ Clark will spend two days
campaining in this county. See dates
for his appointments in tbs issue of
the Message.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

1t is stated that AZ cars will be
required to transport the combined
shows that are to exhibit in Mexico
next week during the Carnival.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

The Prairie Oil & Gas Co, is con-
tructing third pipe line thru this
section of the State. The line starts
at Carrollton, Mo-, and extends thru
to Woodriver, Ill.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mrs. Bruce Davault of Oklahoma
City, Okla, came Friday for visit
to her mother in Mexico, Mrs. James
Duncan, and other relatives.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Ralph Wayne, with the University
Publisher at Columbia, visited his
parents here last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Are YOU going to paint? Have
Buckner figure your house. Can
save you money.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Adams
are visiting relatives in Knoxville,
Tenn.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

of Ownership, Manage
ment, Circulation, Etc, Requir-
ed by the Act of Congress of
August ri, 1912.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

A. G. Azdell-One boil came near
putting him out of commission. He
thought of Job and took courage.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
NOW is THE TIME

to buy dandy bargain in u buggy
it is a little bit late in the season and
we will close them out at bargain.
Il. II. FERRIS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

]. H. Hebel, north of Mexico, is
making nice improvements on his
dwelling.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Elmer Jenkins of this city is re-
ported very i'll.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05
THE BEST LINE

of Heaters we have had in Fl years
in the Hardware business. Wood
stoves 81 to $50. Coal Stoves 500
to $4,000. IL. II. FERRIS
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

j. G. Lakenan visited his friend,
Rev. Fielding Marvin, in st. Louis,
this week. Mr.. Marvin is seriously ill.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

For. Sale.-A Peerless Jewell
stove; also a Monitor Oak, No. 16.
Inquire of G. Zaugg, N. Wade street.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. d. M. Beam, east of
Santa Fe, called on The Message
Monday of this week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

A. G. Davidson of Laddonia was
operated on at the Mexico Hospital
Monday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mrs. Mary Langford of Kansas
City is visiting the family of ]. w.
Coleman in Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Try BuCkner'S Creams and Ices.
We carry the largest assortment in
Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Work on the booths for the Corn
Carnival began Monday morning.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Beam of
Hannibal are visiting relatives in the
Moline neighborhood.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcclure On
Red Bluffs, Cali, are visiting friends
north of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

The Savings Bank is building a
new vault. 1t will be modern and
up-to-date.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

OF Mexico Missouri Message, publish
ed weekly at Mexico, Missouri, for
October /, 1916.
State of Missouri,
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

w. II. Beal is home from visit
to his son, C. w. Beal, at Broken
Bow, Neb.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Circuit Court adjourned last week
to next Monday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Make our store your headquarters
during the street fair. l.. II. Ferris.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Make our store headquarters dur
ing Fair week. Buckner.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Have Buclsner figure anything in
any line and save money.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

Attractive trimmed hats from
$500 to $500.
JURGENsEN.
Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-05

l have two good Shropshire rams
for sale.
A. B. Weidler.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

would feel degraded for either them
selves, or any of their family, to ap-
PEAR in public with badly rundown
shoes on their feet, and all on account
O; personal appearance; but equally as
certain and woefully more to be re
GREETED, would it be for either the citi-
c or any member Of his family, to
be seen by the public with rundown
characters.
The rundown heeled man, is a man
OF i~neficiency, he is a blight in the
way of prosperity, a clog to any kind
of improvement and cannot help him
self;-he gets further and further
down and drags others along with him.
He is not only out Of a job, but
couldn't do anything with a job if he
had one. It is useless to look for any
thing from the life of a man rundown
at the heel, in Henderson County, or
any other county and the thing to do,
is to help straighten him up.
The thing cannot be done except in
the natural channels and under the
laws of the King Of the Universe. We
are told in the Book that everybody
looks to for counsel, that the Thing
that hath been, is that which shall
be, and that which is done, is that
which shall be done" So we put but
little confidence in the modern EXETER,
o. prophet who is all the time crying
out, that the natural order of things,
the Providential order of things the
spiritual order of things. or the human
order of things are going to be differ
ent hereafter to what they have been
heretofore. Just remind them, that
the Scripture even, when nationally
Interpreted, is to the contrary and if
our fellow creature becomes run down
at the heels, we are the coblers to
straighten him up and put him on q
level. More anon.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
RICHARD PON LOWNDES FOR
SENATE.

Being inspired with an earnest de-
sire to be useful to my fellow country
men in this my district and having
been urged by many friends in the
county who believe in me, to enter the
political field.
I hereby myself a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination to
represent the Thirty-second Senatorial
district of North Carolina I believe
In giving the farmer and the laboring
mar the benefit of sound legislation
Build up your country and your
towns will thrive.
A prosperous farmer means a sue
cessful merchant.
It was so from the beginning, is now,
and ever will be.
The wealth of the world must como
from mother earth, and by the sweat of
brow of the laboring man
Therefore my platform is a simple
one which covers the ground.
Farmers and LabOriRg Men First.
The political representatives of this
country have usually or frequently
suffered with the fatal disease of
near-S1ghtedneSS. The professional
is not a practical business man. Money
ed interest have always predominated
and have secured unequal benefits
from and through sue Representatives.
Only a farmer can represent the in
terest of a farmer because he knows.
Only a man who has been up against
the grind-stone of this world can rep
resent the interest Of the laboring man,
whose we1l-being is of the uppermost
Importance.
Corporations and moneyed interests
do not lack reputation, they will.
Farmers and laboring men do, and it
is their fault.
This is a free country, your vote is
your birth-right, if you misplace your
vote, you sell your birth-right and
ycUr soul:
adv RICHARD ION LOWNDES.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
KEEP CoTToNSEED AT HOME
Expectation of Meal and Cake Is Ag-
ricultural Crime-Not Enough
Produced for Domestic Use.

One of the many agricultural crimes
of America, it is we'll stated, is the
expectation of cottonseed meal and
cake. 1t would be a wise law, if it
were constitutional, which should pro-
hibit all expectation of these prod
ucts. There is not enough for home
consumption in spite of the enormous
cotton crop of the South, says Balti-
more American. In fact, there could
not be a surplus as long as there re-
mains a single WORKOUT acre in the
United States. Yet we continue to
sell a large portion every year of our
very birthright. Denmark, for In
stance, has largely built up her won.
derful dairy industry through the pur.
chase Of a large share Of the 1000, 900.
600 pounds of cottonseed meal and
cake which the United States annually
exports. At current prices the seed
alone from an acre of cotton is worth
as much as all the corn that could be
produced upon that acre. Every Inc
Of cottonseed grown in America
should be fed on American farms and
its enormous fertilizing strength thus
returned to the soil. Cottonseed meal
contains over 40 per cent Of protein,
or meat and muscle-forming material,
while cornmeal contains about 9 per
cent and oats or wheat less than II
per cent. Cottonseed meal contains
about z per cent of nitrogen, and as
a fertilizer is worth about $32 a ton.
However, it should not be applied as
a fertilizer; it should be fed to stock
on the farm, and if the resulting ma
nure is properly handled the great
bulk of this $32 will be found in the
manure. Poor food makes poor ma
nure and rich food rich manure.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
COTTON AS A PEACE FACTOR
Any Nation Running Out of Staple Is
Just About at End of String In
Matter of Warfare,

How much of a factor the efforts
OF the allies to keep cotton away
from Germany may prove to be in
the promotion of peace depends upon
two things; viz, the magnitude of
the cotton stock now held in Germany
and the extent to which further sup
plies may be prevented, says Pitts
burgh Dispatch. What the exact sit
uation is in Germany in this respect
only Germany knows, and she is say
ing nothing.
G~uncotton is so essential now in
the manufacture of ammunition that
1t Is difficult to realize that it's de-
velopment to successful use by Schon-
bein, a Swiss chemist, only dates back
to 1S45. The first step in the fnven-
ton had been taken by Pelouze in
1888, but it was Schonbein who estab-
lished it's utility. He treated cotton
wool with a mixture of nitric and sui
phuric acids. and then washed with
water and dried it, making practically
little change in it's appearance. To
make uncotton di~sintegrate suddenly
it has to be detonated. It will not ex-
plode from mere ignition by fire. but
simply burns with a rapid flare.
Any nation that runs out of gun.
cotton, with no more in sight, is Just
about at the end OF its string ia tx
matter of warfare. So Drotracted
warfare by any nation of Europe de-
Ponds on the cotton supply Of the
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
PENNSYLVANIA BOTTLED UP.

"Hendersonville is the natural out
let from the mountains to the low
the mountains can be reached except
through Henderson county," says the
Hendersonvi1le Hustler.
Speaking from a standpoint of safety
anc comfort the Hustler is right and
while we are progressing with the
Greenville road we need to move in
road building more rapidly than the
ccnvicts can possible move US.
Bottled up with the cork in, that's
alL-SyIvan Valley News.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
Farmers Educational
INT and Cot Operative
Union Of America
Matters q Especial MOmentt to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Unused land is a liability.

Unused land is a liability.
Forget the faults of other people.
Every big job seems at first impos
sible.
Pick cotton quickly and sell ii
slowly.
Farm tests are worth more than
all the theories.
No man nor no business can build
securely in a hurry.
We're too apt to think our neighbOI
has the best neighbor.
A friend is a man you can call q
liar and get away with it.
The best way to ascend steadily in
the world is to keep On the level.
1t takes but a few minutes to make
a bad impression and years to out,
live it.
Men often swear to keep from cry.
ing, and women often cry to keep
from swearing.
Encourage the boy If he is interest
ed in good corn. He an pick the
seed for next year
One may love the friend whose
faults he points out, but there are sev
eral more effective ways to prove 1t.
Success lies in thinking individu.
ally and acting collectively" This ap-
plies to farmers and merchants as
q whole.
Dabbling in stocks and leaving the
farm to. run itself is not a good way
to do business. 1t is the surest way
to trouble and loss.
The farmer must view the profess
sion of agriculture as one of vast eco
nomic value. 1t is the profession upon
which all others depend.
Learn by the experience of others;
take some good farm papers and do
not expect to get first-class papers for
nothing; it costs money to employ ex-
pert writer's.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
HENDERSON COUNTY. AS AFFECTI
ED BY RUNDOWN HEELS.
By ThOs. J. Rickman.)

Editor Hustler:
Perhaps there is not an observing
man or woman in Henderson County,
who at some time, or many times, IN
their lives, have had their attention
called to a croOked-leggeda limping,
staggering sort Of e man. going
along with his shoe-heel all worn OFF,
to one side and that part of his shoe
that ought to be fiat on the ground,
was trying to turn over and cling to
the side of his foot. Did any. of the
busters readers ever stop to think
what kind of a character a man with
a rundown shoe-heel hanging to his
feet, was almost certain to possess?
OF course we mean the fellow who ha-
bitually has his shoe rundown.
Would you want such a man to be
the pastor of your church, or the Su-
~perintendent of your Sunday school?
Would you like to have him as an
everyday instructor in your public
schools, hi~gh-schools, or in your col.
leges? Would he do for a sheriff,
city marshall, township constable, the
mayor, or a leader of your church
choir? If you left your house on some
Monday morning looking for a lawyer,
to give you advice, and your attention
Vas attracted by the tapping of a fell
lw's rundown shoe heel, walking the
sidewalk, and you told your neighbor.
whom you met, that you was looking
for a legal adviser to draw your will.
and he pointed to the rundown heel
man, and said, there goes one" would
you call to him. and sit down on the
curb-stone and seek his advice?
II not, why not? You say, well his
shoes should be kept in good condi-
ton, his feet look repulsive to me, he
locks to me like a SLOUGH" / believe
he is one-if he is a physical sloucE,
l suspect he is also a moral SLOUGH.
He neither stands, nor walks upright
and l suspect that a man who does
not stand, nor walk upright is not
morally upright. Physical sIouchi-
ness will contribute to moral slouchi-
ness, and somehow l do not want such
a man to preach for me, pray for me,
teach me, advise me, sing for me. hold
Office for me. govern me, Inc if I must
tell the truth, 1 do not believe l would
Want such a man to ploW my farm.
hoe my garden, milk my COW. or even
split my stove wood.
So certain is it known that a run
down heel is evidence of a rundown
morality, that in Switzerland and
other hIlly countries, where it is DEEM
ed important that mems characters
when in need of ~reshaping should be
looked after, N of the means provid-
ed is for the public to keep a cobler,
to straighten up the heels of rundown
shoes.
No doubt Henderson County citi-
zens, as well as most of the balance
of the world, have never yet taken
time, to influence the public with the
IDEA, that it is easier to walk we'll
stand well, look we'll. feel well and
appear well, when the shoe heels are
ii good condition.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
Modern War Munitions.

It takes three months to make q
shrapnel shell. Such a %proiectile has
the form of a cylinder, which, by the
help of a time fuse. blows it's head of
at the instant desired, scattering $50
or more lead bullets. The smallest
size used by the United States for the
three-inch guns-such guns, as well
as howitzers, are employed for firing
Shrapnel-costs S..
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
LIVE HEALTH NOTES.

Plague is a disease of rodents?
Malaria is spread by a special mos
quito?
House screening is a good disease
preventive?
Fingers, files and food spread ty-
pboid fever?
Pellagra may be prevented or cured
by proper diet?
The United States Public Health
Service believes that the common
towel spreads trachoma, a disease Of
the eyes?
There is no Federal institution in
the continental United States for the
reception and care of lepers?
Children from sanitary homes adj
vance more rapidly in school than
those from dirty premises?
DONsr FATI no RFAn THE LAST
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
REMEMBER T;HE DAHLIA SHOW.

A prize of $500 in gold will be giveE
to the boy or girl of Rendersonville
who keeps the prettiest, cleanest back
yard during the summer of 1916.
A second prize of $3.50 in gold wiz
be awarded for the next best back
yard. Those competing for a prize
will have their premises inspected
TIL &c. times during the season.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

THE Stetson
! owner hears
many compliments
about his taste In
hats.
There is some
thing about the
appearance of a
Stetson that IN
spires respect, even
among those who
feel that a Stetson
is to good for them
to wear.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30
Renefactor Of mankind.

It may be finally s&d OF John star
rison, English inventor, that by tlss in
vention of his chronometer-the uVer-
sleepless and ever-trusty friend o. the
mariner-he conferred an lncalculable
benefit on science and navigation, and
established his claim to be regarded
as n Of the greatest b~enefactors Of
mankind.
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

FOR EXCHANGE for lot i'm Hender-
sonville-One fine double lot in Bit
more.-T. J.. Curran, (Owner), Rs,
City. 3-3O-7tp
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

FOR SALE-Beauty of Beauty Seed
Potatoes grown from Northern seed
last season. F. A. BLY,, Henderson,
vile, r. F. D. 3-30.tfc
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

DON'T FAIL TO READ THE LAST
French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-30

The HendersonvilIe Light &
Power Co., announces thai
it has perfected arrange
ments to have houses wired
for electric lights at most
reasonable rates and on terms
that will permit everybody to
have their houses wired.
Call and see them and get
particulars.