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Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27

GAVE $4,000 TO THE DRYS.

ST PAUL, July 21. - The Prohibi-
ton National Convention is going to
nominate some one for President to-
day, but little old man from john
ston, Fla, is its hero.
The little old man sat pretty far
back in the convention hall yesterday
and talked to his gray-haired looking
little wife, who shared the honors.
They were Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Cof-
fin, who own 10000 acres Of land in
Florida, but act and look just like the
rest of "home folks" who are attend
ing the convention.
The Prohibitionists need money to
run the campaign. The chairman had
called for contributions and they were
coming in slowly. A voice back in
the hall said something about $780,
900.
"What's that?" the crowd shouted.
Cofin's gray head popped up from
the Florida delegation.
eyes, that's what / said," he said,
"Put me down for $50,000."
The convention cheered and dele
gates toppled over their chairs to get
to Coffin. They picked him up and
carried him to the platform. Mrs.
Coffin looked embarrassed, but they
picked her up, too, and carried her up
there with him.
Cofin's gift is the largest ever
made for Prohibition campaign. His
pledge started the ball rolling, and
funds came in after that. The collec-
ton was just like one of those dona-
tion parties they have for country
ministers. Those who didn't have
money gave other things. One man
tossed into the pot mortgage for
$158.6S on some Illinois law books and
told the collectors to get after the
money.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
$4,000 FOR ROAD WORK.
That Amount Raised for Fulton =
New Bloomfield Road.

Six thousand dcllars in cash have
been deposited with the County Treas
urer of Galloway county for improv-
ing the Fulton-New Bloomfield road
The money was raised by subscrip-
tion among thepeople of the county
In addition to this amount there is
$500 which has been pledged, but not
yet paid, and 1915 pledged in labor
on the road. This amount is said t1
be the largest sum ever deposited in
the county for road work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
BAPTIST CAMPAIGN TO START
DR.. ]. w. Lowe, Returned Mission
airy, VIII Assist.

The Baptist Efficiency Campaign
will open up good and strong Sunday
with meetings. at three places. DR..
Lowe will speak at Mexico Sunday
morning and at Vandalia in the even
ing. Rev. o. olin Green will speak
at Vandalia Sunday morning. Rev.
L. B.Arvin and Rev. 7. R. White will
speak at Molino Sunday at the all
day meeting. Other ministers and
laymen will speak there also.
1t is the plan of the campaign to
visit all the Baptist Churches Of the
county during the following week.
There are four teams and these will
visit four churches each day.
DR.. J. w. Lowe will visit as many
churches as is possible. He will work
with the different teams.
The dates and times of meet
ings will be as follows:
Sunday, July 30.
Mexico: 1890 a. m. Team
No. 8. L. B. Arvin, Leader.
Vandalia, 10:30 a. M. Team
No. 1. Rev. o. o. Green,
Leader.
Molino mt. Zion:) Hoo a.
m. Rev. 7. R. White, Leader.
200 p. m. Ordination SER
vice.
7:3O p. m. Efficiency Cam
paign.
Monday, July 81.
New Hope: All Day Meeting
by Teams Nos. / and q.
Hopewell: Evening meeting
by Teams Nos. l and Q.
Corinths All Day Meeting by
Teams Nos. 3 and a.
Perry: Evening Meeting by
IeamS 3 ana a.
Tuesday, August l.
Beaver Dam: All Day Meet
ings by Teams Nos. 1 and 2.
Union: Evening Meeting by
Teams Nos. 1 and 2.
Littleby: All Day Meeting by
Teams Nos. 3 and A..
Farber: Evening Meeting by
Teams Nos. 8 and a.
Wednesday, August 2.
West Cuivre: All Day Meet
ing by Teams Nos. 1 and 2.
Laddonia: Evening Meeting
by Teams Nos. 1 and 3.
Bethlehem: All Day Meeting
by Teams Nos. 3 and A.
Thursday, August 8.
Benton City: All Day Meet
ing by Teams Nos. / and 2.
Martinsburg: Evening Meet
ing by Teams Nos. l and 2.
Pleasant Plains: All Day
Meeting by Teams Nos. 8 and A.
Friday, August a.
Zion: All Day Meeting by
Teams Nos. 8 and A.
The Team Leaders are as fol-
lows: Team No. 1, Rev. o. o.
Green, Leader. Team No. 2,
Hon. E. A. Shannon, Leader.
Team No. 8, Rev. L. B. Arvin,
Leader. Team No. A, Rev. T. R.
White, Leader. The personnel
of the teams is practically the
same as previously announced.
The churches and speakers are
all looking forward with pleas
ure to this Campaign and it is
hoped that the attendance will
be much better than it would
have been had the Campaign
been held in June.
Committee: L. B. Arvin, O.
O. Green, T. R. White, ]. w.
Million.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
TAKES OWN LIFE.

Ledger Special.
VANDALIA, Mo-, July &c. B.
Bishop, superintendent of the Missis-
sippi Glass Co. plant in this city,
hanged himself here early Friday ev-
ening. The body was discovered at
7 o'clock and after every vestige Of
life had left it.
Mr.. Bishop, who leaves wife, had
been in i'll health for some time and
had just returned from Rochester,
Mimi, where he went to be examined
by the famous surgeons, the Mayo
Bros. The cause of his suicide is said
to have been worry over his health.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
FULTON OFFERS PRIZES
FOR IMPROVEMENT ii

The Trade Extension Committee Of
Fulton will offer twenty-five dollars
in gold, as rewards for the best essays
submitted by anyone, whether resi-
dent of Fulton or not, containing sug-
gestions for increasing the trade of
Fulton and adjacent territory
Two essays must be submitted from
each contestant, one of 15O words on
how to induce Galloway people to
abandon mail order house trade and
keep the money at home, and the 9TH
er one of 100 words telling of the best
method of bringing trade to Fulton.
The prizes are to be awarded as fol-
lows: For the best essay, $40 in gold,
for the second best, SIS, and for the
third, so, and 81 each for the fourth
to the twelfth inclusive.
The offer is open to everyone and
tn members of the Committee hope
that the suggestions offered in the
papers submitted will be great ben
eft the mrchants and trades people
of Fulton in increasing their trade.
All papers must be sent to Gen. M.
F. Bell, chairman of the Committee
and must be in before August 25.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
HAS A BLOODHoUNp

James Childers, Of Moberly, has pre-
sented Chief of Police Sam Wallace
with fine specimen of thoroughbred
bloodhound. The animal is one that
has seen actual service in the tracing
of criminals and has a good record for
results.
Monday night about II o'clock the
dog was tried-out with a test chase.
A trail was laid by friend of Mr..
Wallace and the dog put on it. The
animal followed the trail through its
devious windings to the end.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
Woman Officer Dies.

RICHMOND, Va, July 25. - Capt
Sally Louisa Tompkins, aged SS, the
only woman ever commissioned as an
officer in the Confederate army, died
today in the Home for Confederate
Women. She was commissioned cap
tain of cavalry in order that she
might. continue to conduct private hos
.pitals after such institutions were
ordered closed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
John r. Mason Here.

The Rev. John T. Mason, who has
been preaching in Watertown, Tenn,
one of the best pastorates he has
ever had, he says, has returned to
Troy, Mo. and accepted his former
position as missionary for the Cuivrc
Baptist Association. Mr.. Mason
looks splendidly and is in good health.
Mrs. Mason is already at Troy, while
he went from here to Salisbury to visit
his farm. His many Mexico friends
were greatly pleased to see him again.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
pVOFTTETH A MAN?

h PR0FITETH A MAN?
,vuage citizen is very apt to
nn Who attain success rap
young Napoleons of finance
bsty-shi to look upon them
tkahr hTorites of fortune.
them doubtless are, but there
bdsnt law of compensation in
ifals that has few exceptions.
rlIy pays in one way or an
what he achieves, generally
mental or physical toll, Of
{ hss Of health, worry or an
mind and soul, says the Bal
Smith, not yet 40 years old,
Pine vice-president of one of
ktry's great motor concerns.
just put through a big deal.
b, with his wife waiting to
n with him in the next room,
u himself out of one of New
palatial hotels.
5 had brought him anxiety,
herves and insomia that be-
hbearable. We wonder how
her men, whom we are wont
| find wealth and success not
Ae price paid for them.
|are many men, toiling along
life to little purpose, they
Il fairly comfortable and con-
pho are more fortunate than
III
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
PARTY" FOR MAN 1O4.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, July 26. -
More than 200 members of the family
of "Uncle" Jess Hartley, 104 years
old, gathered in a reunion Sunday 8
miles west of Marshfeld. Five gen.
erations were reunited after lapse
of five years, number of members
the family attending from several far
Western states. Moving to Webster
county from North Carolina in 1S4O,
Mr.. Hartley occupied the old home
stead he settled upon until few years
ago, when he moved to the farm of a
son adjoining his property.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
issue Of the Ledger will be
/ announcement of Harry
candidate for City Police
.biect to the special election

b papers are most valuable
advertisers which resist the
Of us advertisers and equ-
u the pleasure of any finan-
lest and try only to serve the
good, for, as the reward for
n command the confidence of
.ders. If we advertisers un-
she confidence in the papers
htise in, eventually they will
be good mediums for us to ad-
Those which command the
tfdence of their readers are,
! II said, the ones that get the
In for us" Edward A. FL
|sdng merchant of Boston,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
Republicans. Attention

Help select State Ticket by
voting in Republican State Wide
primary, to be held at same time
and place as Democratic prima-
ry. Don't forget the date, Tues
day, August 1, 1916. Place, your
regular voting precinct.
r. E. HEAD, Chairman.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
LEDGER BABY SHOW!

For the prettiest Baby in Audrain
County, under 1 year old, at the Mex
leo Fair Thursday-1st, Silver Cup;
Second, handsome bouquet. s(TO be
shown at one o'clock in Floral Hall.)
Offered by the Mexico Ledger. dwtf
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
Woman Weighing 475, Dies.

FULTON, Mo-, July 21. - Mrs.
Helen Hodson, a patient from St. Louis
died at the Fulton State Hospital last
night. She weighed ATS pounds and
was the heaviest inmate in the insti-
tion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
viii Make No Tour.

Fred W. Gardner, of st. Louis,
candidate for Governor of Missouri,
will make no tour of Audrain county
in this campaign, but will speak in
Mexico Friday evening at 7:30 in the
Court House yard.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27

DR.. W. F. Taylor and daughter, Miss
Wilhelmina, went to Galloway county
Thursday for visit with relatives.
Miss Leora Smiley of Santa Fe is
visiting with Miss Alaska Wright.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
TOOK BOY TO BooNvILLE.

August Windser, 18 years old, was
taken to Bonville and placed in the
Reformatory there by Sheriff Barnett
Monday. Windser was sentenced to
two years in the Reformatory a year
ago for burglary. He was paroled at
that time, but failed to keep the terms
of his parole and was taken to Boon
vile where he will have to serve the
two years of his sentence in the Re-
formatory there.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27

Just four days until our discount
sale closes. Everything at reduced
prices. Ricketts, G. Emmons Dry
Goods Company. DIT and wilt
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27
sER'S BODY RECOVERED

Bdy of Harry johnson, the
who was drowned in the Mis-
ifc wreck at Sandy Hook,
April 23, waG found float
e river near Marion, five
san the scene of the wreck,
Dust exactly three months
W time Of the wreck. The
seen floating down the
bout eight feet from the
b watchman who procured a
er following the body along
for almost a mile, and recov-
body.
pnly means of identification
son's watch and a diamond
bis finger, which were identi-
Friends as his property. The
taken to Jefferson City and
buried from the johnson
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27

Sell your poultry and eggs for
cash to the Mexico Poultry Co., the old
Mill Building on North jefferson st.
wilt
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-07-27

Il. M. McPheeters, Of Colum-
Bed in Mexico Thursday for a
relatives.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20

and so on. Joseph followed the recital
with interest, putting his hand on his
! throat when that organ was mentioned
leaning his head on his hand when his
great brain development was referred TO.
and trying to look as frail as possible all
the time. Can you tell me a better pan
for turning out a whining child?
On the rare occasions when the family
tries TO discuss some subject other than
Joseph, he enters the conversation witt
some irrelevant remark. which he reiter-
ates, more and more emphatically, until
he succeeds at last in drawing the divert
ed attention again to himself Last night
they were talking OF something they had
seen in the South and Joseph interrupted
The train was two hours late" Nobody
paid any attention. for a wonder
The train was two hours late!' Again
ne did not attract the notice he sought
The train was two hours late
This time his voice had lost its usual
whine and was pitched so high that
nearly everybody in the dining room
looked around to see what was the mat
ter with Joseph. Then the family looked
at each other and winked and the mother
said to the father and uncle, Isn't he
the cutest thing you ever saw"
1 am not telling you a fairy tale, dear
mothers: this is something that has hap
pened and is happening every day in that
dining room. Can you blame the child
for winning all the time when he is made
to think he is fraIl and ailing-when he
perceives that he and his feelings are
the subject of the never-ceasinx solicit
tude of his elders? He is detestabIe. but
he is also to be pitied. He really cannot
help being what he is; he is made q
wilmer by the treatment he receives from
his father and mother and uncle.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20
HOUSEWIVES DAILY
ECONOMY CALENDAR
CLEAN BLANKETS.
BY FRANCES MARSHALL

This is the time of year to make all
blankets clean. Then 1t is the duty Of
the careful housekeeper to keep them as
clean, as possible.
As fer the cleansing process, 1t can be
carried on at home without much
trouble.
This Is the way to wash a blanket:
Make jelly by shaving half a pound
OF pure white soap and -simmering 1t in
two quarts OF water until 1t Is clear.
Use this soap jelly literally In warm
water to clean the blanket. Immerse the
blanket and then agitate it up and down.
back and forth, unttk it is clean. Then
rinse 1t In many Clear rinsing waters,
lukewarm like the washing water, IN
til it is absolutely free of all soap.
Never wiring a blanket by hand. In
stead fold It lengthwise and put II
through a wringer until It is as dry as
possible. Then dry in the air, not In the
sun, Is quickly as possible. Throw the
blanket over the line lengthwise, creased
through the very middle, so that 1t Will
not sag. II possible, two persons should
pull the blanket straight two or three
times while it is drying When It is
quite dry, fold carefully. Never iron
blankets.
So much for cleansing blankets. Now.
for keeping them clean.
uncovered. Use thin bed spreads that
can be easily washed over the blankets
and never pull these down for a nap.
Sometimes one does hesitate to wrinkle
a perfectly fresh white bedspread; but
the bedspread should be of a sort easily
Kept clean and should be used as pro-
lection to the blankets beneath
Another way to keep blankets fresh Is
to keep piece of cheesecloth, white or
the color of the strip in the blanket,
tackled over the ends Of the blanket This
piece Of cheesecloth can be kept fresh and
clean and will keep soil from the blanket
ends. Linen or any other thin material
may be used instead Of the cheesecloth
Always cut pair Or blankets in two
and bind the raw edges with a heavy
binding or else buttonhole them or work
a crochet edge on the cut side. Then
change the blankets end for end fire.
quently. to keep the wear even.
Before washing blankets shake them
thoroughly to remove as much dust as
possible, and after they are dry shake
them again to keep them fluffy Never
put soiled blankets away in the spring
Copyright, 1851
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20

At table not far from the one as
signed to me in the dining room where
have been taking my meals of late sits
family of four-the elderly father,
mother and uncle and the most disagree
able small boy 1t has been my luck-or
have felt tempted several times. when
the boy has been particularly obnoxious,
to get up and proclaim to the assembled
diners, many of whom are foreigners.
that the youngster is not fair sample
OF the real American child. Day after
day, at breakfast, luncheon and dinner,
as ! have sat there and listened to the
talk of the elders and watched the be-
havior of the child under il, have been
filled with amazement at the stupidity OF
those grown-up. presumably sane people
in their treatment of that child.
As said, the father and mother are no
longer young, and I judge this boy OF
four to be their first child after late
marriage. The uncle is also elderly and
apparently, from remarks he has let fall,
a bachelor The boy is named Joseph,
and he had red hair and he cannot speak
in a normal, sensible tone-he whines
every moment of the time. The four sit
at one of the small tables designed for
four people, and three of them gaze In
constant wonder, awe and admiration ct
this one young specimen. They watch
every bite that Joseph puts into his
mouth, and ask him II it tastes coed, or
comment on the size Of it II Joseph
pauses In his eating, his mother puts out
an anxious hand to feel OF his forehead
and announces in a scared tone that she
fears Joseph has fever-his appetite
seems to be failing!
OF course, Joseph's head Immediately
droops and he does his childish best to
appear Interestingly feverish. whereupon
m other offers to go upstairs with him
and have the rest of his meal brought
to his bedside, and uncle leans forward
pityingly and asks him II he feels too
terribly done up to enjoy some ice cream.
OF course. Joseph does not want to go to
bed, but he does want the ice cream, SO
his soup Is sent out and the ice cream is
ordered.
Yesterday the mother gave the uncle a
detailed account of an experience she
had had with Joseph and his ailments
during a recent trip south. She had had
to call In a doctor, she said, because
Joseph seemed so feverish, and the doc
tor had told her that Joseph was a re-
markedly delicately constru :ted child
and she would always have to guard him
well: that his throat was very suscepti-
BILE to change of atmosphere: that his
frail organization would scarcely support
his great brain development, and SO on
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20
HOROSCOPE.
THE stars incline, but do not compel.

lAG DuI w lOt SoIHpSl.
Monday, March 20, 1910.
The morning OF this day is most I'M
favorable, for Jupiter and Saturn are
strongly adverse. Later Mars and Mer-
curry are in benefc aspect. - ?
The spring quarter, which begins today
when the Sun enters the sign Aries, Is
likely to be a period of preat business
activity and much financial strain in
certain manufacturing industries.
Expenditures of public money will be
unprecedented, it is predicted, and tax
payers will express great discomfort
Weather that is. on the whole, good for
agriculture is foreshadowed.
Railways come under an encouraging
direction, which is held to presage re-
forms In management and higher de-
gree of efficiency. Fares probably will
be raised. the seers declare.
Venus in scSIare to Mars shows no
hope of peace in Europe. although there
will be much ill-advised optimism.
The stars are most threatening to roy.
atty Illness and bereavements are in
dcated.
Drownings will be more numerous than
usual through the spring and summer
and this Is interpreted to mean that
naval activities and disasters at sea will
swell the death roll.
Newspapers and magazines are under
a good government of the planets. There
will be much money spent in advertising,
1t is predicted, unexpected conditions
making seasons that are usually dull ex-
ceedingly profitable.
Dentists have the prognostication of
gain through an extraordinary epidemic
Of neuralgia.
Surgeons and physicians may expect a
prosperous time. Many will go abroad
for service in cities and smaller centers
OF population. owing to the prevalence of
fevers and other epidemics.
Persons whose b,rthdate it Is have the
augury of danger If they speculate or
risk money. They should guard the
health as they may suffer from nervous
diseases.
Children born on this day are likely to
be generous to excess and careless In
money matters. Girls should be guarded
against unhappy marriage.
Copyright, IsI6)
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20
PICKANINNIES.

| M YRA. Our colored laundress,
| |" was i'll. and had to go home
for an indefinite period, and
Elfina, our cook-who weighed three
hundred pounds as a retribution for
bearing this name-had undertaken to
provide substitute laundress.
Next morning, true to her word, FL
fina appeared accompanied by friend
neighbor, who carried in her arms a
brown baby a little over a year old.
asked if she would not like to put the
baby down in the big rocking chair
while we talked, and, as she deposited
him in the corner of the chair, noticed
that he dropped his head on one
shoulder and surveyed the scene pessi-
mistically
Isn't the baby sick, Mrs. -"
asked. b..
"Lor', no, miss, he all amt sick r
she assured me, vehemently and cor
daily. Hes 'ceitful, he is; he's jes,
| tdhH yOu-dli III.
But the baby was Enthusiastically sick
and l asked her if one of her neigh
bors would be able to care for him
while she was working at our house
during the day.
mo, indeed, miss" she said beam
ingly. They amt woman in our
house as don't wu'k. You knows, miss,
dat cullud men doesn't earn much
wages-cullud men isn't wanted in big
payin' jobs nohow-so we wimmin all
has to hustle to hep pay rent an feed
de chiIlen.'
And what do the children do all day
| without their mothers?" | asked.
"Well-well, mostly, miss, dey-dey-
we'll, I guess dey just nachelly does
wifout EN- miss" And Mrs. j
cheerfully once more.
Just nachelly does wifout EN-
without their mothers, all day and
every dayl l had once visited a chill
dren's court, and l remembered little
black urchin with rolling eyes and
glistening teeth who had been arrested,
with three other colored boys, for
street fighting-fighting with gang"
| OF White boys, and remembered, TOO,
that he had told the judge the white
boys had thrown stones at them and
| called them ringers" And l Won
dered, as the full fore. of Mrs. is
statement struck me, not at the fact
that this boy had been arrested for
fighting, but what was going to be the
fate of the thousands of these little
ones without their mothers sheltering
care on the one hand and stoned by
their white playmates on the other hand
because they were ringers"
And l thought, too, of the patient
loyal devotion of my colored maids, and
the loving care they gave me, even
though their own babies must be neg
lected.
One of my friends who has known
many of the better educated colored
people was talking of the future of the
race with a colored lawyer, whose
home she had visited. He sat in a great
armchair with his three little fat girls
on his knees, his arms about them, and
said, with tears streaming down his
cheeks: mo one knows how a man
feels when he sees his little ones off
to school in the morning never know
The Washington herald., 1916-03-20

ing what moment one of them will be
called Niger or Offered some Other
indignity just because. of a brown
skin"
1t seems TO me we might remember
that this people, the worlds child race
has many virtues and endearing quail
ties-cheerfulness, the love of music
and the ability to interpret it artistically
in many cases, loyalty in service-and
that no human being can bear contin.
ued and unearned hatred or ridiculc
without becoming embittered and hard.
ened
/ love little pickaninnies, with their
quick smiles, their wide, roguish eye,
and their kinky curls, and some day
am going South to play in a picture
with as many of them as it is possible
to get on the screen at once.