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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.

"One Present" in the Laddonia
Herald says:
Friday, Nov. End, relatives OF Mrs.
A. G. billiard took her completely by
surprise by bringing well-filled
baskets and reminding her of the
fact it was her birthday. Mr.. Hoo
yer, no doubt, would have had no
thoughts of food conservation for
the time being had he been present.
After enjoying the noon hour several
we'll filled baskets were prepared and
mailed to relative friends at Camp
Funston.
Those present were: Mrs. n. A.
Smith, Miss Jesse Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim billiard, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Weidler, Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith,
Miss Elizabeth billiard, Cecil Crews,
Miss Eulah Crews, all from Mexico
vicinity, and Homer billiard and
family and w. H. Mccoy and family.
The guests departed for their
homes all wishing Mrs. billiard many
more happy birthdays in future
years. The day will long be remem-
bered as a most enjoyable occasion.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Visited Their Sons
At Camp Funston
One OF The Boys "WouId Trade His
Chance For Heaven For a "Few
Days Back There With The Folks"

James B. Baker and John Rudasil,
of the Long Branch vicinity, spent
the first of the week with their sons
at Camp Funston, says the Paris APP
peal. Both are we'll pleased with
what they saw and learned. "The
boys are well treated, we'll fed and
comfortably housed, and are getting
along first-rate," said Mr.. Baker.
We had time getting past the
depot without passes," said Mr.. Baker
but finally lodged out the back way
and were lucky enough to find an in
formation bureau where we were
supplied. Homer, my son, was in line
with his company, just ready to be
off on ten mile hike, and did not
know l was in Kansas until we were
close enough to touch him. His cap
tain was good enough to excuse him
for the day. We saw thru the sleeping
quarters, mess halls and kitchens.
No fault could be found with any
than we saw on the hooks in the sto-
rage rooms. The streets are being
paved. l felt better after looking
around and finding my boy, as we'll
as all the others, healthy, well-treat-
ed and in fine spirits. Believe me,
tho, those boys are glad to see any
body from Monroe County, whether
they ever knew them or not. 1, jok-
ingly said to Private Carter of near
Santa Fe that l supposed he wouldn't
go back home now if he could. He
laughed and replied that he did not
know but that he'd trade his chance
for heaven for just a few days back
there with the folks. But, aside from
bit of homesickness now and then,
our boys have nothing to complain
about"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
MEXICOANS COLONIZING
DOWN IN OKLAHOMA.
One OF Our Newspapers Losing OF
Its Force To That State-Other
Folks Have Been Down There
"LooEing Around"

Miami, Okla, Nov. 10.-Ralph r.
Wayne, former city editor of the
Intelligencer of Mexico, Mo-, arrives
here Monday to join the reportorial
staff of the Miami Daily Record
Herald Wayne has been news ed
itor of the Daily Register at Harris
burg, ILL.,, since September 1st
Wayne is the third former mem
Der of The Intelligenger's staff to go
with he Miami Record-Herald in
the last month. First was Cecil M.
Basket, former editor and owner.
He now is general manager of the
Record-Herald. Next came Estill R.
Myers, who is advertising manager
of the Record-Herald.
They declare they will form a
Mexico, Mo-, colony here. Hardly a
day passes but some Mexico man Wis
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
CHAMP CHIMES.

Not much corn gathered yet..it is
too full of sap. The farmer who has
a little timber on his place, in these
days of scarce coal, is in luck.
William Lock is putting up a new
barn; this makes three barns he has.
John L. Smith bought pedigree
white belt pig from Otto Carpenter
Saturday % tic per pound.
Fred Roberts bought fat cow
from Mr.. Albus at &C per lb. Also
bought hogs from other parties at
Ice. Charlie Dean is fattening 20
head of fine mules ranging to 6
years old.
Lon Shelton of Colorado is gather
ing corn for Charlie Dean.
James Sipple and family of Laddo-
mia and Mrs. Clementine Skelley
visited at the home of A. B. Weidler
the first of the week.
The Woman's Missionary Society
will meet with Mrs.J.L.Smith next
Thursday, p. m.
Rev. H. l. Cobb preached for Rev
j. l.. Nickerson last Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
THEY SAT DOWN UPON
SENATOR JAS. A. REED
Audience Anticipated Him, But,
When it Understood, Applauded
Him.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 7.-speak-
ing at dinner given by the Missouri,
Kansas and Oklahoma Hotel Mems
Association tonight, Senator James
A. Reed, of Missouri, attacked the
stand of Senator La Toilette of Wis
consin, replying to a circular letter,
said to have been sent out by the
Wisconsin Senator.
Senator Reeds opening remarks,
which apparently led his auditors
to believe he was contending for
peace, threw the meeting into an up
roar and he concluded his talk only
after several attempts to quiet in
terrupters.
In the La Toilette letter, which
was read to the diners, the writer
declared he was "contending for the
constitutional right of free speech
and peaceful assemblage, for the
right of the people to discuss the
terms of an honorable peace"
1t was the latter clause upon
which the Missouri Senator centered
his attack when he arose.
There is a time for the discus
sion of peace" he began. Shouts
of ''No! MOI" drowned his voice. He
held up his hand for silence and be-
gan again: There is a time for the
discussion of peace" but again got
no farther. Another interruption
and then he pleaded for a hearing,
declaring no one in the room would
disagree with him after hearing him
to the end.
There is time for the discus
sion of peace" he continued, land
that time will come when the Ameri-
can Army-is hammering on the gates
of Berlin"
Then it was the applause of appro-
baton that drowned the speaker
voice.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

its Miami. The lead and zinc fields
of the district, the richest in the
world, are not the only attractions
for investors. Real estate in many
instances has doubled in value with
in few days.
DR.. Parish, of Vandalia, Mo-, who
lis president of the Union Lead and
Zinc Company, which owns 500 acres
of leases and operates several mills
in the district, was here last week
looking after his interests. Bruce
Quisenberry, former Mexico man
who is travelling salesman out of Jop-
lin, is a frequent visitor here. Chas
Bruce, formerly of Mexico, who has
lived at Tulsa several years, arrived
here recentlytto enter abstract busi-
ness. John PJClark of Mexico, makes
headquarters at Joplin as tire sales
man and visits Miami weekly. Louis
Casey, proprietor of Casey's Phar-
macy in Mexico, was here recently
contemplating drug store in Miami
DR.. Robert c. Strobe, of Mexico, and
E. B. Talbot, of Moberly, were here
last week looking over the field.
John L. Washington, formerly with
the Intelligencer, is head of the wom-
ems shoe dept of Sander-Ridgeway
Co., one of the largest stores in Okla.
Among former Mexicoans who
come frequently are ]. H. Lawler
and R. L. Button Turner, both of
whom live in Joplin.
]. G. Beckham, a student in Mis-
souri, Military Academy in 1929,
is mine operator in Miami district.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
HIT BY AUTO,

T. o. Pemberton and his small son,
Boone, who reside on the w. w.
Johnson farm north of Mexico, were
in town Saturday and at the corner
of Monroe and Clark Ave they were
run into by Ed Keith's automobile.
Both father and son were knocked
down and Boone got a few sharp
hurts. Mr. Pemberton was watching
an auto approaching from another
direction and failed to notice the
Keith car. He chides himself for
not being more watchful and adroit.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
DELEGATES APPOINTEO TO
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION
Mexico and Vandalia Men--Meeting
At Chanute, Kansas, Now On,

Jefferson City, Nov. TO-. Gov.
Gardner yesterday appointed 119
delegates and the county judges from
eighteen counties to represent Mis-
souri, at the Ozark Trails Convention,
to be held at Chanute, Kansas, Nov
eber IA to IT. The committee from
Mexico is as follows
Colonel E. Y. Burton, Judge Alex
Carter, e. r. Locke, John T. Stewart,
T. ]. Hoxsey, r. r. Arnold, j. T.
McCue, L. M. White, ]. w. Million.
Vandalia-Charles Daniels, Joe
Dye, w. w. Waters, Geo. w. DAN
iels, John Gentle, and James Barrow.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

From London comes a book bear
ing this appropriate name. 1t tells
a story so horrible that it cannot be
realized-women repeatedly ravish-
ed until death came to their relief,
small girls outraged, thousands of
houses burned, bodies mutilated af-
ter the most beastly fashion, citizens
murdered by the thousands. At one
place het German soldiers, finding
green calf skin nailed on barn,
took it down, wrapped a baby in it
and nailed it back under the word
"ZWEI."
But the significant thing about
this appalling book is the fact that
drink runs thru it side by side with
the red stream of blood. There are,
beyond doubt, thousands of soldiers
in the German armies who willingly
carry out the program of frightful-
ness, but it salso undoubtedly true
that the majority of the German SOL
diers would find themselves unable
to carry out the brutal orders they
receive were they not Systematically
piled with drink when the occasion
demands.
"At Rosoux" wrote one of Won
Kluck's soldiers in his diary on Au-
gust 18th, 1914, "wine by the cask.
We live Like God in France; the villa
of Belgian general supplies every
thing"
At Pont-Noyelle, on August 3Oth,
German troops drank 500 bottles OF
wine taken from one house.
At MISUNDERSTANDING, on Au-
gust 22nd, a witness testifes that
practically all of the Germans were
drunk
Between Fosse and Vitrival wit
ness testifies that he saw one German
soldier wantonly strike a woman il
the breast with his bayonet and wipe
the dripping weapon on his Goa
while his 2S comrades laughed
And the witness adds, "But thu
whole of the "a soldiers had beer
drinking"
The diaries of German soldiers
show Won Bulow's columns pouring
southward over France.
August 19th," writes one, &"
could not find the regiment; remain
ed with ammunition column. Then
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
The German Terror In France

when we halted, plundered a villa,
had much wine
August 22nd, bivouc near Ander-
lues. Marauded terribly, fed mag
nificently.
August 26th, went into bivouac
about p. m. AS always, the sur
rounding houses were plundered i'm
mediately. Found four rabbits,
roasted them, dined magnificently.
Plates, cups, knives, and forks, glass
es, etc. Eleven bottles of cham
paign, four of wine, and six of liq-
eur were drunk.
August 27th, marched off at
6:SO. All still supplied with bottles
of wine and champagne.
August 2Sth, St. Quentin. Had
to bivouac in the marketplace. Clear
ed out the houses, dragged out beds
into marketplaces, and slept on
them"
September 1st. Soisons. Every
thing usable taken along. Wine
! treated literally like water.........
At Etoges, THE cellars were com
pletely emptied," testifes the May
or. The conduct of the Germans
at hits place was particularly afro
cious.
At Adenne, "the soldiers rushed
into the cellars, drank themselves
drunk, broke all the bottles of wine
they could not carry off and finished
by setting the houses alight," Men
women and children were murdered
here. One child was killed in its
mothers arms from an AK"
Villages stormed and looted
| WTlIeb anOIneT GeTudu at NONlOn
Monday, August 31st-We passed
thru the town of Rethel, where We
had two hours halt. Wine and
champagne in abundance; we looted
with a will"
There is no use extending the sto
ry. Are the tales they tell of Ger
man atrocities true?" Polish lady
wife of a Russian general, was ask
ed. Multiply all you have heard by
one hundred and then you will no
be able to realize one-tenth of tn,
truth" she replied.
Without drink the German sol
diers would never have carried ou
the unspeakable orders of Potsdam.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
AMERICA TO FEED THE WORLD

Among the obligations now laid
on farmers none is more inexorable
than to increase the supply of fats
and meats. Grain supply abroad is
merely a matter of shipping. If the
ocean were freed of menace we could
not supply the required quantity of
Fat sand meats. 1t means breeding
and feeding. The opening of the
seas would flood markets with grain.
Only the persistence and skill of
farm breeders of meat stocks will
feed the starving world with the es-
sentials of subsistence. 1t can not
come in a day, in a year, but wide
spread, determined, united effort
must be Immediately set in motion.
The food administration has designa-
ted the International Live Stock Ex-
position a food training camp" 1t
is we'll named. The farmer can there
study breeding and feeding. Never
was it so wasteful to feed high-priced
grain to ill-bred stock. Lessons of
breed improvement, of grading up
common stock, and of economical
feeding can be learned at the Inter
national as in no other place. The
American farmer has heard the call
of the nation, of the world He will
heed. The instinct for live stock
embraces sympathy for humanity.
The significance of the food admins
tration's recognition of the Interna-
tional as an educational agency
should sink deep into the mind OF
the farmer, 1t should bring him to
Chicago the first week in December to
study meat production.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
From Florida State
Enjoying Hot Days
George Kabrlch "Goes Fishing
Sees Big Boats Frdighted With
Munitions And Soldiers.

Jacksonville, Fla, Nov 6.,-I took
a stroll of about 25 blocks and stop
ping at the Fish and Boat Landing
l saw any number of boats. Some
were filled with oranges and tanga-
rines, some with bananas from Cuba,
others had fish of all kinds, among
them some 60-pounders, Low bass,l
red snappers,, blue fish. pickerel,
mackerel,, hundreds of other kinds.
''The best fish of all is the Span
ish mackerel, caught down at Mia
mi selling at 15c, while boatloads of
very fine red apples from New York
are $3.50 to $3.50 per barrel. Some
boats were loaded with oysters and
crabs; others were filled with all
kinds of garden truck, tomatoes,
strawberries, etc.; All kinds of nuts
for Christmas were ON other boats.
went further down the st. Johns
River; it is 80 feet deep and from
one to five miles wide. In the dock
yards are hundreds of vessels of va
rious kinds and build, some 450 ft.
long, freighted with war material
with sailor soldier boys aboard, Then
there lay the destroyer filled top and
bottom with big cannons.
Going down one street, coming
back the other l walked 25 blocks
Nearly every saloon was closed up
and gone. Last winter there were
hundreds. Coming home l passed
thru our beautiful park. Mrs. Doc
Graham and Mr.. TT. Hoxsey of Mex
leo have seen the .throngs that gath
er in it. Thousands of Northern tour
lists are in it today. AS many, or
more tourists are expected here this
winter. They come early in the sea-
son, many of them. Parties from New
York, and Boston come usually the
first of December, their region get
ting cold early.
Am looking for our northern folks
down, have some good places for
them, but they are coming so fast.
that they won't keep rooms any
length of time. Every other house
is a rooming house and more build
ing. Few will do any cooking.
In Missouri it gets colder after a
rain; here, it gets hotter. Rained
last night, first for a month. At
p m. it is S5 in the shade. At night
it is about 60 degrees, in the day II
ranges 75 to 80.
l am invited by Mrs. Dean, a
daughter of Mat Nelson, to the La.
dies Club of JACKSONVILLE, tomorrow
Certainly will go; further, am in.
vited to go in an auto party to st
Augustine 80 mile ride, smooth
roads all the way.
Thousands of soldiers and sailors
here. Our farmers don't settle very
fast, but the towns do, all flocking
downward. Cities in Florida are way
ahead of the country. We are only
20 miles from the ocean, soc takes
you to it. Fishing's good. Come down
Best regards to Mexico and Au
drain County. GEO. KABRICH
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
MRS. THOMPSON HURT.

Mrs. c. c. Thompson of Benton
City fell at her home few days ago
and suffered a broken arm-the up
per bone of the left arm just above
the wrist. She is recovering all
right
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
CALLED TO EIINSTON.

Mr.. and Mrs, Thod Boulware, out
and beyond Molino, were called to
Camp Funston last week to see their
son, Marion, soldier boy, who had
taken down with a serious attack
of pneumonia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
GETS RIBS BROKEN.

Lon Chapman had an experience"
the other day with his auto. A run
away horse ran into him. Nothing
happened-onlyM Mr.. Chapman is suf-
fering with two broken ribs. How
he escaped getting even more Sc
riously hurt he is not able to explain.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

S. v. Stone who owns nice farm
near Martinsburg, called on The Mes
sage a few days ago. Mrs. Stone is
afflicted and they have bought nice
little home in Martinsburg and will
make that town their home for a
time at least and slow down little
on hard labor, required on the farm.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

If you refused to sign conserva-
tion food card your name is to be
sent to the secret service of the Gov
ernment. Better sign the card. No
harm will be done and it may save
you trouble.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Barker of Har-
rison District delightfully."- entertain
ed Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Boeg-
er, Misses Minnie and Lille Boeger
of Mexico, Mrs, John Dye of Louis
lana, Phil Barker of Columbia and
Mrs. S. E. Barker of Paris.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Heretofore folks have feaste,

Heretofore folks have feasted-
acted the epicure-on Thanksgiving
Day. This year it is wisely suggested
that we fast, and do little solemn
thinking If we can get no farther,
not forgetting that our great coun-
try is in an awful war; a war per-
haps for it's very life, who knows?
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

That happy-natured parsonage
James Lynch, of near Laddonia, was
a caller at Message headquarters a
few days ago,
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

l.. W. Roberts for first-class SER
vice and funeral work. Licensed
embalmers. Answer calls promptly
day or night.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

]. H. Showers of Centralia dropped
in at Message headquarters a few
days ago.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

There will be pie and box sup
per at Bolts School Saturday night,
Nov. II. Everybody please come.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Mrs. S. E. Barker of Paris was the
guest of her son, Geo, Barker, near
Centralia, the past week
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

XIII off rats and mice. They de
stroy and pollute foodstuffs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-16
Delegates and the Homes in
Which They VIII Be Entertained

Delegates to the state convention
of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, and the homes in which
they will be entertained follow
Miss Theresa Griffin, Columbus
Mrs. w. B. Cheatham.
Mrs. T. E. Patterson, Griffin; Mrs.
Leila billiard, Oxford; Mrs. Anna
Perry, Cuthbert-Mrs. J. R. Mercer.
Mrs. Julius Magath, Oxford; Mrs.
August Burghard, Macon-Mrs. J. H.
Whitchard.
Mrs. Marvin Williams, Greensboro :;
Miss Clyde Willis, Greensboro-Mr
]. D. Laing.
Mrs. c. W. Skinner, Waynesboro );
Mrs. P. c. Boyd, Waynesboro; Mrs.
R. L. Miller, Waynesboro; Mrs. E.
Rumble, Goggansville; Mrs. w. A,
Sumter, Albany-Mrs. R. +. Bell
Mrs. B. B. Renitz, Macon; Mrs.
Harriet Sears, Macon-Mrs. J. S.
Clay.
Mrs. H. L. Watson, Columbus; Mrs.
H. M. Howard, Columbus-Mrs.M
L. Plumbley.
Mrs. j. A. Thomas, Columbus; Mrs.
G. E. Chase, Columbus; Mrs. K. C.
Henderson, Cedartown; Mrs H. E.
Martin, Athens-Mrs. NJ. J. Yeomans.
Mrs. James Newton, Monticello;
Mrs. A. s. Walker, Monticello Mrs.
r. L. Furse, Monticello-Mrs. j. H.
Lewis.
Miss Matte Lewis Collins, Macon;
Miss Julia Goodall, Macon-Mrs. E.
B. Durham.
Mrs. F. c. Ivey, Boston; Mrs, A.
j. McKennon, Boston-Mrs. A. J.
Baldwin.
Mrs. T. A. Collins, Ellaville; Mrs.
E. M. Craig, Albany; Mrs. A. J,
Moore, Macon; Mrs L. E. McKeller,
Macon-Mrs. w. C. Paschal.
Mrs. M. P Harvey, Valdosta; Mrs
T. D. Rover, Columbus-Mrs. Guy
Chappell.
DR.. Fidelia j. Odom, Columbus;
Mrs. M. J. Stone, Columbus; Mrs.
J. M. Griggs.
Mrs. R. W. Page, Columbus; Miss
NJ. R. Smith, Columbus-Mrs. Emma
Crouch.
Mrs. L. NJ. Basrus, Macon; Mrs.
R. E. Lowe, Macon-Mrs. George
Gibson.
Mrs. o. H. Eason, Quitman; Mrs.
w. E. Henry, Macon-Mrs. O. B.
Chester.
Mrs. E. j. Mcdaniel, Albany-Mrs.
Joe Hayes.
Mrs. j. A. Lewis, olumbus-Mrs
]. w. Peddy.
Mrs. H. H. Tucker, Atlanta-Hotel
Mrs. J. W. Park, Greenville; Mrs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-16
THE BEST OF ALL.

A Georgia girl in Tennessee
Was kind enough to wish for me
To take a Lookout Mountain view
I wrote her these words, which are
true:
I've stood on Lookout's Hottest peak
And heard those murmuring waters
speak
AS they came round the "Moccasin
Bend"
And glided on their seaward trend.
I've seen the city from that height,
Electric lamps all burning bright,
And by the old zig-zag incline
The scene was made almost divine.
I've looked upon the "Great Divide"
Whose waters flow to either side
Of this great Western Hemisphere
And in two oceans disappear
l stood on top of old pixies Peak"
Took in the scenes at Cripple
Creek"
Saw old mount Hood" from "Coun-
Gil crest"
And other grand sights in the West.
There's old mount Hector's" crystal
stream
Which forms the Kicking Horse" a
dream
Of beauty plunging down the steep
For miles, and then it goes to sleep.
The mount of ice which forms the cap
Of giant ranges on the map
In Canada's great rugged hills,
The heart and brain with wonder
fills
Weeks in our nations heart I've
spent,
Looked from that Famous Monument.
Saw where the currency was made
To carry on our country's trade.
I've been upon the oceans wave,
Spent hours in the Mammoth Cave"
But of all these there's not one thing
So wonderful as Indian Spring.
w. P. HORNADY.
Dawson, Ga.
Delegates see Hornady's welcome.