Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-04-19
OUT OVER THE STATE.


compel us to eat cat meat we suppose
1t would be sold at so much purr, OBJ
serves the Louisiana-Press Journal
Universal service wouldn't be so
bad after all, says the Fayette Ad-
Yertiser. Instead of ogling young
girls on the streets our 19-year-old
mashers would be devoting their val
liable time to digging trenches and
washing dishes.
The citizens of Lone Elm, Ger
man settlement near Bonneville, drew
up a set of resolutions a week or two
since in which they pledged loyalty
to the United States in the war with
Germany. All the signers were Ger
man descent and sent their resolu-
tions to President Wilson and Mis-
souri's Congressman.
Miss Lizzie Young has served as
postmistress at Florida, Monroe
county, for more than 20 years. She
hopes to stay with the place until
she has fiished a quarter of a century
and is awarded a pension. Miss
Young's place is headquarters for
souvenir hunters when they visit the
old Mark Twain village.
A De Kalb county farmer has
novel way of killing rats. He backs
his motor car up to the side of the
barn, takes a long piece of hose, at
taches one end of it to the exhaust of
the car, runs the other end into the
burrows made by the rats and starts
the engine. Fumes from the burnt
gasoline fix the rats.
Mrs. Gentry, who had her hand
caught in the mangle at the Centralia
laundry last month, was taken to
Moberly Recently and all the fingers
were removed. The hand was badly
crushed, it is said, and it was found
that it was impossible to save any of
the fingers. Only the thumb now re-
mains on the hand.
A mother white rabbit with three
little ones and a flock of bantam
chickens made fun Easter morning
a never to be forgotten event-to
the little folks at the Paris, Mo-,
Christian Church. The Mercury says
the bantam rooster applauded Rev.
Shively frequently during his dis
course at church.
A meeting of bankers of Galloway
county was held last week at the in
stance of w. E. D. Jameson, Fulton
fnancier, for the purpose of consid-
ering plan to increase food and live
stock production during the coming
year. Resolutions were adopted call
ing upon the people to raise more ce-
reals, garden truck and particularly
to conserve the breeding stock of the
county. An increased acreage of corn
was urged because of the prospect of
a shortage of the wheat crop thruout
the country. A plan Of campaign
was mapped out in the form of an ex-
! tended resolution, and copies of this
will be distributed to farmers and
others thru the various banks of the
county.
Herbert Symauski, IA year old sor
of preacher at Jeffriesburg, was re
Gently tried for arson in the circuit
court at Union and was sentenced tc
the Bonneville Reform School for sew
eral years. The boy, with tears roll
ing down his cheeks, begged his ia
ther to take him home, but the father
: said he was thru with his son forever
and did not want the boy to come
near him. One of the attorneys il
the case, w. L. Cole, by name, haC
been satisfied for several reasons, i
is said, that the boys sin was al
much his fathers and stepmother'
fault as his own, and had the boy pa
: rolled to him. Under the kind car
of this merciful lawyer the boy SEEM
to give good evidence of becoming al
, honorable citizen.