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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27
RUSH HILL, ITEMS.

Misses Mabel Fox and Macie Hearn
have returned for the Christmas hol-
idays. They are attending school at
Kirksville this winter.
Frank McManamy and family Of
Vandalia spent the weekend with
Robert McManamy here.
Henry Holterman had the mis-
fortune to have horse fall on him
while shoeing it, He has not been
able to work so far since the mishap,
Misses Nola Hanna, Virginia
Hughes, and Almira Talley returned
to their homes northeast of Santa Fe
for the Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Laritz was called to the bed
side of her father in Illinois Thurs
day.
Robt. Walter has a new Ford. 8
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Harry g. Turner was in Mexico
Wednesday enroute to Jefferson City
on business connected with the de-
partment of Justice. Harry is very
optimistic, He says the sun is shin
ing bright beyond the storm clouds.
He thinks the main thing now is for
unity of action. real genuine pa
triotism that will win the war and
win 1t quek.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

MCMILLAN NOTES.
BY William Hickman.

Mr.. p. P. Galloway of jefferson
City, the State High School Inspector.
visited Mcmillan last week and
found things running we'll.
The try-out for selecting the 1917
1S Debating Team was held on the
evening of December goth. Out of |
nine contestants, the judges selected
Hershel Clevenger, William Walker
Johnson, and William Walker Hick-
man as the first team. Prof. Peeler
presided at the try-out and Miss Ben
son Bolts, Miss Katherine Welch and
Prof. l.. H. Strunk were the judges.
The first debate will be with the
Perry High School on January
11fh, 1918.
Friday morning Major stoy and
seven men went to Fayette where in,
the evening, they defeated the Fay
cite High in one of the fastest
basket ball games of the season.
The score of 33 to 80 tells how hard
fought the game was. Fayette had
a strong team and this victory is one
great step on the road to the Cham
pionship.
School closed at noon Saturday
but the main feature of the day
came in the afternoon The Sopho-
more Glass presented, "The Birds
Christmas Carol" Hershel Clevenger
as Donald Bird played we'll the part
of an old gentleman. James Rodgers
entertained the audience we'll, play
ing the role of Uncle Jack. Miss
Ella Buckner McCune, as Carol Bird,
played well the part of a CHEEKY
little invalid. Elfrida Clifford, Fran
ces Parker, was an interesting little
mdlu. Inc part OIL MTS, OOnalu blTu
was well given by Miss Barbara
Reavis. Between acts music was fur
nished by the Mcmillan Orchestra
A Sophomore Quartet composed OF
James. Rodgers, Raymond Linden
meyer, Harold Rixey and Hershel
Clevenger sang some good vocal
selections. ....
The Christmas holidays at McMil
Ian lasts from noon Saturday, Dec
cember 22nd, 1917 till Tuesday
January 1st, 1918.
Miss Abbie Elwang departed Sun
day for Columbia to spend the hill
idays.
Miss Alice Hilpert spends the va
cation in st. Louis.
Miss Alice Faller has gone to New
Brunwick to visit home folks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27
MISSOURI Filler INJURED.

Buffalo, Mo, Dec. 24-Edward F.
Ebsen of this city, who was injured
while engaged in an air battle in
France, is one of the first Americans
to be reported injured in such an
encounter. He also is the first SOL
dier from this section to be injured
in an actual battle in France. Ebsen
has been driving a plane in France
for some time, Altho placed in the
casualty list, relatives have not
learned the extent of his injuries.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27
SHE'S A KNITTER.

Seymour, Mo, Dec. 24.-Mrs. Sa-
rah Green Trimble of this city is
believed to have broken the record
for rapid knitting when she compile
ted a sailors sweater in twelve and
one-half hours. Mrs. Trimble was
prevailed upon by her friends to time
herself, knowing her unusual dexter
ity with the knitting needles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27
Taken all in all, the American
Army is spending a real American
Christhas in France

Marion Boulware, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Thod Boulware of near Molino,
is home on furlough to January 6
from Camp Funston. Marion had a
hard siege with pneumonia and suf-
fered seriously also from the effects
of vaccination. He is still suffering,
and it would appear that he will
probably be relieved from soldier
duties.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

H. H. Grafford and family held
an interesting family reunion on
Thanksgiving. Mrs. Ora Grafford and
three children were here from Whit
man, Neb., and John Grafford and
wife and baby of Wichita, Kan, and
Otho Grafford of Boone, Iowa, was
also here. Only the soldier son,
James Grafford, at Fort Sill, Okla,
was unable to be present. All en-
joyed Thanksgiving dinner with Mrs
Frank Syler at Vandalia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Miss Myrtle Duncan, who is teaeh-
ing in a Commercial School IN OKLA
homa City, will return to her wcr';
Tuesday after a visit with me- pS'
rents southeast of Mexico and t''T
relatives. Miss Myrtle is former
Audrain teacher and has reached a
very high standard in her profession
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

]. L. Devaney left for his home
in Commerce, Texas, Wednesday al
ter few weeks visit with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs, Pat Devaney' OF
Rush Hill, also his sister, Miss Sa-
rah Devaney, of Kansas CITY, spent
several days at home during the
Christmas HOLIDAYS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27
CARRIED A GUN.

John Smolarsky, Is years OF age
is doing 92 days in the county jail
for carrying concealed loaded re-
volver on his person.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler Cant and
children of Thompson are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cant at Oma-
ha, Nebraska.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Rev, ]. S. Jesse of WayneSYille,
Mo, is enjoying a visit with friends
and relatives here in Mexico, his old
home. Rev. Jesse served as pastor of
the Baptist church at Laddonia in
the days of The Message editors
youth
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Ed and VIM, Gieseker progressive
farmers of near Martinsburg, were
pleasant callers at the Message head
quarters Monday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Word is received that Mrs. Beal's
sister, Mrs. Marie F. Bell, seriously
i'll at her home in California is
slightly better.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Miss Ruth Morris of Kansas City
is visiting her parents In MEXICO
Mr.. and Mrs. v. F. Morris.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl VanHorne are
home from a short trip to st. Louis,
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
"CATCH 'EM FOR UNCLE SAMp,

In spite of frost and snow, many of the
boys and girls who have increased the
food supply by their summer gardens are
still to have chance to help in winning
the war as Mr.. Hoover says it must be
won.
John A. Rich, one of Boston's largest
dealers in fish, has Just begun work on a
countrywide plan for letting the school
children know how they can work for our
soldiers and our allies by fishing and by
digging clans. Already the lads on Cape
Cod, in fifteen schools from Duxbury to
Wellfleet, have heard the plan explained,
and like good scouts have already got in
to the game If boy catches salt water
or fresh water fish enough to give his
own family two or three meals every
week, and if besides he takes enough to
sell to neighbor, he lessons to that ex-
tent the demand for pork and beef and
fish that must be carried by express or
freight.
With thousands of boys along our coas
line from ST. John to St. Augustine max
ing special efforts to catch local fish for
local use, with uncounted inland boys
fishing for pout and perch and pickerel,
and for the bigger lake and river fish of
the States farther west, with boys even
fishing and claiming on the sparse coast
from Seattle to San Diego, the sum of all
their takings, like the sum of all their
last seasons gardens, will let the govern
ment release an enormous weight of
staple foods needed for shipment oversee.
So, Johnny, get your hook! Do not
wait for word from Mr.. Fowler, the fish
man on the federal food commission that
will come soon enough. Do not wait for
the placards and posters; they will soon be
in every post office. Be "charter mem
Der" and start in con the ground floor"
this very week. And this, remember, is
your slogan: "Catch 'em for Uncle Sam!"
Boston Herald.
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
CONDITIONS IN SWEDEN.

The following is an extract from letter
in Portsmouth. The originalwas written
in the Swedish language:
''The present prices will tell the tale of
the conditions in Sweden at the present
time. An ordinary ready made suit of
clothes selling before the war for SIS, is
now costing S35; tailor-made suit can
not be had for much less than $85; pair
of gloves are worth So; tea IS one of the
real luxuries, costing $40 per pound;
onions can be obtained for rs cents per
pound; cheese is selling for SLIGO per
pound; butter is now ST per pound and a
very little of it.
''They are selling for cooking purposes
what they call olive oil; but it is made
from flax seed. The government has
taken up all fats and is not exporting
any. Even so, there are no candles and
IN the outlying districts the only light
they receive is from dry birch stick
that shoulders, not enough to read by.
Speaking of fats, we might say that
soap which they paid cents or III cents
for is now on the market for 90 cents per
cake.
Coal and sugar are practically an I'M
known quantity, even wood selling for
$40 per cord; quart of kerosene, when
you can get it, will cost you So.
ut might seem strange in country
practically surrounded by water that fish
is selling for 40 cents per pound, and as to
underwear, place where they surely do
need it, the price of a working mans
zone suit is S.; even collar sets you
back from IS cents to As cents apiece.
'1n the winter shoes are handy thing
to have. The standard cost to date is
Sis per pair. Wooden ones are going fast
and are very popular.
"By these quotations it can easily be
seen that Sweden is suffering much more
than the United States at the present, in
the high cost of living. May it not last
lOnoi
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
BEGINNING TO TAKE NOTICE.

We wonder what effect these heavy
war taxes are going to have on the in
dustry of politics in America. Taxes
haven't bothered us much in this country
heretofore. We never have felt them
sufficiently to make us realize the relation
that public revenue bears to public office
or the relation that either bears to us as
taxpayers and voters.
We shouldn't be surprised if we took a
closer look at those matters now. The
government is coming down on US pretty
nearly every day now with something
new in the way of taxes. We are be-
ginning to feel the weight of them quite
plainly and we're going to feel them more
before we feel them less. Americans
who never before knew the dizzy sensa-
ton of paying an income tax are going
to feel it now and are going to get so &C
customed to it that they will feel no more
honored by the circumstance than they
do now when the grocery bill comes in.
Taxes of all kinds are going to be COM
mon and very, very heavy.
When we get to paying these real taxes
we wonder if we aren't going to be little
more exacting in laying down qualitica
tons for the men we elect to office We
haven't cared particularly what they did
with our money. 1t wasn't very much,
anyway.
But these war budgets they are turning
out in hington-maybe they'll 60 to
Fl billions the first year-are OF size to
demand the attention even OF busy
man. They may yet reach size that
will practically compel us, distasteful as
it may be to our superior personal feel
ings, to snatch minute or two to glance
at our candidates for office to see if they
really are the sort of men we would pick
out to split our last dollar with.
If we do get as interested as that it
might have far reaching results. We
might get to be regular busybodies, polk
ing into our own affairs and even looking
into such trifling details as county road
expenditures There's no telling what a
man will do when he gets to riding a
hobby like wanting to know what be-
comes of his own money.-Kansas City
Times.
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08

it his friend Legislator. who ran mill
down the road and who protested to
know all there was to be known about
Mythology Legislator was not only
willing but eager to give advice on
the subject.
cts as plain as the nose on your
face what ails that mule" he said,
sticking his thumbs in the armholes Of
his vest and shifting his cud, after the
fashion Of sturdy Yankee lawmakers.
You're feeding him too we'll. and
you're not giving him enough work
Cut down his diet of profits and mix
some deficiency in his food Then put
on his back several sacks of the excess
taxes I've just ground out Of my mill"
Public, breathing a sigh of relief.
tried Legislators prescription on Sam
son, but the treatment merely had the
effect of, reducing the mules energy
still further. After few moments
more of head scratching, Public decid-
ed to consult Agitator. Agitator was
wise man. At least he talked we'll,
and Public at that time was very sus-
ceptible to oratory.
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
AdUice; or the
Parable of the Good Mule Samso,

that Public, who didn't know much
about machinery, would get disguised
with the treadmill when he found that
it didn't work properly and would buy
few of Agitator's tools to smash 1t up
with, for Public didn't have much pa
tience in those days. So Agitator got
crowbar and worked industriously
around the freadmill for several min
utes, after which he brushed off his
clothes and went back to his hardware
store to wait for business.
A few minutes later Public returned
from lunch with a bad attack of indi-
gestion and a crouch against mules
and treadmills in general. His i'll tenn
per was increased by Samsons inabili-
ty to turn the treadmill at the accus-
toned rate of speed Poor Samson
puffed and struggled, and manifested
all the other distressing symptoms of
hard work, but he couldn't keep up to
time. Public belabored him until his
arm was tired. and then, scratching
mis- head, he unused irritably.
Il wonder what ails that mule, any
how? He certainly gets enough to eat
I've been feeding him right along on a
good rich diet of profits"
Scratching ones head has often been
known to stimulate a now of brilliant
ideas. and Public, after continuing the
process several minutes decided to Wis
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
MAN HUNTERS.

Man hunting on systematic and Or
ganiZed scale is IN progress today all
through eastern and northern Maine.
Never before have the lumber camps
been so hard pressed for woodsmen and
rival bosses are stealing axemen, swamp
ers, transfers, cooks and cookies from
one another with cheerful abandon. The
adage that necessity knows no law is
gaining new force throughout this section
of New England.
Unskilled 1len are being paid from $35
to S55 month to work in the woods and
large numbers of them are being shipped
into the State from Boston and other
cities. Woe betide the careless manager
in charge of these parties of woodsmen
for, unless he KEGS constant vigil, he is
apt to reach his destination to find the
ranks of his charges sadly depleted.
A large proportion of the men going
into the woods become fuddled with liq-
uor on their railroad journey north.
When in this condition they fall an easy
prey to the Establishments of the man
hunters. Sometimes an offer of few
dollars more month causes them to &C
cept employment Not infrequently they
are kidnapped bodily and taken from
trains at isolated stations in the woods to
be conducted to rival camps.
Most numbering concerns require their
men to walk from the nearest railroad
station into camp, sometimes tramp of
dozen miles or more. A common way
of inducing men to accept employment at
some other operation now is to provide
transportation over the rough woods roads
on a tote team. Usually the man from
the city will jump at chance for a ride
into camp, little reckoning that tote
team is innocent of springs and that rid
ing ON one is much harder than walking
for an equal distance.
So serious is the labor shortage that
some of the numbering firms, with con-
tracts for cutting certain amount of
timber, are in serious dilemma. There
appears no prospect that conditions in
regard to labor will grow easier. Indeed
! the outlook is that they will be worse
should the war continue for long time.
The large portion of the shortage of man
power in the Maine woods is due to en-
hstments in the army and navy and the
fact that high wages can be commanded
in munitions and other manufacturing
plants and in almost all lines of employ
ment. There has never been time when
the common laborer could find work SO
easily at such high wages. But on the
other hand, everything he uses and re-
quires has been affected by correspond
ing Acknowledgment Commercial.
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
A Partisan Tariff Commission.

If there was any one body created dur
ing the present administration which it
was understood was to be non-partisan
and unbiased in character, the tariff COM
mission was such body. All the dis
cussion that has ever taken place in is
favor of the creation of tariff COM: ~
sion has been based upon the assumpt. On
that a commission so created would be
composed of men who would approach
their work with open minds SO that the
Congress of the United States would have
the benefit of facts gathered and arranged
without the influence of prejudice.
| When the President came to appoint
the tariff commission he confessed that
he realized the difficulty of the task and
took seven months to select the individ-
uals who would constitute that supposed
ly important body. He selected as chair
man college professor who has been for
years teaching the doctrine of free trade
and whose theory of tariff is indicated
by his assertion ''it is no loss to us to
| import a thing if we can import it cheap
er than we can make it at home" The
man selected as chairman was Frank w.
Taussig.
The man selected as vice chairman
and second man on the commission was
| Daniel C. Roper; who had been clerk of
t the House committee on ways and means
and aided in the drafting of the destruc-
tive tariff law of 1913.
| The third man was former Congress-
man, David j. Lewis of Maryland, who
| although not participating in the debate
upon the tariff act of 1913, apparently
because it was subject to which he had
given no attention, yet was a supporter
of that measure.
| The fourth man was former Congress-
man William Kent of California, who
was president of the Woodrow Wilson
Non-Partisan League" in the 1916 cam
paign At the time the tariff bill of 1913
was under consideration, Congressman
Kent, in delivering an address in the
House, referred to the protective tariff as
'the great boss God BaaP' and 'this
Robin Hood system of distribution" and
"a noxious disease" and can attenuated
form of fundamental fallacy."
The four men mentioned above were
pronounced free-traders. The other two
members of the commission, and who
were appointed for the shortest terms,
were w. S. Culberston, represented as a
Republican, and E. P. Lostigan, Pro-
gressive, whose influence aided in the
election of Wilson. Neither of these men
had any public record on the tariff Four
of these men are pronounced free-traders
and the other two are practically I'M
known quantities.
Roper has resigned to take an appoint
ment where his political power will be
greater, and where he can render more
effective service in securing votes to
keep the free trade party in control of
the government. 1t will be interesting
to see what sort of man the President
will appoint to succeed him.-Kennebec
Journal
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
THE PRICE OF POTATOES.

The following evidently treats the sub
ject from the standpoint of the buyer.
We do not publish it as advice to the
farmer, but because it is wise to consider
both sides of question:
Much has been written and said about
how small the Maine crop is this year
with an idea of justifying the exalted
price ideas of the growers. 1t has been
said that Maine will not have more than
SO per cent of normal crop and late ad-
vices have even suggested that the pro-
duction will not be more than 40 per cent.
But in view of the fact that the rest of
the country seems to have done pretty
well in the matter of potatoes, the size of
the Maine crop is hardly as important as
it might otherwise be.
Even a 40 per cent crop in Maine this
year should be quite ample for all wants,
for by contrast with last year, New York
and the West are not this year drawing
on Maine for supplies; instead, they are
offering potatoes for shipment East and
at less money than has been demanded by
sthe Maine growers. Up to the end of
| September potato shipments from Maine
were $500 carloads less than in the same
| time last year and 1t is probable that ship
mentS to date show an even greater loss
as compared with those of year ago.
Sifted down, the real basis for the cur
rent prices is that the growers last year
had taste of famine prices for their po-
tatoes and since they did not get all they
should have out of them, as it was the
spectators who really garnered the big
end of the profits, they have determined
to store rather than sell this year. The
knowledge that the crop was well above
normal has made consumers wary about
buying freely at the prices asked and the
ends of the Maine growers also have been
rendered hard to obtain by the fact that
growers across the northern border have
been rather anxious to SELL
Prince Edward Island potatoes are on
the market and seem to be meeting
good demand despite the fact they figure
out to cost more than the Maine tubers.
1t is said that the activity of buyers from
the State have lifted prices on the island
so that they now cost 81. 57aS1. SO BUSH
ell, as compared with $1.55a$1. 90 for
Maine stock. Talk of an export demand
as a reason why potatoes should bring
more money than usual this year is with
out substantial Foundations; outside of the
potatoes that 60 to the West Indies there
is no chance for exports, as across the
water the crop rarely falls below con-
sumptive requirements, and this year is
no exception despite the war; indeed, or
dinarily, it takes a substantial demand
from distillers to keep prices at remun-
erative levels in Great Britain.
The Republican journal., 1917-11-08
"What Ais Him? 2"

shave, shampoo, and haircut, our
Samson is as strong, nay, stronger
than ever
Samson Is a good, constructive citi-
zen. It's his job to run the treadmill
that turns the wheels of industry If
Samson should quit his job all the fac
tories in Prosperity Town would have
to close their doors, and factories, by
the way, are the mainstay of Prospect
ty Town. Any time you happen to
pass the treadmill you can see Samson
doing his standing marathon He new
er seems to tire at his Job. There are
folks in Prosperity Town who think
that Samson, as an industrial factor,
is capital, but We hesitated to state
the fact for fear you might accuse us
Of trying to perpetrate pun.
Samson's driver is man Public, an
intelligent, well meaning person who is
just beginning to get along famously
with Samson There was time, how
OFoI, Wueu uDllC WdS So SLSTOSS0U
with the affairs of his numerous fam
lily that he hadn't much time left for
the occupation which gave him his in
come, and mule driving requires study
just like medicine, military tactics,
mixing mint juleps or any of the other
exact sciences.
Something happened recently now
ever, which caused Public to take a
keener interest in his job. He was
nome eating lunch one day when a
man named Agitator. former resident
Of Prosperity Town. passed the tread
mill of industry, and, seeing that it
was unguarded. thought it would be a
good joke on Public to put few kinks
in the machinery 1t wasn't sense OF
humor alone that gave Agitator his in
SEPARATION He saw that he might make
his little joke pay. You see, he owned
hardware store In Prosperity Town,
where he kept in stock a fine line of
hammers. axes and other implements
that can be used to advantage in
knocking and tearing down. He hoped