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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
MIR. Cross Works Off
Spell Homesickness
Former Audrain Man Very Busy But
Never Forgets His Old Friends
Shipping Melons and Cantaloupes.

Keyes, Cali, Aug. Is, 1917. Mr..
John Beal, Dear Old Boy: Snatching
a minute or two during lull in bus
iness-which said lulls come few and
far between during these stirring
days in Keyes-I yield to the spirit
of the moment and work off a little
spell of inconsistencies that comes
o'er me once in while-once a week
just after receiving the home papers.
1 see that my old friend, John Nay
smith, has passed away. He was a
prominent member of the meeting
in Michigan which organized the Re-
publican party. He was a great ad-
mirer and follower of Abraham Lin
coin, and lived to see some great
achievements of his party, and to
see it cut some queer capers in these
latter days.
The war, oh, so fearful 1t is
striking deep into the heart-strings of
every community. 1 am saying to
our boys: go forth cheerfully and
help to uphold the honor of the great
est country on earth, and to help es-
tablish the freedom of the millions
in bondage. But the war will end
within six months and most of you
will never see the enemy under
arms"
Well, John, are you going to stay
by your guns till called hence? l be-
lieve you have done a noble part in
the uplift of moral standards-ever
maintaining in public and private the
stern ideals of better possible living
and the closer brotherhood of man.
You have Influenced thousands by
your public utterances and empha-
sized by living a life in full accoro.
Excuse me, John, for this outburst-
telling a true story to your face.
Well, l see you have had good
rains in some parts of Audrain.
Does it not seem natural to me to
hear such stories? Day after day
watching for the showers that too
long delayed, blasted my hopes many
a time-and as often revived them
I'd write you at length but am too
busy. There are perhaps 800 men at
work on the fields and in the ware
houses shipping melons and canta-
loupes from here, some peaches also
Grape picking will begin in a few
days.
Best regards,
J.N. CROSS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

fine lot, most of them being worth
from $500 to $400 apiece, and had
shipped them to a point in Northern
Florida. From there we drove them
to the gulf coast at a place called
Dead Mans Bay. The last part of
the trip was made thru a thick Flori-
da swamp, where we had to move
along very slowly, sometimes only
three or four miles day. And were
without good water part of the time.
The result was that we lost 450
horses. This and sweating around
in that jungle four or five days put
me in very bad spirits to start the
trip. We loaded at Dead Mans Bay
and sailed for Tampa, where we took
on feed. We carried some of the
horses in barges which we towed be-
hind.
In for Bad Voyage.
From Tampa we sailed to Key
West. There we began hanging
around the harbor office waiting for
clearance papers. We were put off
from day to day for no very satisfac-
tory reason. Our captain was a
horned old veteran, who had been
securing the Seven Seas on all kinds
of ships since he was 12, as full of
superstitions as voodoo negro, and
he kept croaking that we were in for
bad voyage. He said that the hold
ing back of clearance papers was a
put up job and that they were waiting
to tell the submarines when we would
start.
After while l began to get un-
easy myself, and on February 2, a
thick night, we hauled up our anchor
and slipped out without clearance pa
pers. Heavy weather struck us al
most as soon as we started. We
struck out south and went a different
way than we had ever gone before.
OdW II submarine.
when we had been out four or
five days, one morning about ten
o'clock, submarine was reported far
away on our port bow. We saw moth
ing more of it and hoped that the
lookout was wrong. About noon all
of us on deck saw it again, unmis-
takably. We sighted it again at 2
o'clock, at and again at $3.50. It
began trailing us and followed us
steadily until dark. We used the
wireless station and called for help
repeatedly, but no answer came back.
We were gaining on the submarine,
and thought perhaps we could keep
ahead for day or two and get help
when one of our boilers went dead.
Then the German began overhauling
us.
The German Hits.
81 felt the ship tremble, then l
could feel a jar and hear a muffied
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
Vandalia POstofhce.

Ben Chinn, wife and two children.
Marvin Reid Moss, wife and two
children.
John R. Stacey, wife and four chill
dren.
Virgil H. Whitaker, wife and two
children.
Mexico POstoffice.
David F. Crum, wife and one child.
Ned Holt, wife and two children.
Floyd E. Miller, wife and one child.
Ernest r. Hartley, wife and one
child.
CentraIia POstoffice.
George A. Settle, wife and two
children.
Sturgeon Postoffice.
James G. Lawrence, wife and two
children.
Thompson POstoffice.
Wheeler Cant, wife and two chill
dren.
Laddonia Postoffice.
Henry E. Davis, wife and two chill
dren.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
LIEUTENANT HANGER.

Charles Hanger, son OF Mr. ana
Mrs. John Hanger, near Worcester
graduate of Mexico High School, VINO
afterwards studied law in Mexico
was was lately granted Second Lieu
tenant commission at Fort Riiey'
Kansas Charlie is a very fine boy
and will make good officer we feel
sure.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Captain William Coatsworth, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Coatsworth of
Mexico, was married in st, Louis last
Thursday to Miss Olga Steinburns, a
charming and accomplished young
woman of that city. They are now
visiting in Mexico. Mr.. Coatsworth
expects call soon to his army duties
at Fort Riley.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Mr.. Emanuel X. Myers of Rush
Hill and Miss Ruth Talley of Lad
donia were granted marriage license
Saturday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
Go to l.. w. Roberts for Furniture
and Undertaking.
COMMITS SUICIDE.

P. c. Scott, a former student in
Mexico Military Academy, committed
suicide in St. Louis last Friday by
shooting himself. He was divorced
from his wife. He was nephew of
the late Lamartine Lakeland.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Misses Bessie and Mabel Hickman
enjoyed a visit last week from Miss
Charlotte Heinrich of st. Louis and
Miss Florence McGavoeh of Columbia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Grant Irvine threshed 1,400 bush
els of oats this season. He sold
part of It at 65 cents per bushel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
SUES HIS ACCUSER.

VandaIia Man Not Guilty of Horse
Stealing Files Libel Suit For
$4,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Kemp & Nelson, Mexico clothiers,
have bought the cleaning and press
ing establishment of c. H. Hamilton
and have possession.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Milt Householder had 120 acres of
oats this season which threshed 40
bushels to the acre.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

MIR. and Mrs. A. G. Moore spent
week recently among relatives and
friends near Hatton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23

Lieut.. NJ. ]. Sannebeck arrived here
last week from Fort Riley on a visit
to relatives.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-08-23
CREDIT SOLDIERS
FOR AUDRAIN.

Others Discharged on Account of De-
pendents-No Other Means of Sup
port,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

The feature wrestling match of the season, which will be staged at the Jefferson theatre Monday night be- tween Waldek Zbyszko the man who threw Strangler Lewis and who claims the championship of the world, and John Freberg, famous Swedish cham pion, will be an event of keen interest not only to lovers of clean sport in Birmingham but all over Alabama and from Mississippi, Georgia and Tennes- see.
 This has been indicated by the reservations made for seats at the Jeff ferson theatre. The seat sale opened Friday morning and there has been a constant rush for places since. Brown Parkes, who is promoting the matches. congratulated himself last night on his foresight in preparing to handle extra crowds. It is anticipated that the ring side seats will be disposed of by noon Monday if the demand last night is any indication. There are still plenty of good seats on the stage which will give a close view of the match, which will mark an epoch in Birmingham wrestling.
 q attribute the tremendous rush for seats to two factors," said MT. Parkes last night. "One of them is, of course,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Deterring to Patriots

tEIt fNdHsdS t-Ity fStdf.
 Why have enlistments been so slow here? we asked. Have your young men no patriotism?"
 CD, plenty. replied the landlord of Welen round, threatens to Kiss every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
SPORTS
Thrilling Match Ls Expected Monday Night
Eddie Edn1OndSOn Leads Southern Hitters; HiU Has
 Won 1T Games and Lost ,
Tex Covngon of the Travellers Ranks Third and Red Smith Fourth-McCol Is Leading Pitcher in Respect to
 Earned Runs Per Game-Other Averages

Eddie Edmondscn the top of the baes it. the Southern association piled by Irwin Howe Chicago including
 
 of with Smith the 
 Two s hitting 292 Doc Johnston follows with 2S1 ting PCT Bill Souhwoh follows Hill 0 of Memphis in the weeks a The cononlete eaveray cfo1ouv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

the fifth inning. As the rain increased Umpire Mccormick called time with the crowd on the fled and play was resumed after the usual 90 minutes.
 Weaver, third basernan of the Chicagos said he was struck by spectator while crossing the field. The game was started under protest of Manager Rowland of Chicago, who objected to the manner in which Manager Barry of Boston manipu- lated players names in order to present a strong lineup against either left or right handed pitchers.
 Cicotte's pitching surpassed that of Ruth Weaver hit home run.
 Score: RHE. Chicago ................. 100 101 004-7 10 0 Boston ,................. 900 900 020-2 9 l
 Batteries: Cicotte and Schalk; Ruth and Thomas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Ty Cobb Battles Way Into
 Leadership ODer Speaker
Georgia Peach Finally Regains Lead in American League Burns Leads in National Over Roush-Edmondson
 Leads Southern With Hyatt Second

AS. Edmondson leads with .S63. Reed of Mobile tied Knaupp of New, Orleans for stolen base honors. each having 16 Knaupp, however, maintained his po- sition as the leading sacrifice hitter with S1. Covington of Little Rock and Mcdonald of Atlanta are still tied Tn home run hitting with six each. At lanta leads in team batting with .274. The average includes games of Tues day.
 Leading batters who have played Tn half of their clubs games: Hyatt, Chattanooga. .S61: Edmondson, New Orleans, .363; Covington. Little Rock, .S42; Picinich. Atlanta, .336; Moran, At lanta, 326; Knisely, Nashville, 326; Smith, Birmingham, S22; Gilbert. New Orleans, .S20; Munch, Atlanta. SIS; Meyers. Mobile, .S14; Wick Memphis .310; Webb, Birmingham s0S; Kores, Nashville 1902.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

Chicago, June 16.-For the first time since August, 1916 Ty Cobb is leading the American league in bat ting.
 Coming from behind with rush, the Detroit star deposed Iris Speaker of Cleveland. The Georgian's average is 35S. according to unofficial figures re- leased today and which include games of Wednesday. Speaker is three points behind him.
 Ruth, the Boston pitching star, who hitting at a terrific pace, having an average of AIS for 16 games. Russell, a Chicago pitcher, is batting .346 for 15 games.
 Chapman of Cleveland was de- throned as the leading base stealer. Roth, a teamate, nosing him out with 17. Chapman leads in sacrifice hitting with 30 Weaver of Chicago leads in runs scored with 36. Boston is show average of .242.
 SPEAKER CLOSE SECOND
 Leading batters. who have parti- cipated in half of their games: Cobb of Detroit, 353; Speaker of Cleveland, $50; Rumler of St. Louis, 3sS; McInnis of Philadelphia, .S21.
 A single point separates Burns> of New York and Roush of Cincinnati, tied a week ago, for the lead in the Ma tional league. Burns leads with an average of .343. The New Yorker also leads in runs scored with 35 and is pressing Zeider for stolen base honors. being one behind the Chicagoan, who has 12. Wheat of Brooklyn and Doyle of Chicago are tied for sacrifice hit ting with 12 each. Hornsby of St. Louis is giving Cravath race for homer run honors, Hornsby having five and the Philadelphia star six. Philadelphia is leading in team batting with ,264s
 Leading batters who have partici- pated in half of their clubs games Burns, New York, .343, Roush, Cincin- nati, .342: Jack Smith. St Louis. .336s s Cruise St. Louis, .333; Fischer. Pitts burg. .S27; Kauff, New York. ST
 EDMONDSON STILL LEADS
 After losing the lead to Edmondsol .of New Orleans Hyatt of Chattanooga remained second in the Southern as sociation with an average of sGi. Hyatt is leading in runs scored with
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Crackers Setting Pace With
 Will0W; BdrOnS Rank Fifth

Atlanta Nashville fielding compiled 
  fielding with 965.  ling fielding in
  The lead the Pecans triples The Baons second The figure areas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

TWenty- SeDen Players inTWo Major Leagues B0tting ODer CODeted Mark; Goblin Spurt
Rumler and Jacobson Formerly Travellers Are Making Good With Browns-Benny Kauff Hitting .317
 Grimes Batting 313-Other Figures

Thrtynne
 
  than 30 while IS National. fellows of the Travellers third lows the former champion hitter Southern association also formerly of Is Buleigh Benny Kuf is batting 317 lineup is batting the The players in eaoh league above .250 mark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

Many fruit growers in Spain are suf- fering heavy losses through the impos- sibility of getting their crops to foreign markets. owing to the lack of space on outgoing ships The few vessels avail able prefer to carry other cargo, and fresh fsuit has been left on the quays to spoil. CuLtivators are losing so much money in this way that they are not even gathering certain classes of fruit, and whole districts that are largely depend ent on the sale of oranges are being seri- ously affected. Accordingly, a royal or der has been issued and published on March IT requiring every vessel leaving from Levantine ports of Spain to carry fresh fruit to the amount of at least one tenth of its cargo. on condition that the fruit is delivered alongside before the de- parture of the vessel and that the fruit Is destined for a port at which the ship calls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
SULLIGENT SHOOTERS
 HOLD ANNUAL MEET

Sulligent, June Special. )-Sul- ligent Scatter Gun tribe pulled off their third annual tournament over their new automatic trap yesterday with 19 of the tribe taking part in Sport alluring." Harry Jones of Bir- mingham officiated. There were 20 or more visitors, both men and ladies from surrounding towns. The weather was ideal. except brisk wind in the face of the shooters giving more or less cratic targets, also blowing the discharge of each shot into the faces of the shooters.
 There were 1450 targets trapped with 19 shooters. Scores as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

the universal interest felt in the ap- pearance of Zbyszko and the many friends of John Freberg. The second is the fact that there has been no ad- vance in prices. People who inquired at the box office as to prices appear ed l to be surprised that they would not be held up and were highly pleased to 1 find that the contrary was true. I do not think an advance in prices would be fair to the public and will always be fair with my patrons"
 NUMEROUS RESERVATIONS Seat reservations are now in the box office from Columbus, Miss; Columbus, Ga; Gadsden, Tuscaloosa Decatur, Montgomery and a flock from Besse- mer. An order for l 5 seats was received by telegraph Saturday afternoon from a party of wrestling fans in Chatta- nooga who will make the trip to wit ness the bout
 Both Zbyszko and Freberg are in Birmingham and both are in excellent shape for the match.
 Zbyszko was at the Jefferson theatre for a short time yesterday and was the cen ter of all eyes while there. The Pole is known as the hansomest man in the ring.
 while his body is so perfectly developed that every move is a poem of motion.
 Zbyszko is much better equipped t,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Red Sox Again Losers

Boston. June 15.--Chicago won agaln from the world champions today, to ?. The game was interrupted by a crowd that swarmed from the bleachers to tho playing field in demonssration appar- ently intended to cause the contest to be called because of rain while Chicago was leading, ? to 0, In the first part of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
The Precious Potato

From the Washington Star.
 T can remember when a potato was worth it's weight in gold in the Klondike."
 Yes" replied Farmer Corntossel "But what's the use O going way up to the Klondle? All we've got to do is to stay right here an enjoy the cli- mate while the prices go up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Tanks Best Browns

New York June 16.-New York today won another easy victory from St. Louis, to 4. Pipp, who yesterday drove out a home run in the first inning with Hen dryx and Maisel on bases, repeated the feat today under precisely the same con. ditions.
 New York and St. Louis will play next Tuesdays game here tomorrow, the pro- ceeds to go to war charities. It will be the first major league championship game ever played on Sunday in Manhat- tan borough Score: RHE St. Louis .............. COP 101 000-4 Il 4 New York .......,....... 303 200 OOs-S 10 ,
 Batteries: Davenport. Koob, Park and Severeid Love and Walters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

The big picture shows John Ere berg, the champion of Sweden and challenger of the world. The small one is an excellent likeness of the champion, Zbyszko. These two wrest- lers meet in finish bout at the Jeff ferson theatre on Monday night. The championship of the world may hing on the outcome of the bout.
 wiring living from Dame Fortune than the average man, for he has two profess sions in addition to that of wrestling by which he makes handsome sums. ZbySzko Is perhaps the most highly educated man in the wrestling game today, with the possible exception of Dr. B. F. Roller. Zbyszko holds a degre from the Univer- sty of Cracow, the institution in Aus trian Poland made famous by the war, and has practiced his profession as law yer both in Austria and in the United States. He is said to be as keen a lawyer as a wrestler.
 ZBYSZKO IS MODEL
 Zbyszkos third profession is that of an artists model. So beautiful is the sym metry of his body that he is in constant demand among the sculptors and artists m New York as model for statues and pictures of old Greek subjects. Physically Zbyszko is declared to be perfect and it is only with difficulty that he dodges the artists to make his wrestling tours.
 Freberg is confident that he will be able to master the Pole and says that the six-day journey across the continent made by Zbyszko in order to come to Birming- ham will give him the edge. Freberg will have many packers when he goes to the mat Monday. for he has shown wonder full ability as wrestler in his previous matches in Birmingham.
 Zbyszko is ready to go and says he an- ticipates no difficulty in mastering the Swede although he admits that Frebers will be hard to handle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Indians Win Two

Indians WIn TWO
 Philadelphia. June l-.-Cleveland twice defeated Philadelphia here today, to 0 and to 4. In the first game the wis., itors took advantage of the home teams errors to win twirling duel between Bush and Bagby.
 In the second game Philadelphia out batted Cleveland, but the latter effective ly punched safe drives.
 First game. Score: R.H F. Cleveland .........t..... 100 100 020-4 1 Philadelphia ....,....,. 900 900 OOO-0 6 . Batteries: Bagby and o'Neill; Bush and Meyers.
 Second game. Score: R.HE. Cleveland ........ BOP 00O 020-7 10 0 Philadelphia ........... oil 001 001-4 P l Batteries Gould Klepfer and Billings; Schauer, Johnson and Schang.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17
Cobb's Triple Is Winner

Washington, June 16.-Cobbs triple
 with two men on base. in the eighth en- abled Detroit to defeat Washington to- day, 3 to ?. Veach hit a ball over the right field wall for a home run in the fourth. Score R.H.E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-17

After losing the lead to Edmondsol. of New Orleans Hyatt of Chattanooga remained second in the Southern as sociation with an average of sGi. Hyatt in leading in runs scored with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-07-20
But Former w. s. c. Student From
ColfaX Is Making Record as
Rifle Shot

The San Francisco Examiner con-
tains the following story regarding
R. c. Howard of Colfax, form erly a
student at the State College:
One of the r. c. Towards in the
Reserve Officers Training Camp is a
naturally fine rifle shot, judging
from his performance yesterday on
the range near Fort Barry, where he
and two other r. G. Towards are
among the students of Third and
Fourth companies receiving instruc-
ton.
The r. c. Howard that is a nat
urally fine shot is from CoIfax,
Wash, and is a member of the
Fourth company. Another R. c.
Howard in the same company is from
Tacoma.
For a while Captain Stephen O..
Fuqua, form erly regimental adjutant
of the Twelfth infantry, U. S. A, and
temporarily commander of Fourth
company, was considerably puzzled
by the different appearances of "R.
C. Howard" Just as Captain Fuqua
thought he knew r. c. Howard by
sight, r. c. Howard would change
R. c. Howard was worse than twins
Not because he looked alike. but be-
cause he did not.
When Captain Fuqua finally got r.
c. Howard together and learned that
there are two of them in his company
he became interested. When he dis
covered that each is named Robert
C. he became astonished. When he
was apprised that a third r. G. How
ard Is in Third company he became
amazed.
To distinguish for military pur-
poses between the two in Fourth
company Captain Fuqua ordered that
the one from Colfax, who has devel-
oped on the Fort Barry range into
such a good rifle shot. should be
known as r. C. Howard Second"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-07-20
Strong Organization Perfected to Pro-
tect Property and Maintain Law
and Order

Four hundred representative citi-
zens of Whitman county, including
leading farmers and business men,
met at the court house in Colfax last
Friday evening and formed :; county
security league. The organization
was formed as an auxiliary of the
state council of defense. A charm an
was elected for the county and each
community elected one. Forty or
carnations We're perfected, repre-
senting each portion of Whitman
county
The preamble of the membership
roll sets out that the purpose of the
organization is to preserve law and
order in Whitman county. and to
furnish security to the homes and
property of the farmers.
The organization, when perfected,
will include practically every citizen
of responsibility in Whitman county.
The following officers were select
ed;
County chairman--Charles L. Mac
Kenzie.
Secretary-E. A. Thompson
The executive committee includes
these officers and the several com
munity chairmen
The following statement was given
out by the officials of the organiza-
ton:
The people of Whitman county
are peaceful law abiding citizens,
perhaps more so than any other
county in the state, because it is
purely an agricultural county; they
deplOre strife and also deplore law
lessness and disorder, and because
certain lawless organizations and
ag,tators were industriously circulat-
ing orally and through the rewspap-
ers their intention to bring riot and
disorder to Whitman county during
the harvest period, it was believed
that to maintain the good order they
love SO we'll it was necessary for the
substantial people of the county to
get in touch with each other and
have a general understanding as to
what the action or attitude of the
county might be in case of Invasion
by irresponsible agitators to the ex-
tent that they might interfere with
harvest work