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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
FROM WASHINGTON STATE.

Endicott, Wash, Nov. q, 1917.
Editor of The Message:
Enclosed is the subscription price
for your paper for another year.
l would be lost without it, as it is
from my home community, and l see
so many things about people l knew.
We are having fall weather here
now. 1t frosts most every night,
but is plenty warm during the day.
Not many farmers have done any fall
seeding on account of it being SO dry
SO long. When it did rain it started
freezing.
The crops out here didn't turn
out as good this last summer as they
generally do because of lack of rain
1t was very dry season.
1 read of so many of the Audrain
boys being called in training, in
your paper. The training camp for
most of Oregon, Montana and Idaho
with Washington included is at
American Lake, Wash. 1t is not very
far from here, so you see when l am
called 1 won't have to be very far
from home, till 1 cross the waters.
This training camp, by name Camp
Lewis, sure has a bunch there now.
Many of the boys from this town are
there or have been shipped to some
of the eastern States from there.
Wishing The Message and all its
friends prosperity, 1 am, as ever,
S. N. SHOWERS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
DIED AT DOCTORS OFFICE.

Robert Woodrow Mefford, ten
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Mefford of near Auxvasse died a
short short time since at the Office
Of DR.. NJ. Yates in Fulton. The
child was i'll with hernia, the doc
tor seeing the child the first time the
day before. He decided that an op-
Grafton might save its life, but the
little one sank so rapidly that it
died before arrangements could be
made to do so.
Mr., and Mrs. Mefford lost 49,
year old daughter about a year ago.
the son and daughter being their
only children.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
Soldiers Visit Home
Like Army Service
All Ruddy Faced And The Picture OF
Health-The Y. NJ. G. A. And X.
OF c. Provide Entertainment.

Among the soldier boys who were
home last week from Camp Funston
on short furloughs were the follow
ing:
Ray Gregory, Walter r. Ballew,
Cecil Weidler, John l. Brown, L. r.
Marshall and George spottswood
Walter r. Ballew of Benton City
belongs to Co. X. 354th Regiment In
fantry. He told The Message he is
delighted with soldier life. He is
ruddy faced and the picture of phys
ical perfection. All the boys express
ed satisfaction and delight with the
general treatment they are getting.
The soldiers are forced to undergo
some strenuous stunts. They are
learning to walk, if they never walk
ed before. A trudge of three and a
half meils from the barracks every
morning to the parade ground, and
then the same stunt after dinner, and
back. Eight hours drill day and
the hikes.
The barracks have steam heat and
all the conveniences. The boys have
plenty of clothing and are not al
lowed to suffer from cold. Their
rooms must be kept clean-another
fight the soldiers have to learn, how
to keep down Kansas dust and sand.
The Y. M. C. A. and X. of C. fur
nish all stationery for writing let
ters home They sell stamps, too.
for the postoffice is four miles away.
Three lectures and entertainments
are the programs at regular inter
walls. Free base ball outfits and all
sporting goods furnished free also
given by the two organizations re-
ferred to above.
A player piano is set agoing all
the time.
The soldiers are all getting some
thing worth while out of their train
ing and experiences all the while.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
RED CROSS SEALS TO BE
SOLD IN AUDRAIN COUNTY.

Our country's worst enemy is he
who, like the spy, enters the camps
of our soldiers and the homes of our
workers and, like the Hun, kills and
mains men, women and children in
war and peace but especially in war.
In times of peace, in the past, this
enemy has taken 5000 lives a year
in Missouri. In times of war who
can say how many fold lives will be
taken-needlessly for this slaugh-
ter and distress is preventable. This
enemy of our land and all lands
is tuberculosis, or consumption, is
best fought in the open air and in the
light of the sun, and must be fought
with persistence and diligence by all.
In Missouri this fight is being di-
rected by the Missouri Association
for the Relief and Control of Tuber-
culosis by local anti-tuberculosia
societies and by the teachers and
pupils of our schools--public, pri-
vate and parochial-in an annually
recurring campaign of education and
sale of Red Cross Christmas seals.
These little seals, or stickers, Of
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

F. S. Johnston, down toward
Wellsville, writes making remittance
for The Message and then adds
Hoover will have to put curb on
you town fellows or the farmers will
go under. You are raising the price
on everything" Now, Fred, read
our Hoover poetry elsewhere in the
paper this week. When your days
become wheatless and meatless, and
you are eatless and your pants are
seatless, then will you vince as do
us town folks'-we Just have to do
something. And, Fred, you farm fell
lows are at it., too.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
POULTRY THE BEST CHANCE.
Rack Yards And Farms Can Double
The Nations Meat Supply Next
Year.

Poultry must be produced next
year in places where it has not been
produc ed before, and everywhere
that Lcultry has been produced that
production must be Increased. 1t is
necessary that people in the ;.rtry
ar.I in the towns answer alike TO
this call Farms and backyar.ls aust
do II cir bit, for the doubling OF our
poultry production next year is ALI
III. - ensible item in the Nations
food production program pro-
gram which must be carried out.
The reat supplies available tor
European use are short. Meat must
be supplied if the war is won-by the
forces who fight for freedom. The
war will be won if we fail in food
production-but not won by us,
We must understand what will
happen if we do not provide the
enormous quantities of foodstuffs
that allies produce for themselves,
Are we going to feed our Army on
chickens and eggs? OF course not.
But by greatly increasing our pro-
duction of chickens and eggs, and by
eating these chickens and eggs our
selves we will, naturally, eat that
much less, beef and pork. In turn,
that beef and pork can be sent to
Europe.
United States Department of Ag-
riculture calls upon the country to
double poultry production next year,
That can be done if the farm will
keep an average of 100 hens Instead
os ALI average of 40 hens, as at pres
ent, and il every family in town will
keep enough hens in the backyard to
produce all the eggs used by that
family, or two hens to each person
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
HONEsT-TO-GOODNEss TOWN.
Estill Myers, Former Mexico News
paper Man, Writes Interestingly
OF Northeastern Oklahoma.
Miami, Okla, Nov. 2S, 1917.

Miami, Okla, Nov. %, 1917.
Dear Mr. Beal:
Under separate cover am sending
you a copy of last Sundays Record
Herald, which contained nearly
1000 inches of advertising. We got
out the edition in three sections, as
you will see, which necessitated six
runs on Cranston press. 1t was day
break Sunday when the press work
was finished. However. we shall
have a Cox Duplex press before long,
possibly before Christmas, if they
can get it installed by that time.
Miami is not boom town" in the
sense usually have known boom
towns. Miami is enjoying a steady
growth-a substantial growth, The
mining field north of here has not
even started to develop. There are
now 200 mills in operation in the
district. By early summer this num-
ber will be increased to 700. 1t is
the richest lead and zinc mining field
in the world.
Miami is a clean, honest-to-good-
ness city. We have none of the min
ing town trough stuff" here, There
is not house in town for rent just
now, but hope to have my family
here from Mexico within the next six
weeks.
Cecil Basket and Ralph Wayne
ask to be remembered. Basket is
making this paper hum. Ralph is
doing fine.
With kindest regards.
ESTILL r. MYERS.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
BUYING DAIRY CALVES.

Cassville, Mo-, Nov. 3O.--A. ]. Nc
Dowell has returned from Wisconsin
where he purchased 162 head of high
grade dairy calves and heifers for
farmers of the Ozark section. The
shipment brings the total number of
purchases since the first of the year
to 1872. They have cost approximate
ly $4,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
MIR. MORRIS APPOINTED.

Fred A, Morris was appointed last
week as chairman of the Audrain
County War Savings Certificate Com
mittee.
Under the War Savings Certificate
plan war stamps may be purchased
at 25 cents each, these being ex-
changed after the obtaining of 16
for war savings certificate, which
carries per cent interest.
The plan was originated by the
Government shortly after the selling
of the second issue of>Liberty Bonds,
and adopted in order that every per-
son might invest in Government Sc
curities. War Savings Stamps anre
on sale at the Mexico Postoffice.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

ten miscalled stamps, are issued by
the American Red Cross and are dis
tributed and sold thru the National
and State tuberculosis associations.
Nine-tenths of the gross proceeds of
the sale is retained within the state,
and to local communities where the
interest in the work and the number
of seals sold warrant, as much as so
per cent of the gross proceeds will
be rebated to be expended for local
work that is approved by the Nation
al and State Societies. Over 4,500,-
600 seals were sold in Missouri last
December, over 100,000,000 in the
United States, giving revenue for
the fight of over a million dollars.
The seal for 1917 is the most at
tractive ever issued by the Red Cross.
1t is printed in red and green and is
warranted to stick and to carry.
Superintendent Herbert Pryor, and
other superintendents and principals
and the teachers of rural schools in
Audrain county will be amply sup
piled with printed matter pertaining
to the prevention and cure of tuber-
culosis and with seals to be sold by
school children. In selling the seals
they are battling for their lives and
for their country. They are doing
their bit in the war, and who buys
them will be doing his. The sale is
now on and will continue until New
Years.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
COMMUNITY NURSE CHOSEN.
Social Service Board And School
Board Join In Cooperation.

The Social Service Board held its
regular onthly meeting at the Meth
odist church Saturday afternoon. In
the future the meetings will be held
in the Social Service Room in the
City Hall: This room, with the one
formerly occupied by the Mayor, has
by the kindness of DIR. Harrison and
the city officials been thoroly reno
waited and are most comfortable and
attractive. The Mayor has vacated
his office, rendering it for use of the
Red Cross sewing room.
The Social Service Board with the
cooperation of the School Board has
engaged Miss Corine Markley of
Minneapolis, Kansas, for the social
service work and the examination of
the school children for the next six
months.
Miss Markley has been az the Hos
pital for several months and is al
ready much beloved by the children.
She is at Miss Spence's on East Mon
roe street and may be reached by
calling phone number 251. She will
be at the Social Service Room daily
from 4 to 8 and may be reached
there by calling phone I'll.
The Mexico people, so ready when
thoroly informed of need, to assist in
relieving it, are responding to the ap-
peal of the Board for children s cloth
ing for use in it's work. Phillips
Brothers donated IS pairs of new
shoes. The Social Service Room is in
order and bundles may be brought
there. Articles of furniture are
needed as we'll as shoes and clothing
The Board is trying to conse arve
the fund as carefully as possible and
it is, obviously impossible to buy
much furniture, Chairs anu beds
are most needed. AS in one family
of IL they have only one bedstead
Christmas is approaching and the
Board would like to have toys for the
children who have none, and If there
are any children in town who are out
of the abundance of their playthings
would care to give a few of their
things for children who have none,
of whom there are in one family
The Board will be glad tc receive
them and give them out at Clr,st.
mas.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
HOME FROM FRANCE.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Nov. 29.-W.
X. Gardner, IS years old, son of
Gov. F. D. Gardner, returned last
night from France, where he has
been driving an American ambulance
at the front for six months.
II had a wonderful experience, 1"
he said, "and was glad to have had
the opportunity of doing my part for
my country.
But / am not thru. When 1 get
into the service again I want to be
in the aviation corps"
He was a member of the Ambu-
lance Corps organized last spring at
Missouri University. 1t is probable
that he will complete his studies
there before making application in
the aviation service.
While at the front he had a mar
row escape from bursting shrapnel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
OYSTER SUPPER.

The ladies of Liberty Church serv-
ed oysters at the home of Judge Ba-
ker Barnes north of Thompson on
last Thursday night. over $4,000
was taken In A donation will be
made to the Red Cross and the re-
mainder of the money will be used
to make repairs on the church build
ing.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
O. u. Hoover

My Tuesdays are meatless,
My Wednesdays are wheatless,
am getting more eat-iess each
day.
My home it is heatless,
My bed it is sheetless,
They're all sent to the Y. M. c. A.
The barrooms are treatless,
My coffee is sweet.less
Each day 1 get poorer and wiser.
My stockings are feetlesJ,
My trousers are seatless,
My God, but do hate the Kaiser.
W. Nj. 9
Note-The author, w NJ e, is
Will NJ. Cressy, an actor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
FROM OKLAHOMA.

Manitou, Okla, Nov. 27, 1917.
Dear Mr.. Beal:
wish to renew for the good old
home Message, for it is, as so many
others express it, great letter from
home. We can hardly wait for each
copy, especially now in these peril
Gus war times.
Most everyone form here Wis
it's Fort Sill, to see the soldier boys.
Will enclose one dollar for the
paper.
(AHTCCN II nADNrEC
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
(MISS) F. ]. BARNES.

J. w. Morris of near Worcester
and his sister, Mrs. Theodore Black,
south of Farber, were pleasant call
ers at the Message office Saturday.
They are auld lang syne friends OF
the editor of the Message and it was
a pleasure to meet them.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

When you contemplate the short
age of coal remember that the liquor
trade is using 100000 tons of
coal a year and would be using
100000 tons If the distilling of
whisky had not been stopped by the
Government
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
WOMEN GATHER CORN.

Laddonia, Mo, Nov. ,S0.-Eight
members of the Ladies Aid Society
of the Christian Church and their
pastor shucked 240 bushels of corn
for James Diggs Wednesday. They
received five cents per bushel
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

L. F. Austin spent part of last
week with his family in Mexico. lie
travels over the North and makes
regular trips with poultry to New
York City. OF all the cities and
places he has seen. he likes none bet
ter than Mexico and Audraln county,
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

Look at our overburdened rail-
roads, think of your inconvenience
because of car shortage, and then re-
member the railroads of the country
are carrying 100000 tons of intox-
icating liquors yearly, that none of us
need
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
Rush Hill Community
Church Note Burning
Congregation Out OF Debt-Rejoic-
ing And Jubilee And Great Basket
Dinner.

That was a happy congregation
which gathered in the Community
Church at Rush Hill Sunday morn
ing December 2, 1917.
The church had been near $4,000
in debt and within a week the money
had been subscribed to cancel the
obligation.
"The people had mind to work"
The pastor, Rev. ". T. Wood, had
been holding a revival meeting.
There had been about 16 additions to
the church membership, tho the
meeting had been in progress but a
week. 1t occurred to the preacher
and six or seven other determined
persons that the debt was a drag
and should be wiped out. A COM
mittee went out to see the people
and in a day or two the following
persons had subscribed from $50 to
$500 each:
Liberal Givers.
DR.. w. E. Cornett, Val Erdel, Jr.,
w. H. Stuart, w. S. Doolin, w. Me-
lahn, Mrs. Charles Stewart, w. T.
Canterbury, and Mrs. T. ]. Lower.
There were about 16O contribu-
tors, and only two or three persons
solicited declined to give anything.
The subscriptions totaled $177.29
more than had been asked, and more
money yet coming in.
The church building cost about
$1,000, and it is one of the most
modern in design and best equipped
rural churches in the State.
Burning The Notes.
After the Sunday School hour Rev.
Wood preached a powerful sermon,
basing his remarks upon passages
from The Sermon on the Mount. He
said he was happy. 1t is happy day
for us, glad hour. A happy time
for the preacher, a happy occasion
for Rush Hill Community
After the sermon, Messrs. w. E.
Cornett, Val Erdel, Ed. Melahn, w.
S. Doolin, and w. H. Stuart marched
down the aisle of the church having
in their possession the notes repre-
sentng the church debt and Misses
Maud Cornett, Edna Erdel and Ruth
Stuart held the notes while Rev.
Wood touched a match to the paper
and they were consumed.
The First Organization.
Rush Hill Community Church was
organized three and a half years ago,
after a revival meeting held by Rev.
B. G. Reavis, now of Mexico. There
Concluded on page 81
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
DEsERTER ARRESTED.

Henry Lewright, negro, of this
city, who sought to evade the draft,
has been arrested and is held at JEFF
ferson Barracks where it is under
stood he will be courtmartialed
soon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
EsTILL r. MYERS.

Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Kent are ar
ranging to spend the winter at st.
Petersburg, Florida.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

Mr.. ]. D. Wilson of Columbia and
Miss Leona Deckard ~ Mexico were
married in Moberly Thursday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

Miss Georgia Miller, out south
west of Laddonia, is one of the faith
full students in Mcmillan High
school.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

Mrs. F. L. Crosby vi this city has
returned from visit to relatives and
friends in Oklahoma and Arkansas
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06

l.. w. Roberts for flrst-class SER
vice and funeral work. Licensed
embalmers. Answer calls promptly
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-12-06
Infant B
ways r
LOVefeas

A man preached on Infant Bap-
tism; he said at the close, "T hat set
ties the question:" But not so. 1t
created a controversy in the town.
! gave notice l would preach on
the same subject, if somt one would
furnish me "a thus saith the Lord"
authrizing it, The text was handled
after several weeks notice in the
Wellsville newspaper From the large
audience came a man of the same
church as the preacher who started
the controversy saying it was now
settled right. Finally 1 had letters
from Rev. J. r. Patton. Rev. j. H.
Hardin, of blessed memory, with
Rev. Pharr, Presbyterian, met in Mex
leo at the Ringo Hotel, and we ar
ranged for an oral discussion, place,
ten miles northeast of Mexico. The
debate lasted four days. Bro. Carr
was my special help; Rev. Pharr as
sisted Bro. Patton. Bro. Patton,
think, did his best, and know did.
We had fine times-I hope we did
some good.
We bade each other goodbye; we
did not ever meet again. Bro. Patton
has been dead many years. He was
cool in discussion. Many of those
who heard the discussion held bles-
sed memory of him.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-05-18
Pantages

Une com6die musicale avec une
intrigue est chose rare. "Wanted
a Wife" est une com6die des plus
amusante. I'm ]eune homme qui
a h6rit6 dun million Giant u lie
point de Sc marier fat rapport au
gouvernement quill est marie. Sa
ianc6e lie trompe. Les agents du
gouvernement lie poursuivent
croyant quill a tromp6 les autori-
t6s dams lie but d'6vader la take
sur le revenu.
Une autre farce intitul6e "Wo-
men" est pr6sent6e par Chas. 81.
Smith assist6 de Betty Keith, Co.
Gil Kohlhass ct Pauline Eckhart.
Julian Hall salt toujours plaire.
C'est un des jeunes com6diens les
plus populaires de New-York.
Vous avez entendu parler de
Shelton Brooks ct de Clarence
Bowen on du moins vous connais-
SEE leurs chansons populaires:
"One of These Days" "Wa!kin'
the Dog" ct "The Darktown
Strutters Ball.. Ces deux come
diens ont provoqu6 partout des RI
res 6clatants.
Une nouveaut6 sera offerte par
les Re Calls. LIE 1OAme chapitre
de 1.-The Mystery of the Double
Cross sera dome sur le cinema.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1917-05-18
DECES

La paroisse de Ste Anne Went
de perdre une bonnie paroissienne
dams la personne de Mile Marie
Elizabeth Demers.
Mile Demers apparamment en-
bonnie sant6 encore dimanche der
nier assista lie soir aux CEREMONIES
du mois de Marie, a la Pro- ath6-
qui fut sans qu'elle sen dou-
te le dernier acte de sa vie. A Sc
rentr6e chez ellie, ellie Sc plaignit
dun violent NAL de tote ct tombait
CONNIE paralys6e quelques instants
plus tard. Malgr6 les soins du me-
ct de sa famille, ellie succom-
ba lie lendemain sans avoir repris
connaissance, a | h. apr6s-midi.
Mile Demers habitat Minneapo-
lis depuis pres de vingt ans, We
nant de Shakopee q st Paul, Oh
ellie demeura tres peu de temps
avant de venlr a Minneapolis.
Ellie 6tait membre de la Societ6
DIES Enfants de Marie de la parois-
Sc ct de la Cour L'Etoile du Nord
des DamesForestieres Catalogues.
Les membres de cette Cour assis-
talent en- corps avec leur banniere
aux fun6railles qui current lieu
mercredi matin a 9 h., en- l'eglise
Ste Anne. LIE service a etc c6l6-
br6 par lie Rev. Pere Richard, as
sist6 par les RR. PIP. Gaughan, de
st Etienne, ct Plus, de St Joseph,
CONNIE diacre ct sous-diacre. LIE
R. P. Richard donna %l'absoute, ct
lie R. P. Gaughan qui 6tait cure de
Shacopee lorsque la d6funte y ha-
bitait tit lie sermon, au cours du-
quel il d6montra la n6cessit6 de
vivre ch6tiennement ne sachant nj
lie moment nj la maniere que nous
frapperait la mort. Ayant connu
la d6funte ]adis il rappela ses bon
mes qualities de chr6tienne qu'elle
devait, dit-il, avoir conservees JUS
qua la mort.
Mile Demers jouissait de l'esti-
me generate ct ce nest pas sans
regret que ses amies la voient dis
parattre de leurs rangs.
Mile Demers etait ag6e de 56
ans ct laisse pour la pleurer trois
fr9res ct deux s@urs Mile Sara De-
mers qui habite Shakopee avec ses
frAres ct Nine Ivens de Minneapo-
lis avec laquelle Ia d6funte habi-
TAFT.
Sa d6pouille mortelle repose
maintenant dams lie lot de la famil-
lie, dams lie cimetiere catholique de
Shakopee.
Nous nous ~unissons aux amis
de la famille pour lui pr6sen-
ter nos chr6tiennes sympathies
dams la perte qu'elle Went de sqbir.