Mexico Missouri message., 1917-04-26
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Selling Wool at 5Oc-Rally Day at
Rising Sunday Schools Closing
New Auto Purchases.

Ter, 3OOt John ana Cnal bluni SVVj
H. T. Squirting G. Son, $40.
Prices on nearly all commodities
soaring. Both what we sell or buy.
who ever heard Of sugar at about
$1,000 a cwt. or flour at $500 per
hundred, shoes at $1,000 per pair,
hogs at $3.50, lambs at SIG per
cwt., corn at $1.60 per bushel, wheat
at $3.50 per bushel and so on down
the line? With a bumper crop in
America these prices should go back
to normal or our working men and
women are sure to suffer.
We understand Lewis and Lindall
Tanner have a relapse of the measles.
Sorry; hope sincerely for their speedy
recovery.
Ray Bruce has been having the
measles the past week. The older a
person gets the worse the measles
treat him Roy has suffered greatly
with them.
Miss Pearl Digs closed a success
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The regular routine of work was ad-
hered to- She left for her home at
Hawk Point.
Clayton Winn was here recently
from Montana, where he is doing
we'll Has an so acre farm now paid
for and is raising 80 bushels wheat
and 80 bushels oats per acre on land
: not nearly as high as it is here. He
. nearly got his brother John and sis
ter Sudie in the notion to go West,
too.
The program given by the Mount
. Zion Sunday School classes of Mrs.
= r. T. Baker and DR.. ]. F. Flynt at
Ladies' Hall last Monday was simply
grand all the way through. All the
actors did fine and several of them
\ superfine. The crowd was slightly
1 slim on account of being on Monday
/ night. Come again some time on Sat
urday night and a much larger
1 crowd will greet you. These classes
made $50 at three performances
here, Moline and Santa Fe, which
goes to educate a Chinese boy fol
missionary duty in Ray Ewing''
school in China. Ray Ewing is one
Of our boys, hailing from the Lont
Branch neighborhood, and is doing
excellent work in the missionar!
field
Rev. Fred. White OF Fayette fillet
his regular appointment at Bethle
hem Saturday and Sunday. A goot
sized crowd out at both services.
Sunday was a big day at Rising
Sun Church. 1t was Sunday Schoo
Rally Day there and big crowd wa
n out. Rev. Carl Taylor of Columbi
came as a supply, we believe, an
preached at II a. m. and $3.50 p. m
We venture the assertion that tn
dinner served was toothsome in tn
superlative degree. They do thing
in that popular spot of the cart
and work very harmoniously an
with great enthusiasm.
Il A mission Sunday School was OF
ganized at the Hall Sunday. RusseI
Squirting was chosen superintendent
A good corps of teachers at the hea
of the classes. Twenty-eight wer
present at the organization. The
meet in the afternoon, but the hou
we did not get.
Miss Nellie Proctor closed a SUI
cessful term of school Just over i
| Boone Friday and now is home
n spend the summer vacation.
Miss Mildred Cook was chosen b
- the Gatewood school board for tn
third consecutive term at an increas
of salary, or $3.50 per month
, She grew in popularity all the tim
. of her stay here.
v. Miss Sudie Winn was elected by tn
q Fox school board to teach thei
term of school at $50 per month
She just finished her second term g
Naylor where she greatly endeare
herself to patrons and pupils. Mis-
Winn is self-made teacher an
ranks high with the teaching force {
the county.
Alexander Bruce recently purchat
ed new Ford at Centralia for Ma
delivery.
n Our efficient mail carrier, ]. I
Pulls, sold his Ford for $3.50. 1
ri turn he purchased a new Chevrole
from Ed. Perle. Also the followin
: purchased CheSrolets the past week
Turner Pulls, Walter surber, Wn
Copenhagen and Doan Weaver.
1--WE are not fighting this war fo
ourselves, nor for our own benefi
y We are fighting it to save the Gel
" mans from themselves"
Tho cOldfaY or tho