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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
Rejected $4,000
Army Insurance
The Mother Instinct Shows Itself
Her Only Concern Being For The
Recovery of Her Boy.

Except for her distress at her sons
condition and feeling of delicacy
at the idea of financial matters at
such a time, the Paris Appeal recites
that Mrs. M. r. Guthrie, near Stroth-
er, would have been able to collect
$4,000 insurance policy from the
Government on the life Of her
soldier boy, Harold Guthrie, who
died at Camp Funston last month.
The matter of taking out policy
was suggested to Mrs. Guthrie when
she went out to be with her son
when he was i'll with meningitis.
She declined to do so because her
mother instinct revolted at the idea,
her only concern being for the recov-
cry of her boy. The Government en-
courages such applications, however,
and issues them regardless of the
physical condition of the soldier.
There is general regret that Mrs.
Guthrie did not take out a policy,
especially since her son was eager to
enter his country's service and really
gave his life for the cause. County
Clery Outright thinks the Govern
ment will yet make proper appropri-
alton for the family,
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
CHARLIE TANNER WRITES.

Nederland, Colo, Jan. 5, 1913
Bro. Beal: 1 see the date for my sub
scription to The Message needs fix
ing. So find enclosed check for two
bucks. Mark me up for that amount.
We are having very nice weather
here now, for this country. Not as
cold here as it is in Missouri. Ice on
ly five inches the coolest zero. The
worst we have here in the mountains
is the wind, about 40 miles an hour.
Mrs. Tanner and have been up to
Casper for two weeks, the growing
town OF Wyoming. Oil wells all over
the State.
Will say 1 put in my time around
the stove helping the boys. We are
busy every day in the week, from Z a
m. to p. m. Our town is not on
the boom like it was last year
still we have good camp here.
Goodbye.
C. w. TANNER,
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
MEXICO PEOPLE AND
SOME OTHERS, ALSO.

Miss Iva Hays of near Wellsville
is new student in Hardin College.
Mrs. Charles Gooldy of Fulton has
been visiting her mother in Mexico.
Mrs. Lucy Lemon of Fulton visited
her father here last week, Uncle"
Rufus Pearson.
Mrs. S. w. Geiflenen of Macon has
been the guest of Mrs. Agnes Bad
arraco of Mexico.
Mrs. Polly Squres of Centralia Wis
tied her daughter in Mexico last
week, Mrs. ]. w. Rutter.
De Witt Masters of the Perry En-
terprise was shaking hands with
Mexico friends Thursday.
Mrs. Ells>Cantwell of Wellsville
visited her daughter in Mexico last
week, Mrs. ]. w. Armstrong.
Shields Moore left last week for
Atlanta, Georgia, where he will en-
ter the School of Technology, to pre-
pare himself for service in the army
Miss Elizabeth Coil of Perry visi-
ted her cousin in Mexico last week
Miss Barbara Reavis. Miss Coil is 9
student in William Woods College al
Fulton.
The Wellsville Star says: Miss
Ruth Fry returned to her school du
ties in Mexico Monday after spending
two weeks with her parents, Mr., ant
MRS. F. l.. Fry, of near town.
Prof. l.. H. Strunk went to Wells
vile Friday to act as judge in higl
school debate And the blizzard cam
and the trains stopped running AM
he was two days getting back home.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
FILED DIVORCE SUIT.
John w. COughlin, Railroad Man,
Tells Unusual Story To The Cir
cult Clerk OF Galloway County.

John w. Coughlin, railroad man
of Mokane, filed suit for divorce in
the Circuit Court in Galloway coun-
ty few days ago. Coughlin was ac-
companied to Fulton in an auto by
his wife. He told Sheriff Cole he
wanted the paper served on Mrs.
Coughlin at once and that he would
find her in the machine in front of
the Hook garage. He told Circuit
Clerk Emmons that they were in a
hurry to get back to Mokane.
Ten minutes after the papers
were served on Mrs. Coughlin they
started on their return to Mokane to-
gether. Coughlin names core
spondent in his petition.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
LOST HIS THUMB.

Cecil Tanner, IA year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tanner of Skin-
ner, while working with a corn ele-
vator recently suffered the loss of
one of his thumbs. He caught his
glove ON the tumbling rod" and the
machine got his thumb before he
could release himself. Sorry for his
nishap. We hear that the wound is
causing him considerable suffering.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Mexico and Audrain county got a
fresh thrill of the war last week
when the news reached here that Ar
thur ]. Snedeker had been seriously
wounded on the battle front in
France. He is with the United States
army boys, serving as an engineer.
The news came in a dispatch from
Washington City. Nothing but the
plain fact was told, so nothing fur
ther is known.
Young Snedeker is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Snedeker, for
merly of near Laddonia, now of Col
umbia. He is a nephew, also, of
George Snedeker, southeast of Mex
leo. Mr. and Mrs. Snedeker, the par
ents, were at Laddonia to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Snedeker's mother,
Mrs. Albina Hale, who had died
there, (Arthur's grandmother) =,
when they received a cablegram an
nouncing their sons being hurt.
The Message published a letter
last week from Arthur Snedeker,
written to his aunt, Mrs. Ella Leet.
at Laddonia. We herewith publish
another letter, written Nov. 90,
1917:
Dear Mother, Sis and Dad:
Another rainy, bad, old Missouri
day. The climate, think, is just like
at home, only the mud gets awfully
deep. You would not believe that
there are mud holes five feet deep
but it is fact.
Daylight commences at 700 a. m
and lasts until AIS p. m. When a
frost comes it is a good one, and you
never in your life saw such heavy
fog as they have here.
1 have moved three miles back
from the front. 1 must tell you
put in a mighty miserable two
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

months there, and was not doing at
all what wanted to do. If l had
remained "a hours longer 1 would
have gone up in powder and smoke,
as last night big shell landed upon
my old home.
The poor fellow who moved in
there was moved out in sections. It
is very nice to be lucky in the army,
because a mans life is the least val
ued thing here, think
am sure one homesick boy. If
ever get settled again it will take a
carload of dynamite to bulge me. 1
don't want to live close to a German
or a soldier.
% l have been on the move for some
28 hours now and am so tired and
sleepy and hungry that 1 can hardly
see. l am going to bed pretty soon,
and l always sleep like log in spite
of the noise. Love.
ARTHUR ]. SNEDEKER.
The Columbia Missourian refers
to Arthur as follows:
On June %, when engineers were
being recruited in st. Louis, Private
Snedeker gave up his position as tel
egraph operator with the Chicago &
Alton Railroad at Higbee, Mo-, and
went to St. Louis and offered his
services for his country. 4he Twelfth
Regiment was in camp at St. Louis
from June 2S until it sailed fol
France August 18th.
His regiment landed in France the
last of August. He has been undei
shell fire in the front line trenches
AS he has indicated, in some of his
i letters, he has been mired down in
the mud in the trenches up to his
knees. He once narrowly escaped
being killed by the Germans. 1t was
his regiment that so heroically brav
ed the shell fire at Cambria.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
ROBBERS PLEAD GUILTY.
c. w. TANNER,

Charles Ledford, Eddie Colman
and Roy McCune, accused of assault
ing and robbing H. P. Middleton of
Vandalia,. last month, were arraign-
ed in Circuit Court in Mexico last
Thursday. Ledford and Colman
plead guilty, The case against Nc
Cune was dismissed.
Ledford and Colman were SEN
fenced to three years each in the
penitentiary, They have made ap-
plication for parole.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
STUDYING STENOTYPY.

Miss Blanche Stoneberger, of near
Martinsburg, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. 1. N. Stoneberger, enrolled last
week in the Chillicothe Business Col
lege for a course in Stenography.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
To Make Democracy
Safe For The World
Laymen's Missionary Meeting In
MexicO-SOme Noted Speakers To
Be Here.

The Missionary Baymen's meeting
to be held in this city February 10
and 20 for all Audrain county Pro-
testant churches, will bring at least
800 men to Mexico, according to F.
]. Michel, of Chicago, prominent Or
ganizer in the work who was in this
city Friday and met a group of local
ministers and laymen in the interest
of the meeting.
Mr.. Michel stated while America
and her associates in the war were
making the world safe for democracy
' it was necessary for the church to
make Democracy safe for the world
and that the meeting, to which some
of the most prominent divines in the
country are coming, will have war
tone appropriate for the occasion.
The committee actively in charge
of the meeting is as follows: s. P.
Emmons, Methodist church, chair
man, s. ]. Buekner, Presbyterian, ].
R. Jesse, Baptist, c. P. Malone, Epis-
copal and L. M. Dozier, Christian. c.
P. Malone was elected vice-chairman
of the organization; S. ]. Buckner,
treasurer; S. D. Stocks, secretary.
John T. Stewart, chairman of the
Registration committee. E. A. Shan
non, chairman of the Deputation
committee; P. A. st. Vrain, chair
man of the Finance committee; L. NJ
Dozier, chairman of the Statistical
committee; Mitchell White, chair
man of the Committee on Publicity.
There will be three sessions of the
meeting each of the two days: 10 to
12 in the morning; $3.50 to 4:3C in
the afternoon and 1880 to $3.50 in
the evening. The sessions will open
and close promptly in order that
business men who plan to attend may
do so knowing in advance how long
they will be absent from their places
of business.
There will be many we'll known
takers present but perhaps among
the most prominent is DR.. Herbert
S. Johnson, of Boston, who will de-
liver his address Bonds of Liberty. v
A prominent choir leader will be
here, one who has q world wide
prominence and is at present singing
in the army cantonments. Arthur
C. Ryan, who was a missionary in
Turkey when war broke out will be
here and deliver a most interesting
address dealing with his actual ex
periences in that country.
Sunday January 1S has been de-
nominated Pastors Sunday and upG
that occasion the ministers have beer
asked to make short talk on thu
meeting and its purposes.
Sunday January 20 will be Lay
mems Sunday and at this time var
ious laymen will speak in the differ
ent churches making a short talk ol
the meeting and urging men to plal
their attendance In advance. Sun
day, January 81 will be Registration
Sunday when the men at each churcl
will be requested to register for at
tendance at the meeting and pa
the so cent fee required to meet tn
expenses. Sunday, February 3rd vii
be Deputation Sunday. A campaig
has been outlined in which ever
= church in the county is to be visite
and the men interested in the worl
Every effort isto be made throug
systematic plans to have as full
representation from all sections
the county as is possible.
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Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
AN ENCOURAGING WORD.

Mrs. H. ]. DUNCAN, at harrisburg,
in renewing for The Message adds:
1--WE cannot get along without The
Message"
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
and STOCK.

SChto lOE OdIS.
Eggs on the Mexico market for
the past few dayshave ranged around
so cents a dozen.
G. M. Johnson sold 21 head of 90
day fed big fat steers in st. Louis last
week at $11.1O.
j. B. Rutter, east of Mexico, has
another fine bunch of mules on
hands-16 head. He's conditioning
them for an early market.
w. H. Holtkamp has had a time,
like many others, getting water for
his live stock. But he will be all
right when this big snow goes off.
Fulton, Mo-, Jan. 1O.-Produce
sold in 1917 by Mrs. S. E. Dunlap,
a Galloway county farmers wife,
from 800 hens amounted to $1,OS2.
Each hen laid an average of 14O eggs
in the IL months.
E. NJ Crooks, of Sikeston, Mo-,
was in this county last week on bus
iness and to meet old friends. He
still holds his fine farm in Audrain
county; he is also farming at Skies
ton. Mr.. Crooks is greatly delighted
with that part of Missouri.
H. F. Carrico of Monroe county
sold during the past year 1897 dezen
eggs for $32S.21. He sold poultry to
the amount of $77.13 and during the
past three months $37.O7 worth of
buttrefat, making a total of $442.52
worth of these products sold.
The Paris Appeal relates that Nat
Young, down on the Santa Fe Lane,
had As acres of corn that averaged
/ 30 bushels. He stored it as he gath
cred, using the inferior corn for ear
ly feeding. Nat expects to increase
this year by regular sales of cream
will increase his income, we
mean.
A table of comparative prices COM
piled by a Centralia merchant to
show the difference in feed values
now and in 1896 indicates that from
the sale of 5000 bushels of corn
500 bushels of oats, IA tons of hay
25 fat hogs and 100 bushels of ap.
pies the total receipts would bt
$4,449 more this last year than il
would have been in 1896,
G. M. Johnson, one of Audrair
county's hustling live stock feeders
gave the Live Stock Reporter the fol
lowing interview last week: Most o
the fat cattle have been shipped ou
of my section, altho there are som'
few droves there now, which are be
ing handled on soft corn. There 1
about a normal supply of hogs and
good many lambs, which will not b
ready for market until spring. Fal
sown wheat was held back by lon
dry spell, but was benefited great
by recent SHOWS, and prospects a
this time are encouraging. Their
was a right good yield from the las
seasons crop, much of which ha
been marketed. There were also
good many oats to spare. These hav
been selling right along at 70 cent
per bushel. Some farmers have sol
d it up to $3.50 per bushel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Crockett have moved
onto the farm north of Mexico known
as the Robert billiard place, now
owned by Mrs. ]. D. Greer of Mexico.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Circuit Court will be in session
tomorrow. A motion for a new trial
for Harry Funk and Jesse Prunty'
convicted of robbing the Farber
Bank, will be heard.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Six cases of scarlet fever at Aux
vase resulted in an order that the
public school be closed for week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Miss Anna McMurtry, north of
Mexico, spent week recently with
her friend, Miss Mary Green, at
Clark, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Miss Cassie Herring OF Fulton has
been visiting Mrs. Ed. Mosley in Mex
leo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Mrs. William Workman of Rush
Hill returned recently from St. Louis
spending the holidays with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Edison. Mrs. Edison Is
Mrs. Workman's daughter.
s>oSoSS19SSoSSSSS>sSSSSSSSS
sammies get started, they never stop
Hoping this finds you well-and
all my friends in Mexico.
Sincerely,
R. e. NEIGHBOURS.
Co. B, 4Oth Inft,, Camp Doniphan'
FIT. Sill. Okla.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17

Go 20 l.. w. Roberts for Furniture
and Undertaking.
Mexico Missouri message., 1918-01-17
Arthur j. Snedeker
Is Seriously Wounded

AUDRATN BATTLE FRONT FRANCE
IN CoUNTY-ANOTHER
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09

The final test of building is its
utility. In a commercial structure
the gauge is its earning capacity; in
private residence success is largely
measured by the degree of comfort
and convenince accorden occupants.
Whether the return takes the form
of rent or its equivalent in use and
occupation, the building represents an
investment of capital and profit-and
there can be no profit unless it serves
some true and useful purpose.
Not only must building be of SER
vice but there must be demand for
it's use. The mere fact of its exist
ence does not create q demand. The
form of it's utility must be well de-
fined and the building must be strictly
in harmony with its environment.
In every form of improved real es-
tate there are two correlated aspects
the land and the structure. There
is small return from land where it is
used for other than agricultural pur-
poses. To be of service or earn in
come. land must be exploited and it
can yield profit by one means only-a
building. Otherwise it possesses
only a potential value, influenced
largely by adjoining property; rising
values which mean increased taxes
and the tax collector, like "the great
adventure" is one of the certainties
of life.
Building is not an every day affair
with the average owner. 1t is, I'M
questionably, an event of the first or
der, and as such it requires a great
deal of careful preliminary consider
alton. The more intelligent study
given it in the beginning the better
the prospects of favorable result.
The responsibility for the success
Of a building depends largely on an
owners personal judgment. His is
the initial decision to improve the
property and, to quote the old couplet,
"well begun is half DONE" The pit
falls ahead are both structural and
economic. The former may be avoid
ed by the choice of a tried and exper-
fenced builders, but the latter must
be studied and settled before
the owner approaches the structural
problem.
In the physical edifice not brick
| is laid until every detail of the build
ing has been laid out-the plans
| drawn and the design approved, the
| depth of the foundations decided and
i the strength of columns calculated
the kind of building materials select
ed and Of utmost Importance, the cost
determined.
The economic problem of the invest
ment should be approached in the
same thorough manner. For exam
pie, in considering the erection Of a
commercial building, the owner must
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09
Stomach Dead
Man Still Lives

People who suffer from sour stom-
ach, fermentation of food, distress
after eating and indigestion, and seek
relief in large chunks of artificial d.
gestors are killing their stomachs by
inaction just as surely as the victim
Of morphine is deadening and injur-
ing beyond repair every nerve in his
body.
What the stomach of every sufferer
from indigestion needs is good pre-
scription that will build up his stom-
ach, put strength. energy and elias
ITCHY into it, and make it sturdy
enough to digest a hearty meal with
out artificial aid.
The best prescription for indiges-
ton ever written is sold by druggists
everywhere and by Wortley & French
and is rigidly guaranteed to build UP
the stomach and cure indigestion, or
money back.
This prescription is named Mi-o-na,
and is sold in small tablet form in
large boxes, for only few cents. Re
member the name, Mi-o-na stomach
tablets. They never fail.-Adv.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09

satisfy himself as to the probable de-
mand for it's use, the permanence of
the demand, competition of present
and possible future buildings of same
class, rents obtainable, the stability
of the zone before he decides on the
type of structure.
The changing character of almost
any quarter in modern cities is appar-
ent to the most casual observer. With
few exceptions, such transitions take
place in well defined residential and
business sections at intervals of from
30 to 30 years and are important fac
tors in any building investment.
The economic conditions in a dis
trict that has recently changed its
character may for all practical pur-
poses be regarded as static during the
lifetime of the investor.
In that period the investment may
not have yielded sufficient return to
renew itself, for a successful property
should produce a surplus with which
to eventually renew, not only the
amount of the capital originally in
vested, but ample to allow for the
erection of structure suited to the
requirements of changed conditions.
By discounting the future value of
the land. where the trend of values
shows that there is a reasonable pros
pect Of a decided rise within a few
years, an expensive building may be
profitably erected in a growing Sec
ton; for although the initial cost of
construction is high in proportion to
the value of the land, the depreciation
of the building will be eventually bal
n hxy
the other hand when all signs point to
transition period in section tax
payer is usually the logical form of
be in keeping with its probable COM
mercial life and when this life can be
gagged the cost should be in proper
ton. Under some circumstances a
two-story building with columns and
foundations designed to take addition
al stories would be compromise.
Modern cities are the result of cor
porate human activities, linked to-
gether into one civic whole, and find
ing expression in buildings. Aes-
thetic influences are, as a rule, limit
ed to the architectural character of
buildings and seldom determine their
erection. The driving force is the
satisfaction gained in providing for
material needs.
In any preliminary consideration
the first essential to establish is the
ultimate use of the property. With
this definitely settled, and the amount
of the building appropriation determ-
ined by the anticipated rent in due
proportion to the value of the land
the owner may approach his builder.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09

"A surly, unsinging battalion is half
licked before it goes into the hight
Mai. Donald Guthrie declares in
Scribner's, but, he adds, 81 don't think
So"
"There is an epidemic of melody at
the front, and he is gross. sour soul
who escapes the infection. He may
exist as an individual, he certainly
does not exist as regiment. A song
has indeed a subtle strength for the
keeping up of ones courage; and such
are the stress and strain of condi-
items in France and Flanders that one
need have no shame in owning to the
use of all the big and little aids to
the maintenance Of courage.
"In our mess we had a little old
piano. 1t came from the ancient
burg of Dunkirk and had venerability
in Keeping with its place of origin.
Gilbert, in Bah Ballard writes CT
the pianos martial blast Our pi-
ano had no martial blast 1t was a
pathetic, meek little affair. 1t had
two furnished candle holders, rattly
and insecure, one on either hand i
remember the evening it came, in. one
of our three-ton motor trucks. Ii
shared the interior CT the truck with
about two tons of laundry and a box
of shrimps-which (bcth the laundry
and shrimps) our quartermaster new
err failed to bring from Dunkirk. He
presumably went for the laundry, but
we all knew it was for the shrimps.
"How gently and tenderly the little
piano was carried over the 200 yards
from the clearing station to the mess!
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09
Musical Topics


Our X. c. chaplain, a monster of flesh
and good-heartedness strained at the
carrying until his face became peril
ously purple have never known a
casualty on a stretcher more deli
cately handled than was that piano. 1t
was only gritty, hard-toned, jang-
ling little thing, but l have seen our
medical officers worn out with contin-
uous operation-15 to 20 hours at a
stretch, when things were doing on
the line-I have seen them gather af-
ter dinner about that creaky little
piano, with whole night of CHASTITY
work fronting them and have heard
them sing new strength and courage
into their souls to the strains of o
Canada 'Alouette, Mother Machree'
and other simple pieces.
"Often when no officers were in and
about our mess-say, between 10 and
IL of mornin9-our good old cook
w. would steal into the anteroom with
three or four other orderlies and the
welkin would ring in short order. w.
played the piano even better than he
played football, and as footballer he
was tough customer"
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-09
Fly The Flag.

$50 many empty flag poles-so
many places for the unfurling Of Old
Glory"
The above comment was heard by
a citizen coming from a person at the
depot as they looked over the city
and saw flagpole after flagpole Tick
ing up from manufacturing establish
ments and other buildings in this city
with nothing to grace their. slender,
weatherbeaten forms, save the hang
ing and waiting ropes. Why not fly
the flag from those places! was the
next query and we answered half
ashamed that undoubtedly the man
who attends to. those matters forgot
that important part of his days work
that particular morning. But il
would be but fitting and proper to
have the Stars and Stripes streaming
from every flagpole in the city ev-
cry day Of the year during proper
weather and during the proper hours