Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1918-04-11
IN AND AROUND
AUDRAIN COUNTY.
"a One-Armed HustIer"-Cleaned
Up A Bottom Land Native-Tu-
berculosis OF The Bones.

Royden Johnson, formerly of
Bowling Green is suffering with tu-
| berculosis of the bones and has been
taken to Mount Rose Hospital in
st. Louis.
At the Bank of Middletown is to
be seen an exhibit that brings back
| to older citizens the memory of ear
ly days in Missouri, an old rife,
made by gunsmith over 200 years
ago and the antlers of a red deer.
Middletown Chips says the rife is an
heirloom and has been in the Up
tegrove family the two centuries of
its existence. Uncle" Tom Upte-
groves grandfather had it made, and
1T originally was fiintlock; later the
gun was sawed off at the breech and
made into an up-to-date percussion
cap gun.
Students in Agriculture in the Uni
versity of Missouri recently raised
their service flag containing 292
stars. The flag is by IA feet More
stars will be added as students enter
the national service
John P. Hetzler, formerly of
Vandalia but now a most successful
packer, member of the Hetzler Pack
ing Co. of Columbia, has been called
to Washington as a member of the
Meat Dealers Economy Committee.
The committee consists of eight men
from different parts of the United
States, and their work has to do
with food conservation.
A community Red Cross sale was
held at Stoutsville recently which
totaled $500. Among the articles
sold were a plow, horse, two mules,
five dozen chickens, two pigs, one
sheep and several loads of corn. A
Red Cross cake sold for $50, cook
ed ham for S19, a 27-pound catfish
for $25 and goose for $500.
Lige McKinzie, who has been
working down on the river, came up
Saturday, having chucked up his job,
v according to the Centralia Guard.
1t seems that some one of the old
timers down in the bottoms said to
Lige that he did not think the labor
union was worth a-one of those
things that stops the water in a riy-
1 er-and he did not like a union man
a-tall. Lige told the man that he
' was a union man, but that did not
seem to elevate the host in the bot
tom mans estimation and he plainly
said so. Lige is only about six feet
seven inches tall and he then and
B there cleaned up on the bottom land
native. Just at this juncture the
mans son joined the belligerancy
e of his dad and Lige mopped or
u him. Native No. joined the anti
" unionists force and he went dowI
. under Mr.. McKinzie's powerful
punches. Then Lige took his depart
% ure before the community turned
out. as he did not want to hurt any
/ hodv. Lige was raised in Centralii
and was always inclined to the way
and paths of peace. He says the
can call him Norwegian-faced AM
get by with it, but when they &c
- personal and try to run over hin
they must come wide-tread and hlgn
geared.
Eph Young, Ray Young and Wm
Johnson, charged with assaulun
:, Irb Pierce at Strother several month
:. ago, plead guilty in the circuit cour
;" at Paris last week, says the Pari
Aupeal. The two Young boys wer
~ fined 500 apiece and johnson sol
IL Paroles were granted to all three
Eph Young being paroled to Judg
j" E. NJ. Lipp; VIM. Johnson to Georg
L. johnson, and Ray Young to Sic
40 new McIlhaney. The trouble occur
red at an entertainment at Strothe
es Pierce was badly cut about the fac
- and head.
TO Asa Ore, a one-armed hustler
III the Paris vicinity, sawed up the woo
'u niles at 1873 different places betWee
Go August &c and April l. He is no
!" putting in a crop and on Fridays o.
crates a grist mill