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Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
Sheriff Arrests Audrain Negro.

Sheriff Ford arrested Robert Baker,
colored, for threatening to kill Rich
ard Branham another negro Monday
by running Branham off of his own
place with a shot gun.
Sheriff Ford brought Baker to town
Tuesday where he waived his prelin-
mary hearing and was bound owe for
Circuit Court. Mr.. Ford told a Led
ger representative that according to
Branham's story, Baker came in his
place and approached him with a shot
gun. He told Branham that he (Bak-
err understood that Branham had said
he would kill him. Branham denied
it and Baker called him a liar saying
he would kill him (Branham.) Bran
ham made his getaway and came to
Mexico where a warrant was sworn
out for Bakers arrest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
1881 H SUFFERED MANY
u]St S SAYS DOWELL

Morris Dol veil of the 13sth Infantry
35th Division arrived here early Tues
day morning from Camp Funston
where he was discharged.
Dowell is a son of Joe Dowell and
enlisted in the serv ice awe years ago.
He sailed for Fran ce in May 1918 and
was over there ju st about a year,
lacking a few da. IS. He saw active
,ervice on the Ar gonne, Mouse, Yer
dun, St Mihiel an d Vosges fronts and
came out with only being slightly
gassed-
He landed in N ew Port News on his
return, April % and took part in the
big parade in st. Louis last week.
Dowell was a stretcher bearer and
had many narrow escapes. In talking
to a Ledger representative Monday
morning he stated that they all had
narrow escapes though.
Dowell said that out of 1877 men
who went over the top in taking a GER
tain hill from the Germans, 101 were
either killed or wounded. They took
t. he hill after the French had failed.
One of DowelI's sergeants whose
hoL he is in Perry, Mo-, was shot
thro ugh the neck by a machine gun
shelf and Dowell says he dressed the
wound, which was the ugliest one he
had seen. He didn't see how the SER
geant could possibly get well hut this
sergeant came down on the same train
from Funston with Dowell Monday
night.
Paul Jesse, Bryan Ridgeway, Ray
Ridgeway, Will Colby, Eugene Tom
Iinson and Foy Dean other Mexico
and Audrain boys who were in the
138th with Dowell have arrived in
Mexico. They are all looking we'll.
Bryan Kelso will arrive tonight and
Dee 10 hnson will remain in the hos
pital at Camp Funston for several
days.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
1901 MILES
Gear Was Sealed in High, Making
Hardest Possible Test on All
Cars Working Parts,

Remarkable automobile perfo man.
e are not as frequent these days as
tneF were four or five seasons ago;
the American automobile manufac-
turer has attained so very high a
standard of product. That may ex-
PLAIN why so much unusual attention
has beer attracted during the last few
days to a new worlds performance
record made by an Overland stock
car, Model 80.
New from the factory, this Model
80 was taken from the salesrooms of
the Carhart Motor Company at Okla
homa City, Okla, on March 29th, and
driven to the lobby of the Lee-Huck-
ms Hotel. There the gear shift lever
was disconnected from the low, middle
n reverse gears, and the gear-box
was sealed in high. The motor was
started; the car left the hotel and did
not return for seven days; that was
April 9Th.
The Overland 80, driven by a re-
lay of four drivers, ran night and
day, the motor never stopping for 1913
continuous hours. The drivers had
no advantage of gear shifting during
the two days of rain on muddy roads
and the twelve to fifteen hours they
spent each "a hour day on good and
bad city pavements, in the rush of
traffic, and on the Oklahoma roads. Il
has been said that if a motar a will
stand up on an Oklahoma road it will
endure in any other section of the
world.
In these seven days and nights,
during which the gear could not be
shifted from high, nor the motor stop
ped for carburetor adjustment or
spark plug change, the Model 90
broke the worlds record for a test
of this kind. The speedometer, care
fully checked, showed that it had
travelled 4,370.1 miles. That is prac-
tically one-sixth around the world, or
a distance equal to a trip from New
York to Los Angeles and back across
the southern trail to Oklahoma City.
This remarkable nonstop perfor-
nance in high gear exceeded the next
best record made by 1891 miles.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
WHY DOCTORS
PRESCRIBE THE
NEW CALOME|

Medicinal Virtues Retained and Inn
prOved-Unpleasant and Salivating
Qualities RemOyed-New Variety
Called "Ca1otabs"
of all the medicines in the world,
doctors prescribe calomel most often
and depend upon it most universally
There must be a good and sufficient
reason-what is it?
If you will study the doctors books
you will find that the medical author
tiles prescribe calomel for almost ev-
cry disease . The reason is that cal
omel is the rg~eatest and only thorough
system-purifier. 1t makes the liver
active, drives out the poisons from
the stomach, bowels and kidneys and
thereby purifies the blood. CalomeI
puts the entire system in the most fav
orable condition for Nature to exer-
else her recuperative power. That is
why he prescribes calomel so often.
The new kind of calomel, called
"Calotabs," is refined and purified
from all of the ~nauseating and danger
Gus qualities Of the old style calomel
and is rapidly taking it's place, for it
is more effective than the old style
calomel as a liver-cleanser and sys-
tem-purifier. One Calotab at bed
time, with a swallow of water-that's
all. No salts, no nausea, nor the
slightest unpleasantness. Next morn
ing you awake feeling fine-with a
hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat
what you please. No restrictions of
habit or diet.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
George Hall Dead.

George Hall, formerly in the Poul-
try business in this city, died at his
home in St. Louis, Tuesday. The body
will be brought here this afternoon
for burial Wednesday. No particulars
could be secured regarding his death.
He leaves a son, George Hall, Jr., who
resides near this city. The Ledger
joins in extending sympathy to the
bereayed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

Overland Model 80 Travels Seven
Days Without Stopping
Motor
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

Mrs. Hardin Rixey is now dor
at the Cave Home on east Prom
street
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
SUPPLEMENT TO
The Weekly Ledger
DAUGHTER OF I'll. L. HAM
MOND SCALDED BY
BOILING COFFEE
Perculator Turned Over and Spilled
Coffee Over Her Body Monday
Afternoon.

Hazel Hammond, the nine year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Ham
mond was badly burned about her
leg and hands Monday afternoon when.
a perculator containing boiling coffee
turned over on her.
Hazel was sitting in a chair near the
oil stove and had feet propped against
the bottom part of the stove. The
perculator slipped off the stove and
threw the coffee on her right leg and
her hands.
She was badly sealded and suffered
severe pain for a while She was rest
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LEDGER,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
Big K. p. Meeting.

At the Knights Pythias meeting
Monday evening the Second Rank was
conferred and eleven visitors from
Wellsville attended. Following the
meeting the lodge and guests en-
ioyed lunch at the Hoxsey.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15
Miss Erb Undergoes Operation.

Miss Josephine Erb, cashier at the
Alamo Hotel underwent an operation
for appendicitis at the Amanda Hos
pital Monday afternoon. She is re-
ported as getting along nicely.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

Calotabs are sold only in original,
sealed packages, price thirty-fve
cents. Recommended and guaranteed
by druggists everywhere. Your money
back if you are not delighted.-(Adv.)
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

Galloway county is busy on work
improving the roads leading to Aud
rain county from Fulton and Auxvasse
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

R. r. Arnold, president of the First
National Bank, is attending the State
Bankers meeting in st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-15

Mrs. L. J. Ritter returned the first
of the week from Jackson, Mo-, where
she visited her mother.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07

A more energetic and active con-
troll of all drugs and preparations is
needed. The desirable and only eff
fcient method of control involves hon
esty, knowledge, vigilance, n care
on the part of the person selling the
product.
Members Of boards OF health and
other state and federal officials en-
trusted with the enforcement of laws
designed to control the purity and
strength of medicinal products should
call attention to the desirability of
having these laws enforced in a a
to secure for the purchaser drugs of
uniform strength and purity with a
view of minimizing as much as posi-
BILE the untoward or secondary eff
fects of potent medicines Irrespective
of whether they are used as household
remedies or under the direct super
vision Of a competent physician.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Q. Can you recommend some miner
al water which will cure chronic dys-
EMERY?
A. There Is no mineral water which
vi i'll cure chronic d~ysentery though in
lar drinking OF water may be of value.
The cases of chronic dysentery are
varied and nc n line of treatment
can be recommended which will be
applicable to all the different cases.
You are accordingly advised TO consult
a reputable physician, have him give
! you a thorough examination and fol-
low his advice.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
Fire Alarm Boxes

Copper Works.
z4-Market and Sheridan Street
26-Smfth Street and Central r r.
26-Marke> and First Streets.
f1-Madfson Avenue and Paterson 81
1s-High and Lewis Streets.
Sb-Smith and High STREETS.
56-New B~ru. swtek Ave. and Nav af
s7-Smith n State Streets.
42-Atlantic Terra Gotta Works.
4S-Buckingham Ave. and Hartford a..
4b-Commerce and Front Streets.
Estate n Washington Streets.
Estate st. and Buckingham Ave-
k6-Parker st. n Pulaski Ave.
te-Hall Ave. and ChsH les ST,
k7-State and Wayne Streets.
So-Near United Lead Works.
b9-Maurer.
e2-Washtngton n First streetsL
SS-Nsw. Brunswick Ave. and Elm 81
S4-Snfth Street n Watson Ave-
e6-Commerce n State Streets.
12-Front n Smith Streets.
13-Water and Gordon Streets,
I4-kearny Ave. and Gordon Street.
e1-Rrace and Hanson Avenues.
S2-Smith and Herbert Street..
S3-Amboy Ave. and Washington 81.
S4-Lehigh Ave and Stanford Street.
- city Hospital
e6'leveland and Brace Avenues.
s7-Amboy and Hall Avenues. .
9z-Amboy v and Tnslee Street
4 Francis Streets.
s4-NeviIle m Johnstona streefa
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
Household Remedies.

That many medicines, such as spirits
of peppermint, camphOr, and ginger,
which are frequently used as house
hold remedies, fail of their purpose,
is accounted for by the great varia-
ton in the strength and purity of
many Of these preparations as sold in
the market. There is considerable
variation in the strength of many of
the common remedies used in the
household.
1t is also true that the loss of hui
man energy through sickness and
deaths from preventable diseases con-
stitute by far the greatest waste Of
our present day and that it
is not generally appreciated that this
waste Is due either to neglect or ig-
norance so far as the use of prophy-
Tactic or curative measures may be
concerned.
A table presenting a compilation
from the reports of the state chemists
shows that of BATE samples of ten Of
fetal articles that are widely used as
household remedies, 1859, or 3S per
cent. were rejected as adulterated, or
not In compliance with the official re-
quirements.
The preparations included in these
tables are more frequently used as
household remedies than on the pre-
scriptions of physicians, put are never
theless recognized medicines, the
abuse and misuse of which may lead
to serious consequences.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
Daily HO7 0sc0be

THE stars incline but do not compel"
Saturday, November s, 1919.
Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Astrologers read this as rather a
doubtful day. Although Mars Is In
benic aspect. Jupiter is strongly ad-
verse.
The partial eclipse of the Moon,
which fell in the second ocean of Tau
rus and is held to presage the death
of a Queen, also is read as forecast
ing a great scarcity of seeds.
Seismic disturbances are threaten
ed in the third degree of East longi-
tude.
The eclipse is read as indicating
further trouble in Ireland and a con-
dition unfortunate for agriculture.
This is not a lucky rule for bust
ness, since some sort of public agita-
ton is likely to affect the public
mind.
While certain lines Of commerce
may be temporarily affected, a period
of great enterprise and prosperity is
prophesied.
The planetary rule is read to fore
cast industrial development in Ger
many that will outstrip all its former
achievements, for it comes under a
strangely healing power of the plan
cts.
y Although the United States may go
through a period of great Industrial
upheaval the seers declare that the
country will issue out of all it's trou-
bles with renewed vigor and a new
solidarity.
Unions of q new sort are prognos-
Heated These will tie together the
interests of employees in the sort of
cooperation never previously estab-
lished, the seers declare.
There Is a sign interpreted as pre-
saying reactionary tendencies that af-
feet social rs well as industrial af-
fairs. This will not be strongly ap-
parent until 1920 has far advanc-
cd.
Dress will be affected by what is a
return to Victorian standards, but not
until after the present year has in
troduced its most extreme fashions.
Missouri comes under the sway of
the stars making for personal fights
in politics where long-established ira
-ditions may be overturned.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is have
the augury of ar unusually active year
but they should avoid speculation
which will surely be unlucky.
Children born on this day are likely
to be active and enterprising. These
subjects Of Scorpio usually are in
clined to be extravagant and girls max
marry very young.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07

genius Will one day harness the SUMS
rays to a big world job and make him.
SELF famous and rich beyond calcula-
ton.
The only thing hat can prevent his
becoming a Millionaire will be the
realization by the people that the. sun
belongs to them-that God created it
Tor the Just n the unjust'-exaot-
ly as He did the rain.
ana somehow We can't get away
from the notion hat the coal and the
Oil n the trees in the woods and the
metal stored away in the heart of the
earth were also intended for ah the
people,.
Fact is, the sun is responsible for
the local and the metal and the oil, as
well as the trees.
1t was the chief factor in develop
ing them as any scientist will tell you.
h sun pulls the ocean to the
skies and 1t pours out upon the land
in floods OF rain.
was formed ages ago, and released, it
runs u factories and trains. our
steamboats, and automobiles, our troll
ley cars and aeroplanes.
But n sun does more than this
and better than this it's light drives
away darkness, 1t scatters the rats
and the bats and the squirming things
of earth.
Its smile puts the color into the
flowers and onto the cheeks of the
poverty-driven, poor.
1t sends its SHAFT down into the
hearts of the sad and the troubled
and lightens the darkness within.
And gloom goes glimmering; and
fears flee away.
Labor becomes lighter and love has
a chance.
Is it any wonder that there were
"snuworshippers" before men learned
about the Creator of the sum-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
PUBLIC OPINION
JF9S3R

register any complaint.
Thursday: Expected to take SAT P.
M. boa and made a heroic run for 1T,
but the elusive boa was In such a
hurry that when my last lap was fin
ished l was a tired and Disguised loser
by a notch. Boat left 6 minutes ahead
of time and had to soJourn in one OF
the most uncomfortable and the most
dirty waiting rooms on the face of
the globe, until 6:O7 P. M.
Wednesday: Expected to AXE GOT
p. NJ boat. Was ahead of my sched-
ule by about 8 minutes and was con
tent to await it's coming. And wait l
did-in the same place Groom had
been swept his time). Often I have
wondered how President Wilson must
have suffered when prior to the year
1917 he was content with ''watchful
waiting" 1 had my lesson in his
science, for a science 1t must be. L
waited and kept on waiting until GAS,
when at last the elusive boat appear
ed. While waiting I kept one eye on
my watch. This sure was watch
full waiting Some poor delusive souls
kept their weary eyes IN the company
clock on the wall. Low the clock had
stopped and refused to tell the hour
Inquiry told me that 1t had been
thus idle for a long, long time, and
1 venture to say that not even the
proverbial oldest inhabitant remem
bers its going on the old Journey o
tick-tack.
This is only a sample of the many
beautiful and varying episodes a COM
muter on the celebrated Staten Island
ferry must encounter, 1t would no
be so awfully bad, were it not for the
state of uncleanliness n must en-
counter while thus waiting. There is
no reason on earth why boats and
waiting room (Which latter is really
an apology for one) should not be kept
in such a state as is fit for human
beings. 1t shows a lack of considera-
tion for the public on the part of those
ownin this ferry. Opposition by an
other ferry would soon settle the mat
ter, and the patronage would go to
the one that does endeavor to give
proper and decent service to those
patronizing 1t.
F. r. NEWMAN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07

Luke McLuke Says.
The girls may display goose-pim-
pied chests in cold weather. But
thank goodness, they do not display
~liver-colored elbows the way they do
in warm weather.
After you have been married long
enough you will discover that a
woman wants to be coaxed for two
hours to do something that she wants
to do.
Castor oil and Advice are two
things hat everybody wants to give
and nobody wants to take.
A wife knows that IL she, sent her
husband to buy anything he would
come back with something red.
So many of the girls are shaped
like clothespins that you wonder how
they keep their skirts up without
suspenders.
One of the surest things we know
right now is that the man who is
afraid he might do too much
gets paid too much.
The reason why Father never a
any buttons on his clothes is because
Mother belongs to six sewing clubs
that takes up all of her time.
If the Prodigal Son had happened
to be a Prodigal Daughter there
would have been no Fatted Calf.
There would nave been a N Admit
lance" sign on the front gate.
Between Flivvers and Sparrows a
city dweller is kept busy lodging all
the time.
And as long as a fellow has Curly
Hair a Princess doesn't care whether
he has any brains or not.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY.

Editor EVENING NEWS:
Some deserved knocks" have time
and again been directed toward the
Central r.. r.. by the NEWS h a 1t is
a wonder that that big corporation
has not opened It's heart and institute
ed an Improvement In that direction.
But there is another octopus which
needs your august attention. 1t is
the Staten Island ferry.
Truly, this is a wonderful institu-
ton. 1t is a vertible time saver (not
being particular either, whose time)-
so much that even the old clock on
the wall of the waiting room has stop
ped. But, joking aside, let us proceed
TO business and knock" a little. Not
that 1t might accomplish much; but
still it might put a human spark in
the cold-bloOded anatomy OF the
bloodless corporation that owns it and
runs it after their own fashion-and,
naturally, TO their profit.
First of all, let us site the usually
untidy condition of both waiting room
n boat. Is the waiting room on
this sid of the river ever being swept?
Oh, yes; occasionally, but not so that
one a notice its having been operat-
cd upon by the use of broom or mop:
ferry boat likewise.
Usually, when patrons use a vehicle
of transportation such as a ferry boat,
they do expect such boa to keep up
the schedule laid down by those high
up. Often, before I moved to the Is
land. I used to wonder as to why
young, old and those of more advanc-
ed age were running as if their very
lives depended on their gymnastics in
order to reach a given goal within a
nue. limited time. Not so; these peo-
pie, as I have since learned( and I
am doing the same stunt myself very
frAnDpnflUl ara maTp1U IRVING tn
''catch the ferry" Oh, what a de-
lusive ferryi The boats are running
whenever some ones spirit moves him
to action-sometimes ahead of time,
often enough way behind. Here's a
record of less than a week.:
Saturday: Expected to catch the
4:47 P. NJ. boat got 1t 10 minutes
ahead OF time. or else the 4:27 P. NJ.
wal so much late. for which / do mott
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
Etiquette of Malkinn.

When In the street, especially IN
daytime, a lady is not supposed to
lake a g~entleman's arm, unless she
Is intirm or elderly, though she may
properly do 81 at night. When walk
Ing with two ladies a gentleman may
walk on the outside. or the inside, or.
rather, the side from which he can
best guard his companion or compan.
ions from obstacles or danger. 1t Is
not good form to take a lady's arm,
unless to assist her in some way.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07

Mercy!
Although he tries to do his bea,
We sigh for Preacher Dermon;
Though Sunday is a day of rest,
He labors through his
Paw Knows Everything.
wiIlfe-Paw, wha is fall fiction?
Paw-Campaign promises. my son.
Bangi
He's in his grave and he Is dead,
His passing few of us will rue;
He walked up TO Wet and said:
Say is it Dry enough for your
The Mad wag.
How much are your twelye-dollar
| shoes? asked the Smart Aleck, as he
sat down in the shoe store.
six dollars a foot" replied the
Weary Salesman.
DogSone Hint
Another Hlck,
Came to my home:
And asked to use
The Telephone"
Easyi
IT wish I knew how to make a
barrel of money" sighed the Little
Man.
That's easy" replied the Big Man.
Spend a half barrel of money in ed
vertising and you'll soon have a bar
rel of money"
No Joke.
"A little thing contentment brings
To woman" said old Peter;
She's thankful for the little things
When they're her hands and feet"
Just Like En-.
The girl who Is wearing as much
powder as a marshmallow thinks It
perfectly terrible the way some girls
paint-Luke McLuke. And the man
with a nose like a new barn, laments
that there amt no pretty girls no
more!-Wilmington N~ews-Journal.
Bless Her Hearti
Rose Goodness lives in Armenia,
Wis.
Firms Is Firms.
Funkhouses & Skunk have q gro
Gerry store at Toecane, N. c.
Fact.
Strike and the gang strikes with
work, and you work alone.-Ball
Crank.
Fooey!
There's many a song on the Joys Of
champagne,
And the praises of rare wines we
hear;
But you'll trot this old globe east
and west till you're lame,
And ne'er find an ode to Near Beer.
&C. K. Milwaukee,.
Where's Them Chains?
John Skidmor runs an auto livery
IN Ogallala, Neb.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
RIPPING RHYMES
November.
BY WALT MA o N

November.
November skies are dreary, her winds as sharp as kn1vesj
and all the world seems weary, when this sad month arrives;
the birds no longer tarry where tempests raise old Harry, the
bees no longer carry the glucose to their hives. The cockleburs
Itended through golden summer days, the milkweeds tall and
splendid, no longer meet the gaze; the frost is falling nightly,
I see it cleaning whitley, when in the morn, politely, | cuss
November's ways. The night wind, at the easement, now
shrieks in fendish glee; the furnace in the basement is calling,
calling me; in spring I didn't need it, the summer weather
freed it, but soon I'll have to feed it coal carloads two or three.
No wonder if my sonnet should strike a plaintive note; my
uncle has my bonnet, he also has my coat; the summer rags I'm
wearing won't do when blasts are tearing, and creditors are
swearing; my uncle has my goat. Alas, that bleak November,
which leaves us cold and numb, is followed by December, the
.bummest of the. bum Then comes fierce January, to punish
the 4unMary; but, boots; let us be merry-the worst is yet to
comet
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-07
Safety Fire Escape.

A woman has invented a fire escape
Tor dazed and frightened victims. 1t
consists of a sent and. footboard fast
ened together by ropes like a swing.
For futher protection there is an extra
loop of rope which slips over the head
and tightens about the body.