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Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

raids, the Hun knocked a train off of
the track and killed a number Of
wounded soldiers. However none of
the hospitals were struck by a shell
during the entire time they were IN
Rouen.
Most of the Hospitals were tents
btu there were some huts, Miss RAM
said. In the latter were placed the
badly injured. The shuts were covered
with sandbags to protect them from
Smelling.
1t was in March 1918 that the Ger
mans were making their heaviest
drive and things loked bad for Paris
and the Allies. The Germans were
Smelling Amiens. At this particular
period, Miss RAM said, the Tommies'
morale was at the lowest.
"You see," she said with a tender
note in her voice, "they had suffered a
terrible loss. 1t looked as though
nothing could prevent the Germans
from reaching Paris. Then was the
hardest time during my entire exper-
fence to cheer them up. But in the
fall of 1915" and her eyes s~parkled,
"things were different. The Amer
leans had come. The tide had changed
and the Hun was going back.
eyes we had quite a few American
soldiers t. take care Of" she said.
"And while we loved the English Tom
my, who was always stole and brave,
yet you should have seen US when the
first of our boys were received. They
were our pets and l fear we gave them
more attention than was to their Tx
ing. But can you blame US? These
boys of ours; they were splendid"
No one knows but those who have
been with them constantly can realize
the suffering of the shell shocked SOL
diers according to Miss RAM. "Why,
they are suffering in mind" said she,
"and is not one the sicKest when he is
sick of mind? l have watched many
of these poor boys for days and to me,
they were the worst patients of all;
they suffered the most. Some of the
poor fellows could not talk and it was
pitiful to watch them try to make
their wants known. This was the
saddest part of my experience. 1t will
take days and I'VE years to cure some
Of them and some, will never be cur
ed"
For three months, Miss RAM was
i'll with pneumonia in Sick Sisters
Hospital, which was provided for the
sick nurses. Here Miss RAM spent
some of her most interesting days.
Their were nurses from almost every
country, all subjects of Great Britain.
Scotland, Ireland, China, America,
Canada and even South Africa hal
representatives. But they all spoke a
common language, the English Lam
guage, and got along admirably.
Miss RAM remained in Rouen until
January when she with fifty-six other
nurses in her unit, were sent to Brit
any along the French coast, where,
according to her, the qaint little viii
"a" ) were 400 years behind the times.
Eight of the nurses went with the Am
bulance trains into Germany. Unit
p sailed from Brest April 10 and
landed in New York April %.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
SOCIETY
BY MISS FRY
Phone No. Pa

Miss Helen Plunkett had as dinner
guests Monday night: Messrs. Ralph
Knass and Edwin Snyder, of Chicago.
Mrs. Weir and daughter, of New
Mexico, are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. T. Ricketts,.
Mrs. w. H. Coons, of Fulton, Mo,
spent the weekend with friends here.
Monday noon Mrs R. D. Worrell and
Mrs. NJ. B. Guthrie had as guests at
the Tea Shop for Mr.. and Mrs. Will
kinson of Virginia, Rev. and Mrs. H.
P. Atkins, Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Locke
and Mr.. r. D. Worrell
Johnston Coil was host Monday af-
ternoon for a large line partytat the
Orpheum About sixty boys and girls
were present to enjoy the delightful
matinee and later the host and his
guests had refreshments.
Miss Frances Jarvis, of St. Louis,
was the weekend guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. P. Kelso.
Miss Louise Johnson, Miss. Olivia
Carter and Bryan Kelso motorei to
Columbia last Saturday and spent the
weekend.
Miss Martha bearing arrived home
Tuesday from Fillmore, Mo-, where
she taught last year. About June 4,
she with her sister, Miss Mary Dear
ing, will go to Cape Girardeau to at
tend summer school.
Mrs. Carter Norris spent the week
end with her mother, Mrs. T. H. Win
ans here.
Mrs. Alex Carter and daughter of
C%hillicothe, Mo-, have been guests of
Mrs. Ellen Mason and Mrs. Basil
Price this week.
Miss Malvina Towson was hostess
for a weekend house party last week.
Her guests were Hardin College stu
dents: Misses Minnie Camplin Of
Centralia; Marea Mahaffy of Lebanon,
Mo-; Mary Sisson of Pernell, Mo-;
Thelma Packwood of Moberly, Mo-,
and Clara Allen of Fort Worth, Texas.
Mrs. F. R. Sanford invited a few
friends to the Tea Shop for lunch
Monday noon for Mrs. Coons of Full
ton, Mo. After lunch the party at
tended the matinee at the Orpheum.
The guests included: Mrs. Joe Will
kins, Mrs .Chas. Claybrook, Mrs. Fred
Howe, Mrs. R. R. Arnold, Jr., Mrs.
Ross Cauthorn and Mrs. Coons
Miss Jennie and Miss Matte Karnes
leave next week for Kansas City
where they will join Mrs. H. K. Nc
Lain and motor to Colorado for the
summer. Mrs. McLain has a cottage
at Manitou and later Mr. McLain will
join them and return home with them.
Mrs. w. R. Hisey and two children,
Sarah and Marijess, departed this
week for Parsons, Kansas, to make
their home.
Mrs. J. W. Burlington and Billye
will leave next week for an extended
visit in Louisiana, Mo.
Mrs. C. D. Rodgers has been visiting
in Montgomery City and Jonesburg
this week.
Mrs. Edward Kuhn of Des Moines,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
HUNS SHELLEO CITY
MISS RAM WAS IN

Exploding bombs from the airplanes
| of the Germans were not enough to
disturb the slumber or frighten the
tired nurses in the British Base Hos
pital No. II at Rouen, France, accord
ing to Miss Cordelia RAM, who was
an American nurse with Hospital Unit
No. q in France from May 1917 until
January 1919.
Miss RAM is in Mexico visiting her
former friends. When a Ledger rep
resentative found her at the Dor hour
Thursday, she was eating her lunch
with some of the friends she had
formed while a resident in this city.
Would she tell of her experien-
ces? Certainly if the reporter
didn't mind her talking and eating at
the same time" Then, between the
bites of a most dainty luncheon, she
told a remarkable story of what she
mad seen and experienced while adj
ministering to the many sick and
wounded Tomimes in the Somme Sec
tor.
Sailing from the States May II, her
little company of IS nurses had landed
in England and were royalty enter
tanned in London. Spending a short
while in this grand old city, her unit
was then moved to Rouen, France,
where it remained throughout the re-
mainder CT the war. This base was
under English supervision and the
nurses and doctors were all fed the
British army rations. In the hospital
IN which Miss RAM was stationed
were all American doctors and Amer
lean nurses, but the wounded received
1t this hospital were given the Amer
lean treatment.
So many times had the Germans
shellcd Rouen, which was an import
mt railroad center and a direct line
} Paris, that the nurses and other
members of the hospital staff were not
Harmed and not until the Smelling be-
came the worst would they be called
out by the loud alarm and don their
boots, rain coats and helmets and
proceed in sleepy haste through the
sub trenches into the main trench.
These trenches were all over the city
and furnished protection for the nur-
SEES and patients.
IF Fritzie started shelling," Miss
RAM remarked, "those CT US who were
not on duty would be awakened. But
it didn't take US long to go back to
sleep. We'd just turn i've and hope
and pray that Fritz would get tired
and go away" But them"
here Miss RAM paused in her speech
tn enjoy another bite of the delicious
ii, "if he insisted in throwing those |
bombs down on u city, we
would he ordered to put our lights out |
and to prepare ourselves for the tren- |
,hes. Then the anti-aircraft guns
would start belching, and we were
lurriedly ushered to the trenches"
"We would generally stay in them
for about an hour at a time. 81 re-
member night in particular when
the Hun was unusually active and per-
,.7tcnt. We were called out four times
hat night and. naturally were quite |
put out and Disguised with Fritz by |
hat time"
Miss RAM said in one Of the air
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE.

ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that letters
of administration upon the estate Of
ROBERT MERRITT LLEWELLYN,
Deceased,
of Audrain County. Missouri, have
been granted the undersigned, by the
Probate Court of said county. bearing
date of April Both, 1919.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to me for allowance within six
months after date Of said Letters or
they may be precluded from any ben
eft of such estate and if such claims
b. not exhibited within one year from
the time Of the publication Of this
notice, they will be forever barred.
CARRIE D. LLEWELLYN,
ia t Administrative.
Date of 1st insertion May 8th, 1919
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
ELECT THE MEXICO
SCHOOL TEACHERS

L. B. Hawthorne was again elected
superintendent of the Mexico schools
at the regular meeting of the Mexico
School board Wednesday night. All
of the teachers were elected for the
High School, and grade schools with
the exception of three vacancies in the
South Side, Miss Miriam Johnson,
Mrs. Russell Emmons and Miss Willie
Whitson who have been teaching in
this school did not apply again. Miss
Johnson will attend an Art school next
winter and Miss Whitson has a splen-
did position in the Kirksville Normal.
Mrs. Emmons has decided not to
teach again.
There probably will be more vacan-
cies both in the grade and high schools
but these are not known at this time.
L.. H. Strunk was again elected prin-
cipal of Mcmillan; Mrs. Laura Houg-
land of South Side and C. C. Rosellc
of Central. l. ]. Hicks will continue
as principal of the Garfield Colored
school.
The following teachers We're elected
for the various schools:
High SCHOOL,. H. Strunk, princi-
pal; Misses Lucy Denham, Abbie FL
wang, Edith Ethridge, Alice Fallcr,
Morine Heller, Mildred Pearl, Ethel
Reed, Marguerite Seward, Kather;ne
Welch and C. F. Riddle and j. D. Har-
rell and Mrs. L. Soukup.
Central School-C. C. Roselle, prin-
cipal; Misses Grace Van Horn, Fran
ees Cauthorn, Jennie Karnes, Mary
Stallings, Ada McMurtry, Mary Dill
lard, Hattie Pryor, Mamie Wright,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

Edward O'Brien received a message
from his son, Sgt. Edward O'Brien,
early Saturday morning stating that
he had arrived in New Port News
from overseas. Sergeant O'Brien is
a member of the S6th Aero Squadron.
He is expected home sometime o
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
GUARDIANS NOTICE
OF APPOINTMENT


Notice is hereby given that a certi-
ficate of appointment as Guardian of
SARAH J.. LONG,
a person Of unsound mind and incap-
able of managing her own affairs has
been granted to the undersigned, by
the Probate Court of Audrain County
Missouri, bearing date the firstlday of
May, 1919.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to him for allowance, within one
year from the date of granting said
certificate or they may be precluded
from any benefit of such estate; and if
said claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date of granting
said certificate, they shall be forever
barred.
JOHN F. BRUNDEGE, Guardian.
State of Missouri,
Sc
County of Audrain.
l hereby certify that JOHN F.
BRUNDEGE, was granted a certificate
of appointment as guardian of SAR-
All ]. LONG, a person of unsound
mind and incapable of managing her
own affairs on the date above men
toned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, |
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court, this LIST day of
NAV. 1919.
(SEAL) f. A. SHANNON,
Judge of Probate and Ex-Ofieio
Clerk of the Probate Court. 11-4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

County Superintendent of Sch6dn
Ed C. Offutt has been appointed by
Governor Gardner as a delegate to the
State Health conference in Spring
field May % and 80.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
To Remain in West.

Miss Carrie Sproul, formerly Of
this city, who holds a responsible pos
ition in the public schools of Colorado
Springs has been re-engaged for an
other year there at a handsome in
crease in salary. School there closes
June 81 and Miss Sprouts many Mex
leo friends will be delighted to learn
she will return here for the summer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
SEASON OF 1910

Az my IdTIu, miles nOTLuedSL ~
Mexico and one mile due west of Lit.
tleby Methodist church, or two mile
due north of Littleby station, the IA
lowing described highly bred breedik 4.
stock:
The Imported Percheron Stallion
GRANDOISE 1858
Percheron Society of AmeIN
Grandoise 1858, is one of they
superbly bred Percheron ST;
ever brought to America. He wa
ported by Frank lines, of st.
Nebraska, acknowledged n of
most extensive and responsible bresf
ers and importers in America. He n
never changed hands EXCEPT direct II
me, and his services prove that he q
a wonderful breeder. He comes esof
a great family of breeders beng
by Besique 1902, by Brilliant
2919, by Fenelon 38, by Brilliant Z
by Coco ii. TIA, by iVeux Chaslin Z
by Coco TIP, by Mignon 715, by Jeeh
lie Blanc 739. His dam, Thebaide
33422, by Due Deaufille 1922, by
Confident 397, he by Brilliant 755.
where she catches the same blood that
is found in the registry of her sire,
and like him going direct to the I'm
mortal Jean LIE Blame 739.
His Service Fee is Placed at the
Low Sum Of $40 to Insure 4 Living
FOal.
All colts sired by above stock viii
be held for service fee as provided for
in Sections 8240, 8241 and 8242 Of the
Revised Statues Of the State of Mis-
souri, 1909. Parting from or remov-
ing from neighborhood where owned
when bred forfeits the insurance and
service fee Immediately becomes due
and payable. Care taken to prevent
accidents, but will not be responsible
should any occur.
No Sunday Service.
J. r. SHOOK, Owner. 4
Mutual Phone Rural Reuss
Mexlc0 No
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

E. P. johnson of Martinsburg was
registered at the Alamo Hotel Thurs
day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

j. W. Gallaher was in Centralia on
business Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

the largest number of licenses with
September, October and December
close seconds.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29

Hkes An OFF With This Fierce Corn Now
Cecil 10 Magic" O
&c you will just touch the corn or
calius with a few drops OF 'Gets-It.'
what q blessed relief it gives to
corn pains! You won't limp n
more; you can enjoy. the lance
ayery minute. Then to see how
that corn or callus will come right
on complete, like a panama peel and
without the least pain. Is Just won
derful. 'Gets-It' is the biggest seller
among corn remover in the world
today, simply because it is so won
derfuily simple and always works.
Be sure you get 'Gets-It-'
~aa5ets-it," the guaranteed. money
hack corn-remover. the only sure way.
costs but a trife at any drug store.
,fdbyE e. Lawrence %. Chicago, Ill
"Sold in Mexico and recommended
a sthe worlds gest corn remedy by
LLEWELLYN & SONS"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
Rough Dry 7C Pound

In this department we we handle
hundreds of family washes. The flat
work as, sheets, towels, tablelinen,
etc, is ironed, the starched work
starched ready to iron.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
''Gets.lf'- Drops
Then to the Dance!
Goodnight to Corn Pains-Corns
Peel OF With "Gets-It."

SAY. girls. you can laugh at
tight shoes. or damp. corn-pulling
on the soles of your feet, corns be-
tween the toes. hard and soft corns.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
%~&S1vwd@8~mv'ryB
THERE was a time when the laundry W
Finished Family Wash

In this department we handle
entire family wash ready for use. The
charge is the same for Rought Dry
&c per pound with a small additional
charge according to the time con
sumed in hand ironing.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
Helping Curran

Henry II. Curran, who left the
magistrates bench when drafted to
become candidate for President of
Manhattan, is Curran the soldier,
who commanded unit Of the
famous 77tb Division, unfavorably
known to the Germans who fingered
too long in the ncighborhood' of the
Vesle and in the thiclsets and the
precipices Of the Argonne.
He is the same Curran who, with
his family left behind in the fiat,
abandoned a lucrative place to
hasten off to do his duty when the
summons came, and won a commits
sion by merit.
He is the same Curran who, as
Alderman Curran, w3s leader of the
Board of Aldermen of 1914-15, and
proved in the face of New York that
this not always savory branch of the
city government could be made an
agency of conspicuous public use
funess
The building code, the codifca-
tion Of the city ordinances, the
elimination Of the graft that had
been rampant in the license bureau,
the work Of the Curran committee
that struck at the roots Of police
crookedness-these are some of the
monuments Curran raised. Was the
cleaning up task we'll done? A
sufficient answer is that tho Board
of Aldermen has done little since,
and that the substances of the Cur
ran reforms have been too strong
TO be much molcsted.
He IS the same Curran who was
u newspaper man before he became
lawyer or devoted his energies
to public work, and IS remembered
IN newspaper Offices as one of the
squarest fellows who ever honored
the craft.
Surely busy life, although the
alderman, the major and the maeis.
trate has lived only forty-two years
and was graduated from Yale no
further back than 1898. Here is a
man who by cha, aeter, intelligence
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
" EST Consistently Wrong

A similar confident prediction is to
day to be heard that the restoration of
Russia is within sight and that the
success Of the several armies now op-
Grating in Russia will mean not merely
the fall of Lenine, but tho rise Of an
orderly regime founded upon Western
ideas. This may be SO, but at the very
least it is worth remarking that the
West, having been consistently wrong
up TO date. may prove wrong once
more and that with the fall of the
BolsheVists new regime. equally un-
representative, equally violent, equally
transitory, may succeed.
Leninc and Trotzky did not create
Russian chaos or Russian anarchy,
they merely exploited them. the an
archy and tho chaos were the conse-
quences of conditions which had long
existed; they grew out OF the fact
that Russia had never been nation
in the Western sense, but only d vast
collection Of tribes and races held to-
gethcr by a powerful central bureau
cracy. which itself derived its authority
from tho Gar and the Greek Catholic
Church. BY 1917 the bureaucracy had
lost its authority, the single cohesive
power, itself artificial, not national,
had disappeared and as q consequence
Russia dissolved into chaos which
gave the Bolshcvists their chance. But
to destroy the Bolshevists now will not
revive he bureaucracy and restore the
only real force for unity in the en-
pre
As a consequence it seems to me
contemporary OF ,imism about Russia
founded upon recent anti Bolshevist
victories is to say the least prema-
turc and may lead soon to new disillu-
sionment and fresh disappointment.
copyrighted 1919 by The Mcclure News
nd, cA
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
An An,orphous Mass

10 believe now that Russia can sud
denly reappear IS nation, to imagine
that the success of kolchak or De-
nikine, the fall Of Pctrograd or the
capture of Moscow will be followed by
the refrigeration Of the old Russia, is
to believe the impossible Actually a
number Of quite distinct minorlties.
fractions, elements, are for the posses
sion of that vast, shapeless, amorphous
mass which is contemporary Russia
The latter phases of the revolution
placed the Bolshevists in control, but
the Bolshevists were an insignificant
minority, whose ranks were recruited
from that wholly inconsiderable frac
tion of the Russian population which
inhabited cities, Participated in mod
ern industrial life and derived their
ideas from the West; but from Ger
many. and not from France, Britain or
the United States. They were wholly
distinct from the vast millions Of the
agricultural population, who made up
the majority and were still unmoved bv
any political IDEAS.
Royalist reactionary influences. to-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
An Election Trick

Few voters, it may be assumed,
will be deceived by Tammany's at
tempt to capitalize detestation Of
Hearst to the advantage of Tam
many's boss-made judicial ticket.
The issue which was raised when
Justice Newburger was denied a
nomination because Murphy did not
find him agreeable as judge or be-
cause he wanted to please Samuel
Untermyer by putting his son on the
bench was drawn before war be-
tween Tammany and Hearst was de-
clared. Governor Smith has dis
closed the reasons. When judicial
vacancy occurred Hearst proposed
to do little judge-making himself.
When the Governor refused to obey
his orders and named Judge Luce,
then it was that Hearst felt sud-
den access of interest in milk and in
beating Murphy. In Judge Newbur-
ger Hearst was uninterested until it
appeared he might be used as ham
die to his spleen SO he became pro-
Newburger. This may be Judge
Newburger's misfortune. but it is
not his fault.
The obvious way for Tammany to
retort was to sec. to create the i'm
preston that Judge Newburger is a
Hearst candidate, and a campaign to
this end has been carried on in ad-
vertisements and otherwise. One
would think the better men of Tam
many, who know the facts, would be
ashamed Of such tactics. Is it not
enough of an outrage to have denied
Judge Newburger customary re-
nomination? Why should the funds
Of the organization be used to SLAM
der him?
The Newburger candidacy stands
on its own feet. 1t has no relation to
Hearst 1t represents solely the
issue of whether we are to have a
free judiciary or not. The attempt
to involve it in other matters is an
election trick.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31

and energy is we'll able to carry a
lantern in the dark places Of q
Board of Estimate which is unani-
mously Tammany.
Running in Manhattan. and not
nominated until very late, he, of
course, has hard contest on his
hands. But be is accustomed to
that, and so far, as often as he has
been a candidate, he has always run
ahead of his ticket. If only there
was time to get the full facts about
Curran properly advertised he would
surely canter in as a victor. AS
things are. Mr., Mrs. and Miss
Voter, DO what you can to spread
the knowledge. This is the best way
to help Curran.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-31
a Song of Loves Mortal

(From The Smart Set)
CULVER and black moon patterns drawn
on grass,
Your kisses, wine and wonderful thcv
pass;
The cardinal flowers slim, incredible
fame,
Your body, that nor god nor Greek
might shame;
An iris meadow, rooted with iris skies.
Gift Of myself to love-athirstcd eyes:
Brown boats on twilight seas Of pearl
and rose,
Love that in star-hung darkness comes
and goes;
Laughter brave, singing words, sing
ing wind,
Your eager Acsh-your heart, If you
be kind
These joys takc-~and jealous gods NAV
keep
Eternity, and send me moth-winged sleep
II |, q mortal, love and beauty see
In rainbow, flame, and dream-to die.
like met
MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL