Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1919-05-29

LOCALNEWS

Knights Templar meet in Moberly
starting Tuesday. Quite large dele
cation from Mexico and Audrain cou-
ty will attend the meeting.
Those who went to the meeting
were: Will C. Williams, John T,
Marshall, John Abbay, V. F. Ryan,
r. r. Wagner, f. S. Gibbs, Capt. S. D.
| Burroughs, Milt Householder, Harry
Householder, Jr., Ray Beagles, Mr..
Paisley, H. f. c. Tucker, w. S. Doolin,
all of this city, and Pete Erdel, Jr., of
Rush Hill and from Vandalia, Mark
Elzea, Dr. X. l.. Afford and John A.
Brooks.
Misse Frances Brown, of New Lon
don, Mo-, is u guest of her sister, Mrs.
T. J. Hoxsey.
Judge Douglass, of Benton City,
was in Mexico on business Tuesday.
Miss Helen Howell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. w. Howell returned Tues
day evening from Miami, Okla, where
she has been teaching in the Miami
schools. She will spend part of her
vacation with her parents in Mexico
! and will attend summer school at the
Warrensburg Normal, Warrensburg,
1 Mo.
l H. E. Boecker and Miss Effie Kunsch
were married by Judge E. A. Shannon
in the Probate Court room at 1870
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. Mr..
Booker is located at jefferson Bar
racks. They left Tuesday afternoon
/ for st. Louis.
| James Crum, south of Mexico, who
has been very ill, is much better.
/ Judge J. A. Guthrie received tele-
gram May 26th, ANNOUNCING the ar
rival of little daughter for Mr.. and
Mrs. J. P. Cauhape, at Roswell, N.
NJ. Mrs. Cauhape was formerly Miss
/ Frances Guthrie of this city, daughter
of Judge Guthrie.
! Mexico friends of DR.. J. c. Parrish,
of Vandalia, have received invitations
to his wedding to Miss Mary Alice
Hanna, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Samuel c. Hanna, of Trenton, Mo.
| The wedding will be at o'clock the
evening of Wednesday, June 11th in
the Trenton Presbyterian church and
DR.. and Mrs. Parrish will be at home
| in Vandalia after July 18th.
| Miss Emma Wenger formerly of
Benton City, Mo-, died at her home N
Wellsville Monday morning after an
| illness of some time. She had made
her home in Benton City for a NUM-
ber of years and was widely known
over the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cowan and
grandson, Rowland Cowan, left Tues
day, for Oklahoma City, Okla, TO re-
side with their son, Sam Cowan, and
wife. Many Mexico friends regret
their leaving, but extend best wishes
for them in their new home.
The Chamber of Commerce, Monday
voted to cooperate with the Audrain
county Red Cross chapter in holding
a monster Fourth of July celebra-
\ tion her to welcome our returned SOL
| diers home from service.
Mrs. Frank Wales is visiting in In
dependence, Kas.
DR.. A. L Manchester, who has been
the head of the music department of
Hardin College, the past year, will
continue in that capacity under the
Presidency of DR.. Million.
Mrs. Dan Dudley is visiting Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Whitney at Jefferson City.
/ The proposed plans for the i'm
provement of Hardin College are most
extensive and include an outlay of
practically million dollars in new
buildings. The extent to which those
plans will be carried out at once de
pends upon the success of the half
million dollar campaign to be launched
by the school shortly.
The plans include the erection of a
new administration building, several
dOrmitories, other class buildings and
an athletic field. The elimination of
the, present building, the long brick
structure used now for students and
classes including the auditorium is
proposed. A new chapel will also be
built.
When the old building is removed
the new structures will all face west
toward Jefferson street with curved
driveway leading to 4he administra.
tion building.
All of the new buildings will be fire
proof. They will be exceptionally
handsome architecturally and placed
according to the plans made by {
prominent firm of ST. Louis archi
tects. The first building to be erect.
cd will be a Central Heating plant
which will be located on the northeast
corner of the campus and arranged tC
serve the present structures as vel
as all of the new buildings. As plan.
ned the school will be the most moderr
and best equipped in the Central Wcst
and credit to Mexico
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