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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
What Is a Cat?U

A neighbor seeing the seven-year-
Old daughter Of geologist playing
with a bedraggled but cherished kit
ten, asked what her pet was called.
Well" replied the precocious
youngster, that depends. Father calls
her a segregation from an intrusive
magma of doubtful genesis; mother
refers to her as the basement COM
pick; sister Helen insists that she is
typical example Of secondary impov-
erishment; but just call her my dear
little kitty."-Boston Transcript,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
ALWAYS Unpopular Humber.

Whether unlucky or not. number Is
Is thoroughly unpopular. If ID sit
down to meal. the first to rise will
die within year, says superstition
The person born on the thirteenth OF
the month will be unlucky throughout
life; no one should embark on jour
ney or start an enterprise on the thir'
teenth of the month; while the thir
teenth house in row is nearly always
tenantless, or remembered 11A or 10
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
Ugly, Unsightly Pimples
Are Signals of Bad Blood

trouble. This remedy is the great
est vegetable blood purifier known,
and contains no minerals or chem
icals to injure the most delicate
skin.
Get a bottle of S. S. S. today,
ard get rid of those unsightly and
disfguring pinples, and other skin
irritations. If you wish special
medical advice, you can obtain it
without charge by writing to Med
ical Director, 105 Swift Labora-
tory, Atlanta, Ga.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
Give Heed to the Warning.

Pimples on the face and other
parts of the body are warnings
from Nature that your blood is
sluggish and impoverished. Some
times they foretell eczema, boils,
blisters, scaly eruptions and other
skin disorders that burn like
flames of fire.
They mean that your blood needs
s. S. s. to cleanse it of these &C
foundations that cause unlimited
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
Freshen a Heavy Skin

With the antiseptic, fascinating Cuti-
curt Talcum Powder, an exquisitely
scented convenient, economical face,
skin. baby and busting powder and
perfume. Renders other perfumes su-
perfiuous. One Of the Cuticura Toilet
Trio (Soap. Ointment, Talcum).-Adv.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
The Observant Fiivverist,

Some of those big financial folks
must be takin' quite little vacation
remarked Farmer Corntossel.
"What makes you think SOP
"Nobody has taken the authority in
quite some time to boost the price OF
gasoline"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Lots of people look for trouble who
do not know what to do with it after
they find it.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

The girl who paints her lips has poor
taste-or at least the man who kisses
her thinks so.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Snow comes down in the winter. ant
ice goes up in the summer.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Enjoy present pleasures in such
way as not to injure future ones
Seneca.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Mans interference with Natures
plans nearly always brings an uneX-
pected reaction.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

1t doesn't pay to borrow trouble
even on a friends account.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

A man without ambition is as use
less as last years dog license.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

1t is impossible to suppress the man
who thinks he can tell story.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

The sharper the man the harder 1t
IS to make fool of him.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Thinking over our own faults makes
as talk less about those of other peo-
pie.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15
Not the Reason.

Churchill is said that Naples Is
one Of the few European cities where
rents have remained very low.
Gotham-Oh. then it wasn't the high
rents that made Vesuvius so hot?
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

II you fear to lose your dignity you
have nothing worth losing.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

Sometimes the homeliest woman at
church Is the best looking.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

livers to him Amy's letter, which he
had stolen from Wayland. The tangle
Of affairs is unravelled and Amy is
proclaimed as the countess Of Leices-
ter.
At this revelation, Elizabeth is be-
side herself with rage.
In the violence Of her chagrin and
anger she forgets for while her
royal dignity, and RECEIVERS command
Of herself only when Lord Burleigh
warns her that "such weakness little
becomes queen" Meanwhile varney
fatally shoots the drunken Lambourne
and conducts Amy to CumnOE where
she is confined in Fosters bedcham-
Der. a mysterious room reached BY a
drawbridge, which she is admonished
never to attempt to cross; but when
Tressilian and Raleigh come to take
her to Kenilworth, and she hears the
sound of their horses hoofs. she thinks
It Is the earl and rusheS from her
room. and varney has so manipulated
the drawbridge thai she falls to her
death. When. however. this villain
learns how matters have developed.
he commits suicide. His alchemist is
found dead in his laboratory and Tony
Foster disappears and his skeleton is
found long afterward in a secret
chamber where he hid his gold.
Leicester retires from court for a sea-
son. but later is again a favorite in
waiting upon the queen. and dies at
last by taking poison he had de.
signed for another.
Copyright, 1919 by Post Publishing Ca.
The Boston Postl
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-09-15

his tremendous NltdiIty, HIS UEutc CUR.
age. that he kept advancing.
They now were but few PAGES
apart. Frisco Red. his pistol empty,
threw it in the others face and they
clinched.
Back and forth across the heaving
car top they struggled-two vicious
animals gone mad with rage!
Half the length of the car they
rolled. twisting, straining, heavy fists
battering, and thick fingers clawing.
gouging. The brakeman volleyed
curses.
The yeggman fought in silence. like
| a man with fixed purpose-to STAY !.
Larkin was the better wrestler. One
| of his long arms crept across the 9TH
| er's back and caught wrist. In an
| instant Red was pinned fiat on his
| face. and his antagonist was shouting
profane triumph.
Then, with a grinding OF wheel
| fianges No. 9 took a sharp curve, Two
graphing figures rolled of the roof
| into the darkness.
Red fell underneath. square on the
bottle in his coat pocket!
There was flash. splitting roar.
A box car heaved; its trucks left the
rails. The cars behind plOwed into II.
The night was filed with crash and
shiver Of splintering wood. the rend-
ing of steel as the train pulled up!
"It's funny about that wreck" OBJ
served McCarty. conductor Of No. 9. .
few nights later In the Acme lunch
room. I'VE never could 6nd Larkin.
| His hat and his busted lantern wers
| picked up a mile down the trackA
along with gun. but there was nevoe
! q trace Of himls
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

for s55.25 a head; twenty-eight steers
and bulls, mixed, went to William
Culver. of Galloway County, at $3.50;
and Watts brothers of Audraiu,
bought thirty-six head of heifers at
$6S.25.
Stock hogs sold at from 16 to &c
cents a hundred. Forty-two, weighing
200 pounds, were sold for 1ih cents a
hundred. Ten head of brood sows
averaged $32 in selling price.
Six cars of corn, to be delivsreI
between April and August, to points
on the Wabash and Fulton c. & A.
branch near Mexico, we're sold for
from $1.55 to $1.621a a bushsl.
Two hundred tons of ensilage We're
sold to Homer billiard of Callaway
County for 81 a ton, with the privilege
of using the barn and lot adjoining.
Some sacked feed was sold in small
lots.
A 90-acre blue grass pasture was
rented to OHM Baker at Sc an are;
and a 160-acre wooded pasture vas
rented to Sanderson of Galloway
County for $4.35 an acre. Sixty acres
of corr ground was rented to Lee
Childers for half of the crop in the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

The public sale held Thursday oy
Crockett Harrison, administrator Ct
the Albert S. j. Harrison estate, on
the latter's farm near Benton City,
brought about $4,000, in addition to
which about $4,000 worth of corr and
linseed cake was sold for delivery
later on in the season. This made the
total of all sales near $4,000.
Two spans of mules were sold for
1886 ,one pair going to Pollock and
VIM of this county and the othec
to Guy Hamilton, of Galloway. The
seven head of mules auctioned brought
an average price of $412.
A hundred and seventy-three choice
calves were sold by the heal, prices
ranging from $3.50 to SIS each.
Twenty-seven black steers went to r.
R. Hendricks, of Galloway County, at
SIS a head. E. P. johnson, of Mar.
tinsburg, bid in twenty eight head Of
Shorthorns at $66.25 each, and tire
tw~enty-seven Herefords at $61.25.
Twenty-seven steer calves of mixed
breeds were sold to Harry Woolery
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18
STOCK
NEWS


Ahdt' u1iSSOuTi 1uTIlerS nave now on
hands nine million more bushels Of.
orr and four million fewer bushels
Of oats than las. March to begin the
crop a has been reported by E.
A. Logan and Jewell Mayes of the L
S. Bureau of Crop Estimates and
State Board of Agriculture. Corn on
hand amounts to 45,069,000 bushels;
oats 11,860,000 bushels, and wheat
G,946,000 bushels. In the United
States there is 200 million bushels
more corn, 100 million less oats and 80
million more bushels of wheat Oh
hand now than last March.
In Audrain county the per cenE of
last years corr crop on farms is is
and "a; the condition of wheat So per
cent, soil 80 per cent, apple buds sc
per cent, peach buds IS per cent, price
per bushel received by farmers for
corn $1.45 and oats 80 cents.
Missouri grain stocks on farms at
this time is about the same as the
usual year: Corn go per cent of last
years crop which is the six-year aver
age, oats 81 pei cent and 4 points be-
low a six-year average, wheat IL per
cent against s;x-year average of 13
per cent. The usual proportion of
grain has been shipped out Of the
counties where produced, corn 9 per
cent, wheat so per cent and oats 1e
per cent with harley only II per cent.
Land prices lave shown decided up
ward tendencies during the past year
with a large number of transfers.
Changing of farms on March LIST YVES
unusually numerous in nearly all sec.
tons of the state and advances scored
early last summer are fully maintain
ed. The average price of poor pillow
land is $50 per acre, good pillow lanos
$110, average of all pillow lands SS7,
land with improvements $104 per acre
and without improvements of $79,an III
crease of about $40 per acre above the
prices prevailing five years ago. The
average price of raw and wholly TN
developed land is $36 with a range
from $50 to $75 in various sections dc.
pending on quality.
Condition of growing wheat GO per
cent against SO per cent last March
1t is looking as we'll as could be ex-
pected at this time and improvement
a be expected with seasonal
weather. Fruit prospects are good
with little winter killing reported.
Apple buds SO per cent normal and
peach buds SO, poorest in the northern
section and best in the southern.
The average price of corn on the
farm is $1.54 with very wide differen-
ces in the price Paid in adjoining Dun
ties. In a few counties corn is as high
priced as wheat with some feeding of
wheat in consequence. The state av-
erage price of wheat is $2.19' per
bushel, oats 92c with seed oats 81 per
bushel and above. The average price
of hay is $24 a ton with better grades
higher. Red clover seed is $34 per
bushel, timothy seed $3.50 and eggs
42c per dozen.
The agricultural outlook is not al
together good. Lack of stability in
prices and difficulty in securing labor
is causing farmers to retrench in all
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

youngest hog breeder a total Of 1895.
an average price per head of about
s10S.
Busters Giantess topped the sale at
$245, when she vas bid in by ] B..
Noel, of Curryyille at that price.
Lester N. Glore, of Grandiew, bougrt
the next highest at $500, the regis
tered name being Jones Model. The
third highest bid was $175, made by
NARROW and Sons, of Wellsvilie, which
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18
COULD NOT BEAR
WEIGHT OF SKIRT
Peoria Woman Could Shout For Joy
Since Her Recovery by Taking
Tanlac

Tanlae.
Il just feel like shouting for joy
l feel So happy, and l simply have to
tell everybody / meet what Tanlae
has done for me-" was the statement
made to a Tanlac representative re-
Gently by Mrs. w. Knebell, who lives
at GIG Matthew street, Peoria, Ill.
Just to think, only a short time
ago | was such a perfect wreck mat
| saw no hope of enjoyme It in life,
she continued, "and today I haven't g
trouble Of any kind, feel better than
have in twenty years and I'm simply
overjoyed at my recovery, All my
friends and neighbors say it is simply
marvellous the way Tanlac has restor-
ed me to health, and | can hardly rea!
ize myself the wonderful change that
has come over me.
Ever since l was a girl l have
never been strong and healthy and at
time passed new troubles set in and
my condition became worse.
It seemed that every bite I ate hur!
me and l would have severe cramps
and gas formed so bad that it pressed
up around my heart and INTO my
throat until / had to vgfht to get my
breath. My kidneys were in bad con-
dition and caused me to have the back
ache so bad ! thought it would drive
me crazy. The pain was so great
that if | tried to stoop over my back
felt like it would break in Two, an
even the weight of my clothes hurt re
so bad | had to have them all made
together so the weight was all on ny
shoulders. / had awful fainty, DIZZY
spells and if / started to sweep thu
floor or cook q meal / would become
SO weaw and didzy l would give corr
pletely out and have to stop and !e
down. I was in such a dreadful nor
vous condition that / could never "et
any sleep and many a time / was 50
restless / would have to get up ard
walk the floor. This had been my
condition for the past twenty years.
not one day in seven, but every day,
why, | was in misery all the time anG
could get any pleasure out of
life,
when you go this way year in and
year out and then find a medicine like
Tanlac, it is enough to make a person
happy; 1t just seems too good to be
true that | can be in such fine hearth
since | have taken Tanlac. My a.
petite couldn't be better, and while |
eat three good meals every day, every
thing agrees with me and I am not
troubled in any way with indigestion.
My kidneys don't bother me any moe.
an dthe pain in my back has conf.
pletely disappeared and l am able to
stoop over without any trouble. Dizzy
spells never come on meand my nerves
are so steady that I al sleep as
sound as a child all night long. l am
built up in every way and feel so
much stronger that I can 10 all m
Homework and never get tired one
bit. I am so sappy that I can hardly
contain myself and as long as live
l can never praise Tanlac enough"
TANLAC is sold in Mexico, Mo-, by
Buckner Drug Co. Adv. Wit
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

crib.
In spite of the tact that the day
was bad a good crowd attended tire
sale and everything went well. All
the stock sold under shelter. The auc-
tioneers were ]. 7. johnson, o. B.
Johnson and NJ. B. Harrison, of CAL
laway County. Finley johnson, OF
Benton City, was clerk. The sale was
managed by Crockett Harrison, of Full
ton, and Jas. A. Harrison, of St. Louis,
brothers Of Albert Harrison.
Dinner was served by the ladies' of
the Benton City Presbyterian church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18
Cows Average slOO.

The administrators sale in the
Eliza Grant Howard estate, held az
the farm four miles west of Moline,
by Rufus A. Howard, Friday, was well
attended, and all the offerings sold
well. The average price of COWS was
500, and horses sold as high as SIPS.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18
brought them victoria.

brought them Victoria.
The lowest price Of The sale vas
$50, all Of young Arnold's offerings
sold wen. W. G. Loekridge
~auctioneer and c. B. jackson vas
clerk. Buyers from many parts Of tbs
state were present and a great deal Of
interest was shown in this auction Of
thoroughbreds which followed VIM
{ Continued on Page g.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

The ~thirty-three head of pure bred
Poland China hogs sold at Lewis Arr
Dld's first sale, which was held in hid
Barn in Mexico SATURDAY
brought Audrain County's
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

Albright and Son, of the west end
of Audrain County bought fur mules
at the Johnson-P emberton sale held
the first of this week for $500. Elmer
Albright then sold Pembert IN a three
year old gelding for 5000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

A company to be known as TIE
Mexico Feed and Flour Company
has been organized in this city and
articles of agreement have been filed
with the County Recorder stating that
the capital stock is $4,000, divided into
fifty shares of $500 each and owned
by A. B. Fry and Max Sigolff, of
st. Louis, and Edward NJ. Rowland,
of Mexico.
The company is to buy, manufac-
ture, acquire and sell feed for horses,
cattle and poultry; to sell groceries,
canned goods and any other food for
human beings. It also has the right
to buy, sell and manufacture boxes
and other things necessary in and per-
tanning to it's business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18
Peach Prospects is Good.

FULTON, Mo-, March III. D.
Lamar, a horticultural expert living
near this city, reported that the peach
trees are in excellent condition and
that while some were killed by he
heavy freezes last week, there ere
plenty of buds left for a good crop .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

AS a result of the visit Of j. W.
Pierce and H.. G. Rood to jefferson
City Tuesday it was learned that the
state and federal monies to aid in she
construction OF rock roads were en-
tirely exhausted before the Auxvasse
plans were received and owing to shat
fact the proposition to build a har1
surfaced road from the Audrain line
to Fulton at the present time amo'r1ts
to nothing.-Auxvasse Review.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-03-18

lines. With prices for his
products declining and all those Ad-
vancing for what he buys, the spread
between farm production receipts and
farm consumption costs is too much.
Missouri farmers are quite sure in
their opposition to universal training
20 arms but deadly certain of their
approval of an order for universe!
work training according to reports
made to the state.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

Cabinet vo $4,000 $4,000
suty
unless / has the Dog trace
WITH comple
L1e Fountain Pens nc
"a. Iohner f4rne
ivnta cries. ham
s>-aN
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

their arguments that we should not
pass judgment on bolshevism until we
knoW more about 1t and see more OF
it's results. Mr.. Gompers addressed
himself particularly to trades union
lists, and he tells them that the boi-
shevists have split up the reserve
funds of trade unions, throttled the
labor press, killed labor organizations,
split up trade unions as class and
put down strikes by force of arms and
by executions. The constitution Of
soviet Russia, he adds, provides for
and enforces compulsory labor. 1t
may be this pr0nouncement by the
great labor leader will have a bene-
fetal effect on those union labor men
of this country who have been submit
ting too much to the leadership Of dis
loyal radicals but there are signs that
Mr.. Gompers' influence is declining
somewhat.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

The troublesome Adriatic problem is
not yet solved. In response to the
ultimatum of the supreme council, the
Jugo. Slav government sent note re-
jecting the compromise that had been
offered by Italy and agreed to by the
other great powers. The reply from
Belgrade was couched in cOnciliatory
terms, however, and left the way open
for further discussion. The suggested
solution was based on the pact Of
London, and the Jugo Slavs say that
as this treaty was secret they cannot
consider a solution based on a pact
which they have never had an oppor-
tunity to examine and discuss. They
suggest a new basis of compromise
along the lines of President Wilson'S
proposals. Indeed. all through this
quarrel the Jugo-Slavs have justified
their stand by that taken by Mr.. Will
son, and they still seem to think that
our president can enforce his views
on Great Britain, France and Italy,
though just how this can be done 1t
is not easy to see.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

President Wilson, in letter writ
ten to Secretary Glass, has made an
appeal to congress to pass the bill
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

So far Hungarysha has declined to sign
the peace terms submitted by the al
lies. She says she cannot fulfill the
demands made, and cannot agree to
the loss of territory. Premier Huszar,
addressing a meeting of women We'd
nesday, declared that Hungary would
be monarchy, without doubt, aud
that the new king would be chosen Inn
mediately after the national assem-
bly, convenes. In the recent elections
the national Christian party was over
whelmingly successful, the socialists
declining to vote.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1920-02-05

Although the German government,
as such, is 0stensibly doing all 1t can
to carry out the terms of the treaty,
many of the Individual members Of 1t
are openly in sympathy With the gen
eral sentiment throughout the country
against the surrender of officers and
others for trial by the allies on
charges growing out of their misdeeds
during the war. Great mass meetings
to protest against such action are be-
ing held in Berlin, and while the gov
eminent does not officially countenance
them, it does not prevent them and
various high officials have declared
that they will not take part In the sur
render of the accused. The Ebert
government has sent a note to the
allies urging them to abandon their
demands in this matter on the ground
that execution Of article 22S of the
treaty would certainly cause political
and economic troubles in Germany
that would seriously hamper pro-
duction. 1t suggests that the trials
of the accused persons be held in
Germany with the participation of al
lied representatives.
What will be done in the matter of
Hollands refusal to extradite the for
mer kaiser is not settled. The juristic
experts at the supreme council took
up tie study of the case anew and it
is believed the council dispatched an
other note to the Dutch last week.
Probably connected with the agita-
ton against the eXtradition Of Off
GERS and soldiers was the attempt on
the life of Matthias Erzberger, German
minister of finance, who signed the
armistice terms. He was seriously
wounded by student. The INCIDENT
was succeeded by rumors OF Il coming
monarchist uprising and Minister OF
Defense Noske filled the strategic po-
sitlons in Berlin with troops. The re-
volt failed to materialize.