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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
SCIENTISTS FREE
CASTOR OIL FROM
NAUSEATING TASTE
Remarkable Process I'm
proves Famous Old Fam
lily Remedy.

Nobody ever dreamed that castor oil
could be made tasteless But the chem
lists OF Spencer Kellogg Sons. Inc
one OF the largest manufacturers Of
castor oil. tackled the problem, and
succeeded in perfecting a process by
which all nauseating taste is removed.
Nothing is put in to disguise the taste
Strength and purity remain the same
"A 100 per cent pure cAslol oil. Cur
alive and soothing qualities remain the
same It's the same good old-fashion-
ed castor oil that your doctor always
prescribes, with the disagreeable taste
removed. Children take Kellogg
Tasteiess Castor OIL without knowing
II is castor oil. Sold by all good drug
gists. IF you want a castor oil abso-
lutely without nauseating taste, in
sist on genuine laboratory filled bot
ties. plainly labelled KeIlogg's Taste
less Castor Oil. Three sizes. 15c, 35c
and S5c--Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
WILSON TO TAKE
PART IN CAMP AIGN
ny FRANK A. sTETsoN

fSTAFF CORRESPONDENT /. N. SERVIcE}
WASHINGTON. July 14.-That Pres
ident Wilson viii participate vigor-
ously the coming presidential cam
paign and that his efforts viii ne
given remittingly to the support OF the
democratic nominees. Governor Cox Of
Ohio. and Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Franklin D Roosevelt. was the
prediction of administration leaders
here today following the announce
nent that the presiden twould receive
the democratic nomiu ees at the White
House Sunday morning.
formal statement to this effect. Il
was freely predicted oday. will re-
sui from the forthcoming conference
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
GARY POLICE
ORDER HOUNDS

II you violate the law or commit
some crime in Gary IN the future and
try to make your getaway. yoH had bet
ter do some tall stepping
Members Of the Gary police are await
inr Tor the first part of next month
Sc foii around for on that date. two
trained blood hounds viii arrive from
West Virginia. 70 he added to the er-
n~ient staff Of that department They
VIII receive and share cve1y care and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14

war aviator. today filed suit for d.
vorce from hi swife. Mrs Margaret
Pichoud. noted southern beauty. He
charged infdeiity. alleging his wife
entertained an unnamed man" In their
fashionable Fiftieth street home while
he was away at war.
Mrs. Pichoud. prior to her marriage.
was noted for her beauty in southern
society circles and is member of a
fashionable southern family. according
to the papers. The couple were mar
ried in 1906 and lived in South Caro-
lima prior to the war. Ptchoud served
in both French and American air
forces.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14

Quaint Jap q nese
vases; beau I / I Il ii y
decorated in various
oriental de 81 SO
81 m s; re-
duced to
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
William and Mary
Extension Tables

81 inch top extension ia
BILE; extends to 8 feet;
comes in either furned or
= c o bean oak; William
and NJ airy SNPz 20
period d
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
80

A beautiful Packard car pulled
up in front of the store the other
day. and a fashionably dressed
lady stepped out.
After glancing hurriedly over
the front of the store. she came in.
Evidently she was making her
FIRST visit to a self-serve grocery
store, and she must have found it
an interesting experiment. for she
staid about forty minutes. choos-
ing her goods carefully and max
ing close comparisons.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
NEW BILLS SWAMP
LEGISLATIVE SESSION

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. md, july I4--As
the special session OF the legislature
swung into action today for it's third
days session. predictions were freely
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14

As she left with her purchases
she said: This is my first expert
ence in really doing my own buy
ing. and | want to thank you TO.
bringing the women of Hammond
such a great convenience as the
Groceteria is sure to be. 1t is
surely worth while to KNOW what
I am getting. and to KNOW that
| am paying the same low price as
everybody else. ! am coming
every day
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-14
SUES NOTED BEAUTY
FOR A DIVORCE

NEW YORK. July 14.-Jean Pichoud
wealthy automobile dealer and world
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
FIVE DAMAGE SUITS FILED.

Five damage suits, four Of them
against railroads, were filed with the
clerk of the circuit court for the
March term Saturday. The railroad
cases aer as follows: Haas-Lieoer
Grocery Company VS.. the c. & A,
for $500, alleging damages done to ar
automobile which was struck by d
train; H. F. Noel ct al VS.. Wabash
Railroad for $555.3O, alleging damage
to stock on account of delay in ship
ment; l.. E. Crews ct al VS.. G. & A..
Railroad for 1926, alleging damage
done to stock on account of delay ir
shipment; C. E. Lockridge VS.. C. &
A.. Railroad, alleging damage done TO
stock, on account of delayed ship
ment, to the amount of $1,000.
The fifth suit filed Saturday was F.
L. Crosby VS.. Geo. W. Raney, the
plaintiff suing for $500 for a commits
sion of the sale of a farm.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
TAXES TO BE DEDUCTED
State Officials Also Believes Repairs
on Residence and Business Prop
erty May be Taken of.

JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 30.-All
taxes, whether State, Federal, county,
school or road and whether property
tax, income tax, inheritance tax or
license tax ~(including such taxes as
automobile license, dog licenses, etc.,
except taxes assessed against loca!
benefits, such as sewer tax, street
paving tax, and similar taxes assessed
against adjoining property owners,
r to be deducted from incomes in
filing returns for the State income tax,
according to John T. WadJi!'l, expert
in the office of Auditor Hackmann.
Road tax, Waddill does not consider
local benefit" because the Increased
valuation to property does not accrue
directly, he says.
The question was raised as to
whether "repairs" made on residence
property occupied by the owners as
well as repairs on business property
should be deducted and Wadiill said
he believed the deduction should be
made, although that question may
have to be submitted to the Attorney
General for a ruling.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

in such good health and it was thought
this was the cause of his negligence.
Many people in Audrain County
who were only slightly acquainted
with Major Whitcomb have expressed
the idea that he was stingy; but those
who knew him best r not Of this
mind. His manner of economical iiv-
ing and the generous requests in his
will are indicative of the fact that he
by no means thought more Of him
self than he did of others. One Of his
last requests was that he be buried
rs cheaply as possible, and he refused
to be brought to the hospital where ms
could receive proper care during his
illness. Yet he left a will in which he
remembered many individuals who
had been kind to him and some worthy
institutions, including the hospital.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
HAVE HOT LUNCH CLUBS.
Audrain County is One of Foremost in
Club Work of All Kinds.

Hot lunch clubs have been added
to the many others which the rural
schools in Audrain County have been
active in organizing. Edwards, eau.
thorn and Cornett schools, in the dis
tricts south and southeast of Lad
donia, have formed hot lunch clubs
and many other schools in the county
have also organized them. Superin-
tendent Ed c. Offutt visited one of
these progressive schools the first Of
this week and said the lunch served
him at noon was well cooked by the
girls of the club.
These clubs do not operate in the
hot weather and lunches are not
served every day. All pupils in the
school partake Of the lunch after t is
prepared, but not all of them belong
20 the club necessarily. Those who
DO not furnish provisions or labor pay
for their share.
Mr.. Offutt says that this county is
consider by the University to be
one of the foremost in the state in
club work. Because of this :; %univer-
sity man will spend ~one-seventh Of
his time here next year in promoting
this work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
LADDONIA COUPLE WE'D HERE.
Charlie H. Fritch and Miss Wrinsha
l.. Stuart Married by Rev. Greer.

Charlie H. Fritch and Miss Wrin-
tina L. Stuart, both of Laddonia, were
married Wednesday afternoon in Mex
leo at the home of the Rev. J. D,
Greer who read the ceremony. They
were accompanied by the brides
brother and the bride-groom's sister.
Mrs. Fritch is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Stuart, and Mr.. Fritch
is the son of George Fritch. Both are
popular young people and have many
friends whom the Ledger joins in
wishing them much happiness and sue
cess. They will make their home on
a farm near Laddonia.
LEDGER CLASSIFIED ADS PAY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
Court Asked to COnstrue Will.

A petition bearing the captain Will
liam F. Keath, Executor, agains the
Methodist Church of Mexico, Mo-, has
been filed with the clerk of the circuit
court asking that a construction be
put on a clause of the will of William
Frazer, who died in AMY, 1919. The
will states that $1,000 be given to the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
e~xsecutor states that, since the Meth
odist Episcopal Church has no organ
ization in this county, he is unable to
determine whether the money is to go
to the NJ. E. Church, South, which is
in Mexico. or whether to the general
board of directors of the church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
COURT
HOUSE
Another Man Asks Divorce.

Curtis Lynn Wednesday filed a petit
ton with the clerk of the circuit court
asking that a divorce be granted him
from his wife, May Lynn, who now
resides in Alton, III. He charges in
fidelity. This is the third divorce suit
filed for the March term of court IN
which proceedings have been brought
by the husband.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

There Is more CatarTh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and for years It was sup
posed to be incurnble. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced
IL incurable. Catarrh Is a local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutto nal con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney G.
Co, Toledo, Ohio. is q constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
r. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
MAJOR WH|TCOMB
LEAD QUEER LIFE
Is Thought to Have Never Dined Out
In Fifty Years He Lived
In County
LIVED IN ONLY ONE ROOM
Beautified With Pine Trees the Set
ting For House He Never
Did Build.

Major Frederick Whitcomb, who
died on his 420-acre farm eight miles
from Mexico January Ia was known
throughout the county to be one of the
most peculiar persons in this region
of the country because of the fact that
he lived so much to himself. AL
though friendly and sociable in his
bearing and on good terms with all his
neighbors, he spent very little time
away from his home, and it is Thought
by some of his friends that in the
fifty years he lived in Audrain County
he never ate a meal cooked by other
than his own hands.
He came here Immediately after the
close of the Civil War, bought the
land which he lived upon until his
death and beautified the spot where ne
evidently intended TO build a house.
He planted pine trees which he had
sent him from nurseries, leaving a
space in the grove for his house. 1t
was never filled, however for he con-
tinued to live in the little one room
shack which he built when he first
moved on his land. 1t had a low
attic, and a small cellar where he kept
his fruit, which he canned himself,
and where he and his dog went when
it stormed.
Mrs. J. E. Blum, of Mexico, to whom
Major Whitcomb left $500, has known
the old gentleman since her early child
hood; and although she has seen little
of him since she moved with her var
ents from the neighborhood where he
made his home, she has always kept in
touch with him. He has continued to
show the same Partially 10 her that
he began to demonstrate by giving her
the basket of fruit that he often took
to her home when she was a little girl;
and she has always remembered him
at Christmas and when he was i'll.
Mrs. Blum says that in her long
acquaintance with Major Whitcomb
she never heard him speak of religion
and that she never heard him say =
bad nor an unkind word. He liked
most of his neighbors and those ne
did not like he had nothing to do with
and said nothing about.
He spent much of his Tina with MS
fruit trees and, with the knowledge he
had gained in his young days by work.
ing in a nursery, he was able to per-
form many experiments. He has beer
known to have as many as six or
seven varieties of a fruit growing on
the same tree, through budding and
grating. He also worked with flow
ers a great deal.
Some people in Mexico who remem-
Der Major Whitcomb as he was when
he first came to this county, say that
he was n of the neatest and cleanest
! men they had ever seen. He was one
of the few, if not the only farmer who
shaved every day. He never came
to town that he did not have on a clean
collar and a neck-tie. In his later
years he was not so scrupulous in his
dress; but in his old age he was not
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
MRS. II. ". WARD DIES HERE.

Mrs. Rhoda Edith Ward, 20 years
old, died Monday morning at the
Amanda Hospital in Mexico, where she
had been brought Thursday from her
home in Middletown. Her husband,
II. W. Ward, and mother, Mrs. War
rem Oden, were with her when she
died.
She was taken to Middletown for
burial Tuesday.
Mrs. Ward leaves her husband, to
whom she has been married two years,
and a twenty-months-old son, hurry
Erwin. She is also survived by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Oden;
one sister, Adella Grace; and two
brothers, Clarence w. and James
Henry. The Ledger extends sincere
sympathy to all those who are grieved
over the loss of this young woman.
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Miss Ella Threlkeld, formerly Of
this city, now of Kansas City, Mo-,
underwent an operation for appendi-
citis in that city this week. Her
many Mexico friends will be glad to
learn that she is getting along nicely,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Miss Carolyn Worrcll has returned
home from Columbia where she has
been attending the University of Mis-
sour. She will not continue he work
there this term.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Tom Sommers of Denver, Colo, was
in Mexico Thursday attending the fun
cral of his mother, Mrs. James Som
mers woh dido at McCredie.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
Attend Celebration

The Rev. and Mrs. C. A. MisS arI
and Mrs. P. E. Coil and son Johrs-
son, attended the S0th birthday cello
bration of Mrs. Polly Swon, in Aux
vase Friday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

W. f. Ncwkirk is in Long Beach,
Calf, at the bedside of his SON,
Charles, who is very i'll as well as sew
eral other members of the family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. Wallace Dcaring returned fri
day from Marshall where she mas
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. D.
Llewellyn, for the last week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

+. d. Arnold has retunrcl to his
home in Shamrock, Mo-, after a visit
with his brother, Chas. P. Arnold,
county collector.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
County Court Adiourns.

The Audrain County Court met in
regular session Monday, but because
of illness in the families of some of
the members of the court it adjourned
to meet February II, ~, 10 and II.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

A. II. Moore and L. r. Ferris, of Nc
Arthur, O., both former residents of
Mexico, are here on business and Wis
iting old friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

IF the price Of paper continues to
advance it will soon be costly enough
to become the fashionable material for
women's gowns.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. Madeline Sutton, Of Smith
Brothers Garage, has returned from
a two weeks vacation in N. Dakota.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. R. Lee Afford has returned to
her home in Vandalia after having
been in the Audrain Hospital a week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. William Anderson, Of a few
miles north of Mexico, has been adj
mitted to the Audrain Hospital.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

W. W. Johnson received a Buffalo
calf from the West Sunday. 1t was
shipped by express from Pawnee,
Okla.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Miss Corinne Marklcy, of st. Louis,
has arrived in Mexico to take up her
duties as county nurse.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Miss Marion Beagles, of Laddonia.
was admitted as a patient in the Aud
rain Hospital Wednesday night.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. j. f. Blum returned Wednes-
day night from a short business visit
in St, Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

f. A. Shannon and w. +. Cornett,
of Rush Hill, spent Wednesday night
in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. c. c. Grimes and children are
home from a visit in Hannibal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. George E. Craig was dis
charged from the Audrain Hospital
Thursday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
Judge CAN'T Has Son.

A nine-pound son was born to Judge
and Mrs. E. S. CAN'T Sunday morning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

F. l.. Turner, of Vandalia, was in
Mexico Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

D. D. Sullivan, of Martinsburg, was
in Mexico Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
LOCAL
NEWS

D H. Robertson is i'll at the Alamo
Hotel.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Jimmie Giles, of Vandalia, was in
Mexico on business Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Z. L. Elder, of Laddonia, was in
Mexico or business Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Z. Bolts have re-
turned to their home in Chicago.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

H. B. Kirk, Of Vandalia, visited in
Mexico Saturday and Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
Miss Mary Buckner spent Sunday IN
Fulton.

Mark Spurlock, of Laddonia, was in
Mexico Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Chas. Lail, of Martinsburg, was in
Mexico visiting Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. J. E. Lowry was discharged
from the Audrain Hospital Thursday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

John Morris, Jr., of Laddonia, Wis.
tied in Mexico Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

F. P. Van Ness has returned from
a business trip in Kansas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Jesse L. Pease, of Vandalia, was in
Mexico Saturday and Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05

Mrs. D. H. Robertson, who has been
visiting at Macon, is home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-02-05
D. H. Stone, of this city, is SER
iously i'll at Sedalia, with pneumonia.

Fred HILBERT, of Benton City, was
in Mexico on business Friday and Sat.
urday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-09
BUDGET GREAT NEED IN SCHOOLS

Retirement Association in September,
1917, the teachers in this city have
paid into the annuity fund ESQ named
by the State >Board) the total sum of
$780, 04.16 and yet it would appear from
recent awards to members of the local
teaching corps who have been pen
stoned that the average income for
appr oximately 40 years of service is
1854 per month on the investment
paid-while the amount paid from the
Pension Fund established by the State
is approximately $50 per month, maxi
ing a total income of $62A per month,
or $2O9 per day. Yet it would appear
from the statutes that a like sum was
to be forthc oming from each fund.
In considering a. teachers income
from the investment made, viz: 1854
per month from the annuity fund
her income per diem is mills regard
less of the fact that she has spent 40
years in the greatest Of professions
the teaching profession-where she
trains all others for all walks of life.
The laws under which the Retire
ment Association is now operating are
sadly in need of revision and should
not only provide for a larger income
or a minimum of 81 900 a year-bIt
should also provide such an income
for a shorter period of service should
the teacher desire to retire.
Inc Olty OF New HaVen mas a most
unique association with an approx
mate working fund of $4,000 and an
vestnent fund of $500, 600.
In view of the fact that less than so
per cent. of the local teaching corps
are members of the State Retirement
Association, there appears to be not
only room for a local pension system
but that the State Association does not
meet with favor.
The school system and all its aux
Hilary agencies is the city's best in
vestment, giving the best return for
the investment-which cannot be
measured in any community by a
yardstick.
| Respectfully submitted,
JOHN b. WYNTKOOP,
Assistant Secretary. ~
September 9Th 1920
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-09
ARMENIAN WOMEN
DIE AT TRENCHES

The women of Poland and Russia
are not the only ones to organize
themselves into a Battalion of Death.
In Hadjin Turkey, where the Ar
menians have since February been
fighting a futile and losing war with
the. Turks, the women are right in
the front line trenches-or rather
they are on top of them, which is
not quite so comfortable as being in
them. A letter from little Armen-
ian girl who had escaped with the re-
firing French troops from the be-
1eaguered city and received at the
National Headquarters of the Near
East Relief, New York City, telling
in a short sentence the thrilling story
of the courage and heroism of these
Arm enian women in defending their
homes.
t'They have lost in four months of
battle only seventy souls,' she writes,
but out of these seventy souls, most
of them are women because the men
are fighting behind trenches while
the women are carrying ammunition
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-09
WHERE PRINCES ARE PAUPERS.

Everybody is a prince or a land
owner in the Republic of Georgia,
but the princes are paupers and the
landowners are unable to buy seed
for their war-racked lands. For the
burrows of war haven't yet had time
to be replaced by bucolic ones in
Georgia
Only recently the battle field for
Allied and Soviet soldiers, Georgia
has learned well that the part of a
buffer state is to take buffets. The
peace between the Soviet government
and the new Republic was concluded
on May 9. 1920, at the price of GER
tain territorial concessions, while the
British forces did not retire from
Batum until July IA. 1t is said that
for the British retirement, Georgia
paid that section of the Batum-Kars
railway that runs through its fertile
valleys and rough hills
Before the war and before the Repub-
lie detached itself from the disintegrat-
ing Russian Empire the princes of
Georgia were landowners. But a re-
publican fervor confiscated the lands
for the peasants who had TILED them
for generations.
Now the peasants must have help
to reclaim the land and the princes
must have work to subsist. For the
first time in centuries they are going
to work. And they are sending their
children to the Industrial schools
maintained by the Near East Relief.
In the city of Tif1is alone, 673 chill
dren are learning cabinet making,
shoe repairing, weaving and kindred
native arts while their parents are
earning a few pounds of bread, flour
or few quarts of soup by acting as
Iaborers for the relief organization
And in that same city there are 1.911
children who have no parents to work
for them.