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Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

E. F. Elliott, clerk of the Audrain
County Circuit Court has received
from the st. Louis Court of Appeals
a mandate reversing the judgment and
remanding for a new trial the case of
the estate Of Elizabeth Sicily, by u.
G. Skelly, petitioner, against Louis W.
Roberts, executor of the will of Mrs.
Shelly. When the case was tried here
Judge CAN'T rendered a judgment in
favor of the plaintiff, and the defend
ant appealed. The case arose over a
note alleged to be due Mrs. Sicily at
the time Of her death.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION.

State of Missouri,
SIS.
County Of Audrain.
In accordance with Section 5S5S R.
s. No. 1909 notice IS hereby given that
the following are the offices for which
candidates are to be nominated at the
Primary Election to be held at the reg
u.ar polling places in each precinct Of
said -own.y of Audrain on the first
TUESDAY in August august 81 1920.
Sanatc~ in Congress for Missouri.
Governor.
Observation-Disclosures
Secretary Of State.
State Auditor.
State Treasurer.
Acknowledgement
Judge Supreme Court, Division No.
l tunexpired term.)
Judge St. Louis Court of Appeals.
Representative in Congress for
Ninth District.
State Senator for Eleventh Dis
trict.
For Representative.
Judge of the Eastern District.
Judge Of the Western District.
Prosecuting Attorney.
For Sheriff.
For Treasurer.
For Assessor.
For Surveyor.
For Justice of the Peace (Cuivre
Township two to be elected.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that letters
of Administration upon the estate Of
GEORGE WRIGHSTELLE, Deceased,
have been granted to the undersigned
Emma L. Wrighstelle by the Probate
Court of Audrain County, Missouri,
bearing date the 9th day of May,
1920.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to her for allowance within six
months from the date Of said letters,
or they may be precluded from any
benefit of such estate; and if said
claims be not exhibited within 4
year from the date of granting said
letters, they will be forever barred.
EMMA L. WRIGHSTELLE,
Administrative.
Attested by me this 9th day of
May, 1920.
15-4t Judge of Probate Court.
(SEAL) E. A. SHANNON,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

SOCRATES Sewers says the banks
can talk all they want to about putting
your money in stockings and it won't
draw interest but it all depends upon
what is in the stocking weather it
draws" interest or not.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

THERE were very few motor cars
in Mexico Saturday and what were
here were mostly a mass of mud. The
hitchlot was filled with horse drawn
vehicles. This is either an argument
in favor of better roads or the horse.
Take it as you like it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

THERE are a lot Of intentional
blondes who are complaining over the
high cost of living since the price Of
peroxide has advanced.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

SOCRATES Sewers says he pre-
sumes he must be the king Of his
household Judging by the number of
times Mrs. Sewers has crowned" him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

OUR idea of doing nothing is to
hurry to the post office for the mail
and find a box filled with propaganda.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

, A marriage license was issued Sat-
urday to Homer Jones and Miss Leota
Force, both of Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
Sure
Death
to
COrnS
"Gets-It" Makes En- Lose Their
Grin and Lift OEPainlessly.

The first thing "Getg-It" does
when It lands on O corn or callus Is to
snufi ont the pain. Then IL shrtvels the
core or cAlluB and loosens tt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

T. DeLaporte, Of Laddonia, was in
Mexico on business Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

In the estate of George Wrigh-
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

%stelle, the widow, Emma Wrighstelle,
filed a bond in the sum Of $500 and
granted letters of administration.
In the estate of Armstrong Rankin.
the executor, Fred A. Morris, was
ordered to make a partial distribution,
giving $3.50 to both Ruth and Roy
Anderson.
J. D. Greer, guardian for his SON.,
Clarence Greer, filed an inventory Of
real estate and a petition asking for
q sale Of real estate.
In the estate Of Serena Hill, the
administrator, J. ". Howell, filed final
receipts and was discharged.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Inventory of the estate Of James
Rudd Pool, made 5y Mss Martha
Pool, the e~xecutrix, to the Probate
Court, showed personal property, gov
eminent bonds and notes to the a.
mount of $5,O4O, and 143 acres of
real estate appraised at s35 an acre.
Albert Erdel, the executor Of the
estate Of Valentine Erdel, made an
inventory and appraisement showing
personal property appraised at S6,958
and no real estate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
M p o r T A N T
TO

cy Examine date after your
name on margin Of paper or wrap.
per. Remit promptly before your
time expires and you won't miss
an issue Of your ~favorite paper.
Obituary notices, church festivals
and other pay entertainments r pay
notices at 1oc q line an insertion in
the Weekly Ledger.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
THE WEEKLY LEDGER
L. NJ. White, Editor.

$50 Per Year, Cash in Advance
In Audrain and adjoining counties.
Elsewhere So a year in advance be-
cause of advanced postal rates.
GIVES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S
FIT TO PRINT ALL THE TINE
THE EVENING LEDGER, SOC a
month; or SIS by mail in advance; on
Rural Routes, 81 per year in advance
in Audrain County only.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Many Tips Required
To GetDead Yank's
Body Out Of France

New York, Feb. 2l.-Difficulties
she encountered in reaching her
sons grave in France and in getting
the body aboard the steamship Brit
;ania for transportation to America
were related by Mrs. A. Devera OF
Chicago. l. L..
Mrs. Devera, who left for Chicago
with the body, declared she would
have failed in her mission had it not
been for the assistance of the Amer
lean Red Cross and the Knights of
Columbus. She declared her sue
cess in getting past the French regu-
lations was due to an "unstinted use
OF American dollars among the en-
ployes of French bureaus.
There are no arrangements
whereby an American parent can get
a casket OUT of France except by the
tipping process" Mrs. Devera said.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
100 ARRESTED IN
RAIDSON ALLEGED
GAMBLING HOUSES
Two Squads of Police in PLAIN
Clothes" Wage Cleanup
Campaign.

Two squads of police, one in
charge of newly-appolnted Police
Captain Allen and Sergeant Thestrup
and the other headed by Detective
Robert Samardick, started raids on
all alleged gambling houses in Oma-
ha and South Omaha last night.
The squad in charge Of Captain
Allen raided the soft drink parlor
of Del Green, Twenty-fourth and N
streets in the heart of the South Side
business district, and arrested the
proprietor and Is men in the hall.
All were brought to Central station
and booked.
Samardick's squad, operating in
greater Omaha, raided the Sheeley
soft drink parlor at Twenty-ninth
and CASTELAR, streets. and brought i'll
the proprietor and six men.
New policemen, dressed in plain
Clothes" were used on both squads
in order to gain entrance to the al
legged gambling houses.
The squad headed by Captain Al
len and Thestrup arrested A. +.
Shawgo, l4l0 North Seventeenth
street, and six men, charging Shaw
go with keeping disorderly house
Osthof's hall, used as headquar
ters for the Teamsters union, at Six
teenth and Cass streets, was raided
and IS teamsters arrested ann
booked as inmates of a disorderly
house.
About 100 men were arrested in
the combined raids.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
HIS NORTH POLE
FLAG WILLDRAPE
PEARY'S CASKET
Emblem Carefully Guarded by
Explorer to Signify u. S.
Sovereignty in North.

Washington. Feb. 2l. - Unusual
military honors will mark the fu-
neral of Rear Admiral Robert f.
Peary, discoverer of the North Pole,
which will take place here Monday
The body will be placed in Airing
ton National cemetery on the Vir-
ginia Heights, across the Potomac,
and last tribute will be paid by a
naval firing squad and navy bugler.
VThe services will be conducted by
Captain Carroll O. Wright, chap
lain of the Washington navy yard,
and artillery and cavalry will form
the military escort under command
of Colonel Reed, on the long march
from the explorers home here to
the cemetery, where a company OF
blue jackets will joint it beside the
grave.
As a special tribute to the active
interest Admiral Peary took in avia-
ton development, seaplanes and
army airplanes will hover above the
cemetery during the services.
The casket will be draped i'll the
United States flag which Peary
raised at the north pole. Throughout
the hardships OF the polar expedi-
ton. the emblem had been carefully
guarded to signify the sovereignty
of American over the new territory
to be discovered and when the goal
was reached, the Stars and Stripes
was unfurled to the breeze on the
top of the world"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Bankers Unwilling
To Back Charges Of
Unfair Treatment

Washington. Feb. 2l. - Especial
Telegram. i'm spite of the fact that
c. A. McCloud of York. Neb.,. has
wired Representative Mclaughlin
that it will be impossible for the
committee of three representating
Nebraska state banks to come to
Washington next Tuesday and back
serious charges of gunplay and un-
fair treatment by federal reserve
agents against state banks, Cover
nor Harding of the federal reserve
board has refused the request of Mr..
Mclaughlin in that the hearing be
postponed until March TO-
at is too serious a matter" Gov.
ernor Harding said, 'to postpone
the hearing. which has been fixed
at the request of the Nebraska dele
cation. II the state bankers wish
to appear they will be heard next
Tuesday" s..
A wire has been sent to the mem
bers of the state bank committee
by Mr.. Mclaughlin insisting that
at least one of the committee come
to Washington and not pass the
buck" as Mr. Mclaughlin ex-
pressed it. to the delegation, 1t is
expected that someone will be on
hand from the state banks to assist
the delegation in the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
TO
CREIGHTON WILL
COST S350,OO0
New Buildings for Law and
Dental Colleges, and $685.
900 Stadium Are Co.
ing Up.

Architects are preparing plans for
additions to Creighton university.
involving an expenditure of at least
$35O.0O0, John F. Mccormick, presi-
dent of the university, announced
Saturday
The additions. comprising new
buildings for the law and dental
colleges, are in line with plans ,tn-
der consideration for several years
for concentrating all university
buildings on grounds surrounding
the college OF arts and sciences in
West California street. Lease. or
sale. of the buildings at 210 South
Eighteenth street, now housing the
college of law and dentistry, is
planned.
Eventually a new library. dor
and other structures worth
several millions OF dollars will COM
prise the university group.
1t is planned to erect the new law
building at California and Twenty
sixth streets, east of Twenty-sixth.
and the dentistry building west of
Twenty-sixth. A petition may be
presented to city council later for
the closing of Twenty-seventh
street from California to Burt
street, giving additional campus
space.
Each Of the new buildings. ac-
cording to tentative plans, will have
capacity for accommodating ap-
proximately 200 students.
Plans are being prepared by John
Latenser & Sons, architects. o32 Bee
building
This firm is also completing prep
aration of plans for the new Creigh-
ton stadium. cost of which is esti-
mated at $l25000. The grandstand
will seat 5000
Additions and improvements now
under way and under consideration
will give Creighton a standing as
one of the important universities of
the west. President Mccormick said.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Giant Crane Lifts
Over SIC Tons

Washington, Feb. 2l.--A giant
crane, with a lifting capacity of
more than 100000 pounds, has
been completed at the fitting out
pier of the Philadelphia navy yard.
A descriptive announcement by the
navy department says the crane,
which has an overall height of 245
feet, or equal to an 18-story build
ing, was the largest of its type in
the county, having been construct
ed at a cost of nearly $l000,000.
The utility Of the crane in permit
ting the installation in battleships
of wholly assembled turrets, guns,
boilers, etc. which heretofore have
had to be dismantled for installa-
ton, can be measured, it was said,
by the initial test feat OF the, ap-
paratus, in which it lifted two loco
motives OF approximately 100000
pounds each, in addition to $4,000
pounds of steel billets.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
FIRST POPULATION
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR, 1920 ISSUED
Cincinnati and Washington Cen
sus Returns Show Fa-
vorable Increases.

Washington, Feb. 2l.-The first
population announcements for the
1920 census were issued Saturday
night by the census bureau ald were
as follows:
Cincinnati, 40l, ,l58; an increase of
81, T,567 or 1913 per cent.
Washington, 437,4l4. an increase
of i03,345 or 32.l per cent over 1910.
Cincinnati ranked as thirteenth
city of the country in 1910, with a
OF 363,59l. Washington
ranked sixteenth with a population
of $4,000. Census bureau estimates
of Cincinnati's population July l.,
1917, were 4l4,248 and Washing
toms on that date 369, ,282.
From now on, as soon as the sta
tistics gathered by the enunerators
and special agents are assembled
and certified, 1.-THE date will be made
public, the population Of the larger
cities of the country being given out
first Then will follow the popula-
ton of the various counties, which
number more than 1900, together
with their divisions of townships,
precincts and towns, with the pop
ulation OF each Incorporated city.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
PROTEST GIVING
TURK CAP P|TAL
TO OTTO NJ ans
London Papers Appeal to
Trade Unionists and Public
Generally Against "Men-
ace to World Peace" -.

London, Feb, 21.--Several Of the
London newspapers today displayed
large advertisements headed, "Men-
ace to the peace of the world ap-
pealing to the trade unionists and
public generally to forward protests
to members of the House of Com
mons to use their influence TO pre-
vent handing back Constantinople
to the blood-stained rule of the
Turks"
This protest will be echoed in
many OF the Protestant and Catholic
pulpits of the United Kingdom to-
morrow.
The supreme councils decision to
keep the sultan on the throne at
Constantinople has surprised the
country and influential parliamen-
tarians, notably Viscount Bryce and
T. P. O'Connor have started CAM
paign against the policy, which the
Times, the Spectator, the Manches-
ter Guardian, the Westminster Ga
zette and other prominent papers
are supporting
. No Place in Europe.
The Times says that while to ex-
pei the Turkish race has never been
dreamed, of, "the Turkish flag, the
Turkish ruler and the Turkish gov
ernment have no longer a place in
Europe"
Some newspapers describe the
cabinet as divided, Earl Curzon, sec
CONTINUED on Page Two. Column F0ur.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Lost Eulogy to Washington
By Abraham Lincoln Found

to the name OF Washington is
alike impossible. Let none at
tempt it. In solemn awe pro-
nounce the name and in its
naked, deathless splendor leave
it shining on"
The text of this hitherto un-
known example of Lincoln's
eloquence was found in Wash
ington by Lucien Hugh Alex
ander Of Philadelphia, who gave
it to The Associated Press to-
day. An account of the cere-
mony at which Lincoln spoke
was contained in the copy of the
Sangamon Journal, published at
Springfield on February Is, 1842.
The tribute to Washington was
the final paragraph of an ad-
dress upon another subject and
the address in full was published
in the Journal of March 26. A
complete file of the newspaper
for that year was found by Mr..
Alexander in the library of con-
gress.
Mr.. Alexander. a student of
Lincoln, came upon the lost ad-
dress while on historical re-
search work.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Food Inspectors Make Frantic
Efforts to Locate and De-
stroy Re|ishes Sent Into
Nebraska and Iowa.
BROADCAST WARNINGS
ISSUED HOUSEWIVES
Single Case Of Poisoning at
KaIispeIl, Mont, Leads to
Discovery Of Danger; Wahoo,
Neb., Bought II Bottles.

Chicago, Feb. 2l.-Federal and
state food inspectors in 81 towns of
eight states are making frantic ef-
forts tonight TO locate and destroy
dozens of bottles of ripe olives con-
tanning the deadly bacillus botulinus,
as result of deterioration
A single case OF olive poisoning at
kalispell. Mont, which led to dis
covery of the danger, is the only one
reported so far. Federal chemists
who uncovered the widespread dis
tribution of the poisoned fruit are
bending every effort to reach and
confiscate the bottles and a warning
has been sent broadcast advising
housewives to return unopened all
containers holding suspected brands.
Furnish Record of Sales.
The olives, packed in 1918 by a
California company. wete sold to the
retail trade through Sprague-War-
ner & Co. local wholesale grocery
house. Maj. A. A. Sprague, head of
the firm and federal fair price com
missioner for Illinois, has furnished
a record of all sales to federal au-
thorities and has instructed his sales
men to call on every customer and
take up the olives.
Five dozen bottles Of the poisoned
fruit have been distributed to deal
ers in II Illinois towns. 1t is not
known how many dozen are in
other states. t
Three Brands Involved.
Brands involved are Batavia"
"Ferndell' and "Richelieu." Only
ripe olives, stuffed with pimentos
and sold in bottles, are affected. ].
L. Mclaughlin, superintendent of
the Illinois division of food and
dairies, said investigation disclosed
that no blame attached to packer,
wholesaler or retailer.
Labels on the bottles show they
were distributed by the Chicago
firm, but do not carry the packers
name. The bottles contain six ounces
net, and are of the No. 10 size, ac
cording to the labels.
Where Poisoned Brands Are.
Towns olives are known to have
been distributed and the number of
bottles in each. are:
Nebraska: Richelieu brand, Wa
hoo, H.
Kansas: Richelieu brand, Pitts
burg, "a; Holton, II; Wichita, "a.
Iowa: Richelieu brand, Des Moines,
IL; Boone, 6; ,Odebolt, 6; Sioux City,
II. Ferndell brand. Des Moines, 80;
Sioux City, 80; Marengo, 8; Earl
ham, 3; Waterloo, II. Batavia brand
Atlantic. e: Indianola, IL; Spencer,
6; Boone. /; Ida Grove, q; Deni-
son, 6.
Montana: Richelieu brand, Dillon,
"a. Batavia brand, Kalispell, II.
Bacillus botu}inus, a deadly poison.
first discovered in a ham in 1899,
appeared in ripe olives last fall when
Continued On Page Two. Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Clubs to
Warn Council Against
Pending Gas Ordinance

The Federation of Improvement
clubs held their annual meeting in
the Bee building yesterday and after
electing officers for the ensuing year
appointed committee of five to go
before the city council Monday on
the pending ordinance of abandon
ment of the appraisement and con-
demnation proceedings of the gas
plant.
Delegates to this club from other
improvement clubs believe that the
city council should go slow with this
ordinance in view of the majority
vote of the election May 7, 1918, and
the fact that the court had fixed the
value of the plant.
The question of the telephone
rates and service in Omaha, the paw
ing of the country roads during the
coming summer, and other local i'm
prOvements was considered
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22

New York, Feb, 2l.-Seventy-
eight wears ago tomorrow. IN
Springfield. ILL.,, where his tomb
is now a shrine before which a
nation bows in reverence, young
Abraham Lincoln paid tribute
to George Washington. The
words he uttered then. perhaps
as eloquent as his world-famed
Gettysburg address, have been
lost for three-quarters of cen
tury in the pages of a country
newspaper hidden away in the
files of the congressional library.
They were brought to light to
be given to The world for the
first time almost on the eve of
another birthday of the first
president.
This is the ll0th anniversary
of the birthday Of Washington"
he said. "We are met to cele-
brate this day. Washington is
the mightiest name on earth.
Long sinee mightiest in the
cause of civil liberty; still
mightiest in moral reformation.
On that name an eulogy is ex-
pected. 1t cannot be. To add
brightness to the sun or glory
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22

Thomas Bonney, Bernice WEIGH,
Marie Hamilton and Eleanor Rinard
are among school boys and girls
who will take part. Chorus num-
bers will be directed by J. H. Sims,
choir director at All Saints church.
Presentation of the French war
memorial certificates to relatives of
war victims will be made by DR.. f.
c. Henry, commander OF the Doug
las county post, American Legion.
Through American Legion posts
throughout the nation memorial GER
tihcates are to be presented today
to relatives OF 1lS,409 deceased SOL
diers and sailors.
Several Probably Missed.
The list of $50 Omaha and Doug
las county relatives for whom
memorial diplomas have been pre-
pared probably does not include
names OF from Is to 50 relatives to
whom memorials should be issued.
These persons are requested to
attend the Sunday ceremony at Cen
trail High school, bringing with them
army or navy records OF deceased
service men. Blank memorials will
be filled out and presented to them
Continued on Page Two. Column Six.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22
Y. NJ. c. A. War Profit
In Canteen Work Is
Placed at $508,899

New York, Feb. 2l.-Canteens op-
Grated by the Young Mems Chris
tian association for soldiers and
sailors made net profit of $508, ,899
from the time America. entered the
war until January /. last, according
to financial statement issued here
by the National War Work council
of the association. 1t also shows
that $l6l,752,644 had been contrib
uted by the public to "Y" work up
to the first of the year.
The report explained that the
book loss of $1,478.074 previously
reported had been wiped out "by ac-
ton of the United States govern
ment in relieving all welfare organi-
zations of any charges for ocean
freight on supplies, and for rail
transportation and motor supplies
furnished in France"
The statement revealed that the
association has all approximate bal
ance of $l7.000,000 OF war work
funds.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-22

Walter Byrne, in charge of Amer
ican Legion arrangements for the
public ceremony at Central High
school auditorium at 3 p. m. today
for relatives of deceased soldiers
and sailors of the world war, an
nounced last night preparations
were complete for an impressive
pageant in connection with presen-
tation OF 80 French war memorials.
General Leonard Wood will de-
liver the principal address.
The pageant, adapted by Oscar
Wilde Craik, director for the Oma-
ha Folk theater, will present in al
legory the desire of France to pay
homage to Americans who sacrificed
their lives in the war. The cast of
50 will include the following:
Miss Helene Bixby, who will rep
resent Columbia; Mrs. Irving Benol-
ken, La Belle France; Mrs. John
W. Evans, Mrs. Mabel Smails, Mrs.
Martha Geiger, julius V. Newman,
Harry Montgomery, Misses Luella
Larsen, Dorothy Edwards. Blanche
Bells, Marjorie Carrigan, Edna Le-
tovsky, Erna Reed and Mildred
Nordin.
Clarey Hanighen John Ouinlan,