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Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
20 Years Age

] M. Smith, II years old. n of
Mexico's most substantial citizens,
died at his home here.
Joseph Mcintyre made the address
of the occasion at the Decoration Day
exercises. 1t was declared n of the
most beautiful memorial services and
demonstrations which had been held
here in many years.
NJ. B. Guthrie and E. R. Locke, to-
gether with a crew of fifteen men
went to Benton City to examine some
surrounding land for coal deposits.
The Mexico and Audrain County
Medical Association met in Mexico anc
elected the following officers: Pres
ident, DR.. W. H. Douglass, Rush Hill
first vice president, DR.. W. W. Bland
Vandalia; second vice president, DR.
E. Med. Bridgford, Mexico; third vic
president, DR.. G. NJ. Bumgarner, Mar
tinsburg; recording secretary, DR..
Rule Fritts, Mexico; corresponding
secretary, DR.. ]. S. Barnett, Champ
and treasurer, DR.. G. F. Toalson, o
Mexico.
Chas. Heckler, formerly a citizen o
Mexico, died in st. Louis where he wa
employed as a fireman,
DR.. J. F. Harrison sold out in Der
ton City and was contemplating
move to Mexico. He was considere
one Of the most promising youn
physicians in the county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
10 Years Ago.

The fortieth annual art exhibit at
Hardin College was held.
Miss Ruby Strickler resigned as
head of the manual training depart
ment Of the Mexico schools.
Charley Claybrook arrived home
from New York where he went to buy
merchandise.
About 1900 people attended the
Decoration Day services which were
held under the auspices of the lodges
Of the city.
Ora L. Burnett and Miss Della J
Ridgway were married.
Two white men and about twent!
negroes were arrested by Marshal J
At Brown for gambling. He corralle'
them and put them in jail. Ten o
them pleaded guilty and paid fines
but the others pleaded not guilty an
were bound over the circuit court.
Twenty-Five girls were graduate
from Hardin College.
Lawrence Winans and Miss Rut
Fonville were married in Mexico.
The Rev. John T. Mason was mo"
ing with much pride a watch that h
had set only once in a years time an
which was only one second faster tina
the Western Union clock he had 81
it with the year previous.
Miss Vera Houghland, of this cit,
and Donnel Marsan, of Milton, Ia
were married in Kansas City much
the surprise of their friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
ExEc1rTop,s NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, that letters
testamentary upon the estate Of
VALENTINE ERDEL, ST., Deceased,
have been granted to the undersigned,
ALBERT ERDEL by the Probate
Court Of Audrain County, Missouri,
bearing date the 18th day of May,
1920.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to him for allowance within six
months from the date of said letters
or they may be precluded from any
benefit of such estate; and if sale
claims be not exhibited within one
year from date of granting said Let
tiers, they will be forever barred.\
ALBERT ERDEL,
Executor.
Attested by me, this Is day of May
1920.
(SEAL) E. A. SHANNON,
14-4t Judge of Probate Court
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
WEDDINGS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."

Leroy Minor, of Triplet, and Miss
Christina Hill, daughter of George A.
Hill, of Mexico, were married at 8
o'clock Sunday morning. by the Rev.
j. II. Hughes in the Baptist Church.
At the same hour Homer Jones and
Miss Lcota Force, daughter of j.. A.
Force, both of this city, were married
by the Rev. Richard Gentry in the
Christian church. The two couples,
their immediate relatives and close
friends were given a dinner at the
home of George A. Hill on Buchanan
street at noon. The out-of-town peo-
/ pie present were Mr.. and Mrs. D. R
| Strickland and Mr.. and Mrs. Davic
B. Hill, of Centralia and Mr.. and Mrs
D. E. Woodwork, Of Vandalia.
Both these young married couples
will make their home in Mexico. Mr.
Minor is a machinist, who saw ser
vice in the aviation department Of thu
United States Army, during the war
and is now employed as repair maj
for the 80 Taxi Line. Mr.. Jones il
employed by the A. P. Green Fir
Brick Company. Mr.. and Mrs. Jone'
left Mexico Sunday afternoon for st
Charles where they will visit for
short time.
The Ledger joins in extending bes
wishes to them, and hopes for a hap
py future for all of them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Notice is hereby given, that letters
of administration upon the estate of
L. P. DYE, Deceased,
have been granted to the undersigned,
CLYDE w. ELLIS, by the Probate
Court Of Audrain County, Missouri,
bearing date the 10th day Of May,
1920.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to him 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 one
year from date of granting said Let
tiers, they will be forever barred.
CLYDE w. ELLIS,
Administrator.
Attested by me this "a day of May,
1920.
(SEAL) E. A. SHANNON,
14-4t Judge of Probate Court,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
Cot LOwden Money.

T. W. Hukriede of Warrenton, for
mer state chairman, and a Republi-
can candidate for Congress in the
Ninth District, said to the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat he expended about
$500 of Lowden money which came
from Morse in six districts outside Oh
the Ninth, where he said no money
was necessary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
INVENTIVE GENIUS
ROBS CAL0MEL OF
NAUSEA And DANGER
Doctors Favorite Medicine Now
Purified and Refined from All
Objectionable Effects. Gallo
tabs"-the New Name.

What will human ingenuity do next?
Smokelcss powder, wireless telegraphy,
horseless carriages, colorless iodine, taste
less quinine,-now comes nausealess Gallo
mel. The new improvement called "Calo-
tabs is now on sale at @rugstores.
For ~biliousness, constipation and indi-
gcstion the new calomel tablet is a prac-
ticaliiy perfect remedy as evlde hoeo a Dy
thorized all druggists to refund the price
If the customer is not perfectly delighted
with Calotabs. One tablet at bedtime with
a swallow of water-that's all. No taste,
no nausea, no gripping, no salts. BY morn:
ing your liver is thoroughly cleansed and
you are feeling fine. with a hearty appe'
tite. Eat what you please-no danger-go
bout your business.
Calotabs are not sold in bulk. Get al
original package, sealed. Price, thirty
five c~entS.--(adv.)
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Eben Price and baby
went to Minneapolis, early this week.
where Mrs. Price and baby, accom-
panied by their chauffeur, started for
Mexico in the Price car. They ex-
meet to arrive Sunday provided the
roads will permit. Mrs. Price and baby
will spend the month of June with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. R. Gibbs
Mrs PRICE, was Miss Eliza Gibbs and
one of Mexico's p%rettiest and most
popular girls.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

w. E. Newkirk, one of MexicoS
lost substantial citizens who has
been engaged in the real estate and
ura business here for some
time. has gone, with his family, to
OseoIa where theywillvis for a short
time. From there they will go to
Colorado Springs and other points IN
the west and will probably locate III
Washington. The best wishes Of
their many Mexico friends go witt
them, but it is hoped they will return
some time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Miss Helen Howell, who has just
finished teaching a term Of school in
Miami, Okla, is here visiting her
father, John ". Howell. She will be
here about ten days and will then go
to Boulder where she will enter the
summer term of the University of
Colorado.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Mrs. Vida Adams, wife of Clar-
ence Adams, a farmer living a short
distance southeast Of Mexico, died at
1l:45 o'clock Saturday morning in
the County Hospital. She had been a
patient there for some time, paralysis
being the cause of her illness and
death.
Mrs. Adams was q years old. She
leaves, aside from her husband, hel
father, John Lockridge, two brothers
Carl and Joe Lockridge; and four sis
ters, Mrs. Sallie Hall, Mrs. John Kess-
Ter, Mrs. Mamie Boyer and Mrs
Oracle Bradford.
The Ledger extends sincere sym
pathy to the bereaved ones.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Mrs. Henry Sparks, of Vandalia.
died suddenly Friday shortly after she
had a stroke of paralysis. She was
found in a helpless condition in the
barn, where she had been doing some
work. She lived but a short time
after she was discovered.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
Fulton Population 5595.

The population of Fulton has been
announced as $685., an increase Of 1857
or 10 per cent in 10 years. This re-
port includes about 1900 patients Of
the state hospital for the insane To-
Gated in that city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Mrs. Orlando Hit, formerly Miss
Nina Street of Centralia, died on
Thursday of last week in a hospital
in Longmont, Colo, and was buried
at her home in Mead. She leaves her
husband, who is a nephew Of Mrs. R.
D. Worrel, of this city, and five chill
dren.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
Iadner Ads Get Results.

The Ebert Motor Co., received a
letter from Dalton, Mo-, this week,
asking the price on certain Ford re-
pairs and stating the writer had seen
the company's advertisement in the
Mexico Ledger.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03
Married in West.

John A. Pearson, son of uncle Rufus
Parsons brother Joe, and a nephew
of J. W. Daniel, of this city, was a
ried Nav 9Th in Seattle, Wash.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-06-03

Mr., and Mrs. W. A, Sharp will leave
"Wednesday for California where they
will spend two months.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
Millers Visit Smiths
At Executive Mansion
Wife of Governor and Wife Of
Successor Take Tea and
Discuss Housekeeping

ALBANY, Dec. g. Govcrnor-elect
Nathan L. Miller and Mrs. Miller are
tonight the guests Of Governor and
Mrs. Alfred Z. Smith at the Executive
Mansion. Judge Miller and Mrs. Miller
arrived in Albany this afteAoon, as
Judge Miller had case to argue in
the Court of Appeals. Mrs Miller had
tea with Mrs. Smith and spent part of
the afternoon at the Executive Man
sion discussing housekeeping matters
with the wife of the outgoing Gov
ernor. Mrs. Miller also visited num-
Der of girls schools to select one for
her six youngest daughters. She also
had q conference with Mrs. Chauncey
p. Williams, Of Albany chairman Of
the inaugural ball committee.
Judge and Mrs. Miller will spend the
night at the EXecut We Mans on, leav-
ing tomorrow morning for New York
Mrs. Miller does not plan to move into
the mansion until two or three DAYS
before January l. Albany society folk
arc anxious to know if Judge Miller
Will be "soc 'ety" Governor. Albany's
social seasons are always the most
brilliant when the Executive Marscn
is the center of these activities.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
Thirty Moros Killed in
Battle Over the Three RS
Natives Resent School Agents
Efforts; Fight Constabulary
With BOIOs and Daggers

MANILA, P l., Dec. 9.-Thirty
M.oros were killed in the Suu Islands in
3 battle with the Philippine constabulary
growing out Of efforts to encourage edu-
cation Of children, it was learned here
to-day in official advcas from the Gov
eAnor of Jolo, the Philippine province
embracing the Sulu Islands.
An educational agent named Alajani,
a Moro. was killed by Moros Oh Pata
Island when attempting to induce the
Moros to send their children TO school.
They resented his interference with their
customs, according to the official dis
patch to the Interior Department.
The constabulary force was called
out, and was met by force OF Moros
armed with bolos. daggers and other
primitive Moro implements of warfare.
The battle resulted in thirty Moros be-
ing killed and several wounded. Some
Of the constabulary were wounded, but
none killed.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
Prison for Big Bill Haywood
And 90 Others, Hig h Court Says

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-Rehcaring was
denied by the Circuit Court Of Appeals
late to-day to William "Big Bill" Hay
wood, leader of the Industrial Workers
Of the World. and ninety-threc CO.
defenders, convicted two years ago Of
violation Of the espionage act and con-
gpiracy to obstruct the sclectivc draft.
After the denial Of the .rehcaring
Attorneys Clarence S. Darrow and Otto
Christensen asked stay Of sentence
TO give them time to present the case
before the Supreme Court Of the United
Statcg. No definite time was allowed.
but stay wag granted on condition
that immediate action be taken.
Tho sentences range from ten days
to twenty yeare.
Tho men were convicted in Judge
Landig's court in AuHu.t. 1918. and i'm
fnediatcly legal battle was started to
prevent the carrying out Of the SEN
Kew Gardens Tnn. Kew Gardens. l.. I.
Ees4dsHtisi suburban hctsl (Ame!.ca a n
pfsn1 rif,r@n minutes tram Pom . stion.
--Afsf.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
oh What a Pal Was Mary Sings
One of 5 Greeting Death in Chair

OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. 9.-Fivc men
we're put to death in the electric chair
at Sing Sing tonight, the largest num-
Der executed at one time since Septem-
Der 8, 1915.
They were Joseph Usefof, Charles
Mclaughlin, Joseph Milano and James
(BulD Cassidy, all Of whom were con-
victed of the murder of Otto Fiala,
ticket agent of the Intervale subway
station in the Bronx, November IA.
1918, and Howard. Baker, the twenty
year-old-slayer of William De Gretf.
The murder Of De Gref, who was q
night watchman, occurred at Wolcott,
n. Y, September II, 1919. Bakers wife
and three little boys remained at the
prison until after the execution. Mrs.
Baker bade her husband goodby for the
last time at 9 O'Clock.
The five men were put to death be-
tween 1905 and l1:56. Usefof. who
was the first to 80 to the death cham
Der, entered the chamber at 1I:O5 and
was pronounced dead at ll:15. Baker.
the second to die, entered at 11:17. and
was pronounced dead at 1925; Nc
Laughlin, the third, entered at 11:2s
and was pronounced dead at 1886;
Milano, the fourth to go to the chair,
entered at 1887, and was dead at 11:4C.
The last man to die was Cassidy. He
entered at HAS and was pronounced
dead at 1856.
The five went to their death coolly.
They all had something to nay with the
exception OF Raker. He wMkcd br;sl,1,,
into the death chamber, and turned his
head neither to the right nor the left.
Usefof, after being seated in the
chair, said: "An innocent man dies here
tonight, but III die with smile On my
face. Can YOU see it, Warden"
Mclaughlin. as the straps were be-
ing adjusted about his body, burst into
laughter. I've Got the old smile on
my face, boys. Goodby." Milano
with a grin on his face, said Hello,
people," as he entered the death cham
Xmas Cards. distinctive. in gr-nt variety
ca ndars BY the world + best painters Cor
Hes. Macy Co.. Is <sth st.-2s John st.
---AdT
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10

tences; OF the nincty-scven convicted.
all but three joined in the effort to
save themselves from prison and an
appeal was taken on the grounds that
documents seized by the government
were enormously admitted in evidence.
The defendants were arrested in
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, New
York and other widely separated states.
Haywood and thirty-six Of those con-
victed have been out on bail from the
Federal pentcntiary at Leavcnworth
Kan. lie and fourteen others were
given twcntyyear sentences. More than
thirty received ten-year sentences. and
about the same number iivc-year SEN
tcnces. while sixteen others were given
varying sentences. In addition fines
from $50 600 to $4,000 were imposed.
About six weeks ago the Appelage
Court upheld Judge Landis's decision,
and the defendants Immediately filed
Il motion in the Circuit Court Of APP
peals for rehcaring. which was denied
by to-dny's action.
--.--
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10

Der. He said "Goodby, ALL" after be-
ing placed in the chair. Just after the
current had been turned off and Mi
lanos body sagged forward, those in
tne Death Chamber heard Cassidy sing
ing "Oh, What Pal Was Mary"
Cassidy laughed aloud when led into
the death chamber by Father Cashin.
so long, everybody" he said. pm
taking it with smile. know I've
for it." S'
Thomas J. o'Neill, counsel for Cas-
sids. at $3.50 o'clock last night sent
word to the prison that he had been
unable to get stay of execution from
any justice in New York.
The patter of children's feet on the
cold stone floor of the death house was
heard late yesterday afternoon, whe a
Mrs. Baker entered with little Harvey
Baker, fifteen months old, in her arms
and Harold, two and half years, and
Howard Jr., three and half, tugging
at her' coat sleeves. The sight of her
husband in his black suit caused Mrs
Continued next paqc}
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
Girl Phones
Man, Shoots
Self i'm Heart
Miss Betsy Tevis, Is, Ends
Life After Talk to Conn
parativeStranger; Index
Finger Powder-Burned

Betsy Tcvis, eighteen years old, went
to the telephone last night in the
apartment of her sister, Mrs. Joseph
T. Talbert, 10 East Fifty-fourth Street,
and held a short conversation with a
man who was a comparative stranger.
A few minutes later a shot was heard
in her room and she was found dead,
shot through the heart, with a revolver
beside her.
Although her sister admitted that
the young woman had been moody
lately and had spoken in what she be-
lieved at the time to be a jesting man.
ner about taking her own life, other
members of the household said that it
was prcposterous to call her death q
suicide.
"Thcre is nothing to this" said
woman at the apartment who described
herself as a friend of Miss Tevs.
Little Betsy is dead. While she was
examining a revolver it went off acci-
dentally"
Index Finger Bruised
DR.. Thomas A. Gonzales, deputy med
ical examiner, and Detective Calhane,
of the East Fifty-first Street police
station, who investigated the death,
reported that there were no suspicious
circumstances. They said that. the
young womans index finger was slightly
bruised, as if from the trigger Of the
revolver and was marked by powder.
Miss Tevis was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Thomas Stone Tevis.
of Madison, Ky. She and her sister,
who is the widow of u former vice
president of the National City Bank,
spent last winter in California and
took the apartment in East Fifty
fourth Street last July.
They We're alone in the apartment
last night waiting for friends with
whom they were to go out to dinner
even the Japanese servant having been
dismissed for the evening. Miss Tevis
was at the piano and seemed to be in
the most cheerful spirits when the tele-
phone bell rang.
She answered it and talked, Mrs.
Talbert said, to man whom she had
met about ten days ago. Even in the
light OF the tragic event which followed
it, Mrs. Talbert said she was certain
that there was nothing significant
about that brief conversation. When
she had hung up the receiver Miss
Ievls went to her room. She seemed
to he depressed by contrast with her
recent high spirits, Mrs. Talbert said.
Shot Deafening in Apartment
Within a few minutes Mrs. Talberc
heard shot which seemed deafening
in her small apartment. She ran TO
her sisters room. The young woman
was lying across the bed, on which
crimson stain was spreading. A. re-
vo!ver was clutched in her right hand
and there was a small round hole,
smud ged with black, in the front of
hey dress.
Mrs. Talbert ran to the hall and
summoned the elevator operator, whom
she sent for physician Dr. c. p.
Neding, of 113 East Fifty-fourth Street
was on the scene within a few minutes,
but found that there was nothing which
he could do. Mrs. Talbert collapsed
on being informed that her sister was
dead and was placed under the care of
her physician.
Her husband, who until 1909 was
vice president of the Commercial Bank
of Chicago, retired from the vice-prcsi-
dency of the National City Bank here
in 1918 on account of ill health. he
died in California last Nav.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
Harding Gets
Ultl12laturn of
Bitter Enders
Terms Given by Irreconcila-
b'es on Peace Treaty Sit
uaiion Concur With Pol
icy Of President Elect
No Chance for Alliance
Program in Harmony With
Committee Of Z; Associa.
ton of Nations VIII Live
By Carter Field

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The irrccon-
cilables have served an ultimatum on
Senator Harding as to the peace treaty
situation, saying exactly how far they
are willing TO go and making it clear
they would fight Harding as hard as
they fought Wilson if an attempt is
made to go any further.
This ultimatun, it was learned to-
day, was served on Mr.. Harding during
his visit here early this week. The
irreconcilables have pretty we'll agreed
Mr.. Harding was told. and their ex-
treme limit is represented as follows
Passage of resolution declaring
state of peace TO exist with Ger
many.
Recodfication Of international law
with view to avoiding quarrels be-
tween countries and particularly
such chickering's over alleged viola
tions Of international law as oc-
Cured between botn the Allies and
. Germany and reutrals during the
period before the United States en-
tered the war
Expansion of the Hague Tribunal
60 as to make arbitration under it
more potent force in maintaining
peace.
Declare Against Alliance
Right there the irrcconcilables want
20 stop. They particularly are opposed
to anything having the remotcst re-
sem blance to All alliance. This pro-
gram, incidentally, comedies perfectly
with the program S~Hator Harding has
under consideration, and which is be-
ing urged by the more conservative
members of the party-the men who
voted, for instance, to ratify the Vcr-
sailles Treaty with the Lodge rcserva-
tons.
Senator Harding has not had confer
ences with all the irreconci.able Sen
ators, nor could it be ascerta.ned to-
night whether every one OF them had
agreed to the terms of this ultima
tum.' The Senator'S who were last
uilCNSIS III INGlI USNC against tNS
treaty last session, and who will be in
the new Congress, however. are: {:
Reed, Of Missouri; Shields, Of Tennes-
see; Borah, Of Idaho; Johnson, Of CAL
ifornia; Fall, Of New Mexico; Knox, Of
Pennsylvania; Penrose, Of Pennsylva-
MIA; Norris, OF Nebraska; La Toilette,
Of Wisconsin, Moses, Of New Hamp-
shire; Mccormick, Of Illinois; Brandc-
gee, Of Connecticut; Fernald, of Maine;
France, of Maryland, and Poindcxter,
of Washington.
Three irreconcilables who will not be
in the next Senate are Thomas, OF Col
orado, Democrat, and Sherman and
Gvonna. Republicans.
The irreconcilable program is so en-
tirely in harmony with the peace com
mission-of-scven plan already outlined
in The Tribune that there was some
comment among Senators not in the
irreconcilable group to-day that the
irreconc ilablcs we're laying plans to be
held up as victors in purely mag
mary battle occurring after the fight
ing was all over ana their opponents
had surrendered.
The irreconcilabies, however. had
tcontlnued on pass sixj