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, 1922-03-29
AS Seen from the Water Wagon
Caroline Lockhart

When we make a mistake we are
willing to admit it. AS proof of our
sincerity, we wish 70 apologize to
Sanford Watkins.
At the time he. as commissioner,
let the county printing to the highest
bidder at a cost of nearly
$4,000 to the taxpayers, we init
mated that we believed it would be
possible to saw through Mr.. Watkins
head without wetting the blade.
Since the incident mentioned else
where, we know that Mr.. Watkins
head can be dented and retract and
apologize %profusely for our previous
statement.
w. G. Hanes, formerly of the Sho-
shoni Enterprise and of the Greybull
Tribune. is the latest acquisition to
the large and brilliant staff of the
Cody Enterprise.
Mr.. Hanes, together with a newspa-
per man from Colorado, recently start
ed the Tribune in Greybull but found
too much scrapping between the
business men and labor Unions to in
sure a comfortable life in that city.
Therefore, MI. Hanes, who likes
tranquility, has decided to come over
to Cody where we live in peace and
harmony. Harmony is our middle
name.
d1TG
Perusing the literature sent out by
the a~nti-saloon league we read that
prohibition is a success, fear has en-
tered into the heart of the law-break-
err, drunkenness is going if not gone,
etc, etc.. and then some prosaic, mat
ter-of-fact reporter spills the beans,
The following is from the Cheyenne
Tribune:
"Hootch is becoming more abund
ant, if the increasing visibility of eff
feet bears its customary relation tc
cause. In other words, drunkenness.
seems to be getting more common
figuring on the basis of arrests made
and it would seem naturally to follow
that hootch is at the bottom of it.
City police made four arrests las
night, and at least one of these. it il
alleged. was a regular old-fashionet
fighting jag"
, 1922-03-29

Lloyd and George Coleman who were
badly burned in a gas explosion at
Mexia, Texas, are now at Thermopolls
taking the baths.
, 1922-03-29

Barry Williams writes hat he is
enjoying a cruise in the West Indies
aboard an S0-foot schooner yacht
which he and some friends have char
tered. He expects to return to Cody
about May first.
, 1922-03-29

Judge Richard found his voice at
his ranch where he had mislaid it.
He came in town Saturday to demon
strate the fact to his local friends.
, 1922-03-29

Phone your news items to No ..
, 1922-03-29

Patronize the advertisers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
Long For Senator

preparedness measures it died "a
bornen." Why so much noise and
Juror about a dead horse?
The Reed headquarters in st. Louis
is just now sending out tons Of let
tiers containing literature having for
its purpose the creation of the false
impression that the Wilson admins
tration limited the price of wheat
during the war, and let every thing
else go sky high. This falsehood has
been exposed so often and so COM
pletely that we don't believe any body
but Ed Glenn would have the gall to
keep circulating it.
Ed Glenn, Reeds campaign man
ager, says his candidate will carry st.
Louis and Kansas City by seventy five
thousand majority this in spite Of
the women with their battle cry, Grid
Us-of- Reed" and in spite of the Mil
lions that Reeds followers are led to
believe Mr.. Long possesses and is go
ing to use. If Long had half the
money they claim he has, he could buy
every supported Reed has in both
cities, b
Long For Senator Club.
d & wit
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

ion Of facts into our democracy for
the purpose of lifting It's ethical
standards. He cites Dean Inge, Of
London, who says that democracy to-
day both here and in England suffers
much from putting generosity above
justice, sympathy above truth, plant
disposition above rigid honesty.
One means to remedy this is the
placing in Office of men of a type
above demagogery. "When politics
rest upon facts, the demagogue and
the rhetorican viii find it increasing
~ difficult to hold their own" There
S a thought in all this that is worthy
Of serious consideration. The time
has come for US to all enter more in
diligently and more fully into the
matter of self-government and not
leave the helm in the hands of a few
who guide theship Of state to the
needs of their W selfish wills or
political future. The good Of the
people should come first, and it is
upon the people that the responsible
ity TO rthis attitude and purpose
among public men rests.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
ARE
PLEASED WITH
ROAD ROUTES

W. have heard quite a number of
expressions regarding the proposed
routes for the State Highways as an
nounced in Thursdays Ledger and
practically all of them were unan-
imous in believing that the engineers
have shown good judgment in their
location Of the cross state highway
and the connecting links. In fact
that we are not located on the Cross
State road. We have primary roads
leading into Mexico from the East,
West and South.
Col. E. Y. Burton, president Of the
Mexico Chamber Of Commerce: Il
think we were taken care Of. In fact
we got more in the matter of this
primary road question than / ex-
pected.a
DR.. ], F. Harrison, former Mayor
Of Mexico: II think we were well
taken care of by the plan as announ-
ced. We are close to the main cross
state road with primary connec-
tons"
No report has yet been received
from Hardin College concerning the
situation there.
The A. P. Green Fire Brick Com
|pany has been buying coal at the Full
ton mines for several weeks and had
placed an order for four carloads Of
cvoal a day for this week.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

The friends of Breckenridge Long
are in a position TO thoroughly enjoy
the CORY battle now on between Sem
ator Reed and W. C. Shupp, the Iowa
head Of the Missouri Anti-Saloon
League. If these two ex-Iowans and
as we have often "Hearn TellD ex-
Republicans, get each others hides
and hang them on the fence, We Mis-
souri, Democrats will say, Amen.
Senator Reed, having gotten the
SANDER about Breckenridge Long con-
nection with the Graham Paper Co.,
started, his headquarters in St
Louis is now busy sending it out in
leafiet form all over the state. Cam
paign SANDERS will circulate no mat
ter how many times they are exposed.
Why is Senator Reed continually
attacking George Creel and his war
press record? Did Creel come from
Iowa, like Reed, Hoover and Schupp?
Senator Reed spends much Of his
time, in almost, if not every speech
he makes, in attacking an old army
bill, prepared by the army staff in
1919. The bill, it seems, neve had
the support Of any body in congress
and certainly, never was advocated
by President Wilson. Like many other
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

THE constitutional convention has
had an amendment placed before it
which if adopted makes voting COM
pulsory. We have always favored
such a law. If every citizen were
forced to vote or lose his or her suf-
frage of a certain period, If they
failed to vote, the government would
be more Of one by and for the peo-
pie. The matter Of voting is a duty
which every citizen should exercise
but which, unfortunately, many dc
not. 1t would eliminate the machine
from politics and generally improve
conditions politically as well as
otherwise.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
4s Years Ago.

One hundred chickens were stolen
from G. P. Wade the other night.
Mrs. Mary Pettis died at the home
Of her son-in-law, DR.. Grasty. She
was rs years old.
The young men of Mexico formed
a cornet band with Prof. Hendricks
as the teacher.
Prof. j. G. Robinson has been elect
ed to fill the vacancy in the public
schools left by the resignation of
Prof. ]. P. Glass.
No sunstrokes have been reported
in Mexico this week but the temper
ature has been satanic,
Captain Hiner and son are home.
Sam Wolff now has charge of Nc
Carriers ice cream caloon.
Two OF three hundred dollars in
fines. were booked in Mexico this
week.
J. w. Carson will spend several
weeks in Eastern watering places.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
10 Years Ago.

R. R. Buckner is going to Colorado
soo for a visit.
Mrs. Mary E. Luckie died at her
residence on South Clark avenue
about II o'clock Sunday morning of
acute indigestion. She was "a years
old.
E. S. Wilson has been appointed
postmaster of Mexico by President
Taft to succeed George H. Kunkel.
Gideon Powell returned to Centralia
after visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Powell.
Parker Marshall has returned from
Tulsa, Okla.
Mrs. C. Cochran of Marshall is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Gibbs.
William H. French, 81 years old
died at his home Wednesday after an
illness of several weeks, Death was
caused by paralysis.
Miss Laura Wilson Of Jonesburg is
the guest of Miss Gladys Van
Ness.
G. K. Pitss, an employee of the
Friedman-Sheiby Shoe Factory was
badly burned when a gasoline stove
exploded.
Henry Yoder, a mennonite living
near Centralia, has been warned by
members of that sect that he will
be accommodated If he does not
have his telephone removed.
The residents Of West Jackson
Street are much excited over. a
"ghost" which made its appearance
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
THE LEDGER,S
PLATFORM FOR AUDRAIN
REED AND

= IN the cold light of facts brought
from the pages of the Congressional
Record and other authentic sources
the campaign statements of Senator
Reed are rapidly falling to pieces
First, in Mexico he denied referring
to Mr.. Wilson as a "jackass" but
when he visited Salisbury, where he
had made the statement and where
reputable citizens had made affidavit
to the fact, he had to confess. His
Republican activities in Wisconsin
have been proven beyond question
from the highest democratic sources
in that state, the State Central Com.
mitteeman. Now come FACTS from
the Congressional Record in the fol
lowing editorial published by the st,
Louis Globe Democrat.
"Thearmy plan, which Senator Reed
talks so much about, never emerged
from the committee and therefore
was never before the Senate for con-
sideration. Mr.. Reed is not a mem
Der of the Committee on Military AT.
fairs. He did not "stoutly oppose
it, and did not "help to defeat it
He had no chance for opposition OF
help. The plan was killed in the
committee room. The bill that reach
ed the Senate was the creation Of the
Republican Commute on Military AT.
fairs which, obviously was not an
administration" measure. This pro
pided for an army of 100000 men. II
also provided for four months Of mil
itary training Of every boy, ply
sicially and mentally fit, at the age
~of 10. This feature was eliminated
in the Senate. Senator Reed, among
others, spoke against it. But meas
uring his activity by his opposition
10 the food administration and thu
League Of Nations he did not "stoutl!
oppose" this bill even this Repub
lican. bill. The Congressional Recort
shows that he discussed it briefly or
four days.
II insisted that our army should
not exceed 100000 men, he said II
his opening speech Of the campaign
and makes it appear that this demand
was in opposition to the administers
ton demand" We have shown thai
there never was an administration
demand" on this matter, and thai
Reed never could have opposed the
original General Staff plan, which If
the one he constantly talks about, be
cause it never came before the Sen
ate. But he did not "insist that oul
army should not exceed 100000 men,
even in his discussion of the bill re
ported by the Republican Committee
on Military Affairs. On the 14th Of
April, 1920, he said (page 5657 Of
the Congressional Record: Il hope
that the army as now provided for il
this bin will be reduced to not exceed
100000 men," And on the goth O
April, 1920 page 1896 of the Con
gressional Record,) he said; Il de,
sire very much to see the size Of thu
army reduced to not more than 200,
900 troops"
"These facts, drawn from the Of
fetal record Of Congress, are res
pectfully submitted for the consider
alton of the voters of Missouri"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
20 Years Ago.

Thomas Board, 66 years old, died
at his home in Southeast Mexico
after an illness of sevral days.
I. j. Brown of the firm of Brown
and Kimball was given a surprise
dinner Thursday evening. Mr.,
Brown will leave Mexico soon to
make his home in the West.
Alex Carter, ST., is home from q
visit in Galloway County.
Butler Guthrie is home from a
visit in Colorado.
Ben Middleton bought forty mules
near Venice last week.
r. v. Montague Of Kansas City,
who owns the Mexico telephone plant
is installing a system at Beatrice,
Neb.
r. L. Morris will leave soon fo1
Lawton, Okla, where ne will engage
in the banking business.
Mrs. E. D. Graham and Mrs. D. P.
Moore r home from a pleasant
visit to Spalding Springs.
John w. KelssASn has returned from
Webb City to make his home in Mex.
leo.
r. E. Hisey of Mexico offered
Ralph Orthwein Of st. Louis $4,000
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

for Rex Mcdonald. The offer was
promptly refused.
Little Miss Lady Fonville broke
her leg just above the knee Friday
when she fell from a ladder.
w. D. Bassford, private secretary
to the Hon. Champ Clark is home
from Washington and will spend the
summer in Mexico.
Anderson and Renfro GIBBS are Wis.
ting in Paris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

MEXICO stores areoffering most
attractive sales opportunities. These
sales are being widely advertised
both in local papers and those in
Mexico's trade territory. This aids
in the development of Mexico's trade
extension work as well as helps local
prosperity and aids the consumer to
save money.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

WILLIAM Sacks, the Millionaire
st. Louis anti-prohibition candidate
for the nomination as U. S. senator
on the Republican ticket is attacking
Jim Reed all over the state for
Stealing his stuff" He claims he is
the original "Wet" candidate and
that Reed is trying to take this "dis-
~tinction" away from him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

ED Glenn, Reeds campaign man
ager, is circulating letters to the
voters here announcing that Reed
will poll from $4,000 to $4,000 lead in
Kansas City and st. Louis. Ed has
become one of our leading optimistst
it seems. His dreams will be punctur-
ed August LIST.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
DEMOCRACY AT CROSS ROADS"

DEMOCRACY AT CROSS ROADS"
GLENN Frank, a contributor to the
Century Magazine, writing under the
above headline, says withthe pioneers
having established government at the
farthest limits of this country and
equal suffrage being established there
is passing "quantitative democracy"
and that in the future the thinking
men and women Of this nation must
give active consideration to "qualita-
tive democracy He urges the invas
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
Dies In Fnlton-

William G. Mcclure, head Of the
School for the Deaf, of Fulton, died
in that city at II o'clock Thursday
night of septic poisoning. He was
well known in Mexico and was a lead
ing man in his field.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

WE saw a really, honest-to-good-
ness, all morino and a yard wide mas
culine flapper the other day and have
decided that words fail again in their
intended purpose.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

HAVE yeu ever noticed that the
demagogues will take a plain Irish
potatoe and with a few we'll turned
phrases waived over it try to con-
vince you it is a luscious orange.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

YOU can't get away from it~or ex-
plain freed voted for the war and
then voted against the measures that
assured its success. Why explain the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

THESE are indeed parlous time. A
husband no sooner pays for his wife's
switch than he discovers she has
bobbed It.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

1T strikes us that heIicopters are
not half so essential for airplanes as
they are for the tired business man
on Sunday morning.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

MARRIAGE isn't always a failure,
but of course there must eb a few ex-
ceptions to prove the rule.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

A hint to the wise is sufficient.
Read ad on Bird page and get the hint.
TAYLOR MUSIC co.
d&w1t Advertisement
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

near the home of j. D. Mil
Ter. A woman dressed in black
wearing a shawl in such a way as to
conceal her face walked up and down
the block for over an hour refusing to
speak to anyone.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

Mrs. G. E. Younger, who has been
quite i'll for the last week, is no bet
ter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20
reasons which are perfectly obvious

IF the fapper keeps IN there won't
be anything to flap.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

T. j. Hoxsey was in st. Louis Mon.
day on business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

SOME senators in Washington are
declaring Reed q great democrat.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

The senate always was a mutual adj
miration society as long as it didn't
cost a vote at home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-07-20

Sc Per Year. Cash in Advance
iudrain and adjoining counties.
where 81 a year in advance be-
E Of advanced postal rates.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17

change. 1t must be the most re-
markable council in captivity.
''The shorter the skirts the long
er you live" says a doctor to the
ladies. Some of the girls evident
ly intend to live longer than John
Smith, who reached 1877 years.
A Frenchman was beheaded last
week for the murder of ten of his
wives. ''Men are continually los
ing their heads on account of wo-
men," adds the Thief River Trib-
une.
The latest novelty for feshy
people is rubber shirts to melt away
The fat. We know a few politi-
clans who ought to wear rubber
hats.
A st. Cloud reformatory inmate
asks pardon on the ground that he
has never tasted whisky or beer,
smoked or chewed, or danced, or
gambled or kept any company with
women. "They might as well keep
him locked up" says the Bemidii
Pioneer.
A ton of bad news for Baudette
merchants arrived Saturday in the
shape of mail order catalogues.
Continued advertising in the Re-
gion is the best anditote.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17

Governor j. A. o. Preus again
publically announces that he is not
candidate for any state office
outside of that of Governor. His
one and only ambition is to be re-
turned to his present official posi-
ton. AS to his sympathies and
well wishes in the matter of the
United States senatorship, if he
has any, they are with Frank B.
Kellogg, the present senatorial in
cumbent, who is also asking to be
returned. Indignant over unauthor-
lied gossip involving him in alleged
convention deals, with himself as
the senatorial beneficiary, and spur
ed to further action by garbled
stories appearing in two I'M
friendly Twin City papers concern
ing gathering of business men at
which he was a guest. Governor
Preus this week repeated his state
ment of week ago that his only
political ambition was to be re-
turned as chief executive and en-
phasiZed it with the additional
statement that under no considera-
ton would he accept an endorse
ment for any other office. As to
his senatorial sympathies, he told
those at the meeting, he had tried
to be neutral, but as such was no
longer possible in view of the un-.
friendly efforts to drag him into,
the controversy, he could only see
one solution of the senatorial prob
lem and that was the endorsement.
and return of United States SEN.
ator Kellogg. With his excellency
positive as to his own political de-.
sires and his expressed sympathy.
for Senator Kellogg naturally there
can be only one result as far as
the coming Republican convention
is concerned and that is convention
endorsement of practically the en-
tire list of Republican state officials
now seeking denomination. This,
means that the next state primary
ticket will carry the names of
Frank B. Kellogg for United
States Senator; j. A. O. Preus,
Governor, Louis L. Collins, Lieu
tenant Governor, Mike Holm, Sec
rotary of State, R. P. Chase, State
Auditor, c. L. Hilton, Attorney
General, Henry Rines, State Treas
urer and Ivan Bowen, Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioner and that
each will have attached his name
the designation, Endorsed by Re-
publican State Convention. The
one missing name will be that of
Herman Mueller, the present clerk
OF the supreme court. A woman
Will likely supplant him.-Vance
Chapman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17

DULUTH. Central High School won
the honor to represent tbis d;s+ wE4
IN the State Basket ball Tonrnae
ment to be held ali Norfhfiaid
The tournament proved tn he
case of Survival of tha E;tt 20 ?
the weaker teams falling dors@ e - ;
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17
BILLY NOONANISMS."
(From the Baudette Region J

(from the Baudette Region.)
Princess Mary married somebody
last week, but we forgot his name.
So have you, haven't you?
The water in the Rainy is bad.
but it is not worrying several
Baudette lads who never drink it.
Skirts are to be longer this year.
but We hope the girls don't join the
street cleaning squad again.
Over in Manitoba a lad named
White has been arrested on a
charge of theft, but White may not
be as black as he is painted.
Several lads have been mention
ed as wanting Senator Kellogg's
JOB but what difference does that
make?
Many mistakes will yield to the
rubber on the end of lead pencil.
but getting a shot of wood alec.
nol In moonshine isn't one of them.
Keep away from it.
This years council has pleased
everybody" says a neighboring ex-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17

The annual financial statement
compiled by County Auditor Bor-
een has made its appearance in the
Duluth Herald and the same fur
nishes very interesting reading.
The statement of expenditures of
the Fourth Commissioner District
are particularly interesting: In
this it is shown that Commissioner
McMahan has expended the road
funds for benefit and where most
needed, impartially and with justice
for all. The results of his work
speak for themselves but not one
half as enthusiastically as do those
people who travel over Grant Nc
Mahan's roads.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17
Gave a Concert.

Matt Plasha, the renowned con-
certina artist was in the city sew
eral days this week and gave a
concert to the patrons of the Ex-
change Hotel. Sunday afternoon
he also gave concert at the Com
munity Center before a large crowd
and in which he was assisted by
several vocal people.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-03-17

Much is being said, these days,
concerning the fact that the Ameri-
can cardinals arrived too late to
record a vote for the new pope,
but this country will be waited for
in any of the collections that
Europe will be making, and they
are numerous. On the matter of
finances the United States is al
ways given earnest consideration
and the hat is kept open until we
all make our contributions. We
are a dearly beloved people in all
such times, and the lists are never
closed until our ship arrives in the
foreign port. Ishpeming Iron Ore.