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Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
100 ENROLL
IN RELIGIOUS
TRAINING SCHOOL

The Standard Training School be-
rins next Monday evening at the
Methodist Church. Teachers, officers
and leaders of the Sunday School of
all denominations are welcome to
enroll.
More than 100 students have en-
rolled so far from this section of
state and many others are expected.
The faculty is unusually strong.
Prof. Crawford, Peabody College,
Nashville, Tenn, will give course on
Principles of Religious Teaching
lie is a man of wide experience and
of the best training.
Rev. Glenn Baker, Little Rock, Ark.
will offer the course in "Administra-
ton and Organization"--All pastors
and superintendent are invited to en-
roll for this study.
Prof. Harvie Branscomb, Oxford
graduate, now of Dallas, Tex, will
give the course in Pupil Study. He
is one of the exceptional men of the
country and Mexico is fortunate in
securing him.
Miss Minnie Kennedy, Nashville,
Tenn, Elementary expert will give
a special course in Story Telling.
all Primary and Junior teachers and
PARENTS are urged to get this course.
The first class session meets at
$3.50 next Monday evening. No fees.
A great constructive school for lead
ers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
HARDIN STUDENT ON
EXECUTIVE COM.

Miss Dorothy BuseRhorn, a stud
emit in Hardin College, Mexico, Mo-,
and Secretary Of the Missouri Stud
emit Volunteer Union, attended the
Executive Committee meeting at
Marshall, Mo. Nov. 4-6. The State
Conference of the Student Volunteer
Union will meet in Mexico, Mo-, Feb.
3-5.
Miss Buschhorn is an excellent stu
dent and is making preparation of the
foreign field as a Missionary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

through the fog tied up for the night.
which of course was not known to
those on the Lee and it was not until
they reached within eighteen miles
Of st. Louis that they knew they had
won.
The shores Of the Mississippi were
lined for miles with spectators as
the Lee steamed up to the wharf and
many of the steamers from st. Louis
had gone down the stream to meet
the victor. The Lee locked FIVE
hours ahead of the Natchez, win
ner of what Mark Twain refers to
as "The greatest race ever run in
America"
Mr.. Cunningham says that he was
scarcely able to get off of the boat
owing to, the large crowd. The Lee
made the trip in three days eighteen
hours and thirty minutes under the
captaincy of John w. Cannon and
the Natchez was under command of
Capt. Thomas P. feathers.
The night after the conclusion of
the race the officers Of the two boats
were the guests of honor at a ban
quet at the old Southern Hotel. Cap
tain feathers said he was dfeated
owing to the fog, which the pilots
were afraid to risk and a broken
pump.
This race, while a memorable event,
was made even more famous by be-
ing referred to by Mark Twain in
his book life on the Mississippi?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
HID N IN SHOTGUN

GENEVA, Nov. 8.-Nervous about
the proposed capital. levy, a farmer
in the canton of Aargau withdrew
the savings of a lifetime and hid
them in the barrel of his shotgun.
Yesterday he saw a rabbit outside his
door, grabbed the gun and fired. He
yot the rabbit, but it cost him 1000
francs, the amount he had stuffed
into the gun and forgotten about.
He remembered when he saw the
charred remains Of the bills lying, near
the rabbits body.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
CAR DISCOVERED WHICH
RUNS WITHOUT
GASOLINE TANK

A car has been discovered here
which promises to be very popular
with motorists. 1t is one which runs
without a gasoline tank. Tuesday
evening a car drove into the standard
Oil Filling Station here and asked the
man to fill his gasoline tank. The
employee of the oil company was
unable to comply with the request
however for the car did not have a
gasoline tank, the guess of the owner
being that he must have lost it some
place along the road.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
THE Two.FooT SHELF.

The two-foot shelf of books chosen
by the American Library Association
and the National Education Associa-
ton as most worthy to be read by
American boys and girs includes:
Louisa M. Alcott's Little, Women,
Lewis CAROLS Alice in Wonderland,
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Mark
Twain's Tom Sawyer, ~Steyenson's,
Treasure Island, Nicolay's Boys
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Kipling's
Jungle Book, Anderson's Fairy Tales,
Aesop's Fables, Stevenson's Child's'
Garden of Verses, Pyle's Merry Ad-
ventures of Robin Hood, Lambs
Tales from Shakespeare, the Boys
King Arthur adapted from Mallory,
Van Looms Story of Mankind, Wig
gins Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
Burton E. S~tevenson's Home Book of
Verse for Young Folks, Dickens
Christmas Carol, Irving's Rip Van
Wrinkle, Mother Goose, Dodge's Hans
Brinker, Hagedorn's Boys Life Of
Theodore Roosevelt, H~awthorne's
Wonder Book, Seton's Wild Animals
I have Known; and the Arabian
Nights.
14
Miss Gussie Thorn has returned to
st, Louis after a delightful visit here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
MEXICO GIRLS HONORED
AT WILLIAMS WOODS

FULTON, Mo-, Nov. 8.-Miss Irene
Rogers and Miss Katherine jenkins,
both of Mexico, have been elected
to membership in the Athena Club
of William Woods College. This is
n of the most active and import
ant clubs of the College. Member
ship is based IN scholarship, recon-
mendation of the faculty sponsor,
and majority vote of the Club.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

Monte Crigler and Ray Crigler, Of
Kansas City, who came here enroute
to the funeral of their uncle, G. a..
Goodrich at Berea, Wednesday after
noon, will remain for a visit with re-
latives in Mexico, Laddonia, Santa
Fe, and Perry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
GERMAN MARK SELLS
AT $500 FOR $4.45
IN LONDON MARKET

LONDON, Nov. 8~-The German
mark reached the unprecedented low
of $500 to the pound on the London
exchange Tuesday. This is more
than 1000 to the dollar. Par for the
mark is about 25 to the pound. The
pound today is worth $4.44%:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
SETS FIRE TO $40 BILL
WITH A AND

CHICAGO, Nov. 8.-John Sorrenti,
80, alleged pyromaniac, said to be
responsible for more than thirty in
%eendiary fires here last month, was
arrested yesterday when policeman
saw him setting fire to a $40 bill with
a cigaret. 81 like to see things burn"
Sorrenti said.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
THE SCHOOL, THE
NURSER OF CITIZENSHIP

The existence and %perpetuity
of a nation based upon uni
versal suffrage, give the school
a prominence, and impose dut-
les and responsibility upon the
educator that donot exist I'M
der any other form of gov
eminent. The school is not
merely local, utilitarian, COM
munal, a place where the pupil
goes, simply to acquire specific
knowledge and culture that
may be useful to him in pri-
vate life; but in an eminent
sense, is a broad, national in
stitution, upon which the high
est veal Of the republic de-
ponds.
The ideal school is the nur-
sery of intelligent citizenship,
and the inspiring source of a
sterling type of genuine patrio-
tism. The age is a progressive
one. The demands of our adj
vancing civilization require that
the curriculum of study should
be b~roadened, from time to
time. An enlightened public
sentiment confirms to munif-
cient donations for schools of
every grade from the kinder
graten to the university, and
the state willingly stands pied
ged to pay the necessary cost,
while reasonably demanding
that the school system should
be so justify the vast expend-
iture.
The humblest citizen is inter-
ested in the maintenance and
improvement Of the public
school system, because it hes
at the foundation of our nat
ional existence. The active dut-
les Of private and public life
are better performed by in
telIgent and cultivated men
and women, than by the ignor-
ant and uncultured.-Wilfiam
Evarts Sheldon.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
HUSBAND OF FORMER
MEXICO GIRL

Word has been received here Of
the death of F. T. Mcbride in Port
land, Ore. Mrs. Mcbride was form
elry Miss Rose Reed, daughter of Mr..
John Reed who formerly practiced
medicine in Mexico.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
Woull BE Teach rs
Have 0we IDEAS
So Il s en-

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Nov. ::
THE alimentary canal is $50 miles
long and crosses the State of New
York and carries boats and other
vessels from the Great Lakes to
the Hudson River" That is one of
the strange "facts" that has come
to light at the State Department of
Education through the grading of
examination appears of prospective
teachers. This description of the
alimentary canal was given in an
swer to the question asked at an ex-
animation. Describe the alimen-
tary canal, give its functions and
tell what secretions it receives"
Another embryo teacher gave this
answer: "The ~alimentary canal is
in Canada and was built so boats
could go by and escape the rocks"
What Filibustering Is Not.
The examiners who have graded
the papers of the applicants also
report that they have learned that
"filibustering is the burning of a
public building and that "a good
breed of dairy cattle is the Duroc
Jersey"
Other unique answers that have
come to the attention of the exam
liners are as follows:
Question: Describe the heart and
give its function. Answer: The
heart is a little article shaped like a
pear. Some say it is the seat of
love, but / don't know. I haven't
had any experience.
Question: Tell in what part of
the body you find the following bones:
Scapula, numerous, patella. Ans
wer: The scapula is in the head I'M
der the scalp. The numerous is in
the front of the head and makes you
say funny things. The patella is at
the base of the tongue.
Question: Name five figures of
speech and give an example of each.
Answer: One figure of speech is
Mary is five feet and three inches
tall.
Barometer Is a Doll"
Question: What is a barometer?
Answer: A barometer is a little pink
doll that sometimes turns blue. A
barometer is where a woman and
five children live in a house. When
is it going to be fair the children
come out in the yard and play and
when it is going to rain they stay
indoors.
Question: Write out in full the
following Abbreviations: G. A. R.,
M. c., D. A. R., K. P. Answer:
G. A. R., Granddaughters of Amer
lean Reunion. M. c., Moca Coffee,
Contentious. K. P, Kit
chen Produce.
Question: Give the cause of
rain and explain the uses of the work
Of the weather bureau. Answer:
Rain is caused by two clouds running
together and bursting, which makes
the water u out. 4
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
TRADES HIS WIFE FOR
Al 1911 FORD CAR

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 3-Fred
H. Woodruff, Fulton laborer, traded
his wife to Grover, Conant, teamster,
for a 1911 Ford Car, according to a
signed statement fled with an Usage
lawyer and declared to have been
signed by Woodruff, his wife and
Conant. The police started an m
vestigation of the alleged transact
ion.
After Conant and Mrs. Woodruff
had lived together for some time, q
former owner 81. the automobile APP
peared and demanded Woodruff pay
q $40 mortgage on the machine which
he had given Conant, according y
police. Woodruff couldn't pay and
had to give up the automobile.
Harold Harris is in Colorado
Springs for his health.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

The many friends of George Bast
will be glad to hear that he has re-
covered sufficiently from his recent
illness to be out.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

Miss Virginia Atkinson, Senior in
Hardin College spent the weekend
at her home, Rush Hill, Missouri.
Miss Atkinson is doing splendid work
in Hardin.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
Frank Van Ness has returned from
d successful business trip to Kansas.


In north Transyivania d young peas
ant woman mag give q particular
swain 4 tip that be II fhe apple Of
her eye ~ going with him In his
cart at the time Of the harvesting Of
tbs oats 70 help him carry IA his
crop.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

Mrs. W. C. Wallace returned home
Monday after a visit with Mrs.
Harry Pemberton of Fulton.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

W. B. Kirby of Armstrong was in
Mexico Tuesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

B. F. Rhodus has returned FRONT a
business trip Of several weeks.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

R. S. Rudd of Slater camesto Mex
leo Tuesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
FIRE DoEssLITTLE,DAMAG

The Mexico Fire Department was
called to the home of John Graham
on North Jefferson Street Wednesday
morning where the sparks from the
flue had caught the roof on fire. The
blaze was extinguished with chemicals
with little damage to the residence.
K 81
Miss Vera Rutter, woh is teach
ing expression and dancing in Quincy,
I'LL is home on a visit. Miss Rutter
is meeting with splendid success in
ILL.,, which pleases her host of Mex
leo friends. rs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

COURT
HOUSE

Two cases against men found with
liquor in their possession have been
placed on the November docket Of the
Audrain Comfy Circuit Court. They
are the State of Missouri against
'Rollin, a negro arrested by City Mar
shall Painter here recently, with a gal
Ion of whiskey in his possession as
he got off a train from Martinsburg
and the State of Missouri v. Arthur
Cox.
Cox was arrested as he got off
No. 5 from st. Louis by Charles John
son and j. P. Sanford night police
men, and four half pint bottles of
whiskey taken from him. He was
turned over to the State and is in
Jail here awaiting trial.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

Miss Gussie Thorn has returned to
st. Louis after a delightful visit here.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09

Harold Harris is in Colorado
Springs for his health.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
STAMFORD GETS INTO
 POLITICAL ACTIVITY
C. L. U. Holds Special Meeting and Organizes Non-Partisan
 Campaign.

Stamford, Aug. 4.-Stamford local labor unions got energetically behind Organized Labor's non-partisan po- litical campaign this week and at a specially called meeting of the Cen tral Labor Union on Tuesday night, attended by large delegations from every local union, organized to carry the battle right to the polls election day. The meeting was addressed by l. M Ornburn of New Haven, secre tary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, who explained in detail the project and the means being pursued in other cities of the state to carry 1t to a success and elect friends of workers to state and national offices.
 The meeting was the first of a series that will be continued until the political situation is we'll in hand and Labor given deserved recognition By both major parties. Committees to carry on the work were named and will arrange the complete program.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
NEW HAVEN FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IS
 "SHOT TO PIECES"
Request for $5o,ooo to Replace It Likely to Cause Some
 Pertinent Inquiry.

A little item of $5o,ooo in the esti- mates for the next fiscal year by the New Haven Board of Fire Commis- sioners, for the installation of a new fire alarm system,-of the Gamewell type-is likely to have some hard going before the board of finance and is further likely to cause some per t1nent questions as to how it comes that system that few years ago was considered by experts to be as good as any in the country has been allowed to run down until it has to be replaced. It may also lead to i'm vestigation of the many mixed up aalrms coming into fire headquarters weekly and in fact may lead to an apparently very necessary general in vestigation.
 The trouble seems to have started soon after the appointment, three or four years ago, of Edwin F. Cochran of Boston, Gamewell company en1- ploye, as superintendent of fire alarms. There was great to-do over the manner in which Cochran got the job, the civil service board holding a "speciap examination for him in Bos- ton when he couldn't or wouldn't come to New Haven to take it in competition with other candidates, some of whom charged after that the questoins were framed SO that no one but Cochran or some one connected like him could pass. Secretary Ar thur Chambers of the civil service board went to Boston to conduct the examination. at the city's expense, by the way, as an extraordinary favor to Cochran and he was passed" certi- fled and appointed on the certificate
 Up to that time New Haven's fire alarm system, installed only a few years before, was thoroughly up-to- date and equipped with Garner and U. s. standard boxes. One of Coc1l- rams first acts was to secure the pur- chase of 45 Gamewell boxes at a cost of $I6I.5o each and have them in stalled in the place of perfectly work ing boxes, but on the old wiring and conduits, which, according to electric ians and other workmen, was just about as sane as placing finely enam- elled and gilded plumbing fixtures on broken down pipes and leaders,
 At any rate the boxes were in but a few weeks when the system began to go to pieces. The entire 45 had to be taken down and new springs put in to operate on the system in use and "experts" had to be sum- moned from the Gamewell factory to do the work at further expense to the city. Even that experience didn't stop the practice but by dribs and drabs the Gamewell boxes have been quietly installed here and there, good working boxes removed and now
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
Maintenance Crews
 Return to A. F. of L.
Railroad Crafts Suspended Some Time Ago Now Again in
 Good Standing.

The maintenance of way men and shop laborers on the railroads have been reinstated in the American Fed eration of Labor, according to official notice received by the New Haven Trades Council last night from Presi- dent Gompers. The notice stated that the order, which had been sus- pended a year or more ago because of violating anti-strike orders of their brotherhood and refusing to return to work when so ordered, had compiled with the directions of the A. F. of L. as adopted at the recent convention and are again in full afiliation. The Council and all other affiliated bodies were instructed to follow the rein statement course and seat delegates when presented.
 The re-afiliation will undoubtedly have a great bearing on the present unsettled condition of the mainten- ance crafts in the strike situation. Because they were practically alone, neither affiliated with the railroad crafts or the A. F. of Ls sthey might have had to fight alone had they de- calred a strike. The lifting of the suspension puts them back with the others and it is expected that some definite action toward either adjusting their troubles or their joining the strike will speedily be taken.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
CLOCK co. GIRLS
 QUIT IN A DODY;
 HOLSTERS NEXT
New Haven Shop Workers, Unable to Make Living Wage, Simply
 Resign Jobs.

Twenty of 2I young women em- ployed in the dial department of the New Haven Clock company "threw up" their jobs and walked out last week when they could no longer make a living wage under the new scheme of work and pay recently in troduced by the company on sugges- ton of one Whitehead, an efficiency expert, imported from New York to trim the wages and cut down the number of employees in the big fac tory. The adjusters, who number many more are now in the same boat and are threatening to either strike or quit also in a body leaving the company flat.
 The dial workers were first reduced ln number and then put on a piece work basis that they knew wouldn't work out. They gave 1t a trial for two weeks, however, and when no re- dress was given them 20 quit. About three. times their number, in mex perisnced help have been put on the job but even they are not making 1t go and are already sick of it. The adjusters got 23 per cent. reduction in pay and are now also trying it out' but being practically all men, may not submit as peaceably as did the girl dial workers
 The usual buncombe. about impor- tation of cheaply made German clocks and watches was given the employees as reason for the changes and wage cuts. That it is buncombe is borne out by an article on the first page of the Hartford Courant yester- day morning in which Charels E. Williams, general manager of the Gill bert Clock company of Winsted, de- clared that absolutely no trace can be found in this country of the "vast amount" of German clocks reported to have been imported in this country within the past few months.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
TROLLEYMEN HAVE
 HOUSING PARTY ON / ''2OTH BIRTHDAY"
New Haven Union in Song, Story and Fine Eats Reviews
 Early Struggles.

Twenty years is long time in any ones life but the past 20 years in the life of the New Haven Trolleymen's $ Union, Local 58I, slipped away like an evening when about POO members including about a score of the Origin als, assembled at Sea Cliff Inn at Lighthouse Point on Wednesday night to celebrate the 2oth anniver- sary of the organization and the great victory in the strike that followed immediately on the discharge of the "ring leaders" in forming the organ ization. From the first president, Bernard M Hope, down to the latest rookie in the ranks, everyone had a great and glorious time, due to the unstinted efforts made by the com mittee to make the affair a success. Not only was the dinner and service excellent but the speeches afterWard were filled with wit and wisdom, and when the party broke up after mid night so the early crews would be able to get their cars out on time, everyone was agreed that it had been some party
 The party actually began about o'clock when about 100 of the trolley men secured a special car from the company and donnlng paper caps and with rattles and other noise making implements took jaunt about the city center, picking up members here and there en route to the shore More than 100 others had already gathered at the Inn where dinner was served on the arrival of the Especial" There was one regret expressed during the evening and that only on the absence cf some of the original members who have left New Haven and of Mayor FitzGerald and former Mayor John P. Studley who could not be present, the former because of a previous en-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
RAILROAD SURRENDERS - CLERKS NOT TO 60 0U
TAG DAY FOR THE STRIKERS;
 GIVE TIL IT HURTS

Give Until It Hurts," was the slogan Big Business urged upon the workers of the country during the War and the workers did that little thing. The same slogan should prevail tomorrow (Satur- >day) when New Haven, New Lon don, Hartford and other cities of the state, will have tag days for the aid of the striking railroad shopmen in the "war" being waged upon them by the Big Interests which control the railroads. No good union man or woman will pass one of the collectors without depositing some amount, even if the giving does "hurt." Tke strikers, nine-tenths men of famil- ies, get no strike benefits
 In New Haven the Tobacco Shippers Union has volunteered their aid in making the collections, as have many other men and women. Their action is in direct contrast to the attitude of Manager Weiss of the New Haven ball team, who refused the strikers per mission to carry on the .'tag day" at the game in Weiss Park. The selectmen of Hamden have been appealed to and are expected to permit the collectors to station themselves on the road leading to the ball field so the ball fans will have a chance to contribute any how.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
VAST FORCES BEHIND
 PRESENT BIG STRIKES
 EXPOSED BY GOMPERS
Unions Demanding
 aGeneral Strike
Ask Referendum Vote the Country Over to Bring Crisis to a
 Head Now.

"Why should the shop crafts on the railroad be made to bear the brunt of the attack on Labor alone?" is the tenor of a batch of resolutions re- ceived by the New Haven Trades Council at its meeting last night from local unions and central bodies throughout the country, in which the Trades Council was asked to adopt similar resolutions calling upon the American Federation of Labor for a referendum vote on the proposition of general strike" to bring the issue to a head The resolutions are no doubt similar to the batch made pub lie by President Gompers Tuesday night, without comment" but show ing how Labor the country over was being aroused to defend itself.
 The resolutions asked for an inl- mediate poll of local unions affiliated and then general demand upon the A. F of L. for the general strike referendum Under the usual proce- dure of the Trades Council the com munications were received and laid over for action possibly at the meet ing two weeks hence.