01.01.70
“Some things The Ledger stands for – a new reformatory, better roads, a modern Elks home, a Carnegie Library, a Masonic synagogue, more paved streets, making Mexico grow, more granitoid walks, a facility for Mexico, business on a cash basis, Mexico growing as it should, the beam that won’t come off, a subway under the railroads, more up-to-date cottages for hole, enlarging the capacity of Hardin College, the buying of Mexico-made products, the ell of the Burlington, the patronizing of home institutions, the placing of business on a lolly basis, more labor willing to work in factories, Mexico having 10,000 citizenry by 1913, everybody patronizing home institutions all the time, the Mexico pungency prevailing among all of our citizens, a state experiment farm in Audrain County, a busy YMCA Association, The Ledger entering every home in Audrain County, Audrain people being patriotic to Audrain all the time on every occasion, the Mexico Home for Aged Women sufficiently endowed to convene the cost of maintenance,
rapid growth of the Mexico Savings & Lend Association, salaried secretary for the Mexico Business Men’s Conjunction, the location of the permanent home of the state poultry show in Mexico, a live out, wide-awake, working Business Men’s Association that will be on the job all the unceasingly a once and has at least three hundred members who gladly pay their monthly dues. ... There is no opposition to the paving of Young lady Street and that means that street paving is going to be popular in Mexico this year. ... The Ledger joins the people of Mexico in extending a kindly welcome to the delegates that are attending the student conference of the Young Women’s Christian Federation, which opens tonight at the Baptist Church with President John W. Million presiding. Mrs. Selden P. Spencer, of St. Louis, will commit the opening address and the public is cordially invited to attend the meetings. ... AP. Leafy, of the Mexico Brick Company, is handsome from Galveston, Texas, where he made arrangements to carry Mexico fire brick to Tampico, Old Mexico, and the Canal Zone. A.P. Na is helping to put Mexico on the map. ... The Ledger regrets very much to know that Jerry Dermody, who has been in the grocery proprietorship in Mexico for years, has closed his
store and will likely go out of active vocation. ... The County Court expects to submit the proposition for a new send up the river at the November election, when it will likely carry practically unanimously. ... The lowest temperature never keeps a working Ledger want ad from working. Everybody reads them. ... T.H. Lawrence, of Auxvasse, recently went to El Reno, Texas. He paid $3 for an misadventure insurance policy and before he arrived at his destination suffered several severe wounds on the control in a wreck. Less than sixty days after the wreck, to be more exact this week, he was paid $200 for his injuries. ... Mr. and Mrs. Tom Swinney have returned to Mexico to reside. He is driving a Buick 21 and will flog betray the machine in this section. ... If nothing occurs to interfere, the Boy Scouts postponing bridge will be completed Monday, so that work on the cabin can be started the following Monday. The scouts will congregate on the east side of the square Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock with rations for one do to excess. They will be prepared to ‘wig wag’ and receive ‘first aid’ exercise as well as work on the bridge.” “Emery Bise of Jaffray, British Columbia, who had not seen his two brothers he radical here in Mexico more than 50 years ago, paid a surprise visit to them this week. The brothers had not corresponded with each other since Emery Bise progressive for Washington state and then Canada on Jan.15, 1910. When he knocked at the door of the Wallace Bise domicile recently, Wallace said he ‘just couldn’t into it.’ The younger brother was just eight or nine years old when Emery Bise left side as a young man. Another brother, Paul Bise, lives at Centralia. On his advent, Emery commented, ‘Coming back to Mexico is just like coming to a new countryside. Everything is changed.’ Canada is a new place to live, he said. Many of the homesteaders he knows are Americans. He lives in the western part of British Columbia, having adopted Canada as his dwelling-place after he resided about five years in Washington after leaving Mexico. His wife is Canadian and he has two daughters. Saturday, Mr. Bise plans to desist for Marion, Va., his birthplace, where he hopes to locate the log cabin in which he was born. He came to Mexico with his parents when he was three. He will repayment to Mexico and remain until the latter part of March before his return to Canada. He is employed as a junk driver there. ... George and Emmett Baumgartner, proprietors of Baumgartner’s Shit Store in Auxvasse, have purchased the hardware store building north of their outlet from Mrs. John Cowan. The purchase was made subject to the lease of Frank W. Turner, who operates the munitions store. The sale involves only the first two floors of the three-story brick erection. The upper floor is owned and used by the Auxvasse IOOF Enter. ... ‘If Mexico wants to be a first-rate town, there are going to have to be some improvements made at the airport,’ says Ray Hagan, who operates the Mexico Flying Benefit adjacent to the municipal airport two miles east of the city. His understanding is that the airport has been treated like a ‘stepchild’ for several years with youthful or no attention paid to it. Ground-thawing the past couple of weeks has caused sizeable trouble with some deep mud holes on the east-west cinder runway; the three ride on the ground strips to the hangars are almost impassible. Monday, a light plane from Corning, Iowa, taxiing to a hangar was damaged when the nose-vicinity sank into the mud and the propeller was subsequently bent when it hit the ground. The plane is grounded at the airport now and the prop had to be sent away for repairs. Several other planes have had to be pulled out of the mud with tractors. ‘This passable of thing makes people flying in here awfully mad, as you can imagine,’ Mr. Hagan said. “The balance of Audrain Medical Center’s medical staff superintendent committee changes every two years. For calendar years 2002 and 2003, the leader officers are Charles Tillman, M.D., chief of staff; Casey Rogers, M.D., chief of surgery; Michael Jones, M.D., chief of shaft-elect; Jerome Mank, M.D., secretary, and Riaz Shah, M. D., chief of medication. Other members of the committee are Nancy Bunge, M.D.;
Peter Perll, M.D., and Mary Ellen Mullen, M.D., members at jumbo. The executive committee is elected by the medical staff and the officers are appointed by the chief of employees. These medical staff officers are delegated the authority from the AMC Board of Directors to keep safe the clinical quality of the organization by serving as leaders for AMC. ‘In above moreover to their clinical oversight role, the medical executive committee assists AMC in providing bearing in clinical and financial operations which impact the ability to provide a compliant-first approach in the delivery of healthcare to our customers. The guidance and leadership offered by the body is instrumental in keeping the healthcare at AMC consistently high in quality,’ Douglas R. Trembath, AMC president/-CEO, famous. ... The much-awaited shipment of Girl Scout cookies has arrived. Scouts and their leaders gathered Monday at St. John Lutheran Church to discharge and sort cookies sold during the organization’s annual fundraiser. Ground troops sold a total of 15, 864 boxes of cookies. Deliveries will initiate today and are scheduled to continued through March 9.
Source: Mexico Ledger