Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-01-20
Rural pell Detnss.

Rural Dell Beings.
EpiroR GRAPHIC: Since the holidays
the people are making the most of the
opportunity to market their produce
which the bad roads had hindered.
The hog trade has been quite brisk
The amount OF stock sold from this To-
cality is not properly appreciated, as it
is divided between i,ksvills AMI Mill
ard, LaPlata and Brashear. The hogs
are about all gone, but there are piles
of corn here yet. The feeders are look
ing after it. A Mr.. Lewis and psrdner
Of Audrain Co., are feeding sixty-four
head of cattle on MIS-. Lindsey's place,
and are looking after a place to feed
another bunch of the same size. r. M.
Brashear is half stall feeding hundred
head on tho Caskey place, (now owned
by MahaffyD with the intention Of feed
ing out ON grass, and there are others
talking of bringing in cattle. so our
people will be able to market oil they
have got.
The purchasing of unlmproyed land
has been brisk in the last few months
and has nearly all got into hands that
are improving it. The advantage Of
that is easily seen. Charley and Daniel
Thompson two young men three years
ago bought eighty acres on time. They
broke and fenced it that season but did
not realize much on the crop as the sod
was then stiff. Last year they realized
enough to pay for it and buy them a
good stock of young cattle. This year
they sold to Mr.. Lewis three thousand
bushels of corn at 40cents crlbed on the
ground, and gathered 1t off of sixty
acres. Charles sold his interest to
Daniel and bought Mr.. Thomas Sees's
place of one hundred and five acres
paying fifteen dollars per acre.
The Long boys last Spring, bought
forty acres at ten dollars per acre,
fenced it and pu.. it in corn and the
crop could have been sold for more
than the cost OF the land and fence
ing.
The church building here is making
slow progress for the want of action
and harmony Of the directors, they all
agreed TO secure the most eligible site
in the district and worked energeti-
cally until they obtained 1t. Since then
they have been calling meetings weekly
to prepare drafts and make out the
contract with the builder. One wanted
it to front east with a grand dome and
cupola one hundred and sixty feet high,
the second wants it to front west with
a spire likeTrinity church, Boston, three
hundred feet high; the third does not
object to the splre but wants the church
to front north so as not disturb the
polarity of the magnetic current and
have the spire lit with the electric light
to illuminate the country; the fourth
wants the plain Western style and the
fifth the still planer of VIM. Penn,
and if some genius does not harmonic
their ideas of architecture it will be
nary church.
The report is that A. L. Glbbs,J. T
johnson and J. w. Gill have their signs
out to sail for the jim river valley in
Dakota. The Judge has oeen and spied
out the land and reports everything
lively and that you can pillow the length
Of the country without breaking fur
row. They propose to enter one hun
dred and sixty acres of land, preempt
another, take another for a timber
claim and then secure all the land ad-
Joining; buy steam thresher attach a
gang of plows sufficien to turn a strip
ten feet wide put on two horses to guide
it and break upa county apiece and
have it ready to drill IN wheat next
spring and lay old Dalrymple in the
shade.
MORE II You WANT IT.