Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
A TRIP TO THE EAST END.
The Tax CATERERS on Their Rounds,
Accompanied by a Ledger Man
AT Mt. Carmel. Farber
and Laddonia.

A LEDGER representative accom-
panied County Collector Dowell and
his assistant, J. E. Jesse, on their tax
collecting tour to the east end of the
county last week in the interest of the
paper.
Monday was spent at Mt. Carmel, 8
miles south of Vandalia, a section of
country hard to beat anywhere in Mis-
souri,, and where the cash is always
ready for the tax collector. In the
vicinity of Mt. Carmel live ONE of
Audrain's best citizens, among whom
may be mentioned the D%etiennes, A.
B. Glascock, Charley Grow, "Unclen
Grundy Branstetter, James Heaton,
VIM. Syler, j. H. Houston, Geo. SAKE,
g. d. Tuggle, A. g. Sox, Dick Sham
non, g. W. French and a great many
others whose names cannot now be
recalled. All own their farms, are in
good shape and seem to be happy.
Every field as far as the eye can lei
is prolific with corn that will yield
from 50 to 70 bushels per acre and
some will go more. No complaint was
heard here about the low price of
corn. A store has recently been es-
tablished at Mt. Carmel and DIR. Hutch
inson,the proprietor, is doing well. The
doctor says it is the only place where
he ever did business that he could not
sell the people on credit. His GUS
toners will not have it that way.
Mr.. A. B. Glascock, in speaking of
the great plentifulness of everything
in that section, said he "killed" a bee
hive and took from it sixteen gallons
of honey-about $50 pounds. "Uncle"
Grundy Branstetter has just returned
from Arkansas and is telling the boys
some wonderful stories of the bear,
deer and other big game he saw in
that State. Everybody listens, of
course, but nobody dares say anything
until after "Uncle" Grundy starts for
home. Mr.. Branstetter is a pioneer
farmers in that section.
The Mexico LEDGER has 20 sub
scribers at Mt. Carmel post office. No
other Mexico paper has more than
n OIL perhaps two there.
Col. J. J. Mosby, one of Audrain's
best citizens and a longtime reader
of the LEDGER, pays his taxes at Mt.
Carmel and for years has always been
the first man to get his receipt from
the Collector.
When the Grange movement was
at high tide in this county, Is or 20
years ago, a nice, substantial house
was built at Mt. Carmel and called
Grange Hall. 1t was the last Grange
in the county-or State, probably
to disband, the final meeting being held
some three or four months ago. Just
who the building belongs to cannot
be deter mined, but Charley Grow pays
the taxes on house and ground.
Tuesday was spent in Farber, a
prosperous village of 800 or 400 peo-
pie, where business of all kinds g
quired by the community is repre-
scented by substantial houses that carry
large and varied lines of goods and
wares. Farber has a good news
paper, the Forum, owned and edited
by G. A. Davault, which the people
appreciate, as it patronage shows.
Farber has a solid and well Differed
bank that is doing q good business and
is a great convenience to the people
of that section. Price Sutton is the
clever cashier and Frank Osterhout
the accommodating book keeper of
this popular institution.
Mr.. Fred Glynn and his most es-
Unable wife conduc. one of the best
little hotels in the State.
One of the leading spirits of the
town is Wat Grow, who never allows
a visitor to want for amuse ment. His
store is headquarters for fun as well
as for business.
T. r. Gilliland is running the large
elevator to its capacity and is Smelling
large quantities of corn. The elevator
people are paying II cents for corr
and from 8 to ~ cents for oats, ac-
cording to quality. The tax collec-
tions at Farber fell a little short of last
year.
Wednesday was spent at Laddonia,
the third town in size in the county,
where the collections went a little
ahead of last year. Laddonia is a
good, substantial town and is situated
in a fine section of country. 1t has
many large business buildings and nice
residences and its people r wide
awake and hospitable. 1t is the larg-
est shipping point for grain in the
county and stock shipments r ex-
tensive. Two solid banks do the bus
mess of the community; good news
paper, the Herald, is in a lourishing
condition; two hotels and numerous
boarding houses accommodate the
people; a large grain elevator and mill
are blessings to the town; in fact, all
kinds of business is represented al
Laddonia and all seem to be prosper
GUS. Wilder & Pearson are the prin-
cipal grain buyers and this firm each
year pays out large sums of money
to producers. Corn is worth 10 cents
at Laddonia and oats from 10 to II
cents. Hog buyers are paying 3 cents;
cattle buyers are paying from 81 to
4 cents.
Laddonia is soon to have acomplete
telephone system, an enterprise to be
operated by j. G. Delaporte, n OF
the most enterprising citizens of the
town. An electric light plant is also
to be established. Laddonia has
Improved wonderfully in the last
year or two, and evidences of thrift
and prosperity are seen on every hand
During the trip to the three places
named the LEDGER secured twenty
six new subseribers-all taxpayer
and good, substantial citizens-as fol.
lows:
VIM. Syier.
j. II. Houston.
George Williams.
VIM. N. Barney.
George SAKE.
Hiram Herlinger.
Samuel @. King.
w. @. Greeves.
A. N. Huntley.
E. j. Gilliland.
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