Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-12-03
STOCK ITEMS.
From the Centralia Courier.
Zoe Riggs is feeding couple of loads

Joe Riggs is feeding a couple of loads
of cattle.
O. L. Bruce sold Sam Brown a pair
OF mules Saturday for s125.
w. Lee Green shipped two more
loads of mules Tuesday night.
Crockett Harrison is feeding 90 hogs
for the Christmas market.
Sam Gray has top bunch of native
yeariings-two car loads.
Joe Pickett has lost 100 hogs with the
cholera in the past sixty days.
Lon Vanvacter had 65 geese stolen
from his place last week. No clew.
s. L. Garrard has lost 80 good hogs
with the cholera IN the past two weeks.
Robt. Gray is feeding load of good
native year old cattle for the Febru-
ary market.
G. @. Turner is feeding so head OF
good cotton and sugar mules at his
PAsSOS ACnA ohlluSs
j. @. Hit has rented 100 acres of the
w. d. Lawhorn pasture south of town
for three years at 1916 per year.
Hodge g. Tate bought a load of cattle
from Lee Green Saturday at $500.
They were shipped the first of the
week.
j. E. Scheoler sold to Warren Tuck
er load of fine calves at cents a
pound, to be delivered June 1, 1897.
Spangler shipped another load of
horses Tuesday night, making four
loads he has sent from this point.
Horses ought to be getting scarce.
Thos. L. Mcbride bought s6 head of
cattle from Bob Johnson, of near Mex
leo, Saturday, paying $4.55 for them.
Weight 1,5Oo. He shipped them to
Chicago the first OF the week.
j. L. Garner tells us that his corn
crop is turning out as well as any crop
he has raised since residing in the
State. Various other parties have
alsoreported good corn yields recently.
@. Riley, of near Tulip, has sold his
farm of 100 acres to Flem See for $3,-
200. Mr.. Riley has gone to Southwest
Missouri on prospecting tour. We
trust he will locate In this vicinity
again.
Good judges of cattle tell us that
Jas. Canada, of near Sturgeon, has the
best bunch of yearlings ever fed in
this section of the State. They will
weigh 300, and are being fed for the
Christmas market.
Ed. Smell brought in 15O head of
feeders from Stuttgart, Ark, last
week. The cattle were 8 and 4 year
olds and cost about $3.50 per hundred
laid down here.- They will be fed in
the edge of Monroe county.
J. HI. Starr win ship 142 head of cat
tie, his own feeding, to Boston for the
English market Friday. They are
beauties and no mistake, weighing
about 1,7O0 pounds and smooth and all
right. Mr.. Starr gets $4.75 for them.
Talk about fat cattle and you can
point to the SO head of Faddis steers
that were shipped out of here last
week with 81 head of Warren cattle
for the English markets. P. 8. Faddis
is feeder who believes in putting on
the big fat. He made the SO average
1906 pounds and they were line of
beauties and no mistake.
When it comes to buying mules Lee
Green let's no long cared cuss escape.
Last week he bought 25 hesd of J. M.
Boyd, 26 head of Jas. Carter, head of
Will Brown, head of Sam Brown and
1 of Elzea White. This pretty well
cleans up the mules that are being fed
in this vicinity. Mr.. Green shipped a
load Thursday night of last week.
John Boulware is doing q big mule
business. He is feeding 100 good ones
and sold load of "a to N. Hayworth,
of Moberly, last week. He also bought
1 mule of Jas. Spangler, 2 of Tom
Wisdom, of g. B. Mackey and of
VIM. Jennings last week. Mr.. Boul-
ware has just finished penning 1900
barrels of corn for which he paid 75
cents to 81 per barrel.