The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-11-18
HERE AND THERE.
Local Items OF the Week Gathered For the
Busy Blade Readers.


rural letter carriers and there will b,
no delivery of mails on November 80
The November crop report issued
{ by the United States department O.
agriculture gives the average yield O
corn per acre at 2S.S bushels, which
is two bushels per acre above the ter
year average.
| Your attention Is called to the
splendid financial statement of the
Lomax & Standby bank to be found
elsewhere in this issue. This bank is
in healthy and prosperous condition
and is doing growing business.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hawkins sold their
residence property last week to May
Jones, and Mr.. Jones has sold it to
Lon Cotter. Mr.. Hawkins left Tues
day for St. Joseph with view to
buying property and making that
place their home.
Bridge Commissioner McMichael
has been here this week to superin-
tend the construction of the new steel
bridge across Locust creek on the
line between Jefferson and Locust
creek townships. The bridge will be
a fine one, and was badly needed, as
there has never been bridge at that
place.
Early Monday morning the oil
house at the depot was found to be on
fire, and burned to the ground. No
one had been in the building since
the day before, and it is supposed that
the fire was caused by spontaneous
combustion of a carload of wet slack
the only kind Of fuel furnished the
stations by the Burlington-dumped
in the building few days before.
Notice was received Wednesday
from the department that
Virgil Harter had been appointed
mail carrier on route 3out of Laclede,
service to commence December 1st.
Those living on the line of the new
route, as we'll as those who will be
taken in on the extensions of the other
routes, should have their boxes in
position so as to receive the benefit of
the service from the start.
Now is the season Of the year when
persons living on. rural routes should
keep on hand supply Of postage
stamps. Rural carriers do not enjoy
handling pennies in cold weather, be-
sides when weather is bad and roads
rough it takes all their time to make
their daily trip. IF R. F. D. patrons
will do this they. will do the carriers
a great favor, and it is no more trouble
to the patron than to leave pennies in
the box.
The highest price paid for hogs in
the past fifteen years was received by
PogueF & Kelly at Finley, ILL.,, last
when forty-nine head of Po-
land China hogs sold for $3,5O3.5O.
A litter of six pigs sold for 2,222.5O.
The first fifteen pigs sold brought an
average price OF over 5000, and the
average for the whole herd was $7l.
The highest price paid for one hog
was 1915. Mr.. Pogue is cousin of
Mrs. o. A. Potter on route 2, north
west of Laclede.
A certain newspaper man in Iowa
relates an experience that might shed
,ome light on the mail order business.
He was at the town depot and saw a
armer friend receive bill of furni-
;ure from Chicago. He attempted to
prove to the latter that he was making
. mistake as the local dealer would
furnish him the same or better goods
ust as cheap and the profits would be
rent at home. "But," said the farm
II, e'this is the first 1 have heard that
here is such firm in your town. 1
lave taken your paper for five years
md have never seen line of adver-