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Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
Mr.. w. A. Morris Dead.

VIM. A. Morris, after about u
years illness, died at his home in
this city early last Thursday
morning. He was a native of this
county, born February ID, 1852.
Was the son of Judge John b.
Morris and wife, deceased. The
wife and one son survives him,
Fred A. Morris, also three broth
ers and sister, John Morris of
st. Louis, Thomas Morris of Bill
ings, Mont, and Pate S. Morris
Of Mexico, and Mrs. Lucy Graham
also of Mexico.
Deceased entered the grocery
business in this city about 81 yea =
ago. His store is now conduct. d
by his son, Fred A. Morris, and Il
is the oldest established grocery
store in Mexico.
Mr.. Morris disease was called
enlargement Of the bones. His
death was expected soon. He re-
allied that. On the evening just
before his death when he sat
down to his supper he remarked
that it would be his last meal.
The funeral was held Sunday
afternoon at 2 80 at the residence
conducted by Rev. a. a. Wallace.
The active pail bearers were
John B. Graham, r. r. Arnold,
Jr., Lewis Mckee, Geo. A. Morris
and Mize Peters, all nephews OF
deceased.
The honorary pail bearers were
S. NJ. Locke, A. X. Luckie, j. II
Sallee, p. E. Locke, Joe Luckie
j. n. Basket, r. r. Arnold, Sr.
|. II. Talbot, John Hill, Willard
Potts, J. II. Lane, j. d. Mckee
Geo. ii. Kunkle, John Abbay, VIM
Vivion and Il. r. Locke.
In the death Of Mr.. Morris Tho
community loses a most worthy
citizen. The Message joins score,
of friends in extending sincerest
sympathy to the mourning rela
tives.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

The following communication
appeared in the Perry Enterprise
last week:
Mexico, Mo, Oct. II, 1909.
Ed. Enterprise Thinking a
few of your readers would pro-
badly like to know where / am
living, and what | am doing, |
will write a few lines and tell
them. am farming three and
one half miles south of Mexico
on farm of 123 acres that /
bought two years ago for $50 per
acre and could have sold it a few
weeks ago for $65 per acre, and
may do so yet. My father and
mother are living half mile
south of me and they are as well
as myself and family and are do
ing we'll and all are in real good
health, My father is tending 40
acres of corn and 90 acres of oats
this year. His oats made about 30
bushel per acre and his corn is
very good considering the drouth
Ny mother has a nice lot of chick
ems and is making lots Of money
from them. My wife also has q
nice bunch of chickens and be-
sides buying nearly all of om
groceries has a nice little bank
account. Aside from 10 acres Of
oats | rented to my father, | had
30 acres Of oats that made 36 bu
per acre. | am going to haul of
a part of them this week at 35J
per bu. Have dug my potatoes
10 acre which made 60 bushel.
Iput out and tended so acres Of
corn this year, which will yield m,
from 30 to so bushels per acre.
took ID bushel of Reeds yellow
Dent to Ferris & Cauthorn's corr
show in their store at Mexico K
try for the corn planter they
gave as a premium for the bes
l-2 bushel shown, and | carrie(
off the red ribbon out of 212 en-
tires which ] will make worth a
much to me as the planter is Il
the other fellow,
{. Yours truly
Arthur Irick
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
THE ELECTRIC R. R.
Farmers Being Initiated Into the
Mysteries of Railroad
Finance.

The novel plan of financing a
railroad by selling the bonds to
the people along the line of the
proposed road is now on trial all
along the line from Perry to Here
ford. The people and especially
the farmers of Audrain and adj
joining counties are being in
itiated into the mysteries of rail
road finance, and building here
tofore supposed to be known only
TO Wall Street.
The oldest feature of it all is
that the people who are doing the
selling and making the best pro-
gress are committees of farmers.
The people with their proverbial
Missouri bred caution are study
ing the subject carefully each for
himself but almost invariably ar
irving at d favorable conclusion.
The Burns plan is daily growing
in favor with the substantial
people of every community to
which it has been presented.
The work of procuring subscrip-
tions for bonds by committees has
progressed far enough to indicate
success. 1t is belived that half
the amount required for the Santa
Fe Hereford division has already
been subscribed. The section
from Mexico to Hereford seems to
be the best organized. There are
four committees at work there.
one organized at Hisey school
house, one at Flynt school house
one at Hatton and one at Here
ford. These COMMITTEES have the
assistance of such well known men
as Shan Brown, Baxter Guthrie.
Sam Craighead and Tom and Mike
Murray. The number of two
thousand and twenty-five hundre
dollar subscriptions reported from
that section shows that they IN
tend to have the road. They will
undoubtedly have the 100000 al
lotted to them subscribed by M
vember 1st, if present indications
count. Conditions at Santa Fe
are about the same. The strong
men of that community are com
ing to the front with their thOuS-
ands and their quota though lar &c
for their numbers will soon be
made up.
The section from Mexico to No.
limo is not yet fully organized,
having as yet but one committee,
but active work will be pushed
there as soon as Mr.. Burns returns
which will be- next week.
The work at Mexico is being
conducted on the still. hunt plan
with every prospect of success
Comparison of results so far OBJ
tanned with former efforts indi
Gates that the eighty thousand
dollars will be subscribed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Mr.. r. b. King, Of near Aux
vase, and Miss Emma Sebastian,
Of Stephens Store, came to Mex
leo last Thursday and were united
in marriage, Rev II, E. Truck, Of
fciating.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
SOME CASH; SOME NEWS.

subscription list.
G. II. Sharp, out in the vicinity
of Santa Fe, renews.
G. II. Wessler, at Plains, Kan,
renews for the Message.
w. Q. Maxwell at Greenburg,
Kans., sends us dollar on renew
al.
G.. X. Crane, of the vicinity OF
Martinsburg, subscribes for the
Message.
r. A. Jesse renews for his
daughter, Mrs. c. c. Cullers, at
Tracy, Iowa.
F. NJ. Tinsley, one of this towns
good citizens, renews for the
Message.
Mrs. John II. Baker, at Molino,
called the other day and renewed
for this paper.
H. j. Kammarmeyer, a substan-
tial farmer down Laddonia way,
renews his subscription.
w. c. Dye at Milan, Wash,
sends remittance to pay for his
paper to January, 1911.
c. l.. Anderson, at Missoula,
Mont, pushes his subscription
date for the Message up into 1919.
T. j. Dwyer, a former Audrain
county citizen, now living at Troy,
has our thanks for a renewal
favor.
J. Cad Crockett changes his
address for the Message from
Canyon City, Texas, back to Mex
leo.
Mike Shire, south of Mexico,
has moved into the neighborhood
east of AuXvasse and orders the
Message to follow him.
NJ. l.. Swift, at Vancouver,
Washington, sends us one dollar
and says "Please extend my sub
scription another year. "
Tobe league, at Doniphar,
Neb., sends us a U. S. certificate
for one dollar and says, "Here is
luck to you, push mp my Message
subscription date a notch" "
Phil Redman of st. Louis.
former citizen of Mexico for many
years, sends us a nice remittance
to keep the Message coming to his
address. He adds this line of en-
couragement: Your paper is IA
welcome visitor to our home"
| c. c. Bybee renews for the
| Message. He returned last week
from a business trip to Lawtol,
IOkla. Also visited his old friend
Felix Arnall at Monitor. Felix
is very popular auctioneer down
there; cries sales for three cOuu-
ties and recently cried 81 out of
106 sales held. Felix Arnall is
well remembered in Mexico an
Audrain county.
H. l.. Wakefield of st. Louis
hands us a dollar on renewal. He
says he likes the Message in every
regard except in some of our spell
ing. He thinks we have under
taken a hopeless job of reform.
Can t help it, brother The Nation
al Teachers Association started
the movement and we are in with
them. While some may think it
little short of criminal to shorten
the decalOg, most of us will agree
! that the public could spare even
a greater portion of the demagog.
We must also admire the consist
J ency which the pedagogs have
shown in curtailing their own
formidable by-name. The Mes
sage has twelve words in its re-
] form list and if we should have
. occasion to use all of them in one
paragraph we would save 30 let
: ters in spelling them.
a See the Message subscription
G list grow.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
AUDRAN FARMERS.
Some Suggestions About Select
ing Your Seed Corn.

NJ. F. Miller, of the Agricultur-
al College and Experiment Sta
ton at Columbia, Mo, sends the
Message the following communi-
cation and requests its publica-
ton for the benefit Of the corn
growers Of Audrain county.
There is no more important fac
tor concerned in the production
of large yields of corn than the
proper selection and care of the
seed. The matter of selecting seel
ears of desirable quality is just
as important to the farmer who is
growing his own seed as is the
selection Of animals for breeding
purposes. The varieties of corn
which we now have been de-
veloped by careful selection but
too often there is little or no at
tention given to this matter by our
farmers.
If a man can spare the time, the
best method of selecting seed corn
is to allow it TO become thorough
ly ripened on the stalk and then
select it from the field before the
corn is picked. There is consider
able advantage to be gained in be-
ing able to examine the stalk from
which an ear of corn comes. In
this way a man can select ears
only from those stalks which have
the normal amount of room and
which have the ears at the proper
height. Frequently good ears as
we pick them from the cribs are
imply due to the fact that the
stalk on which they grew was the
only one in the hill and therefore
had a much better chance than
the average. What we want is Il
good ear produced on stalks which
have only an average chance and
which are good because of some
hereditary cause. Such ears will
be more productive than those
selected from isolated stalks.
The next best way to select seed
corn is to select the good ears as
the, corn is being picked and
throw these in a box on the wag-
on separate from the main load.
This is the common method of
those who give reasonable care ii
seed corn selection. But in what-
ever way these selections are
made considerably larger
amount of corn should be thus
selected than is necessary for
seed, SO it will then be possible to
reselect before storing them for
the winter.
This selected corn should be
spread in a thin layer on some
convenient Hoor space and allow,
ed to dry out quickly. Some men
lprovide rough racks in which tc
store this corn to favor its rapid
drying. Cold weather has little
effect on dry corn. If the corn is
not thoroughly dry when heavy
freezing comes it is almost in,
varibly injured in germinatio
and the strength of germinatiol
of corn has a great deal more :,
do with the yield than is common
ly supposed.
There are a number of ways il
which corn can be stored so Al
to keep it dry and of strong ger
mination during the winter, sucl
as hanging up by the husks or OF
wires or storing in racks as ha
been mentioned. Where a MAJ
has an attic or vacant room in tn
house, it is frequently good pla,
to use that for seed corn storage
The method of artificially dry
ing seed corn is not of much I'M
, portance in Missouri whore tn
falls are usually long, but if
storage place can be found wher
the temperature does not ri
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Miss Agnes Kau of Centralia,
visited the family Of j. Hori
Davis, northeast Of Mexico, last
week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Lutte Diggs Of this county lost
his dwelling, tool house and ma
chine shop by fire one day last
week. Property insured for $500,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Rev E, L. Rutledge Of Vandalia
came last week to assist Rev. II.
1. Cobb in the revival meeting at
Littleby, northeast of Mexico,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
EMMoNs' SALE.
H. e. Blume Buys FARM, ,006
Hogs on Feed-W. e. Cum
ningham, Weavy-We
Mule Buyer.

for the st. Louis and Chicago
markets.
C. F. Clark returned last week
from Hereford, Texas, where he
bought 400 head of two year old
cattle which he will ship here and
feed thru the winter.
A. T. Smock, the new druggist
who has moved to Mexico, has
bought Y. J. Cornett's residence,
on East Monroe street, paying
$3,750.
j. j, F. Johnson, president of
the Benton City bank, and G. A.
James, cashier of said bank, and
A. f. Romans, with Mr.. johnson
in the. grain and stock business,
have bought Frank Giefer's 176
acre farm, just north of Benton
City. It's a good place and not
half a decade hence will be worth
| 800 an acre and then some.
: The Kansas City Star had a
high compliment a few days ago
for Tom Bass, of Mexico, the
negro owner of prize horses. Bass
got several blue ribbons WI his
horses at the late Stock Show IN
Kansas City.
The Misses Long, of Sturgeon,
have bought the old DR.. II. K.
Hinde place of Holly Witherspoon
in southeast Mexico, paying 1850.
II. E. Blum, of near Laddonia,
has bought a nice little farm near
Thompson and moved to it a few
days ago.
Tom Gill sold milk cow to f.
J. Morrison for $44.25.
S. p. Emmons & Son will hold
their annual ShOrthOrn cattle sale
in Mexico Tuesday, Nov. 16.
The Perry Enterprise says:
About % months ago Ben Pay
ton, of Jasper township, invested
$16.50 in a SOW, since which time
he has sold 1852 A worth of hogs
| farrowed by her, and has the sow
and 9 twO-mOnths aid pigs lef:
How does this strike you for a
$3.50 investment?
Hiram Unsell, Of near Frank
ford, Pike county, had one thous-
and and six hogs on feed in the
pens on his farm at one time. He
began shipping the hogs out 4
few days ago.
| The Fulton Gazette says: w. E.
Cunningham, heavyweight mule
buyer of Laddonia,, passed
through Fulton Tuesday after
noon with 81 head of cotton mules
which he had bought in Maries
county, They cost him about $40
a head; and he was on his way
to his Audrain county home,
where he has as many more of the
same class on feed. Mr.. Cunning
ham is frequent visitor at Full
ton stock sales.
j. M. Richardson, of Berea
neighborhood, bought a SOW for
$35 and a sow and nine pigs for
$25 at Charles Sharp's sale.
The New Florence Leader says
A farm near Laddonia was rented
for $5 an acre. In the hill counties
there are still some pretty good
tracts Of land that can be bought
outright for SIS an acre.
Stonewall Sanford sold fine
milk COW to w. 0. Edmonston fol
, $50.
Rolla Edwards of near Rusl
{ Hill sold a mule colt to Walter
Wilson in Mexico last saturda,
for $75.
! James Blevin sold a mule col
/ to Chas. spotswood for $35.
Mrs. Banta of Illinois is visitinl
! the family Of s. r. Finley in thi
city,
a 80, a..
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

b. r. Middleton, Lee Bros, and
Tom Bass, all of this city, hive
fine horses at the big Horse Show
in st. Louis this week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
A $4,000 SALE.
w. w. Johnson Disposes Of a Jack
for $1,OOO-other Property
Sold.

leo, had very successful public
sale last week. The total of every
thing amounted to $10,57S.75.
George Gardner bought a jack for
$1,000, also paid $27O for a Mont
rose stallion.
The live stock sales were as fol
LOWS. Red COW, George Pitmah,
$36; red heifer, George Gardner,
$50 white COW, George Gardner,
$31; milk COW, w. H. johnson,
$50; six calves, Geo. Gardner,
$114; white heifer, w. H. johnson,
$10.50; red bull, Geo. Gardner,
$45; red bull, Taylor Berrey,
$3.50; spotted bull, J. T. John
son, $39; two steers j. G.. Ford,
1863; four year old jack, George
Gardner, $1,000; jennet and jack
colt, Geo. Gardner, 5000; five year
old jack, Bert Beard, $495; black
jennet f. L. Crosby, 5000; jennet
and colt, Geo. Gardner, $175;
yearling jennet, Geo. Lewis, $215;
three year old jennet, F. L. Cros-
by, $3.50; Montrose stallion, Geo.
Gardner, $270; gray stallion, Geo.
Lewis, 5000; jennet and colt, F.
A.. Crosby, $40; bay mare, F. L.
Crosby,$205; mule colt, j. T.
johnson, $71; gray mare,
Geo. Gardner, 800; sorrel mare,
Geo. Gardner, $175; sorrel mare,
Geo. Gardner, $50; sorrel mare,
w. D. Mason, 1857; filley, Geo.
Gardner, 500; sorrel horse, Geo.
Gardner, $135; black horse, Geo.
Gardner, $40; gray horse, Earl
Carter, $117.50; SOW, j. T. John
son, $3.50; SOW, j. T. johnson,
$26; sow, j. T. johnson, $27; sow,
j. T. johnson, $27; sow, Geo.
Gardner, $27.50; SOW, Geo.
Gardner, $3.50; boar, j. T. John
son, $l5; gilt, A. A. Snow, 1915; /;
seven gifts, Geo. Lewis, $685.
boar, Showers, $40; boar, A, A..
Snow, $3.50; boar, j. p. Powell,
81; boar, j. F. Vigal, $3.50; boar,
II, Barnes, $3.50; boar, j. Marshall
$3.50; boar, w. L. Bybee, boar,
j. E. Pitcher, $3.50; 1S shoats,
Geo. Gardner, $8910; nine ewes,
w. d. Mason, $24.75; buck w. H.
johnson, $40; buck, Geo. Gard
ner, $15; buck, w. H. johnson,
$15; buck, Geo. Gardner, $15.25
red COW, j. Rieckers, $50; two
calves, T. Berry, $56; roam COW,
j. t. johnson, $40; COW, j. G..
Ford, $55; COW, Geo. Gardner,
$39; COW, Geo. Gardner, $50; bay
horse, F. B. Cook, $110; sorrel
Arnott, $3.50; sorrel horse,
Finks, $3.50; black horse, F. B,
Cook, $40; gray mare, E. II. Car.
ter, $270; filley, Geo. Gardner
$125, gray Ally, j. T. johnson
SIS; sorrel mare, Geo. Gardner
$40; bay mare, Geo. Gardner, $40
bay colt, W. johnson, $42.50; gray
colt, Geo. Gardner, $50; brown
colt, Geo. Gardner, $40; bay colt
W. d. Mason, $58; bay colt, Geo
Gardner, $50; gray colt, Earl Car
ter, $36; black mare, j. Hender
son, SIS; bay mule, Milt House
holder, $61 pair mules, NJ. House
holder, $3.50; mule colt, Mix,
Peck, $40; bay filley, Alex Carter
$73; mule colt, NJ. Peck, $s5
mule colt, Joe Mongler, $55
black colt, Woods, SOL; blael
colt, Geo, Gardner, $47.50, sorre
mare, A. P johnson, $S7; ba,
mare, G. N. johnson, SO; year
ling colt, r. Carter, $40; two yea
old colt, G, Pittman, SOL; ba,
horse, G. Pittman, $71j sorre
mare, Chas Lewis, 500; 90 ewes
Geo Gerdner, $s8; 20 ewes, I
Canthorn, $92 20 ewes, r. Cauth
orn $92; % ewes, Geo. Gardnel
$780, % ewes, Geo. Gardner
1.OfT r.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

j. T, johnson, the popular aus
tioneer, cried big sale for c. c.
Judy, at Tallula, H., this week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Mrs. Elizabeth Luckie will
spend the winter with her son at
Houston, Texas.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Ford, of Mexico; w. II. johnson,
of La Plata; M. V. Harrison, Of
Fulton; C. B. Carroll, of Farber,
and Ed Atchison, Of Worcester.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

DR.. j. b. Hawkins was in Lad
donia on professional business last
Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

w. w. Mckinney of this city
is assisting in street paving work
in Kirksville.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Mrs. Banta of Illinois is visiting
the family of S, r Finley in this
city,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

See the Message subscription
list grow.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21

Mrs, Albert Kemen visited in
Laddonia last week,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-21
An Audrain County Farmer.

The following communication
appeared in the Perry Enterprise
last week:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
HE DESCRIBES AN ELEPHANT HUNT

after with his fatal beauty and win.
ming ways, or we shall have more nc
gro women to bring back than animals
in cages.
Talk about your innocent negroes,
they will cheat you out of your boots.
Pa went off in the jungle to buy
animals of negro king or some kind
of nine spot. and he found the king
had in corral half dozen green
zebras, the usual yellow stripes being
the most beautiful green you ever saw.
The king told Pa it was rare species
only procured in a mountain fastness
hundreds of miles away, and Pa
bought the whole bunch at fabulous
price, and brought them to camp. Mr..
Hagenbach was tickled to death at
the rare animals, and praised Pa, and
said there was fortune in the green
and black striped zebras. l thought
there was something wrong when l
heard one of those zebras bray like a
mule when he was eating hay, but 1t
wasn't my put in, and l didn't say
anything.
That night there was the greatest
rain we have had since we came here,
and in the morning the green and
black striped zebras hadn't stripe on
them, and they proved to be nothing
but wild asses and assesses, white
and dirty, and all around the corral
the water standing on the ground was
cOlOred green and black,
Mr. Hagenbach took Pa out to the
corral and pointed to the wild white
mules and said, What do you think
of your green zebras now?" Pa looked
them over and said: Say, that negro
king is nothing but Pullman porter,
and he painted those mules and sawed
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
LIVE STOCK IN THE FARM.

1t costs no more to keep a flock OF
well-bred sheep than lot of moor
ones that return no profit.
The natural life of sheep is about
ten years. Up to this time they will
thrive and breed WELL
The age Of sheep can be told by
their teeth. When they are a wear
and half old they shed their two
center teeth-and two wide ones grow
out in their place.
The next year the two next are
shed, and the four central teeth are
fully grown when the sheep are three
years old.
A place should be provided in every
stall for water bucket, with an az.
rangement to fasten it in place.
Watering should always be done il
buckets, which should be used fc,
nothing else.
A bucket of water should be Left
in each stall at ten o'clock at night.
when the last round of the stables is
made.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27

together and occupy scarcely any
room. Cut out two circular pieces of
wood from %-inch board in the
shape suggested in the cut. Setting
them at the proper distance apart,
tack a strip of canvas, or other stout
cloth, around the curved partition, as
shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton. Nail strap and a buckle at
the sides, to go over the head, and the
feed basket will be complete. The
form of this basket, explains Orange
Judd Farmer, more nearly fits the
shape OF horses head, and besides,
because of it's oblong shape, gives the
horse more freedom in opening his
mouth than does the close-fitting
round basket.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-01-27
Concrete Feeding Floor.

out or scalded twice a week at least.
! Foul troughs are good breeding places
for parasites that may be taken into
the stomach of the hog and cause sick
ness or death. Damp floors may be
overcome if the house is we'll aired
and windows enough are in it to let
the sunshine in on the floors.
At feeding time use care that no
swill is stopped into the bedding or
on the floors. 1t is also injurious to
the health of the hogs to allow dust to
accumulate on the partitions and in
feeding pens.
If any are in the habit of feeding
hogs corn scattered IN the mud or
dust of a dry yard, they should build
feeding floor and use it. Go into any
herd that is fed in the dust from
thrown-down corn and much wheeling
and coughing will be heard. This is
injurious to all hogs, and especially
those kept for breeding purposes.
My feeding floor is shown in the
sketch, and is built solidly of good
material. 1t is set inches above the
level, and around the edge 2x4
piece is nailed, which prevents lots
of shelled or ear corn being pushed
off into the dirt and dust. 1t is swept
off each time before feeding.
A flor of this kind can be used for
feeding alfalfa or clover hay. In feed
ing my hogs alfalfa l cut it into 4-inch
lengths and soak it few minutes in
tank of hot water. This does not
boil the alfalfa, but just heats it
enough to make coarse stems tender
and tender ones more toothsome.
1t is lifted from the tank on a fork
and allowed to drain well, when it is
thrown upon the feeding floor. Pigs
never leave much of it. For brood
sows it makes an ideal feed, keeping
them in good flesh, but not fat enough
to hurt their breeding proclivities or
injure their ease of narrowing.