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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-29

should now begin and put in good
quantity, as they seem to be a fine
crop to balance the field peas. I have
found no other crop that balances the
field pea so we'll as sweet potatoes.
Hogs will not fatten nearly so fast
on the field peas and potatoes as they
will on the ground peas. But we
should make a speciality of growing
the field pea for the special benefit of
the land, as there is not any other
legume to we'll suited to thin, sandy
land as the field pea. By observation
I find that hogs will eat about two
thirds feed of potatoes to one-third
of peas. My tenant has raised 1850
pounds of very good pork almost en-
tirely with peas and potatoes.
1t is best to arrange the potato
patches so as the hogs can have access
to both peas and potatoes at the same
time. After the weather gets cold
have the potatoes hilled or placed
convenient, so as to feed with as lit
tie trouble as possible Do not fail
to feed potatoes freely in latter part
of the time hogs are running on peas,
especially in December.-H. M. John
son. in Progressive Farmer.
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RAISE SWEET POTATOES FOR
FEED.

Messrs. Editors: The hog cholera
struck my hogs last fall just at the
time to put them up. I had a very
large quantity of potatoes had rails
ed, expecting to feed to my hogs.
Consequently had to dispose Of them
as best I could after I lost several of
my hogs. There was a large per cent
of them Humans, which, of course,
are not at all salable on the market
Therefore, have fed them freely to
my mules, feeding two-thirds feed of
potatoes in place of corn in connec-
ton with peavine hay and shredded
corn fodder.
They have kept in fine order, and
am sure it will pay we'll to feed the
sweet potatoes to stock from four to
six months in the year
The Hamans are the best keepers
of any kind have tried and they pro-
duce very abundantly.
All farmers who have not fixed to
grow potatoes for feed for stock
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-29
CULTIVATION OF SMALL
ACREAGE.

[ guess every land owner has met
the renter who will come and look
over a good-sized farm and then tell
you it is hardly as much land as he
would like to tend. I have had this
experience, and have had the renter
to decide to take the farm and then
plant about One-third of it.
One of the worst mistakes made by
the tenant is trying to spread out
over too much land. If he would Gull
tivate a small number of acres and
fertilize and work it we'll he would
have better results with less expense
and less work 1t would be lesson
to some of them if they could see
some little farms of foreigners and
even some gardens in cities cultivated
by people who are not handicapped
by the notion that they can do moth
ing unless they have several hundreds
of acres to tend.
The farmer can always count on
uAFGlold0u CAOp0 1O1 oOAI0 VI ChC1h dA0
sure to hit. He can make a success
of cattle raising if he will raise his
own feed, and there is no danger of
the poultry business ever being over
run, for we are sure that the supply
will never meet the demand.
Let the tenant quit trying to Guilt
vate too much land, and what he
does let him do it we'll.
E. F.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH
OF COL. JOEL B. FORT AT
YANCEYVILLE, n. G.

Ladies and fellow citizens, 1873
in the history of nations; an era when
manhood and might arose and threw
off the tyranny of the British crown.
They were your ancestors and mine.
The same blood courses through your
veins and mine. | am proud of the
fact that | am descended from the
good old North Carolina stock, and
I want to do my little mite toward the
happiness of my fellow man. If per-
chance our ancestors should look
down upon us today, they would see
pitiable sight. Are we race of
freemen or slaves bowling down at the
foot of some power other than God?
1t was a principle our fathers con-
tended for, and not the tea tax. They
could have drunk something else-T
thank you liquor was plentiful and
very cheap then.
THANK God the same blood flows
in my veins as that which prompted
the North Carolinians to say to the
advancing enemy: Fire and be damn
ed I want to appeal to you for
higher and nobler thing than the get
ting of little money. When man
begins to love money more than his
fellow man he forgets the purpose
for which God created him. When
the flower of affection dies in a mans
heart he becomes a cold and merci-
less being. I quit politics because
couldn't follow the principles of the
higher and nobler law and be a sue
cessful politician. When a man gets
to wanting money too much he'll
steal. We must love our fellow man
as we'll as God. When man wor-
ships God and doesn't love his neigh
Dor he'll go to hell as fast as if he
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What Our Farmers Are Saying and Doing

have the price fixed by the trust?
You say I know this can be done, and
it will benefit the whole country, and
bring prosperity and hope when we
now have poverty and depression, if
the farmers would just unite. Then
why don't you do it? You are the
very man who stands apart and re-
fuses to fall in line to remedy the
evil. You have no right to ask an
other to do for you what you won't
do for yourself. A man is a coward
and an Migrate who would have his
neighbor defend his home, while he
hides in the bushes. Is it not part of
the history of North Carolina and
Virginia that her sons were never
found in the rear or tagging in de-
tense of our country, or in the up
building Of the material interests of
the country? The battle is on,
men of North Carolina. There is no
middle ground. Choose We this day
whom We will serve. Choose this
day whether you will stand idly by
and allow the tobacco trust to con-
tinue it's robbery, continue it's frauds
and expressions on your people, or
whether you will fall in line and by
one concerted action, brother to
brother, neighbor to neighbor, stand
for and upbuild the interests of your
State The hard worked housewife,
the ragged, barefoot, uneducated
children plead in thunder tones for
your help, shall it be withheld? Can
you resist such a sacred call to duty?
II want to see you fall in man to
man. [ want to see your solid col
umns of patriotic men sweep the enc
my from the field and place anew the
rose Of health in the wan cheek of the
over-worked housewife. I want to
see you dot every section of our old
State with school houses and filled
with we'll fed and we'll clothed chill
dren, for they are the friend and hope
of the future. I want to see the worn
and waste places, poor on account of
cheap tobacco, sewed up and restored
to their former fertility, and I want
to hear the song of hope and the song
of prosperity ring in every valley and
on every hilltop of my old mother
70 10 @e @1,4L
Yanceyville, N. G.
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CNNCO'' OWN
your neighbor. | am not here to stir
you up l came not with blood in
my eye and thunder in my tone. [
came with a rose in my heart. I came
with seeds of good will to scatter,
that you may love your neighbor bet
ter, that you may build up the coun-
try home, which is presided over by
the farmers wife, the glorious wo-
man who gives to the land of Ameri-
ca the choicest of citizenship the
grandeur of patriotism and glory to
the American nation. I came to stand
for the man that God made and the
higher and nobler plan of life. In the
fight that is coming for organization,
we want an army of men to stand for
right and eternally against the
wrong.
Give heard since coming to Blanch
that the agents of the trust were tell
ing that I had sold out What if [
had? What if one man should sell
out? Is it any reason that the rest
should give up the fight? Isn't it
more shame that the trust should
bride a man? They've told that I was
a might rider'-I who have lifted my
voice in the mountains of Tennessee
against the very thing, and whose
life has been threatened and assault
ed. They may kill me, but what I
have said will live on and on. I say
what I please and [ acknowledge no
master save God alone.
''There has been, and always will
be, a contest between the buyer and
the seller. The buyer wants the prod
uct as cheap as possible, and the SELL
er wants the price as high as posi-
BILE. The tobacco grower is willing
for the issue between the buyer and
the seller to be tried in the court of
supply and demand, with a just and
unbiased judge, before an impartial
jury. The trust has packed the jury,
owns, controls and pays the judge,
and the tobacco grower will no longer
submit to such farce of trial. to such
fraud on the name of sale.
"Who decides whether or not there
is an over-production of tobacco? The
trust. Who fixes the price on the
growers tobacco? The trust. It even
fixes the price before the seed are
sown in the plant bed. The trust
employs agents, and to them the or
der is given, average price is given,
which they are allowed to pay. The
agent has no discretion in the mat
ter. The warehousemen may appeal
as much as he WILL but the orders
are like the laws of the Modes and
Persians unyielding and unalterable.
$50 far the law\has been powerless
to give relief. So far the issue has
been tried alone by the trust, and the
blight and ruin and poverty which
has fallen to the lot of the tobacco
grower left him without remedy.
What will you do? Will you sit SUI
pinely by and allow the matter to go
on from bad to worse? There is a
remedy, and you have it in your own
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS!

To any subscriber of the Jefferson
ian wishing to make an investment
we refer you to Larchmont Farm,
New York corporation, whose adver-
tisement appears on another page.
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CT llB 8
We Club the Weekly JefferSOnian
WITH

Atlanta Constitution. E.
(tri-weekly) $3.50
Atlanta Georgian daily. 4.5O
Farmers Union News. $50
Royston Record. e. . 1.25
Progressive Farmer. 1.15
Cotton journal. 1.50
Brann's IcOnOcIast. ITO
Wilshire's Magazine. no
Southern Ruralist. Ito
COmmOner. Ito
The Farmers Voice. ITO
Uncle Remus's Magazine. no
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
MARTINSBURG.

Mr.. Devault and Miss Elfie
Walker spent a few days in Now
Florence last week and took in
the picnic Saturday.
n. NJ. Friedman and son, Ray
monl, returned from New York
Friday. Raymond was delighted
with his trip.
n. Martin and wife visited at
Albert Martins Sunday.
Mrs. II. p. French with her two
children left Monday for an eX.
tended visit with her sister, Mrs
Ed. Walker, in Trinidad, Colo.
Henry Martin and wife were
Mexico visitors this week.
Rev. c. w. Eliston goes to
Armstrong on the fourth Sunday
of this month and will preach
here on the 9th Sunday this time
Hereafter he will preach regular
ly on The second and fourth.
The county meeting held at
Liberty, south of town, last week
was quite an enjoyable affair
Very large attendance and had
both dinner and supper ON the
ground. All report a good time
Mrs. T. Clark and two little
girls of Frisco. Texas, visited
Miss NJ. Z. Rogers a few days last
week.
\ very sad accident occurred
here Saturday night, MIR. Riley
Dudley with his two daughters
while crossing the railroad were
struck by a freight train. One
girl was SO badly hurt that she
only lived few minutes. The
other was carried some distance
and was fearfully bruised, but ne
bones were broken, and it j.
hoped she viii recover, The faith
er escaped unhurt, also the team
The buggy was broken to pieces
Miss Zada Rogers is visiting il
Kansas City.
Ben Meyerpeter is very sick
Also Lon Burehard is quite sick
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
Mr.. Browning Dead.

George Festus Browning died
at his home in this city last Sat
urday night. He was SO years OF
age and had been in a feeble con
iition Of health for some time.
Funeral services were held at
the home Monday afternoon, CON
Quoted by his pastor, Rev. II. Z.
Truck, after which the remains
were inferred in Rest Haven.
The wife and five children sur
vive him. The children are as fol
lows: Mrs. O. H. Powers, of
Rock Island, Texas; j. A. and W.
p. Browning, of Kansas City, Mrs.
w. l.. Crawford of Paris, Monroe
county, and Mrs. Wallace Rogers
of near Columbia.
Deceased was a native of Cul-
pepper county, Virginia, born
April II. 1926. In his 10th year
with his parents he moved to
Monroe county, Mo-, living there
until 1854, when he was married
to Miss Mildred Bolts, a daughter
Of Peyton Bolts, who was also a
native Of Virginia. They resided
on a farm in the north part of this
county until about u years ago
whom they moved to this city.
A good citizen is gone. Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

The weather continues very
warm.
Threshing is the order of the
day.
w. T. Pulls bought horse late
ly, paying 1920 for it.
Lee Mayes Of High Hill bought
property in Centralia and will
move to it in the near future.
Tom Foracre of our district and
Ed. Edwards, his brother-in-law,
have gone to Southwest Missouri
on prospecting tour.
Charles Sellers delivered two
wagon loads of hogs at Centralia
the past week.
b. f. Pulls and f. p. Pulls and
Lee Cox are hauling their coal
from Stevens store.
Elmer Shock and family were
callers at Ben Pulls one evening
last week.
Born. to the wife of Frank
Berry, a son, on the 4th of this
month. The little babe is quite
sick. not expected to live.
Tn 10 year old son of Jack
Jennings who has been afli.Jct
with appendicitis for two weeks
Or more was operated on Sunday.
Today (Monday) the sad news
comes to us that he is dying. Our
hearts go out in sympathy to the
relatives in this sad hour.
Miss Virginia and Susie Boyd
visited their sister Sunday. Mrs.
Elmer Shock.
Miss Annie Rcnic and Mary
Alice Dempsey are visiting Grace
and Eugenia Smith this week.
Rev. w. ID, Pulls who has be
quite sick is comvaIeScent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
VIM. Steffens Dead.

VIM. Steffens, Y years Of age,
died at his home in this city last
Tuesday morning. lie had been
in declining, health for a number
Of months.
The funeral was held at the
home yesterday afternoon, the
Masonic order having charge,
Rev A. A. Wallace preaching the
funeral.
Deceased was native Of
Germany. He came to America in
1855, settling at Galena, Ill. When
the war broke out he join ] the
Union Army and was a soldier
under Gen. Grant At Mount
Carroll, ILL.,, in 1866, he was
married to Miss Lucinda Middak.
The wife survives him. There
were no children. They raised an
orphan boy, Willie Steffens.
Mr.. Steffens was a good man
the noblest work Of God.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12

sidine several thousand bundles
of oats at 2 IL cents.
Misses Laura Brown and Lula
Tinslcy were pleasantly entertain
ed by their friend, Miss Ruth
Black of Centralia, last week.
Homer Wigham sold one horse
mule colt to b. Barnes for $50.
Mrs. A. Morris is entertaining
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex.
Roberts, for a few weeks.
Joe Considine sold three aged
horse mules to T.. Attibcry Of st.
Louis for 5000.
c. Y. Barnes will receive over
a $1,000 for his oats and wheat
he threshed this season.
There will be an ice cream sup
per at Liberty church next Sat
urday night, Aug. II, for the
benefit of the church.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
THOMPSON.

Miss Edna Cant left Saturday
for a visit to her uncle in St.
Louis.
Little Virginia Mcdonald is
here, the guest of her grand
mother, Mrs. Cogswell.
II. r. Cant and son, Wheeler,
left Sunday on a business trip
to Omaha.
G. w. Wisdom sold one span
of work mules to C. Householder
for $3.50
DR. T.. f. Elliott of Kansas City
has been here on vacation with
his brother, f. f. Elliott; return
ID home this week.
Miss Lou Chadwick and Miss
Fishback of Holden are visiting
George Chadwick and family.
j. f, Baker sold 30 yearling
heifers and % yearling steers to
Sam. Craighead, to be delivered
in October. Mr.. Baker received
Il cents for this sale. They are
the Pollangus stock and are the
extra fine quality. Mr.. B.
handles this breed of cattle.
Mr., and Mrs. Alex. Roberts arc
visiting L, NJ. Morris and wife.
Wisdom Bros. sold to Joe Con
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
PoWELL FoRp.

The hot weather has caused
much sickness in this vicinity,
Miss Lena Hamilton is spending
her vacation in this neighborhood
with relatives and friends.
The threshing machine has
about closed its work for this sea
son. Oats and wheat are a good
quality
Miss Alicia Mason is the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mason this
week.
Mrs. Sarah Carter and daugh-
ter, Miss Sallie Carter, Of Okla
homa, was the guest of Mrs.
James Powell Saturday and Sun
day.
Mrs. McMurtry entertained her
mother, Mrs. McPheeters of Mex
leo, her aunt, from Auxvasse and
Mrs. Wakefield of Kansas City,
last week.
Miss Bessie Corner Of Laddonia.
was the guest of Miss Bennetta
billiard last week.
Mrs. f. b. Cook and son, Rus
sell, arc visiting in Des Moines,
Iowa.
All are saddened to hear Of the
death of Mr.. Henderson, and ex-
tend sympathy to the bereaved
ones.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12

rights, claims, interests and demands
whatsoever of the parties, and each of
them, concerning and effecting said
real estate and to award full and
complete relief, legal and equitable,
to the several parties, and to each
of them, as fully and with the same
force and effect, as the Court might
or could in any other or different ac-
ton brought by any of the parties
against the other of them and to adj
Judge and decree the title in fee to
said real property to be in plaintiff;
and unless you said defendants be
and appear on or before the first day
of the September term, 1909, of the
Circuit Court of Audrain County. Mis-
souri,, 10 be begun and held at the
Court House in the City Of Mexico,
in the County of Audrain and state
Of Missouri, on the third Monday in
September, 1909, and on or before the
first day of said term answer or other
wise plead to plaintiffs petition, the
same will be taken as confessed and
leCTCe rendered as asked.
And it is further ordered that a
copy hereof be published in the Mex
leo Missouri Message, a newspaper
published weekly in Audrain County,
Missouri. the same being the paper
designated BY plaintiff for publishing
this order. for four weeks successive
iy the last insertion to be at last 10
days before the first day of said
September term of this said Court,
lthc same being the next term here
or
4 true copy from the record.
Attest:
lSCalJ
w. y. Morris. Circuit Clerk.
BY Pearl N. Norris, Deputy.
Clarence y. Barnes, Atty. for Plaintiff.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
Miss Ella Morgan Dead.

Ella Morgan, 10 years old, the
only daughter of Mrs. Lily Nor
gan of this city, died last Sun;
day morning after a week S i'll
ness of typhoid fever. The mother
and Oliver Morgan, a brother of
the child, survive. Rev, G. M.
Aker held funeral services Mon
day morning at $3.50, when the
body was taken to Pleasant
Grove Methodist church at
HattOn for burial.
Ella was a bright child but late
ly she became unusually morose
and seemed to have the thought
that she would not live long. We
extend deepest sympathy to the
bereaved mother and lonely
brother.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
RUSH HILL.


Feutz & Barney shipped out 3
ears of oats and one of wheat
last week.
j. c. Maxwell shipped out 9
cars of oats last week; price paid
all last week, Doe.
j. II. Mattocks Of AuXvasse,
Galloway county, came up to the
funeral of his niece, Miss Belle
Dudley.
c. Il. Casper will ship out 2 ears
of hogs and G. Berry one car of
cattle this (Monday) evening.
One of the saddest accidents we
were ever called on to write, hap
pened last Saturday evening.
Riley Dudley and his two daugh-
ters went to MartinSburg and
after spending a pleasant day
started home late in the evening,
about dark. The railroad cross
ing west of Martinsburg is not a
very safe crossing, even in day
light, on account of "A high bank
and tall grass just west of n,
road A freight train was com,ls
at the rate Of 40 to 80 miles per
hour, the team just cleared the
track and the cow catcher struck
the buggy just behind the front
wheels. Mr.. Dudley was sitting
on the right, Miss leila, age IS,
on the left with her sister Belle,
age II, sitting on her lap. Belle
struck the front end of the engine
with such force her skull was
crushed so that a portion Of her
brain Oozed out, one leg broken
in two places, one arm bruised.
Miss Hella fell on the cowcatcher
and was carried a half quarter
before she rolled off, very badly
bruised up. but the doctor thinks
no bones were broken. Her shoes
and stockings were stripped off
and she was Unconscious. She is
now in a critical condition. Mr..
Dudley was not badly hurt. The
team was not injured. The young
est daughter only lived about two
hours. Her remains were brought
to Rush Hill, funeral services held
by Rev. Brownell. The body was
buried at Rock Hill Cemetery
Sunday evening. The accident
has east a gloom over the entire
community.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
Mr.. Force Dead.

VIM. Force, near Moline, who
had been i'll about six
months, died at his home last
Monday morning. He was ~
years Of age. The wife and four
children survive him. The child
rem are: Emmett Force, Mrs. Eva
Bcamer, Mrs. Anna Beamer and
Mrs. Sudie Vaughn. The funeral
was held Tuesday, the burial be-
ing at Bee Creek, near Paris,
Monroe county. We extend
sympathy to the bercaved
children.
The body of Mr.. Henderson was
brought here for burial, arriving
here Tuesday of this weclS Mr..
Henderson took suddenly i'll just
as he had entered a train at
Oklahoma City for Kansas City.
He was taken from the train to
railroad hospital where he lived
less than a half hour.
G. a. Barnes was in st. Louis
on legal business Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Steele are
here from Oklahoma ON a visit to
relatives.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
WEST LICK.

Little Roy McIntire is on the
sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. O. Snedeker
returned home Sunday from
Brighton, ILL.,, where they were
the guests Of the latter's sister,
Mrs. Frank Elliot and family.
Chas. Green of Centralia pur-
chased mules from the following
parties here last week: Three
head from Jack Brown, and span
from S. p. Dubray for 1913.
John a. Wallace of Forrest,
Ill.,, is visiting his cousin, Mrs. Ed
FRAZIER.
S. p. Beadlc and wife went to
Mexico shopping last week, (via
their auto.)
Misses Leila and Ruth Dubray
are the guests of relatives in
Wellsville.
McsSrs. S. p. Beadle and Jack
Brown shipped cattle to Chicago
Saturday.
Miss Title visited Mrs. VIM
Young last week
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12
Runaway Boy.

Alleging that his stcp-fathar
mad misiraated him, Willis Irving
of IIallsville, 16 years Of age, ran
away from home last Saturday
and came to Mexico, intending to
go to st. Louis to seek work. But
his money ran out and he was put
off the train here. Saturday night
he staid at a boarding house and
Sunday morning, instead of 60
ing to Sunday school, like a good
little boy, he went off down on
the creek near town where he
made some boy acquaintance and
there was a wrestling match and
the Willis boy was thrown to the
ground, his left elbow thrown
out of place. DR.. Fred Griffin
fixed him up and he was sent
home Sunday afternoon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12

That North Mo. Central cleo
trio railway project-proposingto
build from Columbia to Mexico
and stopping, looks to us like an
impudent butt-iu. Let the Spaete
people not be too hasty; the other
people were on the ground long
months ahead Of them. Let's see
first what the Mexico, Santa Fe
and Perry Co may be able to do
before we seriously consider
another proposition.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-08-12

Henry McCue, u miles north
east of Mexico, wha has been
afflicted for some time, went to
st. Louis last Friday for medical
treatment. He was accompanied
by his daughter, Mrs. Gray Will
son and Mrs. John Wakefield.
They returned Monday and re-
port that his treatment has not
yet relieved the suffering he has
had to endure for some time.
Hot weather in this section of
the State; 81 in the shade yester-
day.