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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
cuIVRE ITEMS.

Will Jones is moving onto the
Chas. Scott place. Welcome, Mr..
Jones, to our community.
A. G. billiard and son, Homer,
have rented 60 acres of the
Worsham place which they will
farm this season.
C. E. Worsham and wife were
in Mexico over Saturday and Sun
day.
Our school at Cauthorn closes
the oath inst. Miss Mary Coax
ley is the teacher-and there's no
better a teacher in the county.
Mrs. G. E. Worsham has an
ideal chicken ranch and will raise
poultry on quite a large scale this
year. She has to start with about
1SO Barred Rock hens and %
large fine white geese, and Is
getting plenty of eggs. Three dozer
thorough Barred Plymouth RocF
hens cost her $21 and 10 thorough
P. B. rosters cost her one dollar
each. The chicken house fronts
good range of bluegrass timbel
pasture with plenty of runniu;
water handy. Here's wishing he
much success with her poultr!
this year.
Node Coil, over Farber wa
has a new visitor at his house
But he has come to stay, came tn
Bird of March, a bouncing bi
boy.
C. f. Worcham is home forl
| Texas where he spent the winte
r with his brother, Albert Worshan
S He was well pleased with tn
r Lone Star State.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

asks you almost as much money
for plug stuff as he asked a few
years back for the good kinds.
The farmers seem to be all in good
shape financially and are very in
dependent toward the buyer. The
life Of a shipper has many draw
backs these days and it takes a
lot of hard driving and a great
deal of perseverance to buy a load
Of horses in the country. The aver
age farmer never seems to figure
that the shipper has any expense
other than to lead the horse to
town and probably feed him a day
or so until he is sold. We are look
ing for a large crowd of buyers to
attend our Ready-to-Use Horse
Sale to be held in Mexico, begin
ing April IA and a number of buy
ers here at the yards have signi-
fed their intention of being pre-
sent. We will have a better sale
than ever this year."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
A DUMPING GROUND.
This Old State Is Getting the Riff
Raft From Dry" Neighbors.

Montgomery City, Mo-, March
11.-At a meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union here,
Mrs. Lora S. Lamance, State Off
Ger, declared that Missouri is be-
coming the dumping ground for
the riff-raff of creation.
cit is estimated that we have in
Missouri to-day 5000 more law
breakers than we had a year ago" "
she said, "and 5000 more gam
blers, confidence men, prostitutes
and bootleggers. They came from
Oklahoma, Georgia and Tennessee
since those States went dry, and
from Kansas, since she enforced
her. liquor laws"
She also pointed out that Mis-
souri's large cities are growing
rapidly, and said that by 1912, st.
Louis would have a million popu-
lation. She urged all the members
to go to work for Statewide pro-
hibition at once.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
WEST LICK.

Sowing oats is the order of the
day.
Walter Davis and mother of
Worcester visited D. NJ. Price and
wife Sunday.
S. p. Dubray transacted bust
ness in New London Saturday.
Mrs. RObt. Moore and two little
children of Hatton were the guests
of relatives and friends in this
vicinity last week.
Miss Mable Brock of Mexico was
the guest of her cousin, E. o,
Snedeker and family, Saturday
and Sunday.
S. P. Dubray sold a span OF
mules to Robt. Ferris for 1925.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Black
of near Farber visited at H. F
Morris Sunday.
Roy Elam and family were the
guests of his parents, Al. Elan
and wife, of near Perry Sunday
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

Mat SHINY and wife, a newly
married couple. visited his aunt.
Mrs. C. Z. Sellers. Saturday and
Sunday.
Emmett Sims visited home folks
the last of the week, returned 10
school Sunday night.
Charles Sellers sold hogs at
1925 a short time ago, but they
are higher now; they went to II
cents Saturday.
L. Y. Petty and his brother,
Ezra, moved from near Cant TO
Sturgeon.
Sam Loren has got back to his
home again.
Ormy McCammon has moved t.
his new home he bought of Wat
Wright.
j. L. Smith received a nice pres
ent a few days ago; it was 5C
TBS. fresh fish. His nephew, Ed
Smith, of Scotland county, sent
them to him. Mr.. Smith was poorl!
before he got them but is better
now.
! The Crawford and NeVin!
wedding was well attended. The!
received many nice and usefu
presents.
William Campbell, formerly {
our vicinity. now of Benton Co
is in Columbia at the hospital, ha
been operated on. Had a tumo
on his side. He is getting alon
nicely we are glad to state.
Miss Grace Smith visited Co
umbia last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCammOn viSl
| ed G. l.. Smith Sunday.
Merits Pulls and children visite
, B. f. Pulls and wife Sunday.
2 Mrs. j. H. Turner is sick.
jeff Jerman is going to move
Oklahoma soon.
There will be a Sunday scho
i organized at Salt River church Il
. first Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

$40; one, C. p. Arnold, $145
pair, j. b. Weaver, 1850; pair,
Charles Baker, $512.5O; pair, R
d. Barnes, 1886 one, Frank Ham.
ilton, $lS7.5O; pair, J. w. Yeager
1920; pair, II. II. Weakley, 1885
pair, Charles Edwards, $372.50i
pair, Joe Considinc, 1895; pair, Roy
Fields, $34O; pair, s. H. Bise, 1906
one, Hardin Fields, $175; pair, G.
F. Clarke, 1880; pair, s. r. Jones
& Son, $447.50; one, DR.. w. X,
Mccall, $172.5O; one, c. P. Arnold,
800; one, W. G. Sims, $175; pair,
James Rutter, $462.5O; pair, Gil.
more Bros, 1926; one, Robert Fer
ris, $155; one, Frank Hamilton,
$2l0; pair, j. w. Yeager, $405
pair, Epperson Bros, $497.5Oj
pair, w. G. Sims & Son, $3.50; one,
.G. T. Board, $275; one, DR.. w. K.
Mccall, $197.50; pair, Fred Nor
ris, $3.50.
Horses-Pair, John Burgess,
1915; pair bay horses, Earl Carter,
$40; brown mare, Charles Dean,
$3.50; bay horse, Earl Carter, 1922
two bay horses, Steve Allison,
1910; sorrel horse, r. A. White
$40; roam mare, Jesse Martin,
$40.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
Little Child Dead.

Alice, the three year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Cox,
who reside northwest of Mexico,
died last Friday morning of pneu-
monia. The funeral was Satur-
ady morningn at 10 o'clock. just
a week before, they buried a little
10 months old son from the same
disease. This double affiictiOr
comes heavily upon the father and
mother and the earnest sympathy
of the entire community goes out
to them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

Memphis, Mo, March IL
Local option is not a failure fin
aneially in Memphis. In the last
two years the town has paid off
$4,000 worth of bonds for water
works, and kept up electric lights
which it was said by liquor men
could not be done, without licens-
ed saloons. Little is being sold
ing been made. Many of those
only one arrest on this charge hay.
engaged in selling liquor have de.
parted to places where it is not SC
dangerous. Others have gone e
work to make living.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
Teachers Examination.

The next regular teachers eX-
animation will be held in the Cir
| hit Court room at Mexico, on
friday and Saturday, March %
Ind 26, beginning at s O'Clock a.
h.
7 The order of subjects will be as
Follows:
Friday, a. photography,
Language, Algebra, Orthography.
Friday p. m.-Grammar, Arith-
metic, Literature, Reading.
Saturday a. m.-Civil Govern
ment, U. S. History, Agriculture
Adv. Science.
Saturday p. m.-Physiology
Pedagogy, ADV. History.
Many inquiries have been re
ceived concerning the new re
ouirements of agriculture. Al
applicant for renewal will no
have to pass an examination OF
the subject Of agriculture.
A person holding a second o
third grade certificate and apply
ing for a certificate of highe
grade must pass ON the subject .
agriculture.
Applicants for third grad
certificate will still have thre
sciences from which to make a
election; Physics, Physical Geo
geography and Elementary Bi'
logy.
Very truly yours,
j. L. Shobe, Co. Sup
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
Waters.Huntsman Nuptials.

Mr.. Edwin X. Waters and Miss
Ella Clyde HuntSman, from the
east part of the county, were unit
ed in marriage in Mexico one day
last week, Ed. ]. D. Greer offieiat-
ing. Both these young people are
very popular among their manN
friends and all join in wishin2
them long life, happiness anG
prosperity.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

, The Fair Play Advocate says
this is a copy of a sale bill 63
years old: estate of Missouri,
county of Pike-To Whom 1t
May Concern: The undersigned
will Tuesday, September 8, A. D.,
1864, sell at public outcry for
cash on premises where Coon
creek crosses on the Missouri road
the following chattels, to-wit
Nine yoke of oxen with yoke and
chain, two wagons with beds
three niger wenches, four buck
niggers, boys, two prairie plows
twenty-five steel traps, one bar
rel pickled cabbage, one hogs
head of tobacco, one lot niggel
hoes, one spinning wheel, loom
three fox hounds, a lot of coon
mink and skunk skins and a lot D
other articles"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
FROM TEXAS.
An Audrain Mans Impressions of
That Country.

G. +. Worsham gives the Mes
sage the following interview con-
cerning his late trip to Texas:
] left Mexico Dec. 10Th last with
immigrant car and made the trip
bud about 1000 miles in five days
;uf ithout a mishap. The live stock
ood the trip fine, without 4
bratch or bruise. When / left
T. Iexico the weather was cold, icy
ind very uncomfortable, but
D1Ehen I reached Hedley, Texas,
my destination, / found a differ
kent atmosphere and a fine climate.
Roads dry and dusty, continu-
! ling thus all winter. A fine country
to live in-only two short months
of winter, January and February.
About the middle of January Il
great many farmers were plow-
ing, as the ground doesn't freeze
A few SHOWS, only stay on the
ground a short while.
The people are friendly and
neighborly and contented and
making money-apparently not
working nearly as hard as we have
to here in Missouri. The country
around Hedley is somewhat
trough; sandy soil, but is very pro-
Eductive. They raise caffir corn.
Emilio, maize, sorghum and cotton,
heir principal crops, althO In
ian corn does well there, making
from 20 to 60 bushels to the acre,
Blnd when 1 left there Feb. %,
N:orn was selling from 65 to 85
F{cents per bushel
" Groceries and the necessarias
/ cost about the same as here, with
the exception of coal which sells
at So per ton. But they get the
Colorado article which is about
so per cent better than ours here
and not having long cold winters
this evens up on that score.
Hedley is a booming little town
but three years old. Putting uE
a $500 school building. Forty
teams grading for the new rail
road depot and side tracks at the
time l left there.
went down there with my
ibrother, Albert, who has bought
"a fine farm there and is wei
Spleased. Joe Kendall, Frank Nc
gClure, Fred Mann and Charlie
hKinslow, all well remembered il
Mexico, are located in and nea
1 Hedley and all are healthy ant
Y doing well. I liked the health,
" climate and the other inducement
to new comers and think | shall g
K back.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
FARM SCHEDULE.
The Farmers are to be Furnished
Copies Before the Census Be
gins.

IJlU.-A great increase IN the ac-
curacy of the census returns from
the farmers, a considerable saving
of the working time Of the farm
enumerators, and the removal OF
much Of whatever misapprehen-
siOns and prejudices may exist
among farmers with regard to the
census are the important results
expected by the United States
Census Breau to follow the use Of
the Advance Farm Schedule,
which has been adopted and will
be circulated, through the rural
postmasters, among the farmers 4
short time before the actual census
taking.
The employment of this advance
schedule is a distinct innovation
in census methods. 1t is the logical
and practical outcome of the Cen
sus Bureaus persistent effort for
some time past to give the far
mers a clear and comprehensive
preliminary knowledge of the
Farm Census question and to in
duce them to keep written records
of their farm operations and eq-
uipment in readiness for the call
of the enumerators, beginning
April 10 next.
Four million copies of the
schedule will be printed, and the
distribution of them among farm
owners and tenants will be in
trusted to the farm enumeratOrs
soon after they are commissioned,
about April /.
Postmaster-G General Hitchcock
has promised the assistance Of his
department in the effective distri-
button of the schedules, and he
will issue instructions relative
thereto to the rural pOstmasters.
They will be required to address
and forward to the farmers receiv-
ing mail at their office the advance
farm schedules supplied them by
the enumerators.
In a note to farmers ON the front
page of the schedule, Census Dir
, ector Durand states:
"In accordance with the act Of
: Congress, the census of the pOpu-
lation and farms of the United
a, States will begin on April 10, 1910,
t On or soon after that date an en-
umerator will call at your house
+ for the purpose of obtaining the
required information concerning
|. your farm.
t Many of the questions which
Y will be asked you concerning the
r equipment and operations of youI
farm can not be accurately an
is swered by you without consider
Y able thought and the making OF
Il careful calculations or estimates
Therefore, this form has been sen
+ TO you in advance, so that yOl
'p may study the questions at you
IS convenience and have the answer
'r written down before the enumera
lg tor comes.
"You are earnestly requested I
IL read this form and instruction
carefully, to write down the an
l. swers to all questions that appI
to your farm, and to keep it unit
ea the enumerator comes. BY dom
this you save yourself much tim
and contribute greatly to the SUI
- cess of the agricultural census.
"Besides the information col
~ cerning your farm, the enumer
" tor will also ask you the name
ages, and other facts eoneeruir
the members of your household.
ISIS j. n. Ball is visiting relatly
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17
A $1,4OO JACK.
Wood Hoyt Buys Farm-L. G.,
Atkins Mules-Ward Par
sons Comes Back to
Audrain.

J. Is. Weaver, northeast Of this
city, sold a fine draft mare to VIM.
Frazer for $3.50.
Will Morris, Monroe Beagles
and others, of Worcester vicinity,
sowed oats last week.
Charles Edwards sold to j. b.
Stuart a span of coming four year
old mules last week for $3.50.
VIM. Camplin last week sold
his 1873 acre farm, adjoining Santa
Fe on the north, at $45 an acre.
Hall and Sanford last week sold
to j. B. Stuart a fine span of COM
ing four year old mules ior 1850
Robert McDonough of this city
is another man to report that his
peach crop prospects are yet all
right.
Henry Boeger, north of this
city, got 10 cents a pound for II
hogs last Friday, sold to Powell
& Mundy.
Powell & Mundy bought IA
head of good butcher hogs Of
Gannt & Considine last Friday,
paying $10.25.
Powell & Mundy bought a car Of
hogs this week from Rouse Bros.
at Santa Fe, paying $3.50, the hogs
to be delivered at Perry.
The big brick building belong
ing to John Hilkermeyer at
Martinsburg was sold a few days
ago to Charles Williams for
$4,000.
George Erisman and family last
week moved into the G. D. Ferris
residence, on Washington street
which Mr.. Erisman recently pur.
chased.
! LIN. Smith, Of near Rush Hill
sold a drove of prime beef COWS
in East st. Louis last week al
$500. There were IL head, aver
aging 1888 lbs.
"Dode" Cauthorn tells the Mes
sage that his peach prospects are
hurt some, but there are yet
plenty of buds left and if one
fifth of the buds that are yet alive
make peaches he will yet have
good crop.
In Edwards district, neal
! Martinsburg, this county, tn,
y wheat prospect is proving a yer!
agreeable disappointment. Judg
, ing from present appearances, /
is said, the crop will be as goo'
as last year.
Hopkins & Carter a few day
: ago sold an IL months old bul
: calf, royalty bred roam fellow, t
n T. j. Dave of Troy, Kansas, fo
. 5000. He is said to probably b
|. one of the greatest young bull
produced in Missouri in recen
$ years.
j. w. Dry, the hardware ma
=, of this city, sidestepped a little las
Y. week and went up to Kansas Cit
d and succeeded in closing a $65,O ,OC
land deal, representing w.
L. Brock, of this city. Part of IL
e, land figuring in the deal lies
Missouri and part in Kansas. Dl
y, does things wherever you put hir
Wesley Winn, south of Mexic
E. last Friday, sold his well know
e. Jack. Black Dan, Jr., to E.
IN Buck, of Waverly, Mo-, for 81 ,4O
OF Black Dan is fine animal indee
On one of the best in the State. N
Winn bought him recently fro
or j. S. Harrison & Son at t
" Special Breeders Sales offerin
er in Mexico.
of Ward Parsons, formerly of A
drain, moved back to the good {
de county from New florence Ia
zee week, to the Thomas Tuttle far
an northwest Of Mexico, which
% recently purchased, The
10 neighbors thought so much of
return that they met him W
eleven teams at the train a
pt. helped haul his goods out.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

Tom Hamilton annd family, out
southwest of Benton City, moved
to NIuskogee, Okla, this week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

Horace Mundy, one of Audrain
cOunty's most prominent farmers,
stockmen and feeders. says the
Live Stock Reporter, was on the
market last Wednesday with a
load of steers of his own feeding
that averaged 1880 lbs. and sold
up to Armour & Co. for $3.50, the
top of the market. Mr.. Mundy
owns one of the best farms in
Audrain county. and has i'm
proved it extensively in the last
few years. In conversation with
representative Of the Reporter,
Mr.. Mundy said: 81 am starting
another load of cattle on feed at
my farm and hope that they will
do as we'll as the last bunch
There will not be nearly so much
summer feeding done this sum
mer as formerly on account of the
scarcity of hogs, cattle and the
high price of corn. A great many
farmers have lost numbers of hOg'
with the cholera recently and the!
are scarcer now than | have evel
know them to be in my county
The farmers are all in good shap,
up my way and everybody seems
happy and contented. l ratheI
think that there will be more corr
put in this spring than last. Th
sleet did some damage to the win
ter wheat, but, on the whole,
the season continues favorable,
look for a good wheat crop thi
year. We had a great horse sale
Mexico recently, conducted by tn
Missouri Special Sales Co., a lOca
concern. 1t was success froi
start to finish. 1t couldn't hav
been otherwise with the men br
hind the enterprise. Mexico is on
of the greatest horse centers in til
West and has a worldwide rep
, tation for pretty women and hig'
class horses, as well as being I'll
, most modern town of its size b.
! tween st. Louis and Kansas Cit,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

j. N. Ball is visiting relatives
at Stoutsville.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

One of the speakers at the lay
men s conference in this city last
Thursday night had never been
in Missouri before but he threw
Mexico a bOquet all right. He
said he had heard of the south
east county of Missouri where
they grow the best quality of cot
ton Of any other county in any
other State in the Union, he had
heard of the northwest county OF
our State where Indian corn
comes to the best maturity of any
other locality in the Union, he had
heard of the southwest county nl
our State where they ship out
more car loads of Alberta peaches
| leach year than any other county
in any other State in all Uncle
Sans domains, and, lastly, HI
had heard of Audrain and Mex
leo, where we produce the fines
horses in the world, shippin;
them to all countries, even t.
faraway Berlin. That speaker
don't yer know, caused every
body to sit up and take notice.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

cts a good thing for the ship
per that the horse market holds up
as we'll as it has, for with the pre-
sent country cost on horses we
shippers would soon have to find
some other means of earning our
daily bread if we received any less
than present market prices for our
horses. said w. ID. Lee, senior
member of the well-knOwn firm ot
Lee Bros, of Mexico, Mo-, one OF
the largest and most extensive
firms in the state, says the Nation
al Live Stock Reporter. Mr.. Lee
said: "The farmers do not seem t.
care whether they sell then
horses or not. 1t used to be- thu
habit of the farmer to sell off al
the good horses he possessed an(
keep the scrub team for his owl
work, but the thing is reversed
now, He keeps the good ones t
work and drive to town ant
church ON Sunday and if he ha
any scrubs ON the place, these ar
the first led out of the barn 70
the buyers inspection, And b
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

Mrs. S. R. Allison is visiting
relatives in Virginia.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

The story of L. G. Atkins big
mules which the Message told rf
about six weeks ago has been
published in the metropolitan
press Of st. Louis and Kansas City
and in the county papers all over
the State-from the story first
told in the Message. Mr.. Atkins
lives out southwest of Mexico. In
brief what we said was in these
words: L. G. Atkins. near Mexico.
has a mule team which has haul
ed 1876 bushels of corn at one load
distance of nine miles. He also
claims that the team hitched to a
gang plow turned over seven
acres of land between sunrise and
sunset.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

B. r. Middleton's fifth annual
sale of mules and horses Monday
was great success as usual The
total sale Of mules brought 1925
and the horses $1,422.5O, The
sales were as follows;
Mules-Pair, j. v. Willis, $500
pair, w. d. Mason, $370i pair, j
b, Rutter, $552.50; pair, John Bur
CESS, $410i pair, j. D. Allison
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-17

and will leave shortly for one OF
the western or southern States on
account of his wife's health. We
sincerely hope the change will full.
ly restore Mrs. SpotswOod. They
will not dispose of their farm here
hence we expect them back al
some future time.
We see that John w. Harris,
late of Audrain county, has been
making some more purchases over
at Wellsville. The Wellsville News
says: T. R. Gilliland this week
sold ten acres of land near the
Burlington depot to j. w. Harris
for $1,000. Mr.. Harris also pur.
chased twenty acres, adjoining
the ten acre tract, from David
Lehnen at 1925 per acre.
Wood Hoyt of Laddonia last
week bought $50 acre farm three
miles north of Mexico; 100 acres
he got of Judge Alex. Carter for
81 800, and the other 80 acres is a
part of the Dahlem place, costing
him $4,000. Wood now has a fine
farm indeed and is close to one Of
the most progressive and growing
towns in the State. Wood, it IS a
piece of dirt worth holding.