Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-11-23

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PoxA Jaz 1919
Lard. Jan 80
Rms, 1aa $50.
case-seoe, Excluding 500 South
ernS Natives steady
Hoss-1seee STEADY.
NED and batch s.2e = sec
Good heavy s.59 a $50
ROuEA heavy Geo q SIS
Mghl SO a $50
pics. AIS q SEQ
shesD-i,2ee Steady.
Bar cholera Is bad In Union neigh
orhoo4. chas. Shut. On the Aeln.
tyre farm, has lost seieral porkers.
x b wrkasoa .lAs sall contract
a The Fischer apple orchard Of IFS
A an uhas Is known as the Bib
WOOD place near Perry and had gath
|e~d Is A. before the freeze. The re
maindr os the apples we're lost but
MI. winkerson did not lose anything
on the deal as be was protected
against loss by freezing in his con
ltrncL He bought and shipped ~
car loads Of apples out OF Perry and
has bought more than 10 loads in
that vicinity. He says the freeze
LOT Nov. IL ruined 20 loads of apples
In thai vicinity. The apples were
gathered but we're unprotected.
Judge William Smith is delighted
wnh his corn yield which viii make
lbeeween IS and 40 bu. 10 the acreh
He has SEQ Western lambs grazing
on his wheat which Is in good shape
his 200 acre of wheat he reports as
extra fine.
D. S. Weaver says the wheat in
Melino neighborhood is an average
and looks very promising.
John Burgess is greving these
days but is happy in the possession
IuS a handsome new world rug that
lis a beauty. The trouble with Mr..
burgess usual happy nature is thai
his wolf escaped recently and killed
Isome Of his geese and he decided X
best that his son, Albert Burgess
shoot the animal. He had the hidt
tanned TO make a rug.
81. Bowan, Jr., Of SAILING, says
the com in that section will average
rs bu. Little wheat was sown
there, he says. but what has beer
put in looks very good
Lots Of apples suffered by tn
freeze but perhaps one Of the heavi
e4 losers was J.B. Fletcher. nortl
of yandalia. who is said to hay'
Host between 1000 and 5000 bu.
Z. C. Waters, Audrain's representa-
live, is preparing to build a hand
J some home on his fine 220 A. farm
near yandalia.
Hogs are dying from cholera
many places in this section of III
State.
The Vandalia Leader says Il J
Butts has a 20 A. patch OF corr
near that city, which averaged
blu. to the acre.
ri Simon EVERY recently paid John
Gatson $50 an acre for a 100 acr
, farm near Farber.
Al Logan Kidd. Of Audrain count,
has a 40-acre farm in Iron count,
No, that cost him the munificei
sum OF seventyfiye cents. The far
Is said TO be worth $50 an acre an
Mr. Kids fat~herin-law, Geo. Boon
; er, Is now living on il temperate
and keeping 1t up. A few years ag
K Logan Kidd, who is a veteran of II
Spanish-American War and entitlt
TO q homestead as such, vas told
fla man who home-steaded 100 ACRE
of land in South Missouri that I
could have the land for the take
The land was taken up by its owl
S er, a former soldier, as a homestea
ktand he wanted to get rid of it, l.
gan took him up and paid the take
which amounted TO rs cents. Late
% he went to- Took at his farms whiC
n was Il miles from a town. Goir
that 10 miles it took him from eigf
' in the morning until three o'clock
/, the afternoon. 1t was the worI
If road imaginable. The land was thi'
ly timbered and a man was cuttir
/. shingles there with the owners pc
mission. After inspecting the props
= ty Mr.. Kidd traded 1t off for the a
acre tract which is more accessible,
MONTGOMERY Standard.