Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
MR.. FoLEY'S TRADE.
G. w. pease Buys Farm--A Mess
of Eggs Five Years Old?

Bakers 200 acre farm, southwest
of Mexico, for $4,000.
B. II. Middleton sold $4,000
worth Of mules out of this county
last week, shipping them to Ten
neSSee.
+. Hughes last week sold the
stock of goods he bought from B.
II. Smith of The Bargain Place to
w. J. McLoney.
+. +. Weatherford, of the vicl-
nifty of Thompson, will move to
the +. s. Greed farm, near lIatton,
first Of next month.
C.. II. Culbertson and wife and
Olen Culbertsan and wife. north
of BENTON City, who recently sold
their farm, have bought property
i'll Montgomery City and will move
to that place.
f.. .B. Schercr returned to st.
Louis last week after IA visit to his
brother near Worcester. Mr.
Scherer recently traded for a Cal
Iaway county farm. He says he
has leased the farm.
Hamilton Bros. south of Mex
leo, at the big combination JACK
sale Of Limerick & Bradford in
Boone county last week, bought
Black Jack, four year Old
animal, for $3.50.
John w. Foley has traded his
SO acre farm southwest of Mexico
for a stock of groceries. lie will
take the goods to Benton City and
will again enter business in that
thriving little town.
c. w. Pease, just southwest Of
Mexico. has traded his so acre
farm near Farber TO Charles
Hickman for the latter'S 80 acre
farm north of Benton City, llick-
man paying some difference.
Frank Owings, near Sturgeon
has a bunch of coming 4-year-old
cattle that he bought near Middle
Grove and put on grass last fall
They gained 100 pounds in two
months and he then put them on
full feed.
The barn on the Walker Pol.
lock farm, east of Sturgeon, was
destroyed by fire one night last
week. Edgar Richards, who oc.
cupies the farm, lost his corn and
farm machinery stored in the
building
/ The Jack Harrison 1000 acI,
farm east of AuXvasSe was re
Gently sold to James HouchinS o
jefferson City for $4,000. \
few years ago Lakenan & Barnes
of Mexico sold this same farm
for $4,000.
Val. Erdel, Jr., sold Wagon
load of oats i'm Mexico last Satur
day at 81 cents a bushel. Mr.
Erdel thinks he did not ge
enough. He says the farmers
ought to have 30 cents, really, t
make ends meet
The Hopkins & Carter l43 acr
farm. three and one-half mile
northwest of Mexico, was sold a
auction last Saturday, w. f. Sim
being the highest bidder, payinI
SS1 per acre The farm is said :.
be one of the best in the county
VIM. Wallace's 100 acre farm
three miles west of MartinSbnrs
offered at public auction in MeN
leo last Saturday, did not sci
There was a large crowd to wi
ness the bidding. but the bidder
p were too few, Mr.. Wallace wa
offered only 1880 an acre. an
b he refused to LET it go at that.
Rev. II. |, Cobb, pastor Of tn
, Mexico Circuit. of the Methodi,
church, in his THE Circu
Rider" makes the followiI
statement: We are frequentl
asked if it pays to keep cow
I town. We think it pays II
From Jan. -, 1910, to Jan. !
, 1911. we sold ISL 80 worth OF bu
!. ter and milk from one COW, aft
our family of five had been Su
piled We use two and Il ha
lbs. of butter per week, eNcllSl'
of cake maxine, etc. We al
D. raised Il fine calf from the san
V COW during that time.
- dispatch from Chicapo sa
" that before spring millions
IS pounds Of c'ld storage butte