Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-01-26
&. F. E. SMITH FARM.
Sold to Will Braden--C. G. Bybee
Sells Fine Yearling Mules.

John IL. Scott, near Martins.
burg, bought brood sow of w. +.
Kindig recently for S25.
c. c. Bybee sold four yearling
mules last week to Mr.. Day Of
Tennessee at $3.50 each That's
a top-notch figure, all right. iIc
also sold two three year old mules
to b. r. Middleton at $3.50 each.
T. J. Evans of near Whiteside
has a red SOW which brought him
10 pigs on Dec. %, 1909; 13 pigs
April &c, 1910; and 10 pigs Nov. |
y, 19l0-a total of 36 pigs in less
than one year.
Chas. Wilkins sold a four year
old driving horse to Virgil Nor
rison for $40.
A New Madrid county farmer
experimental with thirty-three
acres of sunhowcrs last year lie
lost about one third of the crop,
owing to bad weather, but har-
vested and shipped out 27676I
pounds of seed for which he re-
. ceived the sum of 81, 103. He paid
4, out about So for help, hence his
crop netted him about eighty dol
lars per acre, less the rent he pal
S. Y. Davis, of Vandalia, who il
brother of Mrs. Il. +. Austin Of
, Mexico, leaves with his family this
=, week for Vinita, Okla, and will
I locate on farm within ten miles
\ of the place.
4 w. w. Braden tells us that his
brother-in-law, "Fount Davis,
D who left this county less than two
r years ago and bought 800 acres OF
/. land in Alberta, Canada, writes
r that he has sold said land at q
S profit of $500 per acre and he and
v his family will move back to old
@ Audrain again, tho later they may
a. locate in Oklahoma. The day Mr.
Davis wrote the mercury was 4
4 degrees below zero. lie said tina
# even the thoughts of getting bacl
/ to old Missouri looked awfulIy
# good to him.
" VIM. Wallace is going to sell hj'
y 100 acre farm at auction in Mexico
,n on Feb. f. See notice elsewhere
o in this paper.
is Eleven shares of stock in tn
Farber Bank were sold under exc
cution at the Mexico court hous
last Monday. p. II. Cullen of 81
lc Louis was the highest bidder, pay
Of ing $ll4 per share.
ne VIM. Workman of this count.
ar has bought a farm in Ohio and wi
move to the Buckeye State soon.
81 Ross Nanlandingham, of Row
p ena, sold seven yearling steers t
Is Kirk Rowe for 5000.
30 Tom Bass, colored, of Mexico j
70 the first gated saddle horse rim
- at the Denver, Colo, Horse Sho
ID last week carried off first and Sc
tn ond places. Bass and his hors'
me are winners.
~ The st. Louis Republic cOl
nS' ments as follows: Mules Wort
'ie over $3.50 a head are protected /
a duty of % per cent. and mu
h,' shoes by a duty of three-fourtI
- of cent a pound, but neither h;
the slightest effect on the price
the All sold in and around Me
leo, Mo. this week at an averaI
las of $235 piece.
Ihe l. Y. Van Note of Columbi
who bought Lee Brothers dai
nal of this city, has leased the w.
~ Hathaway farm just south
:" Mexico for five years and in APP
'i' he expects to move onto the SAN
Ie' Mr.. Won Note has had charge
the Josephine. the worlds champi
milk COW at the State Universit
| .l'H for several years.
The b. j. +. Smith place !
:" acres of land, three miles north
" Laddonia, was sold at partiti
sale in Mexico last Friday, bid
by w. W. Braden at $7l per ac
" There are no buildings on
land. but it is a fine piece
ground and is we'll worth
money Mr.. Braden owns an"t'
fine farm in the same neighb
l. hood.
aga In partition sale last Friday