Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-08-01
Stock and -
y Farm News

nett Of this city. captured the bhe
Senator stone Is by Grand
Mcdonald and b owned by Lewis
Cartwright.
E. d. Moore's Masterpiece was
awarded fourth place OF the other
entrieA Gingerbread Han won sec
ond; Mss Loula Longs Kentucky
Taddse. ridden by John T. Hook. Par
Is, ihsrd; Bless Mcdonald. ncth,
The threeqnrters OF a mile run
ming race was won by yoaaone BIZ
ly Leach. THIS horse Is owned b
Earl Morras. Of this city.
COLUMBIA, NO., July &c.
senator Stone won the $500 sad
die stake at che Fair here to-day. the
last day OF The meeting. This was
considered the feature event OF the
week. aud the presnaum offered was
for the best ftyegaited horse, mare
or eeldIng. Queen DenmaFk ives
awarded seoosld; Marshal Chief.
third; Frances Feslar. fourth; Gin
gerhread Man. fifth. Carson McDonr
aid also wsss awarded honors.
The Winning At first prize In the.
$500 saddle ring to-day marks an
other important victory for soma
tor stone This animal won In the
class OF saddle geldiness any age, N
Wednesdays events. lie was rid
den on both occasions bv Tnther B.
Barnett, OF Mexico.
The $500 saddle ring event was con
sidered n OF the best ever cen on
the local Fair Grounds. Many from
a distance were here especially to
see this show. as It viii give some
line on the big $1,000 saddle stake at
the Mexico Fair on August Z.
f. D. Moore's line Of horses from
Mexico also gained much ~prominenc
here this week.
On B. & o. Train Near Harpers
Ferry.
To The Mexico Ledger
/ have been coming East during
July for more than forty years and
never saw crops of every kind all the
way so universally good-wheat fair
to good; oats tine; hay the best evel
and corn this time of the year new
er promised a bigger or better crop.
i guess the Bull Moose Party
VIII claim credit for the good times.
Teddy don't believe in hay
ing a silent part in saving the
country TO himself. i noticed in the
Cincinnati papers to-day that Billy
Bryan is going to camp on Teddy
Itrail during the campaign. The NEAR
there viii be something doing every
hour of every day. The attraction
win be a continuous performance I'M
til the November election: and yol
can take 1t from me that Teddy vii
find out early in the action that h
IS up against the real thing.
While Bryan is taking the win'
out OF Teddy's sails, which will b
going some, Wilson viii walk AVA
with Taft and carry more, yes.
good many more electoral votes tina
10th Taft and Teddy. There neye
was less demand for a third party !
this country than there Is to-day,
met two or three persons in 81
Louis and Cincinnati who asked abol
the great saddle horse ring at the 81
Mexico Fair. The Mexico Fair. dc
~Iservedly. has a national reputation
and this year should have a record
breaking attendance.
The men who manage this entei
prise sure deserve the cordial sur
port Of the people or Audrain and ad
joining counties. They are the mos
unseIfish. untiring and interigen
: workers we know.
The people OF Mexico are espec
Tally interestd in the Mexico Fair. ar
should close up their stores so tina
everybody can attend. Mexico peopl
cannot be too loyal to their hom'
interests of all kinds, and the Mexic'
fair isn't only a home institution, blu
one conducted strictly for the goo
OF the community and not as
money-making proposition. 1t is no
run to make money, but it can max
good. and with your help viii continu
to be one of the best advertisement
Mexico and Audrain county cal
hav Go to the big Fair and talk
your family every day.
r. NJ. WHITE.
The four year old sorrel gelding
Senator Stone, shown at the Co
Iumbia Fair, is entered in the Mex
leo Commercial Clubs $1,000 guarau
iced saddle stake at the MeKic'
air Aug. 60. This horse won th'
$500 Saddle stake at ths
Fair in Columbia last week.
G. C. Harris of Lexington. Ky.
who judged the ring, took forty min
utes to look over the string OF ell
tries. He pronounced this horse on,
o: the finest geldings he had eve
seen.
The horse WAS ridden by "Sphnt'
I Barnett .ofthis city. The Columbi'
! Tribune says MFR. Barnett's ridini
E Ct Senator Stone Is worthy Of men
lion. He understood his mount per
! fectly and he never called on him t
Q Sn ANYTHING that he didn't resnou,