Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-06-18
Stock Notes

Grove. Mo, vas In Mexico recenus
and says the creamery In that CITY
a. one OF the best things they have.
Over 1900 a day is being paid out
to farmers for cream. The town Is
enjoying the results through In
creased trade.
sam B. Cook, formerly Of this
citv. has been chosen president OF
he organization which viii hold a.
horse show in jefferson City com
mepclng July 27th. AZ tho snme
time the merchants Of the city may
hold n booster week"
May. 1914. ecllpses al other Mays
for seme years when Il BONES to
dryness. During tho month Just
passed, only So Of an inch Of
rain fen in Mexico Nineteen days
Of the month were entirely With
out a cloud in the sky and the TIER
mometer registered 90 or aboye on
8 DAYS. The maximum temperature
for the fifth month this year was
"a and the minimum IS.
In May. 1901. tho year Of the great
dro1th. 10 OF an Inch ~ rain fell
IN this city. Fifteen days Of the
month we're cloudy ard the thermom-
eter went above 80 degrees on one
day. ouly, during the month. The
hottest day was only % and The
temperature on one occasion dropped
as low as 36.
Last June had a day that register
ed iO4 and nine days which went
above 100. Previous to that time,
the mercury did not n above 100
In June until 1905. The hottest
this year was 100.
You can shoot squirrels after July
H.
James w. Dowell, a prominent far
mer of Audrain county. Mo-, was on
the market to-day with a load OF
|, hogs of his own raising, GO head
that averaged 2l3 lbs, and sold at
sS.17 10, which was the top OF
the market and the only hogs here
ro-day at the top. This price was
also the same as the top to-day in
? Chicago. Mr.. Dowell was feeling
a right proud of the fact that he had
the only hogs here to-day at the
top of the msrket-St. Louis Live
+" Stock Reporter.
THE Fair Association has offered
n liberal premiums for dairy cattle this
u year. The Dairy Association jas
formed in Mexico should become one
of the strongest organizations Il
I the County and has the cordial ant
liberal support Of the farmers ans
citizens generally. The Dairy indus
try in Audrain is growing more i'm
portant from year to year.
The rainfall. Thursday night, wa
- general in this section Of Missouri
The precipitation in Mexico amountei
d to 40 of an inch. At Hannibal
rained ali night. a steady drlzzle. re
. ports from all parts Of Audrain stat
the rain fell there in about IN.
q same amount it did here.
II Paris, Mo-, had a shower {
ut crlckets this week.
Il There was a half inch OF rain
west OF Thompson Saturday morn
ing.
Monroe County Corn Growers Al
a ISOLATION will hold a silo Da
"a. shortly.
~ b L. Woodson Of woodson-Fenne
valid Commission Co St. Louis mo
10 ored here with his wife for a Wis
n, with Audran relatives recently
90 Spokae, Washington, juno II.
l. The busy little bee is responsible
as for a new variety Of Spokane Cour
err ty potato. according to Henry X
Bradley. The new tuber has bee
OF dubbed the Bradley" potato 1
$, view Of the fact that It was devel-
80 oped on his farm.
re The potato is really a cross b
Sc tween the Burbank and Million-Dol
is lar varieties, he says. The origin
as vas accidental. The credit anus
ry &c to the bees, which carried on
oh pollen from the blossom of one an
to deposited it in the blossom Of tn
re other.
be H. N. Mccormick, wlfe-chief a
is the Mexico Plant Of the Bell ell
is phone Co.. reports good rains /
!. and around Hannibal Monday II
t says the rain around Mexico thi
nd morning, was not very general, es
DIS p~ecially north Of town where yer
little rain fell.
W. J.. sannebeck now has motto
he delivery, with Gene Tomlinson a
er s~elf-starter.
M The rainfall, Monday. was 90 Of a
/. inch.
as. 1t is quite evident the cricket I
tn found some place else beside 20
pi. the hearth"
Saturday might, the city, especial
ad In the business section, was taken b
ur a shower Of erickets. Great swarns q
a. them almost obscured the arc light
re. as they flew about II attracted b
he the bright CLEANS. Many store
Up were invaded; the crickets. with a
ng most human curiosity investigated III
In stocks and went everywhere the
nd weren't wanted. Paris, Mo. recent
ut, suffered a similar invasion.
re Montgomery City opens a.
IN amusement park this week with dan,
s.. ing pavilion. swimming pool, re
fneshment stands and picnic grounds
of WHY be ugly when asked to pa.