Mexico Missouri message., 1915-10-28
SOUTH SALT RIVER.
Ladies' Get High Compliment For
Church Repairs.
Small acreage of wheat sown.

Yield in gallons small in number.
Quality fair to good. An abundance
of apples.
Potato digging in full blast. J. T.
Watts, sr., still holds the belt as
champion sweetpotato raiser
Some splendid corn and much in
ferior or drowned out. Not many
hickory nuts. Good acreage of hay
and cane, harvested in good shape.
Silos filled and grain threshing all
done. Baling hay and straw in full
swing by Staple Bros. Much road
grading, repairing and building of
bridges.
A corps of mechanics are re-roof-
ing, repairing and undermining for
comfort and general appearance I'm
ion Chapel, and for this work and
expense account much credit is due
the Baptist and Presbyterian ladies
for their efforts in the culinary art,
they having served lunches at a
number of sales, sales or moneys
thus gathered to go to repairing the
churches. In this line the good old
men and young men and boys must
not be forgotten either, as they pro-
duced the fat for the good ladies to
cook. All hail the Union Chapel la
dies.
Well, our school children did not
get get any of the carnival premi-
ums. They understood it to be by
pupils only. While some other dis
tricts seemed to think old, young
male and female, were included
Anyway, one prize was awarded to
us, Mrs. Franklin's gorgeous garden
farm field and horticultural display
Perhaps this too would have been
withheld, but it was case of have
| to.
Generally speaking the health Of
the community is very good. Mrs
VIM. Foreman and NJ L. Waters on
ly are on the sick list.
The ladies will try their hand at
the art of cooking again this week
That is aside from the regular daily
grind which is to them a pleasure
They will serve dinner at the Crock
Harrison sale, four miles east of
Mexico Friday, and then at the Sun
day school convention at Union
Chapel Saturday and Sunday.
Say, Bro. Beal, ask Col. Ford, the
auctioneer, about time, places, and
dates, and try to be on hands.
Buckner Bros, the big feeders,
have large amount of miscellane-
GUS stuff in their barns and sheds
fattening for the markets. Jack
Hendrix, John Hoffman, Tom Dud-
ley, Roy Kettle, Hendrix and Culver,
Lon Smith, and Joe Crews are some
of the other feeders. All progress
i've and up to date.
Corn gathering will commence in
few days, if this mild Italian
weather continues, and we presume
it will as John Lane of Mexico says
so, and, Mr.. Editor, you know John
is so very much like George Wash
ington.
Some building is contemplated by
several of our farmers and stockmen.
Already Lon Smith is doing quite
bit of improving his buildings, and
Bee Hickman has his new garage
well on the road to- completion. Ira
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our industrious farmers are getting
quite lot of fall blowing done for
the 1916 Democratic good election
good times and good crop year.
Fires have done quite bit of
damage to some fields, by not being
properly guarded. There is such
rank vegetation we should be very
careful about burning grass or stub
BILE, or much loss VIII be sure to fol-
low.
The local fans have announced
that the last series of games for 1915
was finished at the annual fish fry
Of Watts Brothers of recent date,