Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-10-28
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The FIRE autumn weather is = thin,
Of beauty and r1in be q JOY forever
Wheat sowing is q thing OF tn
past for The A. D. 1915. A good stan.
50 far. The acreage sown however Il
perhaps two-shirds Of last year'
acreage-The farmers are busy al
worker bees; some blowing, soms
picking up nuts, some making cider
end some perhaps thinking seriously
Of hinning corn-Charles Househol-
der began cribbing corn Monday.
Most Of the corn, however. is a little
green TO put away-weekly sing
h4gs at the Ladies' Hall meets or
Wednesday nightS-A corn carnival
solely, viii be reeled OF in Skinner,
Saturday evening next. The exhibits
viii only be corn It will be placed
in the ladies Hall. A bushel or 100
ears Of ORR viii be required to com
pete for the prizes. Ten dollars $50
viii be divided among the various
kinds OF orr. The exact way Of the
division Of the $40 premium will be
decided by a committee before day
Of show. A competent Judge will be
had to award premiums. The corn
exhibited to become the property Of
Che committee in charge, TO be sold
at auction to the highest bidder, per-
haps that night.--A box supper will
be pulled of at Gatewood, Friday
night Nov. 5th, for benefit of school
lbrary.-. L. Carpenter is market
ing carload after carload Of apples at
from soc TO Toe a bushel. His 90
acre orchard viii yield him a nice
dividend this year,. L. Carpenter
bought 40 head Of 450-lb. Angus cal
yes at Kansas City market recently
at $500 per hundred.-Elmer Gate
wood sold to Nh. Anthony of Gen.
tralia several weeks ago so 1s6-lb.,
hogs at s7.75 per hundred. He de-
livered them last week.-Flood Pat
rick contracted 80 hogs to Antony
six weeks ago at $3.50 per hundred.
Mr.. Patrick delivered them last
week. Weight about 225 pounds
W. H. Mallory has been making i'm
provements around his premises late
~ in form of solid concrete founda-
ton under his house and p~lastering,
also.-Charles Dickey is making the
saw mill buzz the past few days in
Charles Meyers place.-The road
overseers are busy putting the high
ways up in shape, concrete culverts
end quite a bit Of grading. The only
bridge now in this vicinity, that
needs a new steel structure, is the one
north Of Skinner, t~hree-fourhs of a
mile, which spans Fish Branch. 1t
is a dangerous old trap and people
are stunning it all they can. Some
body will meet the fate of Grover
Chapman at the Mexico bridge two
miles north Of Thompson some Of
these days. She's a rickety rackety
old trap only safe for PEDESTRIANS
Grover Chapman went through the
Meyers Bridge across Salt River two
miles north Of Thompson last We'd
nesday afternoon, with so bushels Of
wheat and a team and wagon.
Grover and the mules were consider
ably scratched up, the wagon COM
pletely demolished and the wheat
got a good dneking. The bridge had
been condemned a good while. A
new structure was on the grounds to
be put up as soo as the bridge con
tractors could get to it. 1t appears
to the writer that there ought to be
a law enacted so the MAJ damaged
could recover damages more espec-
tally with a little two horse load
j. F. Baker, c. Householder, Day
Miller, Ross Ewing, and others. re-
ceived sheep, lambs, etc, a couple of
weeks ago at prices ranging from
$6.75 to 500 per hundred according
to kind.