Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-03-18

4 Sam Major, OF faFlss was III A
city. Thursday, to attend J. 7. John
sons mule sale.
J. Kelly Wright, lecturer for he
State Board Of Agriculture, will de-
liver a lecture on Missouri" in the
Mcmillan auditorium March %, after
noon and evening. The lecture viii be
illustrated with stereopticon views
and there will be no admission
charged.
Dan Quinlan bought a Us acre
farm 6 miles northeast Of Mexico. Fri
day from Mrs. Jennie McClintie, Of
St Louis. This is a good farm and
was worth the money. Mr., Quinlan
realizes the value Of Audrain County
land.
A number of o~Ut-of-town buyers
and many from this vicinity attended
Col. J. T. Johnson's annual mule
sale at his farm, Colonial Hill. north
Of Mexico, Thursday. Col. johnson
had 81 head Of high-elass hybrids
which brought very good prices. The
johnson mules are far-fsmed and
buyers desiring the very best slways
attend this sale. Judge Alex Carter
and A. ID. jackson we're clerks and the
auctioneers were: Coils. J. A. Stew
art, Columbia; j. G. Ford. Mexico;
seeley. Whitehall, H.; Willis II. John
son. La Plata; J. n. stephens, Mar
tinsburg; J. R. Brown, Centralia; Ed
Atchison. Laddonia; Ed Underwood.
Perry; S. r. Major, Paris; Harrison
Bros. and /. W. Holman. Fulton; C.
G. Judy. Tallula, ILL.,; C. b. Carroll.
Vandalia.
Col ]. 7. JOhnson's sale Of high
class mules at Colonial Hill Stock
Farm, Thursday, totalled $l2,577.50.
Buyers from all wei Audrain county
and other parts of the state were
present and the bidding was quite
lively. Most all Of the stock brought
good prices and Col.Johnson expressed
himself as very well pleased with the
sale. Among the sales were the fol-
Pair mules to j. W. Dowell $500;
pair horse mules, W. D. Mason $3.50;
pair mare mules, A. P. johnson $500: |
pair mare mules, Judge Alex Carter
s427.50; one mule, Roy Knipp $217.50;
pair horse mules, Earl Carter S160;
one mare mule, N. T. Python, $50;
one mare mule, W. D. Mason SlS5;
pair horse mules, Geo. r. johnson
$500; pair horse mules, o. H. Brown
1855; pair mare mules, j.. w. Nc
$500; pair mules, /. T. Van
Note $3.50; pair mare mules, Bob
Grange 1865; pair mules, W. d. Lee
s232.50; pair mules, Fountain Bros.
$277.5O; pair mare mules, Ed Python
$40; brown mare mule, B. R. Middle
ton $40; mare mule, Bob Grange
$3.50; pair mare mules, Earl Carter
1865; pair horse mules, Earl Carter
1850; horse mule, Roy Knipp $50; pair
horse mules, Chas. Green 1910.
Considine & Pollock, Audrsin coun-
ty men who W and operate a 500
acre farm two miles southwest Of
Auxvasse, and who are w~intering a
bunch Of cattle, bought 80 shocks Of
and fodder Wednesday from
John W. Boyd. five miles southeast Of
Auxvasse, at 80 cents a shock, in the
field. The corn is on the Lee Garwood
farm and was grown by Ernest Hof-
man.-Fulton Gazette.
A a Of thirty head of mules and
horses was shipped from organs
Monday by R. K. Buckner e. Son. In
he shipment was one mule belonging
70 Nolan Huddleston, two and one
half miles northwest of Auxvasse,
and two mules, belonging to Hiram
rhrelkeld, of rear Ortiz. Eight head
Of horses and nineteen mules belong
to the Buckner frm.-Fulton
Gazette.
Walter Meyer, a thrifty young
farmer n and one-half miles north
west of Auxvasse, on Monday sold a
iandy four-year-old walking horse to
W. Pierce, two miles north of Aux
'asse, for sI65.
Shep Cunningham, of Laddonia, was
n town Saturday.