Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-10-14

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wen fitted for this place and win
naks good-Anxmsse Reyiew.
Ths horse mule colt that wen The
blae ribbon II H. class at tho Fulton
street fair. week heforH last val sold
Monday By J. =. Meyeieh, northeast
II Fulton. 70 a. & Bigss. Of AuxsaaHe.
lfsr sio0 The animal IS one Of the
best colts raised in Galloway this sea-
soA. and but fer is sex wouid have
broagbt another SIS easy enough
Besides buying number Of god
mare colts IN Fulton. Monday, R. E.
Riggs. u Auxvasse. was n Mecredis
neiehborhooa, Saturday. and bought
ave animals to add to his buneh-Ful-
ION Gazette,
Paris Mccall. down near steedman,
sold two shcrt yearling steers 70 Earl
Maddox, south Of Reform. last week,
for s5e 4 head While IN Fulton, Mon
day. Mr.. Maddox sold . five year old
horse 10 Lee brothers. for 500.
W. c. Shryock. near Stephens, sold
a couple Of surplus horses at stock
sales Monday. Ono Of the beasts
went to Nolan Huddleston, Of Jackson
township. for $50. and the other went
to c. T. MeElroy. Of north Galloway,
at the same price.
Last Friday was threshing day at
the fine farm Of Goddard sisters.
Chas. Hubert. who works the farm,
has over 100 bushels Of oats and a
great deal Of wheat considering the
lightning destroyed 50 much Of Il a
few weeks ago.
W. ]. Woods, the Mexico horse
buyer, was up near Concord last
Thursday afternoon and succeeded in
rounding up eight head at prices that
suited him. The equines were bought
as follows: One each from Claude
Woods, James Woods, Boone Gilbert,
Joe Baynham, R. n. Hatcher, Jewett
Phillips, Norman Boyd and Joe Sallee.
-Auxvasse Review.
E. E. kennon, five miles northwest
of Auxyasse, bought six 70-pound
hogs last week from James Wood, Jr.,
of near Concord, at 6h cents. Mr..
Kennon also got five 70-pound stock
hogs from Claude Woods, Of Concord,
at the same price.
Be sure and read in the weekly Led
ger the advertisement Of Thomas F.
Murray's biz shorthorn sale to be
held Friday, October "a on Judge
Murry's fine farm, . miles west Of
McCredie. There are a hundred
choice animals in the herd. Be sure
and attend, as some bargains win be
offered.
Saline county is 10 vote on a million
dollar bond issue for road building in
that county. The date for the election
has not been determined. An expert
road builder in the government serv-
ice win be in Marshall soon to submit
plans for work and then the campaign
for the bond Issue win be started. The
object TO build permanent rock roads
on all the main highways in The coun-
ty at an approximate cost Of $4,000 a
mile.
We think We r safe in saying that
the farmers Of Monroe county win
not put in half as much wheat this
fall. The ground is over grown with a
rank growth Of weeds and grass The
ground has been wet and tightly run
together all hummer and fall, and it
has been a hard proposition to get it
ready for wheat Never before have
the wheat raisers had as much trouble
and hard work to save their wheat
as they had this year, and many Of
them have become discouraged over
their hard work harvesting their
wheat and over its damaged condi-
tion-Paris Appeal.
Peavine, the fye-year-old bay saddle
horse belonging to DR.. M. o. Biggs. !
of this city, has been sold to a New
York firm, il a deal now under con-
sideration is carried through. The
horse is being shown this week at the
st. Louis fair. He has been owned
by DR.. Biggs for eighteen months.
John Woods. who has been handling
the horse, Is making the deal--Fulton
Gazette.
Starr Bros, Of centralia have been
buying lambs in Denver and Kansas
City the past three weeks. They have
sold 1000 70 Missouri feeders, 1900
to New York, $500 to Oklahoma and
5000 to Colorado feeders al s7.sg to
$500 which is $i.0O per hundred high
or than last year. They have orders
for several thousand more which they
expect to buy in October. Mr.. j. II.
Starr says that they intend handling
about 10000 head this season.
chas. Householder, a former mem
Der Of the State Board Of Agriculture
and n Of Audrain county's leading
farmers, had II acres Of land on ia
place this year which yielded him 100
wagon loads Of corn. The loads aver
aged 25O0 pounds each. Of this land
2 acres was in kaffir corn which Weld
ed 10 tons to the acre and the other
" acres was in corn. He put 100
loads IN a ailc 10 by 80 feet and Oh ST
these loads were put in the silo during
one day. This is a record yield and
Mr.. Householder is being cOngratuiat-
cd upon his success with the Kaffr
corn.
Sam Sharp, Of the Nexics sayings
Bank, who has n Of The finest car
lens IN Mexico ranc.,