Mexico Missouri message., 1915-10-28
SKINNER LETTER.
A Corn Carnival at SI1iDner-Inter-
esting Time Promised.

Thompson, Mo-, Oct. 26.-The fine
Autumn weather is thing of beauty
and will be joy forever.
Wheat sowing past for 1915. A
good stand so far The acreage sown,
however, is perhaps two-thirds of
last years acreage. Farmers are
busy as worker bees. blowing, gath
ering nuts, making cider-some even
thinking of binning corn.
Chas. Householder began cribbing
corn Monday. Most of the corn, how
ever, 81 little green to put away.
Singing at the Ladies' Hall meet
once a week, on Wednesday night.
A Corn Carnival, solely, will be
reeled off Skinner Saturday after
noon next. The exhibits will be
corn only. 1t will be placed in the
Ladies' Hall. "A bushel or 100 ears
of corn will be required to compete
for the prizes. Ten dollars will be
divided among the various kinds of
corn. The exact way of the divis-
ion of the $1,000 premium will be
decided by a committee before day
of show. A competent judge will
be secured to award premiums. The
corn exhibited to become the proper
ty Of the committee in charge to be
sold at auction to the highest bidder,
perhaps that night
A box supper will be reeled off at
Gatewood Friday night, Nov. 5th, for
the benefit of the school library.
]. L. Carpenter is marketing car
lead after car load of apples at from
so cents to IS cents per bushel. His
20 acre orchard will yield him a nice
dividend this year.
j. L. Carpenter bought 40 head of
$50 pound Angus calves at the K
&C.. market recently at $500.
Elmer Gatewood sold to Anthony
of Centrala fifty 1856 pound hogs at
$7.75. He delivered them last week.
Floyd Patrick contracted 80 hogs
to Anthony six weeks ago at $3.50.
He delivered them last week. They
weighed about 225 pounds.
w. H. Mallory has been making
improvements around his premises
lately; solid concrete foundation un-
der his house and plastering house
also.
Chas. Dickey is making the saw
mill buzz the past few days on Chas.
Meyers place.
The roadoverseers are busy put
ting the highways up in shape-con-
crete culverts galore, quite a bit of
grading The only bridge now in
this vicinity that needs a new steel
structure is the one north of Skinner
three quarters of a mile, which spans
Fish Branch A dangerous old trap
and people are stunning it all they
possibly can. Somebody will meet
the fate of Grover Chapman at the
Meyers bridge two miles north of
Thompson some of these days. She's
rickety, rackety also and unsafe on
ly for pedestrians.
Grover Chapman went thru the
Meyers bridge across Salt River, two
miles north of Thompson. last Wed
nesday afternoo with 60 bushels of
wheat and team and wagon. Gro
yer and mules were considerably
scratched up, the wagon completely
demolished and the wheat got
good ducking, The bridge had been
condemned good while. A new
steel structure was on the grounds
to be put up as soon as the bridge
contractors could get to it. 1t ap-
pears to the writer that there ought
to be law enacted so that the man
damaged could recover. more espe-
eially with a little two-horse load.
J, F. Baker, G, Householder, d.
Miller, Ross Ewing and others re-
ceived sheep, lambs, or, etc. coup
lie of weeks ago at prices ranging
from $6.75 to $3.50, according to
kind.