Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-09-14
SKINNER JOTTINGs.

anu waiter SuTDef as being mice
and still the little busy buzzing sill
cutter is going, making ready tina
juicy good silage for the variou
kinds Of stock this winter. - VIM. II
DeJarnett, wife and daughter, Mrs
j. r. Squirting, motored to Shelb,
county to attend the Association o
the Regular Baptist Church. The
also took in another association il
Galloway last week. - Miss Rutl
Carpenter is home from Illinois, wher,
she just spent a month the guest o.
relatives and friends, Miss Pear
Biggs, Of Vandalia, began school al
Fox Seminary recently. She is s
new teacher, and comes highly rec.
commended, and is starting of welL--
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanner entertained Sun.
day MIR. and Mrs. Chapman, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIII White, Miss Lula Creasey
and others. - MFR. and Mrs, William
II. DeJarnett entertained az dinner
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Charles House
holder, Mr. and Mrs. Harry House.
holder and mother. and DR.. Willie De-
J%arnett- Of Centralia. - Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Bruce entertained Sunday Nh.
and Mrs. G. /. NeAle and Misses Mar.
garet Wiley, Ruth Ellis and Johnny
Whitley. - John p. Harrison and fam
ily, former residents Of our vicinity,
fifteen years ago, Of McCredie, motor
ed up in their new Ford car last week
and spent a few days with old friends
and neighbors. Come again, YOU are
A great delight. Their family has in
'crrased to four children. 49, Miss Hazel
Holloway and Ruth Ellis will enter
Hardin this week to attend all through
the session of 1916 and 1917, Mr.,
and Mrs. Oscar Cawthorn and dauRh-
ter, Miss Dora, visited Mr.. Cawthornrs
brothers and family at Thompson. -
We understand cur excellent friend,
r. L. Niece, placed an order for a
Ford touring car recently. Hurrah!
for Frank; he can afford it and will
have many joy rides from this on. -
There are so many autos coming out
these days that we can scarcely keep
count of them. - The largest enroll
ment at GatewoOd in years are pres.
ent this year. About 20. Miss Nil.
bred Cook is doing excellent work in
~instructing. Turner and Clayton
Berrey and sister entertained a good
ly number of their friends Saturday
night in q very becoming manner. All
report an excellent time. Charley
Dickey is saving lumber on OTIS
Towards farm the past two weeks.
and is certainly turning out fine. -
The neighbors here are shedding
Charley Dickey's new Rumbly Separa-
tor for the winter, and will begin the
season next year in our immediate vi
cinity instead of winding it up here.
- Milton Householder sold four big
mules Saturday for S 1880. Buyer not
learned. - Among those of our farm
ers who will build a new barn this fall
we mention: c. R. Squirting, barn
4SN54; Harry Householder, barn
50x50; ". R. Wisdom, large barn
tWisdom's barn was destroyed by the
lightning setting it airel; James
Chapman and Elmer Conley. They
all nodded a barn and are getting it
at a very opportune time. Pearl
Vance is building a large seven-room
house on his valuable 16O-acre farm
which he just recently traded for Of
Tom Daniels. This is the Snow iarm
or part of the Lakenan & Barnes
place. Charles Tanner is going 10
build a large concrete cellar and some
concrete walks this fall. Among
those who shelled a carload of corn
and shipped or sold to local buyers
we mention: James Crosswhite, II.
I Squirting & Son, p. T. Bruce, O, Z.
Ellis and j. w Holloway. George
NJ Dean did the above Smelling with
his usual speed and alertness. Geo,
IS certainly q hummer when IL comes
10 knowing how to operate machinery
to its very best capacity. Alex
Bruce and BILLY Wiley placed a load
OF oats or the st. Louis market the
rast week, - The Rev. Humphreys
nilea MS regular appointment at
Bethlehem Sunday morning and night.
Frotrhctcc services began at Lib
erty Sunday with the Rev. Mr.. Hen
son, Of Ncbcrly, in the pulpit, assist
ing the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Andrews.
Meeting bids fair to eclipse all former
err rts at this place. - CLYDE Weaver
nov sttlts a lew artificial arm which
he ear tne~7te nearly equal to the real
arm lie purchased the arm Of the
CarEcs Artlfic al Limb Co, Of Kansas
City, at a cost of $3.50. We are elated
with Clyde hat he can operate It o
vel and locks so nearly natural.
Inc wedding Tells pealed forth seft
and low Sal, cay night and two Of Cur
very excellent young people were
pronounced husband and wife. This
tine It fell thst lot to be made so han
Ply to Bruce Rifgeway and Miss Fran
cas- Powell. W. would cheer them on
% noblcr Geed and higher ;delI
Iney come Of two of the conntv'a
best families. They will make their
future home On a farm near Mol;7o.
where the groom we understand, has
beer patching all year. No wonder
ne married young in life,-since he
got the consent of his wife. 49, Do not
crowd yourself so much with duties
Overlooking knocks out a few pecple
I'Underloading knocks out hundreds NJ
people, No loading at all makas
drones out of multitudes. What We
started to say is that continual hard
ships rObs n Of that sweetness of
character, nobility of purpose and
magnanimity of mind. We have TO
have some play, some sunshine, some
keep-on-smiling spirit, if we would no
at our best. Cheerful sunshining.
keep-on smiling spirit in that happy
buoyant, blissful way is the best tonic
BODY and mind can enjoy night or
Gay. o. F. Ellis sold Wheeler CAN'T
hfteen 2OO-lb. hogs and delivered them
Tuesday, at S10.50 per h~undredwejpht
Earl Berry sold to Wheeler Can't
and delivered Tuesday twelve 5O-lb.
lambs at $500 per hundredweight.
wheeler CAN'T was in our midst last
week, and the first Of this. taLing
orders for wheat fertilizer. He sold
several tons to each Of the following.
Milton Householder, Sterling p. Car
ter and W. F. WiIbey. Everybody
viii be 50 delighted to learn that n
new steel bridge with concrete hot
tom will be built across Fish Branch
three-fourths of a mile north of skin.
ner. BY being a little patient. we M
last secured the best possible. The
graVel Tor abGtments will soon be mt
on the grounds, and soon after thew
VIII be put in, approaches filed and
the bridge erected. The old wooden
structure has been a dangerous old
trap for years, and everybody avoid
ed 1t as much as possible. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Bailey Boone, Of Kansas CITY.
were here last week the guests Of
their uncle, Flood Patrick and family.
and aunts, Mesdames 0. T. Hauley
and c. P. Brooks and families, return
ed to their home Monday. Charles
Householder sold both of his farms
last week to a st. Louis millionaire
the home place of $50 acres at $40 an
acre and the Liberty $40 acres at $50
per acre. We ere sorry Mr.. House
holder has sold out, and are only left
hoping he and his excellent wife NAV
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