Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-08-09
SKINNER ITEMS

ne burning Of ChNries Tanners
store Was q great calamity to cur
vicinity. he kept the best, largest
and eleArsst stock of goods-bo.h dry
rOods and gEesris 5, Of any country
store within Sur kr oWledge. TIE IL
suranoe companies VIII pay him full
insurance for ho1s, and fixtures, but
offer very scAnt amount fer goods
or account Of getting last invoice burn
ed. They offer him only $3.50 for their
recent invoice Of about $500. The
stock insurance calls for Sl,750. All
cur vicinity IS through threShing.
Charles Dickey has a good rig, and
does certainly know bow to handle it.
He halls out about three thousand
bushels per day with q gOod run. The
cats are Of a good quality, and ought
TO grade No. ., They made all the
way from thirty bushels TO sixty bush
els per sere. - The extreme drouth Of
the past two months in our vicinity
has played havoe with cur corn. 1t
viii be wonderfully short. With a
few good showers, through August
and September, the crop viii greatly
redeem itself. With all the rain need
ed through our immediate vicinity, no
more than half a crop can be realized
but in other portions Of the county
perhaps three-fourths or little better
may be harvested. - The hay crop
was very short this season. The oats
brought in plenty Of roughage. - We
are glad to report that W. H. De
Jarnstt has entirely recovered from
the recent prolonged spell of sick
ness. James Reese Squirting pur-
chased a big Overland recently. He
and his folks enjoy il much Of late. -
Thurman Chapman bought a new
/ Chevrolet turning car recently. =
Very near all our farmers and neigh
bors now sport a car of some kind,
and we are, or have been, building con-
crete eulverts and bridges and making
our roads more ike boulevards with
each seasons passing. with the car,
better roads come" is the slogan of
our country. - Miss Maud Conner,
Of Rush Hill, was the delightful
guest of Misses Hazel Holloway and
Ruth Ellis the past week.-Mrs. Bes-
] sic Day came home Saturday from the
summer school Of the NJ. S. U. -
Miss Mildred Cook and the Misses
Brandon will be home in a few days
from Warrensburg, where they at
tended the summer school. - Misses
Ruth Cook and Ellen Carter are homs
from Lake Geneva, where they at
tended a two weeks course in Sunday
School training. Miss Cook gradu-
sted. - The Misses Cook and broth
ers entertained their friends at a
lawn party recently. Miss Winnie
Settles, Of beyond Rowena, enter
tanned at a lawn party Saturday
night. Many friends Of hers were
present. Peck Bray entertained
many friends with a lawn party re-
Gently. -- Miss Frances Wakefield
entertained at lawn party Friday
night. Miss Ruth Carpenter and
brother entertained Monday with a
lawn party upon their spacious and
pretty lawn. Fishings, fishings,
fishing, every week, and it goes with
out saying that many of the finny
tribe have been caught and put in the
frying pan. Delightful times are had.
- Grover Chapman and family, Jas.
Chapman and family, F. P. Carter and
wife, Charles Tanner and wife, Thur
man Chapman and wife, James Cross
white and wife, Elmo Chapman and
family and others Sundayed at the big
covered bridge across Elk Fork SUM-
day week ago. Of course a very
pleasant day was had. - Ice cream
suppers galore. Nearly every church
has had one already within a radius
of ten miles of here. They have
been for the benefit of either the
church or the Red Cross Society.
Saturday night is the last one we
have heard of, at Ed PEARLS, which
was given for the benefit of the Red
Cross. Very near every supper took
in as much as 500, to 5000. The
latter was the amount given at J. H.
Hebels fine country home. Trinity,
Sunrise, and Mt. Zion all were inter-
ested in this one, and it was for the
benefit 0f the Red Cross. The
protracted meeting at Mt. Zion IS
progressing nicely, under the leader
ship Of their pastor the Rev. 1. NJ.
Turnage and Mr.. Bakers chorus, in
structed by Miss Lillian Flint, as or
ganist. Considerable interest is man
ifested and several additions to date,
have been made. The meeting will
continue until Wednesday night at
shortest, with a possibility of longer
service. - The War, the War, the
war, is the all absorbing question Of
the day. Our country is facing the
greatest crisis within the knowledge
of the living present, If not for all
past age. We are all revived-men,
' women, youths, children, alike. We
are getting near the trenches every
day and haartacbas ,pd aoon;oe ,-o