Mexico Missouri message., 1917-06-07
SKINNER LETTER.
Oat Crop Outlook Fine-Corn a Good
Stand-Hay the Largest Ever
The Sheep Man.

Skinner, Mo-, June 4.-Cyrus Rus
sell Squirting and family motored to
Mexico Sunday to be the guest of
Mrs. Sis mother, Mrs. Snidow and
her daughters, the Misses Ethyl,
Flemma and Fay Snidow. The Misses
Snidow have just returned from Tul-
sa, okla, where they held important
positions as teachers.
Misses Hazel Holloway and Ruth
Ellis, of Hardin and Margaret Will
fey, of Mcmillan. High, are home to
spend the summer vacation.
Several new tennis courts are in
our midst this season. We mention
those of Med. Squirting, Johnny Will
fey and Dwight and Miss Ruth Car
penter. Tennis SENS to be favorite
past time sport with most of our
young people.
The oat crop promises to be the
best in many years. Two more good
rains at the right time will insure us
of an extra good crop in yield-more
than average of the past ten years.
The corn crop is a fine stand. The
past fortnight being a little moist,
the grass and weeds have gotten a
little start, but with a bit of nice
weather now believe we can clean it
pretty good. The acreage is also larg-
est ever in county.
The most of our sheep men have
disposed of nearly all of their past
winters feed of lambs. They all made
excellent gains, around the 20 lbs.
mark, some better than that. and
nearly every car load brot the tip
top price on the market. This within
itself speaks high of the ability of
our men to make good mutton Well
venture the assertion they have the
biggest bank account they've had
for years on like deal. The smile is
broad and graceful on their faces
now. Among those who fed lambs
and the number they fed we mention:
Doyt Miller, 800; John and Chal
Blum, 900; Henry T. Squirting and
son, $40; Winn Bros, 1000; A. N.
Day, 800; VIM. Schultz, $50; Claude
Bybee $50; Geo. Lewis and son. $40;
J. T. Johnson, 300, Price Johnson,
1000; VIM. Johnson, 1000. 1t is fine
for so much resources to come into
our midst and our hat is off to every
one of them
Mrs. Thurman Chapman has been
i'll at her mothers in Centralia for
two weeks, returned home a few
days back almost entirely recovered.
She was threatened with appended
tis.
The Rev. Tom Bruce of Caruthers-
vile, is here the guest of relatives,
the Bruces.
p. T. Bruce lost his valuable pre-
MUM mule recently of blood poison
ing.
Will you let the love of your heart
and soul dominate your life COM
pletely, or will you let certain avoid
able vicisitudes be your pilot? The
former brings out the sweetest, the
Durest and best in life, but don't quite
make a living-the latter brings out
the real, the drudgery, the nom
lovely, but with plenty of reason is
OK. Many there are who follow
both roads, at the roads intersec-
tion many entertainments may loiter
to call you hither. Which will you
take?.
EX-President Taft predicts before
the war is over we will lose a million
OF our best manhood, and he also
says that the American boys need
discipline, military training ,conscript-
ion or something to teach them to
respect authority.
The German Government has set
up an imperial board consisting of
nine of the finest business experts
of that country to transfer German
commerce from war to peace basis
as soon as peace is declared.
Let us turn away from the idle
pursuits of this luxurious period and
take a little time to think how we
can best serve our country now, that
the stress of war is upon us. A good
step is to buy Liberty Bond, even
one of the smallest denomination.
Let every one do his or her bit and
make it their best.
The Rev. Hardesty filled his reg
ular pulpit Sunday at Liberty,
Miss Maye Powell attended the
tachers' examination Friday and Sat
urday in Mexico.
The men in the Molino neighbor-
hood were soliciting funds Saturday
that they might pull off a street fair
this fall 1t is an assured activity, as