Mexico Missouri message., 1917-01-25
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the guests OF kinfolks.
Thurman Chapman will move to
the Squirting place this season. Glad
Thurman is coming back.
Cicero Murphy has rented the King
80 acre farm for this year. Cicero is
hustler and makes good wherever
he goes.
! John L. VIM will occupy his ia
theirs, John +. VIM, farm this year.
The father located in Montana three
years ago and likes fine, we hear,
and wants to sell his farm here.
Doan Weaver is about to close
contract to sell the Rawleigh lineof
medicines this year. Should he Sc
cure the contract he hopes to get
this county as his territory.
We hear thas Clyde Weaver has
not completely closed the deal for
the farm southwest OF Benton City.
Clyde Weaver bought an extra good
span of light draft mares last week.
Harry Householder loaded one car
of oats and two of baled hay last
week.
H. T. Squirting and Son and Harry
Day loaded car of oats Thursday at
Thompson and sold at "a cents per
bushel.
]. R. Squirting loaded car of oats
55 1-2 cents per bushel. All the above
oats were sold to Potts & Wade Of
Centralia.
Elmer Gatewood and Charlie
Meyers loaded car of oats at
Thompson Saturday and sold, to
Crump and Humphreys at Sc cents
Il per bushel.
With little better roads shortly,
o. F. Ellis and P. T. Bruce will get
out load of oats at Thompson. They
intended getting them out Monday
but for break in the weather Sun
day.
Ezra Petty recently finished a gar
age and scales platform for ]. A.
Surber, which is grace in workman
ship for anybody. Mr.. Surber is maxi
ing ready for that handsome new car
next summer. Mr.. Petty, also, builded
an addition to Walter Surber's house
which adds much to its appearance
land is good job. Ezra's "shingle"
brought good returns.
]. A. Surber recently put up new
yard fence.
P. T. Bruce sold to Joe Miller, Sat-
urday, 1-2 bushels of seed corn,
Boone county white variety. Also a
lot to j. L. Carpenter & Son. The
early bird catches the worm-first
come first served.
H. l.. Berrey~is quite a live factor
in our midst. He winters a lot of stock
every year and has to buy nearly all
his feed for so doing. He scatters his
hard earned cash to many of our
hamlets, and he nearly always makes
"a killing"
DR.. Hank, of Rowena, will leave
for the Lone Star State shortly with
view of locating. He made many
good friends while in thit little
berg who regret very much to see
him leave.
We understand that young M. D.,
by name of Ferguson, is contemplat-
ing locating in our little burg"
soon. We certainly welcome him in
our midst, which will make him a
good location as there is but one
doctor within a radius of twelve
miles.
The Literary and Debating society
at Duly school house is progressing
nicely. Nearly every program gets
better. A fine crowd of young people |
attend each night and the best order
and refinement prevails.
Richard Squires is saving wood for
all the neighbors. His buzz saw GER
tainly huns and goes through the
wood like CREASED lightning"
Mrs. Brunette is still confined to
her bed of typhoid-pneumonia and
leakage of the heart. Her many
friends fear she may never recover
as the doctor gave her up a fortnight
ago. Exposue and overwork perhaps
are the main causes of her sickness.
Johnny Wiley and Ruth Ellis
have recovered from a recent spell
of the measles.
The many friends of Milton House
holder are glad he is convalescent.
Here's hoping he may entirely recov-
er, as Milt is certainly a good man
in many ways to community.
The death of Roy Mitchell Thurs
day was in deed a sad affair and
blow to his many friends. Held in
the highest esteem by all, with only
20 summers to his credit, he was
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