Mexico Missouri message., 1918-06-27
THE FARMERS CLUB
MOVEMENT MOVING.
Day AT Rising Sun--St. Louis
Boys Making Good On The Farm
Shippers Strike Bad Market.

Skinner, Mo-, June 24.-Rev. Fred
White filed his appointments at
Bethlehem Sunday. Good congrega-
tions.
Wheat harvest is here. Perhaps
one-foIrth our wheat is already cut
now. The rest is ready for the sick
lie. The wheat is good quality and
the yield is above the average
Mrs. H. r. Day underwent an op-
Grafton at the Mexico Hospital Fri
day She is rapidly recovering
VIM. Cline sports a new baby
Overland Clarence Berrey recently
purchased new REQ 4. Frank
Smith now rides in q new Ford.
Chas. r. Meyers got out q load of
ca@tlc on Mondays market. They
were good enough to bring ~ TO Ii
cents per pound.
The following sold fat hogs of a.
bout 210 pounds average to Joe Con-
sidine: Chas. Tanner, IA; Harry
Day, 35; D. R. Strickland, %; P. T.
Bruce So. They brought an average
of about $15.75 per cwt.
VIM. Cline shipped thirty-nine lao
pound hogs and Tommy Walker IA
of same weight with the Farmers
Club from Centralia Wednesday.
Ross Ewings and Blum Brothers
got out load each of Western
lambs Monday. Also John F. Baker
had load the same day. They
struck a bad market. Some talked of
shipping the stock back.
Gatewood Farm Club unloaded
1900 bushels of coal at Thompson
last Monday. The coal was extra
good quality and cost them Is 1-2
cents per bushel. Three more loads
are coming soon. Some people laugh
and sneer at the Farmers Club
movement, but it apears to the Club
the laugh goes the other way.
The oat crop is beginning to ripen.
BY another week the harvest will be-
gin. We will perhaps have two
thirds as big yield as the prospect
promised 20 days ago. 1t takes an
abundance of rain for oats.
A bounteous rain was ours to re-
ceive today. Just little hard on the
wheat but sure was a bonaza for
the corn.
The Patton Estate shipped car
load of lumber from Fairbury, ILL.,,
here to erect barn on their farm,
the former c. L. Bruce place.
Fishing parties are all the go now.
Week before last we knew of three.
Last week we knew of five, this week
of as many. The finny tribe did and
are suffering. The writer had the
pleasure of going one evening and
our crowd landed near 1876 pounds,
enough fish to last them and all the
neighbors till they got real tired of
them. About the same bunch is 60
ing this week to spend the day.
The Children's Day exercises at
Rising Sun no doubt was par excel
lent, as they always have excellent
things no matter what they go at
down there. Sorry it was impossible
for us to attend.
Children's Day exercises at Mt.
Zion next Sunday night. No doubt
these exercises will be up to the usu-
al high standard of quality that these
people usually present.
An ice cream supper at Long
Branch next Saturday night. A
large crowd is always present here
and no doubt this effort will be the
climax of them all.
The Skinner ladies will give an
ice cream supper soon. Watch for
the date as the supper is surely COM
ing.
At the Red Cross ice cream supper
given at Brown Akerman's $3.50 was
taken in, $3.50 of which was clear
money.
The Midway Church gave an ice
cream social for the benefit of the
church, taking in near $146.
Mrs. w. H. DeJarnett and Mrs. ].
r. Squirting and sons, Med. and
Thomas, spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Sims,
three miles east of Florida. They
formerly made their home with Mr..
and Mrs DeJarnett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Bruce
and daughter, Mrs. Geo. l. Neale,
and her two children, Irene and
Howard, spent a week at Excelsior
Springs recently.
Getting ready for the big w. S. s.
Drive Friday, June %. Make ready
to buy as many of the stamps as
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