Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-04-01
SKINNER ITEMS.

q non. FOX ana IeH SCHOOLs
will close about the last of April,
Both teachers, Misses Sudie Vim and
Mildred Cook, are well liked and can
have the schools again by only asking
for them. Mr.. and Mrs. Mcneil Of
Iowa, have moved to the c. R. Spur.
ling farm. We welcome them to the
best spot on the map. - VIM. Copen-
haver and j. L. Hills sold Considine &
Wales a car load of hogs lately. Dc
livered them last Monday at $3.50 pei
cwt. Weight average of the porkers
around $50 pounds. - II. L. Berrey
sold Considine & Wales a car load ii
hogs and delivered them last Monday
at S15.25 per cwt. Weight about 25O
pounds. - Our people who raise
lambs are having only moderate luck
this time, saving about one lamb per
eve. - Very few cattle on feed also
not many lambs and hogs. There are
very few and little punches. The past
fall and winter feeders were money
~loosers, and all prefer to sell their
remaining cereals (what little they
have Left rather than take off a thlrd.
Our feeders want full market value
of the cereals they feed and more,
since they buy part of the products
they feed. If you will only prosper
the farmer then the world will pros
per. but rob himas he has been the
past six months, then the world will
lag and 90 in hunger. The balancing
power of the world finances and
wealth is the farm and farmer. Take
from him that which rightfully be
longs to him and he will become re-
calcitrant. He is beginning to come
to his own rescue by organizing and
bv continual enlightenment and fore
thought within the next decade VIC
see him forging and forcing himself to
his real place of standing-the from.
ranks Of the worlds progress and es-
TEEN. He has been looked upon long
enough just as a common ordinary
cur, clod hopper sort Of fellow. Let's
have a great continuous, everlasting
hurrah. for the farmer, the rough
sturdy, brown honest, purer sort Of Q
fellow. All Of our farmers nave
been busy Of late fixing up new ard
old fences, plows, tools Of all kinds.
attending their young stock and ETC.
making sure ready for sowing time
most Of them nearly have the 'buck
agrie" with the ardent desire of sow
ing,--the sowing season for oats and
spring wheat is here and past and
yet none is sown. - Mules are the
highest we ever knew them. Most
any good team will bring from $3.50
to 81, 900 per span. - The "fu" abb
seconded a few weeks ago and every
body bid him a happy good bye with
the great hope in their own soul that
he'd never return. - Rev. c. Arlln
Hayden has accepted a ]pastorare in
Kansas City, his former place before
he cam to Mt. Zion and Littleby, All
his focks and many other friends re-
greet his going away. Rev. J. E.
Painter has accepted the call OF his
last years pastorate, the Bethlehem
and New Hope churches, for the en-
suing year. He's a fine, dependable.
thoughtful pastor. - David dill TENT
ed the c. f. Duf's old farm of 28C
acres and will farm extensively fol
so Jung a a But come to thinI
of it, it takes young men for wor!
and action and old men for wisdom
Mr.. Evans Of near Sturgeon movet
to the Grover Chapman farm recently
Carl Weinand will roturn to th'
farm from Slater. He has oeen in tn
auto business up there the pas
few months. We're extending Ea'
the glad hand on his return and hop
he may not stray eve that far ava
from the garden spot of the worl
again. - There will perhaps be abou
one half the expected acreage Of DAT
sown this season. There will be som
more corn. The labor question PR
sents itself here. 1t is claimed frol
authoritive resources that farm laDt
is the shortest now in years. WI
was it that said a year ago that W1e
all our boys returned from oversees
the labor proposition would be solved
Seems like that a little touch Of M
proclivitie put such a distaste in the
to farm al d farm work that they ha'
quit the trm life and have abscon
ed themse YES to the uttermost part
the earth 4. nuast Of easier and mo
delightful l~iyelihoods. We beiie'
some Of them have quit c~vcrythr
that looks Ike work. Poor feIlo'