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Commercial
June 17, 1909
Event 1 of 2
Mexico Missouri Message
Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri
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Various recent livestock, land, and crop sales in Audrain County, Missouri, including hogs at 7c/lb, corn at 74c/bushel, and farm purchases up to $28,800. Detailed report on F.N. Laugharn's public sale northeast of Mexico, featuring high-priced horses, cattle, and hogs totaling over $8,000.
Merged-components note: These two sequential components (reading orders 18 and 19) continue the same topic of live stock sales and prices, forming a single logical commercial report.
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SALES AND LIVE STOCK
Sam Rowe has 50 hogs and Mrs. Ewing 40, sold to Wm. Mundy for the last of this month at 7c.
T. J. Gentry of Monroe county has 68 hogs sold to a Perry buyer for delivery by July 10, at 7c.
Dr. J. G. Moore recently bought of the Dobyns estate three acres of unimproved land, near Woodlawn, for $1,700.
Gaither Perry bought 500 bushels of corn of H. Wilmhorst a few days ago, paying 74 cents a bushel, corn to be delivered.
Frank Osterhout bought at Sheriff's sale in partition in Mexico last Friday a brick building in Farber for $1,000, formerly owned by the Peterson Coal Co.
The Paris Appeal says that Rouse Bros., near Santa Fe, sold 46 head of 217-lb. hogs, Wednesday, at $7.10. Peak Bros. paid George Pitman 7 1/2 cts. for 13 46-lb. shoats.
The Perry Enterprise says that J. W. Trimble and Wm. Mundy shipped a load of hogs out of Perry Monday which were bought from the following parties: S.G. Powell 10, Wallace McCue 20, Rouse Bros. 46.
Dr. S. L. Dewhirst of Laddonia was here Friday on his way from his farm at Brown's Station with three fine Chester White pigs which he will put in keeping for exhibition at the Audrain County Fair.
Isaac Baskett sold his 160 acre farm, east of Mexico, last week to Cortez Edmonston for $5,000. Mr. Edmonston gets possession next September and this fall Mr. Baskett will move to St. Louis.
The Paris Appeal reports that Heitz Young, southwest of Paris, cleared $1500 on 30 mule colts he bought last fall. He sold them last Friday to Jim Jones, of Hallsville, at $125 per head. Ab Fountain refused $110 each for 10 of his bunch.
Williams & Sharp and J. C. Mundy have acquired 12 acres of unimproved land from Mrs. Sarah E. Little, in North Mexico, and will lay it off in lots and sell it at public auction. The electric railway runs down the west line of the land. It will make a nice place for new homes.
F. E. Wentz has sold his fine 360 acre farm, just southwest of Mexico, to Charles Dean for $28,800. Mr. Wentz gives possession next March. He says he likes Audrain county and thinks Mexico one of the nicest towns he was ever in. We hope Mr. Wentz will buy again, near the county seat, and stay with us.
Mrs. J. M. Atkinson lately bought the A. K. Yancey home, just east of the High School building. Mrs. Atkinson now owns the entire block of which her last purchase is a part and is grading and preparing the north side of the block for the erection of several fine new dwelling houses.
Ernest Koch, near Rush Hill, sold Charley Dean a fine span of mules this week for $375.
Our Thompson correspondent reports: H. T. Gant, our hustling stockman, bought the following stock lately: 16 hogs of C. H. Brown, average 250 lbs., at $7.25; 17 of J. A. Groves, average 255 lbs., at $7.25; 16 from Clara and Bledsoe, average 237 lbs., at $7.00, and 12 of C. L. Thomas, average 165 lbs., at $7.00; 7 of H. T Spurling at 7.00; 81 of Judge Barnes, to go first 10 days of June $7.25; 40 of J. F. Winn, first half of July, at $7.10; 35 from Dwight Miller, first half of July, at 7.00; 35 from Lee Miller, last half of July, $7.25; 31 of J. A. Groves, first part of Sept., $7.25.
Mr. Gant also shipped a car of hogs last Thursday night.
LAUGHARN SALE
Live Stock
Brings Big Prices.
List of Cattle, Hogs and
Horses Sold.
F. N. Laugharn's public sale, just northeast of Mexico, last week was largely attended and everything brought high prices.
The following live stock was among the sales:
J. T. Johnson, 6 sows and 40 pigs, $136.50; one sow and three pigs, $15.50; boar, $9.00.
Charles Schopp, two black gilts, $40.
E. H. Carter, boar, $20.
Ed. Lawder, 15 shoats, $105; boar, $9.
F. L. Crosby, 5 year old black mare and colt, $275.
Philip Shire, pair mares, black and bay, $260.
W. W. Johnson, 4 year old bay mare, $112.
W. W. Pollock, 5 year old gelding in harness, $120; 5 year old bay, $130.
Fred Norris, 11 year old mare, $37.50.
James Booth, 3 year old dark filly, $125.
W. W. Pollock, black filly, $140.
Jim Booth, 4 year old dark brown mare, $152.50.
C. H. Schopp, 3 year old bay filly, star in head, $80.
A. H. Schopp, 3 year old gray gelding, $100.
W. W. Pollock, 10 year old mare and mare colt, $135.
Chas. Harrison, bay mare and mule colt, $165; bay mare and colt by Critz Rose, $300.
James Booth, black mare and colt $225.
Dan Ryan, bay gelding, $75.
W. W. Pollock, bay mare Pony, $67.50; dun gelding, $100; black, 3 year old, saddle bred, $87.50.
James Booth, iron gray mare, $170.
W. A. Willingham, 3 year old Percheron gray filly, $200.
F. J. Moydell, dark, blaze faced mare, $95.
W. W. Pollock, 11 year old saddle bred mare and colt, $75; Percheron, dark iron gray yearling gelding; 3 year old bay filly, $65; 2 year old bay filly, star in head, $60; Forestburg 3 year old gelding, $60.
F. J. Moydell, two 3-year-old fillies, black, $350
W. W. Pollock, 2 year old Percheron gray gelding, $100; gray gelding, $75; 2 year old iron gray gelding, $100; 3 year old iron gray gelding, $85; yearling gray filly, $45; yearling gray horse colt, $35; yearling black horse colt, $47.50; black yearling filly, $60; 2 year old bay horse, $30; yearling black filly, $25; 2 year old gray colt, $40; yearling gray horse colt, $52.50; 2 year old gray horse colt, $50.00.
Bud Campbell, yearling sorrel filly, $38.
W. W. Pollock, 11 year old bay mare, broke single, $19; 4 year old saddle pony, $67.
John Henderson, 2 year old bay filly, by Alberton, $215.
J. T. Johnson, 5 year old black gelding, $250.
C. I. Staples, 11 year old brown saddle mare, $60.
Joe Considine and Johnson, black mare pony, $131.
C. H. Schopp, pony, saddle and bridle, $2.50.
Considine & Johnson, pony, stallion, $160.
Joe Considine, 5 year old registered Shorthorn cow and calf, $70.
C. T. Arnold, Jersey bull calf, $7.50.
Dick Muir, Jersey cow and bull calf, $42.00.
Joe Considine, Jersey cow and calf, $70.00.
Ira Miller, red Jersey cow, $42.00.
C. P. Johnson, black Jersey calf, $7.75.
Robert Jolley, red cow and black calf, $65.
E. J. Moring, spotted cow and black calf, $44; red cow and red calf.
W. W. Pollock, black cow and calf, $32.00.
C. P. Arnold, red cow and calf, $41.
W. Hall, old Jersey cow and calf, $37.00.
C.P. Arnold, 4 year old red cow and black calf, $41.00.
E. J. Moring, red cow, $35.50.
W. W. Pollock, red cow, $33.00.
Joe Considine, old Jersey cow, dry, $25.00.
J. T. Johnson, red and one roan cow, $75.00.
W. W. Pollock, dry Jersey cow, $17.50; black Jersey cow, old, $14.
Joe Considine, black Angus bull, $40.00.
Earl Carter, 2 steers and 6 heifers, $178.00.
George Portwood, goat, $7.25.
W. W. Pollock bought 117 bushels of corn for $36.58; oats at 50 cents a bushel.
The full proceeds of the sale- farming implements, etc., not mentioned above-amounted to over $8,000.00.
Sam Rowe has 50 hogs and Mrs. Ewing 40, sold to Wm. Mundy for the last of this month at 7c.
T. J. Gentry of Monroe county has 68 hogs sold to a Perry buyer for delivery by July 10, at 7c.
Dr. J. G. Moore recently bought of the Dobyns estate three acres of unimproved land, near Woodlawn, for $1,700.
Gaither Perry bought 500 bushels of corn of H. Wilmhorst a few days ago, paying 74 cents a bushel, corn to be delivered.
Frank Osterhout bought at Sheriff's sale in partition in Mexico last Friday a brick building in Farber for $1,000, formerly owned by the Peterson Coal Co.
The Paris Appeal says that Rouse Bros., near Santa Fe, sold 46 head of 217-lb. hogs, Wednesday, at $7.10. Peak Bros. paid George Pitman 7 1/2 cts. for 13 46-lb. shoats.
The Perry Enterprise says that J. W. Trimble and Wm. Mundy shipped a load of hogs out of Perry Monday which were bought from the following parties: S.G. Powell 10, Wallace McCue 20, Rouse Bros. 46.
Dr. S. L. Dewhirst of Laddonia was here Friday on his way from his farm at Brown's Station with three fine Chester White pigs which he will put in keeping for exhibition at the Audrain County Fair.
Isaac Baskett sold his 160 acre farm, east of Mexico, last week to Cortez Edmonston for $5,000. Mr. Edmonston gets possession next September and this fall Mr. Baskett will move to St. Louis.
The Paris Appeal reports that Heitz Young, southwest of Paris, cleared $1500 on 30 mule colts he bought last fall. He sold them last Friday to Jim Jones, of Hallsville, at $125 per head. Ab Fountain refused $110 each for 10 of his bunch.
Williams & Sharp and J. C. Mundy have acquired 12 acres of unimproved land from Mrs. Sarah E. Little, in North Mexico, and will lay it off in lots and sell it at public auction. The electric railway runs down the west line of the land. It will make a nice place for new homes.
F. E. Wentz has sold his fine 360 acre farm, just southwest of Mexico, to Charles Dean for $28,800. Mr. Wentz gives possession next March. He says he likes Audrain county and thinks Mexico one of the nicest towns he was ever in. We hope Mr. Wentz will buy again, near the county seat, and stay with us.
Mrs. J. M. Atkinson lately bought the A. K. Yancey home, just east of the High School building. Mrs. Atkinson now owns the entire block of which her last purchase is a part and is grading and preparing the north side of the block for the erection of several fine new dwelling houses.
Ernest Koch, near Rush Hill, sold Charley Dean a fine span of mules this week for $375.
Our Thompson correspondent reports: H. T. Gant, our hustling stockman, bought the following stock lately: 16 hogs of C. H. Brown, average 250 lbs., at $7.25; 17 of J. A. Groves, average 255 lbs., at $7.25; 16 from Clara and Bledsoe, average 237 lbs., at $7.00, and 12 of C. L. Thomas, average 165 lbs., at $7.00; 7 of H. T Spurling at 7.00; 81 of Judge Barnes, to go first 10 days of June $7.25; 40 of J. F. Winn, first half of July, at $7.10; 35 from Dwight Miller, first half of July, at 7.00; 35 from Lee Miller, last half of July, $7.25; 31 of J. A. Groves, first part of Sept., $7.25.
Mr. Gant also shipped a car of hogs last Thursday night.
LAUGHARN SALE
Live Stock
Brings Big Prices.
List of Cattle, Hogs and
Horses Sold.
F. N. Laugharn's public sale, just northeast of Mexico, last week was largely attended and everything brought high prices.
The following live stock was among the sales:
J. T. Johnson, 6 sows and 40 pigs, $136.50; one sow and three pigs, $15.50; boar, $9.00.
Charles Schopp, two black gilts, $40.
E. H. Carter, boar, $20.
Ed. Lawder, 15 shoats, $105; boar, $9.
F. L. Crosby, 5 year old black mare and colt, $275.
Philip Shire, pair mares, black and bay, $260.
W. W. Johnson, 4 year old bay mare, $112.
W. W. Pollock, 5 year old gelding in harness, $120; 5 year old bay, $130.
Fred Norris, 11 year old mare, $37.50.
James Booth, 3 year old dark filly, $125.
W. W. Pollock, black filly, $140.
Jim Booth, 4 year old dark brown mare, $152.50.
C. H. Schopp, 3 year old bay filly, star in head, $80.
A. H. Schopp, 3 year old gray gelding, $100.
W. W. Pollock, 10 year old mare and mare colt, $135.
Chas. Harrison, bay mare and mule colt, $165; bay mare and colt by Critz Rose, $300.
James Booth, black mare and colt $225.
Dan Ryan, bay gelding, $75.
W. W. Pollock, bay mare Pony, $67.50; dun gelding, $100; black, 3 year old, saddle bred, $87.50.
James Booth, iron gray mare, $170.
W. A. Willingham, 3 year old Percheron gray filly, $200.
F. J. Moydell, dark, blaze faced mare, $95.
W. W. Pollock, 11 year old saddle bred mare and colt, $75; Percheron, dark iron gray yearling gelding; 3 year old bay filly, $65; 2 year old bay filly, star in head, $60; Forestburg 3 year old gelding, $60.
F. J. Moydell, two 3-year-old fillies, black, $350
W. W. Pollock, 2 year old Percheron gray gelding, $100; gray gelding, $75; 2 year old iron gray gelding, $100; 3 year old iron gray gelding, $85; yearling gray filly, $45; yearling gray horse colt, $35; yearling black horse colt, $47.50; black yearling filly, $60; 2 year old bay horse, $30; yearling black filly, $25; 2 year old gray colt, $40; yearling gray horse colt, $52.50; 2 year old gray horse colt, $50.00.
Bud Campbell, yearling sorrel filly, $38.
W. W. Pollock, 11 year old bay mare, broke single, $19; 4 year old saddle pony, $67.
John Henderson, 2 year old bay filly, by Alberton, $215.
J. T. Johnson, 5 year old black gelding, $250.
C. I. Staples, 11 year old brown saddle mare, $60.
Joe Considine and Johnson, black mare pony, $131.
C. H. Schopp, pony, saddle and bridle, $2.50.
Considine & Johnson, pony, stallion, $160.
Joe Considine, 5 year old registered Shorthorn cow and calf, $70.
C. T. Arnold, Jersey bull calf, $7.50.
Dick Muir, Jersey cow and bull calf, $42.00.
Joe Considine, Jersey cow and calf, $70.00.
Ira Miller, red Jersey cow, $42.00.
C. P. Johnson, black Jersey calf, $7.75.
Robert Jolley, red cow and black calf, $65.
E. J. Moring, spotted cow and black calf, $44; red cow and red calf.
W. W. Pollock, black cow and calf, $32.00.
C. P. Arnold, red cow and calf, $41.
W. Hall, old Jersey cow and calf, $37.00.
C.P. Arnold, 4 year old red cow and black calf, $41.00.
E. J. Moring, red cow, $35.50.
W. W. Pollock, red cow, $33.00.
Joe Considine, old Jersey cow, dry, $25.00.
J. T. Johnson, red and one roan cow, $75.00.
W. W. Pollock, dry Jersey cow, $17.50; black Jersey cow, old, $14.
Joe Considine, black Angus bull, $40.00.
Earl Carter, 2 steers and 6 heifers, $178.00.
George Portwood, goat, $7.25.
W. W. Pollock bought 117 bushels of corn for $36.58; oats at 50 cents a bushel.
The full proceeds of the sale- farming implements, etc., not mentioned above-amounted to over $8,000.00.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Prices
Market Condition
What keywords are associated?
Hog Sales
Land Transactions
Corn Purchases
Farm Sales
Stock Buying
What entities or persons were involved?
Wm. Mundy
T. J. Gentry
Dr. J. G. Moore
Gaither Perry
Frank Osterhout
Isaac Baskett
F. E. Wentz
H. T. Gant
Where did it happen?
Audrain County, Missouri
Commercial Details
Location
Audrain County, Missouri
Commodities
Hogs
Corn
Land
Mules
Key Figures
Wm. Mundy
T. J. Gentry
Dr. J. G. Moore
Gaither Perry
Frank Osterhout
Isaac Baskett
F. E. Wentz
H. T. Gant
Notable Details
50 Hogs Sold At 7c
68 Hogs For Delivery By July 10 At 7c
Three Acres Land For $1,700
500 Bushels Corn At 74 Cents
Brick Building For $1,000
160 Acre Farm For $5,000
360 Acre Farm For $28,800
Span Of Mules For $375
Various Hog Purchases At $7.00 To $7.25 Per Cwt