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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
1
A citizen outlines a program to boost farm income by building a county seat based dispatch system. Proposes roads, utilities, rapid motorcar transport for butter, cold storage trains, and motor cars linking farmers to markets within 12 to 24 hours. urges dairy education and broader marketing of wheat corn hay and produce.
In a letter to the Herald dated August 27, Mr A B Baley argues against a stock law, saying it would burden poor farmers and renters who must fence their own stock and protect crops. He urges a full, all stock law rather than a partial measure, noting misaligned land use by larger landowners and stock moving freely to damage small holdings. Other notes report local school openings, teachers, a colt sale, cord wood shipment, a beer depot, and a restaurateur stock.
Letters of Administration granted to Nellie Merton on the Peter Wills estate July 14 by Cape Girardeau Probate Court. Claimants must exhibit within one year or be barred from benefits. two year limit from publication for final bar. Notices also list Robert H. Marto estate administered by Nellie Merton with similar deadlines.
Weather and local market notes describe healthy condition, nights cold with hot dry days. The piece mentions shooting matches and horse swapping as a local activity. Hahs traded two colts to John Friese for two mules with $80 paid as boot. Julius Sebaugh traded a blind mare to Christ.
Cattle receipts 6500 with best on sale at 6.75 not prime. choice yearlings around 930 lbs at 6.40. Steers active above 5.00. lower grades steady. Cows under 3.25 steady to strong. higher grades dull or 10-50 cents lower. Veal calves strong. top 7.50. Hog receipts 4000, poor quality. top 1.05, butchers 6.75-7.05. good pigs 6.00-6.50. light pigs 4.50-5.50. Sheep 2500, steady. top mutton 4.25, top lambs 5.85. National Live Stock ad feature plus humorous ad copy follows.
The Carl Havenback and Great Wallace Shows present their comedy department featuring prominent clowns. Jim Rutherford Lon Moore Fred Jinks Tom Hart Frank Maynard Louis Plamandon Joe DeKoch Ken.
A sequence of land and lot transfers is listed, including Louis Houck and wife selling multiple lots in Giboney Houck's Addition to Cape Girardeau for 900 and 300 dollars, and many more deeds among Louis Houck, Jas. C. Wilson, Chas. P. Deimund, Carl Bauer, Fred Bauer, and others. Several farms and parcels across sections and townships with prices from 100 to 1775 dollars are recorded, including 40 acres to F. W. Schmidt and 278 acres to Jas. D. Wilson, plus various subdivisions and names such as Mary A.atherwood and Hannah Hilderbrand appearing in the chain of titles.
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