ness, so to speak, yet Mr. Lindley did advance 

 me $50 on the sale, but we needed a little more 

 ready money, and Mrs. Studabaker going to 

 town, 1 told her just to step into the Bank of 

 Sikeston and see Mr. V. D. Matthews and get 

 $50, and she was veiy much wrought up when 

 Mr. Matthews would not let her have it. Well, 

 in a few days I went in and saw him myselt. 

 lie told me of Mrs. Studaliaker being in f9r 

 some money and wanted to know if we still 

 wanted it. I told him the needs still existed 

 that we wished it for; then he took up the 

 matter of my selling out and told me that the 

 Hoosier Land Company would not figure up 

 the interest at a greater late than fJ per cent, 

 and that if I expected him to let the deal go 

 through I would have to stand for the extra 

 'Z per cent he had spoken about to me. As 1 

 could not help myself, I could do nothing else 

 than comply, and here I gave up another $84 

 and some odd cents to keep from losing all, 

 which, with the -$28 I showed up as a starter, 

 I in all paid about $112 to keep from having 

 the trust deed provisions executed against me. 

 Now friend, if you want to you can get a 

 ^'EIiY cheaiJ lesson from this experience of 



upon an expeiiment. I took my underwear and, 

 placing it in a large pan, placed another over 

 it, then put it in the stove oven and left it 

 there luitil I thought it was heated thiough; 

 then took them out and shook them over a 

 newspaper and counted the results. 1 had 

 thirty-tour. Should you go down there for a 

 season you might try it. Lots of fun. 



Rveiy country has its peculiar songs, say- 

 ings, etc., and fiom them you get a very good 

 idea of the country. Never was this more 

 truthfully given than in the following lew 

 verses, which show up the credit class — and it 

 certainly is right: 



It's "Charge It" on McFarlln Farm. 



It's ovei' the hill, across the knob; 

 Go to McFarlin's to get you a job. 

 It's haid times on McFarlin farm — 

 Hard times, my boy. 



Go to McFarlin's to gel you a jol), he'd push 



back his hat and say, 

 "Yes, by golly, I'll work >ou a while." 

 It's hard times on McFarlin farm — 

 Hard times, m>- lJo.^■. 



-^ «S^ v.^''" ,o**' 'd' V-'^ ,«N\ <ft^ 



LV't.*^"":!^ 



Acts on the liver and removes 

 the cause of chilis All dealers 

 will refund the money on any 

 case it fails to cure if used as per 

 printed directions. Sold by lead- 

 Bing grocers and druggists of 

 Sikeston and Scott and New 

 iMadrid counties. 



'nd r'' '■"■''a;,- J 



EARLY THIS WEEK 



Morhet of Fjniily Succumbs 

 M^.laria-. Child Dies Of 

 Dysentery 



^^^' ^W Mrs S. McBnde. w 

 ^^[v^'" , » Bnde, died «I the coun 

 »»'",, c'" \ Ihre. milsa west of Sil 



jof ■ 



F D, Baughn of CansI 



clack 



She 



.__ _ . and s 



days of age and was a general favorite 

 not only in her family but with all the 

 neighbors. While she was lying ill m 

 bed her little brother Leonard, aiic 

 years of age. was in the next room suf- 

 fering with malaria, which seemed to 



distress the little girl Both had ^ 



inseparable play 



'*• ^^i is » '•■"" an 



Mr.-.. John Stall , 

 h^r bed «.,th ^7,l'r. ««'*'" 



H Mc 



itry home about 



^eaton Wednea 



B^e of 38 yearo 



ronic case of malaHa. Sh. 



leaver a family of several children. 



The funeral was held from the home | 

 10 Che Hari i-emetery Thursday after 



'day afternoon, 



Beside: 

 brothers and two 

 ..._ jrned her death. A large c 

 friendB attended tlie funeral 



Clippings of Chills, Fevers and Cures. 



mine. Well, I secured this extra 2 per cent — 

 what I was back in the store — and the $50 

 cash that we needed, and had to have with a 

 chattel mortgage on all our personal property 

 that was worth anything and not under cover 

 already. I had to pay $1 for that mortgage, 

 also, and will explain that fully when I come 

 to it. 



September 22d, 1912. — Well, we had our amus- 

 ing experiences as well as our serious ones. 

 Fleas were quite bad at this time. Do most 

 anything you wanted to, you could not get 

 rid of them, and, knowing that extreme heat, 

 rightfully applied, would pacify them, I decided 



Mr. McFarlin claims to be boss — 

 Barrelful of money, but won't come across. 

 Hard times on McFarlin farm — 

 Hard times, my boy. 



Mr. INIcFarlin pays his hands in the fall 

 And some of his hands he don't pay at all. 

 It's "charge it" on McFarlin farm; 

 It's "charge it," my boy. 



I\Irs. McFarlin- she wants a new dress. 



She'll go to the counter and pick out the best. 



And it's "charge it" on McFarlin farm; 



It's "charge it," my boy. 



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