and then Mr. Lindley of the Hoosiers bought 

 the farm of me as I have shown you in the last 

 few pages. ^ . ^ _,. 



I have shown you that my trip to Missouri 

 was a verv expensive one to me and in my 

 tabulated receipt and expenditure account that 

 follows YOU will notice amounts of my store 

 account with the Farmers' Supply Co. of 

 Sikeston, and without a doubt it will be told 

 to vou that we were a veiy extravagant farn- 

 ily.' If vou care to and will look tliat part of it 

 up I would be pleased to have you call on the 

 Farmers' S'upplv Company and look over the 

 Itemized statement of our account that they 

 kept, and if you find extravagant purchases 

 there write me about them. 



Summing it all up. friend, remember what I 

 have told you, should you go down to this coun- 

 try and it' looks 'good to you don't fall in. Ar- 

 range your affairs so that you can either go 

 down there and farm for a season on a rental 

 proposition or work for somebody a year, and 

 I speak from experience when I say I know 

 that vou will pioflt greatly by it. 



The matters that I have set out in this book 

 are all true. Just as they happened to me, and 

 the parties that I have spoken of lived at the 

 places that I speak of at the time I went 

 through this experience with them. Go down 

 there if you wish to. Don't let my experience 

 keep you from it, BUT PROFIT BY IT. 



APPENDIX. 



To you, Mr. Banker, trusted man of your 

 community, to whom I have mailed this little 

 booklet, full of safeguards for j'our friends, I 

 trust vou will be interested enough to read it 

 and see to it that It gets to the parties that 

 can and WILL profit by it when they read it 

 and have the opportunity to PROFIT by it. 

 You know and I know that a spirit of unrest is 

 always present in some of the people of each 

 community, and it is only natural that they 

 go to the country .that is represented to them 

 to be one flowing with milk and honey, and to 

 call their attention before it is tOo late. Give 

 that railroad sign a chance to act — STOP- 

 LOOK— LISTEN— and you will not regret it. 



I have prepared this book with a purpose in 

 view of trying to save other enthusiastic people 

 from falling into the same trap that I did, and 

 as you will see from my financial statement 

 filed herewith what it cost me to go down to 

 tliis country for near four years, both in finance 

 and my children's school life, and while I am 

 anxious and willing to do this service, still 

 I must ask you to help a little, and that is remit 

 me 25 cents each for all numbers of this booklet 

 you can use. Should you not desire to hand 

 the booklets out to your friends that are con- 

 templating moving to a new country and would 

 like for them to have a copy, mail me a list of 

 addresses that you wish them sent to and a 

 remittance of 25 cents each to cover the same 

 and I will take pleasure in mailing them the 

 booklets. As to my responsibility and honesty 

 I would refer you to any of the bankers of my 

 former home town, Bluffton, Ind. These book- 

 lets will only cost you a quarter apiece and it 

 might be the cause of saving some of your 

 friends. Well, figure up what I would have 

 saved had I not gone to Missouri, and besides, 

 it would impress upon them the advisability of 

 staying where they know the people and who 

 they are dealing with. I think I have made it 

 clear enough in the foregoing pages that there 

 are people in "Old Swamp-East" Missouri that 

 are on the make, and are not particular who 

 they make it off of. 



Please do not throw this in the waste basket, 

 as it is a product of my lost efforts in this 

 malarious country. Give it to some one thaT 

 can profit by it. and if they do not heed they 

 will have opportunity to compare accounts 

 some time in the future. 



FINANCIAL EXHIBIT. 

 1909. 



Received from sale of corn $1,825.00 



Received from rent of land 525.00 



Paid for corn $1,227.00 



Paid taxes 159.00 



Interest on Investment to .lan. 



1, 1010 ^S.-.S! 



Living expenses from .Iniie :;i) 



to .Ian. I, lino, moving, etc, 



about b 0. 



S'eed wheat • 100.00 



Help taking off corn crop and 



putting out wheat, about... 300.00 



$2,869.84 $2,350.00 



Short for year lliOO 519.81 



1910. 



From sal'i of wheat $ - if .1- 



Froni sale of corn , „ ,r.i 



From sale of hogs -,,, „■ -■''•-■- 



Short for year 1909 $ ol9.b4 



Interest on investment to Jan. 



1, 1911 ^ti^-IS 



Taxes 164.44 



Loss by death of animals :?c'?a 



Store account i46.10 



Extra help and threshing ac- ... 



count 12/. 14 



$2,805.20 $1,807.82 

 Short for year 1910 997.38 



From sale of wheat H'-!j?.'nn 



From sale of corn 'i--"ftA 



From sale of pea hay lou.wu 



Short for year 1910 $ 997.38 



Interest on investment till Jan. 



1 iqi') 967.68 



Taxes ...'.'.' 206.00 



Extra heip clearing land ■^^?-^9 



Store account ^ni'A , 



Store account 91. b4 



Extra help and expense of 



threshing 141.82 



Extra help in taking off corn 



crop and shelling llo.dl 



$3,514.53 $2,959.00 



Short year 1910 445.53 



1912. 



From sale of wheat $ ??n'nA 



From sale of cow peas 14U.U0 



Short for year 1911 $ 445.53 



Interest on investment to Jan. 



1, 1913 96(.6S 



Taxes 190.36 



Hulling oeas and baling pea 

 hay, also threshing wheat 

 and extra help 258. 6a 



Farmers' Supply Co. (store ac- 

 count), not in following 

 note 265.80 



Farmers' Supply Co. note, 

 which includes about $200 

 worth of farm machinery 400.00 



$2,525.02 $ 975.00 

 Short at time of farm sale 

 and sale of personal 



property l.boO.f): 



1912, . 



Received from sale of farm— 

 original investment ^..^.uuu.uu 



Received from sale of farm— oi-aaa 



increase in valuation 2,luU.ou 



Received from sale of personal „ n1,^ n« 



property 2,ol0.00 



Short at time of farm sale and 

 personal property $l,5u0.02 



Paid commission note of $500 

 and interest $101.95 to C. M. 

 Smith Bros. & Co. Land Co.. 601. 9o 



Paid to C. M. Smith Bros. & 

 Co. Land Co. for money ad- 

 vanced to take up mule note 525.77 



Note of C. D. Matthews cov- 

 ering store account and part 

 of the extra 2% interest 

 charged 1)17.00 



Mrs. Studabaker's malarial 



sickness 87.40 



Baling and threshing pea hay. 110.00 



Horse note and interest to C. 



D. Matthews 339.00 



Farmers' Supply Co., store ac- 

 count 73.68 



B. Moser, for cash loaned and 



interest 124.00 



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