Show LOOKING BACKWARD delving belying among some old documents recently a marshall Ma ishall mo min man canie across an old account look book used between the cais 1818 ind and 18 1843 1813 1 3 the records cords le kept at it a missouri trading post throw light on the rood good old days day as older residents resident of randolph me are accustomed to refer to them in ili 1818 one customer drove three sheep to the trading post and receive eil ed for the three the sum of 0 6 in ili trade corn coin was a bushel hemp linen a yard and cotton linen loc a yard that year the storekeeper store keeper bought pounds of pork at 2 1 alc a 1 pound delivered rut but 10 years later inter pork prices had gone up for bacon was quoted nt at ge gc a pound pond wheat was roc joc r a basliel Ims bus liel ahl key nac oc a 1 I rallon gallon and h jeans to ninke it pair of pa pants lits cost in ili 1831 potatoes wert selling nt 33 3 I ac a bus bushel liel ineal nt at boc it a bubbel lius liel lutter butter loc beef ae lard ck cc eg eaks cc c and corn had dropped to 22 ia l ac a bushel the price of enough jeans for a pair of pants paints had bad clumped to 12 2 the price for making them w was as bioc an entry in 1841 shows that houses I 1 rented for 1 a month ind and it cost wpc I 1 to get a pair of shoes made if the leather feather was furril ched times have changed during dining the years a and u d we really believe for the better we love to peak of the good old flays days but how many of us its would want to return to them all clangs considered |