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The Emmett Index.
Official Paper
Official Paper
of
of
Gem County
Gem County
PUBLISHED IN THE GARDEN VALLEY OF IDAHO
EMMETT. GEM COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1921.
TEN PAGES
TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
NO. 42.
DAM OF CANYON CANAL
SETTLES
Extent of Damage Not Known—
Believe Weight of W'ater
Has Crushed Timbers.
The Canyon canal dam hag set
tled. That condition was revealed
Friday when the high water that has
prevailed in the river since early
spring receded sufficiently to ex
pose the upper portion of the dam.
The water has not dropped sufficient
ly yet to permit of an examination to
determine whether the settling
caused by water going under the dam,
or whether the supporting timbers
have been crushed by the enormous:
weight they were subjected to during
Superintendent Mac
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the flood season. Superintendent Mac
Lane takes a hopeful view and is of ;
the opinion that the timbers have been :
crushed. But at any rate the situa- j
tion is somewhat alarming and is a i
source of worry to canal officials. j
If the timbers have been crushed, ;
as Mr. MacLane believes, consider- |
able work and expense will be requir
ed to replace the timbers and raise;
the crest of the dam by new cribs anc
filling. The "horse dam" was wash-,
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high water had another effect, i
Sand was washed into the canal for j
a distance of about a quarter of a mne '
from the headgate down. The deposit;
was about 18 inches and resulted in j
the canal not being able to carry the
customary suppy of water. On Sat
urday approximately 70 teams, with
as manyopen and fresnos, reported at
the dam and took out the sand, com- 1
ed away.
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Canal Filled With Sand.
The
!
carrying a heavy burden of responsi
bility and worry as a result of the
physical condition of the system. If
the same spirit were to be displayed
by those who have adopted
obstruction tactics in the Black Can
yon dam proposition, the world would |
at least be brighter.
pleting the job by night, thus reduc
ing at a critical time the closing down
of the headgate to a single day. Prac
tically all the men and teams were
from the farms in the district and,
the men displayed a spirit of enthus
iasm and co-operation that is most
commendable—a spirit that accom
plishes things and that brings com
fort to the district officials who are
The condition of the dam and dan-;
gerous sections of the canal is an
other strong argument for the early
building of the Black Canyon dam. It
ls another proof that every land own
er is living over a voleano that threat
ens to erupt and destroy the fruit of
years of toil and privation. Will the
obstructionists never "take a tum
ble?"
Found His Boddy.
While opening a shipment of goods
from Salt Lake City for the Haley
Milee drug store, a few days ago,
Lawrence Polly came upon a package
upon which was written the name of
one of his companions in the censor's
office in Paris during the war. He
had not heard of him since parting
after the armistice. Coincident with
the above, the business manager °f
The Index, Clarence Skinner, a few
days ago wrote a letter to a Seattle
firm in regard to advertising. It fell
into the hands of a clerk, Earl C.
Morris, a former first sergeant in the
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railroad engineer corps, and a com
_. ._-_day,
panion on the same boat returning
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from France. A letter came Monday.
-is here only for a short stay, to close
up his affairs as he has arranged to
enter the firm of a prominent real
from him, giving news of the where
abouts and doings of several other
boys, who were together on the trip
home.
To Engage in Business.
Ben Reidel returned yesterday from
Bend, Ore., where he had visited his
sister, Mrs. Jack Hill. But now he
estate dealer in that city,
have charge of the insurance der
merit. We're sorry to see him go. He
is a fine young man, of splendid busi
He will
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ness qualifications and a hustler. Luck
E. E. Dean, manager of the Em
mett Orchards company, a Denny £
Co. corporation owning a number of
fruit orchards in this section, has re
reived a Cletrac tractor, with tne
necessary plows, cultivators an i !
other farm implements, for use i.i j
tilling the several farms if the com
to him.
Buys Tractor.
pony.
FIND *****
BODY
Discovery Removes Doubt of Death
by Drowning of Jaa. Satterwhite.
Word was received in this city late
Sunday evening of the finding of the
body of James Satterwhite, a ranch
er near Gross, who was drowned in
the flood swollen waters of Squaw
creek May 25 while attempting to ford
the stream on horseback.
The body was found in a bend of
the creek on the J. Hollford ranch
about two miles below the ford by
boys in swimming. The head and
arms of the body were caught be
neath some drift wood, but the lower
portion was exposed to view. Sheriff
Noland, Coroner Whiter Brown and
Prosecuting Attorney Reed drove co
Gross Monday morning. The body
had been taken from the creek. The
fac *' »"ring been under water was in
* K»«* 1 state of preservation and re-1
that
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cognizable. Owing to gossip that
Satterwhite had been killed by a.
neighbor with whom he had had trou
bje, a careful examination was made
b Y the officers, but no marks
wounds to sustain the rumors were
f° und i and j' was deemed unnecessary
ho,d an inquest
Undertaker Bucknum was called
^ rom Emmett to prepare the body for
burial, and the funeral was held a.
Ola on Tuesday. The finding of the
bod y and ^ clearing of all suspi
cioun of foul play is a relief to the,
accused man as well as to the friends
of Mr. Satterwhite. _
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GRATTV
Qm) Exchange Preparing to Care
^ Wheat Crop
or
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are reported.
The bins will have a capacity of
15,0C0 bushels. Elevating machinery ;
ha<! been purcbase d to unload the
~ in jnto t he bins and load it ^to
from the bln , ^ ori ginaMn
tention to build a grain elevator this
season has begn st ^ ned owing t0
stringency of the money mark et, and
£ pres Zt Jl« has been adopté as :
makeshift until another year.
bouse j nto b ; ns f or g-rajn under the
j reC jj on Q f Manager F. M. Mingus, in
ordeT to prov ide storage facilities for
tbg j^jjj growera . Enormous yields
The Co-op. Exchange is converting
the basement of their storage ware
BUILDING CONTINUES
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j William Lyman is building a house
on bis 30 acre fruit farm above the
j Canyon canal east of the Flagler
ranch. The land is watered by a
pumping plant. Berry & Campbell
are the contractors.
Bert Basye is building a eommodi
ous porch on the south side of his
suburban residence, and Arthur Ri
vord has just completed a sleeping
porch on his residence in Riverside ad-1
dition.
Bootlegger Arrested.
; Marshall Ray was ' nto cus
I tod J Saturda y Sheriff Noland
i achal * e of hooüeftging plac«i aga.nst
j Jj" 1, JT 4 * arr ® s n ^ r t > *■
, e . S£>ec ' c coun a ^ am i 18 a
I unng a a" 0 * a ° n °" r
he P eddlcd b° oze - . The s , he " ff ' 8US -;
I the ^"tions of Ray, ap
| P ear ^ n P on 'he ^ne at the dance.
! " J* man ma e ! s F^ av ^ a > * e! '
v s en ,, aP ? e * re ,. * .l 85 ;,
out of sight since then until Satur
when word came of his presence
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near Bramwell. He had his prelim
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xnaiy hearing before Judge Haag r
waived examination and was bound
Cochrane Brokerage company of Kan-1
sas City was in the citv Friday and
sas Lit}, was in the city rnciaj am.
with Guy B. Dayton made an inspec
t j on tbe Emmett fruit section. This
w _ as b j s £ irgt y j g ^ to Emmett and he
enthusiastic over fruit con
was \ery entnusiastic over iruit con
ditions here and the well kept or
The Cochrane company last
year handled a large quantity of
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the 1
over to the district court. Bond was
fixed at $500.
Fruit Buyer Here.
A. L. Cochrane, member of
chards.
consignments from the Gem F
Uhion> and will # 0 so this year They i
have bought SOO.cadoads of Idaho
apples and prunes for this season's
delivery, besides many carloads of;
potatoes.
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Squaw Butte Orchards.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Stone this
week filed in the county clerk's of- :
fice the official name of their fruit 1
farm southeast of town. It is "Squaw j
Butte Orchards." and fruit from their'last
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orchards will carry that label.
CONSIDER THRESHING
PRICES
i Pooling of Grain to Give Contin
uous Run Will Solve Prob
lem Is Believed.
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By creating threshing districts and
pooling, 0 f so that a continuous
j f 0T t be thresher may be effected,
j tbe w heat growers of this section hope
to secure a reduction of 1 cent a bu
shel from the schedule of prices stiopt
ed at a recent meeting of the Payette
Valley Threshing Men's Association.
If this plan is adopted by the grain
growers and accepted by the thresh
ers, the price for threshing wheat will
be reduced from 7 to 6 cents and of
oats and barley from 6 to 5 cents.
This plan is being considered by
jt be gr M i n growers of this section. A
mee tj n g i called by Gus Hall, wheat
project leader of the County Farm
yj ureaUt was held Saturday night in
tbc pro blems of the grain grower,
About thirty were present, but -
t0 ano t ber meeting to be held Satur
«lay of this week, because of the fact
tba t many growers had been comman
deered for in cleaning out the
Canyon and therefore could not
be preS ent.
The general opinion at Saturday's
meeting seemed to be that a pooling
of grain should be made so as to fur
nish a continuous run for the ma
chines and so minimize the operating
expenses as to enable the owners of
machines to thresh at a lower rate
Commercial Club rooms to consider
a friendly discussion of the subject,
it was decided to defer final action
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a district to each oa.fit ha, been sug- ;
gested. The routing of each machine ;
tance between settings and thus re- :
duee the expense to the owners of ma
chines. It is believed that the thresh- !
ermen can well afford to thresh at 1
cent less per bushel because of the
ionvenience that such an agreement
will afford. ^
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than the present schedule. This is
ir. harmony with a movement more or
less general throughout the grain
to both grower and thresher,
There are three threshing outfits
in this section. A plan to divide the
territory into three districts and allot j
growing districts, and it is believed
the plan will result rn mutual benefit
wilT bemâde scTasto minîm'izVthe "dis- j
Notice of Grain Growers Meeting.
There will be a meeting of grain
growers at the Commercial Club room
j n Emmett at 8 o'clock Saturday even
j ng> j n ] y 23 , to which all grain grow
I ers are invited, for the purpose
considering the threshing situation
^ other questions of interest to
! gra j n growers. It is important that
! aU grain ** preS ent.
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) H. Bobar, the window decorator at
the Golden Rule store, had a
of
Saves fron Drowning.
narrow
j escape from drowning in the river
I Monday night, »and but for the timely
; assistance of some boys in swimming
, he probably would have drowned. Mr.
wa , ^ |n the shallow w> .
^ ^ he b hole ont
he could not swim. His call
f or be j p was responded to by Harold
Brown and Ray Creswell and he was
lx)wer AppIe Rate
Information was received Thursday
''"Ifrom traffic headquarters of the Un
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lion Pacific Dy 5>. E. Lounsburv, gen
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Ball Game Sunday. ,
v . k .
T ] ie , r b '«" am . chsmp.on. j
tke Waho-Oregon league this year
wi " be here Sunday for a game with |
'bo Rod Sox. Weiser has a fast bunch
.
' k e end of the league season found ,
Farma and Mr eiser tied for first p:nce j
'' eiser easily won the first two games j
of the play-off and the championship.
rescued.
eral freight agent of the Oregon
Washington Railroad and Navigation
lines, that reduced rates on apples to
eastern markets would become effec
tive July 15 instead of September 1,
because some grades of early apples
commence to move before the end of
August.
So if Manager Knowles can get hi?
Payers together. Sunday's contest will
be well worth while. Game starts at
3 o'clock.
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Plenty Storage Water.
James Kesgard, who returned last
week from a trip to Payette Lakes.
where a dam was built to
storage water, reports that the lake
now has one-third more water than
year at this time and that there
will be no shortage this year. I
CITY ENACTS TRAFFIC
REGULATIONS
; Rules Governing Speed, Parking,
Lights, Etc., of Motor
Driven Vehicles.
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The city council Thursday evening
repealed all former ordinances govern
ing traffic in the city and in their
stead enacted a most comprehensive
trame law. The ordinance, published
on another page of this issue of The
Index, contains regulations governing
all forms of vehicles, but especially
of automobiles, motorcycles and trucks
Among other things the new law pres
crûtes how cars are to be parked,
limits the time a car may be parked
on the two blocks of Main street be
tween the Russell hotel and Odd Fel
low« building to one hour, limits the
apeed to 12 miles, requires front and
rear lights and prohibits the driving
of motor propelled vehicles by child
ren under 16 years of age. "Jay
walking"—that is, cutting across the
street—ia forbidden. So watch your
Important sections of the ordinance
are given below:
Section 4. It shall be unlawful for
any person under the age of sixteen
years to drive any motor propelled
vehicle on any street or alley in the
City of Emmett, Idaho.
Section 5. It shall be mlawful for
any person to drive a vehicle of any
kind on any street of the City of Em
mett, Idaho, at a speed greater th?
twelve (12) miles Ver hour; and it
shall be unlawful for any person to
step.
enter, come out of or driye any ve
hiaie along or in any alley in said
City at a greater speed than five (5)
miles per hour.
Section 6.
Every person driving
any motor propelled vehicle on any
street or alley of the City of Em
ri£t 'when* the' street ''hehts o^said
City are burning- shall have such ve
hide equipped with and shall display
and have lights burning, as follows:
£ v o e toT vehidT'Æ °fSE
wheels, two white lights on its front
and one red light on its rear. Every
motor driven vehicle having less than
four wheeis , one white l.ght on its
front and ^ re d light on its rear
seventy-five candle power.
Section «■ , 11 • tan be unlawtui to
%£ vehiefe an^stre/t
or alley of the City of Emmet', Idaho,
without having such vehicle equipped
*-ith a muffler on its e ngine exhaust,
^
EeoUonlO It shall be unlawful to
None o^dU^s shll" bTmore Loan
It shall be unlawful to
I Dsik any motor propelled vehicle i
anv street of rhe City of Euimett,
Idaho, included within the fire limits
of said City, in any other manner than
as follows:
The vehicle must be placed so that
the right front wheel is within twelve
inches of the curb line with the body
of the vehicle standing at an angle
of from twenty-five to suxty iegrees
from the curb line. A vehicle may
only be parked at the curb on the
driver's right and on the right hand
side of the* street, and a driver may
not ture or cross a street, except at
intersectiona, in order to park his
vehicle. It shall be unlawful to so
park a vehicle as to prevent or inter
fere with the removal of other vehi
de |ec U Ä. Pa M 'be "unlawful
for any person to leave anv vehicle
standing or parked in any alley with-,
in the fire limits of the City of Em
mett. Idaho, and it shall be unlawful
for any person to leave any vehicle
standing or parked on Main Street,
Avenue and
between Commercial
Hayes Avenue, for longer than one
hour at anv time of day or night.
Section 12. It shall be unlawful for
any person to park any vehicle with
in ten feet of any fire hydrant on
and street or alley tn any part of the
City of Emmett, Idaho.
Section 13. It shall be unlawful for
any person to park any vehicle with
in ten feet of any alley or street in
tersection or in sucji . manner as to
interfere witn the entrance or exit to
or from such street or alley, and it
shall be unlawful for any person to
park any vehicle at any place in said
Cit> where the owner or occupant of
any property abutting on the Street
may place a sign on the sidewalk re
dating cars not to park.
Section 14. It shall be unlawful
for any to leavv any mot or
propelled vehicle parked or standing
for any length of time whatever on
a / :v stree ' or alley f said City with
the engine of such vehicle running
and w j tbou t a driver.
The penalty for a violation of ary
provision of the ordinance is a fine
0 f not more than $100 and costs.
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Officials to be Bonded.
Another ordinance passed requires
the city clerk and treasurer to give ;
bonds for faithful performance of
their duties. The clerk's bond is fix
pd at $2500 and the treasurer's at
$7500.
impound- -
Mis? Marvel Fowler arrived this
week from Witten, So. Dak., to spend
a few weeks visiting in Emmett. She
is the guest of Miss Lottie Cannady. i
IS not lien on
LAND
Equities in Lands Not Affected by
Government Contract.
Editor Index:
* When Mr. Spratt states that the
building of the Black Canyon dam
will have the effect of impairing the
j equities of the land owners in the
district, he is either ignorant or else
is attempting to wilfully deceive the
people. The apportionment of bene
fits is not a lien on the property in
the sense that a mortgage is. It is
in the nautre of a bond and does not
become of force or effect until the
dam is completed. This bond (appor
tionment of benefits) will not appear
in any record as a lien, no abstract
will show it as a debt upon the pro
pertjr.
never can take our land. The only
Under the contract, the government
penalty if you don't pay your mstall
ments for two years (and the install
ments don't start until December 1st
of the year following the year in
which the dam is completed, and then
is only 2 per cent) is they will shut
off your water until you pay up. The
government places no liens on your
lands, affects no equities. Instead,
to pay your assessments in order to
get the amount of water you are en
£ ithd y no * T Perhat)3
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thls Nature of the contract is Mr.
Spratt s reason for his opposition. It
is a well known fact that for manv
yea „ he nefused to pay his assess-'
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mBltj and oni y d,d 50 fln * !, y ***«
his lands from being sold for taxes.
the government simply requires you
He evidently sees no way under the
government contract of shifting the
burden of expense to the shoulders of
tb°se less able to pay, and still reap
the benefits, as he did for many years
when the district was hard pushed
' or f " nds -_ Isn ' t tha: ] lr
Spratt is so solicitous ail at once for
us poor people ?
The present water system is like ar
°'V h "=- H k r pinfr ,c p* tehed
an< * mended, but the time is near
when there will have to be somei
heavy replacements, and we can't
verv muoh replaci _ whan out of -
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nas eenied on one side and in the
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board ex£ * n = lor,s are " ot n: *h enough
P™ ua tne required amount of wa
ter. Men who have examined it say
^ 7h 'STM*? t 3 ^ *
t!rabçr " ^ oId cr ' b - ^ e have every
« assessment we can only pay less
than ha.f of it. The diversion dam
has settled on one side and in the
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t reason t0 believe that work will start
on the Black Canyon dam within the
next 12 months and we will get re
be f j„ ^23
flumes by repairs. But if any ex
pensive improvements are required
^ funds haTe ^ b
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fruarantor! ' " wa? doM ^
l 131 time.
comes, will Mr. Sprett's solicitude
for the settlers extend so far ms to
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> ndu « b.m to be one of the guaran
tors * be has always refused in the
past), or will the men like V. T. Craig,
D. H. VanDeusen and others whom he
ch ™ f W . ith ^ «jarious things
to £ b e settlers, have to v.arry the load,
as they have done in the past?
L. G. CHAPMAN.
Until then every effort
will be made to hold the o!d dam and
If a calamity like this
COURT HOUSE NEWS.
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Curtis and Lillie M. Kendall of Per
kins, in Boise valley, and to Ernest
Guy Kroush and Mercedes Brushwood
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kno * n ? oanf! P«P ,f of the ***" ck
The marriage cf the former couple j
was performed by Dr. Sifton yester- j
dav. and that of the latter by Judge !
Qn ?aturdav
a* a board of equalization. haTe com- j
pleted their labors and the changes j
; n valuation are published elsewhere |
A P*'« ' - red b S Lharles H p>
ar ,a others r-avmg for certain change
. b . bou-caries of Schoo' D s--
f <-.
Alex Cruickshank on Saturday left !
for the Omaha market with three car
Marriage licenses were issued by
Auditor Geo. F. Church to Wm. E.
The county commissioners.
Itmg
in this pa^er.
>. 2 and 19, on the bench, was grant
Sheep to Market.
1'iaiis of iambs, and Andrew Little ,
5. During the past twe i
<hipred 13
week- Mr. Little has shipped 12 cart
frt>ln Centerville and 15 cars from
Cascade.
Am*her Attorney.
F. J. Byrd, an attorney from Goth
enburg. Neb., has decided to locate
here for the practice of law and has j
sent for hi< family. He will have his
office in the new Wiiton building |
across the street from the Russel
hotel.
EMMETT CHERRIES ARE
PROFITABLE
;
Prediction Made That Emmett
District Will Become Fam
ous Cherry Producer.
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Emmett is destined to become a
great sweet cherry producer, says Ira
Flagler. He bases his prediction upon
two thoroughly demonstrated facts:
First, the keeping qualities of the
cherries grown here, and second, their
juiciness, flavor and size. There are
none to equal them in those respects
grown snywhere in this country. Add
to the above the enormous production
of the trees and the demand of buy
ers, the soundness of Mr. Flagler's
prophecy is evident.
As an instance of the keeping and
shipping qualities of Emmett grown
cherries, Mt. Flagler cites the re
sult of a severe test. During the
picking season he had 10 crates left
over from a truck load he was taking
to Boise. They were placed in the
storage cellar. Ten days later he
happened to think of them and decid
ed to ship to friends in Iowa. He
examined them and found them to be
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,n ***[ condition. Clear half way
across the continent they were ship
jped by express and tbe rec ipi ent s
wrote Uck ^ ^ in
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had ever eaten,
were the best they
Emmett cherries are a profitable
crop, bringing the top price and the
demand cannot be supplied,
ten carioads were sold this year by the
About
growers. One grower is said to have
sold the outptft of his orchard for $ 18 ,
000 net.
h« *>" Charles a present of five t
j n an out-of-the-way corner of the
ranch. Four are Tartarians and one
B ngs. The lad sold $43 worth of Tar
j« faM *2< worm
Bings,
n:, vnoe are imng axe I
tenuTe'. ^"kv ^1^ V "obe
•- ■ Mr - 0ber -
me > er " dipping next weex
and he a busy man and his wife
L "lo ZZTjZZ ^ .
** 160 acres planted ,n melon,.
Mr. Plagier last year made
tree
of
Melons Are Ripening.
Melons are getting ripe. Oh, joy!
Henry Obermeyer picked the first one'
on Juescay and several since then and
be and his tribe are living like kings.
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