Letter from W.M. Lant, Tulare, Calif. We are enjoying pleasant autumn weather with a dry season during the past year. Had no rain of any amount last winter and unirrigated crops were very poor except on moist land, and snowfall in the mountains was light, making irrigation water scarce. Notwithstanding this, there has been lots of hay cut and business is good. We had very few days when the mercury registered 100 degrees, and that is not as bad as 80 degrees in Illinois.
Sunstrokes are very rare here.
The first annual Thanksgiving dinner given by the Stronghurst Cemetery Aid Association will be served in Harter's Hall on Nov. 28th. In the evening, oysters and other refreshments will be served at a charge of 25 cents. A program will be prepared for the entertainment of the evening diners. A team of horses belonging to Fred Hamburg started to run away with a wagon loaded with coal near the depot and collided with a passing freight train with rather disastrous results, the horses being knocked down and dragged for some distance and the wagon and coal distributed along the track for several rods. No one was in the wagon as the driver, Harve Smith, Jr., was standing on the car from which the coal was being taken when the team became frightened and started to run.