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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
SHOCCO GRANGE, 319,

'dIIcA SOulltS-
We had a very interesting meeting
last Saturday. The occasion was the
consolidation of this and Phoenix
Grange. These two Oranges were
within a few miles of each other, and
while each had on its roll some active,
Jealous members, yet their number
was SO limited, that neither Grange
could accomplish but little by its sepa-
rate action. Our strength was still
further reinforced by the transfer of
some seven or eight live and working
members from another almost dead
grange In Franklin county and now
we have a list of about fifty as good
and true members as can be found
members who have the principles and
precepts of III order at heart, and who
are determined to uphold and to exc
cute them. The order is to-day, in
this neighborhood, upon a more solid
and permanent foundation than it has
been at any time since its introduce
ton.
Steps were taken for the purchase of
our fertilizers in bulk. We will want
some II hundred and fifty tons of
guano and quite a large amount of
chemicals. We also contemplate con-
centrating the whole of our trade upon
some n merchant, and hope thereby
to effect a considerable saving in the
cost OF our family supplies.
AT an election of officers, Colonel
w. b. Cheek was chosen Master, and
Richard w. Respass Secretary.
Feb. 18th, 1878. GRANGER.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
Seed Distribution.

Mr.. EDITOR A correspondence
having been published in our State
papers on the 10Th ult., by seven of our
Representatives in Congress showing
that Commissioner LIE Due had de-
cided to distribute seeds only through
agricultural associations and those who
would make fair tests, has caused
numerous persons to apply to this
office for seeds.
In response to a letter addressed to
him and rendering my services and
the facilities afforded by my office to
aid in the distribution, the Commits
sioner informs me that he will dis
tribute only to agriculturists direct
from his office.
Will you do me the kindness to make
it known through your columns that
our people may know to whom to APP
ply. l.. l.. POLK,
Commissioner.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
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What Our E-euaa Snv

FEaG JOHNSTON reSari yosss
valuable journal As Of the h~ss
reaitEral papers have ever seen.
Neil :. stewart A~verashora.
! hnd each numb< - yoar raF~r
both Instructive Ani Entertaining.
y J Heath. IIsaths store.
FRoM I4TrlErox- re.h vo-ur
paper with much pleasure each seek.
and ! can truly say that have learned
from II s<ss q the las; sss e@ks
more .: the re>o4rces II the OLD
North STATE than during The hole -
nv former residence "a the state
:. II. Z.
FROM FpE>TTHE- am gvvativ
pleased with your paper. Keep it up.
AMI uccr> t. You.
T. I. G.. New salem.
PROM Srokp-Our corre.ponicns.
= =. -, writes from stokes county
As follows
The FARMER y Ar-
- AANAA*N a AAashtsas 81 . Toy a4E
state, and II Il can t- kept up 10 the
high standard that II Is sailing under
n tins time which | fear cannot be
done. Old Rip Nan Wrinkle Will arise
from her slumbcr- iillcd with energy
AMI enterprise, CARRYING trains Of prs
perlty and happiness from the sca
shore - the lofty mountain tops. from
which after generations NAV gaze with
admiration forever The IAaI.r must
be Literally sustained and 10 this end
| intend sending a number II sub
scrbers - cur people are waking
up t. the Importance of selling ois
their surplus lands to good class emu.
grants. You Will please send me half
a dozen blanks, with necessary IN
structlons for parties h wish Ia sell
| rejoice over the interest taken in the
communications Of Our Zeb and
yourself, which appeared III the FAR
MEX MECHANIC
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
Prepare for a Good Sweet Potato
Crop.

Break your land deep, lay off your
rows by opening a deep wide furrow.
Fill it with trash, scrapings, &C., and
on this put a sprinkle of wood ashes.
Cover with two burrows with a small
turn pillow and let this ridge stand until
you are ready to bed your rows for the
potato slips. Partially decomposed
pine straw is excellent to manure with.
Now is the time for this work to be
done.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

CA Concord Ssu &turIav.
q Per anuuu Wade II Hairs Iii
tor one II Tie most -yu-htly AMI IN
~t,rt4inius journals in the state. w
quote from It freely -Gr,sn. the
s.uek P.lller. attempted .2 sarat. ;he
jail n loo~eains tie window hAr -
Two darkevs, Il different localities AZ
rested for saving their ncichtors
bacon. ~ .w.nller. pretending t.
be an agent FOR -llIlstous Journal
lead heated the No--is
full IF Wild piiseon.-Plne tree Il
feet - inches II circumference wAs
blown down IL Bear creek precinct
Geo. Letter. of Ntanly. has Just wit
messed tie marriage OF III, great great
grand,on.-Court h ~ IL g. fenced
IN - that the lawyers may hayea place
10 roost Al night and whlttle by day III
these hand times-The httle.>on q
Jesse Moore Of Caldwell. having cut
his foot with an axe, stopped the bleed
ing when nothing else would. ~ .
liberal application of hogs Lard
Three little darkeys We're playing on i
hillside near Garlbaldi mills. IN Ga.
ton county, when one Of them dis
lodged a chock which held IN posi-
ton 4 huge saw log. Down rolled the
log crushing life out y oneofthcm.-
Messrs. Neate., Waddell and Naucy
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
Brady. Of New

Judge Brady. Of New York. in an
nouncing his decision in the case Of
Miss Susan Dickie mentioned in this
paper last week, took occasion 10 de
clare the present New York law on
insanity a disgrace TO civilization"
and that additional safeguards against
unjust confinement in Warehouses
should be provided. We quote a por-
ton of his remarks which contain
some sensible suggestions. Fortunate
", in North Carolina we have no secret
madhouses, nor brutal keepers. Our
asylum is as well managed and pro-
vided against wrongful confinement or
usage. as any human institution can
be. Judge Brady says:
This case suggests grave consider
atoms. Ii appears that attendants,
male and female, employed in the IN
stitution where Miss Dickie was con
fned-and doubtless ii IS so in others
become nervous. and are 80 far affected
as TO labor under decisions. Indeed il
is well known hat physician. in care
OF iunatIcs have themselves los. their
reason from the effect of the duties
incumbent upon them, and the associ-
ton by which thev were surrounded.
and thus a diseased mind has had the
superintendent and superior control
of the lunatic until the infirnlitv was
discovered.
1t Is also quite apparent that some
system of personal supervision should
be devised by which persons confined
as lunatics should be examined by
competent persons other than those
who. accustomed o regard them as
insane. would approach them with set
tied convictions or decided impress
sions of their mental condition. This
procedure should be at stated in
teryals."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

The bu.-bear of a solid South"
has SO frightened some Northern
papers that they are gravely dis
cussing the adoption OF schemes to
hurry immigration into the south
western States 50 as TO get enough con
gressmen therefrom To overbalance
the South. The Cincinnati Commercial
says:
To our mind the tone of the Republic
Lies in the immense empire destined to
arise In the now ~unpeopled territories
between the Mississippiand the Pacific.
With that prize To struggle for 1t Is
not worth while for the North to waste
time in contention about the internal
condition of the South. We can do a
thousand times more good in Kansas,
Colorado. New-MeXico, Arizona. Wyo-
ming, Nebraska and Nevada. than we
can in the South. Northern emigra-
ton, scOrned, rejected and prosecuted
in the cotton States, is welcomed lubi-
lantlv in the New West. Before the
close OF the century Kansas will beat
the most popular Southern State.
We quote this paragraph to give the
LIE, plain and direct. to the narrow
souled s~ectionalist, who declares that
Northern emigration is "scorned, re-
jected and peroecuted' in the South.
On the contrary, every Southern State.
and State Government. is inviting:
soliciting, almost begging for immi-
grants. True, they must be decent,
II Industrious men to insure a cor
dial welcome. We want none of the
Border Rufiian" class that has peo-
pied Kansas. And here bv the way,
is the silly feature Of the Commercials
jubilation over the supposed growth
Of Kansas, Colorado, etc. The rush of
emigration thereto was caused by ad-
ventitious circumstances, the mining
fever and other temporary incite-
ments. Already the stream has weak
ened from rivers to rivulsts: whereas
the numerous rivulets of southern
immigration are strengthening into
broad streams that will add ten con
gressmen to the solid South" by the
census of 1SSO-two years hence.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
Rev. DR.. Dabney Ball. of Balti

Rev. DR.. Dabney Ball. of Balti-
more, and Judge G. W. Paschal. Of
Texas, died last week.
Nearly four hundred thousand
dollars We're paid as import dues at
Of the city on Friday last. and it was
not an extraordinary day either.
Every heart has its secret sor-
row., says the poet, Longfellow.-
(which the world knows not: and of
tentimes we call a man cold when he
is only sad"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

1t is surprising. almost astound-
ing, the number of well educated per-
sons, both in public and private life,
who are taking advantage of the dis
cussion of the He'll" question to
avow themselves infidels or at least
disbelievers in the dogma of eternal
punishment. And yet America was
settled by the sternest of churchmen,
Puritans. Quakers. Calvinists and
Catholics.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
A Word From California.

NORTH CAROLINA.-Those DESTROYS
of information about North Carolina
Will be interested in a new paper pub
hshed at Raleigh, under the auspices
OF the State Board of Agriculture. en-
titled h FARMER AND MECHANIC.
The hrSt issue contains many valuable
articles IN the of the State
and the publication will doubtless do
much good for the interest Of the Com
monwealth.-PuciGc Rural Press, san
Francisco.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

HOME MADE NANURES.-The best
evidence that agriculture is not at a
stand still in North Carolina is that our
farmers are Learn ing to manipulate
their W Our friends Boy
kin, GARNER & Co., of the we'll known
North Carolina drug house IL Balti-
more, claim, and we think are entitled
to, the credit Of fist calling attention
of our planters to the importance of
buying chemicals. hose that contain
the largest amOunt of "plant food :"
and manipulating at home, thereby
saving freight IN the large amount Of
inert matter generally found in mixed
fertilizers. those mixed North. 1t is
in the chemical at last that we are to
find the nitrogen, potash and phos-
phoric acid so essential to the growth
of the plant, and without which all
land must be nonproductive. Then
why not buy the chemicals at once and
mix ourselves, while Messrs. Beykin,
GARNER & Co., give preference totheir
well and extensively known form
ula," the "Home Fertilizer" see
card in this paper yet they fill orders
for chemicals for all formulas at lowest
cash prices. We trust our farmers
Will give them a trial.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

THESwINDLE BOARD.--The first trial
of the Returning Board swindlers at
New Orleans resulted in the convic-
ton of Gen. Anderson, after a very
brief consultation by the jury. 1t was
thought the two negroes would stand
by him through thick and thin" but
the evidence was too strong. MessrS.
John Sherman, Stanley Matthews, j.
A. Garfield, ct. ais, have done a very
silly thing, and President Hayes has
seconded their folly ito call it by a
non-partizan name) by publishing ian
address to the country a letter de-
nouncing the trial of the Returning
Board s%windlers. at New Orleans. as an
outrage, a piece of malicious persecu-
ton and a uiolation Of good fajth."
Yet these same men declare there was
no bargaining , To this the Phila-
delphia Time. appropriately asks !:
Why weren't Sherman & Co. called
as witnesses for the defence. since they
pretend to know SO much about it z"
\ Washington despatch says
"Ex-Congressman Money, of Louis
lana. SAYS hat the trials will result in
a conviction in every case. But that
there is no danger of Wells, Anderson
and Conpany's languishing in prison
any length of time. He says that the
cases Will be appealed at once to the
State Supreme Court and from there
to the United States Supreme Court,
and that Well. and his three : pals
viii undoubtedly escape. Mr.. Money
thinks that the people in New Orleans
Will not care SO very much about their
release by the supreme Court, but they
were determined to have all of the
four members of the board convicted.
Judge Whitaker. who presides IN the
court Is a former resident of Boston.
tie was a gallant soldier III the Federal
army, and lost a leg in the war.
Wells has published a long and very
bitter letter attacking the court, the
people and the Democratic party.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

Hon. w. j. Davie, Commissioner of
Agriculture for Kentucky, in his an
nual report just published, estimates
the cost of the fences in that State at
$75, 600, 600, and the annual cost of re-
pairs at $40. OOO, 900. This latter is
nearly one half the assessed value of
all the live stock in that State.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21
FEBRUARY y, 1873.
department Of agriculture
State Board OF Agriculture, lmmigra.
ton and Statistics.

l.. b. VANCE, Governor ana e1 oihcloC hair-
man.
W. {. KERR. state Geologist and e1 oficio
member of the Board. +,
r Rattle. President State Agricultural
CnIl.,a and az officio member Of the Board
+. 81. HoLT, President State Agricultural
Society and ex oficlo Der OF the Board.
n ~AIExANDER, Master State Grange, L.
OF n and ex oricio member ofthe Bard.
j. K. HIGPRS, Of Edgecombe ounty
10 sATHAS EVANS, OF Cumberland county.
IEOSlBAs l.. POLK. Commissioned.
THos. j.. ROBINS y, Secretary and Treas
urer.
ONCE, second floor OF Briggs Build 'ng.
Raleigh, y. T..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

BIG HoG.-A mammoth hog named
Liberty was put on exhibition in
New York last week, with q box al
the door in which every visitor depos-
tied a ticket containing hi. guess at the
animals weight. An admittance fee
of p cents vas charged. Whoever
guessed the exact weight was TO have
the hog: and the inducement caused
Q 1000 persons TO pay their fee
and make their guess the figures
ranging between 1tOand 1900 pounds.
Simon Adams, of Elizabeth. y. j..
guessed 159 pounds-the exact weight.
and took the big porker; but finding it
difficult to move, sold it for ) cents a
pound, netting nearly $40 by his good
guessing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

UNIVERSITY LECTURES In accord
ance with an act Of the legislature.
Fr9f. Kerr began on TUESDAY hi
cour>o "f lecture. IL tile graduating
ci"as 4 The University upon ,lr
ge'iaE II North Carolina Thor vi
be ten II more lectures III til, ~.ri.
covering every important feature ~
our c"sMography. ami they wilI NJ
doubt - Of great value. for ~ son 81
The Old North State J. 80 well a.
quainted with her character and
capabilities than our State G~eolo-Isf.
4. j.. ". HIllsboro. y. C.-Flea>e
send me one dozen land blanks. /
want u advertise my land in your
office, and think al induce otherst to-
do so.
NoTE. This is the ~speeiiest and
safest road To prosperity for North
Carolina. There should b. al least ten
millions of acres of her lands on the
market to-day. And there i no medi-
un through which these land, can be
offered 80 advantageouely cheaplv as
through the agency now in operation
by U department Of Agriculture.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25
All the. World Around.

Another heavy failure in Glasgow,
from the failure ofthe Glasgow Bank.
Prosecutions of socialists going on
in Paris.
The whole Italian Cabinet resign
ed, among other European complica-
tons.
A new cabinet 20 be formed in
Vienna.
Rumors of hostilities begun by the
Zulu Kafiirs against the English.
Besserabia has been surrendered to
the Russians.
A new ironclad man-of-war built
for the Russian government launch
ed in Philadelphia. !.
Dadd, Brown & Co., the largest
dry-goods firm in st. Louis have
failed. ses rl L.l 10. {
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Plantation. of $50 acres; 400 acres In good
state OF fcaltiyation--with buildings. Sit
uated 10 lniles below waco, on the Brazos
river. viii be sold in tracts Of 100 acres
Frame building, rooms, closets, well and
cistern, kitchen, servants rUtlm, stables, etc
ON sixth street, between Washington and
Columbus streets, in Wacoi lot Is feet front
by 100 feet back.
Dwelling, rooms; well, with 20 feet
front, ON Washington street, near Eleventh
street.
100 acres of unimproved land, miles west
of Waco, on the Hamilton road, near Surratt' 5
mill and gini fine land with timber and
water.
Box dwelling, rooms with out houses; lot
l2j feet fronting on North fiith street, running
= acres OF well improved land with dwell
ing and out houses, well, etc, in East Waco.
is acres OF unimproyed land on Childress'
creek, In BOsque county; Will make u fine
sheep rancho; plenty of good running water.
Two story frame dwelling, with rooms, clo-
sets, out housesi good waters on Austin
street.
Farm of 2l3 acres of land, 50 acres In Guilt
walton, with good stone dwelling; with out
houses and good TIMBER; ON hog creek In Nc
Brick cottage, with four rooms, cellar,
kitchen and servants house, cistern, orchard
and vinyard; on south Fourth street, with ia
lots.
Ia acres of rinImproyed land, ON Harris
creek, II miles west of Waco.
Dwelling with = OF an acre OF ground, In
La a. Aaa
East VICE. ~ an .-.,s an a,.os T., o,,,,,.,ton.
., oiv ~, o,, ~ aysrai ana s,,ri,'.i
uWelllnS inu oul nouseSj seNerh ,ine sIrlnes
OF never iaiilng ma,er p be iilIes aDo'e "noo'
Box house, arooms' 2 le's' on south Fifth
200 acres Of umlnprpyed land, partlyfenced
near south Bosque, 10 miles west Of Waco. y
l. Dwelling, rooms, a gallery dining room
s s, W. st tt, ann pn MIN aa "a ieet
ir1nt On aon,h ~ nun saree.i 1acs ~, KY ,eei
fof ncies % i1nu, unenst uunh " uIe blAos, ,
ni l,, a., aooye AGO. hhes' trac' uhiihpro'eh
nm W.i ~ ' h ,o,,,s ,,i,,, e,., q, an
- iaJ' y, rii, W., W., i, u, " - =" ~
ga,as,4i, ra. "a Hiie9 west oi waco on
~ an,s ioa a. ,ttas .to,a w.. -, -.
- 81 ~ ~ p,,, n''''s a"o'e "ao"' oh East
ResIdence an Ams,io strest =, bv IA, ,..,
80, ,',I H. I .a,,s,, 1870 49,, 2. =. io iee,,
~, VIII pa w n.eni wsi,' i ~;
In H.. S,.,ss r n"'t3 Ps' y ""S'' NUS 'A"'
.epa acras nor,haos, rro,o Uaoo ~ r,t,as,
pr,,iris' valley AMI good timber. ,,oimnrnxc5'
az nsiies n suou @ ~,
III road niles ron, 1 n,peyiIia "'i IN RnII
nnnnty - '' :" "'''
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25
FOR RENT

Dwelling house, 4 rooms, servants house
clstern, on Washington between Fourth and
Flfth streets. Go.
The foregoing property Is now, in the hands Of
this Agency for disposal, and II is believed
that the terms will be found entirely satisfac-
tory Persons Wishing 70 buy. or " rent, ART
Invited to call In person, or " that Is incon-
yenicnt, To apply by letter; also persons wish.
ing To dispose Of real estate of any description
whatever, IL Is believed will promote their In
tereste by placing 10 In the hands Of thi,
Agency
A complete abstract Of land titles for III,
city, county and state, Is kept In the Office fol
the benent OF our patrons, and everything
possible will be done 10 promote the INTEREST,"
Of those entrusting business TO our care.
Oct23dd&wtf
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

The Brennan Banner modest
but excellent paper, gave birth to a
new word ON the 18th. GreeaJdck-
izei can effort is being made to
greenbackize the county" Well,
WE'LL we hope the infant win live,
but we are harrassed with doubts.
The doting parient is doing as well
as could be expected.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

How many pets OF the household
sicken, suffer and are carried to an
early grave with spasms, fits, cramps,
&c, which prove only too late the
result of worms. Parents should
never be without HDr. G. McLanc's
Celebrated Yermifugc' in their
houses, as prepared by Fleming
Bros, Pittsbnrg, and above all, sec
that they get the genuine article
bearing those names. oct22d&wIW
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

The conjuncture, in pivotal points
of time and space, of dissimiiar or
homogeneous elements Of character
or sentiments, with by plays of basso
relieves in the shape of incidentals,
constitute the genius alike of the
tragical and ludicrous, thus showing
that there is n correlation of mental
as well as physical forces.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Some ficnd places strychnine in the
viands at wedding feast at Azalia,
Indiana, poisoning the guests, two
of them fatally. The affair is wrap
ped in mystery, but tits thought to
be the work of a disappointed lover.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

The Courier-Journai contains a
pathetic account of the death of a
Memphis miser seven feet high, OF
yellow fever. 1t is a dreadful warn
ing to misers seven feet high in other
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Every minute young man lives,
after getting to think that all the la
dies are in love with him, some I'M
dertakcr is being defrauded out Of a
lust lob.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

The rag-baby was doing well in
Texas till E. j. Davis officiously I'M
dertook to play wet-nurse. Repub-
lican milk don't agree with the in
FAINT.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

In your own room for 0 cents. This Is SCI
cured by cheap apparatus recently patented,
for the production OF Turkish and Napor
Baths, ut the cost OF the alcohol that supplies
the ordinary Turkish Bath House in eradicat-
ing rheumatism, Asthma, Catarrh, skin Dis
eases, Dyspepsia, and all Nervous and Debill-
tating Maladies. Pamphlets free.
LuBis's PORTABLE TURKISH BATH Co.,
0s East 4th St. Cincinnati, o
ea.Idxrctu
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Disastrous prairie fires are raging
on the line of the Union Pacific in
Nebraska. Seven lives have been
lost and immense amounts of prop
erty destroyed.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

After one of the fiercest munich
pal fights ever made. Hon Angus
tus Schell has been nominated for
Democratic mayor of New York.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Newly elected congressman are al
ready beginning to roll UP their shirts
and socks in Indiana, Iowa and Ohio.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

For upwards Of thirty years, Mrs. Win
slows Soothing syrup has been used for chill
dren II onrrects acidity of stomach. relieves
" nd cole, dysentery and diarrh9Ai regulates
toe bowels, whether arising from .teething or
other cause. An old and we'll tried remedy,
% cents q bottle. dwtap1O' 90
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-25

Excursions up Salt river willostart
the 9Th of the coming month at z p.
m. prompt. I'd ss Tn4rk