The Elbert County tribune., 1900-05-31
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 20.
May 81, 1900.
EDITOR TRIBUNE.

the weather bureau Of this county,
and if SO will you kindly use your
influence in behalf of changei
When we came to Elbert and
the Bijou valley on the 3rd day
of last April, we found springs
advance agent apparently in full
charge of the situation. Furiows
were being turned, although lit
tie dry, in every direction and in
some instances spring grain was
sown. The talk on the street and
in the field was mainly horse talk,
though rather of the jockey
stick than the vernacular OF the
race track, with here and there
some of the broader dialect pro-
vincialisms carry pack train sort,
which perhaps offend the car less
than the eye and not often seen in
type, and by at least one person,
in broad Canadian English ad-
dressed to span of mules as they
dragged tie plow through the
"Sleopy Hollow" homestead where
John Lattimer abides.
Thirty six hours later lame
Nature had doffed her brown and
drab, with green trimmings and
had arrayed herself in her thickest
white mantle, furs and all. This
remained practically the situation
during the balance of the month.
Horse talk, swadley, white Aus
tralian, calico and yellow dent
ceased to dispute their cllims to
preeminence. Tho settlers when
not engaged in that enticing di-
verson called High Live were
mostly at work preventing as far
as possible the melting snow from
inundating their stables and in
some instances their domiciles---
Lstimer Pm told had to move
out. The jays west, like those
of his feathered nsmesakes, af-
ford but very inadequate protec-
tiop from inroads from above,
and al times, as he beat the snow
from his canvassed kitchen. he
felt as blue as the birds look
Henry Rubock's stable if it could
have been utilized as storage
reservoir, would have irrigated as
well as feitilized much of his farm.
With April, however, the SHOWS
disappeared and for a few days
we had fair weather. 1t is true
we had to plant our potatoes in
the light of the moon, an under
taking fraught with much risk
and opposed to all theories on
root culture. But the plow re
sumed its prominence in the land
scape and the farmer, so to speak,
was once moro in the saddle. High,
low, jack and those. wonderful FIVE
spots became a secondary con-
sideration. Constable Vote, in
stead of serving summons and
other legal writs on pugilistic
litigants and thus aiding Justices
Jay and Parkhurst in stirring up
strife, mounted three wheel
furrow turner and behind a trio
horse power cut and covered
trenches on his side hill at the
rate Of nearly three acres n day.
Cozart, similarly employed, sIashcd
into his adobe. Even the Savage
tribe whose wickup and reserve
ton is about half a mile south of
school house, seemingly prepared
to forego that Kansas populist,
Mrs. Leases, advice and TO put
in patch of corn. The Hanna's,
tanners and Tanners, farther down
the valley, were uprooting the
prairie flowers in way which
showed great lack OF apprecia-
ton of natures effort at sell
adornment.
Thus for ten days or more our
section was everywhere hive
of industry and the promised
''seedtime" seemed upon us. Then
came n chunge. The nists rolled
down from Pixies and shut in the
Basin. In vain old Sol fnrcely
protested aud strove to penetrate
the vapory veil. 1t rained.
There was no snow this time, n,
least not in district 20, but there
was mud. Flowing ceased, plant.
/ ing stopped. High-fve and seven
up promptly came to the front
again. At Flurer's and Rubeck's I
they ate four meals a day, the
/ last given to the disciples o1