Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-02
Sleepy Hollow Items

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o. G. Rowe, of the Valley,
was visiting his brother, VIM.
Rowe, last Sunday.
John Donnelson, a student
from the Capital City college,
was visiting his sister, Mrs.
VIM. Rowe, Jr., last week.
We congratulate Elmdale on
getting Miss Frances Fitzgib-
bons as school teacher for this
fall, though she will be missed
at East Liberty, where she has
taught SO many terms. Miss
Fitzgibbons is a good teacher
and has the love of her sehol-
arS.
Mr.. Hollister preached a good
sermon to a good sized and at
tentive audience. We under
stand he was invited to fill the
pulpit at st. John Sunday ard
we feel complimented that he
preferred keeping his appoint
ment at Elmdale instead.
Mr.. Burk and John Fitzgib-
bon have traded farms, Mr..
Burke trading a farm in Ne.
braska for Mr. FitzpibhOn's
farm here. We understand P.
Walters of the Valley will
move on the farm this week
and shuck corn for Mr.. Ellis,
who has bought the corn on the
farm.
Mrs. VIM. Rowe, Jr., received
a letter last week from her sis
ter, Mrs. VIM. Brown, of Wy
oming formerly of Mo. Valley
who with her family is holding
down a homestead in Wyoming.
She says they had a good crop
of all kinds of vegetables this
year, but that they had a hard
freeze that froze the potatoes
in the ground this month.
They got $50 bushels dug and
put away, however, also so
bushels of turnips and a wagon
load of squashes. Work is
plenty, but like all new coun-
tries, money is scarce.
Well, we went up to Logan
last week to see the pumpkin
show, as some call it, more
properly termed the farmers
exhibit, and it was an exhibit
worth seeing. AS we were the
only ones there from around
here we will tell you something
of what we saw. The live stock
: exhibit was ina very large tent
on the south side Of the public
square. In that we saw some
very fine hogs, of five different
breeds, with the largest Berk-
} shire and the largest Duroc
Jersey hogs we have ever seen
anywhere, and we have seen a
great many fine hogs. We did
not find out the owners names.
1--WE then went to the hall across
the street. On entering we
saw a display of fine apples and
a plate of pears grown by Hen
ry Barkhauff, the finest, larg-
! est pears we have ever seen
lgrown in the U. S., except the
mammoth pears of the Feather
River valley, California. These
are never shipped, as they will
not bear shipping. Then we
looked at the finest display of
corn ears measuring Ia inches
long, fine and dry. Then to the
canned goods and the ladies'
exhibit of baking. Such bread
cakes and pies they showed
!, that the ladies near Logan un,
derstand the culinary art. No
one invited us to assist the
judges, so we passed on to the
display of potatoes, sweet po-
tatoes and squashes, all very
fine. But the pumpkins-we
never saw such pumpkins in
our life and we thought we
knew something of pumpkin
raising. Then we looked at the
:. poultry show, which was fine,
but the most attractive was a
pen of chickens from the Phil
ippine islands. They were the
; funniest looking chickens we
ever saw, and should be seen
rather than described. We
went to see the fine driving
teams parade before the judges,
the finest of which belonged to
Harry Mills, we were informed.
Take it all together, we pro-
nounce the Logan farmers con-
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