American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-04-10
ABERDEEN.


Lawrence West spent Sunday with
w. D. Morton.
D. c. Parrott and S. F. Hussey went
to Otis for hay last Monday.
Mrs. A. Baumgartner and children
left Tuesday morning for Ohio.
S. NJ. Johnston returned Wednesday
from nearly weeks stay at Raft
River.
Chas. M. Brown and sons have cleared
% acres of sagebrush land this spring
and will plant the entire area to oats.
Charles Callaby has commenced plow-,
ing on the Wilkinson place. He has
cleared 20 acres and will get good crops
! for his work.
A. G. Clark and wife spent last Sun
day with friends at American Falls.
Mr.. Clark has made a good start at
clearing. He will plant 800 fruit trees
this season.
S. F. Hussey has built a fence around
his farm in section II and has opened
up new road on the section line, clos
ing the Falls trail which crossed the
section from corner to corner.
Although G. w. Parsons tips the
beam of the big scales at the 240 mark
he has not yet given up horseback rid
ing as an exercise. During the week
he rode to Blackfoot, going up one day
and returning the next.
Mr.. ]. F. Schroeder, Wiebe brothers
and Funk brothers were out on the
Homesteads this week and report gem
eral good time. They contemplate
taking up land. c. F. Funk took his
camera along and obtained some fine
views.
The band boys meet every Monday
night for practice and instruction.
They are making excellent progress
and despite the fact that some of them
had never played before there is every
prospect that they will make good
musicians and that the band will appear
in public before the summer is over.
Arthur Heitman is the instructor.
H. F. Kelso is fencing his farm south
east OF the townsite. Mr.. Kelso came
from Ohio last fall and is so well pleased
with his new home that he has prevailed
upon his father and family of four to
come to Idaho next fall. MIR. Kelso
purchased fine team of mares at Otis
one day this week, and is now quite
fully equipped for successful farming.
The Bannock Literary society met at
the Central schoolhouse Friday evening,
April 2, and carried out an interesting
I program, which consisted of dialogues.
recitations and songs by the male and
female quartettes. An admission of
ten cents was charged for the purpose
of paying the debts of the society. 1t
was decided that another meeting.
which will be the last meeting of the
season, be held at Aberdeen April 10.
Another called meeting of the Potato
Growers association will be held at the
Tabernacle Saturday evening. Secre.
tary Myers announces that he has pur-
chased 10000 pounds of oats and Sc
cured an option on 140 tons of hav for
the use of the members. The price
paid for the oats is 35 cents less than
the market price per hundred pounds.
Since the association was organized its
members have saved more than S400 by
buying potatoes and other things at
wholesale.
! Mrs. M. L. Haines entertained her
/ Sunday school class at her home Satur-
day evening. A prize was given for
! potato race, the lucky one being Glenn
Partner. Refreshments were served
and the evening enjoyed by all. Those
! present were: Mr.. and Mrs. M. l..
Haines, Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Myers,
Frieda and John Toevs, Anna and Frank
Tiahrt, Lenore, Mae, Arthur and Willie
Abercrombie, Helen Giesbrecht, Rate
and Harriet Myers, Florence Haines,
Flossie and Hazel Morton, Cool Alvord,
Jesse Gilbert, Henry Tiahrt, Glenn
Partner and Cal Brown.