St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-04

1 AN! Win september RT66LlnR,
Then comes the joy of eating
| The oyster and the apple.
| A A. Parker, we'll known Covington citizen, is
now resident manager of the James Provost orange
makes his home.
Throughout the summer several merry parties of
young people have gathered for evening at the
home Of Misses Sadie and Blanche Taylor, of the
Ridge The viyacity and hospitality of these young
ladies and their family always make these occasions
pleasant and agreeable.
The excessive rains of the past season sadly dis
counted the efforts of the truck growers to make big
crops. The production of vegetables and fruit was
very scant account of too much rain and scald
but corn and sweet potatoes will turn out fairly WELL
Peter Provost and family have removed from Sldell
to the Provost homestead near here where they are
in the delight of country lfe poultry raising garden
ing and The children, both little and big, are
| happy and pleased together.
Announcement is made that the Ridge public school
| will open in October with Miss Lena George as
teacher. Miss Elizabeth Upton, the former teacher,
made good impression by her work last term and
left carving. the kind wishes of all.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Antoine Provost lifelong residents
of the Eighth Ward, are making their home present
in Slidell. After residing at the old homestead for
nearly fifty years, the change seemed very great,
but they are enjoying their new environment very
we'll and continue in health.
i Mrs. Nellie Williams land babe, after a month s
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Provost, has re-
turned to Alabama, where her husband, Rev. J. H.
Williams, is stationed
Capt Obey Mexican, of Ridge, still has few more
cords of nice frewood SALE delivered at So per
u
| Ma or George H. Cause, Confederate veteran and
prominent business here for years, suffered a
regretable illness recently stroke of paralysis af
fecting the limbs prevents him from walking but
otherwise he has sufficiently improved so as to be
taken out for carriage ride The nature of the ill
ness of Cause has called out the kindest minis
trations Of his family and excited general regret
and sympathy.
Business conditions seem somewhat tagging. Per-
haps every one is waiting till after the census is
taken
Farmer John Downey put in several hot day re-
Gently in saving nice lot Of crab grass hay He
hay and the cattle eat it up, and gets milk and the
| cat II eat it up too.
President Taft hasn't taken up cudgels against the
trusts yet it seems. What's the matter? Too much
golf and tariff talk probably Look at the price of
flour, higher than the oblelisk and other necessities
of life just about the same way And all this is
perpetrated on the American citizen, who weekly
submits You might think he would hiss and spit
fire, but no, the American citizen is tanned by
the combines that at night he is ready to kneel
down by the bedside and say his nice little prayer
Now lay me down to sleep,
Pray Standard Oil my soul to keep,
If fall i'll, dear friend you must
/ Commend me to the Quinine Trust.
Some one wants to know when a note in the bank
is like moisture that collects at night? That's easy
when It's falling dew.
FORGET 1T.
Gentle hearts know hurt and fag
| - keenest feel the thrust unkind-
Yet theyscore some painful drag
Has no business on the mind
Forget it.
Has one held in esteem,
Given purposey slight,
= Do not of quarrel dream
Keep this motto well in sight
Forget it.
This is not world of bliss,
There are things to mar and make,
| So, if breakfast you should miss,
DO not quietude forsake-
Forget it.
Mans short coming, great or less,
Must some disappointment bring,
For the sake of happiness
Plan to then withdraw the sting
Forget it.
Now, since life is all SO brief,
Folks should wisely toll and scrape;
What's the use to wall in grief
To prevent it from escape?
Forget it.
| Only better deeds and kind
That the passing years have wrought
Noby treasure, friend in mind
To the evil give no thought;
Forget it.
MR.