Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-06-28
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, June II, 1911.
81 South Main ayenue.


s22 South Main avenue.
Dear Asnt Madoe and Sisters:
Meb stills lives, and think 1t about time
she helped the column out some, SO here she
goes. Now, don't wonder why I haven't
written before, for have intended to write.
but put it of, rs i wanted TO write long
letter when could find time.
March, 1910, ! went South, and WAS there
until Sept. is, then came back here to sell out
what property have here, and SO far have
only sold my ranch. ! now have store and
lot on Main avenue, eight houses and lots on
the Blue Lakes boulevard, ten block from
Main avenue. II 1t takes rs long to sell them
Is the ranch. shall be here some time yet.
have rented the store and am living over 1t in
one Of the housekeeping rooms.
Business is duh here now. and IL is . good
time to buy land. The farmers last year did
. very foolish thing-they went in 70 raising
alfalfa for hay, and did not contract with
outside ay-buyers. so got left and have had
to sell to meet payments. The man who had
forty acres next to mine cleaned up clear
$1,000. He went in to hogs and grain, with
vegetables, He also has hens, one COW, two
horses.
When he bought his forty acres he and his
first payment and to "prove up" on it, and
worked in the hotel afterwards. when
they proved up" he grubbed the sage brush
and she pitched 1t up and burnt it. They
cleared at first 1--WE acres, think, in the
thirty days proving up" So much for
poor man who found the things to bring in
the cash.
Pork is very high-priced here, and s good
mn tat far t,ix k.r IA.
and carrots, with wheat and corn to fatten
them on, which can be grown here all right.
am doing dress-making what time get
from my other work. shall try this week to
make three dresses. Last week / made two
My John got his ankle smashed, SO has been
lying on the couch nearly four weeks. He
gets around now some on crutches, but il
looks as II it would be some time before he
could walk.
lam nicely now, but had bad fever last
fall, and just lived through it. II was six
months before could do anything; then all
winter / coughed night and day. Oh, / must
tell you what cured me right up--the Juice of
aiarge lemon, one ounce each Of giycerine,
paregoric, syrup of squilIs. 1t is the best
thing ever saw.
And, oh, must tell you about my hair,
After the fever it nearly all came out. Could
see my scalp anywhere. / felt badly. for 1
thought was going to be bald-headed, so be-
gan to lock around and found hair-growe
who stopped my hair coming out, and in less
than ten weeks new hair began to come in. aud
now have the thickest head of hair. from
one-half inches to three inches long, and
haven't got mess OF short hair. When
twist my hair up 1t i'sn't as large around as
my finger, and about foot long, when used
to have such q lot Of long hair
Well, took the agency, and am now trying
it on man who has been bald twenty-five
years. but haven't been trying it long enough
70 know how his hair will grow.
am now going to church. win finish later
1t was chiidren's day. and the church was
crowded. The children did finely. Most
every one here seems to be q singer.
We are having some very warm
weather now. 1t has been cold, but
everything looks like summer. am in
hopes to 20 South in the early fall /
think now we shall come to Maine when we
settle down. The ranch we have in Louisisna
was cotton ranch, and my son-in-law is put
ting 1t into hay land. He has 800 acres now in
alfalfa, Bermuda and Johnson grass. They
have cut their oats. don't remember how
large piece they had, but they have forty
i've or fifty acres Of corn growing fine.
1t is little dry down there now, and hot.
but had fine winter. Worked clearing land
most every day. No snow. My daughter
writes that the fields are looking fine. Last
year We had there such fine watermelonss 1t
makes me hungry TO think of them. The
peach orchard last year was grand. / put up
2s2 quarts. We shall sell there first chance
~ 80. n. -. r.
afew acres OF land for a home, with chickens
pigs, perhaps few sheep. This ranch
wonld make fine stock ranch. if any one had
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