Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-01
STANLEY GETS NEEDED RAIN
Monday Nights Downfall One Of the
Best In Many Months

was v NlSltcu MOlluaS lllSuU Ny ollC
of the best rains that we have had
in months, and it came when it
was most needed. 1t was nice
warm rain, and everything is
doing nicely, thank you. Grain
and grass will now proceed to do
some tall stunts. Altogether condi-
tons are such that we have hopes
the writer of the following, clipp-
ed from the Burke Gazette, is a
real prophet:
This is going to be the biggest
and best crop year South Dakota
has known for some time. There
are no ifs nor ands about it; we
are simply going to get crop this
year that will make the world sit
up and gasp in admiration. DO
you remember five years ago! Do
you remember the kind of a winter
we had? Do you remember the
kind of a spring that followed it!
Rubber boots become the leading
style at all swell functions. The
races at the county fair were all
abandoned because the track was
all washed out. Everybody waded
in the mud and smiled about it:
cause why? Everything the
farmers planted grew s'teen feet
high and yielded a double average
crop. First premium oats at the
county fair were seven feet high
and yielded l12 bushels to the acre.
80 bushels of wheat per acre was
not unusual. The Haisch boys
had lot of cattle to feed and they
went over the country buying sod
corn There was no other kind
them as it stood in the field and
paid $40 to $40 an acre cash for it
and a whole lot of it yielded so
bushels to the acre. Now that
they are past we do not mind ad-
hitting that the last two years
have been pretty punk-the same
here as everywhere else. But
take it from US, this is the year
that something happens in the
crop line in South Dakota. Get
your JOY clothes on and get ready
to help sing the harvest jubilee.
We're going to have some fun
this year. There will be pumpkins
as big as Sam Anderson, wheat as
tall as the editor and corn with
ears as long as those of |. B. Glib
sons male mule. There'll be
money to burn. Interest rates
will drop way down and the bank
ers will beg people to borrow from
them. We will all buy for cash
and take the discount. OF course
gasoline will 90 up in price on
account of the great demand for it
to feed to the farmers auto
mobiles, but we can stand that.
Everybody will get in on the game
and forget all their enemies and
Join hands and sing:
We've got the climate and the soil;
We get the rain-sometimes.
We take a plow and bore for oil
And get a flow of dimes.
We're there and over in the game
Of helping nature hum.
We've got the wealth-we're get
ting fame.
We guess that's going some.
So Just remember that Hicks
don't know II thing about it Not
long ago the poor old joke told us
that this was to be another dry
season. 1t is to laugh, why
there will be mosquitoes that will
measure seven inches between the
eyes before the first of next Sep
tember. There will be frogs on
Mob Hill and polliwogs on Bleak
Point. Cheer up and practice
whistling ''Hot Time" 1t is time
to begin to prepare the plans and
specifications for all those wonder
Gus stunts you always said you
would do when you got to be worth
a million dollars. Praise Goo
from whom all blessings flow and
be thankful that you live in South
Dakota