Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-16
People Many Want
To Hear All About
Former South Dakota Residents;
What They are Doing n
How Doing II.

Readers of newspapers are Away:
interested in reports concerning tht
Whereabouts of former friends and nc
quaintances and what they are doing
and how they are doing 1t.
That's n of the reasons prompting
them to take the paper land pay fol
It when they don't forget about it)
and that's why the local newspaper
whether the small daily or the "coun'
try weekly, Is bound to continue tc
hold the attention of the public re-
CARELESS Of the broad scope of the
great metropolitan papers.
Readers OF the Saturday News,
therefore, may be interested in learn
ing something of the people they
used to know who have sought other
! fields Of usefulness and other homes
elsewhere.
Former WATERFOWL Girl.
While Mr., Cory was temporarily
sojourning in the Grand Valley, in the
extreme western part Of Colorado,
| during the earlier portion of the sea
| son, he accepted an invitation to dine
| with Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Flint, now
| residing about two miles north of the
hustling little town of Fruita, in Mesa
! county.
Mrs. Flint was formerly Miss Ethel
Tracy, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. F. F.
Tracy, of Watertown. After her mar
rage with Mr.. Flint, she continued to
reside here for a short time, later
removing to Denver, Colorago, and
still later going to Fruita where they
purchased a fine general farming
ranch EARNS in that region are known
as ranches" not farms), two miles
north of the town. This place com.
prises twenty-five acres. Afterwards
Mr.. Flint purchased a fifteen acre
tract adjacent, so that now they have
forty acres, which is considered a
rather large ranch in that section. 1t
is within the irrigated district where
the cost of water is normal, averaging
less than a dollar an acre per year.
The home of the Flints is an invit-
ling one, the house being situated
within the cooling influence of large
shade trees. Entwining vines, cling
ing to screen work on two sides of
the structure, add their welcoming
weight to ease and comfort. &
Mr.. Flint has not sought to sur
round himself with fruit trees. believ.
ing that, in the end, he can make his
property pay greater return upon the
investment without the trees than
with them.
Here alfalfa thrives along with
grains and vegetables. Supporting
)seven or eight exceptionally fine
COWS, the cream from which affords a
steady semi-monthly income, and q
few hogs, with numerous members o.
the domestic f%eathered tribe, the
place bore evidence of prosperity.
Two interesting children constitute
the family--a daughter, born in Cod
ington county, and a son, three years
of age, born in Colorado. Grandpa
Tracy we know, with one glimpse Of
that boy, would walk many a mile be
fore breakfast for the opportunity O.
embracing him.
Frank S. carman.
Another South Dakota boy" whose
friends will be pleased to learn Of hi
prosperity, is Frank S. Carman, for
merly of Clear Lake, now the ownel
OF one of the finest small fruit tracts
in the Grand alley, enar Grand juno
ton tGrand Junction and Fruita ar,
only about ten miles apart).
Mr.. Carman, although having ha'
no previous experience in the frni
industry, is regarded throughout TIL
valley as an expert in the raising ?
fruit and the care Of orchards. Hi
tract, comprising about seventee'
acres. lies within one of the mo
favored localities in the entire vale,
for growing fruit.
We speak Of a favored locality fo
the reason that not all Of the land i
the valley is well adapted to frui
raising. Some Of It may have tn
most inviting appearance. and may 4
fact be excellent soil for other pun
poses, but may not be at all fitted 70
fruit raising. owing TO various cause
which need not be here enumerated
Charles M. Elchlnoer.
Another Clear Lake man, Charlie
Nj. Eichinger, Is likewise making goo
near Grand Junction, having q an
fruit ranch about two miles directl
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