Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-09
HURLEY FOLKS I'm
SOUTHERN TEXAS
e. q. Berry Tells About His Trip.
To The Rio Grande Valley

help, We could furnish BIT Of
news occasionally that perhaps
would be of interest to someone.
/ was asked by the editor on nv
return from the south to give little
writeup of our, trip to the Rio
.Grande Valley of Texas. and I prom
ised would, but have been putting
in much Of my spare time destroy-
ing the weeds which seem TO have
grown very fast during my absence.
/ was in hopes the editor had for-
gotten the promise, but he reminded
me that he had not.
b This trip was not planned as
pleasure trip, although we did frls1
- great deal Of pleasure out OF il.
Some perhaps do not know OF the
Dakota Rio Grande Co., corpora
tion owning and operating an ir-
Tigated farm in the Rio Grande yaIaa
Lev. and doing general farming
business with John I.akings as mana
ger an aAir. Lakings is doing ii
Texas as he always did in South OAK
otah he is making good and is recog-
|nized in the Rio Grande country as
an mp to date farmer. AS evidence
in the above statement Mr.. Lakinas.
was elected this spring as one Of
three delegates fren Hidelgo County
to the Farmers Congress- at Austin.
Tex. Mr. Lakings said he would not
attend unless someone who was in
terested in tie ranch would come
and take charge during his absence.
So. / being the second best farmer
in the bunch, was ordered out, and
as Mrs. Berry and Ruth were psan-
ming on . vacation they decided they
wanted I'd aee what the south was
like in midsummer.
So. on Thursday. July 18th. we
left Hurley in q heavy rain storm
that continued all the way to Oma-
ha. our train making very poor pre-
Igreas and arriving too late for the
Kansas City train, making it neces-
lsary for as to stay one night in Oma-
tiaa. When we arrived at our hotel
we were met at the door by the land
liord who seeraed to be very much
iegcited and began TO tell US he had
heard about an awful storm in South
Dakota. that there were twenty peo-
pie killed at Sioux Falls and as many
at Sioux City, Ia. We decided we
did not care 10 get any further away
from Hurley until we knew the facts,
80 next morning began using the
wires and succeeded in getting our
daughter. Mrs. Rediield. She as
sured US nothing serious had hap-
pened around Hurley. SO we moved
on arriving at Houston. Tex. Satur.
day night.
We spent Sunday visiting with the
Lawrence Jenson. Joe Layne, Char
Hey Layne and James Stout families.
ali formerly Of Hurley. We enjoyed
this visit very much. Monday morn
ling, with Mr.. and Mrs. Jenson, we
boarded the interurban for Galyes-
ton, which is little oyer an hours
run from Houston. Here we had
Q very pleasant day. All went bath
I H. e u
ling in the Gulf. pleasure I never
pass up at this place, even in Janu-
larry.
Leaving Houston at $50 we arr
rived at McAilen Tuesday noon. At
/ ter dinner the landlord took us out
TO the ranch where we found John
busy irrigating his clover and Edith
getting ready to GO to town after
us.
/ began right sway to find out
whgt was expected Of me. While
John was away ! managed the ranch
lin very satisfactory way to my
.lself. / found the Mexicans good help
j FOR the money paid them FIVE dollars
4 q week and they board themselves.
Il While IN the Valley we took time
1tocall on Bert Aliens. John Rooths,
land MIRA. Moore. oil Turner County
4 people. These people seemed to be
very prosperous and have good
I homes.
4 have been asked great many
times how liked Texas. | like 1t