The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-10-22

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The mother of Mrs s. Mccoy, Mrs.
Stansbery, OF Chicago, has been Wis
iting at the home Of her daughter for
the past few weeks Mrs. McCoy's sis
ter, Mrs. w. A. Nichols, has also spent
couple of weeks visiting here lately.
Mr. j. A. FELTON,, who moved from
Hansen to Nyssa, Oregon, last year,
was in town a short time ago visiting
his children and attending to bust
ness connected with his ranch here.
He says the Oregon crops have been
fine, but that he is coming back to
Hansen if he can rent his place at Nys-
sa When he returned to Oregon, his
laughter, Miss Emmon, who had been
visiting in Hansen for a few weeks,
went with him. From Nyssa Mr. Eel
ton expects to go back to his old home
in Arkansas for short visit and bust
ness trip.
The home of Mrs Nj. B. Provost was
the scene Of delightful gathering last
week when Mrs. Provost entertained
the ladies of the Hansen neighbor-
hood at a miscellaneous shower in hon.
or of her sister-in-law, Mrs. e. T. Pro-
vost. About twenty-five ladies spent
very pleasant afternoon compiling
| either a volume of advice from the
experienced to the bride, or the recipe
Of their favorite dish. A yeritable
shower of beautiful gifts of china, sill
yer, aluminium and linen showed the
esteem in which the bride is held Dur
ling the afternoon delicious refresh
ments were served.
Several parties from Hansen have
Nbeen fishing and hunting in the hills
in the Wood river country, or to the
/ iSawtooth mountains in the last few
|.weeks since the threshing has beer
finished Mr. H. NJ Vanderpool ant
his brother, G. R. Vanderpool spent {
few days there last week On Satur-
day w. D. FELTON, and family accom-
panied by NJ B. Provost motored tt
the dam on Wood river returning lat'
Sunday after a successful session
They are planning a long trip in thu
near future
Mr. G. e. Harlan, of Twin Falls, for
mer manager of the Twin Falls Cana
company, has spent some time in TIN
last ten days in this neighborhood
signing up beet acreage for next yea
in the interest of the proposed factor,
lOI VIII L dis. QullS uu duultlOA Wd
made to the acreage already put il
around Hansen, and everyone scenes
interested in helping to land the fac
tory for the tract. BY having yea
in which to arrange for it, many NOR
farmers would be in condition to sigI
up for the beets, as it is not easy t
re-arrange all of their crop schem
in minute. Mr.. Johnson was wit
Mr. Harlan part of the time, and wa
able to dispose of the questions tina
for a time were undecided The bee
haulers have been atwork for about
month now and are Keeping the dun
red hot A shortage of cars has com
PEELED them to dump on the groun6
which will mean extra work for til
beet company in rehandling them. TIL
beet yield is doing its best to kee
pace with the record crops Of whea
and clover seed Some growers hav
reported as high as twenty-five ton
per acre, while twenty ton crops ar
common. This is bound to give beet
boost on the tract and next year wi
seen an even larger increase in acre
age over this year than this yea
showed over last.
Roy Durk is wearing broad smil
/ these days owing TO the ARRIVAL or
regulation size boy at his home Las
week. Both mother and son are dt
ing nicely
Mr. ]. D. Zollinger hulled an alsih
crop of twelve bushels per acre Q
his place this week. O. D. Bills too
q 100000 crop of red clover fro
thirty acres which he had seeded. Pc
er Newman, who is farming the rane
of Judge Lawrence Hansen on RO{
Greek hauled in $72D0.00 worth Of a
falfa seed as the gross returns fro
q sixty-acre field This sold for II
q pound and shows that a twent
! five year old alfalfa plant Is still rat
er productive Mr. Hansen says tn
he had found roots OF these alfal
plants in the bottom of his well whis
were as big around as his arm. II
Sampson brothers have the only whe
yet to be threshed In this territoI
l but as they have about forty-sev'
stacks 1t will take about week
I clean 1t up. The thresher just NOV
into the field on Wednesday.
4 II experiments Just begun II
lapfine On the Hansen dry farms pro