The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1915-10-08

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tn scratch fur size. | haint seen n
sich melons no place, not since las
fall when we wuz in Happy Hollow
in TIN Pure Water Districk. Missu
Gin Mitchell made herself Janus fe
maxim tn best cookies an apple pie
JUS wisht you fellers back eas
Good be here and see with yer owl
Is tn fine corn that is matured an
out ov danger ov frost-groWed rite
here in Millett county Crate big
ears too. Now mebby you don't be.
lieye it but all tn church members
will tell you its tn truth-our days is
SO mutch longer here that tn corn
has more time TO sit ripe than where
tn days is shorter.
Mister Kirch, Editer of tn Wood
paper, ('whitch gives all tn news")
thot he wood do sumthin fer his coun
try SO he goes to wirk an offers a swell
lovin cup, all silver, lined with gold,
fur tn lbest corn in the county, an
a feller by tn name oy Mister Fort
got 1t. He is proud as Cutfy over it
an j guess he deserved it. Tn corn
was reel hard an will do to crib i'm a
little while, so Tom Gallagher sed.
An say! Lemme tell you sumthin
about tn wheat in this country. Some
fellers over near Cody had wheat
whitch went 50 bushels to tn aker,
an it tested 81 pounds. How's that?
Several fellers over near Cody last
spring made up their mind to grow
wheat. An jisU TO show tn grit ov
homestead fellers -lemme tell you
what they done about tn threshni
bizness. They Clipped in an bot there
own machine power o'course-
but wot's tn use goin to more Expense
fer jist few fellersg This country
will grow wheat, you bet, an when tn
President ov tn Northwestrn Rail
road reads this | think he will git
bizzy an do sum fiGyarin on tn new
road. You are all rite, fellers. Jist
you hold yer grit, Gay with it. Who
nose what you will make out ov your
selves some ov these days. There's
nothin slow about tn Cody fellers, an
it's tn nervy pioneers that is tn bone
and Sinew of this country Some ov
you is wonderin how they will dispose
ov that wheat. Guess they amt wor
ried none. Eny fellers whitch can
produce sich wheat will hav ali they
kin do to supply tn demand there
will be in tn neighborhood fer seed
this fall. Tom Gallagher sez he'd ra-
ther sack up load ov wheat and haul
to Winner then to fuss around with
load Of hogs.
don't reklect how Dienny kinds ov
grass | see OH exhibition, but this
salt grass is mighty fine fer to make
lots of cream raise on tn milk. Cream
ofen tests 60 an its jist ordinary fer it
to test AZ. 1t makes butter awful
quick when tn wimmen churnS an
they isn't hardly eny butter milk.
These cattle sure look good. They
XIV DuV 1900 oiiu "uoSi.
Saw fellerS, 1t seems tut to wirk SO
hard as some Of us does back home
when we kin invest i'm calves an jiSt
sit down here an watch 'sm grow into
money. There is grass here SO thick
an tall in places, that 1t lodges like
wheat does back home, an by an by
it is all layin down fat on tn groun
it is SO thick an heavy. Tn Pioneer
sez there Is 25O,0O0 tons goin to waste
in Millet county this year. Whatta
think ov that?
| seen some fellers from some Of tn
older states lOokin at tn big punkins
an onions an things too numerous to
menshion which growed rite here in
Millett county an tney had to admit
that we had there fairs to home beat
l. city blocks. Our Millett County
Fair looked like state fair, so to
speak, comparatively, you understand
fer we certainly produce the biggest
variety Of garden sass-melons, pun
kins, cucumbers, onions, turnups,
SquaSheS, corn, cain, taterS irish an
sweet, everything an anything you
can think OF, an the quality is rite
there too.
There wuZ the usual number Of In
dians at tn fair takin part in tn hoSs
races an spots ov all kinds, an lemme
tell you Sumethin also: They done
some competin with tn white people
an carried of prizes In all departments
cookin, fancy wirk an agriculture.
Missus Will Jordan got fust on angle
cake and Ed Garneanx got fust on
white corn, besides there were sever
al others, then there wuz Col. Jordans
collection ov Indian bead work that
is tn finest an best in the whole world
sumthin you coodent see even at Fris
co. Lemme tell ye, them Indians
showed sum putty darn good STUFF all
rite.
Lemme tell you somethin else about
tn Big Mellette County Fair. You
don't haf two pay fer nothin. Every
thing is wide open-all the races. etc
and you can 60 out and look at ever
thing in tn agricultural hall as meny
times day as you wanto and IT don't
cost you scent. Ov coarse IL you
wanta indulge In string ov beads or
"a sandwich or cup oy koffeeyou are
expected to pay fer that. But l wuz
sprized when i took out my wallet at
tn entrance to be told to put 1T rite
back again. Well, fellers this is tn
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