The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-03-26
KIDD'S STORE

Will Neal, of Moreland was in town
Tuesday prospecting and trading.
Homer Luster and wife have left
US for more congenial environment
and more prosperous prospects in the
Middleburg vicinity.
Clay White, after an absence of
four years, is home on a visit. Accli-
mated to mild and equable weather
of southern California and mindful of
the fickleness here, he deferred his
coming till after equinox, hoping for
spring greeting, but connected with
the heaviest snow storm of the win.
ter. By the way, is there before
remembers a March with so little
wind and a spring equinox in middle
OF week with scarcely a breeze? The
oldest and they are old of our citizen
ship never knew the like. Conditions
in February and early March were
propitious for farm work and eagerly
improved.
One or two provident grangers,
alive to value of a good garden, de-
clined to follow the .ule Of giving it
subordinate place to other work and
have all the earliest vegetables plant
ed. Most of us have been put off with
one and the other excuses when in
sisting on having garden plowed and
see little prospects of earlier than
April planting.
Last years disappointments and
many disastrous failures have not
put crimp in the tobacco gamble
and acreage will be average.
Growing a crop is dead easy for
the industrious, but many have to
learn that the crop needs a little
more care than hay at harvest and
they need volumes of instructions in
proper curing and profitable grading.
The "wise guy" who knows all about
it is still with us. The intelligent land
lord blessed with a tractable tenant
lis the only lucky man of this neck of
the woods, who came back from the
warehouse smiling.
Colonel Micheal Finnegan Elkin, of
Lexington, joined in Casey's Saint
Patrick jubilation and in that inimit-
able style, familiar to his admirers
from Michigan to the Gulf, dispensed
barney, taffy and some of the fresh
est and best gags and anecdotes OF
this seasons vintage and mintage
Come often Mike, and stay longer.
A veteran fisherman caught q
bucket of choice minnows and with
high hopes repaired to his favorite
stretch of Green River where he hao
never failed of good sport and 9
cheering string of bass. Weather ano
water were ideal, but most faithful
efforts were unrewarded by even one
nibble. He is vehement in execratior
of vandalism which has about com
pletely exterminated the game sorts
from one time one of the finest bas:
streams in Central Kentucky.
A farmer, who makes speciality OF
Jerseys, lately sold one young COW
and calf for 500 and the same day
another for SIS. 1t is not at all rare
that an owner declares 500 offer fol
a COW would not be considered. New
ertheless times are hard, and our re
publican friends charge Woodrow
with personal responsibility for foo
and mouth disease of cattle-and M
doubt for pellagra.
The philosopher often descant'
wisely of things he knows deductively
and of observation. 1t is improbable
that Congressman Owsley Stanle!
ever did a days farm work, but h
surely spoke by the card when M
raped us Americans farmers, as {
class, the poorest on civilized earth
If we can get investigation imposed
on enumerators of next census ther'
will be few takers of wager that MIN
tenths of us are intense "moonites''
luna will "ticks"-inup-to-date
common-sense methods of our voca
cation.