The Harrison times., 1917-09-15
TEXAN VISITS ARKANSAS.

concerning our visit 20 Boone and
| Marion counties, and as many ola
/ friends requested me 20 write for the
/ Times will gladly try to comply
with said promise and requests.
/ My wife and | boarded the train at
/ Lubbock, Texas, at 3 p m, July ith,
and after a ride through the Pan
Handle of Texas; NO Mans Land" ,"
Western Oklahoma, and through Kan
sas and Missouri via Wichita, Topeka,
Kansas City and Joplin. we stopped
off the train at Olyey, Arkansas, A
hours later and were sure glad to see
| old friends and relatives, and such
fine crops in my old home counties Of
Boone and Marion. they being the
| best we had seen on the whole route.
| Yes. we were immensely pleased to
see the people the old scenes of for
mer days and the prosperous cOndi-
! ton of the country. But, o, the good
things that are going to waste for
lack of home Gamers and other pres.
eryation. while the drouth-strickon
people are paying such high prices
for same. or doing without. You peo-
pie certainly should try to save every
dollars worth you can for it will all be
badly needed and would help both you
and those who use it. The pOs5iblli.
ties of Boone county are really great.
With proper preparation and care it
will produce almost anything and
everything. and with proper prepara-
ton and care a great deal more could
be saved and made useful instead of
going to waste. There is as much in
saving as in making. Yes, friends,
save everything that is good. Work
for everything that is good, and try
as best you can to do everything you
can that's good, and we'll all be the
better and the world be the better by
our living in it.
But | want to write another letter
on right living, our treatment of each
other; the dark present and the beau.
tiful and bright future to come after
the mists, fogs and clouds, and the
smoke of battles and destruction have
| cleared away.
My dear friends, beyond the dark
clouds | see a beautiful lining Let's
hope, pray and work for the best and
bear the worst as best we can, and
let's be fair, humane, brotherly, just
and kind to all as the great Leader
and Prince of Peace taught us.
While | was at Yellville | visited
the old home of my bOyhOOd days and
with feeling of reverence and sad
ness | was in the rooms where my
grand mother, of one hundred years,
my father, nearly seventy-seven and
my mother, lacking just a little of
ninety-nine, passed from this exist
ence to better world beyond, and
later on | stood at the graves of my
parents, of which I want to say more
in another letter for the benefit of
the boys and girls of today.
met two only brothers, in the
flesh and a dear old sister, dearly
beloved daughter and many other rel
atiyes and appreciated old friends in
Boone and Marion counties, and to
say that | greatly enjoyed their greet
| ings, associations and expressions OF
kindness, and the pleasant memories
and scenes of former days is putting
it in mild terms and family express
ing the fact.
| wanted to stay another month or
two but my wife got hOmesiCk and
lust had to come back with her. The
short two months passed too quickly
and the visit only seemed begun when
we babe adieu to our dear daughter
family and friends and Ireluctantly)
boarded the train at Olyey for Lub
book. Texas, again,
On my return | found crops on the
plains very spotted, some good and
some sorry, The following parties
formerly of Boone county, came to
visit us at Lubbock while we were
gone
J. c. McEntire, of Pueblo; R. L.
Lemay, Of Alyord., Texas; Rev W. NJ
Lemay, of Spur, Texas, and Mr., and
Mrs Wise Hensley, Of Gainesville
Texas, and since our return Bud Potts
and family, of Hunt County, Texas.
If this passes inspection and is
found worthy of publication you may
look for more from your friend and
wellwisher of the Texas plains.
r. J, ESTES,