American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-10-16
CRYSTAL ITEMS.


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The family of Alfred J. Bell have
moved to Logan, Utah for the winter
where the children will attend school.
Two of the older ones are in high
school.
Messrs. Carl Wright and J. ".
Staley went to Pocatello after coal
the last of the week.
Mrs. Nellie Castor and her daughter,
Josephine are visiting at the home Of
Mrs. Henry Breeze.
G.. r. Butterfeld and his son, John,
have been repairing the bridge across
Midnight creek which was broken
down with the auto truck.
Paul Martin and his father each
went to Pocatello with a load of grain
Saturday.
Manning Standby came out from
Pocatello with a load of coal Thurs
day.
NJ. A. Dennison and wife we're in
Pocatello Saturday.
Messrs Beuten, Staley and Wright
finished heading the last of the week.
They have headed about five hundred
and eighty acres this year.
Spencer Breeze has just finished
threshing. The grain was as good as
expected.
Ezra Burwell will move his family
down to the John Kellogg house on
lower Cherry creek where they will
be nearer to school this winter.
The bridge across Midnight creek
broke down while j. L. Johnston was
crossing with a truck load OF grain.
His brother Ray was with him and the
two managed to get the load over with
out accident.
Mrs. Henry Breeze was in POcatel-
10 the first of the week, returning home
Wednesday.
VIII Clezie came home the last of
the week from Pocatello where he
has been serving on the jury for a
Jew days.
J. ". Staley brought a load of
peaches home from Pocatello the first
OF the week. Mr.. Staley had them
shipped from Brigham City, Utah.
Inc Rossiter threshing machine will
start threshing on the Elmer Beuten
and Carl Wright place Tuesday, the
10th. Mr.. Beuten and Mr.. Wright
have q stacks OF wheat to thresh so
it will take several days.
Prs. L. U. Phelps of Pocatello who
has been visiting at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Snyder,
returned to her home Friday.
= We are having an ideal fall this
year. The weather is perfect, beauti-
tul sunshiny days with clear, cool
evenings. Everyone is taking advan-
tage Of it and are busy either harvest
ing or seeding.
The Crystal soldier boys greatly ap-
p%reciate the American Falls Press and
lcok forward TO its arrival in their
different camps. They like to know
what their home people are doing.
Mrs. c. R. Butterfield and her
daughter, Florence. spent the week
end in POcatello, where Florence at
tended the annual swarm of the Bee
Hive girls, Saturday the 18th.
Miss Grace Christensen of Pocatel-
10 is visiting at the home Of her faith
er, Moses Fannin of this place. Miss
Grace will spend several days with
her sister, Mrs. L. s.. Whiting, also, be-
fore returning home.
The Crystal women mean to help
Uncle Sam win the war. Several of
them are blowing and preparing land
for fall grain while their husbands
and fathers are busy harvesting, thus
increasing the acreage of fall wheat
considerable, as help is scarce since
our boys have gone for national ser
vices.
Hugh Polling will move his family
to Pocatello the first of the week
where they will spend the winter.
The boys who left here a short time
ago for service in the army reached
the training camp in safety and write
that they are training early and late.
They mean to be good soldiers.
The Crystal Bee Hive girls of the
Olive Branch Swarm, attended the an
nual swarm held in POcatello, Satur-
day the 18th.
Mrs. Hugh Polling and Mrs. Thacker
were visitors at the Staley home Wed
nesday.
Wheat continues to come in at the
platforms in great quantities. The
trucks can scarcely haul it away fast
enough. The platforms are stacked
high and a large stack is behind the
platforms stacked on the ground.
Eldred Burwell will start to work
on the Rossitter threshing machine,
Tuesday, the 18th.