The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

! corn and Will SOW 90 bushels or buck
wheat.
have gone from town to one farm
in an auto to milk, and then three or
four miles to another farm with 100
pounds of salt to salt stock in pasture,
and then to another to start cultiva-
tors on navy beans and corn.
They sure do bore with a big auger
here in the west One man with three
horses abreast, cultivates two rows of
corn with a cultiyator so perfect in
mechanism that | believe the opera
tor could run on one side of hill Of
corn and on the'Other side OF the next
hill, the whole being governed by the
feet and turned right or left as they
do an automobile; all that is needed is
to keep the horses between the rows
and off the corn, the driver does the
rest with his hands and feet.
Ortonville is a live little city stu-
ated on the banks of the renowned
Bigstone Lake which is thirty miles
| long and one to four miles wide; the
county seat of BigstOne County, Min.
nesota and a resort of note, where
they fish and hunt and the girls eat
| alfalfa hay. This was eXemplified
while | was entertaining a band of
| girls associates of one of my cousins
daughters) called the Hungry Eight" "
when | undertook to fill them up and
candy ice cream and watermelOns
began to grow scarce, | called for
"baled hay" and to their surprise we
were served with a fleak of alfalfa
| hay-which by some freak of nature
or otherwise, was literally filled with
nice candy To all intents and pur.
poses to casual observers, it seemed
they were literally eating hay. They
(and y enjoyed the diversion.
Milbank is the county seat of Grand
County, South Dakota, and beautiful
little city situated right in the midst
of great farming section
My cousin at this place is a miller,
and they live well, but of course
don't know whose grain makes the
bread | am eating; he has family of
six girls and two boys-One pair of
! twins and one set of triplets-all girls
The triplets are nine years old and
are so near alike it is impossible to
distinguish between them. They are
the pride of their mother and their
neighbOrs,
gave the triplets a party-sec TIE
announcement of the town paper
which follows:
a. H. Schwetzer, of Harrison, Ar
| kansas, a cousin of Len Kaerchcr, has
been visitor at the Kaercher home
| this week. Mr.. SChweitzer is also an
/ old acquaintance of our tOwnsman
| Thomas Fitch, and they have been re-
calling many mutual acquaintances in
the Minnesota neighborhood where
| they lived in civil war time Mr.
Schweitzer is an Arkansas boomer and
says that they are doing some things
down there in the way of raising ap
pies, strawberries and other things
worth while.
"Mr. Schwetizer, on Wednesday
evening, gathered up a party Of twen.
/ ty-nine little girls and presented them
with tickets to the Bentley Grand,
then treated the happy crowd to ice
cream refreshments at the LaTom.
tain Inn"
| was made a Mason in Minnesota
! 49 years ago and have never met any
| lodge nor any other Masonic lodge in
the state until met a lodge at Ouon.
vile last week 1t was quite a ttcaD,
they raised" to the Sublime degree Of
Master Mason, son Of my cousin
Last Sunday we motored fourteen
miles to Bigstone Lake, attending a
Woodmen picnic and incidentally took
a boat ride on the lake, had a fine
time,
will 20 back to Ortonville and
from there to Casper Wyoming, on
my way to the Pacific coast.
You may expect to hear from me
there-if don't join the army
With best wishes for Harrison and
good old N. w. Arkansas, the home Of
the big red apple, remain
Respectfully,
l., II, SCHWEITZER.