The Glenwood post., 1918-03-09
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Jack Fesler has been reading up on
the subject of sugar beets and says he
has now reached the point where he IS
sure he can distinguish a sugar beet
from Hubbard squash.
In speaking of the recent meeting
of the Farmers club in Glenwood the
Eagle County Blade is quite pronounced
as to the prospects of its success, say
ing: "They propose to make Straw
berry Day one Of genial festibility
equal to Peach day, Fruit day, Potato
day, or any other day ever inaugurated.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Alcorn went
to Denver early in the week, whore
Mrs. Alcorn is obliged to enter hos.
pital for medical treatment.
VIM. Rohr, the efficient D. & R. G
yardmaster at Glenwood, has bcon
slightly indispcsed a portion of the
week, in consequence of which Georg.
Bennett has been filling that position
Miss Effie Baldwin, one of our in
terss.ing young ladies, returned MOI
day evening from months sojouru
in Aspen. She thinks Glenwood is a
paradise compared to that town. We
second the motion.
Olaf johnson and Miss Hattie
Rowles both of Carhopdole yara han
PLY married at the Hotel Yampa in
Glenwood last Sunday, Rev Webb per
forming the ceremony.
G. w. Hoover came up from his Ant
lers ranch last Wednesday, and in con
versation with the Post reporter stated
that the fruit in his section was all
right at present. G. William is hust
Ter with a record and is known far and
near as one of the leading agricultur'
lists of Garfield county.
At the home of the BRIDES uncle,
Mr.. Charles NJ. White, on Sunday,
March g, Mr.. H. L. Tibbetts of New
Castle, Colorado, and Miss Mary S
White of Montgomery City, Missouri,
were united in marriage, Rev. G. E,
Webb officiating.
Paul Ross, one of the leading orch
ardists of Garfield county, was in
Glenwood last Tuesday, and in speaking
fthe sevc'e winter Upon fruit he said
"When anyone tells you that the
fruit in the Grand valley is all killed
or that the peach crop is ruined, you
can Just tell them that old man Ros'
says they don't know what they arc
talking abont " Mr.. Ross says uli-
doubtedly many of the fruit buds have
been killed, but predicts tha; there will
yet be fair crop, and that fruit will
be of larger size and better quality
than heretofore.
S. w. Mott, the noted strawberry
grower, exhibited in GER office this
week queal looking machine which
he calls a hand cultivator and for
which he has secured the agency fol
this county. AS our warts are growing
luxuriantly and our corns have recent.
ly been filed down with a wood rasp
we told him we didn't need any hand
or foot cultivator either. The thing
looks like Mexican tarantula with a
handle five feet long, but 8. W. says
1t is the bsss cultivator OIL the mavkt I.
and what Mott don't know about culti.
vators is not worth finding out, and il
you want to see q novelty worth seeing
you should ask him to explain the
workings of this concern to you as he
did to us.
Last Tuesday DR.. L. A. Robinson was
appointed county physician for the re-
mainder of the year, and on Wednes
day filed his bond and at once begar
the ascent Of Eighth street towards
the hospital, when he was met by the
former county physician, DR.. Dean
who reminded him that his term Of OF
flee would not expire until March 81
The young disciple Of Escalapius hesi