Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-04
A DAY WITH THE MORMONS
 AT ST. DAVID

The newspaper man had the priv
 nege and the pleasure, few days ago,
 to go to the Mormon picnic at SJ.
 David's settlement, and while there ] witnessed one or two things that abide
 with him still The most impressive
 thing about St. David is its cultivated
 and prosperous appearance in cOUu2ct
 with the desert one must cross frCM ! Tombstone to reach it and the great
 rocky, barren, desOlate. wild looking ! hill one descends to enter the fruitful
 San Pedro valley in which tho settle
 ment is located
 These Mormon farmers who nave made this barren place to bloom are
 thorough, there is no gainsayins tha-. They have taken full advantage ot every drop Of water and foot oI soil available to raise their crops and the improvements on their lands are the last word in farming
 St David like its namesake. tho Israelite king of old, has killed the Goliath of the desert with the Ids against it as heavy as ever they were against the shepherd boy with his sling when he went cut to fight the giant in armour.
 That they raise all kinds c, good things to eat at St. D3Wd's ,hIs newspaper man will testify. for Ee sampled them at the big barbecue diH- ner in the school house grove. Aul Ray Krebs of Tombstone. did, tcO. Heavens, how that man did eat lie sat on an upturnei keg in front Of feast that would have fed a battalion of men. One reg was crossed oyer thc other and his plate was in his lgp Beef and beets and bread and barley did he put away. Then he shifted ga tomatoes and tortillas and then to peaches and pie, winding Up on three kinds of cake.
 The newspaper man tried to "kid as he sat there sOlemnly end seriously putting food away like steam cranes loading a ship in a busy harh1T, but Krebs only smiled and went C- with his pleasant task. Later, when the newspaper man entered the school house to look on at the sale of ice cream. he found Krebs again. this time seated at 8 desk with a platter of ice cream before him. How long ae staid in there and how much ice cream he ate this depOnent saith not, buJ it is certain that when he went Co his '. car Go start home from the picnic ne walked down the school house steps. Maybe he stopped eating ice cream 0e- fore he left the building, but the odds are that he did not. As De Maupas- saunt said of the Norman, The destroy ed food like quicksand.'
 And then there was TCm Hughes. Q E.a date for state senator, who also par took of the baTbecued beef and hand made gilt-edge pies. but .n a much less degree than kre6s. Hughes shcne in another orbit This newspaper man has known Hughes ever since he came to the district. In fact he knew him before he came. for the newspaper mans best friend back wonder in Nan- sas had told him about him. having double teamed with him in Arizona in days gone by You'll find him a little modest and backward and .n- clined to be quiet in a crowd" said this Kansas friend, but he is all geld clear through, is Tom Hughes"
 Well, the newspaper man had ccc9- sion to note Hughes in a crowd at St Davids the other day. and while he was modest. alright, he was not quiet. He lured seventeen pretty little lid dies up to the ice cream counter and filled them full Of cream. He talked to their mothers and their big sisters. and he talked to the elders, too. Talk cd as smoothly as running water in deep channel and as interestingly as a Red Cross Chatauqua orator just homo from France.
 In fact. and in fine to sum up, krcbs