The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-09
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0Ot WI AhIo SAC SOuNIAy vi AoC
Friday, and in company with r. P
Conner; manager of the Review, whose
4 knowledge OF Ford cars extends bacl
to,the time when the rattle first came
out, we drove through the territory
Immediately north of Vail A nice
rain, two days previous to Friday, hat
visited that vicinity and while the
roads had been nicely graded up, they
were spongey, and In places rough
but the Ford kept running right along
and we believe with another lesson
or two we will be able to carry on ar
ordinsry conversation without being
molested by the peculiarities with
which the Ford is,t endowed,
CORN FOOT HIGH IN TEXAS
Al former resident of Sac county
writing to the Sac Sun from Mission
Texas, says: Crops in this locality
are looking very nice. Corn is abou,
foot high, cotton, broom corn, cane
Otcs; IRE up ready for the first cult
yation; peaches are about the size Of
hen eggs. So 3. -sr - ,,s7.
..The climate is ideal. We are
wearing summer attire and sleeping
with our doors and windows open, to
fully enjoy the salt sea air. 1t, is
great. Tie roads are like pavement
80 different from those we left in Iowa
couple of weeks ago.. We had a
!. good rain last Tuesday, evening".
I'VE haYesFmet Since coming here
several IoNans, some of whom have
lived In the valley for eight years
They all speak we'll of the country
and they seem to be making plenty
OF money. s. Y. 3 r..
I'VE have a Mexican working for
us at $1.25 per day and he works from
sun to sun and boards himself. He
- . good worker too"
To drive past the home place of J.
I II. Kral. right north Of Vail, without
stopping, would be inexcusable, if Mr.
Kra1 found it out, but we had no such
idea, for we headed for his farm the
iirst place out of Vail. We found Mr.
Kral busy as usual; he was over in
his big combination corn crib and
grain house, keeping time with gas.
Oline engine that was hitched to a
tanning mill, and was separating the
straw from some timothy and clover
seed. He had finished cleaning about
400 bushels of timothy, and the day
previous to our visit had sold a big
truck. load to the Denison Seed Co.
He was being assisted by his son,
Leon, who had only Gently returned
from the army camp. Mr.: Kral Is not
working all of his land this year and
has the greater part Of If rented out
He is running about rs head of fine
white hogs, some Of which would
weigh in the neighborhoOd lof 300
pounds. This bunchs was certainly 8
healthy drove of hogs. In all the
years Mr. Kral has lived on this place
he has had the cholera only once. A
feature of the Kral place was the
16x6O tile silo with al capacity Of -8(
tons OF ensilage, and when feeding
lots Of stock Mr. Kral aims to keeI
this filled. Before leaving JOes thu
youngest son, came home. fronls rehear
Sal at the Vail high school. The stu
dents were to stage q dramatic stunt
at the Vail opera house Friday eve
ming, and he was to- haYeaOne Of thu
leading parts. Mr. Kral has a fine
home place, a splendid family, ant
he ought to be content.
Mrs. Ray Brown entertained tht
,Dorcas Missionary society at he
country home Friday afternoon. TIL
afternoon was spent in sewing for tn
orphans home. At the close of the al
ternoOn the hostess served a tw'
course luncheon. The day being idea
4 large number of members were pres
emit. After the lesson and sewing
hours box valued at $4,000 was pack
ed for the deaconess home at De
Moines. Many meetings were not he'll
during the fall on account OF the ep
I demic SO the society feels proud tina
30 much has been accomplshed.-Dur
lap Reporter. $&
Otto Pound, whom. everybody in tn
community knows, lives on the Johl
Cook farm in section 8, West Sid
h township. And he owns the farm, toe
having purchased It some time age
Mr.. Pound has 20 acres of wheat, ant
about 40 acres of timothy and Glove
sown at this time. When we paid hin
q visit he had just liberated eight o
nine of as fine colts as one would car
to see, and they were Of his owl
raising. He is also running Is hea'
!. OF young cattle, and had been feeding
some during the past season. M!
Pound informed us. that he had jus
sold two cars of hay, at. $4,000 and hal
about 80 tons more to bale. -
DR.. HoULIHAN BUYS, FARM
DR.. II. J. Houlihan this week pur
X chased the old Walter Seidler farm
8 miles south Of Ida Grove on thu
Schleswig road, from John GRAY, tn
price being $3.50 an acre. The place
contains 120 acres and has excellen
improvements County Pioneer.
After living in a community for al
most half a century one becomes &C
uuainted with faces If not alway'
names, and this was forcibly brough
home to us when we visited last Fri
day at the home Of George Deter, jus
north of Vail, in Milford township
We did not find Mr.. Deter at home
hut Mrs. Deter was, and avery cap
able woman, we'll say. Her face wa
SO familiar that we could not resis
asking her maiden name, and sool