Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-09-03

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| is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ster-
rett.
Mrs H. P. Patterson and daughter
Virginia spent several days visiting
in Staunton.
DR.. and Mrs. A. w. Miller, of Har-
risonburg, motored to Highland dl
Tuesday.
Miss Katherine Campbell left
Monday for Craigsville to visit Miss
Malen Dudley.
Little Louise Stephenson left to
day for an extended visit to relativ
es in Tennessee. Her father &C
companied her as far as Basic.
G. w. Payne and J. e. Slaven mot
cred to Franklin today to take part
in ball game there.
Anderson Puffinberger, who was
in declining health during the
spring months is improving and was
able to be in Monterey today.
Misses Georgana and Mary Steph-
enson. of Harrisonburg and Pennsyl-
vania, respectively, arc the guests of
hrs. L. H. Stephenson.
Miss Daarhinger, the general mil
.iner CT the Little, Fashion SHOP,
stanton, will be here the 9Th to re-
;nain 10 daps.
Mrs. Jas. Dore, who recently re-
.urned from a purchasing trip IN
.Jc15Yor!, spent a few days here in
;tcliing new goods in THE Little
fashion Shop. See new ad IN TO-
lays Recorder.
Tobias McClintic, Of Jackson's riy-
ar was in town this morning accom-
,;.nied by his cousin, Miss Bessie Nc
Chntic, of Covington, who is this
week a guest in the McClintic home.
There will be lawn party in
yroyo near Strait Creek church Sat.
,Ycning Sept. 18th beginning at
,'uicc:;. Proceeds to be applied to
,crsonaGo Improvements. Come one,
.o;2a eli, al help good cause.
DR. Wilbur L. Bowen, VINO has
been an Inferno at Garfield hospital
in Washington is spending his Vaca
ton with EIr. and Mrs. H. B. Wood.
His sister, Einmeline came out with
him.
Randolph E. Myers of Washington
passed thru Monterey today on his
way to New Hampden, to visit his
wife, who has been visiting her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Mauzy for
several weeks. Mr.. Myers has just
returned from the Y. w. G. A. Con
vention in NewYork.
Mrs. McNeer and little son, REM
bert, are visiting her old home in
Botctout county. We were in error
last week in our statement that her
father lived in Charlottesville. He
was at the hospital there on the &C
casion of their visit two weeks ago.
Mrs. Bruce Wine and two chilren,
of Arkansas, are visiting Mrs Wines
mother, Mrs. J. N. Hull, and other
relatives, in the Vanderpool commu-
nifty. Mr.. and Mrs. Wine, who form
erly lived in the Valley of Virginia,
are now operating q rice plantation
of 200 acres near Lone Oak, Ark.
Mrs. Wine gives some details of rice
culture that are very interesting to
Highlanders who are familiar only
with blue grass and other indigenous
crops. Their field of 200 acres is
kept flooded to a depth of S or
inches by means of well from which
water is pumpted continuously. When
the harvest time comes, the pumping
stops, and the process Of evaporation
and absorption puts the field in shape
for the reaper and binder, which
must be drawn by several teams, wad
ing nearly knee-deep in mud and
muck. It is cut, bound in sheavcs
and threshed pretty much as wheat.
From their 1920 crop they hope to
realize a yield of so to 60 bushels to
the acre, and the outlook is for Is
cts per pound.
Malaria and mosquitoes are the bane
of such sections, and for that reason
many of those engaged in the cul-
ture are renters or tenants, one CIV
ing place to another as his health
fails or the "keeters" sap him dry.
NEAR, FATAL ACCIDENT