Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-07-14
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#. high and break open the casket,
dump the contents into this pen and
throw the old broken casket out by
the bone yard in plain view of all
the visitors. Now | saw this for
myself, | don't have to take any ones
word for it. 1t fairly haunts me
vet. Well it is time to turn away
from this grewsome story to some
thing more pleasant.
Aod people should be here in mid
winter when everything is green and
garden truck of all kinds is fairly
making old mother earth groan to
hold it up. The most beautiful
long cabbage rows and long rows of
head lettuce (you never saw such
lettuce) spinach, egg plant, sweet
peppers and so on down the line and
> D.ld he IN town when they arr
drawing it to market. And now
within few days we will begin to
draw cotton and then corn. Memo
says he has counted as high as Is
teams waiting their turn to unload
either corn or cotton in the corn and
cotton season.
/ Fishing - you should be here. If
YOU want a mess of fish we simply
20 out and get them, no guessing if
we will or not, we expect to get
them when we go out just the same
as you expect to get meat when you
step into the market, and get them
in any quantity from five pounds to
five hundred if we need them. The
main canal cuts off small garden
from our southeast corner and we
set a trap in the canal and catch as
high as eight and ten in one night,
once in a while only one. We caught
@le cat ish that weighed Il pounds.
Talk about good eating, that was
some. And then if we want a
little diversion we get two or three
of our neighbors and drive a mile
to the Arroyo Colorado and take a
sein and we have caught as high as
500 lbs. in less than two hours threw
all but enough to supply IL families
in the neighborhood. | simply can't
picture it to you IN strong enough
Gems. You would have to be here
and see it your self to be able to
comprehend it. Let US know when
you are coming and we will sure have
HslI uinner. u. S. is building a
military road close by our place, less
than mile from US. 1t is a con-
crete bed II inches thick and tied
by steel bars.
The cement is to be 18 it. wide
with two foot gravel shoulder on
either side, some road and it extends
to our county seat and many miles
west of US. The county gives the
right of way and puts up half the
money and U. S. the balance.
Last but not least we have just
finished our quota to insure us a
deep water way to PIT. Isabel which
the greatest acquisition to the
lley since it has been opened uL
I the white man. That will insure
US low freight rates and that is what
has been holding this country down
for the railroads simply meant thai
the farmers should work simply for
them and proceeded to raise the rate
as often as they thought they dare
but now we will have them in a cor.
ner and it will be our turn to tel
them where to head in at. We are
only 25 miles from the gulf. But thc
Arroyo Colorado is right up at oul
town and as it is the old bed of the
Rio Grande river and is partly oper
clear to the gulf, we feel to know
that it is only short time until the
Government will dredge out this
old river bed and then we will un.
load our truck right at our town or
to sea going vessels bound for N. Y
and even for European markets
Our town is growing so fast thai
we can scarcely keep pace with it.
growth, only last year they bull
on quite an addition to the higl
school building and now this sprinl
they have let a new contract for {
100000 new building. So you Sc.
we are not forgetfdl of the rising
generation.
We Rave about 500 orange ane
grape fruit trees growing so JUS
come down and if you get here be
fore ours begin 10 bear we can ge
you supply at the neighbors. W.
want to put out about 1000 thi
fall.
Well l told you in the beginnins
that l would give you one tina
would hold and | guess YOU will ge
tired of this and throw it in the ga.
fire.
AS ever your friends,
Mary and Memo Rychener