The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-09-07

of the Hall spud money and had
$50 left.
just Like Man
Fred wasn't bad sport was he?
Many a man would like to do things
that way if he could. Many a
woman would like to have that type
of a husband. Your wife would. So
would anybody's. But Fred formed
an attachment for the $25 that was
left over from the spud deal, and
said he believed he would just an
mex that as his share of the returns
on the deal. Isn't that just like a
man Why shouldn't he; he fur
nished thes excellent Judgment and
, the courage to put the deal thru.
They had $1,000 left and it
seemed fitting that they should give
; old Trixie rest now and ride in an
automobile, so they bought good
car and wrote check for it. They
had made the price of the house and
the rugs and the car on spuds that
year, the firing had ceased in Europe
and all was WELL What did it"mat-
ter about the mortgage; it was not
due yet, Had he not risen to where
he could carry check book on his
hip? 1t was a cinch that he was
coming into his own.-
Protecting the Seed
! Mr.. Twitchell talked more freely
now of potatoes and was interested
in raising them about right. Some
knowing person advised him that it
was we'll to get seed from a new
source occasionally for fear that
planting from his own cellar might
cause them to run out or they might
contract disease. He thought it over
and acted on the suggestion. He
got good seel, but somehow it made
diseased potatoes and lost $4,000
that year. This year he has
| thirty-five acres and is hoping. He
feels good to think that he has the
house and the rugs and the car, and
he has pensioned old Trixie. But
| there is the mortgage.
When Twitchell went upon the
new place he had to do lot of grad
ing to make a farm of it, and he had
| to spend some money for a road
that when in roundabout way. He
| got tired of that and bought right
Of way for road. direct to Twitchel-
dow. He had to cut thru sand hills
like a railroad grade and build fills
and make bridge or two, but he
did that at odd times and has it done
now and in operation. He had an
old fume to carry water badly
across canal to his place and he
got it into his head that he could
| build a good flume. He wanted
cement piers for it, and they would
have to be eleven feet high, resting
on the sand. He dug down to hard
gravel and built his piers and
erected the flume the way he wanted
| to, and it never has given him a
minutes trouble. But one of those
| bridges had cement abutments set
right in the sand, and it tipped a
little. While he was trying to pull
! 1t up to a vertical position with a
J span of colts, one of them got ex-
cited and tipped it fiat in the stream.
Fred remarked that II they had had
old Trixie pulling it, he would have
held it exactly where they wanted it
till they got the beam on to hold it
While we were talking, the hired
men drove up in front CT the house
with tools and teams and old Trivie
going out to put the final, vertica'
touch on that slab OF cement. We
knew, of course, that 1t was time t.
excuse Fred and let them get to
work. There is no telling what
other interesting experiences he
might have related If there had been
more time. We wanted to know
just one more thing and we asked
him, how much is that mortgage.
He gave the figures and we
sanswered, ooh thunder > that isn't
much. You'll pay that off some
morning before breakfast