Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-05
FINAL
i'm OUR
VALLEY

WI. BAYS Of FL Jardin will write
this column today. Win tell about
a trim back to the old home in
Missouri. Will make some compari-
sons and point to some contrasts
It's all interesting. And here 'tis:
ON FRIDAY NIGHT. May II, we
boarded the train in Brownsville Tor
Bismarck. Mo. We had already har-
vested and eashed our spring crop
of potatoes and beans. which yield
ed enough surplus 10 enable us to
spend $500 on this "trip.
On Saturday morning. May IL, We
awoke far on our way to Houston,
where we noticed vegetables and
crops Of corn. cotton, etc, were
about half as far along as in the
Valley.
BY nightfall of that day we had
reached Texarkana. where the crops
were just beginning TO show above
the clods.
Dawn Sunday morning caught rs
going through Popular Bluff, NO.,
and a short distance above Pied
mont we began to notice frost. BY
the time we had reached Tiptop we
saw more frost than we have seen
in the Valley the two years we have
spent here.
FROM POPULAR BLUFF to Bis
marck most Of the crops and gardens
were planted but very little Of II
could be seen above the ground.
This began to remind us cf the long,
cold winters and short, hot sum
mers of that latitude.
We reached Bismarck at 8 a. M.
We went to a restaurant for break
fast, where there was no heat, and
then waited on the sunny side Of
the depot for half an hour. Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Johnson arrived at
that time from st. Louis, coming
over route 81 a distance of so miles,
TO transport as 20 Caledonia, where
we visited our son, Robert, and other
relatives and friends.
We motored around in the bounds
of Caledonia, BelgrGd. and Potosi,
Washington county, for few deys.
then on to Belleview end on out to
The west end Of Iron county, to the
cid Bays nonis on Indian creek,
where resides the father OF the
writer.
HE rs NOW in his s5th year. He
Performed some service for the
Union in the COS. We cannot use
words 70 express the loyalty Of this
cid veteran (my father 70 neighbor,
country and God.
In every part of the country
around Caledonia we noticed the
effects OF the past cold winter.
Scarcely enough wheat left to re-
seed the ground next fall ana nut
very little fruit survives.
We next boarded the bus at Gale
donia over route 81 for st. Louis,
where We visited brothers. sisters
and cousins, enjoying a general good
time.
From st. Louis we took the bus
over route 81 for Desloge, in st.
Francis county lead belt, where we
stopped with our old friends, Mr..
and Mrs. c. f. Jones, who spent the
sprinr Of 1927 farming here in I'll
Jardin and, by the way, we are glad
20 learn that .hey are planning 70
shape their affairs in Missouri so
they can again return 10 the Valley
and enjoy the balmy winter days
and participate in more Of those
good fish frys.
WE AGAIN returned to Caledonia
to greet a large number Of our fra
terEal sisters and brothers Of Gale
donia, Belgrad and Beilevlew IN a
reception given by Tyro chapter No.
S2I, o. Z. S. This was indeed an
enjoyable occasion for US.
We were now ready to return 10
the Magic Valley but how could we
get away from so many friends we
had not yet visited? 4. We just had
to promise we would see them next
week and slip off.
We enjoyed the whole Of our trip
and visit, but that cold, hard air;
those rough, rocky hills and hollows;
those long continued winter months.
the latter seemingly lingering-they
are all very nice when folks can
enjoy them. but we could no longer.
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