The Sidney herald., 1955-10-27
THE SIDNEY HERALD
Thursday. Oct. 81, 1855

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well in school. Billy is in the
army, Helen in college, Karen
and Judy in junior high, and Bob-I
by in the fifth grade. All we'll
and busy as always"
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Melton
returned Tuesday from a twoI
weeks vacation trip to East Texas
where they visited Mr.. Melton'sl
father and other of his relatives.
Mr.. Melton, who is manager of
the Legion club, tells us they hadI
a fine trip both ways with thel
weather and roads excellent forI
motoring. His father and auntsI
and uncles live at Sulphur
Springs, in northeast Texas, just
north of the big Texas oil field,
where crops were the best ever
this year. The dust storms that
have blown crops out Of the
ground in other areas in Texas
the last few years did not occur
so d~isastrously in any part of
the state this year, and anyway
they mostly miss the Sulphur
Springs area where the farmers
have prospered one year after
another fairly regularly. Among
the main crop productions are
cotton and sweet potatoes and he
brought back with him a stalk of
cotton and one of the big yams to
show his friends what farming is
like down where he was born
and raised. They have one of the
famous liars clubs down there
and he says they had a confab
with one of the members in which
Mrs. Melton held her own with
stories of her native eastern Mon
tana. Crops all along their route
through Nebraska and Kansas
were good, and in Nebraska the
beet crop was exceptionally good.
Emil Pust, in Sidney last Thurs
day, October 20, from his farm
south of Lambert, recalled that it
was his 35th wedding anniver-
sary, as he was married October
20, 1920, which was just such a
nice day. His wife, a Wibaux girl,
had lived there since 1900. They
left Wibaux after the wedding
and we're met at Savage by his
father October % to take them
to Emil's homestead south OF
Lambert, a part of his present
farm, on which they have contin-
ued to live. A regular old north
er" snowstorm hit this area the
day following their wedding anc
their trip to the homestead was
in that kind of weather. That was
the advent of winter which LASTED
through till spring with more
moderate spells. They didn't have
the roads then we have now anc
few trips were undertaken with
autos when the roads were block
ed with snow, rather they were
made with horse drawn bobsleds
or on horseback. Now for severa
years we have had open winter.
through the holidays and this ap-
parently is going to be no ex-
ception.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Elliott ar.
rived here last week from theil
home in Yakima, Washington
making the trip by way of Rocl
Springs, Wyoming, where the.
visited their son-in-law a
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Keitl
Handles and family. Here they ar,
visiting their son-in-law ant
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Stan
ford and family and their man,
friends in Sidney and the Girari
, community where they still owl
, their farm which MI. Elliot
homesteaded in 1909. Leavin
here three years ago, they live
/ for one year in Rock Spring
where he was employed by tn
|, highway department, when the
! moved to Yakima where the
: are now living in retirement. A
Yakima they r. not SO far froI
their S~on-in-laW and daughter, M
and Mrs. Lowell Johnson, VIII
y live in Seattle. On this trip the
also visited friends at India
Head, Sask., Canada, on the ne,
Trans Canada highway just ca:
: of Regina. They are leaving I
: return home next week.