The hum of the bean thresher is
abroad in the land.
Beans are yielding more than the
farmers expected. Mr. Meador's crop
yielded 550 pounds per acre.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Clark took 600
pounds of beans to Albuquerque last
week, getting 5 cents per pound from
a retail dealer. They brought back 400
pounds of peaches for canning and pre-
serving.
Protracted meeting at Silverton be
ginning on Thursday night last, but
owing to the farmers being so very busy
with the harvesting and threshing of
beans, there has been only a small at
tendance so far. Revs. Grant and Means
are conducting the services.
Miss E. Lena Buckner stayed at the
Kentucky Lodge ranch during our trip
to Albuquerque and until all fruit was
safely stored away. She says that's all
old maid school teachers are good for.
To help their friends in their time of
wan) aud need. However, we ara glad
there are a few nice old maids in the
world oi we few there would be lots of
things go to waste for want of their
attention.
Mr. Clark, the piano tuner of Willard,
stopped over night with us on Wednes
day last. He seemed much pleased
with this neighborhood and the good
crops he saw here, but was disappointed
to find no pianos. We told him we had
all the music we needed juut now. The
mowing machine, bean harvesters, corn
shredders, hay balers and threshers.
and incidentally the rattle of the kitchen
vessels, but a few years hence we hope
to hear the more refreshing music of the
pianos and also hope to have nicer hous
es and places that will be adorned by
musical instruments of all kinds.
