Show monday at farmington I 1 had a chance to talk for a minute with delore and chalotte nichols and gain again they reminded me of the good years they had spent in morgan and ot of the many friends they had biad made here when mr air nichols was county uty agent it seems the only thing they ever objected to was the weather as they apparently experienced some hard winters when the canyon was closed to travel and the county was snowbound 1 mrs io 0 told me she was sure that at one time mr nichols knew the name ot of every man woman and child in morgan county and then mr aix nichols said get lee rollins to tell you about the first county fair ever held in morgan 9 county and then he went on to say that the night before the fair he and lee who was a 4 11 club boy and several others drove a herd of cattle from peterson to the court house bouse where it was herded during the night apparently that was the humble beginning of a fair ot of which we are all so proud when we changed ged homes from Kays kaysville ville to morgan the one thing I 1 wanted to do was to find the crocus bulbs which were planted along the driveway of our home crocus bulbs have a way of digging themselves further into the ground each year and as ours had been in tor for several years it was practically impossible to find them in fact I 1 gave up but lona iona ashes the sister who helps us with the paper occasionally and whose voice you 0 u some 0 o times think Is mine persisted and finally she was able to fled find enough to make a short row which Is planted at the side of the house bouse here in morgan and so this beautiful spring we have crocuses cruc uses in bloom and each time lime I 1 look at them which Is several times a day I 1 think of our beloved friend fred hill of hambury hamburg iowa fred Is gone now but the Ep persons will be among many over the united states who will be reminded of him each time they look at flowers fred was from the t he town where interstate nurseries are located and he was their biggest booster ile he always carried packages of flower seeds in his bis pockets and the year he was I 1 national president 0 of NEA he probably distributed flower seeds in every state in the union each spring he had interstate send to his friends packages of different kinds of plants there were glads chrysanthemums roses and above all peonies for hamburg Is famous tor for its peonies fred was instrumental in organizing a peony fest festival ivil which hamburg has every spring I 1 had never bearl beert aware of the beauty of bachelor buttons may be you think ot of them as blue corn flowers until I 1 broadcast several packages which fred had given me they came up lip in a profusion of bloom and as they seeded themselves we had the joy of seeing the blossoms year after year |