Show it would be a surprise to io a person not acquainted with arith tho the fact to note the number of now new brick and frame residences that have been built during the past year and are now being erected by the farmers throughout ashley valley it is very good ovi dence that our oar farmers tire are prospering N hen one can see such comfortable homes boin being built in place of the log cabins cabina with their mud loots that were the only homes available avail ablo to the early settlers and to those who hae not been fortunate enough to provide es with botter better ones in the early days of abbley valleys Val leyB settlement the these ao log cabias had back dirt floors and where one was waa found with a lum her ber floor the owner was thought to be very well off but the people wore more as happy and contented as aa it if they owned the finest mansions man gions in the dorli and struggled along with what they could get and now that better material is at hand it will bo be but a few yean that the dear old log cabin of the early settlers oot oett tlora lers will bo be a thing of the put pant |