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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR Hurricane came up with a Peach Day display this year that reminded re-minded me of some of the fine peach displays that they have had in the past. While no awards were given for the best fruit or other items, they had some gorgeous gorg-eous fruit displayed. Also some bottled fruits, dried and candied fruits and nuts that looked mighty tempting. . . . Big crowds turned out for the various events so that the Hurricane Legion, who sponsored the two-day celebration, cele-bration, should have made some money out of the events as well as puting on a fine sports show. ... As we were sitting waiting for the fights to get underway, we saw Mr. and Mrs. Karl Larson coming in. They greeted their friends right and left and when Katherine got opposite me she made some remark about this "was surely the place to come to meet your friends" then she looked at me and added "and Republicans" . . . Those fighters may not have had all the skill in the world, but they really, "waded in" to give the crowd what they wanted. ... I was really surprised when I viewed the dance orchestra to see Gene Wadsworth wielding a pretty clever pair of drum sticks. It looked like he might have -done all right in his younger days. . . . Otto Fife tried hard to pre sent an interesting picture of the fights, via the loud speaker, but the "loud speaker" was that in name only. I think Otto could have done better without its aid. ... I will be glad when the war is over and one of the Peach Day features will again be a hard-fought hard-fought ball game. The LaVerkin and Hurricane teams usually walked off with the title, but I always 'had hopes, and anyway it was always a rip-snorter of ai game. Fix Street Crossing The city dads will get a, vote of thanks this week from, all those who have had to drive across the crossing by the Big Hand Cafe and also by the Court House. The city is doing a real job of leveling and fixing these corners so that they can be driven across without danger. Delicious Fruit Ye Editor and wife, Hazel, have had some of the finest fruit this year that could be found in any man's country. We started off with some delicious peaches purchased pur-chased from Clyde Graff and then followed this up with another basket of peaches from the orchard or-chard of Leo Reber of Santa Clara. These were certainly beauties beau-ties and prove that Leo is on the right track when it comes to producing high quality fruit. . . . Martin Anderson sent in a bushell of "orchard run" peaches that really had flavor. Albert E. Miller brought them down with the statement that, "Martin wanted the Editor to know what Toquerville was doing in the producing pro-ducing of fine quality fruit. These really were fine. . . . And then Ernest Tobler came over with a box of peaches Sunday night. The top layer was Kenendokas and the lower layer J. H. Hales. The Kenendoka is a newly developed peach that has practically no fuzz. It is colored to make a beautiful looking peach and has a very delicious de-licious flavor. The Hales were also beautiful and delicious. The fruit was grown by Ernest from trees purchased from Frank Barber Bar-ber at Hurricane. ... I was also shown what could be done in the growing of .head lettuce, when Mrs. Rex Gardner brought in a large, fine, firm head that she and Rex and grown at their place in Pine Valley. ... I have always understood that head lettuce let-tuce couldn't be grown very satisfactorily sat-isfactorily ' in this country, but it looks like the Gardners did it. Large Peach Crop . The largest peach crop in the history of the county is being shipped this year. To date, the Hurricane district has shipped 175 carloads of peaches in addition to the great number that have gone out by truck. This is reported to be 100 more cars than was ever shipped out by train before. And, there has probably been a greater amount used locally than any other year unless it was last year. ... To add to the beauty of the above, the fruit growers are in better condition financially than they ever thought possible. . . . In connection with this though, I can't help but add a note of caution. I lived in the Wenatchee fruit district during and after the last war. I saw the fruit growers go from hard times to prosperity and then back to hard times again. Many over reached themselves in the purchase of land, buildings, etc., and when the hard times hit they weren't in a position to carry through so that many of them lost out completely and others had a hard time to hold on. I hope that our farmers in this district are keeping this in mind and are preparing for the drop that will come eventually. |