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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR I was interested in some comments com-ments made on farming in Dixie by Emil Graff, at the recent Hurricane Hur-ricane F. F. A. banquet. Emil told how on one trip through Idaho he stopped to talk with one of the farmers who had a fine looking look-ing farm. Emil was complimenting compliment-ing the Idaho farmer on his farm and asked him how things were going. The farmer replied and, in the course of the conversation told of his many problems and troubles. The result was that Emil said he decided that he would just as soon take his chances on farming in Dixie. Emil ought to know as he has several types of farms and all together probably farms the most acreage of any farmer in this district. A Booster Upper Pres. D. C. Watson was introducing intro-ducing a visitor to Rotarians at a recent meeting. When he came to W. B. Mathis, D. C. said, "Let me introduce you to a man that probably heads more organizations in this community than any other man". Then he went on to tell how W. B. was president of the bank, president 'of the St. George Building Society, president of the Pioneer Investment Co., owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in this section, interested in the Mathis Market and its holdings, director of one of the district grazing boards, chairman of the City War Fund drive, which had just been successfully completed; and probably many more that I don't know about. Down through the years W. B. has taken an active part on and in nearly every community betterment program and has been active on and led many civic and club organizations. . .- . And, the most interesting thing to me is, that he, so far as I know, has never sought after any of the positions he holds. This 'N That It's funny how people will read meanings into news items that aren't there at all. Take my recent re-cent little comment on the man in Idaho who wanted to marry one of our Dixie ladies. . . . Seems that a number of people jumped at the conclusion that it was someone they knew, while in fact the man's letter indicates that he has never been in southern south-ern Utah and probably doesn't know anyone from this section. The comment on his request was on my desk for sometime before I wrote it up for Seen and Heard, and then it was in type for a number of weeks before we slipped it into the paper. . . . Charles Lee Andrus, small son of Mr. arid Mrs. Iliff Andrus was the only child in Kindergarten who had a perfect attendance record. Looks like Charles got a good start on his coming school life. . . . Guess that we will wake up one of these days and find summer is here and that we have missed spring entirely. If it turns off hot suddenly we will have a hard time making the adjustment. adjust-ment. Probably one day we will turn on the 'heat in the morning and the next day we will turn on the coolers in the heat of the day. . . . Closely as I watch the garden, I don't seem to be able to pull the plants out of the ground any faster. Dr. W. J. Reichmann tells me 'that I do too much work in the garden, but it is the old story that we do the things we like to. If I didn't like it I would cite Wil-ford's Wil-ford's warning long and often as the reason why I couldn't raise a garden . . . What, No Spring Clean-TJp? I wonder what happened to our annual spring clean-up program? Usually some group takes over the thankless task of trying to get the people of the community to clean up their yards, but I don't recall that the city or anyone any-one else has done so this year. Right now is the time to get busy on the foxtail. Of course, we are all short-handed and doing do-ing about all we can find time for, but we ought to squeeze in a little time to dig up the foxtail fox-tail and clean up our yards generally. |