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Show Hyde Park Crops Look Good. Other Notes, i- HYDE PARK, Aug. 10, 1000. The peoplo of Hyde Park are still plodding along In the samo old way, almost too busy to cat, and the nights arc too warm to sleep well. Wo have been so blessed with the good things of the earth that It takes us about all our time to look after them. Threshing bgan last week, and the yield is fairly fair-ly good, and altho we have some rusty grain, we think the crop as a whole will bo above the average. Prospects aro very good Just now for an abund ant beet crop, Fruit trees arc so heavily loaded that they arc breaking down. It Is hard to obtain sutllcient hand3 to do the necessary farm work Common laborers get $1.7u and $2 00 per day, and aro hard to find at that Your correspondent has just returned return-ed from a two weeks trip over at Trenton, Tren-ton, that thriving little burg over on the west side of tho valley. When we consider the facilities of Trenton, its lino land, water, and railroad advantages, advan-tages, we arc led to predict a large growth and great prosperity for the Trcntonltes. Wero we allowed to be tho Judge, we would say that most or the farmers over there have too much land now that tfiey hate the water out. With smaller farms and better farming we bellevo better results could be obtained. There Is talk of a sugar factory being built there in tho near future. f Thcro was a danco In tho Hyde Park hall last Friday night. The attendance at-tendance was rather light. Tho Bal-lam Bal-lam orchestra furnished the music. This splendid lot- of musicians are about to leave us, or part of them arc. Wlllard Ballam, Fred Elwood and wife will move up to Lewlston, where thero Is a greater demand for their musical ability. No aro loth to lose them, as they aro userul citizens In any community. Fred Elwood sold his neat little home to George Saunders Saund-ers for twelve hundred dollars', and George will soon take possession of It. On Tuesday night last, Mrs. Mary Jciison gave birth to a fine boy. Later In tho week her condition became so serious that her husband, FredtJenson of Coltman, Idaho, was sent for-At last report she was somo better. Tho samo night of thu above mentioned birth, Mrs. Alice Johnson presented her husband with a son. Samuel Seamon3 Jr. Is down from tho Snako River country visiting with parents and friends. Mrs Ell7abeth ChristofTcrsen is sick with symptoms of typhoid fever4 Tho families of A. J. Hanccy and Ezra Scamons aro under quarantine for whooping cough. James Balls, Jr., Is home again after an absence of over a year. |