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Show (Chatter Box Dear Suzy, I wish you were here to fully realize the extent to which the thermometer has dropped.They had to put a new one in at the airport last week because the old one fell so low it was reading comic books. As they were taking the new one to the airport, swathed in a wool batt and a hot water bottle, bot-tle, it froze solid. Nate Ward blew his breath on it and broke the glass and they had to get another. All this time we had to call Deseret to find out how cold it was but the conversation froze on the wire and until spring comes and they chip off the conversation no one will know what took place, or what was said. So we are living in doubt and expectancy. We doubt that it is as cold as they say and we defintely do not expect. The weather has crept in on us - - oh let it go, I must keep this clean. Jim Ross, farmer and supposedly truthful man of the South Tract, says, "last week I was outside on the only day it didn't snow, and believe it or not the sun was shin-t shin-t it to the hav stack and opened up a new butt so I could feed the stock. There was no snow on the newly uncovered hay and as I left I saw a great flock of birds in the sky. I went back of the shed so see where they were going and darned it they did not land on this newly uncovered hay. There were thousands of ducks and 482 pheasants all on the hay. They walked about a bit and then they all layed down on their backs and put their feet in the air. I am not familiar with birds, but I think they stuck their feet skyward sky-ward trying to warm them." If I didn't know Jim as well as I do I would say he was trying to pull our collective legs, but I know that Jim was telling the truth. They have done away with incinerators in-cinerators about town and are burn ing all trash on top of the snow. This works at times, Jbut at other time the cold creeps up and puts the fire out. The other day down by the Mototorium they had a fire going and it actually froze the flame. Grant and Leonard are charging char-ging 25c a peak at the frozen flame and making a killing. Red Van oame along and cut off a hunk of the frozen flame and then asked ask-ed why he did it he replied, "come a warm spell, 10 below or better, I have an excellent cigarette lighter", light-er", I am curious to learn if and when spring raises its ever-welcome head, if the lighter did work, or whether it was like all the others oth-ers - - two failures and a fire, and then collect the insurance. The cold weather is of advantage to me though, because at present everyone is so good that I have nothing to report on time. How can they help but be good when vou have to warm up the thero- all from Ibapah They had to push each car over Cedar Pass, but all reported having a gay time. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marker left for Boise, Idaho, Sunday after spending the holidays with Mrs. Marker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. West. Returning to school after spending spend-ing the holidays home were Bemell and Blanche Calloway, Joyce Par-rish, Par-rish, Dannene Probert, Gail Lee, Louise, Eva, and Ruth Bates. Mrs. Nina Herron returned to her home in Lehi after spending the holidays visiting with her friends fri-ends and sisters, Mrs. W. F. West and Mrs. W. H. Parish. Mr. Jay and Blaine Hicks returned re-turned back to Salt Lake City,, TTtali offoi cnonrlinrr o four rlovc at meter with a blow torch to get the mercury high enough to read it? Those who wanted a white Christmas Christ-mas can have it. Personally I would like a good dust storm with the temperature soaring about 110 in the shade. I would also like to see all this white stuff whipped over into Sucker valley (Sevier county) where it would do some good on our water sheds, and not make it so tough on us here in the midst of powder snow and no skiis. Eddie Lyman is the only cattleman cattle-man I know of that has used his head and house (together) to alleviate alle-viate the suffering of his cattle during this bitter weather. He brings an expectant cow into the kitchen and after she has had her calf and been congratulated by both Eddie and Louise, the cow has her full of hav out of the Jay's home here. Mr. Francis Snively and Frank Lee went to Wendover last week to notify friends and relatives of the death of Harry Bates, who was found dead Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs, Wade Parrish are spending a few days at their home in Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis of Caliao, Utah, spent Sunday visiting visit-ing with friends here in Ibapah. Mrs. Mabel Bates and family went to Tooele, Utah, for a few days. Mr. Harold Kelley returned to his home in Tooele after spending a week visiting with Lenard Bates. Miss Jennie Kelley returned to Ely, Nevada, where she is attending attend-ing high school after spending the holidays at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kelley. kitchen sink and the calf has the run of the house. Eddie says that you just can't realize how clean calves can be in a house. He says they become house broke within a few hours and seem to know right where the bathroom is. The only trouble it is difficult to use your own bathroom when there are between be-tween 6 and 26 calves in there. But with calves worth their weight in gold in these times, one can suffer a little so that the calves may be comfortable. I, for one, am not dreaming of a White Christmas any more, for I fear this white Christmas will hold us well into the spring of 1950. Toots. |