Show A 44 4 4 11 3 11 J delta twenty five years ago 0 go jn 0 by mrs eliza hook belta twenty ive five ears ago the year nineteen ten 1 just a side track on the railroad called burtner then A great wide sweep of desert and hot empty air 4 like it had been made tuen own forgotten tor for centuries there ere 1 until three years before when it was offered for sale 4 A and home seekers came the best land to avail A and now a small city was taking the place of these greas wooded plains and stark desert waste I 1 1 A few scattered homes i a church and some stores I 1 A and a people with faith hope and courage galore T A united in purpose in baick or in thin that if the whole works went under we d do it agin Z t and we watched with pride each new enterprise grow arom our log cadin post office to copening Co penin s first picture show but one thing with the innermost interest tor for all vas the millard county Cla chronicle ronicle and as I 1 recall 0 it brought us together as good newspapers do not only our fa families millea but other towns too the first editor N B dresser a tine fine little man na who ho I 1 ept house with 14 ith E R eugene gardnea a la Is bachelor plan now our bishop gardner then a dashing young romeo A 0 who if there were no carriages and transportation was slow after a hard days day a apik win k 0 o courageous chui coui ageous wae waa he lp to oak city be he walked his juliet to see and we all stood with awe and heartily agreed civilization was going at a mighty hilgh speed when right down dark clark street and calling all aboard I 1 came ted whicker in deltas first nineteen ten ford fordt and then came our factory and our delta state bank with MIT MT beckwith as cashier to join in our ranks 4 and although there were on big coll booms t and aj toils old desert seemed at times to be doomed 4 t he ile balanced his budget without loss or deficit 4 MY aly GOSH mr air beckwith you d orter stayed with till it but as most of us know a writer you had been 4 and your fingers just itched to go it agin so you gave tp ap trial balances and banking dictation 1 to edit the chronicle as your new occupation h and were we re glad you stayed with us I 1 don t know but somehow it just woula t be delta without you folks now many were fie good old times we ve all had together t whether sunshine or rain or any old weather why one of the best dances ever held since or before was a free for all in law s old dobe brick store but things were not always so sweetly sublime for this old doble soil was so stubborn at times that had seeds been dynamite or twenty horse powers tiey never could have got through that top soil of ours and then the dam went out not one year but two and it Is still a maivel leave it to you how we just plugged along like a sorrowful hearse t just a chankin tb th lord it hadn haan t got worse 4 tor we dian didn t have Ws P a and F E RAS R or codes or blue eagles back in those wearisome das t but we got along somehow and this much I 1 know we had plenty of backbone where wishbones WISH bones now grow and it the old shell cow or the old worn out sheep just kicked the bucket as they lay down to sleep tl 4 4 there wa nt no dole to make good our losses t oi ot state aid relief it if we lost our best bosses Is we didn dian t have experts V ho clouted with care 4 j the piglets and lambkins their sires might bear 0 0 01 someone to measure the seeds we should sow 4 like the good lord dida t know just what ought to grow A A and somehow the chickens knew just what to lay without curtailed production laws we have today and dust storms well they were just a bl biweekly weekly affair that swept cross the flat with an absence of care A abut after all give me thia this desert its wind and its dust its hardships hardship its sorrows and things hard to adjust for there theres s just something about it round your heart strings en erl A twine I 1 ike blie wild rambler rose or the old clinging ivine vine As it takes hard knocks and bumps to polish a stone so the same goes tor for people where er they may roam 4 1 and I 1 guess when it its a summed up its is all for the best that instead of being wronged we ve mostly BEEN BLESSED MH 16 04 4 4 6 y |