| Show dance monday is Sw anSong swan song for widtsoe A farewell dance was given at widstoe monday evening with the roy hatch orchestra furnishing the music an invitation was sent outto out to all former residents of the valley to io be present this party was giyen given as the swan song of the farmers who have finally given up their dreams of seeing this acre valley a field of waving grain interspersed with green patches of alfalfa and grasses in 1910 the first settlers went into to the valley and until 1921 continued breaking up land and raising c crops in the fall of 1918 more grain was threshed with one machine than in the entire valley comprising Cir circleville cleville junction and kingston then the drouth struck and an deach each year the farmer saw his crop burned in the summer and his livestock starve in the winter when the relief program was started the families gradually began accepting government aid then in 1935 they were promised resettlement you can go where you please uncle sam will buy your property and payment will be made soon such was the statement made to farmers thus they sold their heritages some few may have received the mess of potage others are still waiting until some technicality can be cleared up but in any event they are moving out and their swan song has been sung |
