Show N 41 V i n mrs C riser leaves here bore tomorrow on a purchasing trip to put in a stock of new midsummer mid summer hats ernest murphy and lee peterson home missionaries from salina were county seat visitors wednesday when a married man goes home hungry late at night he always gets a piece of tongue and roast james A bagley of greenwich was a visitor in this city monday A 0 engar of elsinore was a richfield visitor last saturday A son arrived this week at the home of mr and mrs H E borg in this city dr june and dr H K neill have been showing the interest they take in richfield by grading and leveling the street upon which their homes front it is very commendable and certain certainly ly is a hunch to other property owners to get a move on and do likewise june the little 7 year old daughter of mrs beatrice roth in this city observed a birthday anniversary on wednesday by taking seven of her he r little friends for an auto ride subsequently making them her guests at a dainty luncheon served at the andelin cafe the color scheme was carried out in pink and white the first ward dramatic a association a of this city ale pleased ased a large audience at the opera house last saturday evening in its presentation tion of a very pretty drama entitled the reprieve the play was well handled by the performers and it made in an excellent impression j the receipts were entirely satisfactory and the players feel greatly encouraged cou raged because of the interest shown in their work mr and mrs D V hyde are no now w in charge of the southern hotel and that well known hostelry is again in in the limelight and making bids for increased business the hydes have many friends here who predict for them nothing but prosperity mrs lowry H erickson a highly esteemed woman of gunnison died very suddenly at her home in that town thursday morning from an attack of pneumonia she was the mother of mrs joseph L in this city and was quite well known here she leaves a husband and a family of eight children mr andars and mrs were notified of mrs ericksone Erick sons death and have gone to gunnison to be present at the last rites the deceased lady was prominent in much good work in her town and had many friends who sincerely mourn her departure she was in her year C AT happler is making record breaking sales of studebaker cars this week five of these elegant vehicles were sold as follows H C larson elsinore Elsin A W buchanan venice vanice ervine and emeron christensen richfield virginius bean richfield the special 30 days fishing season during march lias has expired it was not taken advantage of by many anglers in 11 this vicinity march angling in mountain sti earns is productive of nothing more serious than rheumatism and lumbago then too roily water is usually encountered and a days angling results in a catch of deformed or crippled fish that will not even create an odor in the frying pan however the reaper learns indirectly that a famous trout eradicator in salina P F Pd peterson terson last week made a very successful trip to loss creek creeke with his son fletcher fietcher and the two made a satisfactory showing returning home with creels creeds well filled with speckled and striped beauties mr peterson is an enthusiast in all things piscatorial and given half a chance with a bucket of rain water and a peck or two of grub worms can capture huge specimens of the finny tribe under conditions that would spell failure to the ordinary fisherman doing reportorial work on a newspaper is is one ef cf the oddest vocations on earth A scribbler never knows w where here lie he is at nor what is going to happen there are weeks when news items seem to grow on every bush and it is as easy to gather in a collection e ol lection of real local happenings 4 as it is to steal gum drops from a crippled and defective child again t there here are weeks when even the most trivial occurrence which might be woven into a news item is not in sight A trained reporter is always on n the alert for variety in his work and it is an easy matter to collect memoranda when there are many visitors in town when there is a whirl in social affairs or when reports of some public meeting or political gathering are easy to get at A week in town with little or nothing doing in a local way is apt to give a news gatherer an acute attack of willies he has space to fill and if he cannot obtain live legitimate write ups for his paper he is compelled to drift into the imaginative agi native and grind out a grist of miscellany which may or may not please readers the real all wool and a yard wide newspaper writer lovers to do breezy and entertaining work w ork and he takes pride in filling t the he columns of his paper with news matter which is of general interest to the public whenever it is noticeable that the news items are farfetched far fetched and there is a arence of inventive fillup fill up it may be assumed that the lines of the reporter are handicapped simply because of a dearth of real news new when a girl has a pair of shapely ankles she care how hard the wind blows germans lose in air reads a adline hea headline in an exchange perhaps perbes it meant loose in air |