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GARZA FARMER '■SAYS DROUTHBLASTS CROPSSID MARTIN OP POST (TTY VISITS AGED MOTHERWv had the pleasure of greet- 1 mg on our street*. Thursday, our longtime friend. Sid K Martin w*io now lives on Houle 3. Po»t City, Oar*a county, m West Texas. He moved there from hero nine years ago tie i* here at this time visiting his aged moth- i er, Mrs Jerry Martin, who lives on her farm, about three or lt;our ' miles east of Melissa, and who is ninety year* old.Sid Martin was born and rear- j ed on the farm, on which his mother still lives. Sid tells us that he had the mis.ortune 01 , losing his wife 1 v death on M iv j 16. of this vear Sht* was former-sly Miss Simmie Cray to whom ■ ho was married thirty-nine yearsw wago. in the Stiff Chapel com mu- i nity, About ten miles northeast of McKinney. The officiating clergyman was the late Kid A M Dougla.-s of Melissa lath of Deputy Sheriff u W Douglass of McKinney an i of Mias Alic Douglass, bookkeeper in the Mlt; hsaa bank.Sid and his wife are the parent* of five children Leslie Mai tin of Grayson county. Clarence Martin and Guv Martin, botoWat home, and two married daughter.-*. Mrs Dick r ster, living .n McKinney and Mss Neal Hollins who lives three miles east of Me-lissaSid bought a farm avion after he moved to West Texas o** which he lived He made the *•»*»♦ crop on it last vear that he ever• Wgathered miking »lxty-s«*ven bale* on fifty-eight acres of cot-ton. In 1932. he made forty-eight bale* on fifty alt; re* of cotton.But this glt;KKi year of our Lordpromises to be the moat vomple* * crop failure that he ever made This is due to the pro ong- . drouth Crops could not come ur* nor those grow that did come u« on account of the lack of moisture He says it is a dreary pros-A |up for the average farmerHe has enough feed saved overfrom last year to run him until vthe first of January. 1935. After .Jthat, he doesn't know which way he will have to turn to find necessary feed with which to make next year s crop.His old home county here .in Collin looks mighty good t » him yet, although he will probably spend the rest of his «iay-West Texas.Sul Martin i* t brother \»f S, K tGene) Martin and of Mr. lt;iro\**r Purr and Mrs V . Brown, ai! of McKinneyNKW \N FKITOS
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Mckinney Daily Courier Gazette
Mckinney, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 10, 1934
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