very talkative. Chuck showed me his new train.'Don Scott began by listing a number of things that have been going wrong. The branch has gone dry, the pond is almost so, and the barn is in bad shape he said, but βthe fish are biting, so things are not so bad.β Jim, who grad-uated from Neosho High School this spring, is working at the Royal Crown Bottling Co. Don Merle lives near Stapleton, and Mary Carol lives at Waynesville, Mo.Two - year * old John Warren claims a lot of attention in the Glen Anderson home. He is the only child. Glen works for the Joplin Special Road District. He is a hunter and has fox hounds. As I was leaving, his brother, Em and his wife and grandson, camo for a visit.v .......Leonard Hobart is COE director at Joplin Senior High School. Thursday he was working in Joplin trying to get jobs and students ready before school starts. This is a job that must be done early. Aaron, his oldest ion, is working part-time this summer at Parkway Pharmacy. Brian, Cynthia, and Doren make up the rest of the family.Robert Bates works at the Joplin Stock Yards. He was working at home during the rain on Thursday morning. His farm is 80 acres; he milks cows and sells milk to Milnot. The Bates family has five children, Jim, Lee. Bonnie, andMike and Tommy who are home. They also have six grandchildren.While it was sprinkling intermittently I talked to Mrs. Frank Whitwell who was ihucklng corn