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Vol. 21. No. 51Henrietta. Texas, April 3, 1954*»mm*:-**’mm*..-vv. -MM*lt;**»*MEMORIES OF CLAY COUNTY*► - % .*:B J K. WagnerW estminster Road, Newton ( entre5 ■. MiwichuwtUHornet to kDad times ave than4imontht*'th roug1•But; lt;*d Our youngest is fiftyan even dozen grandchildren. most of themhigh school Many times, anciently, I heard a son ,or daughter complain, ‘But Dad, times have changed!” Just the other day I heard one of my younger grandchildren say, to one of the compluiners of years•know they d what t!evfi■ appetite vanished, ano so! Nannie felt sure I was bad sick. So did I Uncle Luther, being ja man, said nothing About the! j third day those waves of misery from that huge lump really shook me up Sixfooter that I was, 1 wanted my mother I remem* bered how her hand felt on mvWforehead when 1 was a little sick, and now I was bad sick,and I needed exactly that medil cine I seemed to have no tempo1 rature I was justAt noon the third day Uncle Luther came to luneh andMBuii* tII •gedychanged’ I'm old enough to get and over with the kids and be is ItftOf course time has not ei It s still sixty seconds, sixtvminutes, twenty-four hours, and three hundred five day-..and all that stuff Mainly whathas changed is the length ofand harvest twice fifty years ago. have not heard that corn can be raised without seed Germination requirements have not changed Generations of men follow one another just as of old, except that they are a little longer No matter what the movie writers and actors seem tothmk, love U exactly the same!f11 w 111thing it was fifty, or a hundred *own* 'n' an^ ,lt;4 darting homeyears ago, and hate is the same.onlt;dh;rty# He says he goes'about two miles from your place,and if you want to, you may gohome with him How'd you likeit? You’d get well there faster,maybe ” I’m not sure I'd haveyes so emphatically if heid not made it clear that heBefore he finished I.u, time; have Fewer people know what weari-Reallv. what has ness is, but it is the same thing,ime it iak the amountto duf effort i' S. V »hittyC jfarmdrivtV4 «t a k e niles farm m *ts, ann takes. Itus a dav to drivefrom our Ten Mile to Henrietta in aNow any k;d can it m about forty minutes » neat the eggs for an omelet k elbow grease and fifteen ites, and now Mrs Wagner breaks them in a bowl, touches a button and goes on aboutother things, and in a jiffy or two they are beaten to a froth Back there it took three of us,! one t lay off the row, one to drop die corn and one to follow' and cover it, to plant corn Now3 1 man sits under an umbrella ifhe wishes, on a two row machine. and plants twenty acres m a day Or better ''*,n ’*** “**it comes in the same way.Is homesickness the same, or have times changed so that boys away from home the first no longer experience any lt;»f miserible discomfort?in liow it worked sixty -years ago in H I’d been out several days, herding cattleenriettaincow lt;or evtn with atime !ft' I approved111* Ft* ,was packing, and that lump wasand the waves wereWhen I climbed inand sat on theoven* f‘»rweeks.soi lemudwtndiirOik% fIlf* Wbunch of lively fellows, without a bitter lump developing somewhere inside me to send out wavesI, , . I from outmisery that made me shiver.1 When, in September 18H7 Pa and M.i drove away leaving rrse with Aunt Nannie and Uncle Luther!Walker, to keep house and attend school, I had a little lump in my throat, but it soon melted sThere were times, when J was! the butt of the hazing town kidscan and do deal out to rube-..” often without knowing or intend-) mg it, that said lump returnedBut life wasI was reallyI)4still, he sits mind does his plowing and planting all in one motion.♦ 1 ft r*t 4for short perilt; h!s so thrilling, andlearning, which in exciting, and rrn aunt and uncle were there, and it. the lump, dissolved But along tn early April I got to remembnng spring farm workf !lt;Mr in back my ailments were gone 1 did no? mention it. but they were gone At about 8 that mght we were about two milesplace, and I leaped to the ground, and hit it on .1lope I probably never made 2miles as fast, dark, through tin* woods and part way no road 1 wondered at the front door if I ought to knock, but decided not, lifted the latch and went in Pa had just taken tin* Bibleto read flt;*r prayers I got tangled up m arms and legs, and tried to get my arms around all ofthen*, at once Finally mothergot in her question: **Ar«sick *” She had guessedhomesick, until Ihomeyou*go* startedAI had to break the land, say two! at home, and then I got a touch acres a day working hard, then of grippe, * r sumpin”, and my harrow and then plant In that eyes watered so I couldn’t read, sense, ‘1 imes have change*i and I sat at home alone and just I have even heard that farmers h id to think I was now sixteennow plant hybrid s ***d In Iowa,} and si feet tall and wS 11 »dgc*j and afternooniy, where I lived ag*»odwhile I lb) as Link as a bean pole MyMr and Mrs Viola spent visiting old friends. Mr and MrsW C» Jones, m Wichita Falls MrAnight Band Mrs Hunter Arnold Joe of Abilene spent Sat with his mother, Mrs. J
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Henrietta Clay County Leader
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