,reIDAEOU NEWS ITEMS OFTHE PAST WEEK- I Idalou, Texas, April 1st—We have [ ’s;had another good rain in this part, it r, rained all day Saturday. This makes k 1 us about 5 inches in liio last month, i- (being the best season we have had in■ several moons.■y*j Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lambert re-r, :ceived a telegram from Washington k ^ last week that their son, Lester, orj as his friends call him “Red, died of | wounds received in action in France jin October last. They had heard Is then that he was seriously wounded, t‘ ; but had received no other news un-t-1 til this. We all regret to hear this io'as Lester was a favorite among ail •e: those who knew him, and to know id , him was to love and honor him for hisIr gentleness and kindness to all alike.!- j Miss Viola Robinson spent the e. {week-end with homefolks at Ralls jlast week and returned Monday morn-t- ing on the train.tvj At the rate the farmers are breaking up this land there won’t be r* ; enough grass left by summer to grave i in bunch of geese on. The land is get- i | ting too high for stock raising, and• the stockmen arc either moving out | or turning into farmers.On account of the rain we didn't i have as large a crowd at singing Sun-|day as we had expected, but the■ house was futlof just homefolks, and ) wc decided to wait about organizing• a sin^intf convention, as we wanted jmore communities represented than• was here.1 *1 f _ .1 M r-v •