(continued from pa0e 1)
more and our backs less, will pro
duce far better results with a lot
less effort and expense.
DCN. L. IRWIN.
V
BILL NYE RECOGNIZES A FARMER' ;
Bill Nye, a ^reat American .hiupcjr
1st of fifty years auo, once wrote'
about a trip on a train. He not
iced a pers on with. a. black-, ■ bruis-'
d and splayed thumb, riding with
im, rnd wondered what his occupa
tion was. A plumber? No. -A car
penter? No; A bricklayer? * -No,
Finally Nye came to tbo conclusion
that the stranger could only be
one thing. A farmer] Why?- • '.Veil;'
because he had been tryinf to’ nail
a rubber hipge on a rickety• ^ate
with the back'of an axe, at four
o’clock in the morning. He then
asked the man what his occupation
was end learned that his conclusior
had been ri^ht. The farmer became
talkative, an'5 said that he had
worked on a farm for fort?/ years.
Had raised over a thousand calves
to drink out of a bucket without
blowing their entrails up his
sleeve, (any farmer can qualify
this statement from his experience
with calves), for when he places
his finders in the calve’s mouth
and forces his nose into the pail
of milk, the calf has to come up
for air, and when he does, watch
out, for a youn^ Geyser breaks out.
Mother had spanked babies and
bread, for forty yesrs and then hac5
’ust up and died. No--she wasn’t
ick. Apparently she just*got
tired and died, Thu ^i^l had gone
awa?r and gotten mnrri.ed. The boys
had tone to colle0e. He saw them,
in the summertime. He was wearing
his sons’ tennis flannels for win
ter underwear. And Ms final dis
position of the case was,nD- a
Farmer, a nyh owJ"
FARM COOPERATIVES REPAY LOANS
QUICKLY.
The Spokane Bank for Cooperatives
loaner1 13 million dollars to Coop
eratives, last year, or 40% more
than 1941, and 72% more than 1940.
In spite of the increased business
the outstanding loan balance was
only a quarter of a million dollars
lees than the previous year, on a
total business cf nearly nine mill
ion dollars. ‘‘Cooperatives made a
splendid record of service 'hiring 1
the first year of the War," said
A.C. Adams, President of the Bank.
The greatest production in history.
V/IKTENEN SERVICE
STATION
K£-OPENING
-SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC FOR
TIKE.. REPAIR_SERVICE
'..WOOD O COAL.. SO L D..
WE WILL BUY AND SELL
ANYTHING THAT YOU
HAVE, EKING IT IN AND
LET US SEE WHAT YOU
HAVE.
Lieutenant Fogg has been replaced
by Lieutenant Patterson.
•JS*