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I, 8-THE PERKINS IOURNAL, Thursday. lune 26, 2003
TheHisto Pa e
!ii " by Sherry Clemens
i Journal Staff Writer
ii ' 88 Years Ago. June 25, 1915
! The Fourth of July Committee
asks that all automobiles enter
: . Fulwider Park Saturday at the
north entrance, and all teams
enter at the west entrance to pre-
vent a runaway or an accident.
W.D. Crabs and sons who con-
structed the T.T. Lowery barn,
are home again.
Commencing with this issue
"of The Journal, we will present
each week an eight page news-
paper, four pages of home news
and four pages of patent print.
; The rule at The Journal Office
is "work." This will be a work-
, shop, not a parlor. To keep up
, such a paper as we are offering
our readers we need the support
of everyone. We hope to have
,.a thousand subscribers in the
,, Perkins area.
, The Stork paid a visit to the
Charlie Gearhart place, leaving
a fine 11 pound baby girl.
' 67 Years Ago; June 25; 1936
: Some unknown person or per-
sons must be going into the poul-
,, try business. At least six people
report the theft of chickens. A
number of boys were rounded
, up last spring for stealing and
,, things have been right until this
latest outbreak.
,, Norris Dickey is going to Olda-
homa City Monday to work in
one of the A&P Stores there.
Another delegation is going to
visit the WPA office to see about
Perkins' sewer project which has
been in the hopper for about two
years. Congress appropriated
another billion and a half for
the WPA which may enable the
project to go ahead.
50 Years Ago, .luly 9, 1953
It was estimated that over 5000
people were in Perkins Saturday
to attend the annual Fourth of
July celebration.
Playing at the Lyric Theatre
in Perkins was "Distant Drums"
starting Gary Cooper. Tuesday
and Wednesday, the feature is
"The Bad and The Beautiful,"
starring Lana Turner and Dick
Powell.
40 Years Ago, June 27, 1963
Ray Harral has warned young-
sters in Perkins against throwing
firecrackers in the streets. Resi-
dents may shoot them in their
own yards on the 34 and 4 of
July, but anyone throwing them
out in the streets will be fined.
Around noon Tuesday, the
Cimarron River south of Perkins
crested at 10 1/2 feet. Flood stage
is 12 feet.
0 Years Ago, June 28, 1973
The Payne County Bank
opened Monday for business
in their new building at 202 S.
Main St. The bank is observing
their 75 year.
A spark from a truck exhaust
ignited ablaze which swept
through a wheat field destroy-
ing nearly 75 percent of the
crop in less than 20 minutes.
Mrs. Lettye Burrow, a 17 year
veteran of wheat harvests, and
Henry Sadler were harvesting
wheat on the Frank Cox farm
southwest of the city. She was
waiting for the combine to make
another round when she smelled
smoke.
Another fire occurred Monday
on the Harvey Brixey farm while
he and a crew were harvesting
wheat. Mrs. Harvey Brixey
drove her 1972 Ford onto the
field taking the working men
some dinner when a spark from
her exhaust ignited the cut wheat
stalks. The fire totally engulfed
the car. The Perkins Fire Depart-
ment was called to extinguish the
fire. Mrs. Brixey said they lost
10-15 bushels of wheat but no
one was injured.
20 Years Ago, June 30, 1983
The Perkins Fire department
made two fire runs Monday
caused by lightning bolts. The
first run was to the well heat
exchange tanks on W. Knipe
Ave. Witnesses said a lightning
bolt struck the tank and exploded
accumulated gas, which burned
out quickly and apparently did
no damage. The second run was
to the Brixey Trailer Park on
W. Knipe where lightning had
struck electric lines. There was
no damage except two blown
fuses.
Motorists can now travel the
River Road southeast of Perkins
and ride over Dugout Creek in
style. Commissioner Ken Nelson
accepted the new concrete bridge
from the contractor Tuesday at
1 p.m. and by evening had the
approaches filled and the bridge
opened. The county built the
previous bridge there in 1915,
eighty-seven years ago.
I
by Charles Wall
When grain is harvested, it
needs to be reasonably dry, or
it will become moldy and hot
if it has too much moisture. In
harvesting of wheat, the hot,
sunny afternoons we have in
the month of Jun e are good.
The moisture content for
farm storage needs to be below
12 1/2%. Elevators can take it
at higher percentage, like up to
14%. Elevators usually have
more equipment for moving the
grain around or perhaps mixing
some dry wheat with the wheat
with higher moisture.
Wheat is especially sensi-
tive to moisture in the air and
absorbs extra moisture when the
weather is cloudy, or foggy, or
when the standing stalks have
heavy dew on them. That is why
that you will see the combines
running when it is hot and
sunny.
There is one procedure which
was sometimes used in years
past to take care of higher
moisture grain - that was turn-
ing it. The grain would be piled
at one side of the grain bin and
every day you would take a
scoop shovel and pile it on the
other side of the bin. If there
were more than 100 bushels,
the turning procedure would
take too much time.
In 1959, Russell Westfall
harvested a field of barley for
us with his Massey-Harris self-
propelled combine. We had
him to harvest the barley about
three days early because he was
scheduled to leave with some
other operations to follow the
wheat harvest and go north.
There was about 100 bushels
of the barley that had too much
moisture, so for several days I
turned it with a scoop shovel.
There is another trick with
higher moisture grain. I tried
this with some wheat I harvested
on a cloudy day in 1966. I put
eight square bales of dry grass
hay in the storage bin and then
put 100 bushels of moisture
wheat on top of the bales. The
dry hay was expected to absorb
the moisture out of the wheat.
I don't recommend this
method. The wheat still was
damaged so that it couldn't be
sold nor planted. It was good
for cattle feed after being run
through a hammer mill and all
the hay stems and dust ground
up with the wheat.
Nowadays, both commercial
and farm storage have vents and
drying floors with perforations
the size of a pencil lead. Then a
fan is used to draw air through
the grain and dry it down.
Now if you ever apply for a
job on a wheat farm, tell your
employer that you learned how
to do wheat by reading The
Perkins Journal. I am sure you
will get the job!
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MOIMNG
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by Kathleen Johnson
Ask the animals, and they will
teach you; the birds of the air, and
they will tell you. Job 12:7.
Job and the Psalmist say the
birds of the air, the animals,
and all life declare the glory of
God's goodness and value of all
creation. Yet species after spe-
cies continue to be endangered.
By the year 20.30, it is predicted
that one-quarter of all currently
known species will be extinct.
I hope this prediction doesn't
come true. What beauty would
leave our world.
Cead mile failte.
:#**
Current Events:
Music Monday: 6:45-9 p.m.
Every third Friday: Birthday
Luncheon, July 18, 12 noon.
Covered dish luncheon.
Every fourth Friday: Mystery
Dinner, June 27. We leave the
Center at 5 p.m. sharp.
Do you ever feel like you could
conduct a symphony. My solace
is not yoga or rum or even deep
sleep - it's music! I'm amazed
by it. Any one who plays it, sings
it, intrigues me. Great musicians
like Beethoven, as in Ludwig
Van, how marvelous are some
of his creations. This man knew
about depression and unhap-
piness. He moved from place
to place trying to find the right
place. Had a lousy love life, quar-
reled with friends, had a rotten
nephew who worried him deeply.
He lost his hearing quite young,
stone deaf at 48, before he fin-
ished his great Ninth Symphony.
He never heard it, he just thought
it. Awesome! Listen to it, grandi-
ose, irresistible. You'll find in it
the sun of summer, the songs of
birds, an affirmation. Some day
when I am very rich, I'm going
to rent a grand hall, a great choir
and a mighty symphony orches-
tra, stand on the podium, conduct
the Ninth Symphony.And I will
play the kettle drum part all the
way through, singing along at the
top my lungs. And after the grand
applause, I will thank Ludwig for
his Ninth. "Man alive !" Lorraine,
want to help me?
We had 56 attending the Birth-
day Luncheon, Friday the 20 . I
had only 53 count, so someone
didn't sign in. Jack Rosson and
his crew were in attendance (city
manager); Lynn Polley, Donna
Murray, Amelia Dailey Hub-
bard & Barbara Dailey Hubbard
also; I know that Amelia is Hattie
Prather's cousin and is visiting
the Prathers. Nice having all of
you. We used to rent land from
their families. Nice to see them
and have them come have lunch
with us. They came for awhile
Monday evening, special people,
special friends. We had a deli-
cious meal, fried chicken with
lots of delicious salads & des-
serts. Come join us sometime,
you'll be glad you did.
We traveled to Thunderbird
Lake last Saturday to our Kelley
reunion which is held every other
year. It was so good to see our
uncle Earl (Bill) Kelley who is 86,
the last of the Kelley Clan, and
dear Aunt Myrl, his wife. Aunt
Otha Lea, Uncle Hubert's wife
couldn't be with us, her health is
not the best, she is only 95. It was
so good to see everyone. Had a
wonderful turnout, and a wonder-
ful day. Wanda Murcheson was
president and did a wonderful
job, along with Beverly, Glenda,
cousins, Kevin, a second cousin.
A hearty applause of appreciation
to each one who helped arrange
the reunion, all the go-fers, do-
fers. We'll see you guys in two
years if not before. Love each
one of you mucho!
Most of us are selective about
what we eat. Have you eaten
rattlesnake? Out in Watonga
country (we lived there app.
l0 years when Gerald was
pushing tools in the oil patch.)
They always have Rattlesnake
Round-ups at Okeene, which is
just north of Waton]ga, and they
have fried rattlesnake for sale.
We tried some! Well it tastes,
I think, like chicken. When
you are eating it you can't
seem to think, of anything but
SNAKE!!!! Threre are hums in
several states. Some of the states
are passing a law to prevent kill-
ing the rattlesnakes - well! They
could all be gone and I wouldn't
mind. An old cowboy wouldn't
have ordered snake, but snake
on a plate is nothing if you've
already flushed a rattler from a
hole, killed it with a stick and
roasted it under the desert sky,
as he did 40 years ago. That was
after the bacon was all gone. He
ordered chicken at a caf6 and was
remembered as saying, "It tastes
just like snake." I don't know
what the difference would be
especially if you had a need for
foodandth
and the chicken wasn't. "'AND
SO IT GOES AT EDEN."
***
Why older is better: You realize
that the gifts of life, health, and
love outweigh anything mere
money could buy. You've learned
that enjoying the journey may be
just as important as reaching the
destination. You have developed
a new appreciation of old things-
old friends, old books, old values,
and ideals, and yourself.
Our hostess
greeted 94 guests &
117, great group.
Millie Weaver were
esses, serving
grapes, tur
chips; Edith
sandwiches bean
cookies;
mon rolls;
& triangle
nut pie;
nuggets; Jerry Pate,
Hey! What a
mmmgood Maynard!
everyone !
Happy
Sanders.
Throne, Michelle
Mutters, Shirley
Higgins, R
Lancaster, Jr.,
Todd Wassell,
Faith Wassell,
We wish you manY, J
Happy Birthdays.
Our condolenceS |
Cruse family at hai
remember her
loving person,
special memories
remembering
family in
to them play, I'
what a w :fui
how wonderful
place to come play
how wond, t is
them
our MCee, does
We had with
Smith
son
ter; Reid & Mrs.
City; Charles
Mouser,
Barbara Hellon,
Worthy, Agra;
- first time for
come you, glad
Lorraine Smith, (
Perkins; Gene
Chandler;
Bemiece
Perry; Florence
Glen & Esther
Coyle; Phyllis,
Cushing. Thanks
appreciate each o#
fill our lives with
***
Till we meet
and relatives, DeO
pren dre conge, I
and love.
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