Hello Jean and Billie, Gwen and I have been relishing your transcriptions of the Surprise Valley Record. She would spend some time each summer with her grandmother Bessie Bush starting in the early 1930's. We continued this practice after we were married. One of our usual summer pastimes was to take grandma for a slow ride around Surprise Valley and she would recite the names of the different farms, not necessarily the present occupants but the former owners. These names you are including in your listings are starting to bring back these fond memories. The receiving of these monthly episodes reminds me of the Saturday Movies of my youth when they always included a serial. Just when the good guy was falling over the cliff they would end and one would have to wait until the next Saturday. The trials, accidents and other calamities are the same way. One week we hear how bad the event was but we have to wait until the next edition to find how the problem was solved. Thank you guys for a great read. Stan Harris