The Valley Falls New Era Thursday September 30, 1909 Mrs. W.N. LEGIAN, who has been visiting her son William and daughter, Mrs. Ralph ROSS at Newton, Kas., for six weeks must be coming home soon as we notice that the man lonesome, Mr. Leigan, has been cutting the overgrown weeds and grass in their yard and diggin' the 'taters, expecting a happy reunion. B.F. HOWARD and family of Rock Creek attended the fair and were guests of Mrs. F.G. KIBBEY. Mr. Howard tells us that 60 hours after he sowed alfalfa it was up so he could see it all over the lot. He sowed it just before the September rains. It is the quickest on record. He has some last years apples, Huntsman's favorite, which he forgot to bring to the fair. All his neighbors but one attended the Fair Wednesday. Howard EVANS and wife and two smaller children are here from White City, Kansas, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. KNOUSE and other relatives this week, and attending the Fair--Carnival, Howard playing in his old place in the band. He says crops are short, corn being hurt by the summer drouth, in his county. Sam ALLEN was on the route of the automobile tourists Sunday with his machine to the place on Hickory Creek near Letch HAZELET's where one of the big autos got in the ditch at a bridge in a crooked place in the road Friday. He wonders that more of them didn't land in the gully at that sharp turn in the road.