What is the Difference Between Determinant And Indeterminate Tomato Plant? By Patty Roof A gentleman walked into the paper office last week and asked that very question. My parents had a huge garden when I was growing up and I never realized how many different kinds of tomato’s and tomato plants there were. I had no idea there was a determinate or indeterminate tomato plant. I now know that most growers prefer determinate, because they bloom early and all at once and that makes harvesting them easier. Indeterminate are most commonly used in back yard gardens. They bloom later and they produce all summer, or at least until the first frost. I also know that there is a third type of tomato plant called a “semideterminate.” They produce a second crop following a successful first crop a good example of these tomato’s are heirlooms. The best advice I found was do your research, know your plants, know your soil and your climate conditions. Do your homework and enjoy the fruits of your labors. Benefit For Galena Project Graduation The Galena Project Graduation is hosting a SPAGHETTI SUPPER, Saturday, April 9, beginning to 6:00 pm in the Galena High School Cafeteria. There will be live music presenting John Paul Carr and the Corybel Country Band and a Silent Auction. Adults: $5.00, Students (5- 12): $3.00, Children (4 & under) Free Thank you for your support to Project Graduation. CO-ED SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT Galena Booster Club is having a Co-Ed Softball Tournament Saturday April 23, 20<strong>11</strong>. Team fee $120.00, Tournamant Champs will be awarded t-shirts. For more information please contact Deanna on cell @ 417- 830-6548.Tournament will start at 9: oo am till 12:00 pm. On school premises rules will apply. Thursday, April 7, 20<strong>11</strong> THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Page <strong>11</strong>
Page 16 THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Thursday, April 7, 20<strong>11</strong> Murphy’s Orchard. The Marionville Clothing Bank Association, Inc. held the drawing for their raffle on Wednesday, March 30th, at 9:30 a.m. at the Marionville Clothing Bank. Janea Coker, Library Manager at the Marionville Branch Library, was the impartial guest who drew the names of the prizewinners. Prizewinners were as follows: Four tickets to the Dickerson Park Zoo – Crystal Harter, Marionville; family passes to the Titanic Museum Attraction – Steve Rinker, Mt. Vernon, and Christine Rauch, Billings; $25 gift certificate to Alice Irene’s – Ruby Bowling, Marionville; gift certificates for a large pizza at Pizza Hut in Aurora – Edwena Young, Marionville, and Judy Wright, Marionville; Kenneth Darby ¼ size wood football on a stand, from the St. Louis Rams – Jacob Eden, Strafford; $25 gift certificate to Murphy’s Orchard – Karen Carr, Aurora; afghan by Marcia Baum – Frank and Kathy Urschel, Marionville; two tickets to the Andy Williams TV Variety You’re Invited To... CLARA BELLE KEITHLEY’S 90th Birthday Party! April 16, 20<strong>11</strong> <strong>11</strong>:00AM TO 1:00PM Abesville School Cafeteria Prizewinners In The Marionville Clothing Bank Raffle President Kathy Tappana awards Marilyn Estes of Marionville her prize, two tickets to Presley’s Country Jubilee. Karen Carr, Aurora, receives her prize, a $25 gift certificate to Show with Ann Margaret – Sara Herndon, Marionville; two tickets to the Baldknobbers Jamboree – Sara Herndon, Marionville; two tickets to the Butterfly Palace – Janice Parker, Aurora; two ticket to the Duttons – John Ray and Freda F. Suttles, Aurora; two tickets to George Dyer – Bob Tappana, Birch Tree; two tickets to the Great Passion Play – Stacy Estes, <strong>Crane</strong>; two tickets to the Ozark Empire Fair – Crystal Harter, Marionville; two tickets to Presley’s Country Jubilee – Marilyn Estes, Marionville; two tickets to Shepherd of the Hills – Judy Wells, Marionville; two tickets to Silver Dollar City – Dan French, Aurora; and two tickets to Six Flags St. Louis – Kay Kerans, Marionville. The members of the Association thank the businesses and individuals who donated prizes for the raffle. They also thank everyone who purchased tickets. The proceeds of $824 will be used for repairs to the Marionville Clothing Bank building. Granny Bessie continued from page <strong>10</strong> take the dog and scout through the woods, they kept the family in fresh meat, each day, rabbits and squirrels were plentiful, they tried to camp near a spring or school house, where there was water, none of grandpa’s horses became lame and he had to buy another horse on the way. Grandpa was a woodworker and had his own lathe, he had made chairs and baskets to sell in Kentucky, he cut out enough pieces for six chairs, tied them in a bundle, and he brought them in the wagon. When he got to Missouri he put them together and canned the bottoms, Sue Wayne, Dale and Joe, each have one of the chairs. I have the rolling pin, they were all made from “sugar maple”, they had a barrel of flour and their dishes were packed in the flour to prevent being broken. They would stop by farmhouses and buy milk and eggs, sometimes potatoes, they cooked on a campfire, there were no fancy knick knacks. They told of finding mushrooms too. It was a very long tiresome trip, but they decided to move to Missouri where four of the Bowling brothers were, some of the family had moved into Arkansas, earlier, but they ran into malaria fever and several of them died. Grandpa’s parents and two brothers are buried in Mt. Comfort Cemetery near Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fran, Henry, Thomas and Albert were in the “Hideout” area, when grandpa got here. They all pitched in and helped get him settled in, grandpa’s health was not good, but he did what he could, Uncle Tom homesteaded the farm, where Joe now lives, then Uncle Tom and Aunt Hilda were married and moved out, my daddy, Ben, bought the place from Uncle Tom. Aunt Lucy got married and moved out, Uncle George married and moved. So grandpa, grandma and Ben lived there together. Ben hired out wherever he could find work to support his parents, he knew a family of Murray’s who lived just north of him, they had a girl named Anna Raymond, who he wanted for his girlfriend, but her stepdad, Hiram Murray, wouldn’t allow him on the place, so Aunt Hulda got milk from the Murray’s and Ben would write a note and would send it by Aunt Hulda, Anna would have a note and send it back, so they did their courting that way, until Anna went near <strong>Crane</strong> to work for a Doctor whose wife was bedfast. Ben and Anna got to see each other there, then they got married. Ben wasn’t welcome at Murray’s for a long time, but finally they accepted him. Ben and Anna lived with grandpa and grandma in the old log house, there was big room with an upstairs and a lean to for a kitchen. Ben and Anna were married November 25, 1903 then on January 29, 1905 a son was born named Charley Oral, then Bertha Elizabeth was born Community Calendar Of Events Send items to: Community Calendar of Events, <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Publishing, Co., P.O. Box 401, <strong>Crane</strong>, Mo. 65633-<strong>04</strong>01. Deadline is 12 Noon on Monday, the week of Publication. Wednesday, April 6, 20<strong>11</strong> •<strong>Crane</strong> Library, open, Wednesday, February 2, 20<strong>11</strong> •<strong>Crane</strong> Library, open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •Barry-Lawrence Regional Library, Marionville Branch, open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •<strong>Sec</strong>ond Season Shop, open Tues-Wed-Fri-Sat, <strong>10</strong> a.m. to 4 p.m. Main Street, <strong>Crane</strong>, phone 723-5636. • North <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Food Pantry: Every Wednesday 8 am to 12 (noon) •AA Meeting, 8 p.m., Community Building, Cape Fair, 417-538-4146 or 417-538- 2233. Thursday, April 7, 20<strong>11</strong> •<strong>Crane</strong> Library open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •Barry-Lawrence Regional Library, Marionville Branch, open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •Galena Masonic Lodge #515, 7:30 p.m., Galena Lodge, Galena. Meeting the first and third Thursdays of every month. •American Legion meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:00 p.m. •Building Hope - A group that celebrates Recovery every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at <strong>Crane</strong> Christian Church. 417-693-3055 or 417-818-0352 Friday, April 8, 20<strong>11</strong> •<strong>Crane</strong> Library, open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •Barry-Lawrence Regional Library, Marionville Branch, open, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. •<strong>Sec</strong>ond Season Shop, open Tues-Wed-Fri-Sat, <strong>10</strong> a.m. to 4 p.m. Main Street, <strong>Crane</strong>, phone 723-5636. Saturday, April 9, 20<strong>11</strong> •<strong>Crane</strong> Library open, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. •<strong>Crane</strong> Recycling Center, open,8 a.m. to 12 noon. •Kimberling City Area Recycling Center, open, 8 am to <strong>11</strong> am. •<strong>Sec</strong>ond Season Shop, open Tues-Wed-Fri-Sat, <strong>10</strong> a.m. to 4 p.m. Main Street, <strong>Crane</strong>, phone 723-5636. Sunday, April <strong>10</strong>, 20<strong>11</strong> September 6, 19<strong>07</strong> then Anna was expecting again and grandpa got sick and died February <strong>10</strong>, 19<strong>10</strong>, it was a bad time for the family, then on February 27, 19<strong>10</strong> Ernest Audrey was born. Grandma continued to live there, she visited others and always took her little basket of quilt pieces, she made tiny stitches and all were the same, her quilts were very pretty. On April 14, 1913 Bessie Marie was born. Our house was getting fuller, then Charlie was stricken with appendicitis, the Doctors didn’t know how to treat him, so on April <strong>11</strong>, 1914 Charlie died. My parents were heart broken for a long time, in 1916 Ben had a saw mill set and he and Uncle Tom cut logs and had lumber sawed for a new house, they moved the old house back aways and Ben and Uncle Tom built us a new house. Grandma baby sat us while our dad and mom worked in the field, Ben and Tom built a canning factory and canned tomatoes two years for Gamble Brothers (let and their canning factory decay and fall down.) Grandma told us many stories of happenings in the old days, great grandpa took corn to a mill in Kentucky to be ground for meal and there were two men feuding and one decided to put poison in his enemies meal, he put it in the wrong sack and great grandpa’s family was all effected, they were all sick, one little boy died, one of the pregnant daughters was visiting and be became very sick and her baby was stillborn. The man that did this was caught and put in prison. My Grandpa had a workshop and had lots of shavings piled up in it, there was a family that lived near them who had a small baby sleeping on the bed while the mother was hanging out the laundry. A big timber wolf slipped in the house, picked up the baby and took it to the shop, and buried it in the shavings, then went out side and gave a loud howl. The mother ran and got her baby and got back in the house and shut the door, in a short time a whole pack of big wolves, ran into the shop they dug and scratched all over the place, they smelled where the baby had been. It would have been killed and ate in a short time, the wolves were thick in the area where they lived and they had to be on the look out for them at all times. My grandpa was a fiddle player and he had a neighbor who played a guitar with him, they lived back in the wooded hills and sometimes some one would hire them to play for a neighborhood dance. One night they had played late and started home through the woods, they heard a pack of wolves on their trail, they knew they were in for trouble, they had their fiddle and guitar in sacks, with straps on their shoulders so they hung their instruments on their backs and climbed a tree that had limbs low, so it was easy to climb, but they were barely in the tree, when the wolf pack got there, the wolves began to gnaw on the tree, which wasn’t a real big tree, they were afraid they would gnaw it down and get them both, so grandpa got his fiddle out and began drawing the bow across the strings, the wolves would stop gnawing and howl, so they stayed in the tree until the sun began to come up, the wolves left to search for something else, they finally got on the ground and hurried home, it was quite an experience. They never did forget, grandma said “that old fiddle saved grandpa’s life that night.”
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