Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser ~x. Keeping in touch with my own family can become a real chore. If I want some particular in formation from our children it may be weeks before I get it. Recently one letter from the west coast took eleven days to arrive instead of the usual four and another Anniversary greeting took eight days to come from a southern state. I do know that I could use the telephone and call but that is definitely more expensive. In the past 30 years our address has changed three times. And we have not moved from our original farm. The post office was changed incasi from one small town to another one nearby. And then it was decided that no mail would be delivered unless a number and street ad dress were used. I will agree that a number makes it easier for someone to be found rather than simply using a rural route number. It seems that nowadays people move more often than they did several decades ago. My own sheet of addresses is crossed off over and over again as new ones appear. At the present time three of our six children are considering changing irday, inf, •armi their addresses for various reasons. But, I’m thinking that they will have a hard time to get me to move. I guess I simply like it where I am and cannot imagine moving the accumulation of a lifetime to another place. However, there is certainly no guarantee that I can spend the rest of my life here in this 175-year-old brick house along the bank of the Conestoga River where I can watch the ducks and geese swim on the black-looking water in the winter and the green-looking water in the summer. American Angus Auxiliary Offers College Scholarships ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - College scholarships totaling $7,200 will be awarded this year to ten deserving high school graduating seniors. Five girls and five boys active in Angus projects, school, com munity, and church activities will be selected from each of the respective state applications. Entry deadline is June 25,1987. Scholarship money in each group will be $1,200 for first place, $9OO for second place, $7OO for third place, $5OO for fourth place and $3OO for fifth place. The Miss American Angus contest will remain separate from the scholarship contest again this year. The top five girl applicants will be invited to the national Angus meeting at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville. Those choosing to participate will be interviewed, and Miss American Angus will be named during the show. Scholarship winners and queen candidates will be an nounced at the All-American Angus Breeders’ Futurity in Louisville, Aug. 2 through 4. Applications for scholarships may be made through state or regional Angus Auxiliaries, or by contacting American Angus Auxiliary Scholarship Chair person, Mrs. Paul Mydland, R.R. 1, Box 20, Joliet, MT 59041. Pennsylvania scholarship chairman is Kathy Wise, Route 5, Box 5696, Spring Grove, PA 17362; Maryland chairman is Susan Holston, 18101 Bowie Mill Road, Derwood, Md. 20855; New York chairman is Barbara Smalstig, Route 1, Box 132, Millbrook, NY 12545. SERVING THE FARMERS FOR 115 YEARS —.HAMBURG SAVINGS Enif and KMMx trust company Hamburg, PA Phone: 215-562-3811 A FULL SERVICE BANK PORTER - NOBLE - OGLE ASGROW 3127,2943,3427 MAGNUM +, EDGE, BIG TEN FORMAN'S GRAIN & FERTILIZER Liquid & Dry - Custom Spreading Beaver Run Road, R.D. 1, Box 78 Turbotville, PA 17772 717-649-5579 ■•biliary 2t, 1987-821
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