Wild Horse Roundup

By Curtis Schrimp

January 30, 2004

On Tuesday, Kirsti’s FFA class in Hugo went to the Stock Show and when she got home, she called and she was so excited she could hardly tell it all. One thing was the guy standing on two horses and jumping over a car. She liked the barrel racing and I told her that is what her mother used to do. She enjoyed it all even as a class they looked at the livestock.

Lisa and Christina Paintin went to the Stock Show last Saturday and they said it was such a mob they wouldn’t go on Saturday again. Two country girls aren’t used to that many people. Ernie and Judy Hammer went on Thursday and I’m sure they enjoyed it. Ernie likes those big draft horses. I used to think they couldn’t have that show without me being there, but it don’t seem like it has slowed down any and I haven’t been there for many years.

The Kit Carson ball team’s perfect record has went down the drain. Granada beat them and I was told that Cheyenne Wells beat the boys by two points and the Kit Carson girls won by one point. Sounds like two exciting games.

I went to Flagler Wednesday to get some grain and I stopped and visited June Conarty. I got caught up on the family we have known so many years. She said there was a large crowd at Orley Conarty’s funeral in Seibert earlier in the week. She told me Allie Jo Huntzinger had hip surgery quite sometime back. When I think of her, I think of the Sunday dinners Kenneth Johnson and I used to have back in the 30’s at her folks, the Kounty’s south of Flagler. We would go to the windmill and climb up the water storage tank and pull out the jug of milk hanging there. That was their refrigerator.

I was thinking of the people that used to stop in Lee’s little café and some of the business deals that went on there when some of the land was changing hands. We had some famous people stop, like Ferlin Huskey, the singer, from Nashville. He hand his wife and a friend was headed to the mountains to go hunting.

I was looking at this book I have, a copy was printed in 1934 and it lists all the people living around here then and it is hard to believe, in comparison, there is hardly anyone left. No news, just rambling.