From the Smith County Journal, March 20, 1913, page 5: "J.O. Phetteplace returned home last Tuesday evening after a visit since last December with his son, Len, and family in southwest Missouri. He enjoyed the visit all the time but was glad to be back to good old Smith County again. Len bought a small farm down there a little more than a year ago and is putting in his time clearing it for timber and getting it in shape for starting a fruit ranch. He has much confidence in the future of that county and believes that in the course of time he will learn to like it, and so will the family, as well as they did this country."