The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-08-31
For the Advertise
THROUGH THE COUNTY.

EDITOR ADVERTISER Can wasting
for your paper gives us an excellent OPP
portunity of seeing the different parts
of the county, and also Of learning some
thing of its people, forming ncquaintan-
ces &c. &c. all of which we fully APP
preciatc. Thinking that it might inter
est some of your readers, We note some
things which attracted our attention.
Nearly all the lands of the county
were, but a few years since, an unbro-
ken prairie, with but small belts of
timber near the streams, the surface
gently undulating. And in passing
over it the traveller would be able to see
house at distance of several miles in
almost any direction, if indeed such
things a. houses were there.
But now, the appearance has been SO
changed by the active industry Of its
intelligent inhabitants, that it would be
scarcely recognized as the same county.
Almost every quarter section of land
has its farmhouse, many of them pala
tial in appearance, and large barns,
many of them costing from $1,000 to So
900 each, with stacks Of grain dotting
the fields in every direction; and then
such fields of corn as may be seen any
where never before sent such happy
thrills Of Joy to the hearts Of the hus-
| bandmen. But the artificial groves OF
timber, mostly maple, and the willow
and Usage fences have wrought the
greatest change in the appearance of the
country. We seldom see "A farm with
out its grove of maple, walnut, locust,
or Eastwood, or all combined, Of from
three to fifteen years growth, and occu-
| pying from one to ten acres. Those
groves and hedges have now reached
such hight that the open prairie view
| is almost gone.
We had the pleasure of spending n
few days in and around Springdale, a
village in Springdale township. This
| region is settled almost entirely by the
Friends, usually styled Quakers, and
they are just like any body else except
that they differ from others, and we
rather like the variation. In their con
versation they use the pronoun thee, thy
and thine, &c, instead of you, your and
yours yet we can understand what
they say better than we can dutci-
man. And we must say, that to hear
one of those young quakeresses say
simmer would produce no unpleasant
sensation to an old Bdtch.
We made our home while there at
| Mr.. Thos. James, and at the risk of be-
ing unkind to Mrs. James we would
recommend every lady or gentleman
who visits Springdale to stop there;they
will find every thing in appie-pie order.
We also had the pleasure of an acquain-
lance with our prospective Senator, }.
&. Chambers. He is man who always
puts in good appearance.
But the difference between those
Friends and some other people which
we admire most is their activity and
earncatness in the cause of education.
They have just closed the first term Of a
Normal School, which was inaugurated
and sustained by the leading citizens Of
the place, and was attended by about
sixty teachers of the county, for the
purpose of receiving a thorough training
in the art of teaching, which they re
ceived from some of the best instructors
of the country, viz. Prof's. Cook, Davis
and Hobbs of Richmond, Indiana, and
Lewis of Washington, Iowa. We had
the pleasure Of being present during
some of the exercises and are well salts
fled that the word fail is unknown to
men who enter the work with the zeal