The Holt County sentinel., 1874-04-24
OUR VISIT TO .uODER.N'
TROY.

promised visit to an elder brother OF
ours, who resides in Doniphan county,
Kansas, we, in company with our ''bet-
ter half" one of our sons and our aged
mother, on Saturday took the Denver
train at st. Joseph and ran over to
Troy. Owing to on execution in the
hands of the sheriff of Buchanan county
none of the rolling stock OF the st. Joe
& Denver road, ventures on the Mis-
souri, side of the big bridge, and we
were hauled to the Kansas side by To-
comotive and cars belonging to the
Hannibal & st. Joe Railroad. The re.
suit was that In Elwood we had the cx-
quisite pleasure OF changing cars, and
in less than an hour thereafter we were
in Troy, the scat of justice of Doniphan
county.
BY some strange freak of Uncle Sans
Mails, our advisory letters, written
some ten days previous, failed to reach
our relatives, and so when we reached
Troy with our folks there was no one
to receive us. We therefore went cup
town to see whether we couldn't see
some ono we knew, and who could d.
rect us on our way to Philip Klippers
farm. We accidentally ran across Mr..
u. NJ. Redd, formerly of Oregon, and
Mr.. Tracy, the popular treasurer of
noniphan county, who directed us to
the nearest printing Office, which hap.
pcncd to be the Chiefs headquarters,
We found Mr.. Miller at the nonpareil
case, his shirt-sleevcs rolled up to neal
his shoulder joints, digging into nonpa-
reh type, rs If he intended to run IN
5000 per day, setting poetry. We
could tarry but minute In the Chiefs
"sanctum"-our folks whom we lett at
the depot, anXiously awaiting our re-
tiun-we graciously bowed out of the
Chief fsprcscnce. Our first imp cssions
of this town were moderately favorable,
and,no preventing providence, we shall
Mt some future day speak more In de-
tail of this modern Troy.
A livery team having, In the mean
time, been rugged up for us we drove
to our brother Philips, distance of
some "a miles cast of Troy, in very
short time. At our brothers we found
a house full of nephews and nicccs,
some of whom we hadn't seen for years,
and some we had never seen. They
were all glad to welcome their Uncle
Adam, their aunt and their grandma
into their Kansas home, and all passed
off as "merry as marriage bell"
We had several times been in this
part of Kansas before this, and the
country did not present any new geo.
graphical features. To say that it is
q good country and fine country,
would be simply reiterating what has
been before stated by us and others.
We could recognize the marks of i'm
provcment in various directions. Neat
school houses were visible in many
neighborhoods. The Klippel School
House on the hill,i is extensively known
In the county as temple of learning
1t was our intention to spend a portion
OF the Sabbath in this house and lister
to sermon by the Rev. Mr.. Thorp, bu
the incessant rain on that day knocke,
us out Of that privilege. Neptune hav
ing opened his sluices late Saturda,
night, the rain continued without in
tcrmlssion all day Sunday and part O
Monday, and all this time we wer
house-bound. We had intended {,
pay our Troy friends a visit and to rs
certain how the political machine wa
working, but the rain and mud pre-
vented. The only thing of a publ
nature we learnt was, that the taxes Il
Doniphan county were 1925 on tn
hundred dollars.
There being no sure railroad conneC
tion between the Denver road and tn
Council Bluffs road, our nephew Glen
ence Klippel hitched up a team an
brought us "over land"-through lai
and mud-to the bridge. Our wa
took us by Wathena, the turnpike an
along the Missouri. Big'Muddy ha
made sad havoc with its banks, and
great portion of the turnpike had tun
r bled inland the prospect of more goin
y in on the advent Of the June rise. n
river seems to be working It's wa
around by Wathena. st. Joe'will hay
, to look sharp or else she will be le
"high and dry" with her bridge col
C Meeting with an island instead vii
l Kansas.