The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-17
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM INDIAN LAKE,

INDIAN LAKE, Oct. Is, 1874.
EDITOR ADVANCE: The,settlers of
Indian Lake township have circulated
a petition to the County Commission
ers against aid either from county or
State, and also asking for favor as to
the taxes Of 1873 and 1874 until crop
can he raised. The petition is signed
by Nelson Coyer, Seymour Coyer, Chas.
Bulls, A. 0. Campbell, Chas. Camp
bell, and some twenty others.
Our people did not suffer from the
grassloppers as much rs other portions
of the county, but we have still raised
but little. Every man, so far as I
know, is determined not to ask for re-
lief.
Some Of us have raised a reasonable
amount of grain and vegetables. Mel
son Coyer raised l, $50 bushels of grain,
consisting of wheat, oats and barley
Isaac Horton raised 482 bushels of
wheat and 1926 of oats. A. A. Abbott
raised lis bushels of wheat and 95 of
oats. G. W. Bulls raised between 60
and 20 bushels Of wheat and 100 BUSH
els of oats. r. L.. Erskine has 1853
bushels of wheat and $50 of oats. H.
NJ: johnson raised 1873 bushels of wheat
and some Is of oats. II. Brayton rails
ed IS bushels of wheat and 60 of oats.
J. D. Brown has IS Of wheat and 1913 of
oats. Most Of us raised enough vege-
tables for our own use. B.
THE COUNTY MASS MEETING
RANSOM, Oct. II, 1874.
ED. ADVANCE: Seeing that the
course Of the ADVANCE has always
been to present matters in their true
light, and to prudently handle questions
pertaining to the devastation caused by
the grasshoppers in this county-care-
fully avoiding extremes and publishing
facts as they occurred, and that you Of
fer the use of your columns to any enc
who may desire to express an opinion
insregard to the question of relief,
would ask why the meeting which was
held at Worthington on Tuesday last
was called Il County Mass Meeting when
at least one-half the people of the
county were ignorant of the whole
transaction?
do not question, Mr.. Editor, but
that it was right and proper to demand
State aid, and we had every reason to
believe that the aid would be forth
coming as soon as the Legislature con.
vened. But now that the people ~ of
Mobiles county have percipitated mat
tiers, and gone beyond that and deman.
ded aid from the public all over the Uni
ted States and from the General Gov
eminent, will not the State feel relieved,
in measure, of the duty Of caring for
it's own destitute? With the.precedent
set by the Legislatures Of Kansas and
Nebraska, Minnesota would never en-
dure the disgrace of throwing her needy
sons upon the charity Of the General
Government and the people ;of other
States, yet, if we take the meeting of
Tuesday last as an indication, our peo-
pie desire her to do 50.
That there are many worthy persons
in the county who will need aid is pa
tent to all, and that there are many
others who are expecting aid who do
not deserve it, who have let oppertuni-
ties to earn a subsistence 60 by de-
fault, is also true. The fact that the
railroad company have had out adver-
tisements for week or more, calling
for men and teams to work on the
railroad, Offering 81, SO and $3.50 per
day, and that only two or three appli-
cations for work have been made, is a
comment upon the terrible destitu-
ton" which the County Commission
ers should not overlook. RANSOM.
FROM SEWARD.
SEWARD, Oct. IL, 1874.
ED. ADVANCE: The condition of
the settlers in this town can be describ-
ed in a very few lines, and taking in
view the efforts that have been put
forth to procure relief for the suffering
settlers up to the present time, and the
scanty respondence to our solicitations
for aid, the prospects for the coming
winter look dark to most of them.