The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-03-16

way. Hence can say nothing Of these
places 10 the latter OF which Tama
county has contributed some good citi-
zens.
Cherokee is county seat Of the county
of that name, and is credited with having
grown up since the Illinois Central Rail-
road was finished to that point, in 1870,
to population of 1000 or1 200. 1t is
pleasantly located in the Little Sioux
Valley, high enough to be dry, low
enough to be sheltered somewhat from
bleak prairie winds. 1t is the center of
a good farming region rapidly settling
up. Besides Cherokee county, parts of
O'Brien, Ida and Woodbury., are tributary
to it. 1t is "a miles from LeMars with
which it keeps about even in growth, and
% miles from Storm Lake, which is not
so large. 1t has hardly reached the
stage of fine architecture yet, though
there are some good brick blocks of
which the bank building of Scribner,
Burroughs & Co., finished last fall may
be named as fiue enough to be an orna.
ment anywhere. The school house is a
wooden building with four we'll crowded
rooms. Churches are plenty-not quite
so plenty as in Toledo-the houses mostly
plain and small; the Congregationalists
having the largest, the Presbyterians the
finest. The county has some sixty
schools. The County Superintendent, is
Mr.. Rodney L. Robe, formerly of High.
land Township, in this county.
To judge from the environs of Chero-
kee, the county must have much land
not yet subdued to the plow. The Iowa
Land Company had originally 10000
acres, about half of which has been sold
to settlers-the rest is held, according to
location at from 81 to $40 per acre. A
ride across the country to Hazard, sta.
ton six miles Northwest, revealed an
expanse of rolling prairie, much of it yet
uncultiyated, beautiful as the eye ever
rests upon. Four elevators at Cherokee
shipping in 1875, $50, 900 bushels of wheat,
show the undesirable preponderance OF
this staple produce.
l have thus spoken at some length OF
two towns, one in Southwestern, the
other in Northwestern Iowa, in which
with considerable difference 1 can also
trace many points of similarity. The
latter is in country less advanced than
the former, the census giving to Mont,
gomery county with II townships pop
ulation of about II 900, Cherokee with il
townships, 4, 250-the number would prob.
ably exceed 5000 now. Both of these
towns are figured in the Andreas Atlas
of Iowa, the former with tolerable accu-
racy, the latter in manner quite unsat.
isfactory.
Taking the cars again profited by my
own experience and that of others. Buy,
ing ticket at station of the l. G.. R. r
you pay the company's rates cents g
mile; on the cars you calculate the dis.
lance you are travelling, make your OWL
change, and Fay the conductor 'Grangers
rates. cents mile-which he accepts
enough, and don't let him make change
for you. 1t was about shutdown when
we passed Storm Lake, fair looking vii
lage on small, pretty body OF water
which will yet be favorite Summer re-
sort. At Alden the cars were filled with
q dense smoke and the smell of burning
grain from two elevators which with then
contents were consumed few hours pre-.
vious. AT Ackley / went to the Revere
House, expecting to find there the we'll
known 8. w. Cole; but learned that he
is in the Duncombe House, Fl. Dodge
But | found very acceptable lodgings and
fare with the present host, H. N. Cole
relative of 8. w. The most notable
thing on the remainder of the way was
the sight of, Il may say), hundreds OF
teams hauling ice for shipment from
Steamboat Rock.
During all my journey through West
ern Iowa it is substantially true that
saw no mud; found that friends in lama
county were not meantime equally for.
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