Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-03-27


OF US. Scarlet fever and diphtheria
do not prevail here as they do in Wis.,
consin, where these formidable d:sea
ses have been SO prevalent and 80 fatal
the past winter. "A friend writing me
says IN some instances whole families
have been swept away. Neither do
we have the jigger flies here that the
gentleman speaks of. He is getting
Texas mixed up with Kansas. I have
never found grub or a maggot in an
animal in the State.
1t Is true good many people do
have the chills here and a good many
do not. / have not had them. But
it was in Wisconsin that have seen
the biggest shaking; it was there a
few years since that they used to cay
we had to tie up our toes to save the
nails when they shook off. But that
amazing disease has substantially
passed away from that State as we are
confident it will from this in due time.
have no desire to depopulate
Grant county, it is good country for
those who like it no doubt, but if
those otherwise worthless hills are full
OF lead ore, and such luscious grass
grows upon them, and if Wisconsin
nas really never had failure of crops.
how is it that three-fourths of her
farms are today carrying heavy mort
cages! why is it that Grant county
makes such slender show of improve.
ments? After more than SIXTY wears
OF uninterrupted prosperity she has at
last squeezed out-25 miles of narrow
gauge railroad leading to the interior
OF the county (The County Seat)
where, we are informed by HERALD
correspondent, the U. S. mail is taken
and carried fifteen miles further on.
once week on a blackboard, some.
times-on horseback. tell
you, gentlemen, there is a stitch
down somewhere,
Now few words about "staryinp"
Kansas, as my Iowa friend would
have it. 1t is truly wonderful that
nobody but that gentleman ever heard
OF those four famines. AS have it
down the season OF 1874 is the only
year that Kansas ever has sustained
anything like a failure of the crops.
That year it is true, the drouth, chinch
bugs and grasshoppers combined to
ruin the crops, and so successful were
they that President Grant wrote to
our Governor to know if he needed
any aid, who replied mo, Kansas is
able to take care of herself"
1t is true that a good many who
came here that year and the year be.
fore were left quite destitute and did
need assistance which was generous.
~ sent them by their friends in other
and older states, and they have brayed
and beloved about that little aid
ever since.
1t is not all gas that has rendered
Kansas what she is, and has produced
such a rush to this state. Our dis.
play at the Centennial exhibit in '76
would have been proud of. Every
body who saw it wondered
We produced last year over thirty
million bushels of good marketable |
wheat and three times that amount of |
corn, so that if it were necessary to
burn corn for fuel we have it, but that |
aas happened as often in Iowa and |
Illinois as in Kansas
In Nebraska'they burn grass l am
told, and in Iowa cobs at fifty cents
load, from corn hauled thirty miles
by wagon, so says the chap who SUBJ
scribes "7oung Reaoer." In this
part Of Kansas, at least. the shippers
can't give away their cobs. We have
plenty of good cheap coal and wood
By the way, if the thermometer
ment down to "a degrees below zero.
in southwestern Iowa last winter our
young reader will have to plant and
grow the trees again before he eats
any more of those fine peaches unless
he sends south for them. Here in
Kansas our trees are un.
injured and show fair for medium
crop of fruit.
At an early date shall be pleased
to give the HERALD readers a brief
sketch of Labette county, Kansas
from its first settlement to the present
time. 1t will give them little idea
of what the scalawags are doing
down here. J. B. CooLEY.
Mound Valley, Kansas.