Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-11-15
JOTTINGS FROM THE WEST.

EDITOR CHRONICLE-Ih have few idle
moments, and l will devote them Il
penning few jots to the CHRONICLE.
The corn crop Is out here not near a:
good as was anticipated two months
ago. 1t isn't drying out worth cent. We
are going to have much soft corn il
this part of Iowa. There has been one
great drawback this season to the matu
ring of our corn-and that is, the last
ten days of September and the month OF
October, were mostly cloudy and cold
Wheat was an average crop here in
Adair county, but it fell short in other
parts of the State, and the yield in the
State, as a whole, will be somewhat be.
low what it was last year.
The oats crop yielded from 40 to 60
bushels to the acre. The fiaxseed was
about an average crop. One of our
neighbors had something over 200 bush
els. The potato crop is excellent, and
especially the Late Rose variety they al :
not only large, but well-havored. One
of our neighbors raised the largest beets
this season that ever saw. 1 had the
premium beet last year, but my German
friend has beat that beet this year
But we have laid it acress all OF
them on turnips and parsnips. We
have parsnips that are between 2 and
feet in length. This season just suited
all kinds of root crops.
When l was boy, growing up, l
thought Belmont county, Ohio, was the
stormiest and muddisst place in the
world. But since | became man, and
got into other parts of the world, | find
that there is little difference, in that re-
spect, in good growing sections of the
country.
The election is over here, and the en-
tire Republican ticket is elected, by Il
large marjOrity, both in the State and in
Adair county. So we have, as a State,
sustained the principles of our lost
amendment, as well as the principles Uf
protective tariff.
Taken all through. this has been the
celdest year here for period of 13 years
or more. 1t will be long remembered as
the cold year of 1888.
Men have the some foolish ideas here,
rs elsewhere, about getting out of this
world before their time. One man, just
west of us, shot himself few evenings
since. Insanity supposed to have been
the cause.
1t might may be that my old friends
would like to know what l am about to
do--and for their information, | will
state that am going to teach school
four months the coming winter. If
no preventing providence interfereS, |
will commence my winter term of school
on the 18th day of November, inst. Iowa
has splendid school system; but it
could be bettered, in my opinion, by
the county superintendency,
and letting the county auditors have
charge of the school business in their
counties.
am getting somewhat ashamed of
my native State, or of her citizens, at
least. think it shame for as intelli-
gent men as Ohio contains, to let the
State vote be in favor of the liquor in
terests of the intemperance element.
But am proud of the voting record of
good old Iowa. She took a sensible view
of the welfare Of her future, and voted
this fall in favor of her former tomper-
ance principles.
l am having some trouble with my
right eye at present. l was helping
thresh flax, and had to stand in the dust
without any protection for my eyes
got them full of dust. |
which made the right eye little sore
then | stood the day but one. with that |
eve toward the cool wind, and caught
cold in it, which caused it to inflame. |
1t is getting some better now. and
think will be all right in few days.
BELMONTER.