Morris tribune., 1884-08-13
MONEY CREEK, HOUSTON


This is q quiet little village nestled
among bluffs some three hundred fee
high. 1t gets it's name from q little
incident which happned in early days
A man having gotten his purse wet
spread the bank notes out on a bush tc
dry and they were blown into the
little stream running through the val
ley and lost forever. n n We have two
| churches, two blacksmith shops, two
stores, a graded school and a FIGURING
mill, with some one hundred inhabi-
tants. The valley branches from the
village in three ways, and is cut up
into small, though well cultivated and
productive farms. Good farm build
ings of wood brick and stone abound.
The crops so far promise well. Bar
ley is mostly harvested, and much of
it stacked. 1t was a heavy croFIand
was somewhat lodged. Oats are bad
ly lodged, and very heavy, Little
spring wheat is grown, but winter
wheat looks we'll. Corn is small but
much more forward than it was last
year at this time. A large quality of
hay is made and it is mostly of excel
lent quality,
Considerable stock of different kinds
is kept. Opinions differ, of course, in
regard to that which pays best. Most
farmers keep a large number of hogs
and where cows are kept, are consid-
cred very profitable stock. A cream
cry in Rushford twelve miles distant)
collects most of the al produced
here. 1t takes the cream On the "quart-
SYSTEMS and gives much better results
than formerly when cream was bought
by the inch.
Your correspondent took a trip
southwest from Rushford into Fill
o county twenty FIVE miles a week
or two since. Crops looked well along
the road. Harvesting barley and
winter-wheat had begun: This is q
prairie district, but beautiful groves
raised from the seed within q few
years were noticed on almost every
place. The largest place visited was
that belonging to John Ward of Am
heret. He has some eight hundred
acres, and keeps a large number of
fine stock. The buildings as you ap-
proach the place, give the impression
of q little village. A barn built last
summer so by soft. with twenty feet
posts was called the largest in Fillmore
county: but a larger is being erected
this year.
Politically throughout this sectiou
Blaine seems to be the coming man.
Some say however, that they intend
to support st. John believing that the
Republican party must suffer one de-
feat before it will ever feel safe to a.
dept the prohibition principlesand ifit
must come to that, it may as we'll be
this fall as ever. 1t should be re-
membered, however, that the Repub-
lican party has always been the party
power of reform. Is it wise then for any
to throw away their votes even on this
issue, and give the Democratic party
power for the next four years. 1t is a
question of loss and gain. We should
certainly lose some issues. Are we
sure of gaining any?
Philadelphia Press: Buffers let
ter is plain notice to Ar. Cleveland
that as soon as his letter appears the
leader of the Massachusetts delegation
to Chicago will tear it to pieces. Mr..
Cleveland knows that it will be u neat
job. Gen. Butler is keen, shrewd and
caustic, with a cock eye and u pungent
pen, and he will go through this letter
like lightning through a country
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