The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-08
RAMBLING THROUGH DIZZY.

How Prohibition Would Work
in Tennessee-Nrckelson
Springs and The
Water.
This town, McMinnville, is quite a
manufacturing town. They have here
a cotton mill or factory where they
card, spin aud weave the raw material
into cloth. They run sixty-two looms
and about as many hands; however
the operatives in these cotton factories
are mostly women. They also have a
wool factory here where they make
blankets, jeans, flannels etc. We also
find here in operation a spoke and
handle factory, large roller mill and
many other small concerns in which
almost everything that is needed is
made, and this is as it should be.
These people appear to be.very pros
porous; more so than ourselves. But
not more so than we will be when We
like they, go to working up our raw
material at home aud manufacturing
the things needed. I wish our people
would think more of these things and
learn to keep the dollar at home in
stead of rolling it around until it gets
clear out of our State. We can never
become an independent people until
we learn to manufacture our raw ma
terial at home. when We begin like
they, to make everything We need at
home; then, and not till then will We
become an independent people.
Here in this town is located one of
the best female schools in the south.
1t is splendid building situated upon
an elevated position add cost more
than 100000. They also have a
splendid public school for both the
whites and blacks. They have five
magnificent churches and an opera
house, and post office that cost 500, 600
and when we take into consideration
that building here in Tennessee does
not cost half so much as in this coun.
try, your readers can then form some
idea what kind of building that
amount of money would erect. Busi-
ness of all kinds here seems to be up
with the times, except the real estate
business. l find but one real estate
office in the town; the proprietor of
this seems to be gentleman in every
respect, but one who has missed his
calling think; however there appear
ed to be but very little property chang
ing hands, whether it is for the want
of more buyers or more active agent,
L cannot tell But if any of my friends
should wish to retire from business
and are provided with few dollars,
they certainly could not go to more
desirable place to spend their declin-
ing years than right here in McMinn-
vile; neither will it cost them much
to live here in luxury, as one can get
the pest of board and splendid accom-
modations for $500 per week. There
is plenty of small game in the woods
and when one gets tired of the hunt, it
only takes an hour to catch a long
string of speckled trout. This expert
mept the writer tried and when he
cast his hook into the water and the
first fish sas drawn out, oh, how WV
idly and pleasing his boyhood days
did return to him, when lad sitting
upon the bank of the mountain streams
away back in old Virginia. Oh,
youthful days come back, come back!
How well do we remember when our
parents used to march US up from the
banks of the little creek upon which
we lived, our face down, a tear in our
eve. and dragging our fishing pole,
while mother followed close in our
wake with a pole just little shorter
than our own by which our progress
was gifted. These are indeed both
Glad and I'D thoughts, and we can
but wish now that We could be prod
ded with that sane pole in the same
hand as then.
This appears to a Kansan TO De a
lonesome country indeed. LII TACT
never knew what the western WINDS
were good for until now. They keep
one company; it's SO still here that it
seems that we can hear whispers creep
ing all over the land and the whistle
of the red bird appears to make as
much racket as the scream of the loco
motive does in Kansas.
Nv old friend Mr.. ]. G. and have
Just returned from trip over in Coffee
county and did not like appearances OF
things over there. The SSH is thin
and yellow aud not very productive.
However we notice many fine large
orchards here as well as in Warren
coanty. Apple brandy was set out to
us at every house at which we chanc-
cd 10 stop. But as We were the repre-
seutatixes of prohibition State. We of
course partoek lightly. when we did
not refuse entirely; however my old
friend J. G.. liked that country very
much from come cause, ana declared
hisin.ention of going back. Wefo< I'D
that OLD southern hospitality still ex-
,st,ng thee as it did many years ago.
We ate dim, ar, supper and breakfast,