The Worthington advance., 1894-07-26
RANSOM TOWNSHIP.

closed last week, Miss Ida Dow,
teacher. The week before school
closed in district No. l9 Graves, }
Miss Celia Prideaux, teacher. We
believe the summer term of school in
all the districts in town was we'll at
tended, and the schools satisfactory.
A good part of the grain in this
town IS cut. Barley is poor and SO
short that there is much waste in
handling it. Wheat and oats are
better though not full crop. Corn
is good, and fortunately many farm
ers have larger acreage than usual.
M. N. Loren has fifty acres of as fine
corn as one need wish to see. In this
neighborhood the crops taken alto
gether are very fair, much better than
some weeks ago, we could have ex'
pected,S
We 90 not like to give stale news,
neither do we like to omit speaking
of SO pleasant a little gathering as
was had here quite recently. The
young people of this neighborhood
had an ice cream social one evening
lately in the grove of r. Prideaux.
Ice cream by moonlight, they sa y, is
just thelthing. quite goodly num-
Der We're present, some from Rush
more and from Bigelow, and all re-
port having had good time. Mr..
Millar, grain buyer of Bigelow, help
ed very much to make the evening
enjoyable by rendering some choice
selectiaa .ef music. NJ. Millar; ll![il l is
making some substantial improve
ments on his elevator at Bigelow, and
is getting everything in readiness for
a big fall trade. If there is anything
in good name Mr.. Millar has got it,
for he is highly spoken of by those
who have known him for years.
Speaking of crops, Mrs. L. M.
Guernsey got a letter few days ago
from son who lives near Parker, S.
D., in which the writer draws very
discouraging picture of the state of
things in that country. They have
had no rain, he writes, since the first
of May except two light showers,
each of which wet the ground to the
depth of one inch. Flax never came
up; late-planted corn the same. He
had 16 acres of barley on corn-stalk
ground, and from the Is acres he got
five loads of barley and stalks, mostly
stalks. From 18 acres of oats he got
four loads of loose oats. One of his
neighbors had 40 acres of oats, cut
"a acres, and got little over five
loads. He hopes to get four or five
bushels of wheat to the acre, which is
about all the crop he will have. If
they do not get rain within week or
two at farthest, all hopes of a corn
crop will be gone. Much of it is al
ready past help. Some farmers are
cutting their corn for fodder, as hay
is about out of the question. Pota-
toes are about the size of hickory nuts.
To the farmers in that section the
prospect, surely is gloomy one.
Sometimes when we feel disposed to
murmur, it would be we'll to look
away from home; if we would do so,
we should find that there are plenty
of people in the world much worse off
than we are. The truth is, all things
considered, this is favored section.
In the twenty years or over that this
country has been settled, except in
the bitter days of the grasshopper,
there has never been anything like so
near complete failure of crops as
has been experienced this year in Sec
tions of the Dakotas. Mobiles county
is not bad place to live in after all.
F, ROBERT SHORE.
With a Marked Accent.
Friend Does the baron, your SON.
in-law, speak with much of an ac-
cent?
Richpurse-He did when he dis
covered how I had fixed his wife's