Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-10-25
BENTZ IN GEORGIA.
TELLS HIS FRIENDS ALL ABOUT 1T
The Climate. the soil and the People-EX-
poets to Remain and Likes the Place.

DEAR SIR will now endeavor to
write you few lines as requested.
/ There were so many friends who asked
me to write that | cannot write to all.
We arrived here Friday night about
dark and put up at the Colony House,
which is kept by a widow lady from
Nebraska. Oran is staying with John
Shered's family and is enjoying himself
as we'll as anybody can. L asked him
/ last night ifhe felt as though ne wanted
to 90 back to Plymouth, and he said
20 that he had not seen all of this
country yet. l am very well contented
and am working in the Colony Cos.
saw mill until l can get my bill for
/ lumber sawed out. Then will quit
and put up my building. There IS a
great demand for lumber here. / think
[ will get mine in day or SO. People
are coming in every day. Mr.. Fitz-
gerald arrived Friday night. He has
changed the plan for the city two or
three times, SO last week the head men
here stopped the surveyors until he
could come They will go to work in
the morning again and push it to COM
pletlon. The two principal streets Will
be l20 feet wide with a row of shade
trees through the center. The street
running east and west will be called
broadway. The one running north
and south Will be called Main. The
streets south of Broadway Will be
named after Southern Generals and
hose north after Northern Generals.
/ The cross streets are to be eighty feet
wide. The depot Is to be located at the
east end of the town. The town is %
extend fourteen blocks each way and
each block or square to be 400 feet.
Well, this is enough about the town at
this writing.
They think that the allotment Of
town lots and iive-acre lots Will be made
about the first Of November, and l
hardly think now that / will put up my
building until that is made, as it would
have to be moved SO soon. Ny opinion
about the land here IN the colony Is
that it has some very poor land at the
north side but the farther south we 81
the better it is. 1t is the same here as
everywhere; You will find good and
BAD lands The land lays very nice and
has splendid drainage "Talk about
ailigators i have not seen any nor
have l seen anybody who says they
have. Nor have l seen any place
where 1 thought there was likely to be
any. Of course there is some low land,
but it can easily be drained. | think
the health here is as good as the aver
age place John Riley and family have
been sick ever since coming here, but
they first lived at Lulaville and there
used water out Ola well that had stood,
nobody knows how long, without being
cleaned out. am told by good author
ity that they all got sick about the
same day and have been sick ever since
They are up and around now. | saw
John last night: he was after a doctor
for his wife, whom he said was in bed
all day. He looks very poor and pale
and ii the report about the well is true
it could not be ex ,ected but that they
would be sick.
When | first came here could hardly
drink the water. 1t is warm and L
imagined it tasted like pine, but can go
It pretty well now and never felt better
III my life The nights are cool and
nice to sleep. 1t seems very warm in
the sun but just step in the shade and
you soon cool off as there is always
nice breeze. | sleep i'll the northwest
corner of the building upstairs. The
house hasn't got pane of glass in it
and there are twenty-one windows in
the second story. There is one at the
head of my bed and one at the side of
it. They have doors hung on hinges
and the one at the side of my bed does
not close by about eight inches and the
cracks are not batted, SO there is draft
all of the time and the consequence is
catch little cold every night.
] was at church last Sunday and
heard a man from Evansville, Ind,
preach. There were sixteen people
there and only two ladies and one little
girl in the audience. Was at church
again to-day. There were eleven men
and one lady present, SO you see it is
not the ladies who make up the congre-
CATION here as it is there, although there
are quite number of ladies here. They
, hold services in the school house about
half a mile west of the burg.
The northern people pretty near split
their sides laughing at the hogs and
cattle they have in this country. The
hogs hams are about as thick through
as my hand. We call them razor-back
They have long shouts and could al
, most drink from the bottom of a jug.
The natives think if they have cow
NJ . ~ Of IL