Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1901-11-15
A JEALOUS MINDED GAIooT.
A Mission Hill Correspondent Who Don't
Like VanOsdel.

The following extract is from ".Snap
Shot" Mission Hill correspondence in
the Yankton Gazette.
"Well the news is little short this
week, only we would like to ask the
editor of the Canton Leader where he
got his information that Hon, A. L. v.
built the Mission Hill church and par
sonage. If he did, where did the peo.
ples money 60 that was given to pay
and also there was part saloon money
that built the church. still Hon. A. l.
gets the credit for everything that is
being built here I guess there are
others In our little village that is doing
business and building up the town, but
aren't blowing about it all over the
country. The people are getting sick
of that talk of the great things that are
done Just because his name appeared
candidate for governor of the state
The editor of the Canton LEADER
didn't say that Mr.. VanOsdel built the
Mission Hill church and parsonage, but
presumed that he might have done it
as he built and paid for nearly every.
thing in Mission Hill when it was
young. He has built most of the town
and paid out more money for the erec'
tion of buildings and permanent i'm
provements than all others combined.
His artificial lake and terrace work and
park cost him a heap of money, and
these beautiful improvements are for
the benefit of all the people and will
become pleasure resort for the young
people of the surrounding country and
for the people of Yankton as we'll.
Every body in Yankton county knows
A. L. VanOsdel and most of them know
that he has made Mission Hill what it
is, He helped to secure the elevators
and built a creamery and he secured
the removal of the East Pierre depot
building to Mission Hill and it is one
of the neatest little depots on the line
Of the Northwestern. 1t was taken
apart at East Pierre and shipped by
rail to Mission Hill. Mr.. VanOsdel
built the first store and put in large
stock of general merchandise and to-
day has probably $4,000 stock of
goods on hand He built an elegant
home on the bluff overlooking his lake
and park and from it one can look
down across the famous Jim river val
lev, and in the distance see the home
of our old friend John Stanage and
farther away to the west stands the
once famous home of Gen. J. BIS. Todd
where now, we believe, the genial Tim
Welby holds forth To the east one
can see the stately spires of 1ver Bag
stad's town-Gayville, and in along the
bluff you can see the former home OF
our old friend John Thompson. 10
the north one can almost see the smoke
of Welchtown, where our old friends
VIM. Walpole, VIM Gemmill, James
Noonan and olher old timers live. Yes,
the home of A. L. VanOsdel at Mission
Hill, is located on commanding posi-
ton, and an old timer can see much
which recalls the glorious days away
back in the 7Os when such unfortunate
people as the writer of ''Snap Shots
would have been taken down to the Jim
and washed and purified with birthstone.
The '''Snap Shot creature who finds
fault with VanOsdel's philan' hropy
must be a worthless cuss, low minded,
with jealousy and like the
trea cherous redskin, has bad heart.
The editor Of the LEADER has known
VanOsdel for 30 years, and knows him
to be one of he biggest hearted men IN
the state, who is known from one end
of the land to the olher as Honest Abe
VanOsdel,' and the Snap Shot brood
will never be entitled to any such re-
spect from the people.
We have no knowledge how Father
Nichols church and parsonage were
built, but we are willing to risk the
statement here and now that Van
Osdel was the prime mover in the mat
ter and the heaviest contributor in cash
and work. We would like to get snap
shot at the snap shot" creature and it
is more than likely we would see a
thing so consumed with jealousy that a
hypocrite would look
decent in comparison.