The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-17
Old Kenosha Boys in Nebraska Anx-
ious to Arrange For an Annual
"Home Coming Day. Here.
OLD TIMERS LONG TO GET HOME
Kenosha County Boys who Have Gone to
Nebraska In the Past Few Years Are
Making Great Success.
Milford. Neh.. Sept. 9th. 1908.

Milford, Neb., Sept. 9th, 1908.
Editor EVENING News, Kenosha, Wis.
Dear Sir:-I read with pleasure in
your issue of the 9th ult., your article
on Home Coming Da. and would
gladly second the motion. have
been resident of this place for thirty
four years, and nothing gives me
greater pleasure than a visit to old
Kenosha county. My earliest recollec-
tions date back to 1916 when I lived
as child on the east bank of Silver
lake in the town of Salem, long time
before any railroad was built in the
county. | believe if your people were
to arrange for an annual "Home Com
ing" that I could fill coach each year
with former residents of Kenosha
county. There are many members of
the old regiments here who are always
glad of an opportunity to revisit their
old home. Among our prosperous
citizens here from Kenosha county
may be mentioned Ed Healey, Il. 0.
Rector, c. E. Morefeld, Frank More
field, Frank Smith, C. He'll, w. He'll,
Hugh Hunter, John Hunter, George
Garland, W. Garland, James WEIGH,
T. H. Bishop, Oscar Bishop, Charles
Bundy, O. D. Wicks, Mrs. Bradshaw,
Jennie Prosser, F. E. Chapman, Fred
Van Vie train dispatcher for the r. &
M. at Lincoln. c. E. Morefe1d, one
of our County Commissioners, came
here in 1873 with next to nothing ex-
cept pair of horses and wagon. He
is now one of our leading farmers
owning half section of beautiful
farming land valued at SIS an acre
with fine lot of buildings and stock
of all kinds. George Garland came in
1869 and located in Lancaster county
twelve miles east of Lincoln. He now
has one of the best improved farms in
that county consisting of $40 acres ad-
joining the village of Prairie Home,
for which George has refused 500 an
acre. Tom Bishop is another of our
lucky ones having 480 acres with a fine
herd of cattle and plenty of other per-
sonal property and bank stock.
I am somewhat amused at your
rural free delivery business. I hear
you have city of between $4,000 and
15,0 900 people with densely populated
country about you, and not a route
running out from your city, while our
village of Milford, with a population
of 700, has three routes out from her
Office, two of which have been in op.
Grafton more than three years and the
third one two years. am somewhat
proud of the fact, however, that my
routes were among the very first es-
tablished in the state or in this part of
the United States. Ihave had charge
of the postof6ce here for the last FIVE
years. In that time the money order
business has increased from 5000 to
over $1,000 month without the loss of
dollar.
Crops in Nebraska are excellent.
Farming land in this vicinity is worth
from $50 to SIS an acre. We are now
holding the most successful state fair
ever held in the history of the state.
The paid attendance yesterday being
over 10000 and the fastest horse in the
world lowered his own record.
would like to suggest the first week
in June or the first week in October, or
about that time, for "Home Coming"
or possibly the same week as the old
settlers meet. Yours sincerely,
THOMAS A. HEALEY.