Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-15
Local News.

Miller Price of Tyrone, paid his
second visit to Plains Monday.
That genial drummer, and staunch
democrat, Claude Duval, spent Tues
day in our city.
Edwards & Baughman sold two
more quarters ofland to Collingwood
Bros. this week.
John Elder in now on the road
with his "Around the World in 80
minutes" This is first class en-
tertainment, pleasing and instruct
i've.
To be pleasantly entertained, and
have an all around good time, do
not fail to be in Plains, Saturday ev-
ening, Jan. "a, on which date the
Dramatic Company will give short
program, consisting of two hilarious
farces, Kansas Immigrants, and
Hans Won Smash, followed by a
basket social in which every one is
desired to take a prominent part.
Admission 10 cents; ladies bring
ing baskets admitted free.
''What is so rare as day in Jane?"
asked John Russell Lowell. John
never lived in Meade County, else
the substance of his query would
have been, s'What is so rare as a
mid-winter day in Kansas?" At
tracted by the bland softness of the
atmospheric condition yesterday, as
well as to escape the confinement of
busy Office, and to forget for awhile
the dreary monotony of books and
papers, we drove out lover the beau
tiful country surrounding this city.
AS we drove southwark across the
boundless, billowy prairies that
stretch in ever increasing unduta-
tions and inhaled the health giving,
life invigorating ozone, our heart
was filled with gratitude for the lin
itless freedom of the plains, and we
congratulated ourself on our good
judgment in forsaking the east, with
crowded tenements, and sitting in
vironments, and casting our lot with
the sturdy, industrious, intelligent
denizens.of this modern Eden. Our
course took US through the splendid
farm of S. 0. Ball, who came here
from Missouri three years ago and
paid for his farm out of the proceeds
of his frst.year's crop. This is the
farm that last year produced eleven
dollars worth of oats off of three dol
lars worth of ground. The next
place that attracted our attention was
the freehold of Farmer Blsbee, who
came here from Illinois some fifteen
years ago without dollar, but who
has won an independence from the
production of the soil and is now
one of the substantial men of the
community. That fine herd of
Whitefaces that we saw grazing the
luxuriant herbage was all boughtwith
the proceeds from the sale of wheat.
We next passed the farm residence
of A.-V. Angel, another pioneer,
who against the advice of friends
immigrated here from Missouri in
an early day, and his success is in
controvertible evidence of the value
of this land from an agricultural
standpoint. The elegant residence
of VIM. Copple, further on, would
surprise his eastern friends whose
Imagination clings around the old
time dugouts, and soddies of West
ern Kansas. Here and there in ev-
cry direction a modest dwelling ap.
pears, whose owner has taken out
fourteen dollars worth of chips in q
game of freeze out against Uncl;
Sam, and we'll wager odds that Sam.
uel's feet are the first to get cold.
Bursting from the scared stubble
of last year is a living green, tn;
vanguard of the army of Prosperity
that will invade this country mex
summer, commanded by Genera
Wheat.
Such favorable conditions, sucl
visible evidences of material pros
perity, such abundant resources
were never known in the history O
any other country. What halluci
nation is it, what hypnotic infuenc
can it be that holds in its soporii
spell the farmers, the renters of TIL
east when thousands of acres of tn
richest of this worlds domain ar
. lying passive, awaiting only the ag
ency of the toiler to fill with plei
horic fullness the cornucopia of tn
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