The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-28
Oklahoma Letter.
Jet, Oklahoma, Jan. q,


Jet, Oklahoma, Jan. %, 1904.
EDITOR REpoRTER:-As promised
when left Decatur county to write a
few lines to your paper, and as left a
great many friends to whom promised
to write, will try to write to them all,
so here we go. left Leon on the 18th
of August, 1902, when the corn wasn't
quite in roasting ear, and landed in
Pond Creek August 18th, where the
corn was ripe and the farmers were
hauling it to market. 1t did look
strange to me. This is much different
country from Iowa. Wheat is the prin-
cipal crop here. We raise corn, Katfir
corn, cane and alfalfa hay which made
three to four crops this year. We had
the banner wheat crop this year, yield
ing from twenty to thirty-three bushels
per acre. There wasn't as much wheat
sowed last fall as usual as the ground
was most to dry to pillow. Igot my plow-
ing done in July. All that headed their
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try to travel through as we always have
good roads. 1t can rain every day for a
month and we will still have good roads
Snow is something that we don't know
much about down here as we have had
no snow and only two rains this winter.
We haven't had any winter yet. We
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with the doors open and haven't had a
fire in the heating stove but one day in
week. When came here l bought
four tons of hay and | wintered ten head
Of horses and cattle last winter and
have about ton and half left over.
haven't fed my stock thing this winter
just let them run on my wheat, and
don't expect to feed any as / have
seventy five acres of wheat to pasture.
We had big peach crop this year. We
had peaches to throw at the birds.
They are drilling for oil at Jet, being
down 800 feet and have struck some oil.
They are also going to drill for coal. A
railroad is going to be built half mile
south of my place in the spring, running
east and west, and one five miles east Of
me, running north and south. So you
see we will have plenty of railroads.
Hauling wheat is the order of the day.
1t is worth sixty-four cents. | would
like to hear from Aunt Kate Strong
again. like to read her crazy letters.
If this don't reach the waste basket 1
may write again.
P.S. | almost forgot to tell you was
down to-town yesterday and saw the
farmers blowing and teams grading the
roads. There hasn't been day this
winter that you couldn't pillow.
A. DECK.
A western editor who is blessed with
a bouncing baby boy offers this eloquent
and touching tribute to juvenilia in the
columns of his paper: ga baby serves a
manifold purpose in the world. He
makes men and women more unselfish,
and furnishes the amount of trouble
necessary to keep them comfortably
busy. He sanctifies home, and gives the
doctor an excuse to look wise. A we'll
ordered, well born baby, with red face
and bald head, is a delight, particular
~ when he belongs to a friend, and
doesn't spend nights in your neighbor-
hood. Every baby is the prettiest baby
in the world, and it can be proved by
his mother. A baby that won't eat car
pet tacks, brass headed nails, and young
kittens is mistake. Babies are bosses
and boodlers. They control the First
ward along with the Twelfth, rule out
rageously over the counties, and take
everything that comes their way with
out asking any questions. All babies
are supposed, quite properly, to come
from heaven, but what the angels.
cherubims, seraphim and the rest of the
celestial population do for sleep has
never been inquired into"
The strangest of all happenings in the
histories of American residents occur
red on the 18th of July, 1926, when Jeffer-
son and John Adams passed away stimuli
taneously; Jefferson, the craftsman and
Adams, the great expounder Of the De-
claration of Independence; Adams at
the ripe old age of ninety, Jefferson only
seven years his junior. 81.