Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-08-17
st. Peter On Real Estate.
By ALocAL POET.

BY 4 LOCAL POET.
Old Peter stood by the Goli. IL Gate
With solemn mein and air t..'ate
Watching for people from = rsh below
His business to tell them VIII. b way to 20.
When up comes with wondrcus stride
Aud at sight of Peter b.. hat. and sighed.
Are yon the keeper of the g, 'a. said he?
Saint Peter nodded ard said be.
Whence came you, dra sir will tell me
He told him be came N, 4 from Missouri Valley,
have come, aid he, from q ut good old place
Expecting to win home in -ace.
l am Shouting EvangA lot ", crt ed,
And to say much more Their. need
have read the Book l h.v said my prayers
l have made my family all theirs
SO please, Mr.. Peter, just LEI me in
As you can plainly see that N free from sin
But Peter just stroked his ~, ,,,ns beard
And said things are .st lad rard
So he turned and opened 'n-trous b ok,
And at this mans record he ,.ok a look.
i sec, said he, things you say,
but f.ar you must go the other way
see when you left that place down there
You left family in want aid despair,
You left wife and children eleven
Expecting that you should go to heaven
They to live by work of Lan's
While you On singing with Angel bands.
Oh no, said Peter, you carnnt do this
You shall have no home ia eternal bliss.
You had chance by which you cou'd
Have supplied their wants il sna only would
In the town of Missouri Valley f.Om which you
Lives Myers Bl os. OF cheap Ian fame.
Myers Bros of the fat mans race
Has met you often face to face,
An tried to sell you Dakota farm
Which would kept your family from want and harm.
They tried to sell you farm time.
By refusing this you committee a crime.
You spent your money for rum and beer
And now you want to come up here
Leaving widow and children want down there
In cold rented cottage whose floor is bare,
Had you bought 40 acres, had you only done this
You could have Home and chance not missed
So goodbye, Mr.. Man, from Valley town.
From here you are going directly down.
SO he pressed a button upon the wall
And let the trembling victim fall.
He dropped through hole into endless space
With CHASTITY palor upon his face.
And where he went it is easy to tell,
If he had bought some land he would not DO in
As he went through space
He soliloquiZed thus:
l had some money,
And could have bought the Home and the Land
But didn't have the thing some people call sand,
And 1 thought that the agent
Who talked South Dakota Cheap Land
Was Blasted Liar and belonged to band,
Whose only thought was to swipe the "Good'
And leave them standing in the middle OF the road
But now to my
It's beyond my control
And my future occupation
Will be shovelipg COAL
So as moral. 1t should be command
To go to Myers Bros and buy some cheap South Da-
kota Land
Buy it now while it is cheap and just let it lay
Add forget that you it till some future day
It will increase in value time goes On,
1t will keep you from the poor house when your
friends gone
And be your solid comfort as your "sun goes down"
1t has not been many years since
lat you could buy land i'm Harrison
Dunty at from $50 to $15 per acre.
OH can't do it now!
You can buy land now i'm Beadle.