Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-01-31

N COUNTY, MINNESOTA
STORY WITH A MORAL
Iowa Mans Adventures in
Our Wild Minne-
John Wise of Flint, Iowa. finding
himself with his large family some
what cramped on his little 40.acre
farm and with boys growing whe
would s9on want little land for
themselves. wrote postal card to a
land man, who had short ed ia
Johns home paper, and after reading
the circular the agent sent him,
found he could buy 180 acres Of
Minnesota land with the money re
could get for his little 40-acre farm
so after q council of war with bis
family and against the repeated
warnings of his neighbors not to
venture his life among the Indians
and wolves of the frozen North and
the dangers of drowning in It's
swamps John packed his grip, strapped
on a big Colts 6 shooter. and landed at
Little Falls one dark night on the
evening train and wss very much
relieved to lind the land man from
whom he had the circular, waiting to
escort him to q lodging house, and
when he walked down to breakfast
the next morning and saw the build
ing was of brick, not logs as he
Supposed, and when he stepped on q
cement sidewalk and noticed the dre
court house, brick churches, library,
hospital buildings, etc., he rushed
back: to the hotel to ask if it was not
a mistake and it he had not been
landed in st. Paul instead Of Little
tSlls:~ Very much da1ed and % one
in dream, he stationed himself 10 tho
soft cushioned rig the agent drove up
to bis hotel and instead Of being
driven out into wilderness of tamarac
eWamps and corduroy reads, finely
improved fields Of timothy and clover,
graded roads r. +. D. boxes, school
houses, etc, met bis astonished oyes
on all sides and when the sgeut
pointed ont q nice field of plow land
and q large meadow ell ready for the
mower, right in sight of this hpe
city and explained this was the 100
he had written him about, Joan
nearly tainted, but when he passed
the agent go to mod tie desl and
was assured bis contract would be
ready for him in time for bis farm.
John broke down and With great tears
streaming down his cheeks drew forth
the deadly 6-shooter and in q broken
voice t Id the agent his ideas Of this
country few days ago, and now. that
where he expected to find a wilderness
he found land of clover, and where
be expected to lind Indians he had
aonud white men. and to- prove bis
faith insthe agent and the country,
he took the deadly 0.shooter bv the
muzsls and cast it with oil his
strength into the river. Now gentle
reader. does it not strike yoc as queer
that there at Q many men with large
families like john who live for many
years on a small 40-acre farm and
often that home hew I'd out of large
timbers and fields cleared where the
stumps are to s feet through. and
unless they are offered $50 or &lO0
Per acre they don't get pay for clear.
Jog, and when a country like this has
land all open and begging some one to
tn the soil who know it. men like
John are too busy in their fight fol
bread to look up the facts that there
are many vacant fields slready cleared,
and empty business and residence
property in our city that would be
glady taken if you would look them
up and tell them about 1t now.
The merchants aud- business men
Of the city offer prizes, have stree,
fairs put in q grain buyer to boost
prices q little, fix up q certain road q
little, oil for the one idea to induc:
the few farmers We have now to dt
all their trading here, but you forget
that there are 100 farms around tli.
city that have no farmer to cone il
and trade now.
After John Wise moved to the city
in 3 years he paid carpenter $3.50
a lum Der concern $500, the hard " ar,
men $500, forriturs men $500
barness'maker 500, grocers $500
clo,hiers $500. drog2izts 800. dentist
800, doctors $3.50, blacksmith *75
chuches 500. Insurance 800. hatcher
$lAO, taxes $500, banks $500, jewsla
$10O, for musical instruments $500
the Dala1ce TO the newspaper NE.
ana lawyes; and s i'll Jou will leave
all the work to the real estate men
This agent spent $40 cash for the al
several rigs, a montn or two Of rent
! telephone, etc. and got snail com
mission. The business Aen al got g
much as tne agent and did not spent
one cent. 70 get the family mere
cAip In your littla share ard GO afte
some farmers TO move on ta:ge vacan
farms. They can walk alope and viii
| come il and trade witn you, but {
few farmers cant support a big city
If you don't get business here yot
will soon have to move. Don't 81
back and fight over the little bushes!
there is in the comfy, but help ge
more business to come to the county
Nc, don't rush Off to Information q
Falls as some arc doing and hel]
them boost, but patch up your ov,
boat before it sinks.
Ex.-Resl Estate.
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