Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-10
SLEIGHING is FINE. AND
WEATHER NICE IN CANADA
Mrs. Agnes BIeuer-Swartz, Formerly of
This City, Writes from New
Home in Saskatchewan.

Morse, Saskatchewan, Canada, Jan. |
29.-Editor Argus: Perhaps many
are thinking that this country is froze
up and showed in this time of the year,
as it was in 1906 and 1907. No, one
could not wish for finer winter than
the one we are now experiencing We
can say that the weather is grand.
We have an average of about 30 to %
days of beautiful sunshine in every
month, the coolest weather We have
had being 20 below zero, and that was
only one night. Before and after that
the mercury has been lowering around
40 above and zero.
Snow? No, we have not an over
plenty, about six or eight inches on the
level and just enough for excellent
sleighing. Say! let that U. S. A. club
come up and we will give you one of
the finest sleigh rides you ever ex-
perienced and there are plenty of
bachelors to fill all vacancies if there
happens to be any without an escort,
as there are scores of those poor fell
lows that are just dying for an expert
cook. We have had two bad storms
so far this winter, and they only lasted
about six or eight hours, and then the
snow was never flying so badly that
one could not see 100 feet. Say, how
about the Ice Man down there? Guess
he will have TO retire to the woods
We might send you down a little Jack
Frost. just enough to keep cool, when
its IS in the cellar. Guess the equator
must be moving north
All you gentlemen that are in any
way at all inclined to be of the sports
man order just pack up your guns
next spring and move north and if we
cannot show you more ducks, geese
and white swans in five minutes than
you ever have seen in your life you
can board here for a month This is
saying nothing of the four-footed game
such as deer. antelope. lynx. fox,
wolves. coyotes. badgers and jack rab-
bits. There are also prairie chickens
and snipe and We are only % miles
from one of the largest rivers in Can
ada. the Saskatchewan. where the fish
abound in millions. The land around
here, generally speaking. is rolling in
Isome places. rather too rough for
farming purposes. but is fine for graz.
ing. People let their stock run out
the year around and the rich prairie
grass puts on fat that would put Iowa
and Illinois corn to shame. while in
the farming line wheat oats and bar
ley and the finest kind of vegetables
and root crops can be grown in abun.
dance.
Speaking of pests. we have some
, dear little friends-here in the shape
of mosquitoes, they have bill that is
; about foot long and tempered very
, fine During their stay, which is from
about the 1st of June until the LIST Of
September, person is not safe Il
venture outside of a wire screen with
, tout protection on the face and hands
| While the live stock does not seem tC
5 mind them as much. they can keeI
] one guessing some when he wants tt
work. Imagine a very large swarm o
! lbees clustering on a person and yol
D have them.
Laying all jokes aside on the mos
quito question. we do certainly hav'
r the finest summer one could wish, TO
| the days are long and the nights yer
J, short. You can imagine how long tn
days are when it gets daylight abou