The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-04-30
Kansas Letter.
STOCKTON, KAs., April 10, 1908

STOCKTON, KAS., April 10, 1908.
EDITOR REPoRTER.-I will once more
send letter to be put in the Reporter
but if this should happen to be thrown
in the waste basket it would not make
much difference anyway. have been
thinking about writing for some time
but would not until it rained, SO last
Thursday it happened to rain some how
a little, enough to make the things
blossom out and the wheat has just
doomed ever since so will venture to
say that if Kansas could only get the
rains, that it can produce more than the
Iowa soil; but that is the only drawback
that Kansas has got, and as far as health
is concerned, would not ask for any
better place. Our stock is looking fine
and old Tuck is looking better than |
ever saw him and he is getting old too.
think by me speaking his name most
of the readers will understand which
horse meant as Orr has had him ever
since knew him and that has been IA
years ago. Well this isn't very inter-
esting, SO / will tell you little about
the market, butter is 20 cents per pound,
eggs IL cents dozen, and alfalfa seed
IS. per bushel. We sold SO bushels off
of seven acre patch. Orr has put in
another field of it and that is what
makes the land sell out here. We have
our garden made and potatoes planted.
Orr intends to go to listing corn Tues
day. He has 20 acres to attend this
year, but he has two rowed weeder to
attend it with. We are blessed with
plenty of snakes and centipedes out
here, | don't expect you folks would
know one Of the last things that men,
toned if you would see one. | forgot
to mention the price of wheat and corn.
The wheat is from 90 cents to 81. per
bushel and corn from go cents to ITO
per bushel. l tell you chicken feed is
mighty high too. People raise lots Of
chickens out here because it is dry
most Of the time. But we do have floods
sometimes. get letters from quite a
few back there so expect this will
sound old to them. | would like to be
| back there a while to see my best
| friends and the new court house that
Leon has needed for so long. The chill
dren are all we'll or at least you would
think so if you could only see them once.
You know this is Easter Sunday and
must not tell you how many eggs we
have got away with today. We have
oOSh w A0uilody SSuOoA ooAuJ dhu PhSoSh-
ing too. Our school house is 40 rods
from the house SO we can run down in a
few minutes. Remember we live y
miles from town and we have to go to
church in school house, but we feel
just as good anyway. We are going to
have lots of fruit if nothing happens to
it from now on.
Our mail comes past our door, and we
have telephone too, so you see we are
not so bad for accommodations as few
think we are. think there is some
thing getting wrong back there with
you people; never get a Reporter any.
more but what there is suicide in it
You don't hear of that out here only
once in a great while. Well expect
had better ring off or the editor cant
find any room for his adds so | will say
good bye for this time.
Yours respectively,
MRS. ORR STONE.
P.S. Oh, yes; forgot to tell you
have my old wooden hen set the SECOND
time and II hens setting besides.