Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

steads on the Rosebud reservation. the
people who are to populate county.
Sixty farm winners, many accom-
panied by their wives and daughters.
attended the meeting.
All sorts and conditions of men were
gathered in that room, knowing that
chance has thrown them together for
the remainder of their lives and de-
termined, says the Chicago Tribune,
to cooperate in a firm union for Of
tense and defense against all the trials
and perils of the new country.
Committees of men fitted by long ex-
perience to deal with certain problems
were formed, and to these questions
may be submitted by any members.
The chosen experts will consider care
fully matters of agriculture, what to
plant, when to plant it, how TO take
care of it, matters OF transportation.
how to pool shipments in carload lots
and thus reduce railroad rates, how TO
make further reductions by co-operat-
ing teaming matters of building, what
to build, how to build, the possibility
Of living in tents of portable build
ings. the cost of materials, matters
Of location, how to get good lands
though having high numbers, how to
cut down surveyors expenses, how to
locate in "strings of forties," how to
pocket valuable land, how to pool
interests and force the location of town
sites. All questions will be answered
and the printed results distributed to
members.
But among all the intensely practical
questions asked by those present and
recorded for study and reply that
Of the furiously blushing young man
who was evidently thinking of pool
ing interests" with feminine winner
was the most interesting.
"Must every, one have his home OH
the quarter section he draws?" he
asked, and, being satisfied, or possibly
, dissatisfied, On this point, proposed
the following problem: But if q
young man and young woman should
draw lands in opposite corners of the
county would they have each TO live
on their own section?"
No one seemed to be sure, but most
of them thought 1t would be case Of
"the lady or the leo acres"
Romance permeated the meeting, as
II is an indisputable fact that every
one of the young women winners will
have to take helpmeet with her TO
win her way on the frontier, and prob
ably every young bachelor is also fully
aware of the necessity of a woman on
| farm
Then, too, almost every one knows
| every one else. There was the trip out
| on the. excursion train, the stay at the
land office town, the informal meet
| ings of winners In Chicago. and it is
| probable that more than one couple is
| facing the problem of a possible en-
| barrassment of riches after the allot-
ment
| The officers elected were: President,
| c. a. S. Hewlett, an electrical engineer
| living at 5000 Beacon street; vice pres
ident, William l. Carroll. a decidedly
| eligible young man, said to be still
fancy free" secretary, Miss Frances
M. Ranney, the pretty stenographer
who was the first woman to "file" at
| Rosebud last October and serenely GER
tain that she will not again go there
alone; treasurer, DR.. William Hogan,
|; who drew No. 1923, and who was I'M
able to be present because of an i'm
portant engagement with Miss Edith
Garvey. DR.. Hogan and Miss Garvey
expect to spend their honeymoon on
the Rosebud next June.
The chairmen of four of the commit.
tees are: J. W. Carter, location: II.
Sowden. transportation; Roscoe Buck
buildings. and Cornelius Medema. ag.
| riculture