New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-12-23
WINNERS OF FARMS,

Chicagoans Lucky In Rosebud
Land Drawings Form Society.
JOIN IN ROMANcEs AS WELL.
Some Will Take Brides With Them.
! Doubt AssaiIs Man Whose Sweet
heart Has Homestead, So Will He
Take Girl or Land7
Would you marry girl to go out
into new country and build home
with you with the chance of having to
live for the first five years of your
married life on farms separated by
thirty miles of prairie? In addition to
that, make the girl pretty-the girl, in
fact-and isn't it problem to daunt
the stoutest heart?
Well, that is one of the problems
presented for the consideration and
. pOSS1Dlc SOlullOu VI thC ANooOOuo ASSN
citation, which was organized in Chi
cago the other day.
In all of cosmopolitan Chicago there
probably was no meeting half as
strange as that held in little lodge
room at 112 Fifth avenue-men and
women from every walk Of life bust
ness men, street car conductors, wild
ows, professional men, farmers, stenog-
raphers, clerks, people differing radi-
cally in every imaginable particular,
the winners of the drawings for home
steads on the Rosebud reservation, the
people who are to populate a 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 e.
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 tC
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 t.
cut down surveyors expenses, how tx
locate in .'strings of Fortress" how tt
"pocket" valuable land, how to poo
interests and force the location Of fowl
sites. All questions will be answered
and the printed results distributed tt
; members.
But among all the Intensely practica
questions asked by those present ant
recorded for study and reply that
= Of the furiously blushing young maj
who was evidently thinking Of pool
ing interests with a feminine winner
was the most interesting.
"Must every one have his home OF
the quarter section he draws?" h
asked, and, being satisfied, or possibl,
satisfied, on this point, proposed
the following problem: But If ;
young man and a young woman should
draw lands in opposite corners of tn
county would they have each to liv
on their own section?"
p, No one seemed to be sure, but mos
of them thought it would be case o
"the lady or the 16O acres"
L Romance permeated the meeting, a
it is an indisputable fact that ever.
one of the young women winners viii
have to take a helpmeet with her t
win her way on the frontier, and prob
ably every young bachelor is also full,
aware Of the necessity Of a woman Of
, a farm.
Then, too, almost every one know
every one else. There was the trip GU
on the excursion train, the stay at TIL
land Office town, the informal meet
ings of winners in Chicago, and it i
probable that more than one couple
facing the problem of possible en-
barrassment of riches after the allot
ment
The officers elected were: President
y, G. A. S. Hewlett, an electrical enginee
living at $500 Beacon street; vice pres
ident, William I. Carroll, decided
eligible young man, said to be sti
fancy free;;'' secretary, Miss France
M. Ranney the pretty stenographe
who was the first woman to file" 8
Rosebud last October and serenely ce
tain that she will not again go ther
:. alone; treasurer, DR.. William Hogan
who drew No. 1923, and who was III
able to be present because of an in
" portant engagement with Miss Edit
d Garvey. Dr.. Hogan and Miss Carve
expect to spend their honeymoon O
the Rosebud next June.
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