The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-02-25
a Kansas Letter.
STOCKTON. KANs Feb. IA, 1.

STOCKTON, KANs Feb. IA, 1909.
EDITOR RRpORTRR:-I am great deal
like these awful storms we have been
having come again. But it has been
quite while since ] wrote letter for
the Reporter, SO l thought l would
write and tell you we are getting tired
of these billiards., and the last one we
got came direct from that way. 1t
makes us think we surely have a few
enemies back there and sending this
storm to give us one thought of yoa
people which l read in the paper are
surely suffering more then we are. 1t
makes me think iC is good for us to be
here.
Our storm we are having now at the
present time commenced yesterday |
evening and continued all night long
and this morning when we woke up we
were almost blockaded from going out
doors it drifted so upon the walk and
against the door, and if anything it is
worse now than it was this morning.
Last Tuesday we had a real bad one too.
There was man going home from
town he had been hauling wheat with
two pair Of side boards on and he went
to stoop over to put on the lock and the
wagon run into rut and his weight
force it broke a blood vessel in his
head and killed him. They intended to
have the funeral today but could not on
the account of the storm. | will next
tell you about our health we have been
having this fall and winter. have
been sick ever since the middle of
! November and last Wednesday was the
first time ! have been Off the place
since the above date. was in bed
steady for five weeks. | have been up
three weeks am not stout yet but
am gaining right along each day. Orr
had gathering on his thumb last fall,
and blood poison was ready to set in
when he went to the doctor. We have
all been having bad colds on our lungs
all winter, but every one around here
have had the same thing and great
many deaths from pneumonia. also
see by the paper you people have been
having that too. | don't see how we
could get along without the Reporter.
! We storm almost as bad as it is storm
ing now when the Reporter dosen't
come. Orr says we are coming back to
Iowa this fall on visit if it takes the
| price of COW.
My mother and father have moved on
their farm thirty. one miles south east
of us just over in the edge of Osborne
county, they drove over to see me when
was real bad sick. We intend to
drive over there as soon as the weather
gets nice and get stronger.
Talk about dancing they have two out
here too your one back there, but it
dosen't bother us any at all. see by
the Davis City items that my sister-in
law is back there now on visit. |
don't expect you would hardly know
the children they have grown so fast,
Irene and Birchem 60 to school every
day they are learning real fast; Irene is
in the fourth reader she is nine years
old and Birchem is ready for the sec
ond he is seven years old. Well run
out of any thing to write yesterday
evening and must tell you | did not
get any valentines either. But I must
say | got more presents this xmas than
| have gotten for great many years
and they were all nice ones too. must
not forget to tell you that this is a
quiet sunsbinny morning, it makes il
seem more like sunny Kansas. Ou'
wheat looks fine SO far and we had 9
good corn crop in spite Of the big floods
q we had in June last yoar. There was q
cloud burst up above us two miles ano
the water came with foOC raise Al
once and the stream reached from bluff
= to bluff until it came within ono hun
, dred feet of our house, and the Solomon
river got out of it's banks all over thu
bottom until it took houses and cattle
hogs and few horses.
We have ten milk cows and we in
tend to get us crank separator thi
spring, and butter and eggs are tn
same price now, % cents. Cream stay
good price all summer long, the peopl
make more money in cattle and chicken
than anything else. The land is raisin
right along now. expect had bt tie
J ring off for this time or the edito
4 won't care nything about getting an
more letters from me, it will take u
y too much of his advertising pages. S
q good bye to you all. remain as eve
= MRS ORR STONE.