The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-01-13
THE WINNERS OF FARMS
ChiCagOanS Lucky in Rosebud
Land Drawing Forms Society.
JOIN IN ROMANCES AS WELL

Some Will Take Brides With Them.
Doubt Assails Man Whose Sweet
heart Has Homestead, So Will He
Take Girl or Land? A Gathering
of People of All Sorts and Con-
ditiOnS.
Would you marry girl to go out
into a 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 a problem
to daunt the stoutest heart?
Well, that is one of the problems
presented for the consideration and
possible solution of the Rosebud as
ISOLATION, which was organized in
Chicago the other day.
In all of cosmopolitan Chicago
there probably was no meeting half
as strange as that held in a little
lodge room at 112 Fifth avenue
men and women from every walk of
life, business men, street car con-
ductors, widows, professional men,
farmers, stenographers, clerks, peo-
pie differing radically in every mag
Unable particular, the winners of the
drawings for homesteads on the
Rosebud reservation, the people who
are to populate a county. Sixty farm
winners, many accompanied by their
wives and daughters, attended the
meeting.
All sorts and conditions of men
were gathered in that room, know
ing that chance has thrown them to-
gether for the remainder of their
lives and determined, says the Chica-
go Tribune, to cooperate in firm
union for offense and defense against
all the trials and perils of the new
country.
Committees of men fitted by long
experience to deal with certain prob
lens were formed, and to these ques-
lions may be submitted by any mem
bers. The chosen experts will con-
slider carefully matters OF agriculture,
what to plant, when to plant it, how
to take care of it, matters of trans
portatiOn, how to pool shipments in
carload lots and thus reduce railroad
rates, how to make further reduc-
lions by cooperative teaming, mat
ters of building, what to build, how
to build, the possibility of living in
tents or portable buildings, the cost
of materials, matters of location, how
to get good lands though having
high numbers, how to cut down sur
veyOrs' 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 prac-
teal questions asked by those pres
ent and recorded for study and reply
that of the furiously blushing young
man who was evidently thinking of
pooling interests" with a feminine
winner was the most interesting.
Must every one have his home on
the quarter section he draws? he
asked, and being satisfied, or possibly
dissatisfied, on this point, proposed
the following problem: But if a
young man and a young woman
should draw lands in opposite cor
ners of the county would they have
each to live on their own section?"
No one seemed to be sure, but
most of them thought it would be a
case of ''the lady or the 100 acres. -
Romance permeated the meeting,
as it is an indisputable fact that
every one of the young women win
ners will have to take a helpmeet
with her to win her way on the
frontier, and probably every young
bachelor is also fully aware of the
necessity of a woman on a 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
meetings of winners in Chicago, and
it is probable that more than one
couple is facing the problem of a
possible embarrassment of riches
after the allotment
The officers elected were: Presi-
dent, G. A. S. Hewlett, an electrical
engineer living at $500 Beacon
street; vice-president, William l.
Carroll, a decidedly eligible young
man, said to be still fancy free; -
secretary, Miss Frances NJ. Ranney,
the pretty stenographer who was the
first woman to ''file" at Rosebud last
October and serenely certain that
she will not again go there alone;
treasurer, Dr. William Hogan, who
drew No. 1928, and who was unable
to be present because of an impor-
tant 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 COM
mittees are: J. w. Carter, location :;
H. Sowden, transportation; Roscoe
Buck, buildings, and Cornelius Mede-
ma, agriculture.
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