The Adair County news., 1909-01-06
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

heart Has Homestead, So Will He
Take Girl or Land7
Would you marry a 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
possible solution of the Rosebud asso-
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 a 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 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
I make further reductions by cO-operat-
ing tearning, 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 poC
interests and force the location of towV
sites. All questions will be answered
I and the printed results distributed to
j members.
/ But among all the intensely practical
questions asked by those present anG
recorded for study and reply thar
! Of the furiously blushing young man
who was evidently thinking of ''poo'-
ing interests" with feminine winner
was the most interesting.
"Must every one have his home or
the quarter section he draws" h
asked, and, being satisfied, or possibly
dissatisfied, on this point, PROPOSED
the following problem: But if 2
young man and a young woman should
draw lands in opposite corners of tn
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 case of
"the lady or the 160 acres"
Romance permeated the meeting, as
it is an indisputable fact that every
one of the young women winners will
have to, take helpmeet with her f;
win her way on the frontier, and prcb-
ably every young bachelor is also full
aware of the necessity of woman on
a farm.
Then, too, almost every one know;
every one else. There was the trip gu,
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 possible en-
barrassment of riches after the allot-
ment II
The officers elected were: President.
C. A. S.. Hewlett, an electrical engineer
+ living at $500 Beacon street; vice pres
ident, William l. Carroll, decided
eligible young man, said to be still
clancy free" secretary, Miss Frances
M. Ranney, the pretty stenographel
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. '2323, an6 who was un-
able to be present because of an i'm
portant engagement with Miss Edith
Carney 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, as