The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-15
ST a Year in Advance.
Proud of Taney.

Proud of Taney.
Des Moines, Iowa, July 8, 1909.
Editor Republican,
Forsyth, Mo.
AS Taney county boy again wish
to come in touch with the citizens of
my old home on the sunny side of the
Ozarks.
For almost five years I have seen
but little of Taney, having spent more
than two years of this time in the
Springfield Normal school, one and one
quarter years in Highland Park College,
Des Moines, Ia, and one year as book
keeper for the American Life Insur-
ance Co., which position I now hold.
Although I completed my course in
Highland Park College in May '08 I
am graduating and taking the degree
of B. Accts. the 2oth inst with the
OO dao W CldSSSS.
While I am the only Taney county
boy in Des Moines, so far as I know,
I am not the only person in this city
who is interested in Taney county.
Two of the teachers in Highland Park
College have an interest in farm, at
Holllster, Mo-, sometimes spoken of
as the Des Moines Chicken Farm.
When I came back from southern
Missouri few days since, some of the
people in Des Moines who are inter-
ested in Taney came to my boarding
house with long list of written ex-
animation questions, I suppose, and I
took an examination equally as diff
cult too as any have taken in school
for sometime. I don't know what
grade made, but I learned that peo-
pie in Iowa are anxious to know what
the prospect in Taney are for fruit,
mineral, grazing and agriculture. I
was asked in partiular if the frost de-
stroyed this year, on the large pear
orchard near Hollister" If some
citizen and booster for Taney wished
to interest people outside of the county
and state I am sure he could do so
in writing an article on the growth
and development of that section of the
Ozarks during the past three or four
years"
One will not wonder whence the
expression Beautiful, picturesque
southern Missouri when he visits the
pear orchard and clubhouse at Hollis
ter. I think that is one of the most
beautiful and promising spots in the
state. I recently crossed Missouri
from east to west and from north to
south and in no part of the state have
I seen anything that surpasses the
beauty and granduer of scenery near
Hollister, in my home county. If
some of you old farmers who are al
ways grumbling about the rocks, ticks
and discomforts you are experiencing,
will take day off and visit one of the
garden spots of the world you will re-
enter your own gates with new ideas,
new ideals perhaps, renewed energies,
greater ambitions and a new lease on
life. Nothing will do man more good
than to go out from home once In a
while and see what other people are
doing and what the most progressive
anxious to do. (Then boost with all
your might for Taney.) The man who
is booster; an optimist, always gets
more out of life than knocker; a
pessimist.
Taney county county is in need OF
more hustling ambitious farmers who
can see what a great future she has,
Ct say great future, and many OF US
will live to realize IT'D men who will
help convert the whole county into
Just such spot as that great young
pear orchard at Hollister, then the eyes
of the world will turn to her for un-
excelled beauty, granduer and wealth.
Very truly,
GEO. r. RANSHAW.