Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1909-01-09
WINNERS OF FARMS.
ChiCagoans Lucky In Rosebud
Land Drawings Form Society.
JOIN IN ROMANCEs AS WELL.

QUITO WIN lANS 0Tlo0S WIN lU0Ul'
Doubt AssalIs Man Whose Sweet
! 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-
ciation, 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, busi-
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
fense and defense against all the trials
and perils of the new country.
Committees of men fitted by long ex-
perlence 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
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 to
cut down surveyors 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 practical
questions asked by those present and
recorded for study and reply that
Of the furiously blushing young man
who was evidently thinking Of pool
ing interests" with 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
yOh1B Adh anu q JOuhB WOLhuA
draw lands In opposite corners Of the
county would they have each to live
on their own sectiOn"
No one seemed to be sure, but most
of them thought 1t 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 to
win her way on the frontier, and prob
ably every young bachelor is also fully |
aware Of the necessity of 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 meet. |
ings Of winners in Chicago, and 1t is
probable that more than one couple is !
facing the problem Of a possible en-
barrassment Of riches after the allot
ment.
The officers elected were: President, |
G. A. s. Hewlett, an electrical engineer
living at $500 Beacon street; vice pres
ident, William l. Carroll, a decidedly |
eligible young man, said to be still
'tfancy Free" secretary, Miss Frances
M. Ranney, the pretty stenographer
who was the first woman to "file" at
Rosebud last October and serenely GER
tain that she will not again go there
alone; treasurer, DIR. William Hogan,
who drew No. 1923, and who was un-
able to be present because Of an inn
portant 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 commit
tees are: ]. W. Carter, location; II.
Sowden, transportation; Roscoe Buck,
buildings, and Cornelius Medema, ag-
ripUltura