Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-04-19
has MADE GooD IN his EFFORTS
will Adams Writes of the Old Home
and New Work

FRIEND MUNsoN: read in the CEN
SoR that you would be glad to hear
from 'old Vernon countyites'' and as
am sending you a check to nav for
the ''Old Reliable" thought | would
contribute few lines.
| was born and raised in Vernon coun-
ty and lived there nearly thirty years.
II is thirteen years next fall since
left there, and although / have made
good in every position | have held and
we have good people everywhere, there s
very warm spot in my heart for Old
Vernon. Sometimes after have read
the CENSOR and the many items about
| people | know, | am, as the Germans
/ say, struck with "wanderlust, FOR per-
haps homesickness (if cared to admit
it,. | have ''call to the Wild to get
back into the woods with my dog and
gun or a strong desire to fish in the Old
Klckapoo where so my happy days were
spent. | wonder if many others who
are away in the land of paradise" ev-
er feel as | do?
Sometimes when l read letters from
former Vernon county people who have
found some Elysian field or tabled foun-
tain. wonder if it is really true. Since
/ leaving Wisconsin | have lived in vari-
GUS states, and always good ones, too,
but no place is better for the farmer
than in Wisconsin. Land here IN north
eastern Kansas is worth $500 per acre;
farmers. 1t is a good fruit country.
! Winters are milder than in Wisconsin,
but crops are no better. / can not see
why men will leave home and kindred
and friends when they have fine farm
! in Wisconsin,. With US professional
/ a IL 1.
means work, hard work, midnight oil
and strenuous life. "as I. K. puts it.
{ When we succeed our old friends call it
luck.
Since leaving Wisconsin | graduated
from Upper Iowa university, the Uni
versity of Minnesota and Taylor univer-
sity. was superintendent of city
schools in North Dakota, Professor OF
Pedagogy in Upper iowa university,
Professor of Education for four years
at Bellevue college university of Oma-
ha). | am on my second year as presi-
dent of Highland college, a Presbyteri-
an school that was founded in 1857.
Since | came we increased our faculty
from six TO sixteen, and our student
body one hundred and fifty per cent
Everything is moving nicely and | have
| had but one case of discipline since
coming here. l like my work and my
success almost surprises myself, but It
comes from preparation and hard work,
not luck. My folks are well ana happy
in the work we have.
| attended the state teachers as
ISOLATION at Topeka this year. There
were five thousand teachers present.
| had the honor to read paper before
the association. Not much like going
into an association where you knew so
many. | knew less than twenty of that
vast throng.
keep in touch with politics in Wis
consin probably as closely as when
lived there and am always talking about
back home and comparing schools here
with our schools. "Breathes there a
man with soul so dead who never to
himself has said, this is my own, my
native land?" read with interest let
tiers from the correspondents from diff
ferent parts of the country, and it
seems but yesterday / commenced
teaching, out it is twenty-five years
ago. How time fiiesl
Well | must close, wishing friends
and readers a happy and prosperous
New Year. w. c. T. ADAMS.
Highland, Kansas.