Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
PIokISGs FROM NEAR AND FAR
"AnGers Write Home TO Tell Of the
Things and People Elsewhere

G. W. Churchill, Clay Center, Ne.
olaska: Just received copy of your
valuable paper, Vernon county being
my home in boyhoOd days. Makes me
pleased to learn the news from your
city. | was very much interested in
/ learning how the battle had gone be-
tween the vets and drys in Vernon
Land Crawford counties; sorry to read
that your nice ely had been carried by
the liquor element, but was pleased TO
learn that Boscobel and all the towns
on the Kickapoo has gone dry. ! just
jumped up and said, 'buily for the
Kickapoognis" on driving king alcohol
from their midst. consider the saloon
the nesting and Matching place for so
per cent of all the crime committed in
the United States. In Nebraska the
good people are striving hard to do
away with the whisky traffic. We
have the law-that man to obtain a
license to sell intoxicating liquor must
have a good moral character.
Elmer 0rrison, Walla Walla, Wash
ington; The governor of our great
state has designated Invitation Day"
day on which we should write to our
eastern friends and extend to them
cordial invitation to come and visit US
and get acquainted with the advantages
this country offers. Therefore ask you
and any others who are interested to
come and If they come to the Walla
Walla valley | assure you that | will
see that they are given facts and figu.
res and allowed to see with their own
eyes that the things re advertise are
true.
Frank Silbaugh, Agar. South Da-
kota: Knowing that you and my
many friends in Vernon county are in
terested in my welfare and success of
the vets, | am writing this in order TO
give you at least partial under stand
ing of the many possibilities in Sully
county, South Dakota. note in late
issue of the Agar Argus, our weekly
paper, that l.. B. Wadleigh, who owns
about ten sections of lands in Sully and
Hughes counties, has decided to drill
for oil. 1t seems TO be the general be-
lief of experts and men who have made
careful study of the subject, that the
gas that comes from our artesian wells
is from oil and all we need to do is to
go after il. Now the thought occurred
to me: what will this mean for Sully
county if MIR. Wadleigh should strike
oil. " Oil means coal, oil means rail-
ways, refneries, manufactures, etc
All of the men used in the employ of
the above will have to be fed. Farm
values will raise, our many fine farms
of half or full section will be cut into
quarters and eighty acre tracts The
land will be farmed on a more scientific
and better scale. Hogs, dairy cows
and other lines will be developed more;
our towns will increase, our business
prosper, and our banks double In num-
Der and will become stronger and more
substantial. Bank deposits in Sully
county five banks $2l4, 600. One farm
er raised the following crop in the year
1910: 60 acres of oats 5000 bushels; 2C
acres of rye 300 bushels. 30 acres OF
speltz 1000 bushels, 100 acres Of wheat
1900 bushels, 100 acres of corn 1000. A
few years ago we had but 60, 600, 006
people, today we have 90,000,000 In
a few years we will have 100, DOC. 600.
But we wont have any more land. !"