Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-01-16
ILLINOIS SOCIETY
HOLDS NEE TING
HAVE ENJOYABLE SOCIAL TIME
AND TALK ON GOOD
FARMING

the City Hall, which was attended by
some $50 former Illinoisites. including
both old and young. These consist
led Of people who have come to this
county within the last six or seven
years and have made their homes on
farms purchased.
The meeting was one Of good cheer
from start to finish and was opened
and presided over by J. w Thomas,
with Mrs. A. R. James, acting as sec
Rotary. In Mr. Thomas usual char
acteristic way. he struck q happy cord
and put every one in receptive
mood for the good time that was sure
4 to follow. He told several stories,
which the ladies complained Of bitter
~, as they most all referred to old
maids, and upon a protest being made
Mr. Thomas promised at the next
meeting to tell nothing but stories on
men and particularly old batchelors.'
After several pleasant remarks, sew
eral from the audience were called
upon, being allowed to choose their
own subjects.
w. "A. Knapp, whose remarks were
brief, spoke in particular OF the good
feeling existing and especially the
good time that was being enjoyed by
1.-The younger people, explaining that
hut few years ago one Of the prin
cipal objections made by people COM
J ing to this country, came from the
{ younger people, who said there was
no society, He was followed by an
almost spontaneous 81 address from
Friend Albert Ayers and Mr.. Ayers
struck the key-note of the situation:
II q nab1 bdts bus slfke addTsssI
in which he launched upon the sub
ject Of contentment enjoyed by the
former Illinois people of Illinois now
living IN Marshall County. Among
4 Mr.. Ayers we'll chosen remarks was
one in which he related how he came
here in 1901, purchasing what was
considered at that time high-priced
farm for which he paid thirty-five dol
lars per acre, today. of course, that
price seems cheap. He then went
back and recalled how he came to IL
inois in 1854. At that time land was
worth ten dollars per acre, and how
the same land today had increased to
from two to three hundred dollars
{ per acre. Mr.. Ayres closed by insist
ing that Marshall County lands were
worth as much as Illinois lands. That
we can raise anything here that can
he raised in Illinois and that the time
was not far distant when the land
would be worth 500 per acre and
would be cheap at that.
Without being called upon Mr.. P.
Trott was on his feet, and in a few
well chosen remarks, gave it as his
opinion that Marshall County and its
people enjoyed all the advantages
4 now enjoyed by people in Illinois,
3 that the crops were abundant and the
number Of bushels per acre depended
on the man behind the pillow. Mr..
Trott also related former values in
Illinois and compared them with Mar
shall county lands today.
Milo u. Warner from over east, was
called on and it did not take Milo
long to get into action and to say a
number Of plain truths, particularly
upon his favorite subject, stock and
I stock raising, showing the necessity
+ and advantages Of each farmer in
Marshall County, raising an abund-
ance of stock; from this he branched
into the advantages now enjoyed by
the farmers Of Marshall County, men
tioning particularly the rural delivery
in all directions, telephone and tele-
graph, the good schools and good
roads, and the different societies, all
Of which made life q pleasure Mr..
Ayres was again on his feet to bring
I up the suggestion Of getting good ex-
pert agric,llturists to come in here to
I speak, saying he had been in CORE
spondence with Mr.. Crane Of the G..
N. and that he was ready to come up
on receiving an Invitation. Mr..
Warner said he had had some CORE
spondence with the agricultural man
of the International Harvester Co.,
4 and that he. too was ready to come Il
4 sufficient invitation was given.
motion was made and put that
correspondence be taken up with
these people at once, and not only