The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-06-05
Ben Adams Urges the People
to Boost Their State AS
the CalifOrnian's Do
fine WORKING MATERIAL
Missouri Has Many Advantages
But Not the "Get-Up" the
Western States Have.

/
Adams suggests, what wonderful
state Missouri would be, according
! to his ideas
Compton, Calf, May Is, 1914.
! Editor Record:
Here | am again, back by the west
ern sea, in the sunshine of the golden
west, | spent last summer in South
east Missouri and last winter in JEFF
fcrson City, and got back here
month ago. While in my native
state visited, several times, my
old home town, Cape Girardeau.
The old town looks natural-grow-
ing some, but not as rapidly as when
| left there five years ago. Many
of my old friends have passed away
and many have moved to other parts.
There are new names on the door
plates of residences that were former
ly occupied by my friends and ac-
/ Quaintanccs-ncw faces on every hand
and strangers to me. | do not be-
licve that could be contcntcd to
make my home there again. The
/ remembrance of old friends now gone,
/ would haunt me continuously. Here.
where | do not see the old haunts
of my boyhood days, am not so
often reminded of the dear friends
{ gone to the everlasting beyond.
/ While in Missouri last year |
noted, with pride and pleasure, the
many changes for the better that have
taken place in the last four years,
and especially did | delight in seeing
the many Improvements in that great
agricultural section, Southeast Mis-
/ souri-Oncc known as the swamp
: section of that state. Scott county
I has Il new court house that speaks
| well of the cntcrprising people of
| that rich county. Your productive
county-Ncw Madrid am pleased
to know, Is now constructing new
court house. That, completed, will
settle your county seat question
( for many ycars-at least the life
/ time Of the present generation. |
I consider New Madrid county the
/ garden spot oi the Mississippi valley.
\ hundred acres of your rich land
will produce more than can be pro-
/ duccd on the land of whole county
out here. The Missouri farmer who
coutomplatcS coming west had better
hold 20 his iam-had better rent it
. out and come out here and spend a
year lie will want his farm back at
the end of the year. In that time
b., will realize how fortunate he is in
ownIua q farm in Missouri
Ia California every man. woman
..d ,l..d lr 20 booster for California.
With the advantages Missouri has
over California, few years of the
California style ui boosting would
give your state population second
to mo- state in the Union. The great
,wamp- would be converted into vast
fields Of corn, wheat and meadows
Of timothy and red top-crops that
/ California will not produce, We
. MissOuranS can do that kind of boost
ing without fear of being rcprimandcd
by the homcscckcr after he gets
there and is shown what we have.
Here the real estate shark catches
the tondcrfoot in many wayS-onc
way is to represent to the home
seeker that an acre of land is all he
needs, that fortune can be made
on an acre of land raising chickens.
The terms offered the tcndcrfoot-
fifty or hundred dollars down and
the balance in installmcnts of from
fifteen to twenty-five dollars per
month till paid for. The price
agreed upon is from fifteen to twenty
fvc-hundrcd dollars for the acre,