Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — From Kansas. [ARTICLE]

From Kansas.

This <s the tallest corn story of the season and is being told among the traveling men over the state. It is 3aid to b*Ve been in a letter written home by an Eastern visitor: “Most of the Kansas streets are paved, grains of corn being used for cobblestones, while the cobs are hollowed out for sewer pipe. husk, when taken whole and stood on end, makes a nice tent for the children to play in. It zounds queer to hear the feeu man tell the driver to take a dozen grains ol horse feed over to Jackson’s livery stable. If it not for soft, deep soil here I don’t see hdw they would ever harvest the corn, as the stalks would grow up as high in the air as a Methodist church steeple. However, when the ears get too heavy their weight presses the stalk down in the ground on an average of ninety-two feet; and this brings the ear near enough to the ground to be chopped off with an ax.” —Kansas City Journal