Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — Here’s a Man Who Didn’t Starve to Death in Canada [ARTICLE]

Here’s a Man Who Didn’t Starve to Death in Canada

Simeon Piatt, of Prince Albert Sask., panada, was in Rensselaei Thursday for the first time in 3f years and .is now visiting his son William Piatt, at Fair Oaks. Mr Piatt lived in Indianapolis prioi to ten years ago. He learned that there was a chance for hustlers on the Canadian frontier arid he lolocated some sixty mil® from a rail road and buckled down to hard work. He was then ST'years of age and he had been a Wage earner all of his fife. He had a little money and invested S4OO in eight lots in Saskatoon. The city boomed and Mr. Piatt sold one lot for $2,000 and the other seven for $1,600 each. Of course, that part of his Canadian -experience was more or less luck, but he developed a claim and then bought more land. Now be has two sections and this year he sold off the farm $16,000 worth of grain ana hogs. Mr. Piatt says that what was accomplished in his part of Canaaa at that time may be accomplished now in many parts of Canada. portunity calls for workers from Saskatchewan and Alberta. It is no boy’s job, but calls for pioneers, men who expect tj> inake sacrifices in order to succeed. Mr. Piatt was a poor man at 57, now at 67 he is wealthy and of rugged, robust health. > Isn’t it funny, how you often run across living exampl® to prove the falsity of The Democrat’s charge that Canada is a desert waste?

gloomy and there has been a little mist and indications point to some rain. The day is gloomy and ’apparently October is going to show us that it has not forgotten how to make a face when it wants to.