Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — Mrs. Emma Burden Writes From Northwestern Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Emma Burden Writes From Northwestern Oklahoma.

Boyd, Okla., Dec. 1, 1914. To The Jasper County Democrat and All Old Friends:

I left Rensselaer in July, 1905, went to Pifeblo, Colo., where my sister, Hortense Shook, had gone in the month of March for the benefit of her health. She went with Mrs. Kay Wright, formerly of Rensselaer! \V& stayed there until October then went to Kingman, Kan., and from there to Augusta, Okla., where he heard of this Beaver county land and determined to own a home of our own. In company with 1). E. Sheysy I drove 100 miles In a buggy to locate the claims. My sister filed on the land we picked out for her. Mr. Sheysy, his nephew and my sister and myself filed on a section, but I am the only one left hare. Have had a good many ups and downs in this new country, but. have never had to go hungry yet. We have had droughts and failures enough. But the present year has been a bountiful crop year, for which Ave are truly grateful.

Beaver county is in the northwestern part of Oklahoma, and is in what, used to be known as “no man’s land. it is a good stock country.! All the school and college land in the county was being auctioned off to the highest bidder at Beaver yesterday and today. Our rallroau town is Liberal, Kan., 30 miles. All the grain we have to sell has to be hauled there. Liberal is also the greatest broom corn market in the world. The weather has been warm all fall but colder now. My husband is still sowing wheat. With kindest regards to old friends and acquaintances,

MRS. EMMA BURDEN.