Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — Single Persons. [ARTICLE]

Single Persons.

The largest proportion of single persons Is fodnd in Ireland and Scotland, and the smallest tn the United States. In Ireland 67 per cent., in Scotland 65 per cent, but in the United States only 59 per cent, are in that condition. Traveling on tbe Burlington Railroad on the way to Denver, a little town called Atlanta, near Hastings, Nebraska, is pointed out as a point of interest because of the corn cribs built there along the tracks. In all there are twenty-four separate cribs, 12 feet wide ans 12 feet high, with a total length of 5,964 feet, or a distance of nearly a mile and a quarter. This year’s enormous crop (three hundred million bushels for the State of Nebruakai will test their capacity' Everybody seems prosperous in Nebraska. Nobody complains but the bankers, who find it hard to lend their money. Nobody wants to borrow it.