Adams County Press
Contributed by our Regular Correspondents The people of Strongs Prairie and Monroe celebrated the Fourth by a picnic. Rev. Mr. HARRINGTON delivered the oration. Big Grain and Grasses Winnebago county is very justly considered to be one of the richest in this State, and its people are lightly given to telling outsiders of the good things they have. A recent number of the Neenah City Times has the following: A Stalk of wheat was brought into the Times office on Thursday from the farm of I. H. DICKINSON, the said stalk measuring 5 feet 9 inches in length, and headed out full four inches. Now let Minnesota, Iowa, or Missouri, beat that wheat! His whole field is about the same. That was a good thing to tell, but one of our Adams county farmers, Mr. J. W. VROOMAN, of Jackson, thought there was no need to go outside of this county to satisfy the curiosity of the Times, and this week sent us a half dozen stalks of wheat, each of which is over six feet in length, and the longest of which measure 6 feet 4 inches. The heads measure from 4 to 5 ¾ inches in length. Mr. VROOMAN says there are tons of the same kind in Adams county. Come again, Winnebago. And next we have a bundle of timothy or herd's grass heads from Mr. E. FINCH, living on section 32 in the town of Rome, that "knocks the socks" off all other timothy heads. Some of the heads measure 11 inches in length, and the bundle will average over 100 inches. The sight of those timothy heads stirred up Captain NEWTON, of this village, a little, and he brought forward from his field a stool of timothy the stalks of which measure over 5 ½ feet in length. The Captain says he has a bigger thing, but doesn't want to discourage the Winnebago or other folks from trotting out their best. School Report Of Arkdale school for the Term ending June 28. Enrollment, 31. Per cent. Of attendance, 90. Cases of tardiness, 3. Scholars with an especially excellent standing for this term are. August GILBERTS, Clara HARRIS. N. P. N. HVALE, Teacher
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