THE WAUPACA POST

June 24, 1886

 

A Letter From Minnesota

 

            To The Editor:  Please give room for a few lines from this part of the country.  Hendrum is a small place in Norman county, on the Red River.  We have two general and one hardware store, two temperance saloons, a blacksmith shop, a lumber yard, and two elevators.  A branch of the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba road, called the Moorhead Northern runs through this place to Halestad.  The land is good around here, it consists of two feet of black soil and then blue clay.  The farmers around here are pretty well off.  A. Anderson, who sold his farm in Scandinavia to Brown Peterson is the owner of 400 acres of land two miles from Hendrum and his two sons Albert and Chris have 160 acres each close by.  Anton Iverson, of Scandinavia, came here last spring with his family, to stay.  Anton has 320 acres of land about seven miles from Hendrum.  The crops look first-rate so far.  Farmers are feeling rather blue because they did not sell their wheat last fall when they could have got from 75 to 77 cents per bushel, and now they have to sell it for from 58 to 60 cents.  I see in the POST that the Waupaca wheat market is from 12 to 15 cents ahead of ours.  What Hendrum now wants is a good hotel keeper and a doctor.

                                                                                                A. Johnson