Cowley County KS Archives News.....Attention Whiners - Emil Kielhorn 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 March 7, 2020, 12:29 pm The Evening Herald (Ottawa, KS) Tue Oct 21, 1913 Pg 2 1913 ATTENTION WHINERS The following from E. E. Kelley of the Toronto Republican, is a mighty fine editorial sermon: In 1891 Emil Kielhorn came from Germany to Woodson county, Kansas. He was 15 years of age and had finished the elementary school in Germany. He could not speak a word of English. We first knew him in 1896. He was a stocky-built young German just coming of age. He had been working as a "hired hand," which he continued to do until he married a Woodson county girl, Miss Martha Kluckhuhn, about a dozen years ago Then Emil ceased to be a hired hand. He had saved $1,500, every dollar of it earned by working out. When he married he started farming on his own hook, on a rented farm. In four years he had his teams, cows, hogs, and $2,500 in money. Then he bought a Greenwood county farm for $6,500 paying part down. In four years he had paid out the debt on the farm and had sold it for $13,000. Then he went down to Cowley County and invested. He now has 280 acres of good land along Crouse creek and 700 acres of pasture land across the road from it. He could sell out and clean up $30,000 in cash. He was in the Republican office Friday and through questioning we drew this story from him. He now speaks English as well as the writer of this paragraph. He writes English and reads English books and papers. He and his wife and 10 year-old son had been to Kansas City attending the stock show. When we asked if his wife was with him he replied: "Sure! Where I go I take my wife along." Read this paragraph, you young sunnavaguns around Toronto who have always had the sofe side of life and still complain that "A boy has no chance." Read it and extract the point. Here it is: It isn't what a boy makes, but what he saves, that gives him capital for a start in life. (This article was published in several different newspapers at the time) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/cowley/newspapers/attentio18nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ksfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb