Cowley County KS Archives News.....Attention Whiners - Emil Kielhorn 1913
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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)

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