Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

        Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
Lincoln County Advocate
Monday, 29 September 1879

         Sale of the Poor Farm
         
         A few years ago the Board of Supervisors, for 
       reasons which they never did or could explain, 
       bought a poor farm, paying for it $5,000. The 
       price was extravagant, and there was strong talk 
       at the time of arresting the members of the Board 
       for malfeasance in office. The matter, however,
       died out, but the people did not fail to consign 
       the gentlemen to that oblivion from which they 
       have not since reappeared. The farm has been a
       continual bill of expense to the county ever
       since its purchase, and the Board at its last
       meeting very wisely sold it. The price received
       for it was $700.00 in county orders. There is
       little doubt but that the action of the Board 
       in disposing of the farm, so-called, will meet
       the approval of the people; and we think if they
       had given it away it would have been better for
       the people than to have kept it. - 
          Buffalo Co. Journal.
          
===========================================================================