The Holt County Sentinel

ST.
T. M. Davis, of Whig Valley, neighborhood, accompanied by his son-in-law,
B. H. Storm, of Centralia, Kas, were in
the city Monday night and a few hours
Tuesday morning.
They were en route
to Centralia, where Mr. Davis will make
headquarters, having sold his farm and
retired.
Mr. Davis is now about 73
years old. He came to Holt county in
1867 settling in Whig Valley, buying a
farm of 160 acres for which he paid five
dollars per acre. He sold this farm last
month to Pack Decker for $62.50 per
acre.
In 1868 Mr. Davis began the erection
of a dwelling house on his farm,
and when nearing completion it was
demolished by a windstorm, the carpenter
at work being killed.
He twice afterwards suffered the loss of his dwelling
house by fire. Despite his misfortunes Mr. Davis prospered and has succeeded
in gaining quite a nice competence. He is one of the best men of our
county, honest and upright, always dealing
justly with his fellowman. An old
acquaintance and near neighbor of Mr.
Davis tells this of him, which shows
him to be a man of true principle.
In
1870 when corn was selling at 75c per
bushel and all his neighbors were without
corn, Mr. Davis had a large crib
well filled.
Parties from a distance
wanted to buy his corn at 75 cents, but
Mr. Davis refused to sell, stating that
he expected to let his neighbors have it
for seed. When the neighbors came to
buy his corn he made the price 50 cents,
saying that they could not afford to pay
more for seed corn.
All the corn he
could spare was sold at this price, although no complaint would have been
made had the price been 75 cents.
Little wonder that Mr. Davis is held in high
esteem by acquaintances, and especially
his old neighbors.-Mound City News.