This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Bobbitt. Chrestenson, McKean, Hayes, Baughan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1487 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. Feb. 25, 1897. (1).--"Riverton News": (a). "Franz Cowden shipped another batch of cattle to Chicago this week." (I, at some time along with this item, noted that many of the farmers of Fremont county were sending stock to the Chicago stockyards even though Omaha and St. Joseph were so much closer! QUESTION: "How come? Were the rates for railroad shipments set by the Interstate Commerce Commission favoring the eastern railroads that much?" Well, I never did check this out, so, it still needs to be done.--W.F.)....(b). "One of Ben Bobbitt's daughter will teach the spring term just north of town"..."Miss Reka Chrestenson has closed her school north of town. This is her first term and she has done well." (Again, Dr. S.C. Hatton frustrates me! I would have liked to have been certain he was referring to High Grove School country school on the old Nishnabotna Trace--and not to Sunnyside on the South Tier State Road. Where did Reka Chrestenson teach her first term?)...(c). J.D. McKean has closed! a successful term of school at the Richards school house. (Dr. Hatton was not the only one who referred to the Pleasant Grove school as the "Richard's School".) (2).--Thurman News: Miss Dora Hayes, of Sidney, is in the city visiting her uncle, J..T. Baughan and family.