Fine Gardens: The AGE Bike Rider Feasts His Eyes

(SOURCE: Clinton Semi-Weekly Age, Sept. 3, 1895)

On Some Excellent Gardens - What the People Near the City do for a Livelihood.

Back of the stone house, near the end of the pavement on the Bluff road, is a quarter section, which has been divided into small garden plots.

M. SCHUMAKER is found on ten acres on the south-east corner, on which he has considerable fruit, also some garden truck.  His next neighbor, George STUART, has 8 acres, mostly in garden.

Adjoining is the house of P. NICHOLAISEN, who cultivates three-fourths of an acre, devoted to garden. 

Carl FOUR, who is farther west, has 6 acres.  Mr. Four has in fruit, also a very nice garden.  Henry HEUMAN, on the corner, has an acre in oats and one in corn, which have done well.  Fruit, garden and pasture take up the rest of his five acres.

On the road running north and south is a ten acre piece belonging to Mrs. Paulina TEEROG.  She has a very nice garden and says ten acres are too much for her, as she runs it alone.  She would like to dispose of five acres on resonable terms.

Farther along is the 15 acres of Fred GUTSMOOR.  He has a good sized hot house, and a very pretty hedge, separating his place from the road.  Just across is the St. Mary cemetery, which consists of ten acres.

Crossing the Second Avenue road and Paul GRUMSTRUP is found on the left.  Mr. Grumstrup has a piece of ground, also a very noisy dog, which did not seem to disturb the inmates of the house half as much as it did the representative of the AGE.

North of Paul Grumstrup's is found Asmus ANDERSEN, with a gard of 16 acres.  He does his marketing in Clinton.

The next garden was found to contain 14 acres and belongs to Hans RASMUSSEN.

Near the end of the road, or it might better be termed a lane, as it was like a pocket in a new pair of trowsers, that is, there was only one way in, was the home of John FRYE.  He has a garden of 5 acres.

Coming back to the Second avenue road and Christ NELSON is found on the corner.  Christ works in the saw mill and has 15 acres, most of which is in pasture, the rest in fruit.

Across the road is Robert ROBINSON who has 23 acres.  He has a good many grapes and also runs a fine garden.

Coming in farther and John HANSEN is found on 10 acres.  John has one acre in garden and the rest in pasture.  He works at the factory.

Richard CLAUSSEN is next found.  He runs a milk wagon in Clinton.  Unlike most people, Mr. Claussen has his dog chained up so agents need not fear a sign, "beware of the dog."

On the corner is a 5 acre piece belonging to Chas. SANBORN.  Chas. has a very nice looking garden.

On the cross road is Ed. LONG, who raises corn, potatoes and tobacco, on his 15 acres.

Coming back on the Second avenue road, and also to the road leading north, and going up that road, the home of August LORENZEN is found.  Mr. Lorenzen has 3 acres in garden and 4 in pasture.

A garden of five acres, belonging to Peter C. NELSON, is next reached.

Christ IVERS, who lives next door, has ten acres, most of which he has left in pasture, while across the road is the home of W. A. McCLURE.  Mr. McClure has a garden of 5 acres.  He is a tinner by trade and has a shop at the house, although he travels around through the country applying his trade where he can.

Chas. Van ESS, who works at the car shop, has a garden of two acres.  G. R. PINNEY has four acres which he has in grapes, raspberries and strawberries, and one acre of pasture.

Striking the Elvira road and coming east to Fourth street, the home of L. W. SIBLEY is reached.  Mr. Sibley has 65 acres, 20 of which are in berries, 20 in vegetables and the rest in corn.  Mr. Sibley has, for a number of years, supplied grocers and boats with products from his place.