IN 1899
On Sept. 13, 1899, the Lawrence World had an article which told of a Boston newspaper correspondent who had visited and sent back this "very reliable report: People from Missouri who visit the Kansas cornfields think they are driving through a wilderness, and are astonished and almost speechless as they pass along the roads beneath the immense arches of corn which fairly shut out the sunlight. In some instances visitors to the cornfields are obliged to chop their way out to avoid being smothered ... Corncobs are used for telegraph and telephone poles and wheat straws for fishpoles."
-- Courtesy Watkins Community Museum
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