There are still others, in Howard, who are active, energetic farmers, and others, stirring citizens, who should be named, Sol Switzer, Paul Thompson, John Nelson, John Evanson, John Twedt, H. J. Wulfsburg, Knute Thompson, John James, R. W. Ballard, H. L. Ballard, H. F. Ferguson, B. S. Rasmussen, Erick E. Evans, K. Olson.
During the year prior and to November 1, 1886 there were fiftythree cars of grain, and one hundred and thirty-five cars of stock shipped from Roland.
The creamery at Roland makes about 1,000 pounds of butter per day during six months of the year. The tile factory makes an estimate of 200,000 tiles and 150,000 brick during the season.
LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT
AND ORGANIZATION TO MARCH, 1887.—CONTAINING, ALSO,
A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION—TOWNSHIP 920, STORY CITY 595—1,515.
Elsewhere will be found a history also of its first settlement. It was named after Gen. Marquis De Lafayette, that distinguished and noble Frenchman who aided us so nobly in the Revolutionary war to secure for this nation our " National Independence." Lafayette Township was organized in 1851, now comprising only Township eighty-five north, range twenty-four west.
The brief items, with dates, were partly culled from our county papers.
STORY CITY ITEMS.
STORY CITY, Dec. 17, 1878.
Good sleighing and lots of farmers in town every day.
Our poultry man, N. B. Jacobs, is taking in large quantities of turkeys and chickens daily.
Business is brightening up since the snow came.
The people of Story City were thrown into a state of excitement and alarm by a prairie fire which started in Hamilton County and