142 industries may be heard. Nature’s blessings have been showered on our native county with a prodigal hand, and for the most part our people are contented and happy. The history of the educational progress of the county, would, in itself, make a large volume. In each of our larger towns, and in some of the smaller, fine edifices have been erected, in which the public instruction of the youth is conducted under the management of ' able superintendents, assisted by competent teachers. But we must leave the individual ’ history of each find space in more extensive histories. Our rural districts have kept pace with the spirit of progress. The rude, prim-' . itive little log school houses of the earlier time have given place to large, comfortable and well arranged school rooms. Our people are, for the most part, educated, cultured and refined. No county, outside of those containing great cities, can boast of a higher stand- . ard of journalism than is represented by’the editorial staffs of our home newspapers, and they are, as they should be, powerful factors in the general education of our people. When we turn from a retrospective view of the .past century, although the wisest
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