Wichita Daily Eagle, April 12, 1890
A number of residents 25 years earlier might have disagreed with the writer that there had never been a crop failure. The 1874 grasshopper plague was a disaster to both north and south Howard County.
The writer says Howard had a population of 1,500 in 1890, but only five churches.
Eighty-four school houses in county.
96,000 dozen eggs shipped out of the county.
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