Reed gave it up and went to Coatsburg, Illinois, where he fell from an upper floor in a mill there, into the engine room and was instantly killed by breaking his neck.

In the early nineties the farmers alliance movement swept over Banner county and Jimmy Burton, E. M. White, Martin Montz, and others around Harrisburg were enthusiastic, making trips out to the sod school houses, fighting bed bugs and fleas, as well as the pirates of finance that were then on one of their periodical squeezes or sprees.

One of the common incidents to such periods is that farmers are more inclined to co-operation than at other times. At this time the development was manifest in the building of a cheese factory at Harrisburg. Geo. Kendrick was put in charge and he knew the business. The product was good and found a fair market, but one year the output was practically all sent to a brokerage concern that failed to remit. This crimp caused the dissolution of the institution, and the stockholders felt that enough care had not been exercised by C. J. Carlisle in looking up the character of the concern before sending the cheese. This is doubtful, for any shipper knows you cannot always depend upon reports as to the character of brokerage firms.

At the present time I do not know of a single manufacturing institution in operation in Banner county. The material progress and wealth accumulation in the county "comes from the grass roots" -- it comes out of the ground.