Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-09 | Page 2 | Missouri's State Mansion is to be a Log Cabin

MISSOURI'S STATE MANSION IS TO BE A LOG CABIN JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. March S. Missouri's state mansion will bo a log cabin and tho governor's cows and chickens chick-ens will disport themselves In its Immediate Imme-diate vicinity. Governor Hadley, a warm advocate of tho back-to-tho-farm movement, broke ground yesterday for a log house he Intends In-tends to erect on a farm recentlpur-chased recentlpur-chased by him near this cltw T Ho intends to cut the logs himself, he says. Tree-chopping has been a favorite form of exercise with him for some years back, and he anticipates surcease "from the cares of state In the woods on his farm. When the timber Is in shape he Is to give an old-fashioned "house-raising" after the fashion of tho pioneers of a half century ago. Tho house will be completed in time ror occupancy by tho governor and his family next summer. Governor Hadley, who urges all city dwellers to keep a C0Vl. ns a BOiutIon of tho cost of living problem, already has purchased his cows and chickens and Intends In-tends to demonstrate the' possibilities of scientific farming.