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Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.jewell/1027/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: JAN 1913 02 JAN 1914 Geo. Reiter: "The best Christmas dinner I ever ate I got at Mrs. Dave Cross' this year." Burt Palmer: "I'm afraid we can't run more than five sets on each floor of our new Odd Fellows building." F.I. Drake: "When they go to my funeral they can trot the horses all the want to. They won't hurt my feelings." Coll Whitney: "Christmas is over- all but paying the bills." C.J. Arbuthnot: "I can see it makes a difference with business when a lot of our young fellows go off to work and husk corn during the winter instead of having them at home and many strangers here to work besides. Still I think business has been as good as we ought to expect under the circumstances." Miss Louie Hill: "I think even the Lord himself, must smile at some of the things that get in the Topeka State Journal from Jewell City." Geo. Seamans: "The man who trades horses and doesn't lie about it isn't a good horse trader." Frank Georgia, Mankato: "I read your pedigree every week." D.J. Matter: "I think you ought to pay for your advertising, you make other folks pay for theirs." F.E. Ruggles: "Yes, a good Methodist oughtn't to squirm out of his advertising bills." A Bystander: "McIntyre and Bevington must have paid for theirs, all right." Az Ruggles: "Somebody poisoned my bird dog. She died Saturday night. She coast me $18. I don't see how anybody can have the meanness to make a dumb brute suffer in that way." Dr. Ote Cheney: "The reservoir is a great place to skate, but you'll drown a few boys, I'm afraid." Dr. Wesselowski: "I was down skating on the reservoir the other day and enjoyed it so well that you can just say that I will pay that $40,000 myself." W.H. Cheney: "I will probably take a rest for a year, spending some time in the western states. I am not planning to leave Jewell. I can probably find something or other to keep me busy after I come back." Mrs. Walter Carpenter: "I wish there were two of me for awhile - one at the house and one to help with this store moving." Harry Breed, Webster City, Iowa: "I and one of my fellows here did a job of wiring up some foundry machinery in addition to the power plant, and when we came to pull off our test, found everything o.k. and everything worked to perfection the first shot. Have been most all week on it and part of last. The boss commented on it in fine shape and said it was one of the most perfect jobs of the kind he had ever seen or heard of." Leslie Nees: "We like Colorado fine and think it is the place for a young man to get a start. Lots of snow." Mort Whitney: "I never saw such snow as there was in Denver. It was four feet on the level. It cost the city $100,000. I am going on down to Arkansas and maybe Florida." Fred Kreamer: "I find that I am not a full-blooded dumb Dutchman. I climbed my family tree and took a look." J.N. Craven: "I tried a new stunt for Christmas. I had the grip." Engineer Harper: "That leak at the dam is seepage through the dirt wing next the wall. It won't amount to anything." Chas. Edwards: "They tell me I'm to have a new sister-in-law." John Peery: "I'm carrying my tax receipt around in my pocket, so I'll feel safe," J.O. Laffer: "About 29 years ago I got up and went about my work in the store at Manhattan one morning as usual, not dreaming it was going to be an unusual day for me. About 9 o'clock my boss, Mr. E.B. Purcell said, "John Robertson up at Jewell City wants a young fellow to work in his store. Would you be willing to go?" I said I would. I caught the 1 o'clock train. That's how I got to Jewell City, and I've been here ever since." Mrs. John Nelson: "While in Wichita we visited Frank Furey and the McGaugh family. They are all prosperous and getting on fine." H.A. Manker: "You're like that fellow up in Michigan. He stuck his head in the door and yelled fire. There wasn't any fire, but eighty people were trampled to death. Now there isn't any fire here, but the whole country is in an uproar, with an indignation meeting on every street corner." Elder G.D. Sellers: "I have received a call from the first Christian church of Columbus, Ind., to become their regular pastor. It is a fine town and a strong church." C.W. Medcalf: "Well, the wrestling match took our mind off of tax titles for awhile, anyway." Mrs. Don Brackett: "Mary and I are coming back to Jewell to live next spring." Mrs. O.N. Gray: "The young folks grow so fast that I do not know them any more when I see them." 09 JAN 1914 C.W. Metcalf: "I slipped on my overalls the other day and the Farmers' Union took me right in." Little Edward Thornton: "Does it cost anything to go out and see the reservoir?" Rev. S. Breithaupt: "The people out at Calvary want me to apologize for saying they didn't have any babies. They've organized a cradle roll and have eight babies on the list." R.C. Postlethwaite: "I am learning how it feels to get a good deal of advertising you don't have to pay for." Wilbur Wheeler: "Gene Clark and Clarence Peattie were mowing and stacking hay on January 3rd. Let that man Denton come on with his Texas ads." Walter Jennings: "I had such a chill the other night that Ki piled three fur lap robes on me. Then he put three hot flat irons against my stomach and I thought I'd freeze the handles off." Geo. H. Case: "I don't like Bristow and never did, but he has developed an ability that I didn't think was in him, and has maintained a position among the big men of this nation." Mrs. A.J. Schumacher: "She looks like her dad and has my temper. Bad combination I admit." Ernest Seeley: "There are some men you couldn't get money out of with a pair of pinchers." Miles Thornton: "I was up to father's the other day and saw the REPUBLICAN. There was so much in it that interested me that I decided to have one of my own. It somehow seems to be different from other papers." Baldwin Smith: "It makes me mad to have folks say ugly things about me when they are not true; but it makes me lots madder when they are true." Chas. Palmer: "You needn't shave my neck. I'm going to wash it next summer." C.H. Bowles: "I have had five cancers cut out of my face, and the doctors have cut out so much that I can't run my face any more for anything, so I'm paying cash. One time they cut a chunk as big as your thumb out of my lip, and drew part of the check down to take it's place. I've got considerable 'lip; though, yet, you'll notice." Will Ohlinger: "Hugh Drake will run our new meat market at Mankato." H.A. Manker: "The undertaker said to me, if you need any help, call around." Baldwin Smith: "when I make a fizzle of my work one day, I sometimes lie awake thinking about it until I make a fizzle of it the next day, too." Mrs. Tillie Henninger: "If this weather keeps up we will soon have another crop of dandelions." John Gildner: "First time I've worn a fur cap in sixty years. My son Noah sent it to me for Christmas." H.C. White: "I can do all the rest of the housework when my wife's away, but it makes me dizzy to wash dishes." Mrs. H.B. Vallette: "When I went to Glen Elder, I hunted up my old skates I used ten years ago and brought them home with me. The doctor can just hold the baby and watch while I go round the bend in step, with all the graceful men." Mrs. Peal Cluster: "A gasoline fire scares a man to death." Wesley Harbison: "I think the Republicans and Bull Moosers are fixing up another Democratic land slide." B.F. Wallace: "I've been waiting to get a whack at Bristow, but I don't want it now." J.W. Berry:: "Bristow and Murdock have got me out on a limb politically." I.R. Jordan: "We can phone up into Smith county and over into Nebraska, free. If we want to call up a friend over the hill we must pay for it." Reuben Henninger: "If we don't get an ice crop by this time next month we won't get any at all." Go. Seamans:: "The average man doesn't know a good abstract from a turkey track." C.L. Harford: "I am foreman in a roof and paint factory in Denver. The REPUBLICAN is sure a welcome visitor. We like Colorado fine." J.W. Berry: "I count a Jersey heifer calf worth $20. If it's a bull its worth 30 cents." 23 JAN 1914 Mrs. O.A. Seaton: "I like to get up early in the morning." R.C. Madsen: "I didn't know an old man could be young again until I got on skates - after 30 years." Chas. Eberhart: "Forrest has a motor car and I hear he can't start it or stop it." Ki Jennings: "My younger brother has been a mail carrier in Illinois for seven years. The other day he was breaking a colt when it kicked over the dashboard and broke Harry's knee cap in four pieces." C.F. Loomis: "Ray's folks don't take the REPUBLICAN. They come down and read mine." Mrs. Antis Adams: "I was well acquainted with John Brown's son when he was a young man." F.L.C. Hall: "My folks gave me plenty of initials because they didn't have much else to give me." Burt Cluster: "I'd like to get up in time to go to Sunday school, but I can't make it. Fisher can do it, but he doesn't work." Ed Fenner: "I'm glad to see the winter slipping away without big storms. It suits the farmer's feed supply this year." I.R. Shelden: "I feel better than I did 40 years ago. 40 years ago, you know, was grasshopper year, and we didn't raise a thing." F.I. Drake: "My father was in the Mexican war and also in the war of the Rebellion. He and his father went into the Mexican war together." Frank Spiegler, Randall: "When you get the reservoir stocked, we'll come up to mill and go fishing." Benj. Musser: "Please send the REPUBLICAN to Corpus Christi, Texas, until farther notice. We enjoy the strangeness of this city, about as many Mexicans as Americans. Weather is warm, roses in bloom, but has been raining some." J.M. Denton: "I traveled in Missouri last week. They don't have the big barns and good country homes and other modern improvements that we have right around Jewell." Wilbur Wheeler: "This is my off day. I don't know anything." Engineer Harper: "Jewell City is going to have water that's as clear as crystal and will sparkle like distilled water." Mrs. J.H. Daniels, Lawrence Kansas: "Like Mr. Thornton, we think the REPUBLICAN different from other papers. Have taken it so long can't remember when we started. Think it gets better every year." Len Schmitt: "I am used to drinking, filtered water. We always filter our cistern water through a bird's nest on the eve spout." Fred Beeler: "We think corn is high now, but if an Ionia man had corn to sell on the Kansas City market it would only net him 45 cents per bushel." Lewis Rightmeier: "Milking cows, chopping wood and hauling out fertilizer is what keeps me busy." L.C. McMurray: "I've got some money today. I sold my wife's chickens." A North-End Pup: "Whenever anything in this end of town disappears, they blame it on to me. That's what comes of having a bad reputation." Henry Laffer: "I will go into my father's store Feb. 1st." Harry McDill: "The coming fad in this country is going to be the milch-goat. They are bought at a low price and are cheaply kept. A goat will keep a family in milk and cream and it is good milk. I wouldn't buy any more cows without the tuberculene test. Northern cows that are kept in barns are the worst hit. They look perfectly healthy in the early stages of the disease, but the disease has been spreading alarmingly during the last few years." A.M. Clanin: "The wheat acreage around the Randall country is the biggest in three years and its all in prime shape. One good spring rain at the right time will make wheat." E.J. Callison: "When I threw my leg out of joint I stuck my foot between two wagon spokes and pulled it back in place, but it made me feel pretty sick for a few minutes." Frank Runyan: "A wet string or even a wet thread hanging down from these electric light wires would kill any man that touched it." Geo. Billman: "As long as Thomas preaches as he does I'll be there. There are two many Saturday Evening Post minds in this town. That's the reason it takes something besides sermons to get out an evening crowd. They hate to think, just as lazy folks hate to work." Jack Moore: "If I can borrow Charlie Metcalf's overalls I'm going into the Farmers' Union." 23 JAN 1914 Courtney Howard, "I am a homeless Jerry now." Fred Spatz: "I am not a farm advisor, but one thing the matter with our country is that it has been wheated to death. The fellows who own farms to rent are most to blame. They should devise some system of rotation. That farm demonstrator may show us some things and maybe the farmers around there will show him some things, too. I hope he won't skin us too bad." Christ Christenson: "The Ionia folks keep the roads better dragged than they do around Jewell, and they have better roads on that account, too." H.B. VanDusen: "I have sold out, but I don't want to leave Jewell county and I don't believe I will." Harry Colson: "That big hail storm pretty nearly wiped me out, then on top of that came the crop failure and the horse disease. You don't know how hard all those things coming together did hit us fellows. But we stayed with her, and will soon be up and a coming again." Geo. Seamans: "It isn't overalls Jack Moore needs to join the Farmer's Union - it's a mask." Geo. C. Peck: "Bird Melodies, written and published by Miss Mabel Gee, is one of the finest piano pieces I ever heard." Joseph L. Bristow: "I expect to work in the future just exactly as I have in the past. I have fought it out along progressive lines, and expect to continue to do so." Mrs. A.J. Pool: "They debated the farm demonstrator proposition in Dist. 56. The school house was packed and the debaters talked about everything from bread baking to slit skirts. The negative side of the farm advisor proposition won. It was lots of fun." J.W. Skinner: "This fine warm winter weather may be all right, but I'd like to be able to put up some ice." Bob Wildman: "I know of only one good jack in this country. If we get any good mule colts you can credit it to our big mares." Downey Elyea: "I'm going to sue you for damages. You put an ad in the paper that I wanted men to cut wood, and the fellows haven't dared come on my place since - not even to hunt jackrabbits. But I don't blame them for not wanting to cut wood as long as they can buy coal on time." S. Coffman: "I think Rev. J.W. Carpenter of the Christian church is really an extraordinary man, but he is a man that needs a great occasion to make him rise to the best that is in him." Geo. B. Crandall: "My Pennsylvania letter says snow drifted over the fence and mercury below zero." H.E. McClure: "All my cattle are getting is straw and silage, and that's as good feed as I want. Nearly all my neighbors are feeding straw. I think the silo is a big thing for this country." A Jewell City Cow: "Those plaguy boys keep me on the anxious seat. I can never tell within an hour when I'm to have my supper or be milked. I could give a lot more milk if I didn't have to wonder where those boys are and worry for fear they'd forget to come at all." Fred James: "Has Sandy left? Can't you keep a girl when you get a good one?" D.J. Matter: "My folks raised 14 children, and I was the youngest. One of my brothers who is still living is 92 years old." James Cornish: "The Santa Fe shop men get an hour off every Thursday, and I talk to them. They can stand it all right when they get paid for it." J.W. Gee: "I used to know what I was going to do politically, but I don't any more." Ed Jones: "If you hadn't answered Honey's jump onto Roosevelt I was going to myself. I like the Advocate's news all right, but its rank partisan editorials stir me up." Dr. Frank Postlethwaite: "I have been in Glen Elder a week and have averaged a call a day." Miss Maggie Dyas: "The sale has been so hard on us all that it will even seem good to quit and go to invoicing, though we used to think that was the worst job there was." E.D. Fisher; "Guy Henninger is a plumber that is on to the job. He does good work all right." F.C. Hoffhines: "I'm not asking for any winter this year." Albert Stanley: "I am well satisfied with my new location." Fred Kreamer: "I am in favor of Sunday trains if it's only a hand car." Ira Blanding: "Easter and I have been visiting over at W.G. McIntyre's. Mc is a good fellow to stay with and a hard one to get away from." Ira Abram: "We are starting out with double teams on each corn wagon and we may need more horses before we get home." John Palmer, Albion, Mich; "There is another fellow in the office that looks so much like me that people cannot tell us apart; same build, hair, eyes, and only four days difference in our ages. People call him by my name and me by his name. One man, who saw us together, asked if we were any nearer related than twins." C.H. Easter: "We don't care if some of the fish do go over the dam. We'll take care of them when they come down." Mrs. A.J. Meeker: "I believe living in the country agrees with me." Irv Hitz: "I'm no spring fry anymore." John Larue: "I expect to move down from Esbon to the Baker boys' place in Brown's Creek next week. I'll have 140 acres of wheat and 100 acres of corn." Claude Leinberger: "we may get our winter when we ought to be farming." James Collie: "I bought a pair of boots in Jewell 31 years ago and haven't bought a pair since." Ben Williamson: "I've been back to Illinois three weeks, and I heard more bellyaching about a short corn crop in those three weeks than I heard in Jewell county all summer and all winter." 30 JAN 1914 Mrs. G.W. McClung: "George and I resolved that we would not talk about our smart baby to everybody all the time, but we are not keeping our resolution very well." Cal Crumrine: "Pretty hard to work ten hours again after having an eight-hour job for the city." Charlie Eychner: "I ran into my wife's clothes line. That's what's the matter with my nose." Elmer Sanders: "I hauled hogs last Monday and I never saw hogs get hotter in the summertime." Geo. W. Hawley, New York City: 'In your reply to my recent inquiry regarding others in New York City, who subscribe for the REPUBLICAN, you say, 'we sometimes wonder what you find interesting after such a long absence.' I will tell you. Your corps of correspondents keep me better posted on what is going on in Jewell county than many people who live there who do not take your paper. I also enjoy the editorials and the scraps which sometimes occur between the county papers. I have also taken the Formoso New Era since the date of its first publication and am also acquainted with its editor. Beside this I own a half section of land four miles south of Formoso and some day in the near future may move to Jewell county and possibly make my home in Jewell City. You will see from the above why I am interested." Lake Wheeler: "Another thing I'm getting my fill of. That's this invoicing." Mrs. Chas. Gaston, Bay Point, Cal: "Have had 19 inches of rain so far and still raining. We are glad that father and mother visited South before coming here, as it may be better weather when they get here next month. Ernest has been having a serious time with blood poison since Nov. 1st. Hasn't missed a day from the doctor's since then and we are afraid yet that he may lose the first finger of his right hand and possibly his arm. The doctor says the only hope he has, is that he stops smoking cigarettes and he may save his hand yet." M.W. Whitney: "I didn't like Arkansas very well. It was dryer down there last year than it was here, if such a thing is possible, and they didn't raise anything. The old fellows who have been there a hundred years don't know yet what's over the next ridge, but they don't want to know, and they've got everything they want. Where our regiment struck the White river fifty-two years ago there was one log house occupied by a man named Wolf. I hunted up the place. It was the same old house and the man living in it was named Wolf. He was one of the old man's boys. The country has not gone forward a step in fifty years and I think it has gone back some. Albert wanted to get away from those fierce Colorado winters and I guess he's done that. The bees were humming and everything as pleasant as springtime, and the fishing was great." Lewis Worick: "My ad in the paper last week sold my cow before I got to see the paper." J.L. Gavin: "Some preachers preach right over a boy's head and never see him or think of him. Course they won't stay." Geo. Treffer: "I have to beat my own getting-up record about an hour on Monday morning in order to get the kiddies to school." J.W. Berry: "Silage is packed down this year till it's about as hard as plug tobacco." Frank Getman: "The wheat crop was a little short in Argentine this season, so we got through early with the harvest. Swift and Armour have both got cattle plants in there now. More than a train load of South American meat came in on the ship I came back on, on her sister ship the freight bill on meat was $42,000 and they brought lots of corn. The shippers are now under contract to load out every week and make it home in 18 days." Tom Coomber: "Loafing is hard work for me. It always was." Ki Jennings: "Say , John, if you'll let Charlie Thorp come over here and help all day tomorrow, we'll get through by noon." R.C. Postlethwaite:" "There is beginning to be a movement in real estate and I look for more." Mrs. Susie L. Palmer: "What I want to know - are Democrats to blame for the hard times and throwing men out of work, or is that talk just politics." Uncle Tom Cason: "I could never see why a doctor had to have ten times more pay when he comes in with another doctor than he does when he comes alone. Looks to me like that's another case of 'legalized robbery.'" Lieut. O.G. Palmer: "The government will not allow us to bring our horses back with us from the Philippines. I wonder if Dick Croke will have another as good a riding horse for me as Nig is." L.R. Godding: "I've lived quite awhile and I never knew taxes to get any lighter." Mrs. S.C. Zimmerman: "One of the girls in my Sunday school class will be 90 years old next April." E.D. Fisher: "They are talking of a new flying machine that will be as simple as a motorcycle, but I don't expect to do any flying until I get wings of my own." Mrs. Nettie Keiffer: "I think if all the old folks would die off the young folks would get together and have just one church in this town." Sam'l Ayers: "The day I was in the hospital with Charlie there were four other cases of appendicitis there." Mrs. P.G. Price: "I don't mind exercise but when I go anywhere with Grace Jordan, I have to un, to keep up." Mrs. John Cash: "When my hens began to lay down went the price. My hens always affect the market that way." Junior High School Girl: "The first bell aint rang yet." M.A. Gee: "My calves take silage in preference to the best alfalfa leaves you can give them." Dr. Wesselowski: "I made my wife take the first drink of city, and when it didn't hurt her, I tried it. It's dandy. We're using it right along now." Transcribed by Marjorie Kincheloe Slaughter Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ==================================================