This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Belcher, Longman, Old Man Weather, Steel, Cleland, Messner Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1529 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. May 2, 1918. "Riverton News".--(1). Tip Belcher, who has been sick, is convalescing, we are pleased to say. Tip is one of the original old-timers of Fremont county. He was captain and owner of the ferry boat that conveyed passengers and teams across the mighty deep--or, rather, the Nishna river--west of town before any bridge spanned this great body of water. He also was a great hunter and killed many deer on the grounds now occupied by the town of Riverton. So, whenever you notice an old man who almost constantly carries a rifle of ancient make on his shoulder you can feel assured you are gazing upon a man who could enlighten you on many old time stories of hardhips and dangers incident to long ago. Tip is an whole-souled old resident and is ready any time to divide his dinner with a hungry brother.....(2). Banker Longman is the only man in Riverton who is trying to destroy the dandelion by the wholesale route. He not only gathers them to feed him! self, but he also treats his chickens with them. It really is a splendid diet to make not only a sick person well, but it also has a peculiar knack of sometimes making a well person sick. We know whereof we speak, for we have tried it cooked, raw, parboiled, made into sauer kraut or gooseberry pie. It won't connect--we mean digest. (It is claimed that the dandelion was brought into this country by early immigrants as a green. This was before the time of lettuce.--W.F.)....(3). If it were not for the fact that we made our recent correspondence declare that summer was here for sure, we would state for the benefit of the skeptical that we had a real old fashioned snow on the 19th and 20th in Riverton. So it is really hard to say whether this is last winter or next.....(4). Old Mr. Steel, one of the few old veterans still left in Riverton, has moved into his own home, just vacated by Mr. Cleland....(5) F.D. Messner of Rippey, Iowa, has been secured as superintendent of the River! ton schools for the next year.....(6) Vic Cleland, one of our soldier boys, is still very sick with small hope of his recovery.