The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, June 3, 1909 RAMBLINGS: "Congressman W.D. Jamieson, or should Fate lay its hands on him and remove him from the activities of life, it falls largely on you to keep us posted as I see the Chariton Herald is not going to permit Jamieson to have anything in his paper. I don't understand why some men persist in belittling Col. Hepburn by constantly parading the smallness of Jamieson. If Jamieson is the Liliputian that one editor in Chariton makes him out to be and beat Col. Hepburn by a majority of over 300 how much would have been the majority had a good man run against the Colonel? Some things humorously puzzle even Republicans sometimes." -- GEORGE PARKIN, Union Township ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Yes, we have got all our old ground planted to corn and are now plowing brush land and will continue to apply seed to the soil. Seed time and harvest is sure, so we plant all summer and harvest crops all winter." -- JOHN SCHNEBLEY ----------------------------------------------------------------- "We have an educated cat over at our house and it is interesting to see what intelligence a cat will develop. I don't spend much time in training him but I started to teach it just to amuse myself and now my curiosity is aroused. It will do many things by merely telling it to. I never knew before that cats were susceptable to "higher education." -- LEE E. EDGINGTON ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The majority of the people down our way are pretty well along with their planting and it is marvelous what farmers can do between showers. Warm weather is now essential owing to the lateness of the season to bring up and develop a corn crop." -- GEO. PARSONS, Washington Township ------------------------------------------------------------------ "I got hurt in a foolish way, a few days since. My old mare, which is as old as you are -- well, not quite, but up towards the 30s, was on the green and I concluded I would mount her with neither saddle nor bridle. This, I guess, make her think of her coltish days and so she ran away with me and threw me off. I am getting about well again." -- FRANK PENNINGTON, Otter Creek -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Forty seven years ago yesterday I commenced to drive stage for the western stage company. No military hero was prouder of his commission than I was of mine and had the Governor come down out of the State House I would not have considered an exchange of places with him." -- BEN BROCK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The people must be turning their attention to gardening. Last week I sold from my beds $108 worth of plants." -- NICHOLAS LEINEN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 10, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net 'A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot'.