This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MarjSlaughter Surnames: Alvord, Beeler, Bell, Berry, Bottorf, Brewer, Byers, Carter, Clark, Corbitt, Crandall, Drake, Durkee, Edwards, Elyea, Emmert, Ertel, Fisher, Ford, Foulke, Frank, Funck, Gaston, Gladfelter, Godding, Gray, Green, Grimm, Harbison, Hoag, Hoffer, Hoffhines, Honderick, Jenkins, Jones, Jorgenson, Kemmerer, Kibbe, Kreamer, LaRue, Launchbaugh, Lichty, Matson, McClung, McDaniel, McElroy, Medcalf, Miller, Moore, Muck, Musser, Nelson, Peck, Petrie, Pierce, Ransford, Reynolds, Rosin, Ruggles, Russell, Sanders, Seamans, Sellers, Shaver, Stanley, Welstead, Wheeler, White, Whitney, Wildman, Zipse. Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.jewell/1227/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jewell County REPUBLICAN Sayings 1925 JANUARY Grace Byers: I wish it would warm up so Floyd could go to work. If he stays around the house a day or two longer he'll burn up all the fuel we've got. Mrs. Cicero Bell: "We will have our sale, Feb. 5th and Cicero and I will move to Aurora, Neb. soon after the sale." C.R. Foulke: I don't mind fellows milking my Ford but I don't like them coming in at one o'clock in the morning and waking me up to help them. R.L. McDaniel: When I had no father, Fred Beeler was a father to me. What success I have I owe to Mr. Beeler. May Muck: Wouldn't some of those cross word puzzle designs make nice quilt block patterns? Mrs. H.M. Wheeler: This is the first time I have been out since Christmas (Jan. 23 1925) Mrs. Coll Whitney: I got a letter from Oregon this week asking if I were the woman the doctor had to put to sleep to keep her from talking. Mrs. Ed McElroy: I get about ninety eggs a day. John Kemmerer: I have had a little sweet clover for a long time, and I'm going to sow quite a bit this spring. If I lived on an upland farm I'd go in strong for sweet clover to restore fertility. Gus Sellers: The Republican is sure of one dollar and a half a year as long as I live. FEBRUARY Mrs. L.R. Honderick: I believe the children get more out of their religious instruction at school than they do out of Sunday school. George Peck: I sold over three hundred dollars worth of cut flowers during January. J.W. Berry: There is no place quite like Jewell to us. Where our children were born and seven completed the high school course and grew up in a community so well suited to character building as Jewell City. We owe a lasting debt to the old home town. C.W. Medcalf: I wouldn't have a farm implement on the place that didn't have a seat on it. Jake Ford: I quit chewing tobacco this morning. F.E. Ruggles: Holloway is coming right out of the kinks as an auctioneer. He's all right. Ed Slattery's sale went fine. Chester Lichty: The day Jake Ford quit chewing tobacco I noticed in the afternoon that he still had some in his pocket. E.L. Gray: This has been the best February we ever had for business. Mrs. Jennie A. Ransford, Pomona, Calif.: Sometimes there are scarcely any familiar names in the Republican-unless it is in the twenty and forty-year-old items; but when I think of doing without it, I feel like Tuesday would be a lonely day as it has been in the family so long. E.D. Fisher: I am going to plow up 200 acres of old alfalfa this spring and put the whole thing to early oats. If I have good luck I'll have a train load of oats. MARCH Al Sanders: My first night as city watchman was uneventful. There were two cat fights and toward morning a flock of geese went over town. Mrs. D.B. Jenkins: We sent out 1700 chickens two weeks ago, 2300 last week, and will have 4000 ready this week. John LaRue: I've learned one thing. That is that people cannot appreciate what home means until it is broken up and lost. Chas. Miller: We had a little surprise party at our house this week. While my wife was cleaning out the clock she found a Farmers Union check for two loads of what that had been there since 1920. Rete Crandall: I don't want to see the house J.W. Rosin lives in disturbed. I was born in that house. F.I. Drake: Please change my Republican from Florida to Mankato, Kansas. Have spent a most delightful winter here but will be glad to get back home and to work again. Wesley Harbison: My experience tells me never to plow up dead wheat until the middle of May. You never know what minute it will all come to life. APRIL Newton Kreamer: This part of Kansas doesn't need hard roads and couldn't afford them if we did need them. All we need is well graded roads, well taken care of at the right time. When we get this our roads will be good enough for anybody. Millard Kibbe: I believe I have known John Hutchison longer than I have known anyone in Jewell county. I first knew him in Wisconsin in 1863 where he ran a photograph gallery. F.I. Drake: I like Florida and would enjoy living there, but I must make some more money first. Mrs. F.I. Drake: I fell to reading everything in the Republican just like folks who have always lived here. W.C. McClung: I tried loafing one year and it was the hardest work I ever did. Now I work every day. MAY Roy Alvord: There was a pretty stiff freeze in the lower Brown's Creek country Tuesday night. Frank Bottorf: I am working to have a certified flock of White Wyandottes by next year. W. A. Matson: Everything indicates that the time will come when electricity will be generated at the great coal beds and transmitted all over the country at a price that will make electric heat for all purposes cheaper than coal. Mrs. L.S. Grimm: The appearance of the rural high school buildings and grounds could be wonderfully improved with shrubbery. Sam Gladfelter: Down in my old country farmers keep their corn from washing by making a few lister ditches slaunchways across the field. Mr. E.T. Launchbaugh: Wake up at any time in the night, my wife is either going downstairs or coming up, seeing about the incubator. Jack Moore: I just know if my life insurance had not been paid up when I was sick, I would have died. JUNE E.A. Hoag: I have to leave Jewell county. I'm going to stay here anyway until next spring. Mrs. Will Petrie: The kind of weather we've been having made me a little homesick for the sea. Mrs. Sam'l Corbitt: I haven't more than 100 years to live so I'm going to have as good a time as I can. Jack Moore: I used to know all the Randall women, but since they bobbed their hair, cut off their skirts and got these new-fangled hats, I don't know half of them. Ret Crandall: I am trying to economize. All the supper I had last night was a pint of ice cream. I.W. Funck: I have lived in five states and the Jewell community is the finest I have known. Harry Green: Kansas folks have more grit than any other people in the world. No matter what their losses may be, they buck up and start right in again for another crop. M. Kibbe: This is the first year I ever knew the bottom land corn to suffer worse than the upland. JULY W.S. Brewer: I was never so near knocked out in my life as at present. D.N. Ertel: It has been 24 years since I lived in Jewell. L.M. Jorgenson: I'd rather have a job in Jewell than in Manhattan, but the job isn't here. H.M. Wheeler: I have reached the place where I'll be thankful for some good fodder. AUGUST Wm. Gaston: During the Civil War I was reported dead, so I got to read my own obituary in the home paper. Geo. Reynolds: I saw the Chautauqua that Jewell is to have, at Orleans, Neb., and it is a dandy. Howard Edwards: I have some sweet clover in my pasture that has been there for years. The cattle keep it eaten down, but it never fails to seed and come again. J.B. Clark: We will put all our fodder in the silo. It's the only way to save it. Mrs. Carrie Musser: I am going to Monticello, Wis. next week to stay with my brother. W.C. McClung: There is no spot in the world that seems so good to me as Jewell. Anybody who has a way to make a living here had better stay and be contented. Emerson Fisher: What's the use in feeling old. It's bad enough to be old. Henry White: I can't hear much, but the seeing's pretty good these days. W.A. Matson: This story is told on a Nebraska man. He stopped, looked ad listened at a grade crossing and some dang fool ran into him from behind. J.F. Jones: My heart is all right, but my legs have gone back on me. SEPTEMBER U.S. Godding: I've got the callouses off my hands for the first time in 40 years, but loafing is the hardest work I've ever done. Donald Stanley: The prospectors think Mankato will have to go out 5 or 6 miles for sufficient city water. It will cost about $5,000 a mile to pipe it. Miss Minnie Frank: Please send me the Republican to St. Luke's Hospital, Denver. I am leaving to enter training. One consolation I shall have is that father can't get my Republican first. C.C. Reynolds: I've made nine round trips from Tacoma Wash., to Jewell and been here on four Old Settlers' Days on those trips. Old Settlers' Days give me a chance to meet folks I would never see at any other time. E.L. Gray: I saw a store in Arkansas that I know hadn't been swept out in five years. Thomas Hoffer: William Zipse says the next time I take an airplane ride he would like to go with me. Mrs. M.E. Nelson: Please change our paper from Esbon to Red Cloud, Nebraska. Wm. Gaston: The doctor told me today that I had a cataract on each eye. That wasn't very encouraging. Lee Wildman: Please change our paper from Garnett, Kans., to Manhattan. Fred Hoffhines: I've been to town four times since 5 o'clock last night, hauling in Limestone hogs. Arthur Shaver: I don't believe it will ever rain again. OCTOBER Mrs. Sarah Seamans, Los Angeles, Cal.: I hope to see the Crandalls and Mrs. Pierce while they are in California. C.F. Durkee: I am gaining a pound a day by lying low and keeping quiet. So I think I am going to get all right. Wm. Gaston: With the sidewalks nearly covered with cabbage this must be a Dutch town. S.C. Edwards: The hog crop is ten million short of last year. S.D. Elyea: We won't have any Hessian fly here next year. Now you watch. It's been too cold for them. Fritz Beeler: My wife's away, but did you see my washing out on the line. Jesse Emmert: I wish I could make money riding around in a shiny car like the rest of them seem to do. NOVEMBER Mrs. C.C. Whitney: The reason I made such a shot speech at the church reception the other night was because I've lived beside the main speaker of the evening for twenty years and so mine had to be shorter. Jim Russell: In the twenty years I have lived here the pond on my place has only gone completely dry once; that was last winter. And this year has been the only summer when we did not have enough rain at one time to fill it. Mrs. F.E. Ruggles: I attended the Rose meetings in Hutchinson. They have had a thousand converts, crowds are turned away. The tabernacle is to be enlarged. John Sanders: Forty years ago I went to Nebraska and shucked corn for two cents a bushel. Nebraska farmers are paying from seven to nine cents for this work now. DECEMBER Mrs. Medcalf: My husband would have made a good preacher. This will be the eighth time we've moved. S.A. Welstead: I haven't eaten white bread for a year nor drank coffee, and I do not intend to ever do either again. I eat my potatoes skins and all. H.B. Carter: A pond I made two years ago is still without water, not having rained enough to run water in the draw. John Reynolds: My chickens never have mites. I give them wood ashes to roll in. Fred Kreamer, Pinecastle, Fla.: This is my first shirt-sleeve Christmas. 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. <br>