Tom.......interesting that people are still doing what you described. Our food is now loaded with this kind of sugar from corn. We have a story in our family about the Siemek family having a barrel with this kind of sugar substitute outside the house and where the boys slept. According to a cousin, the boys bore a hole in the wall, inserted some sort of homemade straw, and would happily sip from the barrel at will......without getting caught. I must look up that story again. KathyB ____________________________________________________________ We Will Buy Your Credit Card Debt Revolutionary New Program- Reduce Debt By 55% Guaranteed. Read More... http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d7eb6b1136d421fb84st01duc

Has anyone checked out the Library of Congress lately? The newspaper section has The Columbus Journal scanned from days gone by.I checked out the Kush's tosee what I'd find. I always wondered why Michael Kush b 1881 went to buffalo, NY, expecially since the family orginally travelled through Minnasota. Found it! 1907 Oct 23, The Columbus Journal; page 1, column Last Thursday, constanble ed Rommitter, brought down Abe LaRue, Mike Kush and Mike Sax, who live south of Genoa, in Platte County, on a warrant charging them with cattle stealing, the complaint being made by Arnold Gerber. It seems that Gerber, who had some cattle in a pasture belonging to Mike Kargas, which is located near where these people live. On October 9th, he had occassion to go into it and look for some cattle he was going to sell. It was in the evening and after he had gone a short distance in the pasture he saw a man walking throught he pasture with a gun and he noticed the cattle were excited. He went a little further and noticed the man with the gun was Sak. He asked him what he was doing and he said he was hunting ducks. Kragas drove over a smal knoll and there discovered a young calf that had been shot in the head and had his throat cut. A little further on he discovered a wagon with a boy in it and a calf tied in the wagon. He questioned the boy about it and the boy refused to answer. Kargas then talkwith LaRue and Sak about it and also had the dead calf taken to Duncan to Arnold Gerber, to whom it belonged that he might see what had become of it. Inthe menatime Kargas offered a reward of $50 - for proof as to who shot the calf. Albert Gerger and Mike Wisenfruh decied they would try and earn the $50, so they started out to do so. They interviewed Sak and Kush and finally got a sworn statement from them stating that Kush had killed the calf, but did so at the request of LaRue. they then went to see LaRue, who attempted to settle it by paying Gerber $15 for the calf, and paying $50 for the reward and also $10 to Kargas. After they were brought down they were released on their promises to be in court Friday morning. LaRue and Sak were on hand but Kush decieded that a change of climte would be benefical and departed during the night. LaRue and Sak were bound over to district court Police Judge O'Brien, and the bond s were placed at $1,000, which were furnished. 1907 Oct 30 Cattle Thieves the Columbus Journal, page 5, column 2 The Sheriff of Platte County came up from Columbus last Thrusday and went across the Loup and arrestted Abe LaRue,Mike Kush and Mike Sak. The prisoners are charged with entering the pasture of Martin Krages, a farmer living near Duncan, and killing a yearling heifer, for the purpose of appropreating it for their own need. The defeandants had a hearing in Columbus and were placed under bonds for their appearance at the next term of district court. the penalty for the alleged crime is a term in the penitentiary. Soooo under the dark of night Mike Kush scooted out to Buffalo. Now his grandchildren have landed back in Omaha! On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:45 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > > Tom.......interesting that people are still doing what you described. > Our food is now loaded with this kind of sugar from corn. > > We have a story in our family about the Siemek family having a barrel > with this kind of sugar substitute outside the house and where the boys > slept. According to a cousin, the boys bore a hole in the wall, inserted > some sort of homemade straw, and would happily sip from the barrel at > will......without getting caught. I must look up that story again. > KathyB > > ____________________________________________________________ > We Will Buy Your Credit Card Debt > Revolutionary New Program- Reduce Debt By 55% Guaranteed. Read More... > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d7eb6b1136d421fb84st01duc > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >