WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: SEPT 1914
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WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: SEPT 1914
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Posted: 18 Jul 2009 4:28AM GMT |
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Surnames: Adams, Baker, Bennett, Berry, Bevington, Boaz, Bottorf, Bunch, Cash, Cheney, Chilcott, Coffman, Collier, Crandall, Detwiler, Dobbins, Drake, Dunn, Earl, Edwards, Eychner, Fay, Fisher, Fitch, Folker, Gabe, Gann, Gavin, Gee, Getman, Green, Grimm, Henninger, Hirsch, Johnson, Jones, Jorgenson, Keiffer, Kissinger, Kreamer, Loomis, Loucks, Maloney, Manker, Marble, Marks, Matson, McClung, McIntyre, Meeker, Meyers, Musser, Nixon, Noel, Perfect, Petrie, Poppen, Postlethwaite, Queen, Rhodeheaver, Rightmeier, Ruggles, Sapp, Schempp, Schumacher, Seamans, Seaton, Sellers, Smith, Stidham, Tucker, Turner, Weno, Wesselowski, White, Young, Zipse.
WHAT THEY SAY in the REPUBLICAN: SEPT 1914
04 SEPT 1914
Mrs. J.C. Perfect: “I am staying at home, but I’ll put up a sign. ‘This is my vacation,’ and I’m not going to do a thing.”
Supt. O.N. Berry: “When nations quarrel their responsible rulers should be sent out to single-handed combat. That would work for peace.”
Mrs. A.E. Adams: “It never makes me feel bad to pay my honest debts. It makes me feel good that I can do it.”
W.E. Collier: “The farmers held back much more wheat than common this year, and it paid them well.”
Mrs. L.S. Grimm: “If the editor had had a mirror handy when he came out of those tunnels he would have found that he didn’t look very handsome himself.”
E.D. Fisher: “I have gained 15 pounds since I quit smoking, but I still want to smoke.”
O.M. Chilcott: “I had to laugh at that farm adviser. He took the drouth to heart and felt worse about it than the farmers did. It actually made him sick.”
M.A. Gee; “My feterita is ripe and it’s a race whether I or the blackbirds get it.”
Mrs. Bertha Postlethwaite: “I think W.C. McClung’s letter from Tennessee sounded rather giddy.”
Geo. Schumacher: “I’m counting on half a crop of corn.”
Mrs. Nettie Keiffer: “People kick if the ‘What They Say’ is left out of the paper and get mad if what THEY say gets in”
F.W. Bevington: “I find that editing that Neighboring County column is a mighty big job.”
S. Coffman: “When they knocked Bristow out they knocked a good deal of Republicanism out of me.”
Peter Henninger: “The drouth struck Arkansas in May and we didn’t have a rain in fifty-two days.”
F.L. Drake: “At Atlantic City I saw 75,000 people in bathing at one time. Biggest leg show I ever saw.”
Rev. G.D. Sellers: “Money for a vacation is money well spent.”
L.M. Jorgenson: “The time is coming when no czar or emperor will have power to declare war.”
Reuben Henninger: “When I got started I kept a coming. I weigh more now than I ever did before.”
Will Fay: “We turned out seven silo jobs this week.”
President Tucker, Salina Business College; “Isaac Meeker of your county is a fine young fellow and we are proud of him.”
J.E. Stidham: “Esbon is walking right along. We have a municipal electric light and water system which pays its own way, our concern is putting up a big new bank and mercantile building, the Catholics are building the prettiest church I ever saw and we are going to have very near half a crop of corn.”
Chas. Eychner; “I was lucky. I couldn’t get my wheat threshed in time to sell it, and it is still in the bin.”
Will Petrie: “I’ve got 125 head of hogs, big and little. You see I bet on a corn crop this year and I’m going to do it again next year. I think we’ll get corn cheaper after a while. In the meantime I am feeding my stock ground wheat, shorts etc. I am not expecting any big pay for my work, but at the present prices of hogs I don’t count on losing much money on them, and I’ll have my start for next year.”
11 SEPT 1914
George Edwards: “My wheat made 30 bushels per acre and I was awful fussy when the thresher went by me and I couldn’t sell it for 67 cents.”
John Johnson: “I can’t understand why farmers are so slow to take hold of the silo. I couldn’t have saved my sixty head of yearlings last year without the silo. They came in poor off the pasture but came out round and fat on silage. My bunch of steers that I put up were fed only seven bushels of corn each. The rest was silage and they brought me $95 a head. I oughtn’t to wonder at other farmers though, as it took three years to talk me into building one.”
S.I. Green: “If I live and keep my health and make some money you’ll see a cement elevator go up at this mill some day.”
Lloyd Bottorf: “This is my first dollar wheat. I raised 2400 bushels of wheat, a good crop of oats, pretty fair corn and all kinds of hay this year.”
Ed Young: “I believe a man ought to buy all the corn he can even at eighty cents a bushel.”
Guy Grimm, Portland, Oregon: “All well and like it fine here.”
J.W. Berry: “If this war goes on wheat will be worth $2.00 and cattle and hogs 15 cents a pound.”
Mrs. Sue Bennett: “Dr. Hughes doctored my family 33 years, and I never did see a doctor I thought so much of.”
Miss Clara Sapp: “Jewell county is bigger than I thought the United States was, before I began to canvass.”
James Marble: “When my father passed through Chicago on his way west there was only one business house there.”
F.E. Ruggles: “I think we have lined up a dandy corps of teachers for this year.”
J.L. Gavin: “In 1864 sugar was worth $30.50 per hundred, in 1865 $25, in 1866 $18.25, in 1867 $16, in 1890 $6.44, in 1891 $6.61, in 1914 $8.50.”
J.W. Berry: “I’ve sold about $1,000 worth of Jerseys since Old Settlers day.”
O.A. Seaton: “One reason why I wanted to dispose of my elevator was to go around the world, but I guess the war has headed me off for the present.”
W.G. Dunn: “A wind blowing on a load of hay will sometimes make it weigh 20 pounds more.”
S.I. Green: “I had 5,000 bushels of wheat on the way to market when the price dropped five cents a bushel.”
John Kissinger: “The wheat acreage will be about the same as last year.”
R.E. Bunch: “We find that a two-cylinder bull tractor isn’t a success. If one cylinder isn’t hitting the other can’t pull the load. A 4-cylinder tractor would be the thing.”
Dr. Wesselowski: “I have three nephews in the German army.”
J.M. Gabe: “We are going to get another cutting of alfalfa.”
Lloyd Musser: “The Germans are getting a lot of sympathy up at our house.”
18 SEPT 1914
William Queen, Vici, Okla.: “Please send the REPUBLICAN. We don’t like to get along without it.”
H.A. Manker: “we had to have this war to save the Democratic party. It can blame all its failures on the war.”
H.G. Loucks: “My barn got hit by lightning again last Thursday. I guess the rods saved it. I didn’t use to believe in lightning rods but perhaps the right kind are all right. This is the second time the new barn has been struck and the old one was hit the second time before it burned. That is four times lighting has struck in one place.”
Paul Jones: “My feterita is so fine that I am always going to raise a field of it after this.”
Helen Edwards; “I have gained ten pounds since coming to Ohio.”
W.A. Matson: “since making that trip through mud and water from Iowa, Cal and I have a greatly increased admiration for the Studebaker. We didn’t know it was such a boat.”
Ted Getman: “Colts are bringing about half what they did last year.”
J.W. Berry: “Four of my children have received college training. I’m starting in on the last half now.”
Mrs. Dell Schempp: “It’s hard to save anything out of your income, but in the long run it is harder not to.”
Win Baker, Fellsmere, Fla: “Father (Rev F.D. Baker) is having a hard time. Dropsical conditions have set in and the doctors do not give us much hope. He has been suffering for two months.”
W.C. McClung: “Emperor William has been parading around with a chip on his shoulder for thirty years.”
W.H. Cheney: “we tried three nights to get into Billy Sunday’s meeting at Denver. Finally we went at 6:30 and got a seat. Never saw such a sight in my life. 12,000 people inside and acres of people and autos on the outside. Saw Rhodeheaver and heard him sing, but couldn’t get near enough to shake hands. They had a thousand picked singers.”
George B. Crandall: “You’ll have to fix it up with Callie. She didn’t come back with us and will stay up in Wisconsin for a month or more.”
Miss Ruby Earl: “Nothing gets a good crowd in this town but a runaway or a dog fight.’
Henry Meyers: “It doesn’t take any more bushels of wheat to buy a sack of sugar now than it did a month ago.”
Tom Fitch: “The volunteer wheat is coming a-whooping every place. It will make a lot of fall feed.”
Mrs. Dora Marks Hirsch: “Please say we are in Enid, Okla., instead of El Reno. If any Jewell people come to Enid we want to see them.”
Baldwin Smith: “The only time I feel like being a Republican this year is when I read the Democratic papers.”
Fred Rightmeier; “I didn’t see a piece of cooked pork, while I was in Germany. They all eat it raw.”
Ferd Zipse: “I was mowing weeds. I had seen my little four-year-old boy up by the house and had no thought that he was anywhere near, but he cut across and came crowding through the high weeds ahead of the horses. The first I knew I heard him yell when the sickle guard struck. I yelled too, and the horses stopped. No one who hasn’t been there will ever know how I felt while I was getting off that mower. When I picked him up I saw the cut in the ankle and the foot lopped down, but I knew his feet were still on. I yelled for my wife to phone for the doctors, which she did. They think he won’t be a cripple and I tell you we are mighty thankful it is no worse.”
25 SEPT 1914
E.L. Dobbins: “My business is good. I am paying all my debts and getting in shape to make some money. It was a hard pull though.”
John Cash: “When Newt Kreamer was treasurer he told us what every cent of our township money was spent for and who got it, and that is what we don’t know this year.”
Dr. Joe Poppen: “I think the nomination of Curtis was pretty severe on the Republican party.”
J.F. Loomis: “That’s the last cent I owe anybody; that’s what makes me feel rich.”
Irma Nixon: “I can’t watch the married men. I’ve got my hands full without bothering with them.”
John Detwiler: “I have bought Mrs. Gann’s 2-acre property in the north part of town and we will move back to Jewell next spring.”
Henry Boaz: “I’m betting that the war isn’t over, so my wheat is still in the bin.”
George Seamans: “I believe everything those Mankato editors say about each other.”
Fay N. Seaton, Washington, D.C.” The war is the all-absorbing topic here as I suppose it is everywhere. Mrs. Seaton has four first cousins and a raft of other relatives in the German army. Regardless of where my sympathies might be, I have to fight for Germany to keep the peace about the breakfast table. Mrs. Seaton, you know, was a subject of the Kaiser until we were married.”
G.W. McIntyre: “My wife is a full blooded Dutchman, too.”
Splitwood Smith: “I told those Virginians what prohibition is doing for us in Kansas, and it seemed to work all right. I see the state went dry by 32,000.’
Republican Mailing Clerk: “I hope Splitwood Smith stays settled awhile. He’s made me a lot of trouble.”
County Agent Folker: “Whenever the farmers in any Jewell county township will all agree to vaccinate their hogs with serum, not with the virus, but the serum alone, in case cholera breaks out in the township, then the work will be done for them free by the government. Sinclair township is now circulating an agreement to give the plan a trail. Some fine results have been obtained from this method in Iowa. I want to persuade the farmers here to try it.”
Mrs. John Noel (formerly Miss May Weno) Bowen, Mo: “We like it here. This is a great fruit and vegetable country for anyone energetic enough to try to raise them. The wheat and oats were good, corn expected to make from 20 to 40 bushels. We never raised a nicer garden. John and Ralph work in the coal mines when they are not farming.”
George Edwards: “I expect to move back to Jewell before long.”
Uncle James Maloney: “I’ve been down to Concordia to see Mary. The paved streets look very fine down there, but I hear fellows complaining that the taxes are a holy fright.”
R.W. Turner: “The newspaper row in our town has become so chronic that Mankato people pay no attention to it.”
County Attorney White: “My experience is that the only time a woman won’t talk is when you talk politics to her. That seems to stump her and she won’t say a word. She just lets you do the talking. That does seem funny.”
Rev. G.J. Schumacher: “Rhodeheaver spied me in the crowd at one of Billy Sunday’s meetings. He sent his hello to Fishers, Kreamers, the REPUBLICAN folks and many others. He never seems to forget anybody.”
Transcribed by Marjorie Kincheloe Slaughter
04 SEPT 1914
Mrs. J.C. Perfect: “I am staying at home, but I’ll put up a sign. ‘This is my vacation,’ and I’m not going to do a thing.”
Supt. O.N. Berry: “When nations quarrel their responsible rulers should be sent out to single-handed combat. That would work for peace.”
Mrs. A.E. Adams: “It never makes me feel bad to pay my honest debts. It makes me feel good that I can do it.”
W.E. Collier: “The farmers held back much more wheat than common this year, and it paid them well.”
Mrs. L.S. Grimm: “If the editor had had a mirror handy when he came out of those tunnels he would have found that he didn’t look very handsome himself.”
E.D. Fisher: “I have gained 15 pounds since I quit smoking, but I still want to smoke.”
O.M. Chilcott: “I had to laugh at that farm adviser. He took the drouth to heart and felt worse about it than the farmers did. It actually made him sick.”
M.A. Gee; “My feterita is ripe and it’s a race whether I or the blackbirds get it.”
Mrs. Bertha Postlethwaite: “I think W.C. McClung’s letter from Tennessee sounded rather giddy.”
Geo. Schumacher: “I’m counting on half a crop of corn.”
Mrs. Nettie Keiffer: “People kick if the ‘What They Say’ is left out of the paper and get mad if what THEY say gets in”
F.W. Bevington: “I find that editing that Neighboring County column is a mighty big job.”
S. Coffman: “When they knocked Bristow out they knocked a good deal of Republicanism out of me.”
Peter Henninger: “The drouth struck Arkansas in May and we didn’t have a rain in fifty-two days.”
F.L. Drake: “At Atlantic City I saw 75,000 people in bathing at one time. Biggest leg show I ever saw.”
Rev. G.D. Sellers: “Money for a vacation is money well spent.”
L.M. Jorgenson: “The time is coming when no czar or emperor will have power to declare war.”
Reuben Henninger: “When I got started I kept a coming. I weigh more now than I ever did before.”
Will Fay: “We turned out seven silo jobs this week.”
President Tucker, Salina Business College; “Isaac Meeker of your county is a fine young fellow and we are proud of him.”
J.E. Stidham: “Esbon is walking right along. We have a municipal electric light and water system which pays its own way, our concern is putting up a big new bank and mercantile building, the Catholics are building the prettiest church I ever saw and we are going to have very near half a crop of corn.”
Chas. Eychner; “I was lucky. I couldn’t get my wheat threshed in time to sell it, and it is still in the bin.”
Will Petrie: “I’ve got 125 head of hogs, big and little. You see I bet on a corn crop this year and I’m going to do it again next year. I think we’ll get corn cheaper after a while. In the meantime I am feeding my stock ground wheat, shorts etc. I am not expecting any big pay for my work, but at the present prices of hogs I don’t count on losing much money on them, and I’ll have my start for next year.”
11 SEPT 1914
George Edwards: “My wheat made 30 bushels per acre and I was awful fussy when the thresher went by me and I couldn’t sell it for 67 cents.”
John Johnson: “I can’t understand why farmers are so slow to take hold of the silo. I couldn’t have saved my sixty head of yearlings last year without the silo. They came in poor off the pasture but came out round and fat on silage. My bunch of steers that I put up were fed only seven bushels of corn each. The rest was silage and they brought me $95 a head. I oughtn’t to wonder at other farmers though, as it took three years to talk me into building one.”
S.I. Green: “If I live and keep my health and make some money you’ll see a cement elevator go up at this mill some day.”
Lloyd Bottorf: “This is my first dollar wheat. I raised 2400 bushels of wheat, a good crop of oats, pretty fair corn and all kinds of hay this year.”
Ed Young: “I believe a man ought to buy all the corn he can even at eighty cents a bushel.”
Guy Grimm, Portland, Oregon: “All well and like it fine here.”
J.W. Berry: “If this war goes on wheat will be worth $2.00 and cattle and hogs 15 cents a pound.”
Mrs. Sue Bennett: “Dr. Hughes doctored my family 33 years, and I never did see a doctor I thought so much of.”
Miss Clara Sapp: “Jewell county is bigger than I thought the United States was, before I began to canvass.”
James Marble: “When my father passed through Chicago on his way west there was only one business house there.”
F.E. Ruggles: “I think we have lined up a dandy corps of teachers for this year.”
J.L. Gavin: “In 1864 sugar was worth $30.50 per hundred, in 1865 $25, in 1866 $18.25, in 1867 $16, in 1890 $6.44, in 1891 $6.61, in 1914 $8.50.”
J.W. Berry: “I’ve sold about $1,000 worth of Jerseys since Old Settlers day.”
O.A. Seaton: “One reason why I wanted to dispose of my elevator was to go around the world, but I guess the war has headed me off for the present.”
W.G. Dunn: “A wind blowing on a load of hay will sometimes make it weigh 20 pounds more.”
S.I. Green: “I had 5,000 bushels of wheat on the way to market when the price dropped five cents a bushel.”
John Kissinger: “The wheat acreage will be about the same as last year.”
R.E. Bunch: “We find that a two-cylinder bull tractor isn’t a success. If one cylinder isn’t hitting the other can’t pull the load. A 4-cylinder tractor would be the thing.”
Dr. Wesselowski: “I have three nephews in the German army.”
J.M. Gabe: “We are going to get another cutting of alfalfa.”
Lloyd Musser: “The Germans are getting a lot of sympathy up at our house.”
18 SEPT 1914
William Queen, Vici, Okla.: “Please send the REPUBLICAN. We don’t like to get along without it.”
H.A. Manker: “we had to have this war to save the Democratic party. It can blame all its failures on the war.”
H.G. Loucks: “My barn got hit by lightning again last Thursday. I guess the rods saved it. I didn’t use to believe in lightning rods but perhaps the right kind are all right. This is the second time the new barn has been struck and the old one was hit the second time before it burned. That is four times lighting has struck in one place.”
Paul Jones: “My feterita is so fine that I am always going to raise a field of it after this.”
Helen Edwards; “I have gained ten pounds since coming to Ohio.”
W.A. Matson: “since making that trip through mud and water from Iowa, Cal and I have a greatly increased admiration for the Studebaker. We didn’t know it was such a boat.”
Ted Getman: “Colts are bringing about half what they did last year.”
J.W. Berry: “Four of my children have received college training. I’m starting in on the last half now.”
Mrs. Dell Schempp: “It’s hard to save anything out of your income, but in the long run it is harder not to.”
Win Baker, Fellsmere, Fla: “Father (Rev F.D. Baker) is having a hard time. Dropsical conditions have set in and the doctors do not give us much hope. He has been suffering for two months.”
W.C. McClung: “Emperor William has been parading around with a chip on his shoulder for thirty years.”
W.H. Cheney: “we tried three nights to get into Billy Sunday’s meeting at Denver. Finally we went at 6:30 and got a seat. Never saw such a sight in my life. 12,000 people inside and acres of people and autos on the outside. Saw Rhodeheaver and heard him sing, but couldn’t get near enough to shake hands. They had a thousand picked singers.”
George B. Crandall: “You’ll have to fix it up with Callie. She didn’t come back with us and will stay up in Wisconsin for a month or more.”
Miss Ruby Earl: “Nothing gets a good crowd in this town but a runaway or a dog fight.’
Henry Meyers: “It doesn’t take any more bushels of wheat to buy a sack of sugar now than it did a month ago.”
Tom Fitch: “The volunteer wheat is coming a-whooping every place. It will make a lot of fall feed.”
Mrs. Dora Marks Hirsch: “Please say we are in Enid, Okla., instead of El Reno. If any Jewell people come to Enid we want to see them.”
Baldwin Smith: “The only time I feel like being a Republican this year is when I read the Democratic papers.”
Fred Rightmeier; “I didn’t see a piece of cooked pork, while I was in Germany. They all eat it raw.”
Ferd Zipse: “I was mowing weeds. I had seen my little four-year-old boy up by the house and had no thought that he was anywhere near, but he cut across and came crowding through the high weeds ahead of the horses. The first I knew I heard him yell when the sickle guard struck. I yelled too, and the horses stopped. No one who hasn’t been there will ever know how I felt while I was getting off that mower. When I picked him up I saw the cut in the ankle and the foot lopped down, but I knew his feet were still on. I yelled for my wife to phone for the doctors, which she did. They think he won’t be a cripple and I tell you we are mighty thankful it is no worse.”
25 SEPT 1914
E.L. Dobbins: “My business is good. I am paying all my debts and getting in shape to make some money. It was a hard pull though.”
John Cash: “When Newt Kreamer was treasurer he told us what every cent of our township money was spent for and who got it, and that is what we don’t know this year.”
Dr. Joe Poppen: “I think the nomination of Curtis was pretty severe on the Republican party.”
J.F. Loomis: “That’s the last cent I owe anybody; that’s what makes me feel rich.”
Irma Nixon: “I can’t watch the married men. I’ve got my hands full without bothering with them.”
John Detwiler: “I have bought Mrs. Gann’s 2-acre property in the north part of town and we will move back to Jewell next spring.”
Henry Boaz: “I’m betting that the war isn’t over, so my wheat is still in the bin.”
George Seamans: “I believe everything those Mankato editors say about each other.”
Fay N. Seaton, Washington, D.C.” The war is the all-absorbing topic here as I suppose it is everywhere. Mrs. Seaton has four first cousins and a raft of other relatives in the German army. Regardless of where my sympathies might be, I have to fight for Germany to keep the peace about the breakfast table. Mrs. Seaton, you know, was a subject of the Kaiser until we were married.”
G.W. McIntyre: “My wife is a full blooded Dutchman, too.”
Splitwood Smith: “I told those Virginians what prohibition is doing for us in Kansas, and it seemed to work all right. I see the state went dry by 32,000.’
Republican Mailing Clerk: “I hope Splitwood Smith stays settled awhile. He’s made me a lot of trouble.”
County Agent Folker: “Whenever the farmers in any Jewell county township will all agree to vaccinate their hogs with serum, not with the virus, but the serum alone, in case cholera breaks out in the township, then the work will be done for them free by the government. Sinclair township is now circulating an agreement to give the plan a trail. Some fine results have been obtained from this method in Iowa. I want to persuade the farmers here to try it.”
Mrs. John Noel (formerly Miss May Weno) Bowen, Mo: “We like it here. This is a great fruit and vegetable country for anyone energetic enough to try to raise them. The wheat and oats were good, corn expected to make from 20 to 40 bushels. We never raised a nicer garden. John and Ralph work in the coal mines when they are not farming.”
George Edwards: “I expect to move back to Jewell before long.”
Uncle James Maloney: “I’ve been down to Concordia to see Mary. The paved streets look very fine down there, but I hear fellows complaining that the taxes are a holy fright.”
R.W. Turner: “The newspaper row in our town has become so chronic that Mankato people pay no attention to it.”
County Attorney White: “My experience is that the only time a woman won’t talk is when you talk politics to her. That seems to stump her and she won’t say a word. She just lets you do the talking. That does seem funny.”
Rev. G.J. Schumacher: “Rhodeheaver spied me in the crowd at one of Billy Sunday’s meetings. He sent his hello to Fishers, Kreamers, the REPUBLICAN folks and many others. He never seems to forget anybody.”
Transcribed by Marjorie Kincheloe Slaughter