“Notes Caught on the Fly.” from the July 13, 1877 Expositor
NOTES CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
The days grow short again.
New potatoes only $1.50 per bushel.
Summer should be full-grown by this time.(?)
Mr. David Follet, of Green Bay gave us a call Monday.
Doctors are chuckling as the green-apple season approaches.
Read our Fall River communication on the editorial page.
No saloons in Clay Banks. Everybody down there keeps sober.
De Pere discharged $8,000 of its bonded indebtedness on the 2d inst.
The Green Bay Light Guards have received new guns from the State.
A nice rain Monday, and another Tuesday morning. Now farmers smile.
Mrs. C. Scofield of Red River, and her son Herbert, are in the Village visiting.
A strong rumor has reached here from Rome that the Pope died on the 7th inst.
Mrs. Doak, and Mrs. Churchill, returned to De Pere on the Menominee last monday
“Uncle Dan” always “sets ’em up” to the boys in the way of good ice cream and lemonade.
Mrs. Annie B. Henderson, of Sister bay, and Miss Mclsaac, are visiting friends in this village.
J. P. De Coudres, of Ventura, cleared loaded with shingles for Scofield & Co, yesterday.
The America cleared Wednesday, for Chicago, loaded with Lumber for A. W. Lawrence & Co.
Elsewhere in this issue, the news from Washington Harbor can be found. “Read and ye shall be wise.”
Messrs. D. W. Stebbins, G. W. Wing, and Mr. Elliot, of Ahnapee, have our thanks for a call Tuesday morning.
We acknowledge a call from D. H. Burnes, well known as the Fort Howard boiler-maker, last Monday.
Mr. A. Templeton, of Clay Banks, informs us that haying in that town commenced fairly last Monday.
Schooner Mary R. Ann. of Chicago, is loading with shingles at Scofield & Co.’s mill for parties in Sister Bay.
The Tifft took an excursion of about 50 persons from this place over to see the ruins at Pensaukee on Tuesday.
We acknowledge a “shake”, and a very agreeable call from Mr. H. D. Wing, editor Ahnapee Record, Tuesday morning.
Hon. J. A. Watrons, G. C, T., of the Temple of Honor of the State of Wisconsin, honored us with a call Tuesday morning.
Miss Jennie Dreutzer, who has been visiting her brother in Chicago for a short time returned home on the Menominee last Monday morning.
Owing to some misconnections our Sevastopol correspondence did not reach us in time for this issue. It will come out in full bloom next week.
All forms of contagious and malarial diseases prevented and neutralized by the daily use of Terry’s Salicylic Soap. “The best in the world.”
“Poverty is often desperate. A poor fellow went to hang himself, but, finding a pot of gold, went merrily home. But he who had hidden the pot went and hung himself.”
“The true motive of our actions, like the reed pipes of an organ are usually concealed, but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in front for show.”
Mrs. O. B. Green, of Chicago, came on the North West Friday night, and her two daughters on the Menominee Monday, to spend the hot weather season in this village.
From Mr. Henry Schroeder we learn that a heavy rain and hail storm visited Clay Banks last Sunday evening, cutting potato vines off short and slick as if performed by a knife.
Those wishing to be liberal to the poor little mosquitoes, should get their hair cut short for the little creatures are timid, and afraid of long hair. Again: We have two barbers, in town.
The stem of the governor on the upper mill engine broke yesterday forenoon. After a stop of about one hour, the breakage was repaired, and the mill again resumed its work.
Chinese women set a very high value on the masculine gender, and their evening prayer to Buddha is to transform them in their next existence into men. They believe in metempsychosis.
“————,” said she, “if you love me, say so; and if you don’t love me say so; but if you love me and don’t want to say so—just take me to Dan Rice’s for a dish of his unequaled Ice Cream.”
A. W. Lawrence has had the misfortune to lose three horses within the last ten days, one was drowned by backing off of the pier, one was taken sick and died and one was found dead in the pasture.
Mr. Robert Bos, who left here immediately after the news came of the destruction of Pensaukee, found his wife and child all right, they having just left their dwelling before the storm struck it.
Notice new card of Michael Dohearty, on first page of this paper: Mr. Dohearty is a first class workman, and we are glad to see the large amount of patronage there is thrown upon him by the farmers.
Blipkins says: “I aint much oh problems in Euclid, and don’t care about evolution, but when a man sits down on a bumble-bee at a picnic, I can tell him how long it will take him to get up just as well as any professor at Yale.”
Scofield & Co’s mill started up Tuesday morning with an additional new boiler making 4 in all—after a lay-still of about four days. The mill now possesses great power, and some big work in the shape of sawing shingles may be looked for.
The ice house of Kœnig, Helms & Co., on the upper mill dock, has been torn down, and about 1000 tons of ice is steadily going to waste. The low market price on ice would not pay them to keep it longer, neither would it pay shipping expenses.
The old “by-word, of dogs for sausage meat” has a new feature added to it on the “dogs’ side.” People (those who are particular about small things) are beginning to wonder if the butcher has not become so reckless as to use the whole dog, “flees” and all?
The peach crop in Delaware seems to be increasing all the time. First reports had it that Delaware would raise peaches enough alone this season to furnish every man woman, and child in America, one quart each. Now it is estimated that the yield will be two quarts for each and every inhabitant.
In another column notice our items from Jacksonport. “Pickwick” is a good “item digester,” and the residents of the county, particularly in the vicinity of Jacksonport, can rest assured that they get all of the news chronicled in the space of a nut shell, when the signature at the bottom is signed “Pickwick.”
The Alert went to Pensaukee yesterday morning at 10 A. M., with Mr. Green, wife, and two daughters, Mr. Blake and wife, and Mr. Wm. T. Casgrain, to view the ruins. Mr. Green, and Mr. Blake and wife took the train in the afternoon at that place for Chicago. The remainder of the party returned on the Alert last evening.
During the storm of last Saturday evening, a ball of fire came down the spout, leading from the eve trough to the cellar in A. W. Lawrence’s residence. Mrs. Lawrence was in the cellar at the time, the ball of fire passing directly in front of her. Mrs. L. was terribly shocked and did not recover from the effect for two or three days. No damage was done the dwelling, except one spout being torn loose.
The Sevannah News believes that the lands of Northern Georgia are based upon a gold bearing stratum quite fabulous in its richness. At Dahlonega the other day, directly after the falling of a heavy shower of rain, a little bare-foot street urchin found fifteen or twenty large particles of gold in about half a gallon of earth, scraped up in front of the Court House door.
The last day of Miss E. Frank’s school, in Bay View, was celebrated in the afternoon by having a picnic in the little grove South of Mr. Schjouth’s, on the West side of the bay. Those attending the picnic inform us that the occasion was a grand one, and a generally good time was had. In the evening a social dance was given at Gœttlemann’s hall (the Bay View House) which wound up the day of pleasure, and all returned to their homes joyful and merry.
A piece of a note given by Frank Washburn, of Pensaukee, to ————was found in front of Mr. David Houle’s residence. It is supposed to have fell there from the wind that came directly across from Pensaukee after the tornado at that place. On the west side of this bay numerous articles torn to bits have been found by parties in their fields, such as calico, wallpaper, lath, etc., which undoubtedly came from the devastated place.
During the storm Saturday evening the relay wires were burnt off at the Horn’s pier telegraph office and at Clay Banks. The storm was so terrible on the wire at this place, that Mr. I. B. Scott, the operator, was obliged to cut the wire connecting with his instruments. In so doing he received a “bull-dozing” shock that sent him reeling from the wire. However, he succeeded in performing his undertaking, after which he was for sometime unable to manage himself.
One of the cart-horses of A. W. Lawrence & Co’s was drowned last Tuesday afternoon by backing off of the dock. The animal was backed a few feet for the purpose of unloading a load of slabs. The horse became unmanageable, and backed itself off from the dock, regardless of the efforts of two men trying to hold the wheels and persuading the animal to go ahead. The heavy cart held the horse down, which was drowned before assistance could be procured.
Two gamblers were in Leavenworth, Kan, several years ago, with about $50 in their pockets. They desired to get money enough to go to California. They went to separate hotels. One registered as a physician, and advertised a remedy for cholera. The other put up a large quantity of yeast powders into sample packages, with a little croton oil in each, and hired a boy to distribute them. Soon family after family, affected by the croton oil, felt what they believed were symptoms of cholera. The sale of the cholera remedy was enormous, and the gamblers were enabled to go to California. They now tell the story through the Virginia City Enterprise.
The rain Saturday night was rather a “pull back” on the farmers who had hay cut, and yet remaining in the field. Of course those having their hay out in the field drenched with water from the rain felt it a necessity to unfold the dripping stacks, that the warm sun might again receive and “cure” the diseased looking harvest; yet those who broke the “respected” day should not be surprised if the following proves to be their reward:
A little ‘pull-back’ sought one day
The gates of Paradise;
St. Peter wiped his spectacles
And rubbed his ancient eyes,”
“‘Pull-back’ on Sunday! Pulled up behind!
’Twill never do I fear;
The thing is too ridiculous—
You cannot enter here.”
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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