by the funds of the County. The question submitted was, "For High School," and "Against High School." "For High School" was defeated by a large majority.
There have been several other propositions proposed from time to time to the voters of the County, but of minor importance. I will name the one, however, that was submitted November, 1885. It was, "Shall the number of Supervisors be increased to five?" The result was "No."
THE OLD SETTLER.
I mind the Fourth in fifty-nine,
A blisterin', red hot sultry day,
Fire crackers burned a barn of mine,
A hoss and nigh a ton of hay.
Come sixty-one the war broke out,
And all the boys was wild to go,
And on that Fourth with song and shout,
My boys enlisted, Bob and Joe.
The Fourth in eighteen sixty-two
Come on a rainy drizzling day,
And Joe, in clothes and feelin' blue,
Came home, without a arm, to stay.
In sixty-five, when Bob came back,
We celebrated, all hands round;
We drove to town, but missed the track,
Drove off a bridge-two horses drowned.
In seventy-one-that was the year
The cannon burst at Doddar's Bend
And killed Bill Brand, the cannoneer,
And knocked the school house end for end.
In seventy-six Bob licked the 'Squire,
And Hensey's boys and Jake Magore
Sot Eldridge Lamson's hay a-fire
And burned the church and Boseman's store.
But now it kinder seems to me,
The Fourth don't have no sort of fun,
Like when my granson's pa and me
Just made her boil from sun to sun.
—Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.