RAMBLINGS - 3 Jun 1909

PARKIN, SCHNEBLEY, EDGINGTON, PARSONS, PENNINGTON, BROCK, LEINEN

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 4/30/2006 at 16:40:42

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, June 3, 1909

RAMBLINGS:

"Congressman W.D. Jamieson, or should Fate lay its hands on him and remove
him from the activities of life, it falls largely on you to keep us posted
as I see the Chariton Herald is not going to permit Jamieson to have
anything in his paper. I don't understand why some men persist in
belittling Col. Hepburn by constantly parading the smallness of Jamieson.
If Jamieson is the Liliputian that one editor in Chariton makes him out to
be and beat Col. Hepburn by a majority of over 300 how much would have been
the majority had a good man run against the Colonel? Some things humorously
puzzle even Republicans sometimes."

-- GEORGE PARKIN, Union Township
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"Yes, we have got all our old ground planted to corn and are now plowing
brush land and will continue to apply seed to the soil. Seed time and
harvest is sure, so we plant all summer and harvest crops all winter."

-- JOHN SCHNEBLEY
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"We have an educated cat over at our house and it is interesting to see what
intelligence a cat will develop. I don't spend much time in training him but
I started to teach it just to amuse myself and now my curiosity is aroused.
It will do many things by merely telling it to. I never knew before that
cats were susceptable to "higher education."

-- LEE E. EDGINGTON
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"The majority of the people down our way are pretty well along with their
planting and it is marvelous what farmers can do between showers. Warm
weather is now essential owing to the lateness of the season to bring up and
develop a corn crop."

-- GEO. PARSONS, Washington Township
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"I got hurt in a foolish way, a few days since. My old mare, which is as
old as you are -- well, not quite, but up towards the 30s, was on the green
and I concluded I would mount her with neither saddle nor bridle. This, I
guess, make her think of her coltish days and so she ran away with me and
threw me off. I am getting about well again."

-- FRANK PENNINGTON, Otter Creek
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"Forty seven years ago yesterday I commenced to drive stage for the western
stage company. No military hero was prouder of his commission than I was of
mine and had the Governor come down out of the State House I would not have
considered an exchange of places with him."

-- BEN BROCK
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"The people must be turning their attention to gardening. Last week I sold
from my beds $108 worth of plants."

-- NICHOLAS LEINEN
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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
September 10, 2005
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'A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot'.