The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-01-13
/" Shingle ShaviDgs. !"
The PINES, NEAR QUIsCY, ILL.,, I
December 81. 1850. i

FRIEND CRoWLEY AS per promise,
now proceed TO give you few ''ShayiDgs'
| from ''Shingle Dealer" turned Sucker
farmer. Even Single Dealer, who has
seen and experienced the hardships and
trials of his trade at Manitowoc, Two Riv-
ers, Rowley's, Two Creeks, Sand Bay, and.
along shore, finds there are some green
spots in memory tina. it is pleasant to look
back upon.
Well do l remember the first load Of
shingles l purchased in your market-six
NJ. Of ALEX. RIcnARDsoN, at twelve shi-
lings per NJ. 1t was in December, 1913.
also remember that was just what got
for them in Chcsgo, and paid thirty cents
freight. Good business that. During the
winter of 40 and so, JARVIS E. and my
selfpurchased, for those days, large guam
tity at one dollar per NJ. 81 as they rum"
Run they would, if not "piled" one bunch
on top of the other, being some on the
soindy order. No inspection then. No
AS or No. l. No MIcH. MAHoNEY with
his pinchers (your humble servants frs:
and only inventory to draw out the bad
ones, for MICHAEL has way wild him"
of getting hold of the gooaJor-nothings if
they are in the bunch. Next Spring l
took the currency" to Chicago. No
sale. Put them on JIM HUGUN1N's dock,
and was glad to get rid Of them at ten and
eleven shillings per NJ. Pro6ts-Nir
corr rous.
believe l purchased the first lead of
flour or other truck that was brought from
the back country, which was then an mac
cessible and undiscovered country to Man
itowoc, and to all intents and purposes is
yet, to the shame of the village be it said
That load Of flour was purchased Of Mr..
CRAWFORD in December, 40. McNULrY.
myself and others had made up asubscrip-
ton, for which W agreed to cut out
a road to the county line-the present
Calumet road-SO that a team could be
driven through. Our contractor reported
that he had done 1t. Got his pay. We
then discovered that he had driven his
team through-but he anyohed them and
d owe them tandem. Thus was common
ced a series Of cute Practices, running thro'
a series of years, by which the profits Of
trade were cat of, besides getting our eye
teeth cat. l mean the practice Of taking
some mems aeord in payment for pork and
things. l have got the words yet, but no
pay. Lulnbermen and fishermen in those
/ days we're Ike tie Indians white man
mighty uncertain. Yet they were a roll
licking set Of generous, whole-souled fell
lows, who paid when they could, and had
their jolly DRINKS any hop.
Well DO Iremembor every thing connect
ed With your village during the first few
weeks Of my residence there, commencing
in May, 1848. The Propeller Rossettsr,
commonly called he Pcqqg, came along
side the South Pier, viii, sundry things,
and few passencers-among whom was
The suJscliber and joe. SAIH, who all oil
settlers know and love. A bigger heart
and q moro energetic and nobler soul
has nover breathel than joe. God bless
him wherever he is CASE {. CLARK were
lle:e to take the lines RICHARD STEEL,
Esq, was the "looker on" solitary and
, alone. Shortly after, CHRIs BANDIT arri-
we'd with skiff from the "other (north)
side Of Jordan, and therein we soon
croSsed over" and placed ourselves un-
der the care of mIne host JARED" Of
"warm and cold buiscuit" memory.
Within about three weeks after my ar
rival, we had three elections for Represen-
tative to the first State Legislature First,
Col. EZRA DURGIN and the lamented and
noble-hearted DANIEL SMITH, of Mishicott,
were opposing candidates The result was
a tie. \ new election was called by JouS
PLUM, as Deputy under the Sheriff Of
Brown county. We, the SMITH men, de-
MED the legality Of the call, and general
y staid at home, and the DURGIN men
had it all to themselves. Next week, I'M
der a call from the Coroner-the late
--- BUBDARD-Uncle DAMS friends
"went in on their muscle" and had an
election "all alone in their gory.o | be.
ieve we claimed more votes cast at orr
election than at theirs. However. Col
DURGIS took bis seat, and a very inhuen.
tial and energetic member he made. If
Manitowoc never has a worse one to rem.
resent her, she may well be proud of them
ALL
The good old whig party Of those days,
in the county, consisted of JAS. l.. KYLE,
JAMES BENNETT, HARVEY CASE, PLrsY
PIERCE, DAN'L SMITH, ALFRED SMITH. RI
Ii. SMITH, FRED. BoRcHERDr, and perbaps
half dozen others, who l do not now re-
member, except my old friend ANTHONY
McNULTY, who was then one of us.
was also counted in that squad. Col.