Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
Speech OF Mr.. JOab Whittle In Squawk-
bOr0 Town Meeting, on the Subject
OF Building School -hOuse.

Mr.. MoDERAToR-I want tn say word
about this ere new schoOl-'u Most
everybody has had their say, and now I'd
like to have mine. can't set, as l have
sot for the past tew hours, and see the
peoples money flung away on new
school-'us without saying word agin it.
If understand the matter right, it is
proposed to spend tew thousand dollars.
And what fur, Mr.. Moderator9 To set up
high school 'us, and teach the boys and
girls of Squawkboro lot of highfalutin
stuff that will only make them imperdent
and sassy.
When went to school and got my larn-
in, all l studied was the three R's-read
in, ritin' and 'rsthmetic;; and that is
plenty enough for anybody to larn, and two
much for gal. 1t is easy enough for men
to get up town meetin' and vote away
teae thousand at a lick; but how lsng
would it take them to arm that money
themselves? In my opinion, Mr.. Modera-
tor, there is too much money locked up
in public buildings already. Look at the
meetin' uses in Squawkboro'! -Four, and
any one on 'em is big enough to hold all
the people that goes to the hull on 'em.
How can town ever get ahead that has
so much capital locked up in meetin' uses?
And every one on 'em calm the other
names!
Suppose this vote passes--whar are We
agoin' to put your new school l-us? Therell
be puzzler for ye 'spose Squire Snukes
will try his pootiest to have it built on his
five-acre lot and somehow the people of
this town think they must dew jist as the
squire tells 'em, because he was sent to
Gineral Court one term. But / can tell
you, Mr.. Moderator, that if the school 'us
is put on that lot, it will be playin' mean
thing on the children that live UP ovar by
SINNERS Pond, and them that live up by
Silas Doozenberrys. They can't come to
school only when the sun shines And
don't want the thing built anywhere near
nv place. I know what it is to live near
the school-'us. l don't want my apples
and peaches hooked, or my fences hacked
up by boys, to say nothin' about the win
ders broken by base balls and sich.
Mr.. Moderator, we've got along all these
wears without this school'us"; why can't
we get along fifty years more2 Why agi-
tate this peaceful town of Squawkboro'
from one eend to t'other about edicatin
parcel of boys and gals that know sight
more than their payments do already?
Tsw thousand dollarsi My gracious,
Mr.. Moderator jest think Of tew thou
sand dollars all to wonst Jest think of
the town debt m0ao, and then picter to
yourselves what it will be with tew thou
sand more piled onto it. Look forrard
hundred and fifty years, and see our chill
dren's children groanin' under the taxes
this ere school'us' will bring upon 'em.
Why, sir, I got our minister to fgger up
what tew thousand dollars would be If
divided ekally among the inhabitants OF
Squawkboro', and it come to three and
ntnepence apiecel Yes, Mr.. Moderator,
three and aairaepence apiece!
Why, sir, it is only year since the town
went to the expense of two hundred and
fifty dollars to build he0rse house, and
not livin' person il, Squawkbore' needed
it. But there it is built, and STANDS there
unopened week after week, hardly any
use for it. As said before, can't set
still and see the hard earned money of the
people flung away on hearse-houses and
school houses without gitnn' up and utter
in my voise agin it.
Mr.. Moderator, l shall vote agin this
appropriation, and hope every liberal
minded, whole-souled man will do the
same Vim. L. WSIIiams, IN OISser OPP
tics Magazine.
"A correspondent of the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle says that the best way to reno
vate old apple trees is to commence with a
good pruning, then scrape off all the loose
bark and moss; give the tree a Longitude
nal incision through the bark, wash the
whole with strong solution OF soap and
water with lime added, and give good