Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-02-26
THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS.
l62O-1s75.


1920 Lands on Plymouth Rock
and sets up for himself.
l621-Keeps Thanksgiving - in
great danger of over-eating.
1622-Builds Westinghouse.
l623-Pro ,laims fast day.
l62S-Cuts down a maple at mer-
ry-making as a rcbuke to vain recrea-
ton.
l635-Is crowded for accommoda-
tions and stakes out new farm in
Connecticut.
1637-Makes war on the Antino-
mians md Pequot Indians, and whips
both.
l63s-Starts a college and
1640-Sets up Il printing press.
l643-Gocs into Il contederacy.
The first Colonial Congress.
l74S-Lays down the Cambridge
platform. Hangs witch.
l649-Sets his face against the un-
christian custom Of wearing long
hair, 81 thing uncivil and income
ly."
l65l-Is rebukcd for "intolerable
excess and bravery Of apparel" and
is f Ridden to wear gold and silver
lace or any such gewgaws.
1652-Coins Pine Tree shillings
and makes the business profitable.
l663-Prints Bible for the In
dians.
l6sO-Buys a "hang-up clock" and
occasionally carries a silver watch
that helps to guess the time of the
day. About this period he learns to
use forks at the table, new fashion.
1692-Is scared by the witches
again at Salem but gets the better of
them.
17O2-Founds another college
which at last settles down at New
Haven.
17O4-Prints his first newspaper at
Boston.
l7O5-Takcs coffee as luxury at
his own table.
l7Os-Constructs another platform
this time at Saybrook.
l71O--Begins to sip tea-very
sparingly. 1t does not come into
family use till five and twenty years
later
l711-Puts letter in his first
postoffice.
172O-Eats a potato, and takes one
home to plant in his garden as Gu
riosity.
1722-Is inoculated for the small
pox--not without grave remonstrances
from his conservative neighbors.
l73O-Begins to sing by note on
Sundays, thereby encountering much
opposition and opening a ten years
quarrel.
l74O-Manufactures timed wMe
and starts the first peddler on his
travels.
l742-Sees Faneuil Hall built
The cradle of liberty ready to be
rocked.
1s45-Builds an organ, but does
not permit it to be played in the
meeting house.
l75O-Buys a bushel of potatoes
for winters use-all his friends won
der what he will do with so many.
ls55-Puts up a Franklin stove in
the best room, and tries one of the
newly invented lightning rods.
l76O-About this time begins to
wear a collar to his shirt. When he
can afford it, takes his wife to meet
ing in chaise, instead of on a pillion
as heretofore.
l765-Shows his dislike to stamped
paper and joins the ''Sons of LIB
crty."
l76s-Tries his hand attype-found-
ing; no yet successtul-in Connecti-
cut.
l77O-Buys a homemade wooden
clock.
l773-Waters his tea in Boston
harbor. Plants Liberty trees where
ever he finds good soil.
l774-Lights Boston streets with
oil lamps, a novelty, though "New
Lights" had been plenty for some
years past.
1916 Brother Jonathan, as he be-
gins to be called in the family, de-
clares himself free and indepen-
dent.
l7sO-Buys an "unbrillo" for Sun
days, and whenever he shows it is
laughed at for him etfeminacy.
l79l- Starts cotton-spinning fac
tory.
l792-Has been raising silk worms
in Connecticut, and now gives his
minister (not his wife) homemade
silk dress; buys a carpet for the mid
die of the parlor.
I793-Invents the cotton gin and
thereby trebles the value of Southern
plantations.
l795-lsOO-Wears pantaloons oc-
casionally, but not in full dress. Be
gins to use plates on the breakfast
and tea table.
lsO2-He has the boys and girls
vaccinated.
lso6-Tries to burn piece of hard
coal from Philadelphia. A failure.
lsO7-Sces boat go by steam on
the Hudson.
lSl6-Holds little convention 1T
Hartford, but doesn't propose to dis
solve the Union. Buys one of Terry s
patent ''shclf clocks" for $36 and reg
ulates his watch by it.
lsl7-Sets up 4 stove in the meet
ing house and builds a fire in it for
Sunday; an innovation which is
stoutly resisted by many.
1sls-I5egins to run steamboat
on Long Island Sound, and after
making his will takes passage on
board of it fol New York.
lS19-Grown bolder, he crosses
the Atlantic in Il steamboat.
ls22-Lighes gas in Boston. AT
last learns how to make hard coal
burn, and sets a CRATE in his parlor.
Buys 4 steel pen, one Of Gillot's, sold
at $33 per gross. His everyday shirt
made without rutfles.
lS25-About this time he puts a
percussion lock on his old musket.
1926 : Buys his wife Il pair of
quecr-shaped acknowledgements.
Puts OH his first false collar.
1927 TASTES his first tomato