Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-07

troo prosperity goes hand In hand Wi
plenty Nv money.
They finally was convinst and t.,
our money for their grain, tho we be-
to pay them at the beginnin 20 cents
bushel more for their wheat than othe
money wood hev got it for. But
didn't care, for We knew we Good MAJ
all Nv it we wanted.
It wuz astonishin wat era Nv pr,
perity set in on the Corners to wuns,
Money became ez plenty ez blackbe.
ries, and everybody he'd their poke
full Nv it. Land went up in valoo &c
per cent in a week, and the price
the necessaries Nv life raised ekally
Bascom put up his new whisky from
to % cents per drink, and sich WI
the run ny trade he he'd that his wifi
and oldest son, Jefferson Davis Bas
com, both he'd to stand in the bar
wait on customers. The bank bougl
all the wheat and other produckshur
and paid for EN- in its own money, a..
We paid sich prices ez happened, fol
money wuz with us no objeck The
high prices brot all the trade for TWEEN
ty miles around to the Corners, and a
the dealers who wood take the mon
stood up to their middles in it.
Then my turn come. Pintin to sas
crowds Nv people in Bascom's, | sale
to the doubter
'sWuz trade ez brisk ez that afore
infashun 2" which settled him
Improvements are bein projected
every day, We hev organized com.
pany to build branch road from her,
to Secessionville, another ever tt
Bloody Ford and still another to Lit
tie Unreasonable. Five turnpike con
panies hev bin organized, and thr&.
factries hev ben actooally commenced
The water-power on the Run jist abov
the village is to be improved at wuns
and Bascom is alreddy at work on
wing to the back part of the grocery
Town lots are doublin in valyoo every
day, and new addishuns are bein per
petyooally laid out. Everybody is
spekelatin. and everybody IS gettin
rich. There is flush times here. The
people are all infashionists.
| am President Nv all these compa
MES, and [ see no reason why [ car
put EN- through. 1t is troo the pri
Nv everything hez gone up. The co
monest niger labor is now up to IS
day, ond pair Nv pegged boots Is with
$40, but wat difference does that
make? So long az Simpkins, the
printer, kin work his press, we kir
manufackter all the money we want
and ez long ez we kin manufackter
money, why there must be prosperi-
ty.
Pollock and Joe Bigler we he'd to
get red Nv, for they wuz prejoodissen
the people agin u.s. Polook's stoo'
Nv goods and his store was wuth, i.
the old times, before the era Nv infa-
shun, about 5 900. and Bascom and
me and Deekin Pogram went to him
and offered him that sum for his pro
perty.
Things hez raised" said he, 'and
[ won't sell for less than 81, 500"
We promptly accepted that price,
and [ sent boy back to the bank with
bushel basket to bring the money.
When it come Pollock refoosed to take
it.
II want green bax," sed he.
'"Our money is jest ez good" seq [.
Il know it," SEE he, sbut have a
prejoodis in favor Nv other money"
There was a crowd about, and it
wood never do to acknowledge that any
money was better than ours. [ took
Bascom to one side.
sc. W" seq I, ''here is a golden
opportunity to do two things. First
we git rid Nv disturber, and second
we give confidence in our ishoos.
Rake up what greenbax 700 hev and
pay him in en-"
G. w. consented, and it was done in
the presence Nv the people
'sYoo see,'' sed [, ''my friends, that
we'd jest as soon pay greenbax ez our
own money"
The crowd wuz re-asheored and took
our bills ez readily ez ever Pollock
and Bigler gave up the property, but
they didn't leave the village. On the
contrary, they went to the tavern to
board and jeered at us wuss than ever.
They sed they he'd made more money
by this transackshen than they had ev-
er made in the Corners since they he'd
landed there.
Deekin Pogram, Capt. McPelter,
and Issacker Gavitt hev all paid off,
mortgages on their farms, and [ hev
bot farm and am gettin up plans for
manshun befttin my new position.
am now happy and contented. [
hev FINELY struck my gait. Bank
President scots mel wuz born for it.
Eff [ was relijusly inclined, | shood
pray for Willyum Allen until | he'd
corns ON both knees.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey.
President Nv the Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
2 S.-.There's trifin, but still en-
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