River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-01-13
GiftOn...lts Early History.
BY AN OLD SETTLER.


Maxson came to Clifton, and shantied
in the Eastwood grove, getting out
logs and fencing, and in the spring
settled on what is known as the "Chick-
ering Farm"
The Doctor had the honor of intro
ducing politics into Clifton, that hor-
rid field of sin, caldron of passion,
bitterness and hate, that reservoir
of Misrepresentation falsehood, and
tricks. We take it that the writer
means politics not clifton as the field
of sin, &C. EDS.
"0h, cursed lust of powerl for thy
sake the fool throws up his interest
in both worlds. -
Being endowed with ambition, en-
terprise and perception, this man soon
began to sniff the breezes of Office in
the distance. Hence in the spring he
was elected Chairman Of the Town
Board, and during the summer, hay
ing acquainted himself Will. our party
makeup, he, in his desire TO be use
full, generously suppressed his strong
abolition proclivities, espOused the
cause of the dominant pro-slayery
party, and, at the ensuing fall election,
was elected Member of Assembly, over
o. Strahl of the same town as his OPP
ponent; and in quick succession follow
ed Justice of the Peace, County Judge,
another term in the Assembly and
Post Master. In morals our distin-
| guished citizen took for the rule and
guide of his conduct, the precepts of
renowned native of Bethlehem, Ain
politics, like the Corsican, his only
| criterion was success.
As citizen, highly intelligent and
useful; as neighbor, noble and gen.
erous, fully capable of enjoying the
refinement Of the parlor, or of sub
hitting with philosophic grace to a
snowy night in the wood without food
or shelter.
Late in the fall or early winter, be-
| fore the Doctor went TO Madison him
! self, Aaron Cornelison ard o. Strahl,
our three Supervisors, undertook TO
lew out road from Prescott to the
"Seeley Place on Rush River, pass
ing along by way of the present site
of Trimbelle Valley, thence across the
big woods little south of the County
! Seat. The whole distance was then
unsettled, excepting one lone man
who was at work upon Mr.. Cornelison's
house where he now resides at Trim
| belle.
The journey out, our party accom-
/ plished the first day, arriving at Seeley's
by dark, tired and hungry as craven
images. The next day however, being
dull and threatening, and The work Of
Strengthening crooks and angles oc-
casioning SO many delays, our friends
were belated, and the December SHOWS
and night overlook them, and with
out food or shelter the party were
forced to go into quarters on little
brook, some where east, or southeast
of Mr.. Cornelison's house. But with
an axe with which TO prepare our
camp, with fund of story and song,
the pipe and tobacco for dessert, good
will and happiness reigned in that
solitary wildness. All night long the
snowfall continued, and the livelong
night the log-heap fire, like nina
ture aurora, lit up in beauty and
grandeur the wide pravilior of snow
and forest.-The morning came, and
those worthy Supervisors, soon en-
erged from captivity to enjoy refresh
ments at the "Cornelison House,
every mouthful going straight home,
not like SCOTS pick-nickers on u
rough sea near the cost of Ireland.
of whom the poet says:
"Some she'd il on their shadlers
Some shed Il on their thigh;
And he that did not hit his mouth,
Was sure to hit his eye"