The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-02
THE FIRST CHEESE FACTORY.

A Mr.. BURNETT, a somewhat noted |
historian of Massachusetts, gives an
account of what we may claim "the
first cheese factary," and why it was
brought about. .t ~
The oompaign in the Presidential
election in the year 1900 when John |
Adams and Thomas Jefferson were
candidates for the office, was very ex-
citing. 9n this selection most all the
clergy from thePnritan pulpits hurled
| their thunderbolts against Mr.. Jeffer-
son, the Democratic candidate and
leader, charging him with being an in
/ fidel of the French revolutionary
school. But in the little town of Che
shire in the middle Of the State of
Massachusetts, was heard from it's
pulpit a 'counter-yoice of great power
against the flood eff denunciation that
roared against Jefferson and .Bemocra-.
cy, different from present democracy
| thank). This WAS Rev. John Leland
one of the most extraordinary preach
ers produced by sthose stirring times,
and he preached such Jeffersonian De-
mocracy to the people of Cheshire, that
for long tiane they never voted any
thing but "a straight Democratic
ticket"
/ Democracy prevailed and Mr. Jeffer-
son was elected president, andalo man
had done more to bring about this re-
suit than Elder john Leland, of this
| little hill town of Cheshire. BESIDES
+ influencing thousands of outsiders in
: the same direction, he had brought up
his whole congregation to vote for the
father of American Democracy. He
now Rssolved to set the seal of Che
: shire TO the electionin a way to make
I the nation know therewas such a,town
+ ia the republic OF Israel
He had only to propose the method
; to command the unanimous apmoba-
ton and Endorsement of this whole
people, and he did propose it to full
congregation on the fsaI8bath. With a
few earnest words he invited exery
man and woman who owned a cow to
orlng every quart OF milk given on a
certain day, or all the, cnrd it would
make, to a great cider mill belonging
to their townsman, Capt. ohm BROWN,
who was the first man to detect and
denounce the treacheny of Benedict
Arnold lia the Revolution. No Fed
eral cow was allowed to contribute al
drop OF mhk to the offering, lest it
SHOULD leaWs4n the whale lump with a
i distasteful SAVIOR. It was the most.
/ glorious day the sun ewer,shone upon,I
before or since, in Cheshire. It's;
EDrlght beams seemed to bless the DAVIS
work. With their best Sunday clothes
Ander their white tow Jackets came
the men and boys Of the town, down
tTem the hills up from The valleys,
with their contributions to the great
Offering, IN pals and tubs. Mothers.
| wives, and all dhe rosy naaidens of
these rural homes came in their WhiteI
!, aprons and best calico dresses ito theI
soundTof the church bell, and thatl
| called young and old, rich and BOOT,
to the great fabrication. La farm
wagons, in Sunday wagons, i'm carts
an&l all kinds of four-Whee and two-
wheeled vehicles they wendell their
way to the general rendezvous, all ex-
| uberant with the spirit of the ocea-
sion 1t was not only a great glad
gathering of all the people of thea
town. but OF half of their yoked oxenI
and family horses, and these steppeda
off in the march with the animation
OF nOaaday.
An enormous hoof had been prepar-
ed, placed upon the bed of the cider
press, which had been well purified
for the work, and covered with q false
bottom OF the purest material. The
MOOT resting on this formed huge
cheese box or segment of cistern. and
was placed directly under three power
ful wooden screws which turned up
the massive head blocks above. A
committee of arrangements met theI
contributors as they arrived and con-
Quoted them to the great, white, shall
low vat into which they poured their
contingents of curd, from the large
tubs Of Well-to-do dairymen To tha siv