Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-06-18
West Union, Iowa, June 9Th, 'S5

FRIEND JOURNAL
Permit me to offer
the following incentive to the hopeful
and patient disciples of Izaak Walton
who loiter away long sunny afternoons
along the raging waters of Elk Creek,
contented If they catch few "chubs"
and Growing like roosters when they
capture few trout or suckers Yes
terday q friend sent us pickerel
weighing 16pounds and 40a inches long.
1t was spe ared six miles from here in
Turkey river, stream a little larger
than penn'S Greek. A magnificent
fish for these parts, | assure you. L
suppose nearly all of your readers have
seen pickerel. 1t is very shapely fish
built for speed, like the paper boats
OF University crews. It's mouth is
large, the under jaw slightly protuding
beyond the upper, and the teeth are
sharp and serrated the front teeth m
cline inward, so that the fish can easily
hold its prey; it is easy for the victim
to get into the pickerel's mouth, but
next to impossible to get out.
Besides pickerel, our streams afford
black bass, trout, catfish There called
s'bull-heads'1. species of sucker call
ed s'red horse" and of course the om-
nipresent club. or minnow, as it is
here called. Trout are rather scarce,
however.
After an absence of some nine years,
/ have found on my return here the
town very much improved. A note
worthy feature is the telephone system,
which connects West Union 1.-THE coun-
ty seat of Fayettel with all the towns
in the county.
Quite a number of Pennsylvanians
are in the county. Among those in
town are Hon. s. b. Ziegler. Congress
man, VIM Z. Fuller James McMasters.
T. R.Stam, aud John Foote. Mr. r.Stam
is building up a good business in his
"Bee Hive" store. He tells me that
his sales the other Saturday amounted
to $1s0-which is certainly an improve
ment on Millheim.
John Foote is in the Chicago grocery
store and does f1ourishing business.
Several of our spectators have been
shipping cattle to Dakota andMontana.
1t seems that, with all their stock-rals.
ing out there, cattle fetch better prices
at present than here.
Had talk with David Bell the 9TH
er day-an old resident here. He told
me OF having met Ex-sheriff Musser
and lady at the New Orleans Exposi-
tion and of having had an entertaining
conversation with them.
Crops are doing finely, and promise
to make no what was lost by a late
Spring. We haye had some good show
ers Of late, and the "green things" are
growing most luxuriantly. Fruit trees,
however, haye been seriously hurt by
the winters severity. There will be
scarcely any apples-the only fruit to
which much attention is paid. Wild
red plumbs are abundant-and these
are all right, being native.
You may wish to know something of
how prohibition is working in Iowa.
Well, it does not altogether prohibit a
large quantity of liquors is smuggled
into the State-especially beer. The
law is, nevertheless, doing good work,
and in some places is vigorously enforc-
ed. In late paper I notice that at
Washington, in the southeastern part
of the State, 500 kegs of beer from
Gugenheimer's brewery were seized and
ordered destroyed. Speaking of the de-
struction by the Sheriff and assistants
the Press gives this graphic description:
The kegs were taken out doors and
their contents poured upon the ground.
But the large vessels were fixtures and
could not be removed; so they were
mashed and cut hp in the cellar. The
amber floor was knee deep there, one
man says he got wet to the thighs. The
liquor ran out oyer his door sill and
finally they came up town, got pump
and emptied the cellar in that way.
But we hear that the freshet weakened
the wall in one place and it caved in.
The value of the vessels destroyed is
quoted at $500; the beer was wol th as
much more. 1t is reported that the
brewer will sue for damages in the Fed
eral Courts. Men sco0ped up the beer
in hats and drank it. To men had an
old rusty watering pot and stood shoul-
der to shoulder close, one sucking out
Of the spout and the other out of the
top-a cooperative orgle, joint stock
revel, a copartnership of booze. The
officers had hard work to prevent car
ousal. The beer ran down to the creek,
and even the creek was full of suckers.
Think Of it-Ol think of it, ye guz-
zlers of the amber "sea-f0am." C.C.Z.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.