Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02
Annals OF TANaEEPOEg

- TIC EsGSllfLk
Pubhck; Ineyer in
all my life was called
gossip. / skOrn
80 sech a caracter-an
If thawt 1t was en-
nything like gossipin
to relait sum Of my
stOred-up memrys of our town an pee
pie, Why, nOthjn Good hire me to rite
these papuEs.
1t kinder kills time In the long even
ms, when / set here, with only nv cat
fer eumpany; fer who ever knu an old
maid that dident haF a cat?
1 heY knone Wimmen that was sOrrv
tina hadent bin content to stay single,
an pin thare faith to dumb critters.
Our town wasent allus called TangIe-
ton. Old jerry Smith was amung the
furst settlers, an he was rich and
Oaned most of the land and bossed
things, so it was SmithviIle In its IN
fancy, so to speek.
Before the war 1t dident amount to.
mulch; but after the ftin begun, an
the farmers found it good place to.
ship thare crops, bizness jest took a
boom.
Runnin along on the north side was
q big bIuf, an near the foot Of It was
the rale-rOde track an about mile to
the south wus the river. Jest midway
between them was the canal.
Main St. begun at the rale-road an
run strate down to the river, but IN err
ly times thare was very few biidins be-
yond the canal.
The biggest store fer a long spell was
KEEP by Doc Williams an Miles Alexan-
der. The Doc was q quiet sort of man,
but AIr. Alexander was large, pOmpUs
fealing man, an goodness! how he did
like to hear hisself talk
Tha KEEP a bari of whisky In the eel
lar, an customers went down an helped
thareselves. An what thurstY lot of
men tina wus, them farmers frum the
South prary.
Then down near the canal thare was
anuther store KEEP by a firm-Rioketts
and Brown. Tha, too, was clever with
the whisky, and got thare share Of
traid.
Main street begun to bid mp fast,
with auI sorts of stores. But tina was
mostly bilt by up frum the ground, an
a body had to run up lot Of steps to
! get into en-.
Emmy one ust to Chicago wood hev
| felt at home thare, an never minded
the steps.
Old jerry Smith wassa queer sort ;
| when sum one wood cum to him an
want to by lot, the old man wood up
and rays the price of it till he lost his
/ chance of selling; unless folks know
! Jest how to deel with him.
With old jerry to he'd the list with
sum big figgers, the Catholics soon got
mummy enuf to bid a church, an Cha
/ l. ~
skoOl house was bilt not far frum it.
But it was awful hard work to cline
up thare evry day.
That house did dOoty till the tOwr
begun to gro too big, an thin tina made
a new districk south Of the canal an
bilt a skoOl-house thare, an sumtimeS
thare was a meetin or lecture thare
| But most of the preechin was dun IL
the Town Hall
When the war was endid an our mel
folks got home-au that was left t.
cum-bizness doomed more and more
How fast the bildins sprung up-jes-
like mushrooms AN, it must be sed
sum of en- hadent much better lastiI
qualities.
Thare was lodges for Iasons al
Oddfellows- WIS lots of ode
wimmen In town, but tina never thOt o
gettin up lOdge-an a Temperance
society.
So much free whisky ruther got GU
town a bad naim, an we was gOin t,
try our level best to reform it. Blu
TangletOn WIS a good Crane market
an the farmers wood cum thare, an ha'
thare dram, too; so we he'd to conten
ourselves with tryin to save our Owl
/ bows an men.
In the Town Hall, the Methods
preecher alIays put in a word fer tenn
perance, an when the Baptists he'd
tina preeched up water, but sumhoy
we found it hard to fite again whisky
Sum of our folks wus gettin tiret
of tOwn-hau and skOol-hOuse meetins
an as tina was maxim mummy, tina though
tina ought to put on more stile /
religion. He tell about that part mex
3ine. JUMPER BERRY.