Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-29
RAPIDS CITY

Qulte NUMBER OF the friends and rel.
| atives of Adam Hofstetter who lives Just
south OF and in the city's corporate linn
its, met at his house yesterday for So
cial gathering. among whom we note:
Mrs NJ. Rettig and family. j. G. Vogel
and family, Aug. Klebe ind family. Nj.
Motifs and family, Jacob shieb and fami.
ly. Peter Cewe and family, Mrs. c. Cewe
and family, VIM. Eide an and wife.
Geo. Vogle and family. John Guilden-
pfennlng and family. Geo Wildamuih
and family and host of others from the
surrounding country. inc udng some of
Mr.. Hofstetter's relatives from Geneseo.
A right good time was had and everybody
went home in the best of spirits and feel
ing better for the day spent out at Mr..
Hofstetters pleasant home.
On Thursday evening last rather un-
usual marriage was celebrated by Justice
of the Peace FL. s. Shurtleff at his house
Just below the city. the contracting par
ties being Christopher Sch erschef, aged 81
years, and Miss Fronica Gumber. aged SO
years. Chris. as he is usually called, is
the Oldest son of William Scherschel, a
longtime resident of Hampton township.
and Tor some years q resiCent of this vii
lage, and one of its aldermen. The
blushlng bride is native of Germany
and this is her second ven lure in the mat
rimonial market, having been married in
the old country. On coming to this
country she resumed her maiden name !.
The marriage is not with out a romance.
as one will naturally assume. The groom
used to help tie bride occ ssionslly in her
garden work, and all unknown, cupid
darts were skillfully thrown. The bride
has nice house in the southern part OF
the village and nicely situated She has
two brothers, Peter and Nicholas Gum
Der, who are well-to do farmers on the
bluffs, back of here. OF course, there was
some opposition TO marriage of this
kind. but love laughs at obstacles. The
small boy was numerous as usual, with
the Tin horn and cowbell and the groom
responded literally, as any one ought to
| 10 who secures his IDEAL, no matter what
the obstacle may be.
Did you ever go blackberrying? If
not, oh, We city denizens seeking a place
where natures cool breezes tellyyou 10
sleep with scented waves of natures
choicest dowers, and where mosquitoes
draw your overheated elixir of life
without waiting any formali,ies
in so doing; where you can get
wound up in the towering blackberry
bushes. that the more you try TO free
yourself the tighter they hold you, until
nature or the clothes you wear give way,
| and You are once more free 10 roam a
| little further or only TO 60 through the
| same experience minus q sample of your
wearing apparel or slight microbe of
epldermes. Ii you still wish TO enjoy
| yourself go out to Henry Strusse's farm
three and q half miles southwest of Rap,
ids City, and goingup TO the house and ask
permission to go into his blackberry pas
ture. MIR. Strusse is a self-made farmer
and has by his untiring efforts made the
wilderness TO blossom and bear fruit il
| abundance, and has a fine house anG
barn on his tidy farm AS reward for
sturdy and many years of labor The
berry patch of about forty acres is JUS
below the house, and if you have pro.
| vided yourself with your old clothes thai
| you had laid aside to give to the mex
tramp that came a.ong, you can 90 dowr
I there for Mr.. Strusse never refuses an7.
one, and once there you can safely say
that there are millions of quarts of black.
berries there-One-hslf of which viii
never be picked. The bushes are from
! three to nine feet high. and loaded will
| hne large berries that are now Just turn
! ing to rich blue black, and were il no
for the thOrns would be very easy to
! gather. But such thorns; one on the
utmost tips of tall bush will hook on 10
! you. and as you instinc lively jump bach
about four feet to escape the torture, tbs
bush by deft, sinuous movement has
made every thorn fast upon you from
the hrst point of contact down
to your very toes. There is hut one way
for the novice in such cases To do, and
| that is TO rip them out: i takes less time
and sooner fits them. the novice. for 4
brief retirement for repairs. The Ole
hands simply turn around and vino
themselves out of the bu shes in some IN
known manner. But for novice to try
to do so would be TO finally call TO his
aid couple of men and bush hook, anC
NOV down about a rod or two of bushes
and there find the unfortunate The
unfortunate, the lured, is rolling, anc
with patches of underbrush and hsze
and is scratched. All through and Owe
and under are immense quantities o
blackberry bushes and loaded down will
fine fruit. Mr. S ID. Wainwright's farm
pasture and Mr.. John Ssckhof's land also
has some on, but Mr StIusse's pasture is
the most frequented and has the mos
bushes on. There is another fine lot OF
them on the farm of the late A. D. Cox
just below the city, but The hills are steer
and hard to climb there. City people
who desire TO have an imitation of 8
toboggaD slide without the accompani
ments usually found at regular slide
aid with back stop consisting of black.
| berry bushes and thorns to land in after
| sliding down one of those steep bluffs
| can be accommodated here free of charge
The farm is in charge of Mr.. / s Coz
and permission will be readily granted TO
| any and all who wish to pick. the only
reserve made in all cases is that you will
not destroy the bushes il your mad and
! wild endeavors to get free from the
thorns. You can cut up as much as YOU
please. But even without any reserva-
ton the bushes would not begin to suffer
as much as the sufferer does The ber-
ries are fine and lots of them to be had
The usual terms for picking on all the
farms mentioned are one third of your
pick. and generally much less is taken.
If you want days sport come up and
bring your old clothes along.