Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-01-19
TWELVE BRAVE YOUNG LADIES,
The Brightest RAY which Lit Up the
Holiday Season OF 1891.

New York Tribunel
As the reader may we'll suspect,
many highly interesting occurrences
bearing more or less on Christmas are
now being reported. The most i'm.
portant inquiry perhaps, which has
been raised by the holiday season is
what Jerry Simpson did the night
before Christmas. With no stockings
to hang up Mr.. Simpson was probably
the most pathetic figure in this
country as he stood on the threshold
OF this most joyous day with nothing
on his feet but cowhide boots. But
we cannot pause to consider the sad
case OF the able Kansas Congressman
"a moro profitable instance awaits US
that OF the twelve "beautiful and
popular young society women" Of
Minden City, Michigan, who each
earned dollar for Christmas charity.
1t appears from the account which
has come over the wirc that these
twelve young ladies met together on
Monday before Christmas and sol>
EMMY resolved each to earn the sum
OF ono dollar to give to the poor on
that holiday. Naturally the question
arose as to what they should do.
Housework scarcely met their sp>
proval; besides shcrt-term engage
ments in this line are hard to get.
They found that the stores we're all
supplied with saleswomen. They
could not even get in as cashgirls,
though they offered to put on ulster
aprons and take fiat basket and no,
be in sight when wanted. AS for
type writing, not one of them knew a
key. Finally it resolved itself into
choice between shoveling off side
walks and saving wood, and they
decided on saving wood. They then
bribed boy who drives a milk, wagon
to go about town steslthily and feel of
the different piles of unsawed wood
in citizens backyards, and report as
to which would probably saw the
easiest. The boy brought back the
dscoursRing report that people
seemed to have laid in iron.w wood,
lignumvi'e, shellbark, hickory, and
go forth. The only CLEAN of hope he
was able to give was in connection
with the pile belonging to Edward
Cress, the druggist, which he said was
of white oak. The young ladies were
not to be frightened ont BY trifles like
this, and the next IN )rning they
appeared before the astonished Cress,
seven of them armed with large
''buck" saws and the other five with
axes. Mr.. Cress told them that there
was FIVE cords of wood, and that he
would give them a dollar each if they
would saw and split it.
The slaughter of wood, not to men,
ton dress-skirts, kid CATERS, and seal.
skin sacks, which followed for the
mex. two days in that backyard was
tomething to as.onish the oldest in>
habitant. During the whole time
large crowds stood about looking over
the fence at the work of destruction.
but this did not embarrass the young
ladies in the least. While one OF
them held the cord wood stick in place
ON the "saw-buck," another would
saw it in two, A third would take the
resultant pieces and stand them up on
end, and after hashing up the nei uh.
boring soil consi 'erably, would finally
succeed in splitting the wood into
convenient size for the Cress family
cook,stove. Their hands were bills.
tered and their toes had escapes from
the axe so narrow that it made the
spectators shudder, but these brave
Young laiies toiled on uncomp plain
ingly. Lat, Tuesday evening saw
the dissection of the last stick Of the
wood, and that ght each heroic girl