The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-02
A wonderful Churn.

We clip the following from one Of
our exchanges: The Waterbury
Watch company made machine for
churning butter. The apparatus con-
sisted of cylinder 60 contain the
cream to be churned, inside of which
was a series Of wire paddles or beat
ers. 1t ran by clock-work. All you
had to do was to wind up the two
powerful springs and set the works in
motion by touching button. Tho
churn would do the rest 1t was a
good idea, and the churns sold like
hot cakes on first sight. An agent
lCox was his name) represented
Illinois for the Waterbury com
pany. He struck small town
called Waverly in Central Illinois.
Notice was given the inhabitants that
a wonderful churn would be exhibited
the next day on the public square.
Previously, however, Mr.. Cox had dis
covered that some of the farmers were
about to put up job on him. He
learned that they were going to fur
nish him with SKINNED milk under the
guise of sour cream to churn into but
ter next day. He did not say word,
but after dark that night he went to a
farm house about a mile away, where
he was acquainted with buxom
daughter of the farmer, and putting
dollar bill into her hand told her to get
some nice sour cream put in her churn,
and churn him some fresh butter. She
did so. When the butter was made she
gathered it and gave it to him. lie
took 1T to the hotel, and in the quiet of
the night he took the lid off the churn,
which he intended to use the next
Iax I'd fol H.
derneath the lid. Then he replaced
the cover and went to bed. Next day
the public square was crowded. 1t
had been noised about the country
that man would exhibit churn
which would produce butter in five
minutes from SKINNED milk When
the time came Cox produced his churn
The farmers, with many a wink as
they forced their way through the
crowd, came up, bringing with them a
huge milk can containing the SKINNED
milk. Cox made a short speech, at the
end of which he took the lid from the
top of the churn and said; Now,
| gentlemen, YOU are at liberty to ex-
anime the interior of this churn before
we pour the milk into it. And he
hanoed the churn around for inspec-
tion while he held the lid containing
the pound of fresh butter stuck to the
underside carefully out Of view of the
crowd. They all looked, and, of
course, saw nothing crooked and
passed it back. Then the men stepped
forward as Cox hurriedly slammed the
lid down. They poured the milk into
the machine. Cox wound up the
springs. Everybody get his watch
out and time this machine cried
he to the crowd. He pressed
the button. The paddles began
to work. throwing the milk up
against the glass plate in the top of
the lid. The butter on the underside
of the lid soon became loosened and
fell into the milk below. At the end
of two minutes Cox cried out, Time"
and stopped the machine. He opened
the cylinder and there floating on the
Skinned milk was about a pound of
the incest looking fresh butter ever
seen. The farmers stood aghast. Be-
fore Cox left town he had taken orders
for nearly dozen of the churns. The
secret finally leaked out, and the
newspaper of the town came out with
half column expose. But still the
churn was good one"