The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-05-23
THE BOOM AT BEAR CREEK
b. CuARLFs i. .AsALY.

By CHARLES L. FAsALY.
/ Jackson Beltroz was queer man.
Everybody said so and he himself al
uitted it. Yet he could set more
type and run off more papers on q
/ y a-h.nuton press IN one day than
! any editor in the Red river valley.
BrluOz was editor. c0mp07itor, press
man and devil Of the Bear Greek
/ Bloadaze. a1d his motto was, "HeW
to the line: let the chips fall where
they may" lie put the motto in
leg J black type under the title and
lived up to it, As 4 consequence he
wa7 not loved as perhaps he might
have been if be had been content to
! be merely chrCnicler Of small beer,
! Bur Bear Creek lie ded a newspaper
and the BrCadaze was better than
none So BeltrOz got along fairly
wei til d certain memorable spring
Of ISS-.
Iue honorable office Of recorder,
which Be.troz had held since the IL
corporation Of the village had always
/ been considered an offering to he sac
rifced % the editorial alter. by way
| IoG r.cOmuense. With the emolumelts
IF this Office Beltroz had managed to
| Keep lis head above water. But in
| the spring mentioned, under the spec
| iuus plea Of reform and rotation in
ofiae, the place was bestowed upon
Postmaster Green. to TIE great anger
Of BaitrOz, who had long thought that
the yO,totlice should also have been
parauiaite Of his own, He thought
matters over. and concluded that he
had been most ungratcfulIy treated.
The longer he thought OF the matter
the more angry he grew, and finally
he determined to get even with the
people Of Bear Creek.
I-o lssne OF the hroadaze lol.oW.h&
the election contained glowing ga
lo-y Of the ne" recorder ana ana the oSLeT
0fiicerr. 1he editor 7ald JnaL as ne"
men were no" al the helih, win tne
promise OF good government IcT the
ensuing year, 1t was the tilne Lor pear 81
IfeeA 10 p?cI ~ n re "ol'iu ,,ii ,,I az on ~
MS power I'll II 'ne cI'lAenS Mo,'lu ~
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all saw tbaJ a Doom was "LAI Was
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ne la,he ot llie ~ lo'l,'''A,,' ~
elijof Sald' ihou9n 10 ScalceI9
spread beyond the falieS, VIII become ,.i
national, Ior never 50 7ina!i d ". Tiilao'
plo9uced 50 great paper. ~.
lgh1 - surprise oIr 3'oo p"'I"ii9 u
Bear creek
B-itroz kept his word Is the an
splc,2us day drew nigh, the o1llce oi
the 5rOadaXe became the focus OF lie
ia Bear Creek Beitroz nae imported
d printer from 81. Paul to assist nun
and the youth OF the village stood
around and gawkad IN wonder at the
flying fingers of the helper, occasion
ally renarkihg: You look hike z
chicken plckln' corn, You ito. 1t had
beel the custom for Beltroz to allow
the JiItary clergyman Of Bear Greek
the privilege Of reading the proofs,
thus giving due honor to the cloth
II matters OF news. b1l ioT IL'I7 IL'I7
ISSUE, bei5loz i27l9Ie9 ! .II ina. no one one
7io''o le"I' any ''lI.i5 ~ 'il0 OF "''
/ printed. ne wanted 70 lr"A7 ,1,S d NelH
great surprise ne 7a'd. me el9rS&
mar was consoled by siSht OF ms
oa.l tone portrait li9f .ll %nlen ne ..i ''''si
gal iiNe doiiaTSl ana 'h9"s,il lIIe''"
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