The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-16

The following Is taken from a Chicago
paper. The name Of the author is I'M
e known. Doubtless, after writing the
Q Article he dropped dead:
"AG are working to get In the corn
\ crop as II they never expected to raise
o another crop. The schools are almost
c deserted, and even the schoolma'ams
!. may vet be drafted In as huskers. As
. the season advances the farmers begin
: to realize the immensity Of the crop and
the dangers and difficulties of handling
: II. Owing to its cumbersomencss the
old-fashioned way Of handling it becomes
obsolete and new methods will have to
be adopted and improved hydraulic ma
chinery procured. Many new uses can
be made OF the corn stalks, such as flag
poles for schoolhouses, telegraph poles
and sewer pipe. BY following out u
corn stalk It will make the very best OF
wind mill towers, as the plunger rod can
be placed inside, thus protecting 1t from
the weather, and II desired an excellent
fountain can be obtained by perforating
the joints with an awl
The cobs will be used by housenovers
for rollers. They can also be scooped
out and used for stock tanks, rain water
barrels, etc.
A farmer drove In with load Of corn |
the other day and it was SO heavy that
the tare on the scales was $50 pounds.
John Squires was going through Trow-
bridge yesterday morning with al ear OF
corn when the truck on which it was
loaded broke down and II took the hook
and ladder company two hours TO clear
the street so teams could pass.
While Smith Frye was EoiSting an ear
OF corn into the crib with a rope and
tackle the guy rope broke and the ear
fell and crushed one OF the horses.
A substantial new bridge has been
built over Crow creek, four miles south
OF Toluca. During a freshet in August
heavy cornstalk from the Bennington
farm floated down and loosened the
foundation of the bridge.
George Thorn brought in big ear OF
corn on hayrack yesterday. He and
his assistants were about to hang it in
the Lichtenstein building for exhibition
when member Of the council came
along and stopped them.
Jack Metcalf started out to husk corn
last Friday morning and In half an hour
the horses and wagon were buried. A
f..A ~ nj OIL .yAN t..r-
them and Metcalf has been discharged
A man who had been imbibing sour
masa made from new corn went into
Summers barber shop Saturday evening
to get shaved and the barber had to
clear away the growing maize with a
corn knife before he could get at him
with razor.
A Joint was recently unearthed near
Woodford. A compartment had been
made in the base of a corn stalk, in which
was generator connected by a siphon
with the ear OF corn above from which
he operators had been extracting malt
or a couple of weeks past. The place
vas deserted but Bill Hemme is sus-
,ected OF knowing something about it, ,
Phil keenan, Is threatened with a
respass suit by q neighbor. Phil planted
row OF corn too near the line, and the
talks expanding moved the fence two
md half feet over the line. T.
Rodents dragged Germ into their holes
lnder Simon Swans crib, and the kerr
els sprouting threw the building twenty
ne inches out OF plumb.
A stalk Of corn containing two ears
n Win Straun's field fell across Diamond
reek, damaging the stream and forcing
he water back onto Bob Clegg's land.
The latter Is strenuously damning back.
Jim Gardner, the champion husker,
vas delayed an hour and six minutes
donday by one OF the haulers' wagons
citing hot box. He shucked sixteen
Dads of thirty bushels each that day.
Suckers have appeared around bar
ell Of spirits made from new corn at l.
roniea Ryan's sample room.
Farmers who turned their hogs into
he cornfield to fatten and have been
omplaining about cholera have dis
oyered that the hogs died OF starvation
wing to their not being able to reach
he corn.
A freight train on tAe Santa Fe rail-
Dad was delayed four hours last Satur-
Law by cornstalk In Jake Schlosser's
ield, which had been undermined by I
,ozs, falling across the track. 1t was
with crane and considerable
lifficulty by the wrecking crew.
The town Of Hegler, on the Kankakee,
Minonk & Western railroad is invisible
n forest OF corn. A search party
inder the direction OF the road commits
loners are looking fer II.
While Dan Graney and Billy Zigler /
we're cutting fodder recently the pike
pole with which Graney was directing
he fall Of the cornstalk slipped, and
,nly the cool instinct and celebrity OF the
men saved them from being caught
inder the falling stalk.