The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-01-16
jim WEIGHTS COURTSHIP
Rented by Silas Hawkins, p. M.
and Storekeeper.
lCoPYRIGHT, 1871

N44AIX lNoE iCosl
I Amt much of story teller, but
Guess I can give you the straight facts
about Jim Wright's courtship and mar
riage as well as anybody. 1t happened
about 20 years ago, and il interested
the folks around Barkley's corners so
much that for four or five years there
ypsn't no quiltin' bee, nor mite So
eiety, nor apple cut, nor raisin', nor
htump pullin' that somebody didn't tell
eomething new about it, and / guess
thoy're talking about it yet at the ten
drinkin's. 1t was all brought back
4resh to my mind one day last week,
WIEN found out my Oldest boy, Sile.
vno kind O. shinin' up to Jim's oldest
gtfl, Sarah, named after her mother.
Jim's pretty prominent citizen now.
Hes the manager of the Barkley place
and . member of the county board OF
Supervisors, and some do say he's got
his we on the Legislature for next term.
Yes; that's him goin' by now. You see,
he'sa big. tall Teller and looks kind of
4mposin' like When he was n young
eteT lhe wasn't exactly what you'd call
hondsome, but he looked as solid as a
TO4k and his eyes was always wide
open, only when he had to face a girl,
thon be used to weaken. That's what
made his courtship and marriage so
curious.
\ A good talker? Well, yes, he is, now.
Not very polished, maybe, but he can
speak to the pint, and that's more than
ooun8 of your college educated fellers
canR0o. But he never was much of a
speaker till after he got married to
&a4eh Anderson.
Jim got well acquainted with Sarah
when he was nothing but hired man,
Woxhin' on the Barley place, when old
man Thompson was manager. Sarah
Woe'workin' there, too, then. She was
Mn. Thompson's hired girl. No; you
Co0ldn't call 'em servants, the way you
oitffolks look at il. Sarnh's father was
0I0kDeacon Anderson, and he stood just
094x1ell in the community as old man
Epson did; maybe better, because
Uoo1on Anderson owned his own farm
and Thompson was kind of hired
man for Barkley. The Barkley place,
you know is about $50 acres. It's the
Dinxest farm in this town, and Barley
1lrDelf spends most of his time in New
and Boston and Europe, and other
toway places, where folks has more
cy than brains, and has coachmen
rive for 'em and puts on different
at different times of the day and
Vat. Sarah Anderson used to eat
same table with the Thompsons,
urse, and so did Jim. Why, il
of them had been asked TO eat sep
orote from the family they'd have quit
'3594t off and everybody around the cor
would have backed 'em up in it, too.
the Thompsons would have been
but of the neighborhood II they'd
themselves up to be too good to
Jim Wright and Sarah Anderson
nth them when they ct their meals.
Wright's father, you know, was
loctor here for a good many years.
he wanted to send his boy to col;
but Jim wouldn't go. He liked
jim with his hands better than
vim books. He said he could make
money in the long run his way,
when he hired out to old man
hpson he declared that he'd be
ger of the big farm some day,
% he Is now, as told you little
ago.
ybe I'm getting of the story a
bit, but just wanted to explain
Jim and Sarah stood in this neigh |