The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-18


consist of the relation Of personal en-
pe.icnces undergone during the sum-
mer. and that each member would be
limited to one minute, in order that
the cub might adjourn and the men,
bers be at home by nine o'clock at the
latest.
The assistant secretary distributed
the blank aflidavits, and DIR. Dibble was
called upon.
"My experiences have been rather
limited said the DOCTOR II have been
pouding my vacation very quietly. a.
you know, in my new summer cottage
ri Pine lake. had determined that
could afford to spend $4,000 in the
building and equipment of the cottage,
anu accordingly placed limit of So
800 with the architect and house fur
nisher to whom | lei the job. Every
thing was TO be in readiness for occu-
pancy by July l, but on June II | re-
ccivcd notice that ! might move in AT
any time. ] found everything in first
class shape, and the total expense had
been slightly over $2,1C0. AS TO any
Il
refer you to my friend Epkins here,
who spent several weeks with me and
had more leisure time to look for curl
Gus things
AS TO that" said Mr.. Epkins, II own
up TO having had a deal of time at my
disposal, but as TO experiences, they
wore few and far between. / spent the
greater part of the time, when the
weather would permit, in fishing. Fish
ing is not apt TO lead II truthful mar
into very many experiences out of the
ordinary. We had very good luck,
though, and one forenoon we caught
six bass trolling around the lake"
do they allow the bass to troll
around the lake unattended?" asked
the chairman. "Or do you mean to in
innate that while trolling around the
lake you caught six bass"
Put it any way you like" SAID Ep-
kins. Anyway, we caught the six
bass, and some of them were whoppers.
/ am confident that one of them at
least weighed a pound and Il half. ]
had one other bass hooked and well up
toward the boat when he gave a lunge
and carried off my hook, spoon and
everything else, but then he was
little fellow, weighing, perhaps, about
haif-pound, and the loss of him didn't
make much difference to the total"
Todd and | had most delightful
time this summer" said Mr.. Jorkins
Together we went up here to II little
summer resort in southern Wisconsin
and put up at farmers house that
was advertised as clean and comfort
able, good beds, fine food and all that
sort of thing. combined with low
rate. We paid dollar day, had sep
arate beds, with hair mattresses and
good springs. and all the eggs and milk
and chickens that we wanted. We did
not see mosquito while we were there,
and the weather, for the most part,
was delightful. The proprietor had q
clean-shaven chin and spoke good Eng
lish and had read David Harum.' We
did not DO much fishing, although we
understood there was pretty good fish
ing at the lake. We saw one party of
four bring in n string of IS perch and
sunfish that had been caught during
the day."
IL met an interesting character, dur
ing july" said Mr.. Pope. my wife
and l were enjoying ourselves one
morning cleaning house when u
ragged looking individual, whom sup
pose might be called tramp, put in
an appearance and asked for material
assistance. lie told sad tale of be-
ing out of work for Ia consecutive
months, and SO on. asked him II he