Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-15
Tales of the Town and Country.

Recognizing the necessity of
uniting for mutual protection and
smarting under the proposed in
justice of the Threshers Union,
some of the prominent farmers of
Lancaster and vicinity have pro-
posed to off set the high prices
charged by the threshers by charg-
ing three dollars per tank for all
water used by the threshers.
A committee was appointed to
formulate a code of bylaws and
suggest name for the association.
Following is a report of the com
mittee: The name of the associa-
ton will be The Farmers Mutual
Watered Stock Company Of Ian
caster. The principal business of
the company will be to see that
every thresher who belongs to the
Union shall be charged three dol
lars for each tank of water used
for threshing purposes; a tank of
water to be considered twelve
barrels or less. Each farmer own
ing or controlling a well shall
charge the sum Of three dollars per
tank for all water used for thresh-
ing purposes regardless of whether
the machine is operated on his
own farm or some ones else. All
parties owning land adjoining any
pond, lake, steam or river shall
charge three dollars for each tank
of water hauled across his or her
land, one half of said amount to be
retained by the land owner and the
other half to go towards building a
public laundry where respectable
bachelors who have proposed to
not less than three girls and been
refused, can have their washing
done free.
The supervisors of each town
shall charge three dollars per tank
Of water taken. from any stream
or river while said tank is stand
ing on any bridge Or culvert. All
such money collected to be dis
tributed among the poor Of the
town, provided they are not re-
lated in any way to any member
of the Threshers' Union.
The mayor of any village where
public watering place is main
tanned shall charge the threshers a
like amount and he shall turn over
all such money collected to the
saloon keepers of the village, to be.
used for treating members of the
Company whenever they come to
town. It is thought this last
provision will greatly increase the
membership. Any thresher who
shall run an engine with less than
three inches of water in the glass
guage for the purpose of saving
water, shall forfeit all money
earned on the job where such Of
Tense is committed and any thresher
who shall have spouts on his
separator or wear a broad trimmed
hat for the purpose of catching
rain water, shall not be employed
to thresh.
Any violations of these rules by
members of the association will be
promptly tried.
A party composed of Harvey
Abrams, VIM. Barrows, Lou
Fischer, Thos. Vincent and John
Bennett we're fishing down near
Potosi Wednesday. They got bet
ter acquainted with each other,
exchanged pictures, and caught few
fish with aid of an old screen door.
A COW waded out into the lake up
to her milk house and kicked the
boat over, precipitating Lou Fischer
into the water and it took two
hours for the party to carry water
sufficient to fill the hole he made in
the lake. Besides their carload of
grub taken along for dinner, the
party had flour sack full of lunch
to eat enroute, knowing Harvey
Abrams failing for grub.
John Decker and Robt Draper
we're also fishing Thursday.
They experienced the fisherman's
proverbial luck and captured six
dried herring.