Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-13

sand id well enough DefOIe- Ill am
Smith has painted his barn. The
folk consider this rather careless OF
Hiram The photograph gallery still
keeps open just one afternoon a week.
1t is impossible to rent or buy a
house in Oyster Bay at this time, I'M
less one is burning money and doesn't
care what he pays. 1t is surprising
how many people want to live IN the
town the president calls home. Really
prices have scared. Lots which would
have been dear two years ago at $500
are worth $1,000 now. One piece
of property jumped from $1,000 to
$4,000 while a New Yorker was think
ing of taking an option. 'The presi-
dent is the best thing that ever hap
pened to Oyster Bay" is the general
cry.
"Prices do be high" declared Dea-
con Jacob Smith White, the dean OF
the hack drivers who fringe the sta
ton. "Now, there's Joe Aproy, who
lives over by the Mister Presidents
He's been the only poor fellow out
that way fur long time. He's got
nothing but little garden plot, and he
refused an offer of S11 900 for it,
DO you think he'll ever sell?''
asked the reporter.
"'Taint likely now" said the dea-
con, pulling his white beard. Il
clean forgot to tell you that Joe
amt poor no more. He married a
woman with an income, a monthly in
come
Much of an income?"
ooh, Lordy, yes-$60 a month"
Deacon White has refused some
realty offers himself, as he declared
when passing an old graveyard in
which six generations of his grand
fathers are buried. A rich man wanted
to add the cemetery to his property.
He offered to secure the same acreage
in an incorporated cemetery, remove
the bodies at his own expense and pay
$4,000 besides. The deacon did not.
consider the offer
When the president and his family
are at home the old man has heavy
income driving visitors to and from
Sycamore Hill.
Il had a curious woman abroad
Oyster Bay hackmen speak as though
their remarkable rigs were sound
sloops-'the other day." he related,
land all the way out here she kept
saying things about the president
which were not altogether favorable or
proper. 1t was plain she didn't like.
him, and them sort are so rare that
for bit I was surprised silent
Finally, says 1 What is the matter
with you, anyway says l. I believe
Iou are tainted
"'What do you mean, sir?' says she.
to me, sort of drawing herself up.
I'm sure you're tainted, says L
again. You're rebel
"'You are right. I am a rebel, and
/, | am proud of it.
WELL says I, you must not talk
that way about the president in my
hearing. We are personal friends.
and it won't do"
In this the hack driver was essen
TALLY Oyster Bay. Every one in the
village is the presidents personal
friend, whether Mr.. Roosevelt knows.
it or not, and no one can talk about.
him in an unfavorable way
AT Sycamore hill they are preparing
Tor the family's return and its accom-
panying horde of the curious. The
hackmen have the privilege of driving
through the modest grounds if fhev
keep their flares" from touching the
sh1ubbery. The visitors are told to-
take branches from the trees on the.
other side OF the rail fence-a bit of
property the president does not own.
/ When Texas, the charger on which
Colonel Roosevelt rode up San Juan
Hill, was in the Sycamore stables
hairs out of his tail were in great de-
mand. Many a school teacher today
is cherishing as a sacred war relic a
bit of hair from the tail of a broken
down Lack horse.
The president farms forty acres at
Sycamore Hill, the farm being superin-
tended by Noah Seaman. The gar
den is fourishing in spite of the
drouth, but tie hay crop is burned up.
Seaman is proud of his potatoes.
This is one of the best potato
farms about here he said the other
day. Last summer we surprised
every one. A man from Virginia was
here visiting the president one day
and came into the field where we were
hoeing. He went back to the house
and got the president, just to show
him the potatoes.
"Td like to take some of those
home in my grip he said.
"'Send him a barrel, Seaman, said
the president
Those potatoes were called Empire
State when they left the ranch, but
they call them 'Roosevelts' in Vir-
GINA"