The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-15

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40 Edwin f,arkalow hid his bicycis Ia
Darric Wnghrr'a apple orchard.
There has been trouble evar since and
theto has been a greater demand for eggs
not supposed 10 In worth anything NJ all
than Tor the strictly fresh kind NJ IA centa
r. dozen The kind that we're not fresh
vcre wanted 20 throw at Barhalow. and
nc had had two showers Of them before
the butcher hit him. some say that he went
t. New York To get n new suit Of clothes ~
vol "A to have his eye repaired.
B~arkalow, who used To he a reporter on
the Freehold Democrat, knew Carrie Wagner
years ago. and they always kept company
I'LL Minnie McGil, daughter OF Isaac McGill,
drove over from Farmingdale with her folks
two years g for a dance at Turkey. Min
ME, who had on some real Philadelphia
clothes, was Barkalow's opposite In the
first quadrille, and he couldn't help COM
pairing her with Carrie. whose dressmaker
lived in Turkey.
After that Barkalow took to going over
to Farmingdale TO parties. Being at that,
time employed by the Democrat, he was
able to explain matters to Carrie Wagner by
saying that he had been promoted to lie So
Getty editor n 20 had to go to Farmingdale
to report the parties. Carrie wondered
sometimes why he didn't have to report the
dances at Turkey, but she did not get real
suspicious till a cousin Of hers at Yellow
Brook told her that a friend Of his at Lower
Jamesburg had heard that young Barkalow
and Minnie McGill we're pretty thick.
Then Miss Wagner bought the Democrat
regularly every week to look for Farming
dale news. There was hardly a week that
che didn't read that Miss Minnie McGill, the
best dancer and most popular young lady
in F~armingdale. was visiting friends or that
friends were visiting Miss McGill, and II she
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be an item in the Democrat to the effect that
Minnie's father, Isaac, had had his barn
painted or that his early peas were further
along h any of the neighbors'.
So Carrie had her folks paint the barn.
She had a friend at Mattawan come to see
her and she made up a little romance about
Miss Carrie Wagner. one Of the most popu-
lar young women and the best dancer in
Turkey, having a white Wyandotte that
laid S07 eggs in one year. 81 wrote these
things all out carefully on one side OF a |
sheet Of paper and sent the item to Barkslow
as a supreme test OF his loyalty and de-
next week when she read in the Democrat
that Edwin r. Barkalow, one Of the most
prominent young journalists in Monmouth
county, and Mas Minnie MoGill, one Of
the most, popular young women Of Farm.
the BRIDES parents. She looked through
the paper two or three times, but Carrie
could not find a line Of her friend from
Matawan or her wonderful Wyandotte.
She quit taking the Democrat and fell
son saw III Edwin Barkalow. But her
turn was to come later. The marriage
was last fall. The bridegroom retired from
journalism at about the same time to 90
farm at Turkey, He told bis friends that
10 wanted to, settle down and get away
from the rush and turmoil Of Freehold
altogether and to get rid Of the nerve wear
and tear of being society editor for the
But the action seemed to be too great
and too sudden. Barkalow missed the old
Freehold pace, the dances and the items.
So one day. just to kill time, he called
on bis old sweetheart, Carrie Wagner. to,
Matawan friend had been crowded out
Of the paper because of lack Of room. That
call was the beginning. Of what Turkey
calls its scandal. It had got 30 far along
was skating. on the Biueball Pond Mrs,
Barkalow, the bride. told her husband
that il he frightened up Carrie Wagner's
skate straps agar, she would go home.
1t was reported at the Turkey sewing
circle that she did go home, but no member
out anything about the skate straps, al
though they had their own opinions. This
spring the young men OF Turkey took the
matter up. Some Of them did not like
,Barkalow, the bridegroom, because he
had 40 much to say about the strange wild
life he had known as a reporter In Free
hold. So they organized a sort Of Juvenile
whitecap society. without DISCUSSES to
preserve the staidness Of Turkey and to
give Barkalow a little Of the excitement he
was craving.
SO, led by Percy stillwell the blacksmith's
son, they undertook TO see what Barkalow
did evenings after he got the horses fed. /
This was difficult at first because he went
away on his bicycle and the whitecappers
weren't mounted. Blu, he always rode
Gown Blueball Pond way and that is where
the Wagners live, on the old Cortanus
schenck farm, at the very end Of the pond.
Friday night the vigilantes took things
for granted and went down to the Schenck
place themselves, where they all hid behind
the barn. Soon after dark Barkalow rode
up, hid his wheel in the orchard and went
into the house. The future deaoons and
elders of Turkey grabbed the wheel as
evidence and went with it to the house,
where one Of Miss Wagner's brothers
answered their pounding on the door.
DO you want to buy a bicycle?" asked one
Of the boys.
Nope said young Wagner.