The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-24
With the Long Bo,D
Looking Forward Cold Wave Sweeps Down on
City-Mercury Lngers in the 'sTwenties Below
Everything creaks, Including the Kicker-Why
Is Not Out It Out in 1907.
-sEYe natures walks. shoot

~ 90! It was cold! As the day drew to close
* the mercury fell with the until it showed
Ia dim frosty line in the twentes 'tbelow.' A
hard wind swept the iron streets and the creaked
dismally as the heavy carts passed over it.
"Cold is pretty long continued said
citizen to another they boarded their frosty car
for home. 2.5. 81 y. p -
So .'You bet! The wind is straight from the north
1T III be fright in the morning.
$40 90 Hows your coal holding out9' ..,sr -.
s@ Well, looked into the bin this morning and it
looked pretty sick This weather plays the deuce and
all with coal.'' ... -@anT-- - H. ;
.'I never saw cold spell long continued, did
youq,' -.
81 came up here in 'ss and don't recall any
ssLet's see, and Hicks prophesied an open winter,
didn It hes''' %~ - 800
'.Open to the north, perhaps'' --. ~
'They ought to get after that coal trust. It's
- eThat g 50, but this is no country for white men,
# "oh, don't know: Is pretty good in summer
...oh, thaw!'' - =:
Is "Huh!' ... ::
M This is the kind of talk people who have been COM
planning bitterly Of the heat will be handing out in
few months Say it and then forget It till lilac
time. ..~ ~,,
Probably one of the saddest reunions held at the
recent meeting Of the Grand Army was that of the
who used to juggle with cannon balls none appeared
at the Nicollet but H. A. Ball Of Grafton, N. D., and
M Matice Of Binghamton, N. Y. These veterans
looked for a moment into each others eyes and then
fell each other IS necks. There not dry eye
In the place.
Mr.. Ball, whose flowing locks hung over his shout
ders, much in the manner of poet scout told how
once when the battery out Of cannon balls and
one badly needed at critical juncture in the
battle he had suddenly eaped into the air with steel
gloves and caught confederate cannon ball the
fly, It hot liner too showed it into the big gum
rammed it home and by well directed shot stopped
1.-The confederate advance. Mr. Matice said he
here Of he kind Init he cOu16 ha
sure Of the facts he would not like to be quoted.
81 The Seventh will meet next year at Saratoga and
it is hoped because of the location that of the
"Heavies' will be out. ...- |;"> 10y * *'~.>
travelling man named Daggett Is one of Grafton $
poultry fanciers as people who raise hens are some
times called. He had large flock Of egg producers
and fine henhouse, but the hens were careless as
hens sometimes become and neglected to sweep out
Or to make the beds. Hence the place used by tho
bddies seized upon by other livestock who inter
fered with the hens comfort to such that
they laid aside the construction Of eggs and around
Mr.. Daggett day took bucket of gasolene and
a sprayer and started to disinfect the hens bed
The gasolene smeled SO bad and the place was
hot and stufy, that the travelling man lit cigar
to help him forget it.
The air was full of hens, feathers roosts pasoene
can, and other detritus: Before the dust had
settled excited neighbors and friends throwing
water around and prying Mr.. Daggett out of danger
and rolling him in the grass He lay stunned for some
time but when he to he thanked them kindly
and gave them cigars, stating that he had quit
smoking.
It seems hardly the thing for lightning to do, but
it is fact that it picked OUT wealthy banker at Des
Moines last week. In the past lightning has made
specially of laboring men who had sought trees fol-
shelter The fact that it is looking for bankers
would seem to indicate that it has heard Of the
Stensland family bank in Chicago. A JR.
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