The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-09-12

When ! reached John Collisions
was considerably tuckered out, and
much gratified in finding the
venerable John engaged in
gathering butter, having just
completed churning. l knew ]
was strictly in it. | dearly love
fresh buttermilk and / have no
doubt Mrs. Collision discovered by
the expression of my countenance
and the sparkle of my eye just
what allied me, so che produced
one of those oldfashioned tin cups,
about as long as a yardstick and
as large in circumference as a No.
Z stove pipe, and asked me If I'D
like "a drink of. buttermilk. Of
course / did. She drew off the
buttermilk in the same way have
heard people say they draw off
"blue ribbon" until it ran over
the rim of the lineup, and 1 drain
ed it in breath, She asked me
if I'd have another cupful. / had
to decline. | don't believe In act
ing the hog in anything, beside |
had no bucket with me. From
Mr.. Collisions ! came back down
to the route, went out past Mrs.
Culbertson's, who told me the boys
were up at the "old place" and as
they tranacted all newspaper bust
ness I'd have to see them. 1t was
big climb up to the old home but
/ 'climb" it. / found the two
"boys," James and John Culbert-
son, busily engaged in scraping
out a place for new barn, but
were not too busy to be courteous.
l told them my business as best as /
could and was rewarded by another
new one. The "boys" will build
barn 34x44, a double deck, bank
barn, which, they say, will give
ample room for the entire crops.
They wished me success on my de-
parture. / cut up the hill, along
the ridge--and through corn
field-until | reached Jim Colli-
sons. l met Jim just as | was
coming out the corn field with
gun in his hand and fire in his eye.
He told me he was looking for
crows, they were working on the
corn. l didn't see any crows but
did see watermelon vine here
and there through the field, which
made me think it, perh APPS it wasn't
crows he was hunting, after all.
He did say that there had been
several suspicious characters round
the neighborhood recently, and the
had been missing several
little things. did not feel just
exactly at ease until Jim put that
gun away. 1 soon regained my
equilibrium and proceeded TO tell
my business, and so we'll | succeed
sd that l not only got new sub
scriber but an invitation to dinner,
which |, as matter of course,
accepted. just before dinner we
heard an engine pulling and Jim
said we'd go and see it climb the
hill. l reckon we spent near an
hour watching that engine
work. The engine was a sixteen
horse power Huber traction en-
CINE placed there on trial by the
Huber Engine Manufacturing
Company for the Prendergast
Lumber Company. The engine is
to haul 10000 feet of
lumber over the hills from the
gulf" to Logan, with ease. l
lave no idea as to how the test
will result, but do know if the
'ngine can do as it is claimed, it
will not only be mighty saving
o the Prendergast Co. but Il
wonderful relief to the horses.
rhe engine is not only remarkably
arge for traction but is also re-
narkably short. The Prender-
.ast Co. have purchased the Jerry
les timber, in the "gulf" and
ave three mills engaged in work
ng it up. They have the largest
ct ever sawed in Hooking county
'hich will take months to COM
lete. Their greatest handicap
ow is transportation. They
ould use one hundred teams.
he shortest and easiest way out
J by South Bloomingyille, but it
, claimed that the Muskingdum
alley freight rates are so high {
nat it would make any profit i'm l