Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-08-27

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me in and told me that while at
Everett, Washington, in 1912. she
attended a reception given for the
lady candidates running for different
Offices in the state of Washington.
Among these was Oslo Corliss. now
! Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, candi
date for Superintendent of Public In
struction for the State of Washington.
When presented to her as being from
Wisconsin she told her that about
twenty three years ago she and her
sister Myrtle were visiting at Mr..
Buchner's home in Lancaster and that
among the we'll remembered events
was the camping party at Kings Ford
where Mrs. r. B. Showalter was the
chaperone, and mentioning the names
Of a good many Of the party. Mrs.
Preston became so Interested in talk
ing about Lancaster and its people
that she almost broke up the recep
ton. Mrs. HasseIl said that Mrs
Preston had most pleasing appear
ance, was very pretty woman, sweet
and charming in manner and without
that official Importance that some
times comes with positions of leader
ship. She told her also that she had
been uperlntendent of schools in
Walla Walla county, where her
mother and sister resided.
Upon this information 1 wrote a
letter to her and we have been III
frequent corr espondence since.
Osie's mother is a cousin to Mrs.
Buchner through the Kinney family,
1t will be of interest to those acquaint-
ed with her to learn that last fall she
was elected to the Office of State
Superintendent of Public instruction
in the State of Washington and that
her address is, State House, Olympia,
Wash.
Like the great commoner W. J
Bryan, she spent her vacation east on
lecture tour, speaking at Columbia
College, N. Y. Pennsylvania College,
Chautauqua and other places.
The Chautaqua N. Y. Daily,
among other thing speaks of her thus ::
Mrs, Preston is a prominent figure
in western educational circles To
her efforts is largely due the advance
made in rural education in the Sta to
of Washington, +" She intends to
visit our state university next winter.
She has become a national character
in educational circles. l may have
enlarged too much upon this subject
but know that all of her acquaint
ances around Lancaster will be
pleased to hear from her and we know
that all are proud of her success.
The following may not have any
thing 10 do with Kings Ford but the
incidents related carried my mind
back before the advent of the narrow
gauge railroad on one cold first day
of January connected Lancaster by
iron bands with the outer world.
I don't believe that the boys and
girls have as good time now as
then. The charms of Eaton s woods
and its leaning tree; the Nathan and
Clark woods, BARRIERS pasture and
thier old swimming holes near the
Klondyke Spring and George Gray 8
mill dam on Grant have passed away
and no more reverberate with the
fH71 Oh 0e oh1
dren in frolic.
Even the friendly social relation
of former days among the older
people seems not to exist any more.
Social parties among the married
| people have been entirely dropped
out of fashion Should Judge Glenn
entson now a-days invite friends to
have game of croquet on his lawn,
and the lot would be so interested as
to play till long after dark. each one
holding candle to find his ball. the
community would hold up their
hands in holy horror and exclaim
How foolish. - Yet, I was one Of
the lot that about forty years ago
played in his yard till ten O'Clock in
the night. There was no apparent
social difference then between a poor
painter and rising young lawyer.
Again, | remember, that at the
time when my good old friend r. b.
Showalter lived in the Barber house.
some thirty years ago, while passing
I heard the sound of fiddle pen citrate
the walls. Being curious to know
what was going on l slipped to the
door, opened it and found friend Sho-
walter scraping the catguts with his
bow to the good old dance tune. "Old
Dan Tucker. A lot of jolly wives
we're circling around in the greatest
glee, and having a splendid time. As
soon as they espied me was pulled
in and put in the ring, and they all
danced around me. Them was the
happy days. - The good wives used