The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-01
Almost,
DrOund!
TurribIe & Awful Experients for
Deacon ButterWorth on Goot-
chic Pond! 1.-The Deacon Stared
Deth in the Ease Hour After
Hour but Still Lives!--
Details Below!

Deacon Rutterworth one of our most
respeckted citizens and stanch piller
of the Bingville church had turr1ble
excape from wattery grave last Sat
terday the memry of which we persoon
will furnish in his recolleckshlon like a
green bay tree until the day OF his deth:
The Deacon is a great fisherman and
for quite spell he has had a hankerln
to 90 over to Gootchic Pond four mile
west of Bingvil1e and make day OF it
fishing to see if the pickerels wouldn't
take holt sirst the warm wether arrove.
Well last Satterday the Deacon r1z
IN bright and airlv. dug at OF worms
in the garden and hiked out for Gootchic
Pond. When he arrove at the Pond 1T
was about 8 A. M. so the Deacon cut
a long willer pole, tide his line to same
and hooking big COB of worms onto
the hook slamd it out as fur in the lake
as he could. Then he set down and hid
his pipe and waited for big pickerel
to come along and swaller the bait hook
and all, but none come
Well after the Deacon had hshd and
ishd until noon he ct his lunch which
Mrs. Butterworth had put up for him in
deep disgust becuz the fish wouldn't bite
and as he set there he notised big
spruce log about 40 # long long and 3
foot through which had probably got
lost from a log boom and was laying
along shore SO the Deacon had a inspir-
ashton.
He ca1kilated that if he could git out
into deeper worter he could ketch fish
as fast as he could take EN- often the
hook so he baited up his hook fresh
agin, TUX off his shoes and stockins, got
a straddle of the spruce log and pusht it
out into the lake with hisself on It
Suddintly as the Deacon was setting
on the log fshin he got bite and hookd
a big he-pickerel which he calkilated
would weigh six pound. The Deacon
tried to jerk the pickerel outen the
worter, but the pole bruk and he lost
his balants and fel often the log into the
1al-e clean over his head.
The Deacon says he was jest about to
20 down fer the last time when he
managed to swim to the log which had
drifted away from him. Ketching holt
of the log he tried to pull hisse1f upon
it agin, but every time the log would
turn and he would fall kersplash back
into the lake agin. Bye and bye he
managed to crawl back straddle of the
log and after he got back his breth he
thort it would be a good idea to git
back to shore being as he was all wet
and cold and nnissble, but when he 1ookt
around he seen to his consternashion |
that the wind had drifted that logged
log most quarter of a mile away from
he shore and that the wind was takin |
It further away every minnit.
When the Deacon seen this he laid |
to it and swore something wicked espes-
nially for a Deacon of the Bingvil1e |
church, but this diddent seem to do no |
rood so ceasing from his perfanity the |
Deacon begin to raise his voice in |
prayer for de1iverents, but the prayin |
diddent seem to do no more gooden |
he cusin done so he went back to GUS |
sin agin.
Thus the afternoon passed and mite
approached with the Deacon settin |
straddle of that log away out in the |