Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-04-16
THE 'HOSSBUC"
HAS ARRIVED
DEBORAH Has Several Victims of This
Disease Which Attacks Suffer-
ers From Other Towns
THAT VETERAN Nj. T. GRATTAN
Is HERE WITH TELL SIR
One of the Biggest Strings of Fast
Horses Ever Stepping Over
Track Will Line Up Here
In Few Days
(From the Trotter and PAGER.


ticular, and always the men who
have plenty of good rich blood in
their veins. This germ is known as
the 'hossabus bugabuss," otherwise
'hoss bug" and a man who gets
this bug never gets entirely over it.
He may have period of apparently
being free from the effects of the
germ and be able to talk intelligent
ly on a variety of interesting sub
jects, as for instance, "Who hit Billy
Patterson, and why?" Those periods
of freedom from the effects of the
bug" are of varying length-it is
rarely very long, however-the
patient has a relapse and again his
one thought and one subject of con-
versation is "hoss." You will hear
him say dam" quite frequently. He
is not swearing, simply referring to
the mother of one of his String"
as he calls the horses he has. And
now after this all we have reached
Harry Benedict. Harry was at the
Village Farm of c. J. Hamlin, and
was colt trainer there with the grand
old (young) man Pop" Geers, and
after leaving the Village Farm-of
course, went to racing 'em. And then
Harry married and got over the bug.
He became the principal hotel man
OF East Aurora, N. Y, and never
went to the races, and would not
talk boss" even about that great
gray warrior he trimmed them all
with.
But listen-Who comes here?
Harry Benedict, as I live. Yes, Harry
back in the game. He said, ''he
was back because his wife made him
come back" why" he said, II got
so big and fat I was uncomfortable.
All l had to do was sit outside my
hotel and all the automobile parties
would see me-and. stay for dinner,
but finally I told my wife 1 must
exercise. l guess 1 will buy a horse
or go to saving wood-do some
thing so I can reduce My wife look
ed around over our beautiful view
and smiled. Well, to tell the truth,
there is not much woodland near us,
SO you see how it is. just had to get
horse or two, or three or four, and
go training 'em and off to the races.
Yes, my wife made me do it-so I
could reduce to my normal weight
AS matter of fact, all my wife said
was Harry, you have got the bug
again
Race Secretary Blodgett says he
knows all the above to be true
statement Of the facts, and further
that Harry Benedict will train his
horses over the Syracuse track this
year, and will race 'em then later at
the Grand Circuit meeting during
the State Fair the second week in
September, and Secretary Blodgett
adds: Just watch Harry come to
the wire, his face tense with excite
ment, and you will see at a glance
he is just doing it all to reduce his
weight"
The Bug-Hunter.
DEBORAH has several victims of
this dread disease which attacks
sufferers from other towns, as birds
of feather flock together.
One of the we'll known "hoss
bugs" who is here is that veteran
horseman, NJ. T. Grattan, who moved
from Preston last fall There is
probably no better known horseman
in this section than Grattan, and be-
sides being a good horseman he is
a mighty fine citizen, the kind who
help make a community brighter
end more cheerful to live In. He has
been the starter at the Winneshiek
fair for many years and is known
to most of the people. He owned
some mighty good horses, one being
TreVerbyn 2:14%. He has one fine
trotter now Tell Sir" a very
promising animal.
1t is the consensus of opinion that
the DEBORAH track has no equal in
the northwest, and consequently
number of noted horsemen are
coming this spring to train here.
Others beside Mr.. Grattan are Henry
Eldridge, of Waukon, coming this
week with six high class horses.
REX Treverbyn" is the most
promising trotter in his string. The
wise ones claim he can beat his
daddy Trever6yn 2:14A. Mr.. Graf
tan bred the colt.
w. F., Sanderson, of Owatonna,
former proprietor of the Winneshiek
has four head Of horses at the fair
grounds, and two of them are
record horses, THE Black Bass"
2:07A and Ross Directum 2:15A.
E. ]. Curtin of DEBORAH, has a
fine string Of horses here, among
them Columbia Fire" 2:04%;