The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-01-19

dies. Have to hand it TO taphael
Wolff, one of the boys for being
some cook also baker. They bake on
an Albert Lea gas stove, have oil
their eats in paranned bags and then
all put into one big bag, sleep on
air mattresses and have the very
best or camp equipment throughout.
We camped Non the kentucky shores
across the Ohio River from Cairo,
said town Of Cairo does not Iront
on the Mississippi, but is Two miles
UP on the Ohio river. Lots Of Old
Crow down here, but not much have
We seen in bottles; most AL has
been in the air.
Saw Black Tulips T.
Mule not black but white is the
leading thing down here that has a
kick. We don't have Windminers' or
Nelson's down here for deaths of a
Mules kick, but at Helena, Ark,
we've the Blossom Shop.
Twas in dare 1 saw some black
Tulips, honest
Mississippi was full OF ice three
inches thick, when we left Cairo and
had a hundred mile paddle in the
ice foe. l made the rifle to Key, just
in time.
AT HICKMAN KENTUCKY
A barefoot boy with gun in hand
Was running across the ice cold
sand
Abarefoot boy big as a moose
Running down that Canada Goose.
We caught the goose the picture
tells
and once. since then, we've had
those spells-'of Hickman
Weather has been fine since a
do hnfnrn hY-iu It'd
singing as in springtime at Kato.
Lots OF coon and possum down here
but TO get them is a Job, as in some
of these mighty trees looks like they
had four family fats.
Laid up at New Madrid, Mo- for
most two days with sick man IL
camp, our cook, all have beru well
since and We are all hitting ii up
for the final goal. Twas near New
Madrid where we saw q man, his
wife, and baby in her arms and two
little boys vending their way south
along the river through the brush.
irregular land and wind falls. Would
like to know where and how thu.
spent the night, as We could see no
signs of a living soul around in ten
miles of river below where We saw
these Arkansas travellers, and all
. NhCAE SoISb bNS'sAhS anu ttOuoCL4DAu
effects the father carried In a small
pack.
when the smoke clears away
am going back up to ST. Louis, Mo-,
and get a picture of the big wharf;
but maybe part Of the wharf at
New Orleans will do as we'll.
One OF Boys Left
Three of us went over town for
bread up at Cairo and all in the
Peterborough with the double pad
dies so l can say I have used them
but not particularly fond OF such
oars,Nin a long stretch. l cannot nee
where any advantage is gained III
time by using them, and these boys
say they are no good in white wa
ter, swift and rough. This We learn
ed coming back across the Ohio,
back up at Cairo that evening when
we got in between two steamers.
Some whirl.
"One of the boys got peeved up
the river and left one day at noon
all by his lonesome, but one night OF
solitary confinement was enough Tor
him, he came back next morning ana
begged to be taken back with the
bunch, rather than die of lonesome :
ness, so we are four again and all 60
ing well. After travelling this water
for a week one commences to ap-
preciate the Minnesota and its quiet :
ness. For a stretch from Shakopee 10
Rock Island, ILL.,, fisherman in shacks
and shanty boats wherever one
would look. down here from Rock
Island TO Memphis it's sham fisher
men making moonshine. We camped
at more than one still ourselves.
From Memphis to Baton Rouge We
find darkies along and guess we will
have them all the way to the capitol
city.
"Raphiel Wolff, our chief, seems
ITO be in the hardest luck. At Cairo
we had decoy out for ducks, Ray
ducks and coon shot at the decoy
! from a motor boat thinking 1t a real
duck the shot landed all around our
hero who in turn took aim at the
niger just to scare and you should
. Lave heard the PRAYER offered by the
coon. He suffered an attack of Ma
laria down by Hickman, KY, and
now he has three numb fingers on
one hand. The other three Of us
3 have Jared none the worse. Jerry and
!, though, have each burned a pair
OF wool socks. Yes, / darned mine
/ several times shortly after l noticed
what the fire went and done.
On Christmas Eve
Camp 48, Christmas Eve. wal on-
mile above Memphis on the Ohio
River, back from the Mississippi, a
couple of blocks among a shack col.
ony. Heap site of logs ready for the
MIL and big dredge boat. I'VE had
not finished our supper when a mo
tor boat of spectators came and In
vited US to come and play for a
dance at the house boat of the
dredging company. Accepted of
course, and the doings was all ago
at $50; also had a-Yictrola OF Co
lumbia make there, some moonshine
bunch and all one man regretted
was, that his three barrels OF mash
was not ready for Christmas.
/ WISH they would pass us some OF
those apples, cookies and sweets on
the table, but 1870 came and no re-
freshments. We left at 1880 with a
bid for a bigger Christmas ball, but
such ball would have to be big as
a balloon to interest us with such a
! layout-<No, we left and did not have
a reason for saying Goodbye Broad
way Made forty or miles on q
beautiful Christmas dlG. Theimome-
ter registered seventy Jour above in
the afternoon, and we spent the night
at Diamond board 442 Fort Eillar
one half mile above Fulton, Tenn.
Stopped at Fulton
Stopped Al Fulton for provisions