News: East Lynn (6 Oct 1911)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Schultz, Lindow, Grade, Conrad, Hein, Kleinschmidt, Zuehlke, Pusheck, Lindow, Steinbach, Quicker, Eide, Franke, Guk, Garbush, Speiser, Dietrich, Henning, Keller

----Source: The Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., WI.) October 6, 1911

East Lynn (6 October 1911)

Herman Schultz intended to saw stove wood for Emil Lindow Tuesday, but the weather did not permit such proceedings.

Fred Grade and Ernest Conrad attended the auction sale at Fred Hein’s Monday afternoon.

Miss Lulu Kleinschmidt who is attending school at Grand Rapids came home last Thursday and returned to her duties Monday morning.

Mrs. Fred Zuehlke was somewhat under the weather Sunday.

Aug. Pusheck has been talking of building a boat, but since A. Lindow has told him that it will freeze up as solid as a wedge in a few days he has somewhat abandoned the idea.

The Phillip Steinbach family was over Sunday guests at J. Quicker’s.  Jim and Philip spent the day hunting and many a savage animal fell before their unerring aim.

Harry Eide takes up his cement sidewalk every evening and hangs it in a tree for fear it will float away through the night.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Franke attended the wedding of their daughter Clara last Saturday.

After this rainy spell is over we will have bright sunny days.  Just because the geese are shedding their tail feathers that is no sign that winter is going to set in.

The heavy rain last Thursday washed the mortar out of C. Guk’s newly erected basement and the work must all be done over again.

L. A. Kleinschmidt made a business trip to Marshfield Monday.

Mr. A. Lindow is getting ready to have a cement floor put in hit house cellar.

The writer has a few acres of clover hay that seems to have absorbed an unusual large amount of moisture and would gladly give half to any person that can get it dry enough to put under cover.

Last Thursday as Arthur Garbush in company with his little daughter and two of John Speiser’s children who had been attending school were crossing a bridge near the St. Paul road track the water had raised so high that as the horses stepped onto the structure the planks floated from under them and everything plunged headlong into the water.  It was with rare presence of mind that Mr. Garbush saved the children from drowning and with the aid of a few of the nearest neighbors managed to extricate the horses that had become badly tangled in the harness.  The buggy was quite damaged and the horses were in a precarious condition, although one is on the gain, the other’s recovery is doubtful.  It seems that there ought to be a way to fasten blanks (planks) to a bridge so they don’t float away every time it threatens to rain, but then as long as nobody drowns the town saves the enormous expense of a few pounds of spikes.

The H. Dietrich family spent Sunday at L. A. Kleinschmidt’s.

Rudolph Speiser is helping his brother-in-law John Henning cut corn.

As H. Keller and one of his daughters were on their return home Sunday from a drive through the surrounding country a very peculiar accident happened to them that might have ended disastrous to one or both.  It seems that someone left a corn binder standing at the side of the road in such a way that it almost blockaded the highway, as they approached this modern piece of contrivance the horse became frightened, upsetting the buggy and throwing the occupants into a barbed wire fence. The little girl was badly bruised about the arms and body, but Herman escaped with nothing more serious than a shaking up.  The road side is a splendid place for all such things as corn binders, old rolls of fence wire, the remains of a worn out hay rack and a dilapidated grindstone, also a few saw horses may be added to the collection that will make the obstruction complete,  anything that will add grandeur to the already beautiful scenery. The penalty for such an offense is very small if there is any, for it has nothing whatever to do with the pure food law or the reciprocity bill.

The Wolf River apple which Editor Baer has on exhibition would look like a tiny thing alongside the Northwest Greening that we have in our possession.  It took the combined efforts of ourselves and three of the neighbors with crowbars and other instruments to remove it from the orchard to the house and then found that the cellar door was not wide enough to admit this monster, so with the aid of a span of horses it was hauled into the barn and deposited in the hay loft. We have been eating our fill every day, likewise half of the neighborhood, but still it has expanded 5 ½ inches since it has been at its last resting place.