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■ ■ y .THE POSEYVILtE NEWS, POSEYVJLLEE, l.\UBagtowo ReminiscencesCux ) '•« umatters” in «ne spleu m 1.1 tell ofIl»HOHRMAN ille Tellshn Rohr, ybodv in rt Louia-nubt-r of Inc with r. Rohr-obtained whs just lit to the My ap ny sleep medicine it to me. the next e.*'enk ruu i Tuulac. ic, blood especial ch, liver unatisin, bnl and olda, the t grippe,i Posey ng store, adv.)his city laud iu i which sfer. A Dorman 1 Jones, D. Mar-y which i for the lliarn M. ’s to de-certain icceeded Sec 22 them a bond is tnd wife e after-William -Whitee demo-if Posoy Friday, tat may i of the a ueces-lairmau is that , and all e meet liouse atDr. A. o'clock, rt—Mrs.JU.nd Mrs.IUM(tJy John E Old Bu.towi. iN.n its • some of whom would have dio aurora hi u rouiu. c«i I some of tht*e.There was the Leach furniy ! 1 inngb to myself as I think of that tribe There were three brothers, the eldest named Wiiliu.u. 1 don't lemeiub* r the uuiur.* of the others. They were gcuuiue Eug.ish, right from Loudon itself They were educated men but in the opiuion of Bugsowners io greeuv-r met. ever lived. 1 hey knew absolutely nothing about country life. Ttn-v never .aw cbru growing lt;nrt knew i.o'.htag about makiug a garden The first *|r:ug they borrowed u team and plow to break up their garden All the copulation of the town watched them And sucii a show was never seeu there before The time Dan Rice’s clrcns camped down by the creek over Sunday wasn’t a circaui stance to this p:-rformai cs. They pat the collars ou tin- horses upside down and tied ihe humes at the top! They all workod and at last got the old horse hitched up Th«u one le«l the korsc-s, another whipped uud .be third U* Id the plow baudles! They didn't kiiow enough toplcw a *,lund” but rau acioss the lot any old way. Thu Bugtowueia laughed until they nearly had pleurisy when Uucle Bud Britton went over aud took charge. He harnessed the horses properly a tic showed them how to plow. And they looked ou Uucle Bud as if he must be a wonderful man.They raise ! a flick of six guineas until the fowls were nearly growu, when they concluded one day to have guinea for dinner. Tboy borrowed an old army musket and opened fire on the guineas, but *hey didn’t Know any more about a gun than they did ;» plow, and i.s a coiisi qunuv the guineas took to the fence, tcil weeds and peopu- arouud hunted buI'h hiding places At last Gt*o. Graildy ielt bis Cooper shop aud went to their relief He loaded up the old muaket and fired one shot killing all six of the guineas! Again the Bugiowuers laugh*d while the Londoners looked puzzl*.lt;l and solemn But the L*-uch boys were no tools if they were green. But they had u hobby uirl rode it furiously. Tney tried to make u wouderfnl spinning machine Thev would teach school during wiuter aud work ou tin ir muchlue iu the summer. They kept this up for years. They uisde and remade the machine over and over agaiu. It wouldn't work but they uever became discouraged. I saw them change the size of one wheel so many times that I asked one day how many rimes they had cbuuged the size of it uud the nuswer was, ‘“more times than there ure duys In the year,'' Bugtowners finally put them down as crauks who were objects of pity for wasting tneir time aud uiouey on a crazy machine. But little did they care, but went ou experimenting. Just when they left I do not remember. Years passed. I was no longer a youth. I was in St. Louis udO visited the great exposition hall where all kinds of machinery was exhibited. I saw a crowd of people around a machine, and poshing my way iu where I conld see, I discovered that they were attracted bv a wonderful spinning machine A gentleman finely dressed operated the machine easily by turning a small crank After watching It a moment I thought it looked fumillar I looked at the operator and it struck me that I ought to know him. I didn’t thkik long—I didn’t have to It all came back to me like a Hash—the operator was one of the Leach boys and the beautiful machiue was the crazy thing we Bugtowners had laughed at. I walked over aud gave the operutor a whack on the'baek. To my surprise he rem embered me at ouce. We had a great visit aud talked over old Bugtown times But I was most interested in his story of what had happened afterward. At lust they perfected machiue aud it made them a fortune. As I left him I wonder-ed who were the greeuies” after all— We Bugtowners or the three queer Londoners.William Leach was really a wonder-fnl man He was educated and talented He wa6 one of the first aud best short hand writers of Southern Indiana. He reported many sermons uud addresses. He reported the famous debate between Eider Joel Hume aud Elder Beuoni Stinson at OweuBville lu 1864, if I remember correctly.William Leach was ulso one of the most intrresting lectures I ever heard.He lectured on scientific subjects aud made them intensely interesting. He was great on phrenology, psychology and mesmerism. There are still living many men and women whom he mesmerized iu public. 1 have seen him let these men try to knock him down bat not one was ever able to touch him I watched these performances until I became possessed with a dejure to have a fry at him myself. He was giving a series of lectures at Wudesville and I attended. When he called for snbjects I went’forward. He told some to remain on the platform and sent somekept U, Oil the platform. If I was hypnotized I didn’t know ir, I watched his mauenvors wouaering all the time if he could make me do ihiugs. At last he permitte.i the subjects to try to strike him but liat ou e touched tniu. At InM he said it was my torn aud I respond! d promptly. I was detrrmmed to gi\e him a jolt it possible. I walked out cn the floor and measured the dlstuuce witn my eye I 1,-lr that if I could get a good ruu ut him he woald b- my nmu.! I backed op to the head of the ai 0 which was filled with a crowd of Macadoo boys. Sul! I wasn't sntisfe .“Give him plenty of room boys” call ed the lecturer The crowd guv-; way and I kepr backiug oil’ At last my buCK was against the door and 1 i« 1c that I hail him. Down that aisle 1 ran ut full speed aud sprang at him. aid swinging my good right arm iu regular Jess Willard style, 1 lauded ou him good uud proper!I think everyone present was surpris ed. 1 kuo.v I was. Aud the yell ihi.t followed trom the crowd showed thev liked the performance. It caused sn-. h confusion that the lecturer closed In.V demonstrations. 1 went home with a knuckle knocked down and lost interest ill hjpnotlc pcrlormauees ever siuce I know of only one persou living who wa- present on that memorable occasiou —Mrs Nau McRcvnoldi-, of Wi.rles-ville Nju was on the from seut. -She was scared so bad she never grew any afterwards.In future articles I will tell of other Bugtown characters ”Trouble. 'ljuder tho spreading chesnut tree a stubborn auto -stands aud Smith, an an gry man is he, with trouble on his hands He cusses soltly to himself and crawls beneath ilie cur, and wouders why it didn’t bust heloie he got so far. The caibun t. r seems to be the cause of all his woe, he tightens half a dozen bolts but still it doesn’t go Aud theu he tries the steering gtais but finds no trouble there,till wet with perspiration, then he quits in sheer despair He squats beside the road to give his brain a chance to cool, and ponders on his truioing in the correspondt-nce school, nod then he starts the job once more, until by chance it’s seen the cause of all the trouble is—lie’s out o! gasolineMathewson Missing.ot opinionTne consensus ot opinion of forty professional big leaguers is that the fol lowing named players constitute the star team :Shottou, Browns, outfielder.Bancroft, Phillies, shortstopCobb, Tigers, ootfield Collins, White Sox, second base Speuker, Red Sox, outfield.Merkle, Giants, first base Maisel, Yanks, third base.Schalk, White Sox, catcher.Snyder, Cardinals, catcher Alexander, Johnson, Mamaux, Toney aud Leonard, pitchers.Sisler, Browns, substitute.Frequent repetitious have tangh Dunkirk to take a bombardment calmly-OCTOBERBARGAINApplKTHEEvansvilleCourierDaily by mail one year$2.50The su citizens Poser cc the Hoar sey Cout vember l icating. -in less qi for the tr to allow ses.My pla whereon drank is room of j Main sir lots Nos. 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Poseyville News
Poseyville, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 29, 1915
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