Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1929 — Page 3

Adams County, Way Back WhenBefore 1890 a “Story” Made Up Os a Group Os Stories About Pioneer Life And Events Which, Collectively. Go To Make Up The Interesting History Os The County. By French Quinn.

Old Fashioned Sled Ride 1 presume, in fart i ain pretty confident that the young folks of this day have as much fun and happiness as ,he young folks of long ago but 1 wonder sometimes if they can possibly ha ve a much joy as we had in the days of the sled parties. Sled parties were •reat fun. Some how or other it seems to me the winters were more •snowy" way back when, at any rate, there would be fine periods of sleighing and the highways would be wonderful All right, a sled party would be in the making. Do yon know that in the old days folks were just a little •formal.” etiquette was a rather serious thing. Well, anyway, we would arrange for a sled ride. And remember there was ten thousand rides like this one. No telephones, you know, s 0 the young gentlemen of the period would hunt up a messenger boy and give him a whole dime and write: Mister Blank requests the pleasure of the company of Miss Blank to a sled party to Willshire tomorrow evening. Supper included. R. S. V. P. And R. S. V. P. be undeiscored- Well, he would get a reply by the 'same messenger without extra cost: “Miss Blank accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of Mr. Blank to the sled party.” There you are. Six and sometimes seven young gentlemen went through the same formality. Railing's livery and feed stable had! a fine outfit. A regular sized wagon! bed on four runners and a team of! coal black horses that were full of ginger and fleet of foot. Three dollars 1 for the evening and driver furnished. All set, plenty straw in the sled bed and the boys brought buffalo robes, and all bundled up as warm as toast and pnt on leggins and maybe slipped on an old pair of wool socks over our shoes and the seven couples piled in. Os course we had to sit cross wise and pretty snug, you can bet your life. I don't know just what we did with our legs but I know that we had them | along because we danced at Will- ■ shire. The horses had on a double. strand of sleighbells to make more jingle and away we would go. Now the faster the team went and the more the bells jinglad the more I thrilling the ride. The air mighty i frosty and the horses full of pep, and I the driver with a long whip ami a 1 "hurrahing ’ crowd of young folks and the driver would make a turn in the road we would have a thrilling "slide” and squals from the girls and whoops from the boys. Do you know that I am confident that two thirds the way I to Willshire there was woods on both ! sides of the road. And moonlight and j farm folks poke their heads out of i the doors to see the revelers go by. I Arrive at Willshire at the "Old Tav-|

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ern.” A fine supper ready because we had sent a note by a Willshire man ' down trading in Decatur the day be- ' fore to give to the landlord. What a fine supper, two bits a head. Pried chicken. After supper we all went 1 down to Uncle Charley Vance’s to ! spend the evening. Uncle Charley was the village druggist and thirst quencher and he was a hospitable soul and his daughter was a charming girl and a fine violinist and she had some of the Willshire young folks in and we played "post office” and danced, etcetera and at nine o'clock we load ed up again for homo because we MUST be home by ten, you know. And the drive home was "moonlight and roses” because the girls cheeks was caressed by the frost at any rate • and the sleigh bells jingled merrier 1 and the driver unloaded his precious 1 charges at their respective homes of the girls, the boys unloading at the ’ livery stable so that they could "settle” with the driver and when we drove into the livery stable we had a team of white horses instead of . coal black ones for the frost king had got in his work on the sweating steeds 1 and it “was the end of a perfect day." 1 (To Be Continued) —o A Thought for Today As the sun returns In the east, so . let our patience he renewed with j dawn. —Robert I.nids Stevenson i ... _ __________ ,| ■ I How’s Your Radio? • If you don’t know what’s wrong with it, remember this—we do. Expert service on anv set. Phone 244 Decatur Electric Shop ■ • wwWWWW I I : Ashbaucher’s ;: MAJESTIC FURNACES ! I ASBESTOS SHINGLE ] I ROOFING *! ; ! SPOUTING I; ; ! LIGHTNING RODS Phone 765 or 739 VVWMMWWVWWMMAMMfV

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SIX VOLUNTEERS ARE SEEKING PASSAGE ON ROCKET TO MOON

By George Kent (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, July 15 —(UP) —Six men have asked for the privilege of riding In the rocket which may he shot into the sky for a visit to the moon within the next year. Professor Oberth, creator of the plan for tb« rocket, has personally received three applications and Robert Es nuult-Peletier, the autromer, has received the others. Both admit that the possibility of a safe return is exceedingly small. The first danger lies in the rocket's going awry before it clears the earth;

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the rosult In that case would be a crash and certain death. The second la the possibility of striking the moon or some other hard, opaque body In the heavens. The third, is in descending, in which case Prof Oberth has pointed out that the projectile is sure to be either dented or destroyed In striking the cushion of atmosphere which envelops lhe earth Finally, there is the question of air, although an American astronomer has devised a scheme for supplying oxygen to the passenger. If. however, the chosen passenger outwits the law of probabilities and

comes safely down to the soil of Fiance and not the middle of the ocean he will become a greater hero than Lindbergh and will probably have a message for the astronomers of the world that will add more to the solution of their problems than n year of labor In an observatory. Esnault-Peletier stated that only those will be chosen who have no de;endeq’s and who In addl’lin ar-; not subject t< sea-sickness. Old sailors or ex aviators, in his opinion, would be ideal subjects for the experiment. One of the difficulties is that after leaving the earth behind, the passenger will loose all sence of direction, lienee, will probably not be able to say what land lie sees, or touches. This would remain a mystery unless the ingenuity of astronomers devises a method of tracing

the rocket’s course in the sky. A solution of this problem has to a certain extent been supplied by the Germans who now frequently send up uninhabited rockets to an altitude of sixty and a hundred miles equipped in each case with registering apparatus Prof. Oberth has furtbei suggested the creation of veritable laboratories in space by means of rockets with facill ties for remaining aloft for some time The plan of the rocket which has been found feasible and been signalized by the award of the Hirsch, Rep. prize for the year by the Society Astrunomique of France, Is such as to enable Its escape not only the pull of gravitation from the earth, but from other planets and the sun us well. It will therefore be able to cruise the hetivens free <>f danger of being forced

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down unless it goes square into a reef projecting from the moon. So far us the plans are now known the man in the rocket will have no means at his disposal for controlling the course of the projectlie. This job will be to hold on with both hands and pray that no diety pealous of his invasion of his domain throws thunderbolts In his path. Working and Living Working for a living Is a poor way of getting along. We become slaves of our jobs, and there 5s no joy in ' accomplishment. Instead of working 1 for a living, try living for a work, ' and see if you are not better satisfied.—Grit •— o ——. I Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pavr