Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Gillam Skraps. [ARTICLE]

Gillam Skraps.

Mr. Edtor: Cap’t we have a place in your p aper? Everybody else is a try.n’ to write somethin’, and we got jist as good a right to say somethin’ as they don’t we? Now there is Frank Hunt, he gone to Peru to by a toped buggy. He gone with his father-in-law, Tillett. Tillett he gone after his daughter Mary. We will be glad to see her once more, ain’t we? And there is Oscar, he’s goin’ to take a share in his Pap’s cattle. He not goin’ to by a buggie, for he ses he will have to go with a man all the time, any how. Don’t it be a joke on him? ha! ha!! And all the boys they been goin’ a flshin’ out in the Kankakee. Harve Querry he eaught a hull lot of ’em, and John Prewett he didn’t ketch airY one.

And all the boys and girls have ben gittin’ ’em new straw hats, ’cept me, and I can’t ford to by any. We’ve had some powerful big rains in the past week. The farmers are a rejoicin, ’cause the worms is eatin’ up all the corn. Ed. he thinks he is goin’ to have an extra crop, ’cause he planted h[s corn ’fore any body else drempt or was thinkin’ about it. Amos and Jesse, they got them a a new suit of clothes. The rest' of us boys, we can’t afford ’em, ’cause we spent our money for our buggies. Charley Mitchel, he lives out north, j He killed two goalins the other day a '

stuffin’ ’em with corn meal. Charley, he’s a good boy, only he ain’t got no housekeeper. Martha Lain said she had two tab’® cloths and one bed spread, only, she said, the tablecloths belonged to her mother, and the bed spread to Amos. Well, we ain’t done talkin’ yit, but we are nearly exosted, all but this: Sal, she say Dan is the cutest feller in Gillam. Ide think so too, if he werrent a Republican, and Sall she’s one. too. We won’t bother you any more now. SALLY-RATUS. June 7, 1881.

The admirer of two girls at Waupaca, Oregon, could not choose between them, and neither was willing to relinquish her claius in favor of the other. They therefore agreed to decide the question by the toss of a coin, and the tossing was done, carefully and fairly in the presence of an invited company. The loser accepted her luck uncomplaining y, and is to be first bridesmaid at the wedding. A somewhat similar case had a different termination at Bowerton, Michigan. The girls in this instance were sisters, and they were willing to divide the lover between them. In order to carry out that idea they have started lor Utah, where they will practice polygamy; but the harmonious sisters have exacted a solemn vow from tho mao never to have more than two wives.