Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — Literary Man Lays Scene of Story In White County. [ARTICLE]

Literary Man Lays Scene of Story In White County.

Frances F. French, a writer somewhat noted in the west, has just published a story entitled, “The Standhill Road Race,” and the scene where the story is supposed to have been enacted is in White county, near Monticello. The writer has a “robust fancy” says the Monticello Herald. The hero of the story is “Skid” Puffer, who is supposed to live in the Kankakee swamps, which might have meant Jasper county. On one occasion Puffer said: “Ev’ry fall ester seedin’, people ’roun’ here ’d go down to the White County Fair. W’en cornin’ home they’d git to racin’, specially w’en chucked up ’ith Monticello fire water. I’ve seen diff’rent parts of an’ stray mules fer twenty miles ’long the Tippecanoe river road many a time. I have seen es high es three diff’rent famblies crowded in one remainin’ wagon ’ith the men ridin double behin’ on horses an’ mules, mebby half of all of ’em had their heads wrapped up.” Further on in his narrative he refers to Winamac as “a heathen country east o’ here," and all through the story he takes a good deal of literary license in handling facts.