People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Our Rivers, Lakes and Town. [ARTICLE]

Our Rivers, Lakes and Town.

BY THE POET OF NUBBIN RIDGE.

1 The rmjrlne Plnkamlnk end the winding Iroquois, Where the boys go a Sthinst to mako eome noise; Where the wolves ere howling and the birds are singing. Boys throw In sticks to keep the water rfo*Ing. Flags, bull-rushes. frogs.tad-pole». turtle* and ducks. Where ruorethan a dozen boys got stuck f» the muck. Now. there is old Haddock’s mill pond and Copperas Creek. Which Heo. Gifford tried to ditch for abouA a week. Old Beaver Lnhe it Is Impossible to see. Plenty of water In the Kankakee. Stump Slough U north, and south is Oar- 1 penter’s Creek. But the waters In them ate not very deep. I believe Black Marsh is gone never to awake. Travel away up north to old Cedar Lake. Aw*jr down noath Is the raging Tippecanoe. l T p In Walker township Is a great big Slough. And now my song Is ended about the rivers s*M> lakes. All talk about vownsha vlng plenty of snakes; If the waterw «fthc rivers would turn to lager beer. It would make a tc**pwrtnic«> town of Renalaer. There’s Blackford. WbWktfleld, Knintan, DeMotte snd Sanpierre.. That havn’t as many saloon* n Rensselaer. Fair Oaks and Remington w«? Will not dls- . card. On the Motion railroad is the sm gw town of Atird. Tberw are other small towns—Pleasant RtdgPand Surrey. Tbd tsdrtf of Dunnvllle that’s never in a hurry/ In JaspAf&nintyllvcs my own Aunt Jlellly. My poetryT* where Is Whitcomb Slley.