Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Huckleberry Town. [ARTICLE]

Huckleberry Town.

If ever a town grew famous in a shorter time on account of any one staple, than thJ town of Medaryville has during the past two weeks Ave should be glad to visit it. In the townships qf Gillam, Barkley and Hanging Grove, it is now called Huckleberry town. On nearing the the pearly gates of the metropolis of Whitepost tp., the first that interests one is likely to be a trench beaten in the sand along the roadsido by tho huckleberry pickers going to and from tho market space. Every person in tho town from three, to three score and ten years of age, has been averaging from three to eight days per week in the huckleberry patch. ‘ The names of some of the best pickers in town with the amount of berries gathered in a single day are as follows: Ed Elston, 2 gallons; John Shultz, 7 gallons, J, J. Frederick 6] gallons: Win Williams, 21 -gallons, Homer Calvert, the operator, 23 gallons. Over half the people of eastern Jasper have supplied themselves in hucklebeiry town with the deliciotis fruit, and the road from Hanging Grove tp. to Medaryville is still lined with teams, crying 4 ‘On to Huckleberry town.” Obrien.