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E. M. BAKER, a leading, citizen of Green township, formerly a justice of the peace, resides on his valuable farm of seventy-five acres, which lies ten miles southeast of Sidney. He was born in Clark county, O., in 1863, and is a son of C. W. and Mary A. (Wells) Baker.
C. W. Baker was born in Maryland and was four years old when his parents brought him to Ohio. He was reared in Clark county and followed farming there for many years and continued to be an agriculturist after moving to Shelby county, where he died in his seventy-ninth year. He married Mary A. Wells, who was born in Champaign county, O., and five children were born to them, namely: N. H. and W. B., both of whom live in Green township; Forrest, who is deceased; E. M.; and Mrs. Bertha A. Pence.
     E. M. Baker was educated mainly in the public schools of Shelby county, enjoying two terms also at Lebanon, O., after which he became a school teacher and more or less continuously devoted himself to educational work for twenty-five years, practically in Shelby county with three terms in Miami county. As a teacher he was considered very efficient and his acquaintance extends all over both counties and his friends are in every section. In 1905 he moved on the farm on which he resides and in retiring from educational work he turned, his attention to the improvement and development of his property. With the exception of the residence, all the substantial buildings on the place have been put here by Mr. Baker, and it has been so remodeled that it has many desirable modern comforts and conveniences. General farming and stock raising are carried on and Mr. Baker is proving that an educated man makes a very successful farmer.
     Mr. Baker married Miss Clara Moon and they have two children: O. H. and C. L., both of whom reside at home. In politics Mr. Baker is identified with the republican party.
LEWIS W. BAKER, who for many years has been a prominent citizen of Salem township, now lives in comfortable retirement at Maplewood but retains possession of several valuable tracts of land.  He was born in Perry township, Shelby county, O., Nov. 14, 1859, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Laudenback) Baker.
     William Baker was born in Clark County, O., in 1815 and his wife was born in Champaign county, O.  In 1842 he moved on the farm in Perry township Shelby county, which Lewis W. Baker now owns.  He and wife died at the home of his son, their burial being at Port Jefferson.  They had the following children: Daniel; Jonas; Sarah J., wife of Peter Hartman; Mary E., wife of Enos Wagner; Margaret, wife of William Gilfillen; Martin A.; Allen and Lewis W.  The parents were members of the Baptist church.  The father was a democrat in politics and his sons are of the same political faith.
     Lewis W. Baker secured a district school education, attending regularly in the winter seasons until he reached manhood.  He then gave his father assistance until 1893, remaining on the h9oestead until then although as early as 1879 he had commenced to work for himself.  When his father first settled on the farm in Perry township he had 120 acres but he continued to invest in land until he had 235 acres, the extent of the present farm which is now the property of Lewis W. Baker, by inheritance.  He owns also a farm of 120 acres in Jackson township, which he bought from William Hogan, and he the present farm which is now the property of Lewis W. Baker, by inheritance, owns a third tract, containing twenty acres, which lies on the edge of Maplewood, on which he resides.
     In December, 1878, Mr. Baker was married to Miss Julia E. Booze, who was born in Allen county, O., and was eight years old when her parents, Hezekiah and Mary Catherine (Hill) Booze, brought her to Shelby county.  They were natives of Pennsylvania.  The father of Mrs. Baker  died in Oklahoma and the mother in Shelby county, her burial being in Pleasant Hill cemetery.  They had the following children: Jon and Uriah; Maria E., wife of Geroge Kirtley; Julia E.; Martha, wife of William Warner; and Christian, Hezekiah, Lewis and Thomas.
     To Mr. and Mrs. Baker two children were born:  Emory E., who married Lavina Young, and they have four children - Wildie, Harold, Carl and Ralph; and Edna, who is the wife of John J. Drury, and they have one daughter, Buelah.  Mr. Baker and family belong to the Disciples church.  Among his business interests in his ownership of stock in the Haviland Grain & Hay Company of Haviland, O., and he is also a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Jackson Center.  While never anxious to hold political office, he consented to serve two terms as township treasurer of Salem township and his interest i the public schools caused him to remain on the school board for twelve years.  He has always been a man of social instincts and qualities and enjoys his membership with the Knights of Pythias, attending the Maplewood lodge of this order.
ORLA A. BAKER, who is one of the substantial men of Shelby county, O., the owner of two farms aggregating 204 acres, situated in Perry township, and a member of the firm of Baker & Harris, implement dealers at Port Jefferson, O., is one of the enterprising young business men of this section.  He was born on his father's farm in Perry township, Aug. 31, 1881, and is a son of Martin A. and Christena (Smith) Baker.  The father died in February, 1909, but the mother survives and resides at Jackson Center.  The family consisted of three children: Ida, who is the wife of Cory Hoak; Orla A., and Elza A.
     In the public schools of Perry township Orla A. Baker secured his education, after which he became interested in agricultural pursuits and successfully carried on farming and moderate stock raising, confining himself to the same until 1910, when he became interested additionally at Port Jefferson and since Mar. 1, 1912, he has been the senior member of the firm of Baker & Harris.  This firm carries a full line of hardware and handles all kinds of agricultural implements.  While Mr. Baker cannot be regarded as a politician, he is a stanch democrat and gives loyal support to his party's candidates and without asking for political preferment for himself.
     On Dec. 31, 1903, Mr. Baker was married to Miss Ella E. Zedeker, who was born in Shelby County and is a daughter of Oliver and Margaret (Lawhead) Zedeker  Mr. Baker has one brother, Clyde.  Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one son, Ralph Emerson, who was born May 3, 1906.  They are members of the Disciples church.  He is connected with the Knights of Pythias at Maplewood, and with the Knights of Khorasan at Sidney, O.
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ANTHONY BARHORST, who is a very enterprising and successful farmer of McLean township and a member of one of the old and respected Catholic families here, was born in McLean township, Shelby county, O., March 1, 1,884, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Grieshop) Barhorst.
     Henry Barhorst was born at Steinfeldt, Oldenberg, Germany, September 30, 1828, and came to the United States when sixteen years of age, settling on a farm west of Loramie, O., and after his marriage he followed farming there for ten years and later acquired a large body of land, at the time of death, August 22, 1906, owning 240 acres. He was a man of high standing in McLean township and for fifteen years served as a township trustee. On June 5, 1855, he married Elizabeth Grieshop, who was born at Denklage, Germany, January 7, 1838, and was brought to America in her ninth year. Her people settled in Mercer county, O., where she lived until her marriage took place at Loramie. She died on the home farm in McLean township, August 23, 1908. They were faithful members of St. Michael's Catholic church at Fort Loramie and were known all through the parish for their many fine qualities. They had eleven children: Henry, Herman, John, Bernard, Joseph, Anthony, Mary, Catherine and Rose, being those named, and of these, Herman, Joseph, Mary, Catherine and Rose are deceased.
Anthony Barhorst was educated in the Sherman Special School District and has followed farming ever since reaching manhood. After marriage he settled on his farm of 100 acres, which is situated in section 11, McLean township, four miles southeast of Fort Loramie, which he bought of George Babylon. He remodeled the residence and has added buildings as his large agricultural operations have made necessary and has all his land in tillable condition except twelve acres of woodland.
     Mr. Barhorst was married January 22, 1907, to Miss Josephine Debrosse, who was born in Loramie township, a daughter of Irenus and Margaret (Esthman) Debrosse, and four children have been born to them: an infant daughter who did not long survive; and Irenus Henry, Agnes B. and John Robert. Mr. Barhorst and family belong to St. Michael's Catholic church. He is a democrat in his political views and takes a good citizen's interest in public matters.
BERNARD BARHORST, who is one of the substantial men of McLean township, Shelby county, O., resides in section 4, two and one-half miles east of Fort Loramie, where he owns 245 acres of fine land. He was born in this township, one-half mile south of his present farm in the Sherman special school district, September 24, 1866, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Grieshop) Barhorst.
     The father of Mr. Barhorst spent his life in McLean township, following. farming as his occupation, and died here when aged seventy-seven years. The mother, who was born in Germany, died when aged seventy-two years, in Mercer county, O., and there were six sons and two daughters in the family. The parents were members of St. Michael's Catholic church.
     The Barhorst children were not neglected, their parents sending them to the Sherman district school until all were well instructed. Bernard remained on the home farm until his: marriage, when he moved to his present property, all of which he has under cultivation except thirty-six acres which is still in woodland. He has put in many improvements here, erecting and remodeling buildings, enriching and draining the land, and, with the help of his sturdy sons, does a large agricultural business.
     Mr. Barhorst married Miss Magdalena Ernst, who was born in McLean township, a daughter of Joseph Ernst, and nine children have been born to them, namely: Catherina, Joseph, August, Edward, Leo, Charles, Ursula, Urban and Paul. Mr. Barhorst and family are members' of St. Michael's Roman Catholic church. In politics he has been a democrat since reaching man's estate, but has never sought political office, although his party might find in such men as Mr. Barhorst the honest and careful officials that a community needs for the practical carrying out of the laws.
JOSEPH DANIEL BARNES, a leading member of the bar at Sidney, where he enjoys a fine practice and is a representative and stable citizen, was born in Adams township, Champaign county, O., June 14, 1869, and is a son of John H. and Mary (Hubbell) Barnes.
     John H. Barnes was born at Hedgesville, W. Va., in 1845, and died April 13, 1907, in Ohio, to which state his father, Michael Barnes, had brought him when a motherless boy of two years. Michael Barnes settled at what was known as Mosquito Lake, Champaign county, where he acquired land and there John H. Barnes was reared and a year after marriage moved to Logan county, later returning to Champaign county and in 1884 moved to Sidney. He was a well-known, reputable citizen, a member of the Episcopal church and a democrat in his political connection. He married Mary Hubbell, in 1867, a daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Johnson) Hubbell, of Quincy, where Mr. Hubbell was a merchant. Three children were born to John H. Barnes and wife, two of whom died in infancy.
     Joseph Daniel Barnes attended the public schools in Champaign county and later the Sidney high school, subsequently entering the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated in May, 1890, afterward spending one year in the law office of Davies & Hoskins, at Sidney. Mr. Barnes then opened a law office in the Thompson building, at Sidney, and continued alone in practice until July, 1909, when he formed a partnership with D. F. Mills, which association continues under the firm style of Barnes & Mills. For twenty-two years Mr. Barnes has been engaged honorably in the practice of his profession in this city and at times has accepted public office when tendered him, serving efficiently as city solicitor from 1892 until 1895, and as prosecuting attorney from 1895 until 1901. He has ever been an active and interested citizen and an ardent supporter of the principles of the democratic party, for a number of years being entrusted with party management as chairman of the Shelby County Democratic Central Committee. He has four farms in his charge, but otherwise devotes himself entirely to his profession.
     In December, 1900, Mr. Barnes was married to Miss Raeburn Eppler, a daughter of Thomas W. and Mary (Miller) Eppler. His fraternal connections include membership with the Masons, Odd Fellows, and the Elks. He maintains his office in the court house at Sidney, and owns an attractive and comfortable residence.
ROBERT K. BEAMAN, general farmer and reliable and representative citizen of Orange township, resides on and operates the J. N. Woodmancy farm of 140 acres, situated five miles south of Sidney, O.  Mr. Beaman was born in Orange township, in 1877, and is a son of John and Anna (Pruden) Beaman.
     John Beaman was born at Boston, Mass., was well educated there and was about twenty years of age when he came to Shelby county and has followed farming here ever since and is well known and highly respected citizen.  The family of nine children all survive.
     Robert K. Beaman obtained his education in the public schools and learned the principles of farming through assisting his father, remaining with him until his own marriage, when he came to the farm of his father-in-law, which he has successfully managed ever since, developing its productive possibilities to the highest extent and raising a sufficiency of good stock for home use.
     Mr. Beaman was married in 1905 to Miss Laura Dale Woodmancy, who is a daughter of J. N. Woodmancy, one of the well known men of this section.  They have three children: John Walter, Bernice Irene and Dorothy Dale.  He has never been an office seeker but has taken an active interest in all matters pertaining to section and country at large and casts his vote with the republican organization.  For some years he has been identified with the Odd Fellows at Kirkwood, O.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 788
T. M. BEAMER, M. D., an experienced medical practitioner now somewhat retired from professional activity, resides on his well-kept farm of sixty acres situated six and one-half miles southeast of Sidney, O. He was born at Fletcher, O., in 1854, and is a son of Dr. Thomas M. and Jane (Runkle) Bearrier.
Dr. Thomas M. Beamer was born in Virginia and for twenty-five years was a valued physician and surgeon at Fletcher, O., and was prevented from becoming a soldier in the Civil war on account of being the only medical practitioner in the above town at that time. His death occurred at the age of forty-five years, while living in California. He married Jane Runkle, who was born in Mad River township, Clark county, O., and eight children were born to them.
     T. M. Beamer was seven years old when he was sent to the home of his grandparents in Illinois, where he remained for three years, attending school in the meanwhile, then returned to his father and afterward went to Iowa with his brother, and again returned to Fletcher. While With his brother he learned the principles of medical science and about this time had one term of lectures in the Cincinnati Medical College. During the next year he practiced medicine in Missouri, after which he returned to Ohio and completed his medical course and entered into practice at Fletcher. On March 27, 1879, he located at Plattsville, in Shelby county, and continued until 1902, when he accepted a position as manager of a sanitarium at Springfield, O., for the cure of alcohol and drug addictions, conducted by the Willowbark Company, removing later with the same company, to St. Paris, and after two years, to Piqua, but shortly afterward decided to engage in agricultural pursuits and moved to the Sarver farm in Green township, Shelby county. After his many years of professional work and during a number of years meeting with many distressing cases, Dr. Reamer found the quiet country life most beneficial, and in 1910 purchased the farm on which he now resides and where agricultural industries greatly interest him. He still continues to practice to a certain extent, in his neighborhood, but no longer makes his profession his main occupation.
     Dr. Beamer was married in 1879 to Miss Anna Elizabeth Williams, of Plattsburg, and they had one son, born October 13, 1880, who is deceased. In politics Dr. Beamer is a republican and ever since he came to Green township has been township treasurer and also is a member of the school board. For many years he has been identified fraternally with the Odd Fellows.
HENRY E. BEEBE, M.D., a leading physician of Shelby county, and for the past five years president of the Citizens National Bank, at Sidney, O., was born on his father's farm, near Carey, Wyandot county, O., July 24, 1849, and is a son of Buell S. and Lucinda (Keir) Beebe.
     The father of Dr. Beebe was born in Franklin county, N. Y., and in 1846 came to Ohio and lived until he was sixty-two years old in Wyandot county, when he came to Sidney on a visit arid here his death occurred in 1883. His family consisted of one son and two daughters: Henry E. and Mrs. Anna Hoff and Mrs. Sarah Millholland, both of Carey, O., the latter of whom died in 1911..
     Henry E. Beebe was educated, in the public schools and Wittenberg College and pursued his medical studies in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, at Cleveland, O., from which institution he was graduated in 1873 and in the same year located at Sidney.  For forty years Dr. Beebe has been in active practice and few members of his profession in this section of Ohio are better known or more highly valued. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and was its vice president in 1904-05 at its convention held at Niagara Falls. In 1886 he was president of the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, and from 1903 to 1904 was president of the state examining board, of which he was vice president for seven years and one of its organ­izers, and belongs also to the Union Clinical Society. He is a thirty-second degree Mason.
     Dr. Beebe was married in 1874 to Miss Ophelia McDowell, of Carey, O., a daughter of Hugh and Rebecca McDowell, and they have four children: Rotiert Wallace, Laura, Elise, Hugh McDowell and Henry Edwin. Robert Wallace Beebe is secretary and treasurer of the United Rim Co., of Akron, O. He married Miss May Hardesty of Cleveland. Laura Elise Beebe married W. C. Horr, who is secretary and treasurer of the Eclipse Folder Company, of Sidney, and. they have one daughter, Rebecca. Hugh McDowell Beebe is a physician. He married Miss Ruth Peirson, of Troy. Henry Edwin Beebe, who is a graduate of the law department of the University of Michigan, of the class of 1910, is connected with the law firm of Roettinger & Roettinger, at Cincinnati. As a business man aside from his profession, Doctor Beebe has been an important factor in this section and was interested in the founding of the Citizens National Bank here, of which he is president and formerly for many years was vice president. He has been closely identified with the general development of Sidney and has not only fostered its business and professional enterprises but has, in every way possible, furthered all movements which have contributed to the educational and social uplift.
J. CLEMENS BENDER, residing two and one-half miles southwest of Fort Loramie, O., where he rents an improved farm of 120 acres, lying in sec­tion 11, McLean township, is one of the representative citizens of this sec­tion and* a member of an old Ohio family. He w^is born in this farm, and is a son of John and Mary (Heilers) Bender.
John Bender was born in Auglaize county, O., and grew to manhood there and engaged in farm pursuits. He married Mary Heilers, who was reared at Minster, O., and they then came to this farm in McLean township and here Mrs. Bender died when her son J. Clemens was only seven years of age. There were five children, namely: John, who is deceased; J. Clemens; and Mary and Katie, who live at home; and Clara, who is deceased.
J. Clemens Bender obtained his education in the Walkup Special School District and then assisted his father and since the fall of 1911 has had entire charge of the home place, carrying on geenral farming and raising stock for home use. He married Miss Emma Seger, who is a daughter of John Seger, of Fort Loramie, O. The whole family belongs to St. Michael's Catho­lic church. Mr. Bender votes with the democratic party.
EVAN W. BINGHAM, who is one of the enterprising citizens and rep­resentative business men of Sidney, O., is proprietor of the E. W. Bingham Furniture Store, which he has conducted here since August 15, 1895. He was born at Alexandria, Va., December 25, 1858, and is a son of Alfred H. and Rebecca (Evans) Bingham.
Alfred H. Bingham came from Virginia to Sidney, May 4, 1871, and died here in November, 1879, the death of his wife occurring in the following year. He was a cotton-mill worker and also a pattern maker and was employed in the machine shop of his brother-in-law, George G. Haslup, a quiet, industrious man, with a talent for his special line of work.
     Evan W. Bingham had been a student in the Alexandria Academy prior to the removal of the family to Sidney, where he entered the high school. He early developed mechanical skill and during his vacations and on holidays had applied himself to learning the machinist trade, and when he left school, at the age of eighteen years, was able to prove to his employer that he could earn a man's wages, industrial rules and conditions being somewhat different then from the present. For twelve years Mr. Bingham worked satisfactorily as a machinist and then decided to turn his attention in an entirely different direction and for ten years afterward was a salesman in the clothing house of Abe Herzsam, at Sidney. At the termination of that engagement he embarked in his present business, in which he has prospered. He has always taken a good citizen's interest in civic matters and is a valued member of the Sidney Commercial Club, and one of its trustees.
     Mr. Bingham married Miss Lizzie A. Fry, a daughter of the late R. L. Fry, who was formerly prominent here in the dry goods trade. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham have had two children: Robert Fry and Jennie Mildred, the latter of whom died at the age of four years. Robert Fry Bingham is a student at Oxford, O., a member of the graduating class of 1913, Miami University.
     In politics Mr. Bingham is a republican. While he has never accepted other than local offices, he has frequently proved valuable and useful in these and was a member of the board of public service. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Knights of Khorassan arid to all branches of the Knights of Pythias, in which order he is past chancellor. Mr. Bingham and family belong to the Presbyterian church, of which he is treasurer and a member of its board of trustees.
JOHN BLAKELEY—It is said that nothing will polish a person and give him a careless and cosmopolitan air like travel. Observing that my wonted luster was growing dim and gaping curiosity, that unfailing indication of rustic simplicity, was getting the better of me, I resolved to take a day off or a day out and rub up against the wicked world, thus becoming a tourist at large, with the best of intentions.
     In accordance with this rash resolution and being sleepless over the prospect, the couch of repose was abandoned earlier than usual, an affectionate good-bye hurled at family and friends Monday morning, the trolley station sought for a ticket to Botkins, twelve miles distant toward the polar star that is always in its place and around which Ursa Major, with his celestial dipper, has been circling for ages.
The day was beautiful and although the Monday before was resonant with the jingling of sleigh bells and the merry laugh of children, youths and maidens crowded into slipping vehicles or hanging to cutters, every vestige of the beautiful had disappeared and the strident honk of the automobile was heard, one of the most sudden changes in this capricious climate.
     This ascent to the classic suburb of Jimtown or Bennettville was soon reached and a little more power was applied as if the car was eager to get out of sight of this burg nodule which has come to stay and can not be avoided even if so desired on a northern trip.
     What a change has been wrought in the country within the last thirty or forty years around Sidney. The almost impassable mud and corduroy roads with their adhesive or jolting horrors have been supplanted by hundreds of miles of graded and graveled free pikes, furnishing drainage outlets and annihilating distance when compared with what used to be. Dense native forests have been cleared and unobstructed vistas miles in length opened through the rich level country dotted here and there with pretty farm houses and barns environed by clustering orchards.
     The butting in of an era of prosperity years ago and its continuance with no prospect of abatement put farmers on Easy street, doubled the value of their real estate, fattened their bank accounts so that they are beginning to know the luxury of living rather than merely existing. With taste thus elevated and becoming alive to the possibilities which can be achieved by intelligently working with Mother Nature, what Shelby county will be in half a century more is a picture that can hardly be overdrawn.
      The trolley line does not invade nor disturb Swanders and one might go by without knowing it, so unpretentious is it, but Anna, split into two precincts and about evenly balanced by the boundary line between Franklin and Dinsmore townships, has, in round numbers, about one thousand people, good, bad and indifferent, with a large preponderance of the good, as it is a Lutheran stronghold and their magnificent new church edifice close to the track challenges admiration for its artistic beauty and the up-to-date homes erected largely by rich, retired farmers, who have clustered there for social, intellectual and religious privileges. But I started for Botkins and will reserve Anna for future reference. Remembering Botkins, graced by the rather plebeian name of Stringtown forty years ago, I turned up my trousers and wore rubbers, for at that time it did not take more than a heavy dew to convert its rich, undrained soil into a mortar bed where, Mrs. Gutman said, her horse got stalled in the street, though she' and a box of dog leg tobacco were the only freight in the buggy bound for Fryburg. The foot gear precaution based on ancient experience was entirely unnecessary as the graded streets were comparatively dry and the long lines of concrete pavement were white and clean as a new pin. Being Monday, when wash tub wrestling engages the attention of rural households and which was an ideal day for drying purified linen, there was not much business bustle in the growing village, giving a pedestrian plenty of elbow room, and the first familiar face which dawned on my optics was that of Adam Blakeley, a friend in good and regular standing for many years.
     Adam, though a stalwart Republican in a strong Democratic town, is no mere figure head, as he has been mayor and was only defeated the last time by one vote by Thomas Kennedy; is postmaster and editor and proprietor of the Botkins Herald, a luminary which sheds light in the community, suggests improvements, records the happenings and molds public opinion.
     As the objective point on this trip was to interview John Blakeley, his father, a pioneer veteran of eighty-four years, we together walked to the home of this retired farmer and as good luck would have it there sat Lorenzo Elliott, a relative and veteran pioneer but a few months Mr. Blakeley's junior and walked from his home two and a half miles distant to make a morning visit. He is wonderfully well preserved, while Mr. Blakeley is physically infirm, using two canes to support his bowed form, but mentally clear, is an omnivorous reader with a fund of reminiscence and a voluble tongue that enjoys a rehearsal of past events.
     He was born in Franklin county, July n, 1825, and came to Shelby county with his parents when three years old, where he has since lived. July 1, 1852, he married, Miss Elizabeth Elliott, the fifteenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Elliott, and became the father of eight children, of whom Adam, Mary and Margaret, now Mrs. Charles F. Snyder, of near Oran, survive.
     By industry, economy and judicious investments he became a large land owner but becoming somewhat weary of rural cares he moved to. Botkins in May, 1883, a few days after the big snow storm. Not having a sportsman's taste he has but few bear, wolf and deer stories to tell in which he figured, as he never killed but one deer, but he is rich in turkey and squirrel tales and once in his life he shot into a flock of turkeys with his rifle, the ball passing through the head of one and the body of another, one of those chance shots which even a novice might execute, like killing two birds with one stone. He never got tainted with the miasma of' Democracy prevalent in that section, so that sin is not on record against him, and he is a Methodist with a clean title and faith that strengthens with years.
     Lorenzo Elliott was born in Licking county in 1826 and came to Dinsmore township in 1835, married Miss Mary Bolin for his first wife and Mrs. Chamberlain, born in England in 1831, for his second wife, and who is still his helpmeet. He has plowed the land on which Botkins now stands and cradled wheat from its acres. He also laid a mile of ties on the C. H. & D. railway. The station was named after Richard Botkin, who graded three miles, of the railway but never lived to see a1 train on the road.
     Like Mr. Blakeley Mr. Elliott was not much of a Nimrod, as he dispatched but one deer but he has scared as many as twenty at one time from the corn field lest there would be no provender left for the family. Mr. Blakeley related a hog sale he once made to William Marshall, of Hardin, soon after the war which overtops all accounts of recent transactions. He sold him seven Chester Whites that weighed 3,006 pounds at nine cents gross, and drove them to Anna,, realizing $270.54.
The fact that Botkins gave 124 wet votes to 24 dry brings a blush to Mr. Blakeley's cheeks and provokes stinging censure from the gray haired veteran and that they have just as many saloons as churches, three each, is a thorn in his side and the breaking up of a temperance meeting by a bombardment of eggs last fall rouses his indignation every time it comes to his mind, which. is several times a day. It was a shame, especially at the high price of eggs.
     As soon as I arrived I looked for the historic house of twelve gables built by James Niemann, but learned that a few years ago it fell into the hands of W. C. Zanglein and the enterprising merchant, not thinking it worth preserving any longer as a curiosity, razed it to the earth and erected his fine three story brick department store 42 feet by 90, which is crowded from basement to roof with a limitless store of articles, including groceries.
     Botkins now has three dry goods and one furniture store, two warehouses, new bakery, four blacksmith shops, a large implement house now being erected by Mayor Kennedy which will be roofed this week, and a large factory employing seventy-five men owned by the Sheets brothers, and a bank. ' These brothers now own and operate nine warehouses at different points and by the means of the telephone do all their office work in Botkins. Frank Gutman, who has spent his forty-five years or more, his entire life, in Botkins, succeeding his father in the store close to the C. H. & D. track, has bought 3,000 bushels of clover seed so far this season. The Catholics are strong here and maintain a parochial school.
     Botkins draws trade from a large section of the rich farming country and the freight and express business at the station is very large. Frank Hemmert, the genial station agent who learned telegraphy thirty-five years ago in the office and has been the trusted agent for thirty-three years, said the creamery at the thriving village of New Knoxville ships 4,000 pounds of butter a week from the station to Cincinnati and says it is Worth one's while to visit that place and see their dairies, where the cows are kept and cared for with Holland-like neatness and gentleness. It is the garden spot of Auglaize county. One thousand gallons of cream now, and two thousand in summer, are shipped to Dayton monthly from the creamery owned by the Dayton Pure Milk & Butter Company at the edge of town. Fanners take their fresh milk to the creamery, where the unctuous richness is separated by the centrifugal process and the impoverished milk taken back home. A large amount of poultry comes to an untimely end here and they have eggs to throw at the birds—-and others. That unaccountable and mysterious milk sickness used to prevail alarmingly here, destroying human lives and whole herds of cattle but nothing has been heard of it for years. Some claim that the virus in the poisonous weed has been switched into the Democratic party, but for one I do not believe it, as no fatalities have occurred, though strange actions are sometimes obvious up there.
     It might look as if there was a methodical design in my making the call so near noon, and perhaps there was, but then there is no place where the tongue wags with such freedom as around a dinner table. The layout indicated that though it was Monday, they were fully prepared for distinguished company. Gray seemed to be fashionable color with one exception around the board and we did our duty with veteran courage and fidelity. Bidding my old friends good-bye I strolled quietly around as though I were running a gum shoe campaign until the sun-down trolley car arrived and reached Sidney when the light of the new moon began to shimmer.
FRANK BORNHORST, who resides on his well-cultivated and improved farm of eighty acres, which is situated in section 9, Dirksen School District, McLean township, was born in May, 1856, in Jackson township, Auglaize county, O., and is a son of Joseph and Katie Bornhorst.
     Frank Bornhorst attended school in Jackson township and afterward worked as a farmer and after his marriage purchased his present farm of his father-in-law, Anthony Imholt.  The land had been somewhat improved but Mr. Bornhorst completed its clearings, all but five acres, which he retains in woods, and erected all the substantial and comfortable buildings on the place.  He carries on a general farming line and raises enough stock for his own use and at all times is a busy man.  He is at the head of a fine family, nine sturdy children having been born to himself and wife and they all survive.  He married Miss Catherine Imholt, who was born at Cincinnati, O., a daughter of Anthony and Mary Imholt, both of whom died on this farm.  Mr. and Mrs. Bornhorst's children are as follows:  Mary and Frances, twins, Bernard, Herman, Bernadine, Amelia, Elizabeth, Anthony and Leo.  Mr. Bornhorst and family are members of St. Michael's Catholic church.  He is a democrat in politics and has served in local offices with honesty and efficiency, board of education of the Dirksen Special School District.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 551
JOSEPH BOWEN, owner and proprietor of a general store at Hardin, O., where he has been established for twenty-five years, is a representative citizen of Shelby county and is a veteran of the great Civil war. He was born in Clermont county, O., December 12, 1844, and is a son of Clark and Elishaba (Godfrey) Bowen.
     Clark Bowen came from New England, being a native of Rhode Island, a farmer through life and a man of sterling character. His wife was born in Ohio to which state her people had come from New Jersey, where the name of Godfrey is still borne by well-known people. To Clark Bowen and his wife the following children were born: Eliza Ann, who married John Price; Joseph; and Ella, who was married first to G. M. Meyers and after his death to Samuel Lawyer.
     Joseph Bowen attended the district schools in his neighborhood during the winter seasons, until he was fifteen years old, when he went to Sharonsville, in Hamilton county, where he was a clerk in a general store and was still there in 1862, when he decided to become a soldier. He enlisted for service on August 16, 1862, in Company E, Eighty-third Ohio Vol. Inf., and remained until his honorable discharge in 1865. For about eight months after the close of the war, Mr. Bowen visited among his relatives, recuperating from his years of hardships, and in that way came to Shelby county, where he became interested in farming and continued until the fall of 1871, when he started into the store and grain business at Hardin Station, in partnership with Isaac Betts. They continued for two years when Mr. Bowen sold his interest and went into the grocery business at Lockington, O. In 1887 he purchased his present store at Hardin and the place thereby gained a valuable citizen who has been active in promoting its advancement and welfare ever since.
     On September 8, 1868, Mr. Bowen was married to Miss Christina E. Strate, who was born in Germany, a daughter of Adolphus Strate, who was a brickmaker by. trade. The Strate family consisted of four children: Carrie, wife of John Hick; Christina E., Mrs. Bowen; William.; and Louisa, Mrs. Tyson. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowen the following children were born: William H., who married Nancy Malcolm; James; Mabel, who is the wife of Frederick Cole; Bonnie, who married Dan Ellsner; Maude; Mary, who died in July, 1911, and Clark. The family of Mr. Bowen belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a republican and he is identified with the G. A. R. at Sidney, O.
 
BERNARD BRANDEWIE, who is one of the leading citizens and large land owners of McLean township, having 600 acres and devoting a large portion of this to raising cattle and hogs, was born in May, 1856, in Auglaize county, O., and is a son of Joseph and a grandson of Anton Brandewie.
Anton Brandewie, the grandfather, was born, reared and married in Han­over, Germany, the name of his wife being Mary Wissman, and they continued to live there for some years and when they came to America they had three children: Joseph, Barney and Catherine. They first made a home in Cincinnati, O., where they lived for six months, and then moved to Minster. At that time the land office was at Piqua and the nearest neighbor was five miles away. They bought a tract of land which is now the site of Minster, O., 160 acres, all in one body and owned by four people, Grandfather Brandewie retaining forty acres for himself. On this tract he spent his subsequent life, dying when aged seventy-two years, his burial being in St. Joseph's cemetery, Egypt. He helped to establish the Catholic church here and gave liberally to its support. He was a strong democrat and always cast his vote at elections even when he had to ride for miles on horseback to do so. He was well known among the early settlers in Shelby county but spent his days in Auglaize county.
     Joseph Brandewie was twelve years old when he came to the United States and had attended school in Germany and later learned to read English although it was difficult for him to spell in this language. Probably the first money he ever earned was when fourteen years of age he became a worker on the canal as water boy. Later he drove ox teams.and worked in the stone quarries and afterward again worked on the canal, with a Mr. Duncan, probably living all that time in Auglaize county. He then went to Michigan and during the six years he lived there bought 120 acres of land in that state. After he returned to Ohio he married and then bought eighty acres on the Shelby county line, all of it, at that time being totally unimproved. He built a house and barn and improved land as he; was able and there, comfortably reared a large family and at the time of his death on the original farm, he owned 252 acres, having cleared this land by his .own industry. He was an enterprising man and a great worker and lived to the age of eighty-six years and during all this long life but once called in a physician for himself. He was a lifelong democrat and never missed voting and on several occasions was elected to local offices.
     Joseph Brandewie was married to Catherine Prenger, who was also born in Germany and was brought to the United States by her parents, Herman and Kate Prenger, when a child. To them the following children were born; Mary, Tony, Bernard, Kate, Agnes, Joseph, Henry, Herman, Bernadine, Caroline, and Josephine. The mother of the above family died at the age of sixty-eight years and she was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Egypt, and many years afterward her husband was laid by her side, they having been among the earliest members of the church and faithful to its teachings, kind, good people.
     Bernard Brandewie and his brothers and sisters attended the district schools near their home. In 1880 at the time of marriage, Mr. Brandewie came to Shelby county, and settled where he still lives. He has the larger part of his estate well improved and has two barns and three houses. He has always carried on general farming and for the past thirteen years has been in the livestock business, buying, selling and shipping to all parts of the country. On the portion of his farm on which he resides he put up all the substantial buildings. It is situated four miles southwest of Minster and three miles west of Fort Loramie.
     In 1880 Mr. Brandewie was married to Miss Mary Baumer, who was born at Cincinnati, O, a daughter of Bernard and Mary Baumer, and all of their children have been born in Shelby county. Louis, the oldest, married Elizabeth Severin and they live at Minster. Fred married Dena Ernst and they live in McLean township. Lottie married Barney Artkamp and they live in McLean township. Albert married Mary Ernst and lives in this township. Katie, Cecelia, Edward, Sophia and Lawrence, all live at home. The family all belong to the Minster Catholic church. Mr. Brandewie is a stanch democrat and is a member of the board of education of the Dirksen special school district.
J. W. BROWN, who is one of the intelligent men and successful farmers of Loramie township, Shelby county, O., owning 130 acres of well developed land, ninety of which lie in the Greenwood Special School District, of which he is a valued official, was born near Gettysburg, Darke county, O., June 24, 1877, and is a son of Reuben and Anna Brown, who are highly respected retired residents of Versailles, O.
     J. W. Brown was nine years old when his parents came to Loramie township, Shelby county, and he completed his education in the Greenwood Special School District. He entered into business as a farm hand, working by the month, and then for one year raised tobacco, and after this experiment embarked in agricultural activities for himself and has so continued. He devotes his land to general farming and moderate stock raising and is numbered with the prosperous and contented farmers of this part of Shelby county.
     On September 14, 1899, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Hulda J. Apple who was born also in Loramie township and is a daughter of Henry A. Apple, one of the old and well known citizens and wealthy men of the township. On .this farm the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born: Erma Eleanor, Goldie Irene and Mary Henrietta. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Lutheran church. In politics he has always been a democrat but has never accepted any public office except membership on the school board, his first .experience being when he served for two years, filling put the unexpired term of John Boyd, after which he was elected for a period of four years, which ensures his services on this body until 1916.
JOHN BURKHART, one of the leading business men of Sidney, conducting a first class shoe store, in the Burkhart block, on North Main avenue, is an experienced shoe and leather man, having been engaged in this line since 1879, when he and his brother became partners with their father, one of the pioneer business men of the city. He was born at Spring Hill, Champaign county, O., September 13, 1857, and is a son of John and Mary Ann (Berner) Burkhart. The parents were born and reared in Germany and shortly after marriage, in 1850, came to the United States and settled first at Quincy, O., but later moved to Spring Hill, and in 1865 came to Sidney. The father was an expert shoemaker, having learned his trade in Germany and continued active in business until his death in 1902. He was a successful business man; not only erected the Burkhart block on North Main avenue, but also owned the two-story brick building directly north. He left three sons: William, John and E. E., the last named serving for eight years as mayor of the city of Dayton, O.
     John Burkhart was educated in the Sidney schools and among his earliest recollections are events connected with his father's shoe store in which he assisted as he grew older, and in 1879 he and brother William became partners with their father. In 1880 the firm erected the Burkhart block, a fine three-story brick building with basement, which Mr. Burkhart now owns. having purchased his brother's interest in 1904. The other real estate owned by the father is also retained in the family, being valuable property and in the heart of the business district.
     At Sidney, Mr. Burkhart was married to Miss Mary Kraft, a daughter of George Kraft, and they have one daughter, Stella, who is the wife of Prof. L. J. Meyerholtz, a well-known teacher of music here and the leader of the Sidney band. As a citizen Mr. Burkhart has been public spirited and enterprising, has served usefully in the city council and was a member of Sidney's first board of public service. He maintains fraternal relations with the order of Eagles and belongs also to the Elks and is a trustee of the local lodge of this organization.
JOHN E. BUSH.- In 1849, the California gold fever struck Sidney. It might be termed a species of yellow fever and took off several of the residents of Sidney and vicinity. There is no spot on earth, except it be the north pole; that is now so remote from our city as California was in those days.' At the present time a man can go around the world in less time than it took to get a fair start on the tedious journey across the plains, and do it comparatively without peril and in luxurious comfort. The fifty-nine years have been an era of amazing world progress; and to the young generation the story of the adventurers of three score years ago with what the forty-niners endured and saw sounds like a romance, and yet, instead of being an exaggeration, falls far short of the reality.
     The forty-niners' names, like those of the Mexican veterans, are mostly carved on marble or granite in the cemeteries as but few are left to relate their thrilling experience.
     The subject of this biographical effusion, John E. Bush, of Orange township, one mile south of Sidney, on Sulphur Heights, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, as the little Bushwhacker put in an appearance in the home of Henry Bush, in Monroe county, September 30, 1828, so he is now four score and four years. The family came to this county near where John now resides in 1838. He had just entered the legal status of a man when the news came that our new possession of California was just sparkling with gold and its streams rippling over auriferous beds. The intelligence was enough to give almost anyone' the yellow jaundice and John, being of an adventurous spirit, had it violently. Giving way to the impulse of feathering his nest in that far off region, he, with his brother, Dr. C. W. Bush, and Morris Jackson, got their possessions together, rigged out a schooner on four wheels, canopied for protection, with a propelling force of a team of horses, and set sail, figuratively speaking, for St. Jo, Missouri, April 19, 1849, and arrived there in about four weeks. St. Jo was the outlying point of western civilization where additional supplies were laid in for the long journey, across the plains, the deserts and over the Rockies and Sierras, from time immemorial the undisturbed abode of the Indians, buffaloes, deer, antelopes, wolves, bears, jack rabbits, prairie dogs, and gophers. Bridges over perilous rivers were a commodity and convenience not encountered, so .the dangerous streams, many with bottoms of shifting sands, had to be forded, and many were the fatal disasters in the attempt. Twenty miles1 in a day was deemed rapid progress through dust shoe top .deep and those in good condition walked rather than rode, though there was no likelihood of a head end collision as the trains were all moving in the same direction. Even if they had been going in an opposite way the impact of a collision would not have been serious when the velocity was not over two miles an hour, and rarely that. The jolt would have been a good deal like rolling off a sheet onto the floor. Water being scarce, the weather hot, and the dust thick, 'the Weary travelers were some distance from godliness, if cleanliness is next to it. If the pores were closed at night they opened the next day with exuding sweat. The panorama did not change rapidly at the rate they were" going so the journey would have been a trifle monotonous if some episode did not happen almost daily to relieve it. Buffaloes by the thousands and hundreds of thousands were seen and one night their horses, which were turned out to graze around the camp, were seized with the idea that they would enjoy the freedom of the plains better than pulling a wagon, even though in good society, so they took after the buffaloes and were never recovered. John started after them and pursued them for about eight miles. Almost famished with thirst a little lake of about twelve acres came into view but when he got to the banks he found the buffalo and other animals had converted it into a pool of filth and he could not drink a mouthful He managed to get back to camp in a most distressed condition but the recollection of that day's experience may dissuade him from voting dry when the question comes up.
     At Salt Lake they paused for a while but not long, as Prophet Brigham Young had preached a sermon in which he counseled the saints to not furnish any eatables or other necessities to the weary, worn visitors for love or money. Not all the wives of the much married Mormons were happy, as the party was implored by two or three females to take them along to California, a request that could not be granted. Before they got to their destination their food supplies gave out and with starvation staring them in the face John fortunately shot a duck and a hawk with a squirrel in its talons. These gave them a lease of life and John devoured the squirrel. The duck and hawk were parceled out among the others. In September the Sacramento valley in all its native loveliness was seen from the mountain summit, and Canaan could not have looked more, entrancing to the manna surfeited Israelites than did this valley to them. Their money was running low and as flour was over a dollar a pound and other necessities on the top shelf the emergency to "hurry up" and stir themselves was strenuous. A cradle for rocking the auriferous sands was quickly constructed from the wagon bed and operations were commenced on Feather river with reasonable success from the start, but living was so high that their surplus or sinking fund did not accumulate to the full measure of their hopes. Placer mining was followed by Mr. Bush for four years and then a vessel was taken at San Francisco for the Isthmus of Darien, which he crossed, sailed for New York and then he set his face for Ohio. His brother, Dr. Bush, remained and eventually settled in Los Angeles, where, with the practice of his profession and read estate deals in that thriving city, he accumulated a fortune, which he enjoyed singly, as he never married and died there two of three . years ago. Of all the forty-niners that went from this section Mr. Bush and Mr. Jacob Shanly are the only living. Returning to the home farm on Sulphur Heights he dwelt in fancy free as a bachelor until September 17, 1863, he joined fortunes with Miss Christiana Rauth and ever since the old homestead and the adjoining acres in the delightful spot on the pike where he now lives has been his residing place. A family of eight children were born in their household, six of whom are living: Charles, John, Will and Fred, of Sidney, and George and Bertha; at home with their parents. Edward died in a hospital in California several years ago at the age of twenty-six years, and Maud two or three years since at home, aged eighteen.
     Mr. Bush has crossed the continent to California nine times, but the first in his Pullman palace car propelled by oxen with no extra charge for a sleeping birth left a taste in his mouth which the others have not supplanted and a spot in his memory more vivid than all the other trips combined. Being a natural Nimrod there are but few animals native to this country that have not succumbed to his unerring rifle. As a taxidermist he is an expert, and having a taste for curiosities, relics and rare specimens, his home is a museum not equaled outside the cities' hi the state, for he has gathered them from New Brunswick to the Pacific.
     Last Sunday I accepted an invitation, without urging, to take dinner at the Bush residence and a little after n o'clock John, Jr., was at. the front door with his Reo automobile which whisked us to the homestead in ten minutes, where I was greeted by the veteran, wife and family. Dinner was soon announced, for outside the corporation sun time is in vogue, which puts the country folks about half an hour ahead of the urban population. After dinner a look was taken at three wild geese in an enclosure that have one wing clipped to prevent them from joining a flock should it happen to fly over the farm in its migration. Two wild ducks with a brood of sixteen, a day old, were sporting in a little artificial pond. The little balls of animated feathers do not have to go through a training process to teach them to swim, but perform with all the grace of connoisseurs from the very start. John, being somewhat of a crude artist, painted on the white barn, in jet black, some alleged bears, deer and other wild animals and his son, Will, said that when the horses first got a glimpse of these caricatures it was with difficulty they could be got near the barn, but eventually their timidity was overcome, for a horse can get used to almost anything however frightful. Returning to the house I was taken through the apartments and made a note of some of the specimens. In the sitting room a huge moose head, nine inches across the nose, and with fan-like antlers, looked down from the wall. Mr. Bush and son, Fred, killed the animal on the north shore of Lake Superior a .few years ago. The animal was six feet and six inches high and weighed about 1,200 pounds; the horns have twenty-two points. To the left was a magnificent pair of elk horns of twelve 'points, five feet and seven inches high with four feet spread, a fine deer head and another of one killed in Minnesota. A center table with legs of three elk horns, another center table, three stories high, "with moose and deer feet, a sideboard, hat rack with a split fawn head and hooks of deer feet, a Columbus chair made by Mr. Bush, who, is handy with carpenter's tools, from sixty pieces of hickory and covered with the skin of a bear he killed in Wisconsin. In the hall is another hat rack with deer feet hooks, a score or so of beautiful canes and a badger skin.
     In the parlor is a diamond willow stand, the material of which he got on the upper Missouri, a stool with deer feet and elk horns for railing, corner parlor chair which Mr. Bush fashioned from hickory and ash, a much prized photograph of eight deer suspended and killed in Maine with the hunters standing near, Joseph and Jess Laughlin, James Wilson, William Kingseed, Frank Brewer and Mr. Bush. Four of the deer he killed. There is also a photograph, of two wild turkeys and one of himself taken in California in 1853. Barbers being a scarce article there his black hair covered his shoulders and a fringe of whiskers gave him the solemn look of a Dunkard preacher. From the parlor we went up stairs to a large front room devoted entirely to specimens and relics which are there by the thousands, collected in different parts of the country, to which are added countless queer and beautiful shells gathered by Mrs. Bush and daughter, Bertha, on the shore of the Pacific.  Gold bearing quarts, curious stones, many of beautiful moss agate with vegetable sprigs visible in the translucent stones, onyx, chalcedony, etc., in almost endless variety, condor quills, the head of a black wolf killed by William Kingseed, twenty-seven birds, many of the duck family, and a wild goose, a wild turkey, a cormorant, a bald eagle, blue winged heron, road runner, Jack rabbit, a porcupine which Mr. Bush killed in Wisconsin with a club, a bass, caught by him in the Lewistown reservoir with Joseph Laughlin managing the boat This bass weighed eight and one-half pounds when caught, the head of a wolf killed by George Linder in Wisconsin, thirteen deer heads on the walls, two of which got their horns locked while fighting and were found dead in South Dakota, three pair of buffalo horns and a host of other curiosities fairly bewildering in number. When in California he was attacked in the mountains by a grizzly she bear that had cubs. From the fierce indications he thought that this Bush better aspire to a tree and ascended one as rapidly as possible and so did the bear to the same one and caught. his hind leg near the calf, making four holes in his boot leg. Both fell to the ground, when the bear ran to her cubs, and he, to avoid any disagreeable encounter, went somewhat hurriedly in an opposite direction, which was a prudent movement, for she returned with malicious intent but he avoided the rush by starting early.  He cut off the boot leg and has it among his collection with the autograph or mark of the bear. Mr. Bush has killed over 200 deer, a moose, four bears, ducks and geese without number, and does not have to draw on his imagination for fish stories. In politics he is. a Democrat though a great admirer of President Roosevelt, has served two terms as county commissioner but enjoys a deer hunters' picnic better than a political convention and prefers an outing with his gun or fish pole to a sojourn at a summer resort. In shooting contests he rarely returns without winning a prize. His philosophy in life is to enjoy the passing moment and not depend too much on an uncertain future, subscribing without mental reservation to the saying that one bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush. 
     Mr. Bush has been honored by his party in being elected infirmary director, serving nine years, and in 1881 was elected county commissioner for three years and. re-elected in 1884, but is in no sense an offensive partisan.  The blankets, the knives, hatchets, etc., he has won in shooting contests at the deer hunters' picnics would give each of his children a good setting out in articles of that line, and still have enough for himself and his wife. No other marksman of his age in this region has much show when he draws a bead on the target and the younger ones find in him a stubborn competitor.
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P. S. One of the bears shot by Mr. Bush was a grizzly, killed in the California mountains, near Eureka lake. Another episode in his career was a fight with the Indians. They had rifled a camp and he with three others attacked about thirty braves and squaws as they were eating breakfast and put them to flight. John's gun was a flint lock. All the heads of the deer, twenty-five in number, and other specimens, were preserved and mounted by him and sons, John and George, who were expert taxidermists. At Fort Arthur all the hotels have saloons and there are many others also which are well patronized by whole-souled fellows, but he did not hear an oath. They were two days and nights crossing the American desert without water and many were so exhausted that they had to be loaded into wagons and their tongues were so swollen they could not talk, but their lives were saved by administering much reviled whiskey, thus showing that it is a good thing on a desert The nights were gorgeous with volcanic fireworks, which, in the distance, roared and illumined the sky and many of the springs were so hot anything could be cooked in the water. A. B. C. H., 1908.

 

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