The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Compiled and Edited by Virginia Ross
Stronghurst Graphic, August 3, 1922
FRONTIER JUSTICE WON'T WORK: Kalamazoo, Michigan-More than $600 in fines were imposed by Justice Herman Simmonson of East Saugatuck on the participants in the party which tarred and feathered Bert Lenters, a farmer, because of alleged circulation of stories concerning alleged relationships between a pretty young woman in a congregation of a church near Saugatuck and the minister.
APPLES AT WEIRS': A very large crop of summer apples-Dudlers, Wealthy, and Maiden Blush are here at $1 per bushel for a very fine grade and 50 cents for a good second grade. Also a crop of peaches is available but the best varieties are not ripe yet. Prices on peaches range from $2 to $2.75 per bushel according to variety. Second grade is half price. (Please do not call Jane Weir; this is what was being sold in 1922.)
CHILDREN'S PARTY: It is doubtful if any one ever reaches such a degree of success that a world of sincere commendation is not an inspiration to further and greater efforts, and it is certain that when our first endeavors are not appreciated, we are easily discouraged and sometimes cease to make further effort. But it is not for this reason alone that we would give a word of praise to the little ladies who entertained us so pleasantly at the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs. Harter last Friday evening.
The occasion was a party given by the members of Mrs. C. M. Bell's Sabbath school class, primarily to entertain their parents, but the list of guests was later lengthened and included the following persons: Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Brook, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith and Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jones and Fannie, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Beardsley and Milton, Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Bell and Paul, Mrs. Nellie Hollingsworth, Mrs. Fred Reynolds, Mrs. Theo. Knutstrom, Mrs. Grace Lant, Mrs. Ralph Rankin, Mrs. Hattie McLain, Mrs. S. S. Slater. Mrs. Ellen Gibb, Mrs. Anna Lant, Miss Lucretia Bruen, Miss Grace Slater, Mrs. W. C. Ivins, Mrs. M.M. Johnstone and Donald and Vincent Upton...The games which followed the program were entered into with zest by old and young-a mistake-there were no old people there; the only way to distinguish the older from the younger was by observing the gray hairs which adorned the heads of some. The most exciting event was a paper cutting race between four youthful dames whose combined age number 335 years. Mrs. Mc Lain walked away with the prize, but Mrs. Slater was a close second. The little hostesses served a dainty lunch in charming style and a piano solo by Donald Johnstone closed the evening program.
WAR ON THE MORMON FLY IN BURLINGTON: Declaration of war upon the Mormon fly by Dr. C. P. Frantz has the united approval of the people of Burlington. None is too proud to fight and all have enlisted under the doctor's banner for the campaign. But the modus operandi, which is Latin for how the devil to go about it, confounds them for with the exception of Major General Billy Bongert, none seems to have any feasible plan leading to the eradication of the pest and a consequent comfortable downtown Burlington at night.
General Bongert, in discussing the subject this morning, stated, "Since the building of the Keokuk Dam, the Mormon fly has been coming hither in increased hordes each summer. This summer it would seem that every Mormon fly in creation is spending the season here. If you will visit the willows below town in the day time, you will see that they are covered by the pests, which just as soon as the lights of Burlington show up in the evening, flock this way. I believe that these flies should be treated like the mosquito in the South. Get them in their breeding places with coal oil. Nearly every night we are compelled to turn out most of our lights at our store which is disagreeable to customers and apt to be costly for us for several times. I have caught myself in the nick of time handing out Havana Judge Cigars for Black Hawks."
E.S. Phelps is disposed to blame the increased downtown illumination for the increased hordes. "When I first started rowing 45 or 46 years ago with the B.B.A. there were Mormon flies, but never in such quantities as nowadays. Then there were few lights to attract them."
W. W. Lilly says that he remembers Mormon flies in Muscatine 45 years ago and John Curran says that they never used to come further north than Ft. Madison. As both Mr. Lilly and Mr. Curran have time-tested reputations for telling the truth telling, the reader can take his choice.
A new variety put in an appearance Saturday night. The newcomers are smaller in size and lighter in color. Unlike their big brothers and sisters, they did not fly around the lights, but fell to the walk or fastened themselves on the walls of buildings and upon show windows. Store fronts Sunday morning were plastered with them.
It might be well for citizens to follow Dr. Frantz' example and write Congressman Kopp to get busy with the wiseacres at Washington to see if they cannot forget their concern for the billy gar, the carp and catfish long enough to relieve then suffering humanity here in Burlington-Burlington Gazette
***WEDDING BELLS***Word was received in Oquawka of the marriage in Chicago of Ruth Emily Robinson, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. R. F. Robinson to Richard A. Craig. The nuptials were solemnized at the Robinson home in Chicago. The groom is a graduate of Purdue University and holds a position with the Western Electric Co. in New York where the couple will make their home. Friends of the bride remember her as a resident of Oquawka.