100 years ago

november 10, 1910

A.E Case showed us the other day two old letters which are in the real relic class. One was a letter written by his mother to his father, with a note attached by him and his sister to their father—Mr. Case was then eleven years of age—written in 1849. (Now don’t get out your mathematics and begin to work out Mr. Case’s age.) The other was one from his father to his mother written in 1847. The writing is still very plain. They were written before the days of envelopes and the marks of the wax where they were sealed is still plain. In those days, there were not stamps to be attached. Whenever you mailed a letter, the postmaster had to make out several papers and go through with a lot of red tape.

It is rumored in Aulne that H.C. Loewen of the Aulne Hardware Co., assisted by Henry Winkley and others, sold seventeen Model F Buick autos the day before election.

Electric lights fixtures have been installed at the Methodist church and were used last Sunday evening.

There is a story on the two candidates for sheriff that is good enough to be true. It runs something like this. Tom Armstrong pulled up at a farm house and found the good wife out milking the cow. Tom very gallantly offered to relieve her and the lady readily assented. The flow of milk was equal to Tom’s talk and finally he said, “Say have you seen anything of Bob Slaymaker around here?” “Oh, yes,” she sweetly replied, “he is over there in the yard holding the calf.”

Mrs. Helmer Childs’ little daughter, Fay, was kicked by a horse while crossing the street one day this week and had her nose broken.

W.A. Stauffer is erecting a large barn on his fine farm south of town. It will be 40x70 feet. The side walls up to ten feet from the ground are of concrete. It will be one of the best and most substantial barns in the county.

Probably never before in the history of the county has so much fodder been cut and put into shock. Dorn cutting machines and corn sleds have come into very general use and the farmers say the machines are doing the wise thing in cutting up as much as they possibly can.

Electric lights have been placed in the courthouse clock tower. It is possible to read the dial for many blocks.