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Mother Lake Items.
Mother Lake, April 13th, '97. Elmer Lawson visited at the Stansbie ranch, last Sunday night. C.D. Withers is going to commence building on his claim, this week. Al Stansbie is a mean old boy on a pitching horse; he lets them throw him off—Nit! H. Cline has purchased a new slicker and he says he wishes it would rain so he could try it. C.D. Withers is the hot stuff with the guitar and violin. He plays all the late music. The Stansbie Bros. finished feeding the Spade cattle this week; they fed 12 and 14 loads a day. H. Cline says he can whistle since his teeth extracted. I guess we will have to donate Cline a tin whistle. The recent storm has been the hardest on stock of the season; it caught them while shedding and chilled them. H.C. Mason accompanied Prof. Frazier to Whitman last Wednesday night. He reports a good time but caught an awful cold. Elmer Lawson says as soon as he draws a banjo that is to be raffled this week, he expects to give lessons at his office, located at West Mother Lake. Harry Woodroof [Woodruff] took his first lesson in waltzing a few days ago. As soon as he got home he made a three foot square on the floor and has been whirling around ever since. This week opened very cold and disagreeable for the time of year; the weather we are having now we should have had in March. The mercury at 7:30 Tuesday morning registered 30 above. Fickler's is the most attractive place in the Mother Lake country. It must be, as Tom and Will Stansbie, John McCann, and Elmer Lawson are there quite regular, but Sunday they found J.F. Mason present. He saw them coming and went outside to talk to them, he told them he didn't want them to bother him any more. He says he don't want to have to hurt anybody but stay away boys. April 15, 1897. Grant County Tribune 9(3): 4. |