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Show FirememeeS BY THS OLDIIMraS L........ . ..... . . J From M. D. Merry, Hudson, Wisconsin: Wis-consin: It was my fortune while living in Montana to meet an aged miner, who told me many stories of his mining life. He had gone to California at the time of the gold 1 rush in 1848. Being disappointed, he and a party of twenty treked overland to" Southwestern Montana, where it was reported that gold could be picked up on the hills. They made their camp at what later became Bannack. Results were satisfactory, except for large brown rats, fearless things, which scampered across tables at mealtime meal-time and crawled into beds at night. They decided the only remedy was cats, so two men took the wagon wag-on they had bought in California and started for the settlement in Idaho. They had no trouble getting get-ting cats, but their wagon upset on the way back and they lost half of their load. On arriving in Bannack, they were hailed with delight. An auction auc-tion was held and the cats were paid for in gold dust, bringing a nice profit to the promoters. From 'Mrs. George W. Burden, Sagina,w, Michigan: I remember as a young girl during the depression, I hated milk. My two nephews and I would secretly make coffee and drink it with milk so we would not have to lie when asked if we were drinking our milk. Grown folks didn't think so, but we children chil-dren knew how hard it was for mother to keep our tummies filled during depression. (Send contrlbntlons to this column to The Old Timer. Community Press Service. Serv-ice. Frankfort, Kentimk..! |
