Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . hat he spilled was right outa the Cameron was high cockalorum, and when he rasped theopenin strains of a quadrille on the second fid, and shouted,Salute yer partners! everybody knew that the old mastermechanic was on the job. Henry Schillinger was second choice of the callers, andwhen the dances came too thick around these diggins, GeorgeStroehle, of Rock Island, or Gus Wilson, of Moline. would bedrafted into service. But it was at the country farmhouses that real old-fash-ioned shindigs were held. The farmer boys and g
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . hat he spilled was right outa the Cameron was high cockalorum, and when he rasped theopenin strains of a quadrille on the second fid, and shouted,Salute yer partners! everybody knew that the old mastermechanic was on the job. Henry Schillinger was second choice of the callers, andwhen the dances came too thick around these diggins, GeorgeStroehle, of Rock Island, or Gus Wilson, of Moline. would bedrafted into service. But it was at the country farmhouses that real old-fash-ioned shindigs were held. The farmer boys and gals jiggedto lively tunes of the country fiddler, dancin quadrilles andsingin old-time songs, after trashin time, when the harvestdays was over, Jessie dear. Early settlers in Winfield township, along the Wapsie,included the Maloneys, Gillens, Tyners, Dempseys, Duffys,Blooms, Armstrongs, Brennans, Carrols, Mullinos, Whalens,Ennises, Feeneys, McGuires, McNamaras, Gallaghers,Schmidts, Kivlins, Daughertys, Crowes, Murphys, Kellys, 59 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Fresh-Air Club. Cruising along the Hennepin Canal. eo THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS OBriens, and a lota other folks that didnt come from Swedennor Czecho-Slovakia. Eamon de Valera and Countess Mar-kievicz couldnt never get away with them kinda names inWinfield township. The rubberin historian on a hero chase amid the archivesof the great State of Scott is astounded at the magnificentexhibit of deathless posterity that has sprung from the corn-fields along the banks of the Wapsie. Other states mayboast of war heroes or graft-scarred vets of commercial battle-fields, but grand old Scott points its finger at animate andaggressive heroes whose names emblazon in letters big as boxcars its scroll of fame. Look whos here, sport: Pat Crowe, author-actor, worlds greatest kidnapper,born in Winfield township, on the banks of the Wapsie. Buffalo Bill, scout, worlds greatest wildwest showman,born in Liberty township, on the banks of the Wa
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