. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. all the streams, And prove that the boys of our townAre of the right kind of stuff,And will pocket enough Of gold to compete with John Brown. So let the boys boldReconnoitre for gold, And as soon as their pockets they fillTheyll return to their homesWith very lean bones And the wherewith to fill up a till. Among those who had come to the little settlement ami gone on toPikes Peak was Blanding G. Poppleton. Perhaps his letter to theBee had as much to do with keeping the others back as any one was written to Ambrose A. Call, who was th
. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. all the streams, And prove that the boys of our townAre of the right kind of stuff,And will pocket enough Of gold to compete with John Brown. So let the boys boldReconnoitre for gold, And as soon as their pockets they fillTheyll return to their homesWith very lean bones And the wherewith to fill up a till. Among those who had come to the little settlement ami gone on toPikes Peak was Blanding G. Poppleton. Perhaps his letter to theBee had as much to do with keeping the others back as any one was written to Ambrose A. Call, who was then the Bee editor, andbears the date, Oct. 27, 1858. Mr. Poppletons judgments of thecountry he traveled over are interesting in the light of what has hap-pened in the sixty years. He wrote: According to promise I improve the first opportunity to give youmy impressions of Pikes Peak and the country intermediate. Well,the first impression was upon my feet, and I can only describe it asthey say in Sunday School hooks as deep and lasting. Another deep. \V. A. WILSON Mr. Wilson, a North Carolinian born, came in September of 1857, and soonwas in charge of the Eggers store. He helped to build the stockade about thetown hall when the massacre came at Spirit Lake, sold poods to the soldiers,was married to Chloe Lawrence, daughter of Deacon Alpheus Lawrence ofBlack Cat Creek country, May 16, 1S5S, and sold his business in 1S59. Here are some entries in his diary of February, 1S57: Monday 23, LeftHadleys (New Providence, Hardin county) for Waterloo; Tuesday,Waded through sloughs waist deep; Wednesday, Waded throughsloughs; Thursday, Got to Waterloo. One item of his diary is illustrative of the frontier. Every note fromMarch 21 to April 16 in the diary is Had the ague. Then Mr. Wilson tellsthe story of his cure: For nearly two months regularly every afternoon about four oclock hewould be taken with ague chills. The only cure known to the early settlerswas quinine, and he had taken enormous
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