Kossuth County Advance from Algona, Iowa • Page 15

THE OLD GOAT, isn't oing to that hassle over ters in cigarets. Like religion, politics, booze and love, isn't safe to get into that kind of an argument. Those who have suc- cessfully quit, like -Harlan Miler, moon over their 'great display of will power, and get quite obnoxious about it like a wpman' of ill repute who is the mos.t vituous of all. Then there are those who never smoked hence feel quite superior to those who do. Arguing with either side in that discussion is like arguing religion--it's a personal matter.

Politics-is a bit safer, for no one knows for sure just what politics may be, and what's one man idea today will be, the other's as soon as' his party comes to a decision about it. Cigarets are booze, habit forming. They are also like Ipyg T-why iq the world this gal and this guy ever together is a mystery. She sees something in him (maybe a meal ticket) that no other gink and he builds up a beautiful vision making her the greatest that ever wore top tight Nope, the Qld Goat is no dope--he isn't going to emulate those, who break their arms patting back. sacrifice and for their'suprerhe power.

THE ABOUT the nudists in the Klemme area down a bit on the funny pages of the daily, called the "open forum" Seems there's quite a debate' merits and demerits of running around without horrified and others are frankly frank about being The Old the old school that' says people were but don't have to live -that way. Old Goat goes back to Adam; the- original nudist, who got trapped into wearing fig leaves by a "rib tickler. As far as- the Old Goat is concerned ifs just as well that nudist camp is forgotten. In the first-place they had a. ten-foot board fence up and the Old Goat isii't good at climbing board 'fences.

THERE'S A SILLY goop who suggested that because special days such as Father's Mother's Day, peanut day, muscles day, are being "observed that there be a day set aside for observance of Bachelor's day. Phooey! In the Old Goat's'book bachelors are cowards who take the easv way out in this life, dabbling around the outskirts (no pun either) of life and letting the more sturdy souls.get into the nerve wrackr ing business of "living with the female. It takes a brave man to walk up to the altar and promise to love, honor, and obey the fascinating creature that has him hog-tied. In the Old Goat's book that's bravery way beyond the call of duty, and includes such as washing dishes, changing diapers, and getting indig-. nant at some snoot the little woman figures she got from some other female.

The Old Goat wants no part of bachelor's day. Cowards should not-be honored. They should, be shamed into getting into trie fray between the sexes, and closing in real battle instead of being ah arm chair general back lines. No sir! No Bachelor's'day. The Old Goat believes man should live dangerously, even though he's frustrated, and exists in a stage of quite desperation.

You ain't a going to whip the wimmin unless you get right in there and battle them on then- own ground. Phooey to bachelors, the cowards! PRIZE FIGHTS leave the Old Goat cold. The sports pages picture some gent in shorts with muscles and learnedly discuss his chances of knocking the block off some other goop. In this day and age it all seems a bit silly if not disgusting that people pay money to see a couple of gents fist fight. No one else goes around bopping people on the beak in ordinary life.

The Old Goat isn't about to step up to some gent and clobber him in the eye, especially unless the guy is considerably smaller than Hie Old Goat and has two broken arms. Prize fighting is for ihe birds. Watsons FAMILY two cominer to Algona. Fred and Marian Bright and their family of 1 in Aa THE ADVANC NEXT. WEEK AND SPONSORED BY THE READY-MIX NOW THEY'RE going to name the "teacher of the year." And the powers that be in the teaching racket specify a BA degree plus some other silly stuff.

In the Old Goat's opinion, addle- paled as it may be to the professional teachers, the main thing to be found out is what the teacher gets through to the little demons in class. The fact anyone has a BA doesn't mean a thing. A lot of bums have them, and a lot of people who never went to college are smarter than those who loafed though four years at the expense of the old man. A good teacher is valuable --but not by the silly standards they set up to eliminate anyone who doesn't belong to the chosen few. Phooey.

THE OLD'GOAT fails to get much excited about that Maryland girl who is suing the America of one day. So the sec. ond-place 'winner was rftbbed, So what? She's a comely lass with a lot of these and those on display in picture in the paper and should be able to get along in this cruel without making a fool of henelf parading around in SWEA; CITY--What would a 1957 ifarmer do if on some 'morning, -he'- -were -to look out the window and behold a big. white church, pulled by 24 horses, sliding up the creek on the ice? It's 'anybody's guess. Either the optometrist the.

psychiatrist would probably get the first call, Farmers' in" th'e "Ringsted neighborhood, however, saw that very thing, and; since it happened 55 years ago when optometrists were scarce and psychiatrists practically non-existent, they accepted it as a natural event and showed more concern about to happen fences. Group Builds Church. Not many persons are left who remember when a Presbyterian church stood in the southwest corner of Secton 12, Seneca on what is now the Gordon Garrison farm. At one time in the.early 1890s there "was a fairly large group of Seneca residents interested in building a church to serve residents of the township who were not min- jstered to by the Norwegian Lutheran' denomination's Blakjer church in southwest Seneca. This group of non-Lutherans representing a differen faiths, united in a movement build a Presbyterian church.

The Shaw family, prosperous farmers, donated a beautiful site northeast of the present Senec; school, on a high timbered spo along Des Moines river. But the pastor, the Rev. E. M. Williams, owned the present Lawrence a in northeast Seneca township, anc through his influence a site near that farm was donated by John White, on Section 12.

Trouble Is Brewed. This caused division of sentiment from the very outset, and the congregation flourished only briefly. Many of its members were tenant farmers, and when these left the community the ganization dwindled until it was no longer possible to continue services. The church stood empty for some years. Then the Burt-Fox Lake branch of the Northwestern railroad was built in 1899, and the towns of Lone Rock, Fenton and Ringsted sprang up along the tracks.

At Ringsted a group of Presbyterians needed a church building. Seneca had the building but no congregation. Accordingly the governing body of Presbyterianism in Iowa transferred ownership of the Seneca church to life Ringsted group, who arranged to have it moved to that town, in the winter of 1902-03. Big Operation Starts. Few persons living today ever saw such an operation accomplished with ony horses for motive power.

The building, 28 by 36 feet, with 14-foot sides and a steep roof, was heavy and well-built and stood on a high stone foundation. Roads in that period were uifsurfaced, so the moving had to be done in midwinter, when heavy snow would offer a means of sliding the building along on runners. The late Fred Ryther, longtime Algona moving contractor, was engaged to boss the job. Horses Church the law allows before a lot of gents who name the mostest of the mostest The Old Goat can pick a dozen, yea a gross, gals right here in Algona- that're just pretty and as well hung together as Miss America. And the Old Goat can pick without the benefit of having the girls gmNe Around in front of him with t'hel? clothes mostly off.

The Old Goat would be- embarrassed, so he would. Charles Morris, Lone Rock, later a member of the Kossuth county board of supervisors many years, was his assistant, and Dick Olmsted, of Lone Rock, was engaged to go to southwest Dallas county and bring back the huge timbers that were to be used for sills to the building while it was be'ing moved. Huge Runners Cut. These sills, used' for the first time on the church-moving job, were remarkable in themselves. Specially cut from prime timber near Adel, they were hewn out of huge elms.

Each measured 40 feet long and 14 by 16 inches wide and deep when finished, a size it would probably be impossible to find today. (Nearly half a century later Mr. Ryther was using'these sills when moving Swea City grain elevators.) Dick Olmsted first brought the newly cut sills up from Adel 'on two wagons tied together, bulled by four horses. Teamsters and teams for pulling the church to its new location, nearly ,10 miles, were hired from the Seneca-Lone community. One of them, Walter G.

Smith, City, then 21 years old; was the youngest man on the job. He recalls that besides Charles Ryther. Mr. Olmsted, and himself, there were about 10 other men. His the late Neal A.

Smith, Algona, their father, the late J. M. Smith, and a Charles Davidson are all whose names he now recalls. Each driver brought a heavy work team. 24 Horses to a Hitch.

The church was loaded onto three specially, built single bobsleds, and a very large, heavy evener was used in hitching the horses to the front sled. Chains held the teams together, and after the first day the horses worked together almost in unison, 12 on each side. Away they went, across fields, through fences, until the Des Moines river was reached, near the present Beryl Smith farm. There an entire day was spent in the dangerous task of getting the heavy building down the steep bank and across the frozen river onto level ground on the opposite side. Blocks were put under the structure every few" feet as it slowly moved down- the bank, thus holding it on an There was room 'for only one team to work in so a sort of sweep called a 'come- along' was worked by the one team, gradually a i the building "down -the and across the river, which was frozen to the bottom.

Trees had to be cut to permit passage thru the' timber, and every team was sharp-shod to prevent slipping on the ice. Progress Was Slow. Even on level ground; progress was slow, for the horses had to rest every few minutes. A crew went ahead to cut fences, and another, crew followed to close the cuts thus made. At that time, the law gave movers the right to cross any land they wished, but permitted the owners of the land to recover damages.

Only one farmer whose land -was crossed by the church-movers ever put in a claim for damage, and this was dropped befcredit could be settled. Dinner on Stilts. At noon-next day, the movers enjoyed a a home-cooked church dinner. It was eaten in the church, too, with the minister saying grace. Probably the most unusual church dinner'any of the group was ever to attend, meal was prepared by the ladies of the Ringsted congregation of Presbyterians, was thoroughly wrapped against subzero temperatures, and brought by team and sled to the spot 6 miles from Ringsted where the church had been nalted for the noon hour.

"The food was still hot, and very good," says Mr. Smith, "Mr. Young and the minister brought it put. We ate in the church, which up in the air several feet on blocks and sills over the bobsleds. This odd church-din- jner took place on the southeast corner of the Bollig farm in Seneca township.

"Some of the men were so hungry from the long morning's work and the wintry temperatures that they almost forgot to wait until the minister had finished saying grace!" Church Finally Located. That night they reached a spot just northeast of Ringsted, and had to wait until morning when a telephone repairman could come to cut the lines for them to pass under. This was the first phone line the group encountered--no rural phones existed in those days. At- this point, they were near the Black Cat Creek which was frozen solid, with low banks. The church was hauled to the creek, the teams were headed upstream, and away they went at a fine rate of speed, straight the creek to town, where they left the stream and headed for the railroad depot.

The little town, less than 3 years old, was a raw, new village of mostly unpainted a crowd collected to watch the strange sight, and a number' of cameras were seen in action: The tracks could not be crossed until the morning passenger -with a tele-. graph lineman- aboard, who cut the wires after, 'the train had pulled out, and 'mended them when the movers had passed under. From -there it was only a few blocks to thetbuilding's new street, where it has since relocation north of Ringsted's main mained. "Very few-' men would have tried such a project," says Mr. "But Ryther was an I many, any, are living today wKb were part of that crew." 4-H Clabs RIVEHDALE RUSTLERS II Jo Ann Erpelding The Rive.rdale.

Rustlers 4-H club Unit IF met at the school July 22 for their regular meet- ing! Achievement day articles are to be at the school at 9 a. m. Tuesday for judging. In the afternoon a style show will be presented. The winner will represent the club at the fair.

There will be a junior, intermediate and senior winner. Each member may also bring a guest. LOTTS CREEK LASSIES Eileen O'Brien. The Lotts Creek Lassies met July 22 at''Eileen and Micholeen O'Brien's, 16 members; 12 visitors present. Committees were posters.

Dawn Dogotch and Mary June Besch, and materials, Colletta Streit and Mary Loebach. Talks were given by Carol Anliker on accessories; Dawn Dogotch on teeth; Jtuth Ann Mogler on posture, and Karen Metzger on grooming. Mary Margaret McDonnell gave a demonstration on hems. Pin cushions were made by the girls. Senecan Caught by Power Take-Off SEljJECA--Robert Crouch nar- rowlf escaped serious injury recently his'pant leg became entangled in.

the take-off on a mower. R'bbert was- helping mow around the pat field on the Forest McClure farm" where he works accident occurred. He jumped off the tractor to clean.off the sickle. When he climbed back on his pant leg caught in a pin that holding the power suffered severe bruises and a touch of blood poisoning. Algona (Iowa) Advance--3 August jj, 1957 FUNgRAL CHAPEL EXPERIENCED' FUNERAL DIRECTpRS FElfTON.

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