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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The Fight
The Fight: as told by Coxie Minich
"It was Halloween evening in 1920 and Bob and Joe and their cousin, Charlie Daugherty, were in New Bethlehem at a bar. The place was full and there was a lot of tension between the town fellows and the farm boys. Charlie was wearing a clown hat because it was Halloween and Vince Radecker from Fairmount got pushy and knocked the hat off of Charlie's head. Well that was the beginning of the fight.
The Bartender told them to take it outside so the whole crowd went out and went up the street to the ball park to settle the fight. Well charlie and Radecker squared off and were about to fight when Bob saw Radecker slip on a set of knuckles. He said, 'Don't fight him Charlie. He has a set of knuckles on.' Well Charlie backed off and Radecker swung around to Bob. He said, 'Do you think you want do try me?' Bob didn't say a thing . He just stood there for a second and then swung a right uppercut. Well he hit Radecker on the jaw and knocked him out cold! They had to carry him off the field.
There was only one problem, Bob broke all the bones in the third joint in his right hand.
That should have been the end of it, but the next week Bob and Joe were back in town in the same bar. And Radecker was there. Bob's hand was in a cast and and Radecker started to mouth off saying he wanted to rerun the fight but Bob said he couldn't fight then but would as soon as his fist healed. Well Joe, who was wearing a new suit said. 'I'll settle it right now.' They went out in the back lot of the bar where Joe and Radecker got into a boxing and wrestling fight. When it was over Joe had ruined his new suit, but he had made Radecker give up and say uncle.
I guess that is one reason they called Bob and Joe the mean Reinsel boys."
"It was Halloween evening in 1920 and Bob and Joe and their cousin, Charlie Daugherty, were in New Bethlehem at a bar. The place was full and there was a lot of tension between the town fellows and the farm boys. Charlie was wearing a clown hat because it was Halloween and Vince Radecker from Fairmount got pushy and knocked the hat off of Charlie's head. Well that was the beginning of the fight.
The Bartender told them to take it outside so the whole crowd went out and went up the street to the ball park to settle the fight. Well charlie and Radecker squared off and were about to fight when Bob saw Radecker slip on a set of knuckles. He said, 'Don't fight him Charlie. He has a set of knuckles on.' Well Charlie backed off and Radecker swung around to Bob. He said, 'Do you think you want do try me?' Bob didn't say a thing . He just stood there for a second and then swung a right uppercut. Well he hit Radecker on the jaw and knocked him out cold! They had to carry him off the field.
There was only one problem, Bob broke all the bones in the third joint in his right hand.
That should have been the end of it, but the next week Bob and Joe were back in town in the same bar. And Radecker was there. Bob's hand was in a cast and and Radecker started to mouth off saying he wanted to rerun the fight but Bob said he couldn't fight then but would as soon as his fist healed. Well Joe, who was wearing a new suit said. 'I'll settle it right now.' They went out in the back lot of the bar where Joe and Radecker got into a boxing and wrestling fight. When it was over Joe had ruined his new suit, but he had made Radecker give up and say uncle.
I guess that is one reason they called Bob and Joe the mean Reinsel boys."
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Me and Charlie and the Amishman
Me and Charlie and the Amishman As told by Grandpa Bauer
"One day me and Charlie and the Amishman was working in the forest along the dirt road cleaning the culverts and ditches. Well we came up to this one culvert and we seen that a groundhog had run into the pipe. Charlie said, 'Lets see if we can catch him.' So we decide that we would have the Amishman stand on the lower end of the culvert with a bag and we would pour some gasoline in the other and light it. We thought for sure that the groundhog would run into the bag and we would have him.
Well I poured some gasoline on the one end and the Amish man stood on the other with the bag and Charlie threw a match into the end with the gasoline. Well you should have seen it! There was a big explosion and the whole culvert lifted about 6" in the air. The dust flew everywhere and sure enough the groundhog came out the other end. His hair was on fire and he was traveling so fast that he ran between the Amishman's legs and knocked him over and kept on going down through the woods. It's a wonder that he didn't set the leaves on fire. All we could do was laugh.
Well just a little bit later the boss come along and said, 'What all that dust and smoke about? What are you fellas doing? We knowd that we would would catch it if we said what we did. But Charlie spoke up. Him been a fast talker and said, 'There was a nest of bees in the culvert and we burned them out'. Well that satisfied the boss and we didn't get in trouble that time.
If someone had got hurt or we'd set the woods on fire we really would have catched it for sure."
"One day me and Charlie and the Amishman was working in the forest along the dirt road cleaning the culverts and ditches. Well we came up to this one culvert and we seen that a groundhog had run into the pipe. Charlie said, 'Lets see if we can catch him.' So we decide that we would have the Amishman stand on the lower end of the culvert with a bag and we would pour some gasoline in the other and light it. We thought for sure that the groundhog would run into the bag and we would have him.
Well I poured some gasoline on the one end and the Amish man stood on the other with the bag and Charlie threw a match into the end with the gasoline. Well you should have seen it! There was a big explosion and the whole culvert lifted about 6" in the air. The dust flew everywhere and sure enough the groundhog came out the other end. His hair was on fire and he was traveling so fast that he ran between the Amishman's legs and knocked him over and kept on going down through the woods. It's a wonder that he didn't set the leaves on fire. All we could do was laugh.
Well just a little bit later the boss come along and said, 'What all that dust and smoke about? What are you fellas doing? We knowd that we would would catch it if we said what we did. But Charlie spoke up. Him been a fast talker and said, 'There was a nest of bees in the culvert and we burned them out'. Well that satisfied the boss and we didn't get in trouble that time.
If someone had got hurt or we'd set the woods on fire we really would have catched it for sure."
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