Transcribed by Lois H. for the Marquette Co WI Pages
From the Montello Express, June 15, 1906
Will Gorsline has blossomed into a commercial tourist, and stalks abroad in the interest of the woolen mills. On Monday 65,000 California trout were "planted" in the three lakes surrounding Judge Peters' farm, and about 10,000 more put into the mill pond in this village. M. McCudden and Bert Wilkins last week finished the carpenter work on John Kane's new residence in the town of Shields. The "boys" are credited with doing a tip-top job, in quick time. To Dr. Pratt belongs the honor of introducing the sidewalk in the little suburb over the hill known in local circles by the classic name of "Hen Town". He planted one in front of his residence last week. The telephone is no longer a novelty in Montello. Last week L.A. Perkins erected one between his residence and the woolen mills office, and since then half a dozen others have been put up in the village. Mr. and Mrs. John Ennis, of Buffalo, paid us a welcome visit on Thursday evening. Mr. E. reported all the winter wheat in his neighborhood secured in find condition and standing crops as promising a repetition of '60. At it again: Saturday evening in 15 minutes' time, E.W. Underwood caught two fine pickerel - one weighing 14 1/2 and the other 17 1/2 pounds. We write our protest, that it is not right of Wright to longer conceal the rite by which he hooks all the big fellows. W.B. Maitland got it into his head Friday morning that we were hard up for a local item, and to help us out, went and sawed off the end of his left hand thumb. Now, Will, we'd rather go without locals for a month than to have them at such a cost, in pain and time, to our friends, and you mustn't be so accommodating again.
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