Speaking of central Mn. My former boss's Dad was telling stories way back in the 60's. He had started a dray line* during prohibition, in Brown County. Local big time "shiner" was setting up along the river & wanted someone to haul sugar from railroad to his still. To try to throw the Feds off, he had boxcar of sugar spotted on a remote siding**. Anyway, Carl lost the bid by 2 bucks a wagonload. Poetic justice, the Feds busted the guy who got the job on his first trip. * dray line- delivering stuff from the railroad to the stores uptown using horse team & wagon. ** remote siding- town of Milford if you are familiar with Little House on the Prarrie tv show.
Slightly OT, Milford Siding was/is a spot in Milford township. When the railroad couldn't pull a full train out of the river valley, they would break the train, pull half up onto flat ground, let it sit on the siding, then back down into the valley to get the rest of the train, recouple on flat ground. Alternative was to send message to Mankato to send a pusher to help up the hill. More than you wanted to know. Willie
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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