WAUPACA COUNTY POST

January 20, 1921

DRUM EXHIBITED AT COUNTY FAIR IN OREGON MADE IN WAUPACA

A clipping from an exchange has been sent to this office which is of more than passing interest to early residents of Waupaca County.

Frank H. West lived on the farm in Lind, now occupied by Leo Hanson and went to school in the little red school house in Bunker Hill district, southeast of the city. Mrs. West was Annie Powers; her father, W.H. Powers who made the drum lived for years in the house now owned by Philo Gibbons on Mill Street, this city.

Drum is 61 Years Old

Eugene, Ore., Sept. 19 – (Special) – Among the early day exhibits at the Lane County fair this week, will be a drum that was made 61 years ago in Waupaca, Wis., and that still has one of the original heads. The drum will be exhibited by F.H. West. It was made in 1859 by Mrs. West’s father.

To the martial notes of the old drum was mustered in Company A., 8^th Wisconsin Infantry, the regiment that is noted in civil war history for having carried a live American eagle through the war.