WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

October 12, 1916

 

RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES

 

George S. Haste, Resident of Waupaca County in 1856, Visits Here

 

            Mr. and Mrs. George S. Haste of Valparaiso, Ind., arrived in the city Tuesday on their way to Almond where they will visit the former’s sister, Mrs. Ed. Casey, and other relatives.  Mr. Haste was interested in looking up some former neighbors of 1856, when he settled with his father in the Casey neighborhood three or four miles northeast of this city.  Mr. Truman Rich was a neighbor living on an adjoining tract of land which later became a farm.  Mr. Haste related how he assisted his father cut logs and make charcoal which they sold at a little blacksmith shop at what is now the north end of Main Street, receiving but six cents per bushel delivered.  They also cut pine and shaved shingles which they “peddled” up and down the little “settlement” at $1.25 per thousand.  In the short time while in the city Mr. Haste inquired regarding a number of families of that early day and took pains to call on some of the descendants of those old families.