Howdy folks—The price to join the Bethel Historical Museum is $10 per year, $25 for three years or $75 for lifetime. They have so many fine items in the building like a buggy wagon which is like what we used to use to shuck corn in and haul to the shredder. 
The wagon held 35 bushels of corn and that is the way we could tell how many bushels we got from a field of corn. It generally was pulled by horses either in the field or from the shredder. When I got old enough it was my job to shovel the corn.
Now I am going to write about something Rick Crawford told about. It is about Owensville and when the Morgan Raiders came to the village. They were stealing horses and leaving their tired horses. The captain and another of his men went into one house and the lady said, don’t you ask permission to enter and he said yes. Well you are not welcome here so they left. Why she said this was she had her horses in the kitchen. Now a story about Pleasant Plain. When the train company was building the train tracks through Pleasant Plain, the inspector got off the train and he went to his knees in mud so he said we will call the town Plumsock. I understand it went by that name for several years. Now Batavia years ago had a depot for the train line where the farmers could bring their produce so they could ship it to Cincinnati or other towns. They tell me that at one time Batavia had a women’s college and that Batavia was bigger than Bethel. That doesn’t seem possible, but it was back in the 1800s. My father-in-law told me if a person was driving along the train track and the train was coming, the feller would jump out and hold the horses until the train got by.
I was over at the Shepherd’s Place and they had several folks that were going to paint Christmas items. I asked how the preacher at the Northside Baptist Church is doing and they told me he fell out of his wheelchair and is in the hospital.
He needs our prayers as well as his wife needs our prayers.
I was talking to Mike at the bait shop at Afton and he said the fishing in East Fork is good for crappie and folks are catching sauger in the 12 to 14 inches range. That is good. One feller caught a musky that was 30 pounds and when they were working on the discharge below the dam they had two musky that weighed 60 pounds each.
They were sent on down the river along with the other fish. Mike said the deer youth hunt is November 21 and 22 this year. The gun week is November 30 through December 6. The special gun week is December 19-20. I hope I got this right. Mike said he saw on the computer of a 23 point dear.
The deer had 12 points on one side and 11 points on another. It is time to harvest a deer for the freezer for food this winter. I was lucky to get a 12 point buck with a bow and arrow close to home several years ago. I had to head mounted and it hangs in the house.
When I was at the park as manager, a feller got an albino deer. He had it mounted, but his wife said he can’t bring it in their house.
I asked Deb how the cats are and she said fine. The electric has shut down here in Bethel with this wind blowing hard, but they will get it back on after a while. Some folks told me when they have a hard wind the electric will shut off. I had just finished writing my article.
Start your week by praying and praising the good Lord.
God bless all . . .
More later . . .