July 17, 1890
Years ago there was a large watering trough just south of the Stissing House. This was kept filled with cold water from the well, and though the arrangement was for watering horses, some of the boys of the village used it occasionally to cool the ardor of an old bummer who had become a nuisance, and many a rum soaked yawper was soused therein, after which he would go home and keep sober, or if he got drunk again would go somewhere else to do it. Such a trough would be a good thing to have here now, for there are a few specimens of whiskey guzzlers who have become intolerable pests, and would be benefited by such a water cure. Let us have the experiment tried.