Ya Gotta Know This About That: Never Wrestle With A Pig

Here piggy. Come to mama!

Once a upon a time there were three little pigs. This little pig went to market and this one stayed home. This little pig went wee wee wee all the way home.

Piggies in the farm lot don't need a house. They wallow in the mud and sleep in the barn. They don't have to pay utilities unless they live in the woods and then they have to pay utilities to keep the lights on to warn off the big bad wolf. They sure don't want him huffing and puffing to blow their house down. Living in a house instead of the mud lot means the piggies don't get to mud wrestle. Unless they load up their bathtub with mud and wrestle in the tub.

I've never wrestled with a pig in the mud but I did a spot of mud wrestling against a woman whom I thought was a pig. She had a snouty nose and was pretty much of an oinker. Lots bigger than me and due to this I lost. I got a lot of mud in my hair and I think her snouty nose and mouth closed down on my hair and yanked out a big old hunk. That spot hurt for a week.

I also remembering during a county fair, chasing a pig which had Mazola oil all over his back. The idea was to be the first to catch a pig. The ground wasn't mud but it probably would have been more fun had they watered the dirt.

Over the years I learned a few things about mud wrestling. You can't get a foot hold in that slippery muck. You get really dirty. Wear goggles for sure. Of course with mud covered goggles you can't see so you lose the contest, but at least you don't get mud in your eye. It's worse than pie in the eye. I also learned to never wrestle with a pig. The pigs probably ate their much loved corn chex for breakfast so they have more strength than you do and besides that, they have a nasty bite when they see they are losing. So stay long away from their nasty pig biting snouts.

The object to this story is to not wrestle with a pig. He might be mad because the big bad wolf blew down his house.....and believe me if that had happened to me I'd be seeing blood....thus I know I don't want to lose any blood to a dang pig....especially a mad pig in the mud wrestling pit.

History of Greenview

From the Greenview Scrapbook - A History of Greenview Illinois 1818 - 1940

Note: In my family, it was always passed down that Charles Mongomery once owned a lot of the land where Greenview now rests. The following indicates my ancestor once owned land which was then purchased by Henry Marbold.

"Mr. Henry Marbold bought the land south of here which was the original claim of Charles L. Montgomery in 1850, and with his sister Miss Annie Marbold and their father, John Marbold, came there to live. John Marbold invested in farm land situated near Salt Creek bottom. H. H. Marbold, as he came to be designated, took an important part in getting the farming section settled up with reliable thrifty men, many of them from Germany, and these men and their descendants have been a decided asset to the community.

Charles L. Montgomery, having sold his first place, bought the 160 acres belonging to John Griggs in Section 23, for $760.00. The northeast quarter of Section 23 belonged to George Blane, and he and Leonard Alkire and William Engle joined forces to try to bring the railroad through here, and in order to do so, it was thought advisable to have a station, so a townsite was sought. While this project was being canvassed, the town of Sweetwater was started, in 1853. New Market, about the same distance west of here, was also working to get the road through there, and a two-story brick hotel was built at that place.

Mr. Harmon Warnsing came to this community in 1853, when fourteen years of age, with nothing but his little bundle of clothes, having spent three months in crossing the Atlantic
on a sailing ship. Most of the passengers died enroute of small- pox, but Mr. Warnsing escaped the contagion, and from the time he arrived here, he prospered. When he married he was settled on the farm now occupied by Garrett Evers, which Mr. Warnsing bought from Mr. John Marbold.

Railroad construction was being pushed enthusiastically all over the state, and meetings were held in school houses and churches where speakers explained to the people how the much- needed railroad could be financed. The response was generous, considering the scarcity of cash, and the county itself subscribed $100,000.00. To this was added the $25,000.00 from private individuals and work was started. But again funds ran low and operations were suspended for a time.

Charles L. Montgomery had built a double log house on the land purchased, and here he and his family were living when his daughter Susan was married to R. B. Godbey in 1854. This
whole family of Montgomerys was remarkable for longevity. "Aunt Susan" Godbey went to the polls and voted for the first time when she was almost 100 years old. "

Quote For The Day

You have Brains in your Head

You have Feet in your Shoes

You can Steer yourself any

Direction you Choose.

--Dr. Seuss

I was doing some research on money....which I never have enough of and found some things I didn't know.

I love the $5.00 bill since it is a nice denomination and it has a really good picture of Abraham Lincoln. I found that on the back of the bill is the Lincoln Memorial which contains the names of 26 states according to the Federal engraving department, although some say it's 27 states since it says N & S Carolina. The $5 bill only shows one side of the memorial so the other states aren't shown )but they are on the real memorial on the back side....48 states since that's the number of states when the memorial was dedicated.

The one thing I learned, which was really a surprise, was that on the back of the bill there are two strips from top to bottom on the left side of the back of the bill which are blank when viewed in the infrared spectrum. This would make it impossible to counterfeit. There are many more items on the bill which are ways to prevent counterfeit operations.

Even though the bill is a small denomination I love it. Give me about a 100,000 of these and I would be happy!!