Pounding It and Running for Sheriff in 1878

From the June 3, 2020,  MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1878, Many, many Years Ago.

"There were some amusing novelties at the sociable.  The pound party of the Episcopalians  made a good deal of fun.    Each guest brought a pound of something and at nine o'clock,  the 40 or 50 packages were sold at auction.

"When Wilkens gave forty cents for a pound of meal and Filkins 10 cents for a pound of tea, when Pillicoddy got his pound of candies for a  dime and Mulligatawney gave a half dollar for a pound of sand the fun was prodigious."

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"Captain Whittemore asked a man from the south of the county what was the news down there and learned that 'half of our people have been sun-struck, and the rest are  running for sheriff."

--  CootPound