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1873 ~ Bush Implement Store ~ Jim Rule

BUSH, ROBERTSON, RULE, GALE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/18/2014 at 12:36:18

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, June 01, 1953
Mason City Centennial Edition, Section 3

FIRST IMPLEMENT BUSINESS

[Section 3, Page 14] This was the beginning of Mason City's present giant implement distributing business. The picture shows the "agricultural warehouse" of Bush and Sons, which stood on the present [1953] site of the 200 North Federal Building on 2nd and N. Federal. The picture shows John Bush, proprietor, with Cliff Robertson and little R. F. Bush, grandson. Bush came to Mason City in 1870 from White Water, Wis.

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JIM RULE CHOPPED

[Section 3, Page 14] One of the stories that has been carried down from pioneer days concerns the time when James Rule, father of A. L. Rule, was going with Jennie Gale, sister of A. H. Gale. Rule, who later became [a] banker and a powerful political figure in the community, was at that time working for Gale's father as a mason.

At the time he was courting Jennie, Jim Rule got into the habit of staying late in the cold winter nights of 1871. Wood was the only fuel in those days and the extra hours took extra wood at the Gale household.

As young Gale had to chop the wood he took the matter up with his sister who gave him no satisfaction. In desperation the lad took the matter up with Jim and told him that if he was going to stay up late with his sister he would have to chop his own wood. Jim cheerfully consented.

NOTE: James Rule, Jr. was born June 11, 1847, and died November 28, 1907. Jennie A. (Gale) Rule was born April 4, 1853, and died January 3, 1916. Jennie served as secretary for the Home Board. James and Jennie were interred at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City.

Bush Implement Store photograph courtesy of Globe-Gazette
Transcriptions & note by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2014


 

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