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'I III! IMMIGRANTS, Till! GAMPS, AND GRANDPA WARI (-(in t i i me cl
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Pa el 1 o t ;i 1 1 s I h ;i t t ho o 1 el inn n w ;i s i n a c t i V' e aiul u ii h ;i p py lot' so met i me a I t o r his arrival . Ilo c x p res soil an interest in farming so g rand fa t he r cleared 10(1 acres aiui hu i 1 t a farm house and ham at KANSWI! GAR for that purpose. The farm was quite a success and crops were trucked to town for sale. The old man was quite a task master aiul outworked al 1 hired hands. Keeping help was their greatest difficulty.
Grandpa Ware re I used to rule in an autoniobi It' and Dad remembers his walking to and I rum the farm from their home. While lacilities at the farm were most comfortable, he refused to sleep there and walked the one miLe to the l'irsching home after a hard days work. One evening wh i I e walking home' he overheard a domestic quarrel at one of the camp homes. Attempting to stop a man 1 i'oin heat ing his wife, he was shocked to he attacked with a I rying pan by the woman who was being beaten. lie forever swore oil oI intervention in domestic misunderstandings.
Great G r a iuI fa 1 he r Ware was	proudest of his grape	arbors. lie made
large amounts of fine wine	(ho could	drink it by	the	pitcher)
which lie stored in one of the spare bedrooms of the farmhouse.
One day he was sampling his wines and offered my Dad samples also. As fate would have it, grandmother happened along and found her son somewhat inebriated as her father cont inued to pour "sample That night she returned to the farm, took hundreds of bottles of wine outside and broke them all. Great Grandpa Ware slowly rebuilt his cache and swore my Dad to future secrecy.
One day grandfather was al work in his office' when he hoard the loud voices of a mob approaching the	plant. I! x i	t in g	the building,
he realized that they were	the rough	camp people	and	that they
we re chanting his name	- l'irsching, P'irsching, l'irsching,	as	they
came. They surrounded	him, picked him up and tossed	him	into	the
air numerous times. Somewhat ruffled lie was finally replaced on the ground aiul found himself the proud recipient of a mantle clock--a gift from tho	grateful workers of Peerless.
Dad reca1 Is few i I anv	labor problems. Occasional ly	Sheri I f
Murder would caI 1 to report that a worker had drunk beyond his 1 i in i t wh i le in town. They were rarely ini led but rather were returned to their camp home' with a severe' scoMing. These1 were rela_tive.lv minei r problems considering the large number ol workers.
Grandfather was a firm disciplined man and displayed a business like exterior (1 remember as a child, his arising in the morning, bathing, and dressing in a starched white shirt and tic only to remain indoors all day) although lie harbored a hearty sense of humor. This firm no-nonsense approach must have proven successful because he commanded tho respect" of not only his employees, but his other associates as we 1 I .


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