Novel Collection
Of Old Pipes
(By John Newhouse)
Staff writer, Madison (Wis.) Stale
Journal.
PARDEEVILLE, Wis. — Justj
why he started, H. P. Thompson, I
who retired this month as pub
li- er of the Pardeeville Times,
isn't sure.
Tat he has more than 200 pipes
he has collected from all over the
world mounted on a piece of ply
wood along one whole wall of his
office and more coming in all the
lime.
He does remember, however,
that it was back in 1938 that he
first decided that he would collect
pipes as a hobby, though he had
never been interested in them be
fore except as a means of convert
ing tobacco as a means of fragrant
smoke by the most enjoyable pro
cess.
One of his first pipes came to
him in answer to a letter he sent
to Bing Crosby. The battered old
pipe he received isn’t the hand
somest in his collection, but it is
one of the most cherished.
And he has others from such
famous men as Bobby Jones, Bob
Burns, former Gov. Philip LuFol
lette and former Gov. Julius P.
Heil, both of Wisconsin, and a lot
of others.
Pipes have come from all over
the world to Thompson, many of
them sent to him or brought to
him by men in the armed forces
who know of his desire for pipes,
and they range in size from midget
pipes to one nearly four feet long.
Water pipes are no novelty in
his collection, and the opium pipes
of the East are represented as well.
One of his water pipes came
from Honolulu, where Lt. Milton
Zurfluh picked it up and sent it
back to Pardeeville, and probably
the oldest pipe came from Frank
Wing who fished it out of the Del
aware river. Near it was found a
coin dated 1775, establishing the
date of the pipe as a century to
a century and a half old.
But the most prized pipe, prob
ably, is the one that Capt. William
“Tex” Reynolds, now of Racine,
but formerly of Pardeeville, sent
to Thompson.
It was “liberated” from the
home of Admiral Doenitz, the
famed German naval officer, at a
time when the captain was in the
vicinity of his home in Austria.
Government records show the
heaviest snowfall in the United
States in one day was 60 inches
at Giant Forest, Calif., Jan. 19,
1933.
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BISMAiRCK, N. D. (/P>—“Water
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female, who locate well sites with
divining rods and other allegedly
“unscientific” apparatus — can
chalk up another score in their ar
gument with the scientific experts
on water location.
Dr. W. H. Taylor, mayor of Fes
senden, N. D., has informed J. J.
Walsh, secretary of the North Da
kota Water Commission, that Fes
senden drilled a well on the advice
of a “water witch” and has a good
supply—16 feet from a non-water
witch-located well which went
dry. Dr. Taylor did not identify
the “water witch.”
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WASHINGTON, (Ah—The bur
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that Arctic village for 75 years.
A bulletin prepared by Robert
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Admiralty Island, in 1939, and
lead-copper deposits in the 200
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