Darke County

So for those people that are, you know, on the west side, in Warren County, Clinton County, in the 1st District, you gotta show up and vote.

And people that live in Butler County, Preble County, uh, you know, Darke County, they gotta show up and vote.

You know, uh, the, the people in Hamilton County could, uh, could s- could, could dominate this election.

And Republicans in Hamilton County, hey, don't give in to dismay.

All right, I've got...

I'm trying to, I'm trying to get some information on a story [laughs] that Edgehead Amy just, uh, shared with me on the live stream, and I, I'm struggling, uh, trying to find the, uh, link where she, uh, uh, tagged me, but apparently [laughs] there was a, uh, an, a, an argument or a fight up in Darke County today, I guess it was today, over manure.

Some sort of, some sort of altercation erupted in Darke County [laughs] over manure.

If anybody has any details on this, I, I'm gonna keep searching.

I'm gonna try to get this link.

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Well, I got more details on this fight in Darke County over a load of manure.

But my, my, um, industry knowledge kind of spans way beyond, um, just being here at MVP.

So I grew up on a dairy about 30 miles south of where we're at today, so in Darke County.

Um, you know, that's really where I got my start with wanting to be involved in the dairy industry.

Um, went to Ohio State University in Agricultural Communications and Animal Sciences and, um, got my career start at the American Dairy Association Mideast.

They'll go out there and run out the narrative.

I mean, I, I had a town hall with, I don't know, 250, 300 people up in Darke County, a rural part of the district, and they were concerned about not just data centers, but high-powered, uh, lines.

They have an eminent domain issue where, you know, high-powered power lines are coming through, and no one likes eminent domain, even the people that are using it.

Uh, certainly people don't want something sort of force-fed to, to their, their backyard.

Little came to him except another daughter.

Finally, with the lure of new land and new beginnings before them, the family obtained the money for a railroad journey into what was then a sparsely settled district of Ohio, proceeding from Greenville, where they left the railroad, thirty miles inland to Dark County, through swamps and over corduroy roads to a spot near a tiny crossroad settlement known as Woodland.

here began a new fight for existence upon a leased tract of land where in a tiny hewn cabin nothing seemed to prosper save a constantly augmented family of girls three were born within almost as many years the last of whom was phoebe ann oakley mosey two more years brought a boy making now a family of six one of the girls having died another emily was to swell the total to seven it was strictly a pioneer household clothing was of homespun the shoes for the stair-step brood of children cut from the hide of the first young beef butchered with the coming of the first cold snap life was a thing of conservation in those days the smoking of the hams and shoulders of home-butchered hogs over a constantly smouldering pile of hickory chips the pickling of beans and cucumbers the preserving of fruits and the drying of apples peaches and pears was intermingled with the garnering of vegetables and putting them down in dry straw beneath a heavy covering of turf to protect them against frost in the preparation for the winter when the fruits of summer toil must provide when no other food was procurable the store as such played but a small part in the life of the average farmer in such districts as that which even sixty years or seventy ago formed to a certain extent a pioneering district of america one likes to think of the pioneer as a person wandering the untrammeled districts of the west and to a large degree that is of course true but the thing which made western pioneers the hardy venturesome persons that they were was the fact that they had in a great many instances already been pioneers in what now is called the overpopulated areas of the east many a forty-niner making his stake in california found living conditions but little worse than those he had known back on the worm fenced scrabble soiled farm of what now is termed at the farthest the middle west So it was with Jake Mosey, his wife and his brood.

The one big event of the year, in fact, was when the father, excited over the long trip, took his summer store of wheat and corn to the mill, fourteen miles away, returning with the store luxuries needed for the winter, rice and sugar and coffee.

The natural amusement of a small backwoods town was the shooting match.

Perhaps the turkey shoot, or the rooster shoot, or the prize shoot, it was as popular as golf today.

there came the time when annie began to enter these contests usually managing to take home the prize and her position as a crack shot became gradually more confirmed hotel-keepers who were wont to buy the produce of her hunting expeditions heard of her One especially took a keen interest in the dark county girl who, with rifle or shotgun, on foot or from the back of a horse, could easily outshoot men who had given years to practice.

This had a sequel.