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FINN and FRED

By Robert J. Harting

Route 3, Box 3722 Grayling, Michigan 49738

Went to see Charlie Vilas the other day, back in the town of Hadley, Michigan. He had some old pictures there from the home of his parents and one of them really caught my eye. It was an old sepiatoned print and not too clear, but with a magnifying glass I could make out some most interesting details. Would take half a book to get down the whole story related to this I'll just touch on the high spots.

By the way Charlie Vilas used to go with his dad, Frank Vilas, on a steam threshing rig. They threshed near our neighborhood. I remember they were the first to have a one lunger gas engine and a pump jack on their water wagon to load it. That was real progress! I've pumped a few loads of water by hand. I still have one of those old horizontal, hand powered pumps up at our mill so I can walk by once in a while and give it a kic...

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