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t1PIONEER DAYS VMadge Liebel Turk who grew ^ up in Iowa Township writes from a Denver of her early experiences P on the farm near Huron. liOne of my early experiences 11 was riding my dad’s ox teaml0 when plowing. I recall that ourjn cattle used to go all over the prairie and one day one of them strayed from the others and fell into an abandoned well. It had been covered with a platform which gave way and down went the cow. She fell 30 feet and we had a great time getting her out. My father and brother John had to go down in the well and tie a rope around her horns and lift her out. We had to have a team of horses to get her out. She lived and was happy.” |The J. M. Liebels, parents ot Mrs. Turk, came to Iowa Township in October, 1882. Mary Liebel (later Mrs. Matt Bialas) leftan interesting record in the library.* When it snowed, we always ’J took lunch for two days.” she L wrote. ‘ The water was so poor that we always boiled it before using it. Lou and John Schultz ^ had the first threshing machine * in the township and the second in the county.” ej Mrs. Lawrence Slepikas, a daughter of Mr. Bialas, has liv-Jj ed the longest on one place of anyone in Iowa Township—nearly 0 M years. Of former early famishes, the George Deegs and the e J. C. Hatfields probably lived there the longest. Conrad Schultz, g father of Lou and John, who filed Tin 1880, is said to be the first r-; settler. J. C. Hatfield had the » first hinder. • t*
Newspaper Details
Huron Daily Plainsman
Huron, South Dakota, US
Thu, Aug 03, 1961
Page 4
Full Page
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Laura L.
CA, USA 09 Jul 2016
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