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Ipf.Idct-id3C)e2c)cm?o)0)02cDc508cwm. wasnourne Das returaea, auuwill take charge of bis. mother’s - farm, a Sue location, overlooking the town and surrounding country.John Walsh has the past week loaded and shipped to his son, Alva Walsh, now at Mt. Vernon, Dakota, forhis use there, a com shelter with powerand threshing machine. Crops in his vicinity are reported good.John Walsh’s high steppers took a lively turn this week from the depot— past creamery to the creek bridge— when they turned and came back to see what time' they had made.. .E. Marble was .time keeper. Ask him for time. No injury to horses. But the moral to be derived is “hitch your horses when out of your reach.”A good joke is told on our lumber man, who left his horse at Raymond Friday night, and bought ticket to Waterloo. Went to I. C. depot Saturday morning, found 6 o’clock train abandoned, walked to Raymond. Says again he will enquire the prospect of a train, before leaving his horse.STORM ECHOES.9c0c0c15ati?t.At Paul Hoxie’s an out-house was 2ptblown over a three barb wire fence into an oat field. One field of oats, not being cut, was entirely destroyed. A jcom-crib, built from dressed lumber and shingled with clear shingles, was torn into kindlings and ruined. About 20 rods of barb wire fence with one board at bottom, to stop pigs, was torn to pieces, part of the posts being broken off and part lifted from the ground by the force of the wind. Paul, being in the barn, with difficulty kept the doors closed, but he is satisfied that by so doing he saved his barn. His family were in the cellar, and the two-story house was lifted from the foundation so that sand was blown int# the cellarunder the sill. His garden, in which he had many choiee plants, from seeds sent by the Hon. D. B, Henderson, is entirely destroyed and with a flock of 50 dark Brahmas, from choice eggs, in. which he took great pride, he has nothing left even-as a sample. His corn and hay was also roughly handled, (but I look for considerable com even in the hail beaten fields.) This is Paul Hoxie’s third loss by hail in eight years. Mrs. Hoxie’s mother, Mrs. Wnkhbume, was at her barn milking w\en theckft.'m.atliraty
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Iowa State Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 13, 1885
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