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arnagii s News and Com ments About Iowa Peopleand Eventsif,.;..Originated by J. W. JARNAGIN '« ‘ • ■ ,Buena Vista county went on a' ghost hunt the other night. They didn’t find their ghost but they chased it away and discovered its unearthly apparatus, The Joe Hout farm, south of Sioux Rapids, has been haunted for some time. Ghostly voices coming from the barn had so frightened the horses that they frequently broke loose, kicked their mangers to piecesand became generally unmanageable. For several weeks people coming from miles around have visited the barn and listened to the strange sounds. Marshal Rush Williams of Sioux Rapids, decided something should be done. He announced that he and a posse would hunt down the spook. On the appointed night about1 70 cars, bearing some 300 people!, gathered in the Hout farm yard, Theposses searched *the barri thoroughlywhile the spooky voice moaned Bnd^ jgroaned, Theh; liftizicr • ha^r inone of the maiigdrs, one of the partyi found the end of1 a rubber hose of the: common garden variety, Rushing outside they f(^df where the hose cameopt of the ^bdrh^ It led them;to an abandoned Irng hb^^ay^ayv^^e^s hbdypniiiiefcXfepttWs methods^, were dia. ct *.- 'sS. ••.'is '[?.' •.;* w'.V i-- - ;■«. : ■ • • ~essisteht’s ‘not teen ^discdvered,^' sr-ii. •• r r i; • 1 ■ - • •
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Laurens Sun
Laurens, Iowa, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1933
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