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Farm buildings burn near Jefferson in stockman blaze
A wagon shed and part of a hog pen on the David R Stockman farm east of Jefferson were destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon. Firemen from Independents county answered at 4 39 p m with a booster stream and bucket brigade to control the blaze. Hogs were driven to safety and much of the second building was saved though machinery including a corn planter plows mower tires and grain sacks were lost. Cause unavailable and owners not at home. An earlier field fire was reported in the Rosedale area at about 4 p m.
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David R . Stockman
Jefferson
Owne
Charles Stockman
Independents County
Joel Willard
Stockman
Stockmans
Rosedale
Fourth and
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