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+ PRICES' MEN ARRIVE
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+ While the dancing wan in progress Price and his men arrived.
"I can see Price yet," Mra. Wood said. "Hle had on tall red boots, trim- med in black patent leather. He
atrode Into the room and of course wanted to dance with the girls. They were frightened and he had quite a Ume securring & partner.
"The dance lasted until late into the night. Finally the bridegroom arrived and said the "bride" had run away with someone else. but added that they would have the celebration anyway.
"The men went Into the yard and rolled the barrel of whiskey out from under the porch and drank from it all evening. While the party getting under way my father went Into the hills near Fanning and hid in a cave, for Price made the men he found join his army, or stripped them of clothes and valuable. My mother and 1 took food to my father. who remained in hiding until Price had left that part of the country. On the march the army cut down wheat stacks to see that there were no men hiding in them, ransacked atores and threw sugar, coffee and flour about the country While the army was camped near our home it did not have any large amount and in order to satisfy them and get them on their way she went to the smoke house where we kept our mited meats, dug up some of the earth floor, brought it in the house and bolled 'it in water and strained out the salt.
"The old railroad track had to be repaired after this rald and my fath- er, after he came out of his hiding place, joined what was termed the rallroad militia, followed the raiders. and built the track back again."
The old wooden coaches with scenes of the Ozarks painted on the aldes were common atghte. Mra. Wood saya it seemed to her as if the en- gines just ''hopped" along.
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D. A. R. TABLET
N COMMEMORATION and honor of Mise Evaline Clifton, only "original daughter' 'who ever belonged to the Rachel Donelson' chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, members of the chapter will onvell a monument on her grave near Marshfield on Sunday afternoon. October 6.
Miss Clifton died in '1912, at the | age of 96. For some time the Rachel : Donelson chapter of the D. A. R. had been endeavoring to secure a govern- ment. pension for ber as the daugh- ter of a Revolutionary veteran, but she died . before congress took action
She was the daughter of Nathan Clifton. a Caroliniap who was born In 1860, and at the age of 17 en- listed as a privale in the Continental ! jurmy. In 1820, when Misa Clifton was
4 years old. her father with his fam. . lly moved from North Carolina to Tennessee, and 20 years later they again moved westward to Webster county, which was . then a part of Greene county.
Miss Clifton gave up all thought of - marriage to care for her father, and he lived to the age of 104 When he died he was given military burial and the old guu which as a lad he
had carried through the Revolutlet :- ary war was fired over his grave
Miss Clifton continued to live near : Marshfield, cared for by ber nieces and nephews and their children when : she grew too old to be altogether in- dependent. She was, however. fre. markable old person, who retained : ber strength of body and mind amaz. . Ingly. Old neighbors neur Marchi !! recall that until she was well pas! : 70 she commonly rode horseback from hill farm to hill farm. and she con .. tinued to sew up until the time of ber death. .
She was "discovered" by Milss Janie Hubble of Springfield, and made a member of the Rachel Donelson chapter of the D A R. about a year ' before her death.
Memorial service and unveiling of the monument will take place at 2 o'clock on October 6, with uupressive formalities Sam Shelton. former ! congressman. will be the principal speaker.
The monument is a granite slab bearing the simpie inscription. "Miss Evaline Clifton. 1816-1912. daughter of Nathan Clifton. who served in the Revolutionary War." Inset on the front is a bronze placque upon which the Insignia of the D A R IS wrought. with the words · Feal Daughter."
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PEIRCE CITY GRID BATTLE IS FATAL FOR LEE HARMON
Eighteen-Year-Old Wentworth Youth Dies in Hospital After Being Injured in Friday's Game
Special Dispatch to The News and Leader PEIRCE CITY, Mo., Sept. 22 .- Lee Harmon, 18. of near Wentworth, Mo., popular Peirce City football atar, suffered fatal Injuries in the Monett- Peirce City opening football game here yesterday afternoon.
As a result of the youth's death . the Peirce City team will not play any more games this season, It was decided today by teammates and the board of directors of the school.
1 INJURED MAKING TACKLE
Harmon was injured when he at- tempted to tackle a Monett player. The third vertebrae of the youth's neck was bruised, physicians at a Joplin, Mo., hospital, where be waa taken, announced.
The accident occurred in the second half of the game. Harmon was carried from the field. He was paralyzed. A Peirce City physician examined him and announced that there was little chance for his recovery.
The coach of the team ordered the youth taken to a Joplin hospital. Harmon died before treatment could be given him. + ABANDON SCHEDULE - 4 -
The Peirce City team met In con- ference with the school board today and after a brief discussion decided that football activities should . be ended for the season in due respect to their teammate.
The youth'a mother Is a widow and . has tan small children
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Ben Roach. 20. and Inez Loveland. 19. both of Rogersville: Jack Han- cock. 22. and Velma Howell. 21. both of Sprungfield. Joe Sappington. 2, Walnut Grove. and Melba Ragains 21. Willard: Vic Armstrong. 18. Faiz : Grove, and Leona Tindle. 21. Please ant Hope. Harry Silsby Brown. X and Mary Margaret Holbrook. 23 both of Springfield: Wilber Plank. 118. and Ruby Kaylor. 19. both of i Galloway. I-c
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Robert L Hutson. 21. Bardwell. : Ky - and Dorothy Jeffries. 21. Spring- feld: Eugene Mace. 20. Springfield. : and Marie Gillaum. 17. Republic. 1-A:
MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928 -- DAILY NEWS
Page 1: There is a history of the Central Christian church. **
Page 2: Miss Velma Howell and Jack Hancock were married .** Mrs. Eleanor Brown Webb died .**
Page 6: There is a photo of and an article about Rev. John W. Pearson who came from Lawrenceville, Virginia .**
'MY HOME TOWN'
Backward Glimpses By Spring- fleidians to Places They've Loved and Still Cherish
By CELIA RAY
THOSE were thrilling days when the Reverend John W. Pear- son, for the past five years pastor JI the St. Paul M. E. Church, South, llved on a farm three miles from Lawrenceville. county seat of Brunswick county. Virginia.
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"The roads were so muddy when I was a boy we couldn't make the three-mile trip to town very often." recalled DoctorJohn W. Pearson Pearson. "We went there on court day, which was every three months, circus day. which came annually -- and once In awhile we had a hang- Ing and everybody had to go to that.
"People came for miles around for the hanging. Why, once there a man was to be hanged and the gov- ernor pardoned him just before the time aet and the sheriff sald the people had gone to too much trou- ble getting ready for it and had driven too far to see it for him to disappoint them. So they Hanged the man."
Then there was election day which Doctor Pearson recalls as an event- [ul time enlivened by fights in his old home time. On court day there ras the arguments of the lawyers which appealed. to him as a boy, for even then he had an Interest in public speaking. Also on court day there was a lively flurry of horse and mule trading with the traders
racing the animals up and down Main street to try them out.
Lawrenceville Is in the heart of the cotton, peanut and burley to- bacco country and Doctor Pearson recalls as his most. detestable work in his borhood that of killing tobac- co worms.
"The first money I ever made was 3 cents my brother paid me for picking cotton," he said. "I had a large two cent plece and a one cent plece. I put them In an old tobac- co sack and was sitting before the huge fireplace twirling the sack around on my finger when the money flew Into the hot fire. It turned before I could get it out."
Doctor Pearson toft the old home town at the age of 15. His mother had died and he wanted to see the world. For three years he traveled as newsboy on railroads throughout the country. Then he went Into the! 3rdc~"y business and his partner "got away with the money." About this time he had joined the church and had an ambition to become a minister. First he started taking correspondence courses, belleving that to be his only hope to receive an education. A friend made it pos- sible for him to go to college and he later was graduated from Vander- bilt University. This was all through his own efforts, and Doctor Pearson is proud today that he won his edu- cation without any sort of financial support excent his own earnings and FA Inn of $75
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$2500 Is Paid By Church For Fight-To Have Music
Members Recall Gift of First Central Christian Edifice on Condition No Instrument Would Be Played
By DOCIA KARELI.
FARLY In the history of the Central Christian church of Springfield. organized just 40 years ago, Mrs. Til- lle Weaver presented the young and struggling congregation with lla first church home, on the same site where the new church now stands.
The policy of the church at that time was against the use of musical instruments in servicea of worship. and Mrs. Weaver, a conservative, In- aerted a clause In the deed providing that no musical instrument could be used in the church.
Years later. as the congregation grew and the attitude of younger members toward music changed. thero came a great desire for an organ. After many a conference between those progressives who wanted the organ and the conservatives who did not, Mrs. Weaver in 1902 finally was persuaded to sell back to the church the forbidding clause, at a cost of $2500-and the Centrei Christian church has had an organ for the past 26 years.
| COLORFUL HISTORY RECALLED +
That was just one of the colorful and amusing bits of history recalled at the anniversary service at the church yesterday. when struggles of early days and later development and growth were related by the older members.
.. The fortieth anniversary of the churches founding was celebrated with a church homecoming. A spe- cial afternoon service was devoted largely to reminiscence. with an ad- dress on "Early . 'Leaders" by J. T. Lines & feature of the program. Mr. Lines and other "old-timer" members of the congregation won many a smile from their listeners with their recitals of experiencea of the church's early daya.
They told how during the first -- years the church was often without a pastor. and frequently the congre- gation numbered only alx or seven faithful soula who nevertheless COD- tinued to meet for regular Sabbath communion. Church feminlata per- haps gloated a bit with the memory [
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that often the women of the congre- gation kept the church allve, and at one time there were only four men on the church roll.
I PARSONAGE GOES FOR TAXES
Mr. Lines chuckled as he told bow when the sewers were laid in the neighborhood. the good church breth- ren refused to pay the church A86088- ment, and the little parsonage was sold for the taxes. Mra. Weaver bought it, and resold it back to the church.
In 1902 W. E. Harlow, evangelist, came to the church, and aroused ruch enthusiasm that he was soon made pastor. Under his administration, the church was "put on the map." and has continued to prosper since that, day. Mrs. Harlow and their daughter, Mrs. Arthur Knabb, attend- ed yesterday's services.'
The original building was several times enlarged, and finally had to be abandoned when the present fine edi- foe was built, being completed lust year.
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A feature of the afternoon meeting yesterday was the reading of letters of greeting from seven former pastors of the church-the Reverend F. W. Walters, Blackwell, Okla .; the Rev- erend .George L. Peters, missionary superintendent of the sixth Missouri ! district, Canton, Mo .; the Reverend G. W. MoQuiddy, pastor of the Central Christian churchias Galre tori, Tezas; the Reverned O. V. Dunp dean of a Bible college at Fort Collins, Colo .; the Reverend B. T. Wharton, Marshall, Ko., now retired; the Reverend Homer P. Cooke, pow preaching at Raton, New . Mexico, having recovered his falling health in the west; and the Reverend Harvey-L. Humphrey, who id doing graduate study at Drake uni- versity this year. -
The Reverend Benjamin L. Smith, acting pastor at the South Avenue Christian church, made a brief ad- dress in which he recalled that he had ordained Mr. Harlow.
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R. P. MeGlothlin read an original poem on "Homecoming," and Harry Siceluff sang & song composed for the occasion by Roy E. Martin.
The morning cervice featured the homecoming. and included & mem- bership roll call and enlistment serv- ice 'in which all. members of the church were urged to enlist for some definite church activity this winter. The pastor, the Reverend I. C.
WEBB FUNERAL
Funeral - services for Mre. Meenor Brown Webb, '21, will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock today at Christ Epis- copal church .. Mrs. Webb dled Bat- urday at a city hospital following a lingering ilinees. Burial will be in Haselwood cemetery under direction Herman H. Lohmeyer funeral home Mr. Webb was widely known in Springfield social circles and made her home with her grandparenta, Mr and Mrs. H. D. Bilsby, 1855 Benton avenue. She was a graduate of Senior High school and attended Stephens college at Columbia, where she was a member of Sigma Iota Chi sorority.
SPRINGFIELD PAIR WED
Miss Velina Howell and Jack Han- cock were married by the Reverend J. A. Roper in his study at the Ham- Uin Memorial church where he is pas- tor. Saturday. Mise Howell ts the daughter of Mrs. Vernie Howell Brad- ley, 2425 North Main avenue, and i a graduate of the Springfield Senior High school. where she was a member of the Girls Drum corps Mr. Han. cock ta the son of Mr and Mrs Johr: Hancock. 2024 North Lyon avenue and for the past four years has been employed at the Br ingfield Auto works. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock will make their home in Springfield.
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The Leader for Monday, September 24, 1928, is missing.
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TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 -- DAILY NEWS
Page I: Mrs. Syd Callison was killed .**
Marriage license: Clarence Thurmond, 26, and Anita Snoddy, 21, both of Ash
Grove.
Page 3: Walter W. Thompson was appointed guardian for Mildred Thompson, a minor.
Page 4: Eliza Graham was appointed administratrix of the estate of B. W. Graham.
Page 8: There is a photo of and an article about O. E. Gorman who came from Tolono, Illinois .**
Page 10: Cards of thanks .**
Page 12: Mrs. D. W. Morgan died .* Harlen Eugene Willis died .** Mrs. Eleanor Brown Webb died .* Mrs. A. F. Bolding died .*
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'Hit and Run' Motorist Crashes Into Aged Woman
SEVENTEEN-MONTHS - OLD Wayne Newell is alive today because bla grandmother. Mrs. Byd Callison. 57. gare his baby buggy a shove just be- fore a hit-and-run motorist hurled the aged woman to ber death on the public square at Lamar.
Mrs. Callison, was on her way to church early Sunday evening. Push- Ing her tiny grandson in his baby buggy. 8he started to cross the street at the southwest corner of the square A our, mald by those who viewed the accident to have been a Pord coupe. suddenly appeared. The woman was directly in Its patb, and. seeing that it was almost certain to bit her. she gave the baby buggy a shove and It rolied 10 the side of the street. turning over, as the motor car atruck the grandmother.
The driver sped Into the night at
a high rate of speed
Mrs. Collison was taken in an am- i
bulance and the trip to Webb City started. But the grandmother expired before the hospital was reached The . baby was not burt.
Last night the driver of the motor car had not been caught, but Sheriff J. L. Garrett and other officers were following every available clue.
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2- CARDS OF THANKS.
To all our dear Delghbora end friends who so kindly and lovingly muststed us during the sickoess and death of our darling little son. Kenneth, we extend our sincerest and most heartfelt thanks MR. AND MRS. JAS. D. HOLLAND WE wish to express our sincere thanks to our many friends for their kindness and sympathy and floral offerings during the sickness and death of our dear son and brother MR. AND MRS. J. L. MITCHELL AND FAMILY.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Clarence Thurmond. 26, and Anita . Bnoddy. 21. both of Ash Grove.
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MY HOME TOWN'
Backward Glimpses Ry Spring- fieldians to Places They're Loved and Sull Cherish
By CELIA RAY
O. E GORMAN, attorney, was born in Tolono, Ill. He lived there until after he entered high school, but it is to Marionville, Mo., that he refers affectionately as the "old home town."
When he was a boy, 40 years ago. Mr. Gor- man's parents left Tolono and came to Marion- ville to make their home. He taught school there three years after he had at- tended Warrens- Gorman burg Normal, and still returns there almost every week for he has a fruit farm near the town.
The scene at Tolono Mr. Gorman recalls with the most pleasure is that of the winter skating partles.
"There was a big pond near ure school and we boys skated on it out- side school hours and all day Sat- urday," he said. "The country was flat and had few rocks, but I re- member a huge boulder near the pond where we sat to put cr our skates.
"Sometimes it would snow. then sleet and the whole country would be a solld sheet of ice for two 's three weeks It was so level we then skated to school and everywhere else we went
Mr. Gorman's sister married a young student of Illinois university. S. D. Cannady of Marionville, and came there to live. A few years aft- crwards the Gorman family mnove there. Mrs Cannady died about two months ago. Mr Gorman's par- ents remained in Marionville un"'1 their deaths.
Mr. Gorman never went to school In Marlonville. but after he started ¡ his college education he would teach there ' In the winter and attend school during the summer. Later he went to Michigan university to take up his law course.
"There are probably 20 persons living in Springfield who went to school to me in Marionville." said Mr Gorman. "I also was superin- tendent of schools at Mount Vernon two years and many of my former students from there are living here."
DEATHS
MRS. D. W. MORGAN
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the home. 953 Kimbrough ave- nue. for Mrs. D. W. Morgan, 69. who died at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She is survived, by her husband and four daughters. Mrs. Fred Geogre of Springfield, Mrs. H. H. Mack of To- peka, Kan., Mrs. Charles .L. King of Greenfield, Mo., and Mra. Bert Brim of Walnut Grove, Mo. Interment will be In Maple Park cemetery under the direction of the Alma Lohmeyer fun- eral home.
11. E. WILLIS
Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Herman Lohmeyer funeral home for Harlen Eugene Willis, 51, 693 South Market avenue who died Bun- day night following a brief Illness. The body was forwarded to Columbus. Ohlo, where burial will be made. Mr. Willia was for 13 years engaged In the grocery business in Springfield. He la survived by his widow, one son, Eugene, five brothers and one sls- tef and his mother.
MRS. ELEANOR BROWN WEBB
Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon in the Christ Episcopal church for Mrs. Elcanor Brown Webb, 21, with burial In Hazel- wood cemetery under the direction of Herman H. Lohmeyer. Mrs. Webb waa a graduate of Senior High school and had attended Stephens college at Columbia, Mo. She was a member of Sigma Jota Chi sorority threrc.
MRS. A. F. BOLDING
Mrs. A. F. Bolding, 35, of Elk Prairie. Mo., died in a Springfield hospital last night at 9:30 o'clock She is survived by her husband. three sons, one daughter, her father. Mar- shal Burris, of Elks Prairie, and fou: brothers. Funeral arrangements are pending with Starne Undertaking company. Burial will be in the Oak- land cemetery at Elke Prairie.
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TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 -- LEADER
Page 1: Charles Calkin committed suicide .**
Charles Brown committed suicide .**
Page 8: Mrs. Anna Scudder of Monett celebrated her 100th birthday.
Page 12: W. F. Shockley died .** Mrs. D. W. Morgan died .* Mrs. A. F. Bolding died .** Miss Ruth Corwine died .* Mrs. Emma Bateman died .* Cards of thanks .**
Page 14: There is an article about the old trail from Springfield to Harrison, Arkansas .**
CAMDEN COUNTY WITNESSES TWO SUICIDE DEATHS
Charles Calkin, Serving His Third Term as Prosecutor,, Kills Self at Home
FARMER KNIFES THROAT,
Son of Pioneer Minister. Fał tally Injures Himself After ' Fit of Madness -
Two prominent Camden county maxi found escape in death today from the fear that they were going mad, beaten in mind and body by the bat- the of life.
Charles Calkin. 45, serving his third term as prosecuting attorney of the county, mor himself through. the head st 7 o'clock this morning in his bome at Linn Creek, expiring two hours later. Ite had returned only a l few days ago from a sanitarium at Kansas City, where he was sent after ' A nervous breakdown.
CARDS OF THANKS."
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To our dear Neighbors rnd friends who & Lindly and lovingty assisted ua during the sickness and death of our darling little son, Keineth .. ws extend our Morerast and most heartfelt thanks. MR. AND MRS. JAB. D. HOLLAND WE wish ta ripress our anoerr thanks 15 our many friends for the :: ::. !:. ... . . 4 sympathy and fiorel offerings during :na acEnrus and death of our dear son aud brother. . MR AND MRS J .L. MITCHELL' AND FAMILY
1: Atther Dies, Sonittfter
Half an hour before thenimgedy in tha Calkin home, Charles Brown, 48. son of a pioneer Camden county min- ister. slashed his throat with a misor at his home seven miles south of Stoutland and died a few minutes later Relativea had feared for some Lime be was losing his mind, and re- centiy he had been seen carrying . revolver and a bulchar knife wolle at work in bla fields.
Each men is survived by a wife and several children. Brown was the com the R
It is believed that the strain of his
eral wheni. returing a few . This morning. while Matite busy preparing breakfast, the Odm. den county prosecutor was. alons.ta bis upstairs room. He found a .98 calibre automatlo platol, and a Mingle shot brought members of the fatty rushing to the room. They found him lying on the floor, a bullet wound lu hils head. He died at 9 ... "att'n home.
T'Ires Giun. C'ats Throat
Mr. Brown, a farmer, rose esriy thie - morning and went with ble wife to the dairy barn. Ha returned to the house on some pretext and a moment later . bla wife heard the roar of @ gun. ' The shot brought relatives Iromi their homee ucorby to Mra. The found him ling ¡ on lbe front porch of the house, bis : throat slashed and a razor by his side. . He bled to death in a few minutes. It I& belleved he fired the gun to fright- ru his wife bo that she would not roine 10 him and attempt to prevent I the auleide attempt.
For days, frienda said. Brown had : wemed on the verge of a nervous bırakdown. He had carried a revolver und a butcher kaffe with him, they .. 4. and when quitatloued about tha sjons answered that he was busy *** hoe killing war."
Brown in attivived by four children. all of whom are married. three living 111 Oklahoma. Burvivors also Include a brother. Jaines, a farmer who ilves near Stoutland.
Mr- Calkin was Lesten In hia recent primary race for renomination by o. M Brinkley, the republican nominee. funeral arrangements for both med Incomplete
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+Back woods Contributorttelle ti of; an oldy old trall, the Springfield and Harrison road:
", "I would like :to; taką the gentle reader (if there is yet extant such a creature) along & Teil trail, that is "nobody knows how old;" Jot-a-charming bit of fairyland and. fiction, but a real old sagged trail. 'Marked by thou- sands of patient foot prints, good old' Arkan- sas moles with steel-tired Springfield wagons that resonantiy rang on the rocks. Then the lusty shouts of wild drivers and flock mas- ters, taking cattle and shecep over this famous old .trall.
"This highway was abandoned 20 years aço, when the M. P. lald its serpentine route through the Ozarks. As Highway 18 enters Kl:byville, a little village between Branson and Forsyth, the motorist carelessly giances at a cash in the hillside leading north, then speeds on his way, not knowing he has just cased apos a really historical thing. The State Historical society should erect a mark- er bers, that this old passage might be re- membered.
.For nearly -a- hundred years this was the a artery o .. communication between North insas and the Springfield country. Tro- mi dous. load "tot valuable merchandise went- youthward, over this road , by wason team faren-sad-equally valuable.products vent north, rome conveyed by waron, and some Holiday romer out on foot. As a child I watch - ed great droves of long-borned cattle,' shaggy horses and colts and young mules, even great nocks of turkeys solemnly wagging slong. Weary disgusted porkers, then the beautiful sad Impressive sight of load after load of bal- ed cotton, some of the snowy shred escaping from the bdrlap covering and waring to na as they pasted. There .would be a alatted -- load. of chickens, and when they paused in front of our house, as they. often did, for the old Ume freighter was never in a hurry, we chil- dren gazed longingly at speckled and top- kaot bens, that were blue and pale red, al- most pink, and little puttering guineas, a spe- cles of poultry also extinct.
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