Ice Take Davis City Mill Dam, 1917

FRAZIER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/21/2015 at 17:00:05

Lineville Tribune
Lineville, Wayne County, Iowa
April 05, 1917

Ice Took Davis City Mill Dam With It

On last Friday the ice in the river went out and with it also went about 70 feet of the Frazier Bros. Mill dam. The ice gorged above the dam and there was not water enough to carry the ice over and it crushed the dam down and after that it was short work for the ice and water to tear out about half the dam. The going out of the dam is to be regretted by all as the pleasures of boating and fishing will be of little good until the dam is rebuilt. Frazier Bros. will run the mill just as they are now running it by steam power. They don't know whether they will repair the dam or not and if they do the work will not begin until late in August.

-- Leon Reporter.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015