Decatur County Journal Leon, Decatur County, Iowa August, 1886 The rains of the last few weeks have improved the prospects for fall pasture. The corn is about made through here, and farmers can calculate on their winter supply of feed. The scarcity of water came near causing a difficulty between some of our stock men. It seems that some of the farmers from the north side of the township drove their cattle to Elk Creek near THOMAS HARRIS and left them. The cattle broke into HARRIS' corn, and he and his neighbors drove them off the creek and refused to let them water there unless they drove them back or employed a herder. HARRIS guarded the same with a club and at last accounts still holds the claim. EDITORS JOURNAL: -- Will you please announce in your paper that there will be a meeting of the citizens of Decatur City and vicinity on Friday, August 20, l886, for the purpose of cleaning off the grave yard at Decatur City. Everybody is invited to come early and bring their dinner, axes, grubbing hoes, brush scythes, etc. Everybody is invited who feels an interest in seeing the grave yard fixed up in proper shape. John Stanley W.T. FOSTER the noted meteorologist whose weather forecasts have had such remarkable fulfillments, has accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Burlington Hawkeye, and will make his weather predictions a special feature of that paper. He is the scientist who predicted the great drought this year and also the recent showers. The farmers of Kansas had great faith in PROF. FOSTER'S prognostications. He was agricultural editor of the Leavenworth Daily and Weekly Times, and will engage in similar work upon the Hawkeye. Copied by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert

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