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THE LIBERTY
TRIBUNE. Vol. XXI No. 3.
Liberty, Missouri
June 8, 1866.
"BUT FEW CAN SAY IT".
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Mr. R. Watkins, one of our best citizens, can truthfully say but
what few others can. He has lived on the same farm and at the same
place for the last 24 years and has never moved, and yet during that
time he has lived
in two states and three different counties. The explanation is thus:
| His location was first in Holt county, Missouri which
extended to the Iowa line. A few years afterwards Atchison
county was taken off of Holt. This threw Mr. Watkins into
Atchison. A few years later by a decision of the Supreme
Court, the southern boundary of Iowa extended about ten
miles further south. This took Mr. Watkins into Fremont
county, Iowa. Thus on the same farm, he has lived in two
states and three counties. --He is now in the best county
of the three.--Sidney, Iowa, Union |
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