TALES from the FRONT PORCH
Ringgold County's Oral Legend & Memories Project
WHEN LIFE WAS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
Decatur County Journal Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, November 6, 1913
The supreme court of Iowa has just decided that one farmer cannot compel
another to restrain his poultry from running at large, no matter if they are
injuring his crops. Poultry possesses a natural right to run at large and
there is no statute abridging that right.
Decatur County Journal Leon, Decatur County, Iowa Thursday, November 6, 1913
The orchards at the Iowa insane hospital at Clarinda produced this year
between 6,000 and 7,000 bushels of fine apples. The state evidently takes a
little better care of its fruit than some of the Iowa farmers.
Transcriptions by Nancee (McMurtrey) Seifert, 2010
To be continued as we find 'em.
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