or fifty men. Another child of the same family was nearly drowned in a railroad culvert the same afternoon, but she recovered after about two hours' work over her. This community sympathizes with the parents who deeply feel the sudden loss of their son.—(Story City, July 22, 1885.)
A young woman was killed by lightning a few miles west of here last Saturday morning. She was married last spring.—(July 24, 1883.)
Lightning followed a telegraph wire to Dr. B. F. Allen's house, Tuesday morning and tore off a window casing with some lath and plaster, but did no other damage.—(July 22, 1885.)
It is reported that several parties are preparing to buy poultry here this winter. It will make trade lively for there is plenty of poultry to be sold.—(December 2, 1885.)
Mr. Swan will probably move his bank fixtures this week.—(December 2, 1885.)
A set of scales will be placed on Ludwig's corner this week. James Jacobson will use them in buying grain this winter. There will be a dozen, more or less, grainy buyers for the winter and we look for lively times.—(December 2, 1885.)
STORY CITY.—Our little town was livened up last Saturday by a visit from Sheriff A. K. Banks, who proceeded "to crawl" the billiard halls. At T. C. Miller's ranch four kegs of beer was seized. Sheriff Banks not wishing to give Jim Lewis, the proprietor of the other billiard hall a chance to secrete his stock of anti-prohibition, deputized C. NELSON and A. S. Helvig to raid Lewis's ranch. NELSON and Helvig made themselves the laughing stock of the town by allowing Lewis to carry out and empty—before their very eyes—two kegs of beer. Hamilton and Dale's drug store was searched but nothing criminating found. We are glad to note this action against these open violaters of the law. For the last year the two billiard halls have been nothing but grog shops, where all persons who understood the way could get liquor. So degenerating an effect has this had upon the community that many of our townspeople, both old acid young, have sought the hidden way and exchanged a character of temperance for one of intemperance. It seems to have been the purpose of a large class of men in Story City to set the prohibition law at nought, and a brave man is he who has started this crusade. He can not but know that twothirds of the people and the press, will give him free advertising of such a nature that hell will seen too good a place for him. But the good wishes of the churches and the Help of all sober, industrious and temperate people is with him.—Ames Intelligencer.—(March 4, 1886.)
The fire apparatus bought by the council this spring, is at hand. It consists of a double cylinder force pump and four hundred feet