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    1. News from other towns part 2 Feb. 1936 Leon Journal-Reporter
    2. Part 2 News from other towns In a temperature of 37 degrees below zero more than a week ago near Woolstock, Iowa, both legs of "Tokey" Walker, Pattonsburg young man who was employed a year ago in Bethany at Curlely's bakery, were badly frozen and acquaintances here have heard that one or both of them may have to be amputated, says the Bethany Republican Clipper. Walker worked in the Bethany bakery for several weeks as a bread wrapper. For some time he has been working with truckmen hauling corn from northern Iowa, and the night his legs were frozen he was with Earl Mode of Pattonsburg. Drifts of snow were heavy there about Woolstock, which is about fifty miles north of Ames, and when the Mode truck became stalled in the snow, Walker, who was not hevily clad, waded about for some time in the snow which came almost to his waist. Truckmen friends here have heard that he was not taken to a hospital until after his return to Missouri. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fire which began in the Evert Tilley garage Saturday night about 8:30 o'clock spread in the subzero weather when the fire hose and a waater plug were found to be frozen, and at the end had burned the Tilly automobile, the garage, many tools, a coal shed, a smokehouse, a considerable quantity of stacked lumber, and about half a ton of coal, says the Bethany Republican-Clipper. There was fire insurance on the automobile, which was a 1935 Chevrolet sedan, but no insurance on the other property burned. No water was thrown by the fire company, members of which said several sections of hose were found to be frozen. One fire plug near which there had been a leak also appeared to be frozen, it was said by the Tilley family. The fire apparently was caused by heat fromit, which struck and ignited paper with which the garage was lined. Evert Tilley had started the car, then had gone back into the huse fro Mrs. Tilley, leaving the motor running. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Pane-full" cold took its toll in plate glass yesterday morning when it is supposed to have caused the large plate glass window in Dunham's cafe to crack and the glass in the door at the A. & P. store to fall out of the door frame, says the Harrison County Times. Jess Dunham was sitting in the cafe about 8:30 yesterday morning when he heard a report which sounded like someone had fired a gun at the front of the cafe. He looked at the window and saw that it had cracked from side to side. It was insured. Replacing the glass costs about $85 exclusive of the salvage value of the old glass. Mr. McCormick, manager of the A. & P.., said one of the clerks built up the fire in the store early in the morning and started to leave the store. When he closed the door, the glass fell out. One corner of the large window at the Hamilton hardware in cracked, the damage occuring sometime Monday or Tuesday. Employees at the store said they thought at first a pebble thrown from the wheel of a passing car night have cracked the glass. In view of what the cold had done to other windows, they later decided the change in temperature might have been responsible for the damage.

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