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    1. Crisfield Items; July 9, 1897
    2. The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday July 9, 1897 Crisfield. The Santa Fe weed burner passed over the road here one day last week. It did its work well. Mr. PULSE has started out with his threshing crew. He has a good separator and has and will do good work with it as he has the experience of several years. The wheat and oat harvest is a thing of the past here, the yield will not be very large but we rejoice with the rest of Harper county in their abundant wheat crop. Our part of the county is better adapted to stockraising. Messers L.M. PRESNAL and S.A. STOUT have mowed down the weeds along the public road between their farms. Now let all other farmers do likewise and the weed crop will steadily grow less with each succeeding year. Last Thursday afternoon while stacking wheat for Arthur MADDOX, M.W. SHORT had a sudden attack of cholera morbus and congestion of the brain caused by the excessive heat of the day and drinking too much water. He was very sick for a few days but is recovering slowly at this time. The doctor says he must remain in doors for a few days yet. C.F. WARE who lives west of her 2 1/2 miles, has about 90 head of hogs. The hogs were attacked with the cholera last week. He has about 15 head of sick hogs and 3 died, and more are dying. He fears that he will lose his entire herd. He had taken great precautions to prevent the disease, but it seems that it was all to no purpose. The loss will fall heavily on him. He is a fine man in every respect and we sympathise with him in his loss. Mrs. Olive LESTER, son of J. A. LESTER of near this place, returned home from Central College, of Fatyettville, Mo., on last Wednesday, where he spent the past five years in that college. He recently graduated from that college with great credit and high merit and is now a professor of Mathamatics, Latin and Greek. He has accepted a position as instructor in Latin and Greek in a collee in Arkansas, and will begin his labors there in September. Mr. LESTER possesses all the qualities that go to make up the model man and we predict for him a bright future in his life work.

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