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Show Country Correspondence ZION CROSSROADS. Zion Crossroads wat throwd into tur-riblc tur-riblc excitement last week when a hay-tuck hay-tuck belonging to Enoe Simpson, three miles west, got on fire and waa burned to the ground. Word of the confla-grashion confla-grashion reached the Crossroads about noon and everybody dropped their work and hurried to the scene of the crime, at you might say, in buggies, wagons and afoot When the entire populashion of the Croat Roads finally arrove at the scene of the holaraust, it wat discovered that the fire had been out about two hours, and that the haystack wat a total loss. Enot estimates his loss at about $4. The worst of it is that it wasn't covered cov-ered by any insurance and consequently the lots is total, complete and entire. Fortunately no lives wat lost. VERITAS |