Show disastrous HAILSTORM august auguet 8 1895 our locality was visited with the most disastrous hailstorm haile torm on Tue ajay the ath lost that was fever ever tot eatn n by any of us ue the storm from the northwest about 4 pm and destroyed destroy eil dearly everything in itis it path Consider considerably abl grain waa yet on account ui tb the lack ot of elent machinery to bartet tet it every cradle and old reaper wils waa brancha 41 BO requisition bw etil the supply of grain out ou very ripp ripe in ft few be storm struck many or of our small mall fields of grata grain were not worth for fead fe edthe I 1 bail having broken ll it boio tire off green was out cut oft and add ofil piled up to in confused hospe heaps much grain wits was threshed out of that chat which was bound and shocked corn potatoes lail all kinds of garden stuff anu ano what the late froam bad left us which wad more than usual for our locality was knocked off with the be leaves from the trees reb the low loss to our settlement alone will reach from to our prospects were very bright previous to this bis but yesterday ac thet the armets looked carefully over the lite brecka general feeling of despondency dency seemed to pervade them loom Yeste and lubit night very heavy rat us visitor us iia and we learn that some grain at taylor was waa washed away lo in the be aback taylor was waa damaged by the bail to the extent of about 1600 1500 so eo I 1 RM am informed ky by one of her citi citizen our country has baa ben been b en suffering buffering in ID consequence of a prolonged drouth drout tit but the hills billa now dow begin to look greet green and there to is a prospect of some grass grase tor for cattle and sheep the pro prevalent valent feeling of unrest hat ha struck us ue and found many who wanted to move away to that it fi a country jutt just beyond somewhere some have already gone and more going and now we hear bear of more places for sale this is in a very favorable time ft me lor for any one who wants to buy a home to ili 0 one no of the mott prosperous settlements of the saint to make a good bargain chere will no douai oe be a reaction in a sh eh rt time as ai the rainy season now eairly on gives a magic touch to nature and there is already more grain out cui than 13 1 3 usually raised here thir thi to gobber with the fact that we are used to some kind of buffeting will enable us to pull ourselves together and by putting the beet foot forward face to the front agaid and move alonet in the procession ALLEN FROST |