Show A MORMON RELIC the NEWS has hag bad a pleasant visit from mr A H R thatcher formerly of V van an buren county iowa but now of rich hill filli bats bat county nty Mirao url wbk tells of the possession aud and sime OWL of the history botory of what be call balle ao an old mormon I rello relic at the time of the exodus of the latter day sainte from nauvoo mr thatcher then a young man maa was liv i log lag near keosauqua loira iowa and dw stoutly remt aberg the presence and aad A encampment of we be exiled people on we neighboring prairie A mr dikil up lapso who lived somewhat nearer the town and three or four miles from the he thatcher Tha farm allowed one of the mormon families millee fa to 0 o camp in his yard they remained there some ome time and beford leaving they gave or sold to mr phillips an old anvil of antiquated shape and style but ant something which they appeared to value highly and only at last ds posed of be because clause their wagon was heavily loaded and the muddy roads roada made desirable the lightening of their burden in every possible pop isible way their for and reluctance to part with the anvil will be understood from the fact that it was at that time over four hundred years year old upon its it side appears the date ot its manufacture 1406 also its weight 81 pounds pound the age ot of the rello relic be became cowne gradually v known iu in the vicinity to mr thatcher among other othen thin gentleman besides being a blask blaek sinith alth was waa also a lover of aa ties and he became the owner of it at we the death of mr phillips when at an auction sole sale of he be secured cured it after bidding at a figure many times higher than me ruling price of anvils since tb theu he be ballex habited it at al various county ana an 06 expositions and has baa won wn Bu meroa premiums prem luma with it as ac boing the relic colic on OB exhibition Thea aba moot soot notable victory ot of this kind was waa in ia ane 80 en ton alaj alai year when the elalee of a free year old dutch oven which to have clear ailing for er the neat first apfl were demolished by the and evenly cearold ye year arold old anvil its ita present weight to exactly thirty amade it baving become somewhat lighter through losses lores by rust during its ito long sod and eventful career but it is still in excellent condition and for certain kinds of to Is much more re convenient than abe ordinary slum glumay and stubby implement of abo ain same name when it is recalled that the article described was madwin made mare ore than eighty years before the be discovery of america by columbus and was probably brought to the now new world by one of its earliest colonists the anxiety to learn amet biag bing more of its if history prior to mr That acquisition of it will be easily understood the therefore takes pleasure la in in sti inquiries as to any reader knows the name of the he flamily family who campea with mr phillips oear near keosauqua iowa after the terrible expulsion from nauvoo mud and if there SIG arany soy living members of that family whether they can tell anything about the anvil they disposed of to him bim just before starting their journey westward to the mountains |