Show old inscription Is Fo found foundoe on a boulder anabel mo scientists and historians are speculating over the meaning of some ame figures on a bou boulder on joe liongs farm south of here long had known tile boulder was there all the time but the protracted heavy rains pains in the spring washed off tile the face of it ft and some of the figures agures end and letters were easily made out by W L L magruder vocational agricultural instructor who came come over to examine the stone magruder Mn gruder made out the roman numerals 1044 1644 below that in arabic are the figures 1732 magruder Mn gruder pointed out that if those were dates they covered the period of active french exploration an in this country if they are to date the birth of some man the roman numerals are fairly contemporaneous with the birth ov of lasalle lasalie 1543 Henn hennegin hennepin epin 1640 and 1637 the activities of these explorers in america were in the latter part of the he seventeenth century |