MARION COUNTY ITEMS

WINDERS, MCKERN, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 4/30/2006 at 17:30:22

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, February 17, 1875

MARION COUNTY ITEMS:

From the Journal, Feb. 11th - Albia has raised $20,000, the amount asked by
the Q. & St. P. Company for building the road to that place and locating its
round house and machine shop there.

MR. DANIEL WINDERS, formerly of this county, sends payment for the Journal
in quarter-dollar gold pieces, of two styles, one round and the other
octagon in shape. They are very minute, but are of sterling California gold
and current here at par.

A new town is about to be started, under the name of Fontan, about six miles
southeast of Sandyville, Warren County, and four and a half miles from
Caloma, this county, in the Quaker settlement.

MRS. NANCY MCKERN, living four miles south of Knoxville, was injured by the
accidental discharge of a shot-gun last Thursday evening. Her son, fourteen
years old, had been hunting rabbits, and in her attempt to unload the boy of
his game, the gun was discharged, a number of shot entering her leg just
below the knee.

The dwelling of SAMUEL A. CRAWFORD, five miles south of Knoxville, on the
Gosport road, was burned last Monday night, with its entire contents. MR. C
and his wife were away at neighbors, attending sick persons at the time of
the fire.
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