| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 4/12/1898.
About five years ago a man by the name of M.W. Stout came to the Hur
circuit, this county M. P. church. And some time after his arriving
he began courting and finally married Miss Hannah, daughter of Joseph Slider.
He being badly afflicted, having but one leg, and being on a very meager
salary, strong and able bodied men prophecied that he would either starve
or go the poor house. But just to show what pluck and perseverance
will do we want to relate the following: His father in-law gave him
a small tract of woods land on which he built a small house and has since
enlarged it, but after building he went to work with his own hands to clearing
out his land and raise grain, the result is that he has been selling corn
for three successive years. A wide awake business man informs the
Chronicle that he is prompt in the payment of his accounts and that he
still has eight or ten bushels of corn to sell this spring. If a
man with one leg can raise corn for sale, what ought an able bodied man
do? |
