A WATCH LOST AND FOUND.
Mr WUlaad J. Parker, proprietor of the Mineral Spring Stock ana Pasture Farm, at Junction City, __ana>, writes in regard to a Waterbury watch .—Four years ago I had a boy working tar mc, and some time In August, ISS-The traded for a Waterbury, and, boy-like, he scratched his initials on the back case. He lost the watch in the hayfield Ihe second day after trading for it, and could not nod it. A few days since my little girl, while raking hay, saw something glisten. When the horse and rake had passed over she ran to it, and behold it was a Waterbury. She brought it to mc, and there Were the scratched initials, proving It to be the watch which was lost lour years ago. Since the watch waslost, I have made hay on the ground three times, and have bad three prairie fires pass over the watch; yet when my daughter brought the watch to mc I wound it up and was surprised to see it begin running, and still more so to find that it keeps accurate time. lam carrying the watch myself. The crystal was cracked, and the case somewhat tarnished, but otherwise none the worse for wear. The watch is quite a treasure in the family. The children each want to wind the ** ticker" as they call it.
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Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7567, 2 June 1890, Page 2
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229A WATCH LOST AND FOUND. Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7567, 2 June 1890, Page 2
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