Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — BOYS PUMP THE WELL DRY [ARTICLE]

BOYS PUMP THE WELL DRY

Wanted to See a Water Wheel Work and Left Their Play—Clever Work of Citizen. Brazil, Ind. —Finding that surface water running into his well had made the water impure, a citizen of Brazil started to pump his well dry. After pumping half an hour in the hot sun, he gave up the job. Then he made a miniature water wheel, which he attached to the end of a trough. After he had attracted the attention of several boys who were playing on a vacant lot, he went to his work. When he returned in the evening, the boys had pumped the well dry, to see the wheel go round.