Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — MOVED WELL INTO THE ROAD [ARTICLE]

MOVED WELL INTO THE ROAD

Experience of Ezra -Tetlow Provea That Hole tn the Ground Is Not . ■ Always Permanent Fixture. There is the old story about the man who pulled up a well and took It to a more desirable location, and another about the man who took up a well, sawed It In j sections, and used one of the sections for a land roller. They were exaggerations, but the experience of Ezra Tetlow proves that a well cannot always be classed as a permanent fixture. Ezra had a well in front of his house. It had never been a success as a well. Ezra wanted it filled up. One way would have been to haul stones or earth and use the material to fill It. But Ezra had no team. So he went at it with a shovel. Working on the side of the well next to the road, he began to dig and to throw the dirt into the wed. He kept this up until he had filled It, which was not a difficult job, as the well was rather shallow. But when the task seemed finished/ Sara found that he had made a new hole by the side of the one he had been filling. There was but one thing to do; he proceeded to fill It in the same manner. Of course, this resulted in still another excavation, which In turn received similar treatment. As all of Ezra’s digging had been on the side of the well nearest the road, the result was that the hole in the ground was finally moved out into the highway. Judson Tolliver was commenting on the exploit one day down at the Corners. “Queer thing Ezra did,” he remarked. “You know that old well that stood in his front yard? Well, sir, he’s moved it thirty feet from where it was; moved it clear out into the road!” “How’d he do it?" Inquired another representative citizen. “You’ll have to ask Ezra,” replied Judson. "But he did it, sure enough. I saw the well in the road yesterday, and I saw the track he made movin’ It, The thing plowed a furrow four feet wide all the way.”—Youth’s Companion.