CONTEXTS. 



Preface • • 3 



Earthquake Shock of 1909 -3 



Kennett "Had a Chill" 4 



•■Quake" of January 29, 1913 4 



New Madrid Earthquake, Bulletin 494.. 4 



"Sunk Lands" 5 



Comparison of San Francisco "Quake," 

 "Sand Blows" with Those of New 



Madrid "Quake" 5 



< cntennial of New '^ladrid "Quake".... 5 



I'rof. McGee's Prediction 6 



Residents' Account of 1898 "Quake"... 6 



Have All Contracts Written Ones 7 



"Jiggers" and Snakes 7 



Farm Purchase and Commission 8 



Trouble Keeping Potatoes 9 



Fireworks at Christmas 10 



Taxes 10 



Trust Deed and Notice of Sale 11 



Oats 12 



Country Too Hot for Horses 12 



"Mired Up" 12 



Home of the Ciiattel Mortgage 13 



Drinking Water 13 



Spy System 13 



Cockle Burrs 13 



■'Chopping Out" 14 



Down in the ■■Sticks" 14 



Fleas 14 



Heat Kills the Hogs 14 



Flies and Mosquitoes 14 



Watermelon Crop 14 



Typhoid Fever 15 



■Risings" lb 



The People Pay the Freight 17 



Hot Weather in This Country 18 



Hogs Dying with Cholera 18 



What You Take for "Chills" 18 



Pneumonia 19 



Cold Weather 20 



Rock Road 21 



Schools 21 



High Water of 1912 22 



Heavy Rains 22 



Potato Bugs and ■'Bull Nats" 22 



A. J. Matthews' ■'Dog Story" 23 



Roasting Fleas as a Pastime 25 



■■Swamp-East"' (Poetry) 25 



Mrs. Studabaker's ■'Chill Experience".. 26 



List ■ of Chill Tonics 26 



Dredge Ditches in ''Quicksands" 27 



"lulling" Chattel Mortgages 2P> 



My Visit with Mr. .Amos 28 



l^'inancial Exhibit 31 



Appendix 31 



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