CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Scene on the H. C. Possehl Home Farm at Baker 



H. C. Possehl located at Baker in 

 the spring of 1902, coming from Iowa. 

 He bought the L. H. Baker farm, 250 

 acres, adjoining the townsite, and a 

 year later purchased from Mr. Baker 

 the general store. For eleven years 

 Mr. Possehl was post master at Baker 

 and was one of the promoters of the 

 rural mail route starting from that 

 village. Mr. Possehl later purchased 

 the Evans farm, 480 acres, in section 

 10 in Alliance, and now operates both 

 farms. He also deals extensively in 

 potatoes and has a cellar and ware- 

 house on the Great Northern track at 

 Baker. Mr. Possehl is also interested 

 in the automobile business at Barnes- 

 ville. 



The illustrations show the buildings 

 on the home farm. 



Frank P. Thompson is one of the old 

 settlers of Elmwood township and one 

 of the leading farmers of the Sabin- 

 Baker neighborhood. He located on 

 the home farm in 1880 and has been 

 an industrious and thrifty tiller of the 

 soil. His fine farm home, shown in the 

 illustration, is modern and complete in 

 every way. Mr. Thompson is one of 

 the men who accomplish things with- 

 out making much noise about it. 



Potatoes and grain are the leading 

 crops, about 70 or 80 acres of the for- 

 mer being grown each year. A fair- 

 sized herd of Shorthorn cattle is kept, 

 and fat steers can always be found on 

 the Thompson farm. 



Mr. Thompson attends closely to the 

 business of the farm. He is also inter- 



Part of Frank P. Thompson Farmstead, Alliance Township 



