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wondered what became of it. Some of us 

 shook hands with him, not because we did 

 not know, but because we had not been 

 ofificially notified, and there were those 

 present who knew how it was themselves. 

 When the sheriff arrived Wilkins had 

 moved on, and Jimville organized a posse 

 and brought him back, because the sheriff 

 was a Jimville man and we had to stand 

 by him. 



I said we had the church fair at the 

 Silver Dollar. We had most things there, 

 ( dances, town meetings, and the kineto- 

 scope exhibition of the Passion Play. The 

 Silver Dollar had been built when the 

 borders of Jimville spread from Minton to 

 the red hill the Defiance twisted through. 

 "Side-Winder" Smith scrubbed the floor 

 for us and moved the bar to the back room. 

 The fair was designed for the support of 

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