Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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The "Charlotte News," August 18, 1902:

Vincennes, Ind.,. Aug. 17. George Flowers, a young farmer, bought a strip of land at Sand Ridge, near this place, on which was located the oldest cemetery in this section.

The cemetery was surrounded by a grove and contained 300 headstones. Flowers removed the headstones, throwing some of them into the Embarrass river and with the others built a foundation for his house. He plowed the cemetery and planted it with melons and potatoes.

Although similar crops on the rest of the farm grew in abundance the cemetery crop has been eaten up by a strange bug.

Flowers' house seems to be haunted. For several nights past, it is alleged, the building has shaken violently. Flowers, his wife and two children are distracted with fear, and have fled from the place.

People having relatives buried threaten to prosecute Flowers for obliterating the graves without giving them notice. His brother and sister and two children lie buried in the devastated cemetery.

Flowers secured the money from his father, Frank Flowers, in Colorado Springs, to buy the farm. Today lightning struck; the barn on Flowers' place and burned stock and building.

Everyone who is surprised by that turn of events, raise your hands.