Veteran Subscriber Writes First Letter

By H. A. Somers and over
Published on September 1, 1971
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H. A. Somers
Mr. Somers 20-60 case and Red River special 28'' separator on the road to do a little threshing in 1964. The dog on the seat is Prince and he loved to ride on the engine going down the street. Courtesy of H. A. Somers, Andover, South Dakota 57422.

South Dakota

I was born on a farm two miles north of Rhodes, Iowa, in 1893
and can just remember when they used the hand feed separators and
the straw carriers. In nineteen hundred we moved to the town of
Rhodes, Iowa, where my folks operated a hotel.

Across the street from where we lived there was a sawmill owned

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