Quyon Lions collecting for burned-out family: The home of Stanley Kearns on the Mine Road back of Quyon burned to the ground at about 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Kearns and their five children lost everything, including their tractor in a nearby shed, escaping the fire with only their nightclothes.

The family will be living in the old Leo O’Reilly house and the Lions Club of Quyon is already collecting some of the essential things the Kearns family needs.
There is no electricity in the old farmhouse they have moved into but they intend to get wiring in very soon.

Thrashing oats in Clarendon Front: The high price of gasoline just couldn’t matter less to the happy farmers on the Zion Line of Clarendon as they used a wood burning steam engine thrasher in a field of oats just the way their grandfathers did it seventy years ago when this machine was first brought to the area.

The scene in the Lennon Thomas oat field this week seemed out of this world and almost out of this century with one huge steam engine being stoked by slab wood and doing the hard work for the thrashing crew.