the past forty years. The Chiques creek is one-third less now than it was then. As regards rainfall, he said it is always greater where there was timber, instancing the lower end of the county where it is one-third greater than it is in any other part of the county." —March 7, 1876 In a quiet and

ground it required the presence of a boy to work the bolted stuff in the bolting apparatus. There once lived on Hammer Creek at a place known as Brubaker's Mill, a man by the name of Peter Stauffer. This Peter Stauffer had seven sons and the seventh son was the great grandfather of Jacob Stauffer, the