Good Old Days: August 6, 2020

8 years ago

The Commoner

August 9, 1895

War broke out among the farmers in the vicinity of Johnson on Friday evening last, resulting in the going away of Chas. Parks, Owen Horton, W.H. Gillespie and James Ellis, who were camped on the Lewis farms about three miles from Johnson, as agents of C.A. Leighton.

To tell the story from the beginning, on July 20 the sheriff sold over 600 acres of land belonging to George W., Jesse H., and H.J. Lewis, on foreclosure of mortgage, for about $700. The land was bought in by the mortgagee, C.A. Leighton.

On July 27, Leighton, through his attorney, before J...