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But Hester did not know the full amount of her debt to her foster aunt nor did Miss Richards; for Debby kept her own secret in regard to Hester's parentage and no one but herself knew the fearful weight it was upon her. Thursday morning, Miss Richards and Debby Alden started for Lockport. This was a small city and the county seat.
Twenty-five houses were leveled to the ground in this stretch. On the Lockport road, south of Idaho, at least sixteen houses were destroyed, but there were no fatalities and few were injured in this immediate neighborhood. Mrs. Flora Wood was hurled seven feet from her home, her small baby clasped in her arms. They were cared for at the Third United Brethren Church. The day-old baby of Mrs.
Conkling notified the committees that he would not speak out of doors, and that they must in all cases provide a hall. When we arrived at Lockport, N. Y., the chairman of the committee, Burt Van Horn, who was the congressman from the district, told the senator that at least twenty thousand people from the town, and others coming from the country on excursion trains, had filled the Fair Grounds.
The students had been taken care of in the country houses which stood on the hills back of Flemington. These were the only places for miles about which had not been flooded. As soon as communication with other places had been made, Doctor Weldon was kept busy sending and receiving telegrams. Each father and mother was distracted when news of the flooding of Lockport came.
Thus it is claimed that Rev. G. Rockwood spent the longest term of ministerial service at one installation in Niagara county but one, which was Rev. W. C. Wisner of the First Presbyterian church, Lockport, N.Y. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, when they withdrew Rev.
On the journey, the question naturally addressed to them by people not familiar with Western Indians was, "Do you talk English?" The young fellow, being very observant, came to his Father. "What do they mean by this? Everybody says to me, talk English!" The Agent interpreted the words to him. "Ah, very well." The next place they arrived at was Lockport, in the State of New York.
"No woman should be content to sit at home and not improve her time. With Hester gone, there will be nothing to keep you here. The school is but a short distance from town. Why not rent a small flat?" "But what would I do with no responsibilities? Keeping two or three rooms in order will not employ my time." "Lockport is famed for lectures and recitals. Study-clubs are plentiful.
"We'll not have much time in Lockport anyhow. I have another plan now," but he did not tell his chums what it was. Two weeks later school closed, and the boys completed their preparations for going camping. They packed up their tent and other stuff and shipped it to Lockport.
Of all the thousand and one towns I saw in America, I think Buffalo is the queerest looking; it is not quite so wild as Lockport, but all the buildings have the appearance of having been run up in a hurry, though every thing has an air of great pretension; there are porticos, columns, domes, and colonnades, but all in wood.
Louis, Natchez, Mobile, Nashville, Louisville and Lexington, are all half a century old, and each had arrived at years of discretion, while yet the sites of Buffalo, Rochester, Lockport, Canandaigua, Geneva, Auburn, Ithaca, Oswego, Syracuse, and other large towns in Western New-York, were a wilderness.
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