[CARTER'S FENCE]
Fairwater Register, February 12, 1904

   A man by the name of Long is charged with cutting through Ed Carter's fence that he might avoid the snow drifts. Well, Ed's fence is a new one and in fact the best fence on the road, being of woven wire and put up only last fall. What makes it still more dastardly there was a gate only four rods from where the fence was cut and could have been used much handier if it had been really necessary. Well, we guess Ed had a right to get mad about it, as a load of beer passed right down the road the next day without going through the field so many are of the opinion that the cutting of the wire was unjust and uncalled for. Nevertheless, Ed has made the party agree to pay for the repairing of the same. People should not be too hasty in cutting through fences of this kind.

[Transcription courtesy of Barb Vande Brink]