LOST HER WAY

[Janet Harrington]

  Last Friday night at 9:30 a little girl about 12 years old came to the home of Henry Churchman and gave her name as Nora Johnson, with a story of a fifteen mile walk part of it in the dark.  Her home is at Severy and she had gone to Moline to visit friends and was told by the agent there that the family had moved away the week before.  The child had no money to pay for a night's lodging and without consulting anyone, started about 4 o'clock to walk back to Severy.  She took the wrong railroad out of town and when she reached Elk Falls, thought she was at Fiat.  It was already dark and no light in the depot, so she walked on.  As she crossed the bridges she began to realize that she was not on the Severy road and when she got near the depot in Longton seeing the light in the Churchman house went there and told her story.  A warm supper and a good night's sleep revived her spirits and Mr. Churchman put her on the morning train with a ticket for Severy. - Longton Gleaner.

(This story makes me wonder if Mr. Churchman telegraphed the Severy depot to let her parents know where she was.  Since we don't have a date on this story it would be hard to imagine that there was even a telegraph.)

[Janet Harrington]

Ms. T,

Please delete this post as I already posted it once.