This morning while I was cutting cedars from the pasture fence by the road, B stopped to chat. It's always a pleasure to converse with this 20 something farmer. He lives very near to the pasture. For at least thirty minutes we had a delightful, wide ranging conversation. Perhaps stopping to visit with a neighbor over a fence was more common in the past. It brought a story to mind.
While I was living in Mohall, ND., near the border of Canada, Art was a dentist in town. He told me this story. In addition to dentistry Art did some farming. One day he was doing some fieldwork across the fence from his neighbor, Wes. who was also in the field. Stopping to chat Wes said, "I've got to come to see you, I have a terrible toothache." Art said, "Let me see." Wes opened his mouth and Art said, "We can take care of that, lie down on your back." Wes lay down and Art used a plier to pull Wes' tooth. Unanswered is the question, did Art charge him? 😀 Field dentistry, who would have thought?
Takk for alt,
Al
Mohall was founded in 1901 by M.O. Hall, a businessman from Duluth, Minnesota. The city was originally named Hall but this conflicted with another community in North Dakota with the same name, so it was changed to Mohall in 1902. In 1910, Mohall was established as the county seat for Renville County.[6] The Renville County Courthouse opened in 1937.
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