Lightning Stories of Yore

The subject is lightning. Let me start small. My dad told me that old timers wouldn’t have a white horse because they attracted lightning. Here’s more. In 1897, lightning struck the millinery shop in Table Rock. It scared the bejeebers out of the young ladies there, Maggie Sutton and Elva Layman, but they were not hurt. That’s from the June 1, 1897 Fremont Tri-Weekly. Four years later, Table Rock …