122 Years with the Ste. Genevieve Herald, The Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, MO

February 5, 2003
75 Years Ago - 1903
Friday morning of last week a three-room frame house came floating down the Mississippi River and lodged on the sandbar opposite the County Poor Farm nursing home.  Parties who discovered it, and rowed over to it, say the house is in good condition, and as well as can be ascertained is empty.  The house is still on the bar and about three feet of the roof shows above the water, which has been steadily rising for the past two weeks.  It is not known to whom the building belongs, but some think it may have floated away from some place on the Meramec where it had probably had been used as a clubhouse.  As far as we know no inquiries have as yet been made by the owners as to its whereabouts.