Rain a week earlier had forced the postponement of the annual Five Point Steam Threshers, but, it was “full steam ahead” on July 23. Several thousand people turned out to watch as area farmers used antique steam engines to thresh the wheat. For more than six decades the “threshing bee” has been held to demonstrate how farmers sift wheat granules from bales. The farme...

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