He's had tractors and numerous other one-cylinder engines similar to the Fairbanks Morse that were common from 1910 into the 1940s as farm power equipment, but the Rumely is his latest prized possession. The Rumely was a successful tractor, but the company went out of business when several years of drought brought financial hardships on the Canadian farmers who made up most of the Rumely tractor business. Learning to change engine oil, replace spark plugs and work on a vehicle's brakes...

December 2003: Meteorological equipment installed on nearby communications tower. Wind farm zoning timeline. Ellis County Commission minutes: year-long moratorium adopted for countywide zoning. May 9, 2005: Commissioners ratified a resolution appointing the Ellis County Planning and Zoning Commissioners. The members were: Gene Bittel, Jo Kraus (vice-chairman), Charles Rohr, Richard Weber, Jim Scheck, Leo Dorzweiler, Kent Laas and Lance Russell (chairman) This is the first and only...

Police are still investigating what caused the tractor to leave the road. An OPP technical collision investigator has been assigned to the case. Grey County OPP say Roy Kenneth Jacobs of RR 4 Durham was driving a Massey Ferguson farm tractor north on Sideroad 41 in Southgate at about 3:15 p. Emergency crews found Jacobs underneath the tractor. He was taken to the Durham hospital, where he died of his injuries.

NEW YORK Blue chip stocks rose yesterday as news of a potential big telecom deal involving Verizon pushed the Dow Jones industrials to a new record close. Although broader market indexes showed slight declines, the notion of a Verizon deal appeared to inject Wall Street with fresh optimism and helped stocks mostly hold last week's sizable gains because buyout activity has been a big driver for the stock market in the past year. NEW YORK Blue chip stocks rose yesterday as news of a...

Consumers have begun to move up the quality scale for the same article says, "Though much of the baijiu sold in China is still cut-price firewater, the industry's profits have soared in recent years as newly affluent urban drinkers focus on more premium brands. Consumers have begun to move up the quality scale for the same article says, "Though much of the baijiu sold in China is still cut-price firewater, the industry's profits have soared in recent years as newly affluent urban drinkers...

The first hearing took place on April 26, when the Tianjin subsidiary of John Deere, an American-based Fortune 500 maker of farming and agricultural equipment, was sued for verbal abuse by three employees of Maige, a Beijing interior decoration firm contracted by the American firm to work on a project in the northern city last autumn. The first hearing took place on April 26, when the Tianjin subsidiary of John Deere, an American-based Fortune 500 maker of farming and agricultural...