
“Well! Well! Well! There is a mystery in the wells at Sugar Grove, on the AP highway, West Side, and the inhabitants of that settlement are trying to decide what is is all about.”
“Last Friday night some of the residents heard rumbling outside in the dark, cold, December air but paid little attention to the disturbance.”
“Saturday morning, when Charles Graham entered the yard he discovered that his cistern had raised up out of the ground about a foot and the bricks from the wall are still decorating the ground. The cistern is brick lined and cemented and contained about three gallons of water.”

“Foundations of the Graham home buckled inward about the same time the cistern hopped out of the ground.”
“HS Hazelbaker, who lives about three or four doors from Graham home, discovered that the gasoline tanks of his oil station had raised out of the ground about a foot the same night.”
“A well in a field on the Swords property nearby also had the ‘yeast’ habit. The cistern was dug last summer and was 22 feet deep and walled with rock. The cistern settled back the next day.”

“John Smith, agent for the Times at Sugar Grove vouches for the above stories as he examined the Graham well and the oil station.”
“Numerous theories have been advanced as to the cause of the phenomena. Some say it was caused by an earthquake. Others claim that a hillside neary slipped causing the wells to buckle. Others believe that some sort of subterranean explosion or upheaval is responsible for the disturbances. And others advance the hypothesis that pressure from a gas pocket deep down in the ground may have caused the uprising in Mother Earth. At any rate the residents of Sugar Grove have another unsolved mystery to unravel as they park themselves in front of their fire places during the long, cold winter night.”1