The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-26
HOARD
 IN A DREAM
DEAD GRANDFATHER SHOWED WHERE HE HID e4.o0o IN AN
 OVEN
Posred Ocins sn . Table and Thea Counted Them--In the Morning Search Was Made in the Oven and the Treasure Was
 Found.

New York World.
 Miss Lucy Alvord, of Tayiortown, N T., told her brother. Claude. on Sum day morning that her grandfather. who died in 1887. came to her in a dream the night before. appearing so natural that. although she had never seen picture of him, she recognised him from her mothers description. He was middle aged and wore . beard In the dream he seemed to shske Miss Alvord and arouse here. She stared at him and was about to speak. but he indicated silence and motioned her to follow him.
 she followed him Into the kitchen of the house, wing that was built long before the Revolution. The house itself has been occupied by the Alvord family for i've generations.
 Poured Cold on the Table.
 Stepping to the north aide of the great room the man opened the iron door of the brick oven alongside the fireplace. He stepped inside the big oven and reappeared with a stone jar which he set on the table in the mid ale of the room. He then seemed ob- livious to the presence of Miss Aivord and to her. in the dream. his conduct seemed perfectly natural He dug his hands into the crock and brought them out filled with gold pieces He emptied the crock on the table and began to stack and count the money. He made separate stacks of English and Amer ican coins and of the different denomi- nations. He made hgures on a slip of paper. which he totalied and put in his pocket.
 Then the visitor put the money back into the crock and crawled into the oven. Miss Aivord peered in and saw him wall up the crock with bricks and mortar which were waiting. The oven is six feet deep and the new wall was scarcely noticeable fin the cured the man closed and locked the iron door. Then Miss Aivord woke up.
 When she met her brother ct break. fast she told him the story. The viv- idness of her dream had frightened her. But she insisted that her brother attack the wall of the oven. She was confident thatshe would find the stone crock and the treasure. He laughed at her. but to humor her went at the wall with crowbar. The first light blow went through the wall. A few blows demolished 1t, and there lay a crock such as the woman had seen in her dream.
 @A,000 sm Goid in she Crock.
 The excitement of the sister and brother knew no bounds. They dragged out the crock and opened it and before their eyes lay gold. They emptied 1t on the kitchen tahle+-a table made generations ago out of a slab of pine. They counted the money
 Tn the heap of gold was four thou sand and some odd dollars. The stacks weighed eighteen pounds on grocer's scales.
 The hoard belonged to Silas Aivord the grandfather. in all probability. He wae the last of the family to work an iron forge on the place. He made anchors. anchor chains and other tm- piements. When he died. in 1887, it was thought he had a fortune. Ap- pareutly, however. he left nothing but the farm, valuable in itself. Then hts relatives thought he had lost his mon ey in wild eat banIxs.
 Miss Alvord's story of the strange dream and of the finding of the hoard of gold was told about the country side. and all day yestakaAy neighbors heard her repeat It &nd looked in the oven nna eew where the bricks had been rsfia