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Town of Windmills Found In State. Johnstown- town where every house has a windmill is Johnstown, which nestles on the edge of Nebraska's sandhills, 10 miles southwest of Ainsworth and looks, were it not for The modern brick buildings on Main street and the fine new high school buildings, more like a scine from Holland than an American village. First there is the "big windmill" at the railway station. a truly gigantic affair, and most efficient in the wind country. Scattered throughout the town, which has no central water works, are numerous oth r win.Im Hs, all pumping busily on an ave.age of 300 days out of the 365, for breezelers days are few. Jobnstown, with an official popula tion of 200, at present has no mayor but a city council which conducts its affairs. It claims to be the smallest town its size in the country to have had continuously since 1906, a weekly newspaper. There are two churches, an accredited 12-grade school and a new municipal auditorium. Although the bank is closed and the 10wn has bsen hard hit by the de pression, it is optimistic. For Johns town, since its official birthday in 1883, has seen hard times before. There were log. cabin days, when ridge poles fell, bringing injury and often death, when a person with a broken arm traveled 75 miles by ox cart to have It set, and there were fires, one of which, in February, 1920 destroyed the entire west side of Main street. The street was promptly rebuilt with brick and tile buildings; and each disaster has been utilized to build the town on a surer footing