Included here are marriages, births, divorces, departures, arrivals, special celebrations, tragic accidents, etc. We have tried to indicate this when those names show up. Sylvan is again without a physician. The people of that town must either be dead or disgustingly well off so far as the state of their health is concerned. Mr. GUNN is the man who built the railroad into Lincoln nine years ago and bought up all the desirable property along the route, and not withstanding the fact that he has a national reputation as a writer on finance, he fell down on boom investments like a very ordinary speculator.
Bacon creek is dry and water is very scarce.
Few old soldiers had a deservedly better time than they. For a democrat to absent himself for any cause whatever is to stamp himself a political coward, a backslider or a bushwacker. A proposition was published prior to election that would put the issue before voters to purchase a tract of land and erect the necessary buildings and improvements for the purpose of an asylum for the poor of Lincoln county. It provided for assessing a tax upon the taxable property of the county to pay for the asylum, not to exceed four thousand dollars. He has threshed up to this time 19,629 bushels of wheat and oats, and will overreach the twenty thousand mark by the time he is through.