The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-03-22

ard and II. V Abl,Oft 60 To Lawrence. haii-
!. aas ,oo,.. where they will engag'. In the POM
and shoe business The boys are both
workers and live business men. and the good
people of Lawrence may expect to ste the
..fur fiy'' when they get down to business.
Tie members of the Gymnasium Associa-
. ton have concluded to erect building for
their own use. The sum Of S3l0 were raised
for this purpose at their meeting on Tuesday
evening. and the members were not all pres
emt They will raise about As much more be
fore they proceed with their enterprise They
have not decided on the location.
Mr. Chas. Holmqvist has five men con-
stantly employed at his harness shop, and
still is unable to supply the demand. Char
ley has built up splendid trade and Is max
ing his mandatory one OF the best In the
West. Although he has no harness on hand
now. farmers are notified that their wants can
be supplied by Saturday of this week.
The sportiye March winds occasionally send
all poorly anchored articles to Davy's locker or
some other foreign sea port. The bowling
wolf in the canyon does not get up near so
| satisfactorily mnurnful music az the March
breeze. Those in need of good articles Of
carerwauing or iuonbrious dismalness arc
especially recommended to the compir roller
of the winds of The third month Of the year.
He will warrant his wares just as represented.
W. S. Wells cigar mandatory Mt this place
outranks all Others in Kansas. He keeps seven
men at work in the shop. has branch at
Georgetown. Colorado. and employs A. T..
Sander. as his travelling man, who is busy
working up the trade nearly all the time. IL.
Harms. prop rietor of another factory, is also
building up a fine local and jobbing trade.
Salinas cigars. like her flour, take the
premium in all the provinces.
! When we get awful hard up and. just before
the bank closes in the afternoon. walk up to Il
man who owes us fifty or sixty dolarS-rely
ing Oh his paying that amount to keep us out
of the clutches OF sight draft on lis last dav
Of grace and he pulls out OF his pocket big roll
of money. hands us a So bill, asking Us if that
Twill do for to-day"--saying he will pay
the balance before the first Of the mUnth-then
do our emotions swell to the largest dimen-
sions and cause us to rush up to him. in our
gratitude. shake him by the hand and my
dear sir, YOU are as great as the universe
4 gentleman connected with what he repre-
sents to be quite an extensive manufacturing
establishment, now located at Bloomfield.
Iowa. has written to parties here proposing 20
locate the establishment at SaIina, provided
sufficient inducements are offered. He repre-
SCENTS that he will engage in the foundry bust
ness. manufacture plows and agricultural I'M
p'enents, etc. etc. Further particulars will
be given regarding the matter,.a soon as the
reliability of the concern is aSccrtained and the
terms upon which it c;.n be locate here.
We are to have it at last Yes. We are We
are TO have an uptown telegraph Office. The
telegraph poles ara already set from town to
the depot. The office is To lr i'm Whitehead Il
Seanian's store The lire runs from that place
west on Iron Avenue, on the south side there
OF. to Ninth street, and on the west side of
that street to The depot. A Miss Perry
relative of Mr.. f &. Jackson, is to be the OPP
orator. The wire aud other apparatus will be
put in place this week. This new line is
spendid thing for the city. 1t has long been
needed and we believe the Western Union will
be amply repaid for the expense they are to be
put to in building aud operating the line.
That great railroad magnate. Tom. aimp-
son.accompaned BY somebody from st. Louis.
WAS in town last Friday. trying to get up a
narrow giage railroad fever. Our people do
not seem inclined to favor any north and south
project. And We should judge fro II the tone
of the Minneapolis papers that the Ottawa
county people were opposed to it. Salna is
in favor OF line by tie way of itoxbury 10
Florence. For that route she proposes to do
something. if opportunity is offered. While
on this subject it viii be in place for us to
state that Salina will always look with su>-
pcion Oh any railroad enterprise which Is SD
lame as to take up Tom. or Matt Simpson for
its champion. Saline county has once been
duprd by frauds and does not propose to be so
again.
One thing OF Importance to farmers was
discovered uring the great fire on the Saline
Hills. last week Tuesday evening. Celebrity
of movement in setting out head and back
fires was all important. One OF the parties
assisting in staying the advance of the flames
got up an ingenious, continuance which WAS
used with powerful effect. 1t was simple
garden iron hoe. A bunch of dry prairie grass
was first collected and then set on fire. The
noe was applied TO the pile. and the burning
whiSpS,wcre drawn along over the prairie b. n
party ut running gait.s-tting out an even fire
along the pathway. This was found to be a
great improvement over the old method of
stonping-down-and-bur your hands a nd
whi>kers- plan. Mr.. NJ. e. Page, wins in
forms Us of this incident. says farmers should
try it and they will be surpriSe,lto see how
nicely IL works. 1t will be found of good
Use in making ire guards. The hoe. as il is
drawn along. gathers the grass aud ALWAYS
has sufficient grass fuel with which 10 feed the
flames.
Revs II Lockwood and Z. F. Hill return !
ed Monday evening from the VI Z Conference
held al Holton. last week. Mr.. Hill informs /
Us that IL was ono of the best conferences eyer
held in Kansas. He also tell us the gratifying
news that The next conference is to be held AZ
Salna. Elder lockwood had hardly arisen
from his STAT TO make the proposition TO hold (
the conference here when calls for .-Sllina"
were made all over the room. aud il was voted