The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-02-08
FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY.
The Crops and GrasshOppers-IAmus
men;s. Entertainments, and Per-
sOnal GoSsip-Badly Frozen.

WINCHESTER, February ).

hlNChEsIEh, IcUIudry y.
Our people we're pleased wlth the course
our Representatives, kunkle and Hoge-
boom, took in the Sen atorial contest. We
were for Harvey first, bat Plumb seems to
give pretty general satisfaction.
Since my last letter number OF Winches-
teri,es attended very entertaining social
gathering at Fairfield School House. Cakes
we're voted 10 Miss Mamie Clark as the
handsomest young lady; to Mrs. DR.. Bates,
as the handsomest married lady, and to
Hon. Levi Wilhelm a. the ugliest man. The
Squire bears his blushing honors with be-
coming dignity.
10 recent trip TO the southern part of
the county, called on Mr.. James Morgan.
a well-to-do farmer, living about six miles
west of Lawrence. Mr.. Morgan, every
year successfully raises enough cotton to
make his stocking yarn and pad his quilts,
etc Mr.. Morgan thinks, with an average
season, one might cultivate the plant with
comparative success in Jefferson county.
Query for the Nafwdlis:-Does the Meadow
Lark Usually remain in Northern Kansas
all winter? i saw one January 81, and
heard him sing as cheeri,y as on MAY
day.
Having examined several wheat fields,
/ am satisfied that the prospects are good
for large yield. This warm weather has
caused the fields TO present greenish ap-
pearance.
IL ill - all
liability rid US of the grasshoppers Tor next
year. There is no doubt but the eggs will
begin TO terminate, and if it continues
much longer, some of them will hatch, and
then goodbye grasshopper. knew a SIM
liar instance in Central Iowa, a few years
ago.
Geo. A. Huron, on January 81, hands
the Ne,c Era the following item: Ny bees
ewarmed to-day, and were hived in good
order, and are doing we'll. With blue
birds and robins singing, masons working
in their shirt sleeves, and bees swarming, it
looks like old winter had met with a gener-
al burst up.
Master Harry Boyle, OF Boyle Station, a
lad Of fourteen year,, is q subscriber OF the
WEEKLY TINES. He pays his subscription
by building fires at the school house, one
mile distant from his home which shows
how the young folks appreciate TIE
TINES.
Ga last Thursday evening, we were
treated to q very fine panoramic chow by a
gentlemen from Leavenworth. He was
greeted with a we'll filled house, and hs
views we're good.
Squire Wilhelm ard the insurance agents
are having it. he wants permit to keep
80 pounds of guDpowder, and they do not
know about it.
On Saturday last Mr.. Wilhelm shipped
seven car loads of corn-ths largest chip
ment ever made from this place.
On one of tbose cold days about the mid
die of January last, little con Of Mr.. John
Gwynn near this place. ten years Of age.
while going to school, about . mile and
quarter away, froze one of his feet very bad
". He thawed it out immediately on
reaching the fire, and endured the con.e-
quent pain like q hero during the entire
day. Though he evidently suffered, he told
no one the source of it. Walking home at
close Of school he again froze . pari of his
foot, which his parents discovered, and ap-
piled some domestic remedies. Congestion
Of the lung, AID partial paralysis of the
limbs on the same side followed in few
days. DR.. Lemon, of this place was called,
and every effort made to restore the Affect
ed parts but the foot persisted, and the
lleshy parts separated At the ankle Joint.
But the hope thus left of preserving some
THAT useful limb was coon blasted, as sus-
picious spots began to appear above this
line. On last Thureday, tFeb IL DR.. W.
q. Lemon, assisted BY Drs Trover and
Craig Of this place, amputsted the limb
hove the knee, n the entire leg below vas
Quad 10 be gangrenous.
Hopes are ensersained, 1t this writing. of
liz recovery, - the surgeon reports the
stump" looking very we'll, and the little
elIovS spirits line. Inc.