The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-06-13
To Salina and Back.

To Salina and Back.
Under the above heading, W. II.
johnson, of the Russell Advance, has
tho following to say of his late visit to
this city:
At half past nine Childs and your
humble servant took breakfast at tho
Pacific House, whore vas served rel
ishsble meal, and then went over ito
town; Childs to the Land O1fce and 70
to receive the grsStings of old friends.
After time We strayed into the Advo-
cate Office, and found all hands busily
employed. The boys are getting ready
to issue morning daily paper, they say
on tho 18th of this month, but it seems
they hsve "counted without their host"
for that date. They have q pile of work
on hand before they get started-to re.
move into new building now in the
course of construction, to set up the:.ma-
chinery and prepare for the paper from
top to bottom, al. in tho space of ton
days from the time we were there. The
publishers are chuck full of enthusiasm
in their enterprise, and We know of no
set of men who are moro likely to dis
charge tho task within tho given time
than they.
After time Dave Beebe, the editor,
came in, shook hands and invited us out
four miles into the country. to take .
ride. Yes, We went, out south. It was
. delightful ride, along the valley of the
Smoky and past some grand farms.
Here, two miles and . half from Salina,
is the farm of Judge Prescott. The
Judge is an agriculturalist after our own
heart, or such as We propose to be when
We turn farmer. He has q good house
and the appointments match, and, best
of all, he bad tour hundred acres Of
wheat not to be excelled. - :.
Then after three hours we came back
to Dawes own place. He has, this sea-
son, been devoting q considerable por-
ton of his time to gardening, and con-
siders that to pay him as we'll as bis
newspaper. He has fifty acres on the
south border of town, grown to vege-
tables, wheat and corn, and all sur
rounded by thrifty, eight-foot hedge.
Dave is proud Of bis garden, and We
would be if We were in in his place. He
is an amiable fellow, and his is . coxy
retreat. We wound up that part of our
exero,ses by dining With him and his
wife, Kentucky lady Of intelligence.
Salina has spread herself out beyond
conjecture. The farm fields of four
years ago are the sites of city residences.
Building is going on at almost every
point. Business is good, and the stocks
are large and numerous. On Christmas
Day, 1871, fire destroyed nearly all
the business houses on tho west side of
Santa Fe avenue. A year or two later
the flames took in an equal scope on the
east side. The fires were beneficial to
the town, as the buildings have been re-
placed with better and larger blocks.
We found L. E. Sampson "at home"
at the JOURNAL Office, enjoying the hard
earned fruits of years Of labor. The
JOURNAL is the best apportioned and fit
ted up printing Office west of Topeka,
and is A No. local paper. NJ. D., the
senior of the brothers of the JOURNAL,
recently appointed Honorary Commits
sioner to the Paris Exhibition, we were
informed, sailed from New York last
Sunday morning.
Wheat harvest had just commenced.
We became convinced MIR. Phillips
was strong at homo as a Congressional
candidate.