The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-08-08
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yer; but b out again: He will move to town shortly
Dr. Lewis has sold his place at Columbus, and viii
move to wafhena And then the Burr-Oakers will
have to travel to find him.
A large viper, one Of the most poisonous snakes
known, was killed in town, Thursday last, while in
the act Of crawling from under Fritz Prizings saloon
| Ugh snakes ON the public streets!
fare y0u right sure the snake didnt escape from the
| boot Of some one of Fritz's customers i-Prl
Mrs. Servoes left for Fort Scott with her brother,
on Wednesday last.
Mrs Urah Griffith was dangerously i'll with conges-
tive chills last week. but is now slowly recovering
under the care of DR.. Carter
Never knew 90 much sickness at this time Of the
year. DIR. Carter is on the jump, day aud night.
Diseases mostly of bilious type-some dysentery and
aux
The old Craig store building looks natural again,
since Gus Fuellng moved his goods into it. Gus has
Of the incest and best arranged stores in the
West.
Capt. Fred. Paul will perhaps obtain pension, on
account of rupture got while in the army. He was
good soldier and deserves to be remembered by the
Government.
If the katydid sign is right look out for frost the
latter part of this month
In this vicinity pears, peaches and grapes will be
abundant In fact the pear crop will be heavy, for
the amount of trees growing. Inever trees hang
so full anywhere they are literally breaking down
with fruit and In many instances the limbs have to
be propped up, to keep them from breaking down. A
pear tree in Hank Beardsleys front yard is sight
look Mt. II il . small tree, but should judge there
are at least three bushels Of pears it. Pear trees
have suffered badly from blight, though. saw one
bghted limb cut from tree, which contained forty
FIVE large pears Too bad. The cause of pear blight
is supposed be too fast growth in too rich land.
told by a successful fruit grower, that pear trees
never blight on poor land. The gentleman says
he has fifteen twenty pear trees growing stony
elayey hillside and while he has had fair crop Of
pears every year, the blight has never affected his
trees in the least There is known remedy for
blight. The best and only plan found, far, is to
split the bark trunk and limbs, which allows the
wood to grow, as it does faster than the bark. As
no injury is done to the tree.
The blackberry crop has been the largest ever
gathered in the County, both wild and cultivated.
The wild fruit has excelled the cultivated in favor
and quality, if not in size.
He was sitting by the milldam, last week. fishing.
Patiently he waited for u nibble. At last the red
cork bobbed up and down, and then went ker-ehug!
under the water. Oh, it was glorious bite! He took
both hands, and gave the pole an awful yank The
line sized through the air backwards and the hook
caught in the seat Of pair of pantaoons belonging
to an old gentleman who viewing the sport from
the bank above, and jerked him into the water. The
old man lost his spectacles and his hat foated of
down the creek but the boy who caused the mischief
was humping it down the railroad track, when the
victim came cussing wet to shore. You can't lind
boy in town now who has been fishing at the dam for
two months.
Our efficient postmaster, Aug. Miller, has fixed up
his drug store nicely. Ills residence the hill is
paradise Of flowers and fruit We believe the people
are all satisfied with Mr.. Miller as postmaster, and
desire no change in the ofice.
Peter Deter butcher, has killed no beef since
the hot weather commenced. Not having ice to pre-
serve it, it would spoil before he could sell out But
he gives us the choicest kind of mutton.
Fidel Gramer's new saloon is one Of the incest on
the Denver road.
Ripe plunas in market, at five cents per quart.
man was seen driving his COW out of neighbor's
garden very carly in the morning, one day last week,
after the COW had torn down lot Of corn, tramped
melon, cucumber and tomato vines to pieces, and
had done damage to the amount of several dollars.
As this was the third time said had been in that
same garden, Of course the man who worked hard to
raise it was mad-awful mad. But when the gener-
GUS man who owned the COW went to his poor neigh
Dor, and said "Mr. my COW WAS in your gar
den and has destroyed part Of it, assess the damage
and will pay it can afford to do so, while you can
not afford to lose your garden" it almost melted the
poor neighbor to tears to think alwse Providence
permitted him to live next door neighbor to such
a honest charitable, Christian gentleman. Yes, he
aes,aly took out his bandana handkerchief and blew
his nose sig times, be was so moved. And falling
upon his knees he said: MAY the Lord bless and
multiply you even unto the tenth generation of
breaehy cattle" See that now Blessing his rich
ueghberis breachy cattle think the thing occurred
rs related above At att events, the man who lost
the sarea aaseGned the damage. But about the pay,
am not - s.re.
Peter Deter can chaw up more craw-6sh in ten
minutes, on . wager of $50, than any man in the
County. Perhaps he had better tackle Major Landry
and Priebe.
Butter was never known to be so scarce in this
burg yet the price rules low-ten to fifteen cents per
pound. For weeks we have had almost butter fam
inc some of the stuff brought in and sold butter,
lately is enough to disgust person with butter al
together 1t is just as impossible for dirty. ignorant,
slouchy people to make good butter it s for rat
to crawl through the eye of glass button. II re-
qures br.ins and intelligence to make good butter,
just the sae as it requires brains and intelligence to
excel in any pursuit.
Rev Harms buried an infant child, Saturday last.
Cholera isautnm laid the little one low. This il the
second child M Harms has lost within q week;
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