The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-06-02
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1881.

June roses
Summer showers.
The streams keep full.
Exhibition tomorrow night.
Cherries are ripening rapidly.
Clouds and sunshine alternate
"Color Guardn-June Is, 10, IL.
Emily Soldene, Monday June 81.
Considerable corn is being marketed.
Strawberry festival next Thursday
night.
Four weeks from next Monday,
Fourth Of July.
Color Guard" at the Opera House,
June 18th 10th and 18th.
The various elevators are still get
ting I'm last years wheat.
Mrs John +. Blom died, after long
and painful illness, to-day.
Remember the exhibition of the
Public School tomorrow evening.
Strawberries have been fairly plenty
In the market during the past week.
Mr.. Ed. Olmstead's neat little resi-
dence on Fourth Street is nearly COM
pleted.
Attend the Commencement Exerci-
SEES Of the High School tomorrow aft
ernoon.
Harry Woolley has returned from
Logan, and will remain i'm Salina for
the future.
Eighteen or twenty couples INDUCED
in a pleasant dance at the GernIania
Hall last Monday night
Every person that goes out into the
country comes back and exclaims:
"What a gloriou vision!'
Small fishing parties frequent the
rivers these afternoons and fish weigh
Ing twenty-odd pounds are caught.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Wenngren, mother of
the editor of the Hdroifen, has gone
Oh visit to her children in Nebraska.
The streams still preserve that
snaky, muddy look WHICH in the
Tiber waters would he called 'gold-
en-"
Strawberry Festival of the Presby-
terrain church i'm the corner store room
OF the Opera House, next Thursday
night.
Several Swedish families ar rived the
first of the week, and have gone down
to take farms i'm the neighborhood Of
Marquette
Notwithstanding the "dull times"
this spring, 130, O0 bushels of wheat
have been marketed i'm Salina since
the Isl of February.
The ladies OF the PRESBYTERIAN
church give a strawberry festival in
the corner store room of the Opera
House, next Thursday night
A commercial man who was reccn
iy here stated that Briggs * Gebhart
had the finest assortment of pocket
knives he had seen in his travels
~ outside of town are frequent. Less
rain in Salina than elsewhere, and we
have had "A great amount of showery
weather.
II seems that there is a .SaIina
Driving Park Association" and some
races are Ia come of under it, a,Ispi- |
ces on the sth and 9Th of next month,
at the Park.
II Is J. A. Banker who comes for |
ward and states that he measured the |
leaf Of "A pie-plant stalk upon his place
and found its circumference to Ice II |
feet, inches.
One farmer reports the appearance
Of chintz bugs and Sigh. rust in his |
wheat, but all others with whom we |
have talked make a fiattcring account |
Of their wheat.
Rev. DIR. Bishop-at the request of |
number Of persons-will deliver a
lecture on "Gambling-its cause and |
effects" at the Presbyterian Church
next Sabbath evening.
Some of the 'figurers" estimate that
that fine piece of wheat just north of |
town belonging TO Mr.. Jos. Crowthers,
will surely average 40 bushels TO the
acre. We hope 1t will.
We can hardly meet farmer who |
does not state that his wheat will
average Mt least % bushels to the acre
Saline county never saw better yield
than Is promised this year
We notice of late that a number of
boys have been engaged i'm the wicked
practice Of robbing birds nests. Sc
we're punishment should be dealt out
to these youthful transgressors.
The Abilene and Solomon CITY
Methodist Sabbath Schools are TO unite
with the Methodist Sabbath School of
this city in grand picnic to he held
at the Park about the middle of next
week
The &c. machine Says that their
attachment gave himself clean away"
ON that Chicago trip-"heh? don't
you see?" The monte game and the
speech about the Swedes was too much
for him.
The streets are majestically serene
these warm days. The sprinkling of
teams is avery small sprinkling The
farmers are all busy either finishing
their complaining or looking after
the weeds.
The eiaborate article under the title
Homestead i'm the new edition of
the Encyclopedias Britannica" was
written by MIR. r. Z. Hanna, Of the
Department Of the Interior. Wash
ington Sunday Herald.
We notice in the description of the
services of the q. A. r., on Decoration
Day at Kansas City, i'm the cemetery,
that the prayer was delivered by
chaplain Thomas Clowdsly,
Salinsite of former years.
We are indebted 10 Mrs. Mary l..
Bishop and Miss Mary J. Bishop for
two handsome boquets Of roses which
for two or three of these fine spripr
mornings charged th. dir ,S ,,,,-ss |