The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-03-03
Drying wind.

these facts.
Drying wind.
"A Fools Errand."
Ash Wednesday yesterday.
March came in like a lamb.
Snow-flakes yesterday afternoon.
53l voters registered up to this noon
The streets have been drying rap
idly.
Balmy spring" is on hand to som.
extent
The solemn lenten days have COM,
menced.
Tuesday-the first day of spring
was a lovely day.
r. Goodnow & Co. are preparing 10
put i'm their new engine.
Mr.. John Zehring starts east tonight
to be gone several weeks.
The Daily Block has been much i'm
proved by that new cornice.
nc uisSOiNiHS lIost lehNts TIC Iotne
In q very precarious condition.
Wheat is being brought to town Us
fast as the roads will admit of it.
The county commissioners were in
session Tuesday and Wednesday.
The north wind came down cold
and clustering yesterday afternoon.
I" A FOOLS Errand."
II. NJ. Sale and ID. &. Lockwood
made trip to st. Joe the first Of the
week
C.R. Underwood 4 Co.'S mills are
both shut down, on account of the
high water.
Judge Bondi informs us that he will
complete the county's numerical in
dex by the 18th Of May.
Marble games are now full blown.
The boys gather on the sunny side and
enjoy themselves hugely.
Bondi and Kothe have work ia
BILE" at the court house of the Queen
Anne style. Have you seen it?
The question as to where all the
whisky goes has been changed TO,
"Where does all the water go?"
The Commissioners have appointed
Mr.. L. G.. Denton overseer of construc-
ton on the Ohio township bridge.
The Germania and LeiderkrBnz So
cieties INDUCED in oyster and dancing
entertainments last Tuesday night.
Mr.. w. o. Shaw, late operator for
the Western Union i'm Salina, stopped
OFF and visited little on Saturday.
Among all the complaints of the
farmers the complaint that the grow
ing wheat has been in any way injured
has not yet been recorded.
Mr.. johnson. grain dealer of Kan
sas City, who has been operating i'm
wheat considerably in this county, has
rented the Farmers Elevator.
The steam grist mill at Bavaria
seems to he a certainty. 1t is already
contracted for, Messrs. John Geissler
and J. b. Paul being the proprietors.
One wheat buyer places the amount
Of wheat in this county yet to be
marketed at Ion, 600 bushels. If that
IL 30, II ought to make lively spring
trade.
Messrs. Wight & Carroll have NOV
ed their real estate, insurance and alb
stract office into the second story of
the Baltimore Store building-front
rooms.
Mr. NJ. NJ. Briggs having recently
made trip to the country south OF
st. Louis, reports that "our mud
that country.
Mr.. Z. J. Mccormick, late Mer-
chant tailor of this place, but more
recently of Denver, was in town yes
terday. He has arranged TO locate i'm
Kansas City.
The city council has vacated that
portion of Greenwood Avenue i'm
Jones Addition, lying between
Front and Third streets and Third
and Fourth streets.
Afriend asts us why ,h,, "om.;,,
county paper" down stairs fails TO pub
lisb the Railroad hond ,ronos;,;on Gov
five successive weeks. as required by
law. We give it up.
That celebrated "snowvr whit.
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mum. of fame bv h..o,,;,o s,,h;..,
ofi,I,s,r.,;o, in III. IUv.,r,,,,, D..
INers, A proper place for it.
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dies of tho N y church los, T,.sd.,
evening w.s . v.rv s,c..ssf,,, .,,or.
t.,pmen, both sn,nci,IIv and in ,
MISUNDERSTANDING noint of view
We hone our various CORRESPONDENTS