The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-01-26


ture in School District No. - Brook
Vile on "Wednesday evening. Feb. I,
the exercises To commence at O'Clock,
Pm II il expected that music will he
| furnished for the occasion. All are
invited and expected to he present
The young folks of the Catholic
church give an entertainment to-
night. at the Opera House. Oysters
| aud dancing are i'm store for those who
attend, aud a gala time for the evening
is guaranteed. The Catholic enter
tainments have always been very
| pleasant and very popular, and this
to he given will in no wise he AN ex-
ception.
The huilling formerly used by \.
| Wheeler a. 4 wagon shop, at the cor
ner of Iron avenue and Fifth street
south side-haS recently been repaired
in good style, and will be used "a a
display building for carriages for A.
| B Dickinson. and for organs, pianos,
| etc. by Me--rS. Dickiu-on * Mclbert,
who have formed a partnership in
| that business.
| We hope soon Ia See the vast beds of
| gypsum i'm the Gypsum creek country
| male of some use. Gypsum exists no
where ia greater quantities than in our
county We -re il stated that in Clay
county there is "A factory where gyp-
-um j. being quarriei, crushed, boiled,
| and - manufactured. at the rate uf -
barrels per LAY, into plaster of Paris.
What j. To- prevent the establishment
| of such Il factory in our county"
The think-oi.rinS meeting at the
Womsn'- Home ani Foreign Mission
AIRY Society, hell AT the reSiIcnr,. IF
success, financially, socially and in
point of numbers. Tn.c,ri iil rercp
ton ofthe hostess ani Ia Lies in chirs.,
who served an elrSin supper. deserve
| more than "A passing tribute. All parts
of the programme were well sustained
and could not fail L. be fruitful of good.
The T. :. * w. surveying party
were - miles southeast of Salina, in
Dickinson county, last Saturday night.
They will meet the surveying party
coming west from Council Grove i'm
ten days, and will then return To Salina
and commence setting grade stakes.
The highest point in this county on
the line located will require only cut
Of ten feet Ia overcome il, which makes
| a grade of 33 feet to the mile at that
point.
| Kate Hartman has been released
from Jail on her own recogniZance,
with the proviSo that she will engage
in the liquor traffic i'm Salina no more.
and that she will leave town as soon
~ she can arrange for her departure.
We understand that she designs going
To Kansas city. John Ryan has also
been released from Jail, having paid
500 aud the costs of his suit. Messrs.
| Shultz, Scaton and Hartman remain
in prison.
1t is the opinion of many, Good Dea-
con Stacy, that it is just rs right and
honorable for the county com mission
ers TO give the county printing To
whom they please as it is for the city
council To act In similar manner. If
the city council has right to reward
their friends" the county commits
sioners certainly have a right To do 50.
| And we do not believe that the Good
Deacon Stacy has ever objected TO the
city council rewarding Stacy.
The following programme has been ]
arranged for the next meeting of the |
Salina Literary Society, 10 take place |
tomorrow evening:
Music.
Recitation-R 4. Burch.
Essay-Miss Clara league.
Grafton t. l.. Bond.
Recess
Music.
Selections fromShakcspeare-M |
II. A. Levitt, l. l.. Bond. 4. ID. Fitz-
patrick. y. II. Loomis, Il. 4. Burch.
Select Reading-Mrs Collins
Recitation-R. A. Levitt.
Mr.. John Wilson. with other gentle |
men, from this place, was present a
| few days ago at a meeting of officers |
Of the Leavenworth. Topeka Il |
Southwestern. He told Times re- |
porter yesterday that the grading |
hi I'm
Ia the west line of the county and had |
reached the big cut " that the work /
through Jefferson county was almost
flushed To the Shawnee county line
Arrangements have been made tO let |
contracts for grading from Topeka /
west. Regular trains will be running /
Ia the west line of this county by /
March l. and Ia Topeka 10y May IL
Lcur,aWoI',h Times. 10
The Seaton liquor case of Sslina has
AT last got into the Brooklyn Taber-
nacle aud published in the New York
Tribune. Gov. 81. John made allns-
ion TO the ease in his reception speech
at the Tabernacle. Sunday night. The
Tribune speaks of the allusion rs fol-
lows:
The speaker i'm concluding gave sew
eral instances of how the law was en-
forced i'm Kansas One mau i'm Salina
thirty days In Jail, and il IL hard -
convince him that prohibition does
not prohibit. Kansas no longer edu-
Gates her children by sanctioning. but
by furnishing wrong, the Governor
said