The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-28
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The FIRST really hot DAYS of duly
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday. On
the former day some thermometers
registered ninety three degrees in the
shade.
Last week was fine one, with no
rain to speak of. Farmers improved it
by putting up large quantity of hay.
From present appearances some of
them will have play-spell between
haying and harvesting. The hay crop,
on the whole, is a little below the
average: a piece here and there is
heavy, OF clover, especially. The oat
crop, now headed out, promises one of
the heaviest yields, except on low
ground and wet spots. Flax, on the
whole, promises an average crop.
Some farmers are commencing to use
new potatoes; yield said to be satisfac-
tory.
The apple crop at present bids fair to
be in some cases failure; in others
partially so. Why this is so is not
accounted for. Early in the season, so
far as the setting of fruit, the promise
was for an abundant crop, but it seems
to have dropped to an unusual extent,
due no doubt to unfavorable weather.
Some lay it to frost, others to the con-
tinued rains in the past.
Currants and raspberries are ripe. a
good crop; and, an usual circumstance,
blackberries promise an abundant crop.
Five of the Normal class who went
to Lake Bluff were among the gradu-
ates in the Normal department of the
Sunday school assembly, viz, Rev. M.
l.. Norris, Misses Mary E. Parsons,
Florence Spencer, Kittie Rhodes, Ray
Ozanne.
John Parsons and Walter Spencer
took in Lake Bluff a week ago last
Sunday.
James Spencer arrived home from
Colorado little over a week ago.
Mrs. Prim, an acquaintance of Mrs.
Geo. Hughes, is visiting at their home.
Miss Walker, missionary to Africa,
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present with Rev. Dougherty and at
Deacon Spence's.
John Petrie's house is up and partly
enclosed, and is progressing rapidly.
P. r. Barnes is at home on a visit
from Oshkosh.
Mr.. Samuel Barnes has returned
from his visit to Dakota, calling on the
way back and forth at Horizon. lie
is we'll pleased with the country, and
says it is rapidly filing up with an en-
terprising class of people. Schools
and churches keep pace with the popu-
lation in the region visited. Crops
are very promising, he says. Mrs.
Barnes remains at Horizon for the
present. She accompanied her huS-
band to Dakota on a visit to their son,
| Vischer Y. Barnes, who is located at
De Smet, on the North Western r. r.,
doing a successful practice as a lawyer.
Mrs. Atwell Newman, among others,
visited Lake Bluff last week.
Those having flour to buy-and who
has not ?-Would like, in consequence of
the reported big winter wheat crop and
the drop in the price of wheat, to feel
it before long when purchasing this
household necessity.
In the last TELEGRAPH I notice a
cali for q convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress for this dis
trict on the 10th of August. AS usual,
for years, the convention is called in
the busiest time of the year, when
farmers cannot possibly leave to at
tend the caucuses without neglecting
their crops. Attention has been called
eo. 6fIi' If-ettor hafnre, but no heed is
paid to it. From the names appended I
judge the committee are all lawyers or
business men, with the exception of
our member, Col. Thorp, and have
plenty of leisure to attend the Conven-
ton; but not so with farmers. One
month later or earlier would accom-
date, it seems to me, all classes. It
looks as if the thing is cut and dried,
and there are a few Somers voters who
are tired of this way of doing things
| speak as one who has always been a
Republican, and in the interest, as l
believe, of Republican principles.
Mrs. Curtis and children returned to
her home at hartford last week, ac-
companied by her father, Jacob Bishop,
who has since arrived home.
Deacon Spencer is reported to have
sold his farm to Lyman Strong, pos
session to be given in the fall, and
John Mitchell his north farm of so
acres to a. j. Ozanne.