The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-06-22
THE JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1852.
Dat crop magnificent.

large lot Oh oiu Whtai haihe
last Saturday.
Gov. st. John speaks here mex
Tuesday evening
Ed. Lott il building "A coal shc'
about .o0 feet long.
Spectators were numerous at thu
county convention.
Some pretty hot weather now anc
then. but not ''for steady"
A good Washington letter is pub
lished on the fourth page Of this paper
The city authorities have com
menced Strengthening the weeds. Good
Mr.. J. W. Rrice is very mucl
pleased with his nice, little ten-pound
girl.
A "fulIv convention last Saturday
full of delegates and chock- full Of
Hanback,.
The sound ofthe festive fire cracker
and the cracking torpedo is heard in
the land.
Mr.. Robert Porter in another column
gives his experience at raising bees
i'm X ansas.
The wheat il all of the Berkshire
breed this year-very fat and thor
ough-bred.
A change i'm the weather last Mon
day from the really hot 10 the COM
fortably cool.
From all appearance the Fourth of
July will not be much observed in "a
lima this year.
Capt. :. II. Williams was in town
the first of the week, after a protract-
ell absence on the road.
The front wall of the Commercial
House was washed i'm during the
heavy rain last Friday.
Miss r. D.Collins arrived from Den
yer last Thursday and went 10 her
farm on Gypsum creek.
The county treasurer states that tax
paying moves slower on this INSTALL
ment than on the first one.
Mr.. Davis, the station agent, will
move into his new depot quarters
about the first of next month.
Our frequent night storms bring
people from their beds, and lights are
seen here and there all over town.
The new switch for Ed. Lofts new
coal house il under construction. IL
will Ice very convenient for him.
Sells circus is billed for Leaven-
worth on July 18th. Probably the
show will he here sometime in August
Col. Geo. w. VeaIe, tax agent of
the Union Pacific. was in town Tues
day, looking after the comrany's
taxes.
IL il claimed that the barley crop
Though the acreage is SMALL is ia.
best this year ever seen in this
county.
bur this season is remarkable. Who
can explain il. May the absence be
perpetual.
If the farmers can only avoid the
storms for ten days, i'm order that the
wheat may all Ice harvested, won't
they he happy!
Mr.. &. Leighton. of the Oskaloosa,
iowa Herald, was guest of his old
time friend, l.. II. Hole, Esq, the
first of the week.
Dickinson is doing some nice work
Oh the old Gaverich buss, now owned
by ID. B. Powers, and stored in the
Champlin livery stable.
The Western Secretary of the Board
Of Home Missions of the Lutheran
church breaches next Sunday evening
Let there Ice full house.
l.. ii. Hole, Esq. is quite well ac-
quainted at Grinnell, Ia, the pleasant
little city which suffered 81 much
damage from the cyclone.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
WIN. Berg extend their symyathies
70 them i'm the loss of their infant boy.
who died last Friday morning.
Scores of farmers were in town after
their harvesting "fiNin's" last Satur-
dsy-bent on commencing in their
fields the first thing Monday morn
ing.
Mrs. Devens, who was called to Kan
sas City few days ago, on account Of
the illness of her son, has returned To-
Salina to spend the summer with Mrs.
DIR. Daily.
There was quite a spirited fight in
the second ward primary election last
Thursday afternoon. But il was ter
rible decisive at the last-sixty-five Ia
twenty-five.
The city authorities should take inn
mediate steps Ia have the rank growth
of weeds and sunflowers which make
various portions of our city look hide
GUS, cut down.
While the solomon has been out
of its banks and deluging adjacent
SOIL" the Smoky, Saline and the
creeks generally have not been extra
Oriinarially high.
Go and hear Rev. :. Il. Barnitz at
the Lutheran church next sabbath
evening. Heis the Western Secretary
Of the Board of Home Missions of the
Lutheran church.
Capt. A. c. Spillman, one of the
most prominent men of Mcpherson
county, called last Tuesday. He goes
rs Zone Of the six" from that county
to the State Convention.
Reuben King, Jr., cousin of David |
King, of Walnut township, has pur-
chased one hundred and sixty acres of |
the Terry farm on Gypsum Creek |
paying therefor 600 cash
Catalogue of State Agricultural Col
lege received. Ida Crawford, Fourth |
Year, Brookville, and Minnie Very,
First Year, Salina, are the only stu