The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-04
HOLDEN HAPPENINGS.

DR. Garter, of Holden, visited Warrens-
burg Monday.
w. H. Austin, of Aberdeen, Kansas
is at the depot hotel.
Mrs. Thos. c. Woods, of Dresden,
is visiting in this city.
Holden is improving In every direc-
tion buildings are going up
One cannot look in any direction but
what he sees new buildings going up.
-McBall, who last year lived in War
saw, is now keeping furniture store in this
city.
Dresden is improving. Many of the
buildings have been painted and new adj
dIlions built.
MIR. - Williams has already four new
buildings up, and five more in course of
erection, making nine in all. in one row.
Prof. A. F. Smith has bought the Hol
den college property and will open Sept. l.
His announcement is already before the
public.
Iii is reported in Johnson, about Knob
noster that the wheat is SO heavy that in
using self binders only a two-feet swath
can Toe cut.
M. l.. Gray holds down the K. X.
business at the new depot, while VIM. III.
Miller still bosses the clicker in the tele-
graph office.
A very heavy rain accompanied with
much wind on the line of the railroad in
johnson county Monday. No damages as
lar as heard from.
The frame now occupied by Barriss
& Eoskick, corner of Market and Second
will be drawn out and new two-story
brick erected in its place by the CONNER
cial bank owners.
The depot at Lamonte has a garden
that contains all the variety i'm produce of
loo acre farms-oats, wheat, rye, corn,
clover timothy, etc, etc. Then there are
flowers, vines and an harbor.
Farmers are harvesting in this county.
Everybody is happy, and all agree that
this is the premium "crap" year. In the
depot window, at Holden, are two lunches
of timothy heads that will measure about
eight inches long, grown on the farm of L.
u Hartzell, one mile south of Holden.
The BAzoo must again say fix up your
sidewalks. Nothing adds more TO a town
than good sidewalks, we'll painted houses
and handsome women. 1t is surmised that
when this present crop is sold and John
Mittong gets his new press running off his
daily that Holden will boom-bOom such
As We have not heard for the last eighteen
years. Holden, success to yOn.
-Jno. w. Mittong is as proud as a
youth in his first pants. John has now a
brand new No. "Prouty" power printing
press, large enough for an eight column
paper, and will run off l 900 papers per
hour. The Holden Enterprise has long
been acknowledged to be the paper OF
johnson county, but We are promised much
Improvement in the near future.
The heavy rains yesterday caused
water runs upon the low lands east Oh
Monlserratt and knobnoster that resem-
bled rivers. In many places the streams
were thirty yards wide and run very swift
carving much drift wood and washing
away quantities of corn on both sides of
the railroad. The wind blew 50 very hard
that cyclones became the topic of CONVEX
satlon.
Mr.. Geo. s. Young. president of the
Farmers bank at Holden, has just returned
from an extended visit i'm the east. Mr.
Young reports Washington City the hand
soonest and cleanest city in the county. In
cleanliness we are told that Washington
City is not surpassed by any in the world.
Mr. Young visited his neither, aged 80
years, a very amiable old lady, beloved by
all who know her.