Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-07-19
CIMARRON CULLINGS.

C1MAhRUN CULLlNGS.
We lost our Faber last week in the
storm.
The public school closed last Fri
day.
Fred Lumberger has bought the
Lynch property in east part of town.
w. W. Dill is in town looking up
his interests in the place since the late
storm.
Henry Barton bought the Shumate
bnilding and two lots of A, D. Wettick
on the 10th inst.
The '.Red Front Store" is under
going some improvements, among which
Is new coat of paint.
Maria Green, mother of Mrs. Capt.
Hudson and Mrs. A. H. Brown, is Wis
iting in the family of the former.
The social hop at Mr. Reeves the
evening Of the 9Th was immensely en-
joyed by the guests assembled
"A. IL. Brown and family, from
Honey Grove, Texas, are here visiting
friends and relatives, at present the
guests of Capt. Hudson and family,
four miles west of town. Mr.. B. will
locate here.
N. F. Mcdonald, from Trinidad,
Col, is spending a few days in town.
Fill is an old timer here and has some
property here of which he is taking an
invoice since the storm. He says bus
mess is dull out West.
Charlie Brown has succeeded in
getting his team. The mare, there is
but little doubt, was stolen, as she was
found in the possession of a party I'M
der peculiar circumstances. The horse
was caught in the sand Mills south of
town.
THE wandering jew seemed to
be the most exercised man over the
disastrous results of the late storm in
the town. Moses works on the section
here, and on his return in the evening
he found the building in which he had
been ''batching' bowed to smitherns,
and its contents scattered all over West
ern Kansas. At early morn and late
at eve he could be seen looking hisher
and thither and everywhere, as one cit
izen expressed it, for his "war-baa:''
Miss Sippell, who has been teaching
the school here for past three months,
returned to Dodge City yesterday.
While her school has been necessarily
small, yet those in regular attendance
during the term done good work. We
have heard no complaints from the pa
rents of the progress made by their
children, and as we know Miss Sippell
earnestly endeavored to make the best
of the opportunities afforded her, we
venture the summation of her labors
here will rebound to much good to the
future welfare of her pupils.
-Messrs. Shoup & Dill have bought
the large stock of merchandise owned
by A. d. Wettick of this place. At
present writing they are busy invoicing
and in a few days the new firm will be
ready for business at the old stand Of
the former owner Mr.. Wettick has
large interests in stock and ranches that
demand his personal supervision, and
further, owing 70 the great failure of
his eyesight in the past two years he
was obliged to quit the mercantile bus
mess. Mr.. W. opened the first store
in our town, in May, 1878. He has
ever since kept the largest stock as
we'll as the best assorted stock of goods
ever opened up at this place. He has
exhibited a good business capacity while
here in business as was ever evidenced
by his scrupulous attention to every
detail. We bespeak a good, steady
business for his young and energetic
successors.
The heavy wind storm that passed
through our town on the evening of the
18th inst. tore down six buildings and
wrecked as many more The wind had
been blowing from an easterly direction
all day up to the time of the storm,
when it suddenly changed to the north
west, where it blew heavy gale from
the last-nsmed direction, filling the air
with clouds Of dust. During the hour
preceding the storm heavy rain storm
was gathering in the north and west.
After the wind had blown from the
northwest few minutes lull took
place, and the windows Of heaven seem
ed to have suddenly blown open, for
the rain came down in deluge fold, and
for the space of few minutes every
thing indicated one of the steadiest as
well as the heaviest rainfalls of the sea-
son, when suddenly the wind struck us
like train of cars at full speed, and
in less than two minutes it was gone,
and left in its wake the wreck Of tim
bers strewn from half dozen buildings
The loss, while not so very great, still
was out of whole cloth, and to the los
ers was felt very keenly, as they were
all of limited means Fortunately,
none of the buildings were occupied at
the time of the storm. No one was
killed, and but one person injured. A
lady emigrant was hurt but not serious
ly by the wagon blowing over which she
was occupying and the spring seat strik-
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