Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-01-07
SnOw-Drifts.
Heaviest snow since 1881.

snow drifts.
Our Ford City letter is interesting this week.
~ usual.
The wet.est snow that ever fell in Western
Kansas.
Addison Stafford has his new residence well !
under way.
No "oldest inhabitant' ever eaw such snow |
drifts.
Freight trains commenced running yesterday |
Ford .ountv has An enrolment Of 2,5l6 school |
children.
The Dodge City Tzss and the Topeka Week
! ly Capital for S2.00
The beautiful snow is ten feet deep in some
| Of the mountain passes.
ice only two inches thick Tuesday and poor
prospects for ice crop.
| 1T is about time to hear some discussions con-
corning the location Of the union depot
| A ..Lusiness" house in Dodge has the unique
| sign Of ..Drug Store and Billiard Hail."
| The New Year call that no one is anxious to
have made is, "pay me that little bill you owe
| The two frozen men-Hayter brothers-had
frozen snow in their clenched hands when brought
| to this city.
Don't forget the Week Of Prayer at the n Z.
church Prayer meetings three nights more
The land seeker is not quite 50 numerous, but
his presence will be lively next month
An old ten dollar Confederate bill was worked
on Mr.. Kohn, the tailor, Monday evening, by
sharp.
| AT the rink Tuesday night there was race be-
| tweep Ton, Tate and Frank Only, the former COM
ing out ahead.
People found huge snow drifts several rect
high in front Of their doors Sunday morning.
Railway trains came In quite lively on Tues
day, after two days blockade.
M. NJ. Long, Cimarron New West, came In on
, a snow slide Tuesday. with other Cimarrons
-shoyeling snow was short-lived occupation,
but it was not an unpleasant one.
4 Winter wheat under the snow will thrive The
D prospects are fine for good crop
Two hundred men were employed in cutting
the snow drifts on the railroad track in the deer
u cuts between Dodge and Speareville
j. j. Denny, Of Cimarron, was in town Tues
n day. Mr.. Denny is leading lumber merchant o.
y that place.
e The Board of County Commissioners met OF
4 Tuesday, the drifted snow preventing an attend
ance on Monday.
The snow was wet one, and knocks the kink
; ont Of any prospective dry weather in the sprnl
time, gentle Annie.
" The parade on New Years day was the onl
U event of the day worth mentioning There wa
, not even drunk to break the stiffness.
The sleigh is not useful article, the snow pl
ing in drifts, and making sleighing impossible
le -Excayating enow from the cellars where ne'
hui,dine il going on, appears to be necessary, /
ID order to proceed with dirt hauling.
IL Mira. Lizzie Hadheld, who has been visitin
ii her sister. Mrs I. S. Everman, in this city, too
le Yesterday train for her Illinois home.
d. Strangers who were snow-bound in Dodge n
re marked about the quiet character OF the tow
at which is apparently on its good behavior
le -1anetou & Sherlock are going to put up Or
90 brick building ae soon the weather will perm
70 in the spring.
~ School ..took mp on Monday, but there was
very slim attendance. The school house groun
was circled with snow drifts
" The TINES brick block will be commenced
lr February. This Will be the finest building in Il
nd city and will command an imposing appearance.
n Henry sturm has received his drug store d
lures and stock aad is ready for business
The speareville Blade says town lots are a
nj vancing in that city. Speareville has many 81
8, stantial buildings.
ut Business is extending west on Front street.
grocery store is to be started the corner OF
he Avenue and Front street, in N. Collars oulldin
IN -Our lumber dealers are anticipating slig
"a ! rise in the price of lumber. Now IS good TIN
II to buy.
T. "A petition is out aeking for the building OF
immense sewer on Chestnut street. The matt
III will be presented to the city council.
The afternoon train Of Tuesday came in
H. time Frank Singer, assistant foreman. and Il.
Nh Norvell, yard master, know how to "clear
Nn track"
IT, of course there is no great rush now in ira
ire ell. and our hotel accommodations are ample. h
ire let the immigration boom commence. then gre
Ill hotel projects revived.
One Of the '.drug storcs'' asked 81 for pate
medicine that retails at 81. The proprietor s'
,sa he was new at the business and didn't want
or close out his stock in one day.
~, The Democrat newspaper man had better
40 tire to ..cave Of gloom" His paper has no c
lg, o,,,t;on and nerbaps the grangers wont zee I
he .-ticlc which saws they were all bought in the
be election.
err "A writer in the Dodge City Democrat says
re- of the Grsngcrs were bought in the election
)Sa Ford county last iah io'f =
~ What was the price paid you fer publishing t
communicated SANDER?
as, w.
ail There were severn. sepa' ,.nn,p,,op
W McGarry, district clerk who lives near the bap
ing church. went home late Saturday evening, IT
all his work in the court house. He missed his
ow but reached home in an exhausted condition
.ill There is world Of. truth In Josh Biilin
rt homely statement that ''Tu sta IL tn win."
portuninty after opportunity is frittereo away
ess lack of persistence. instability lie the shoal
ave which more lives have been stranded than u
an any other, excepting, perhaps. in.emperance'
lail the two are very close neighbors
will "A perfect woman, according to the old Span
I'M rule must possess the thirty good points here
,,t | en-: White-the skin, the teeth, the han
black-the eyes, the eyebrows, the eyeash
red-the lips, the cheeks, the nails; long
BODY the hair the hands; short-the teeth,
'A ears, the feet; broad-thc chest, the brow,
Is space between the eyebrows; narrow-the MOI
on the waist, the iEstep: large-the arm, the lon.
limb: nne-the fingers, the hair, the Il
emall-the bust, the nose. the head We II
that il there s eingle young lady in this city
shou,d not attain the standard o: absolute pen
Jay al perfection, a. measured by this rule. she
.vld take comfort in the 'skin deep" aphorism.
bis The yalue Of advertising may be measured