Dodge City times., 1886-01-21
Snow-Drifts.
Ice houses all choek full.

III course pu1lClng IN temporarily suspended.
The more you say, the less people remember.
Snow shoveling has become ueeful occupa-
ton.
Lots Of people l:mping 'rouud with sross-bi ten
feet.
The chief besuty about the Kansas Winter il.
its brevity.
The ice houses are pretty well filed with good
ice.
The coal supply was nearly exhausted last
week
Through the snow drifts you can see real es-
tate. advancing.
high rent.
encw blockade.
AThe reports OF people freezing TO death have
been greatly exaggerated.
The stormy weather was a great hardship up
on number Of people
Simplicity OF character is the natural result
Of profound thought.
The plant OF happiness cannot thrive without
the air of cherfuness.
Most people mistake stubbornness for bravery,
n,eanness for economy, and yleness for wit.
C S. Bowman, attorney for R. W. Tarbox AMI
others, was in the city last week.
Query in an agricultural journal: SIS your air
roist.' We should reckcn it was,
That ''raiirosd scandal reported on the cars
near Newton proved to be SANDER.
The STOW fake was a welcome visitor, but its
stay grew awfuly monotonous.
--Langton g. Sherlock will build three-story
brick as soon as the weather will permit.
--Contentment is more to be desired than horse
that can ''go it, in two minutes.
Uncle jim Martin continues to talk matrimony.
jim has caught onto a new fame.
The man who has ten head OF cows had better
spend FIVE of them in preparing shelter
You can heara good deal said about the b1;lG-
ing of brick business houses. i il not ''al talk. y
The mercury in the thermometer Saturday
morning indicated deg. below zero.
business was stagHated on account CT the snow
drifts, and few people 0: the country came TO town.
The York, Parker, Draper House in this city
got go bushels of potatoes shipped by the blizzard.
There is some destitution in the country. 4
number OF people wereilly prepared for the severe
weather.
Arthur ard Miss Clara, children of F. c. Zin-
mermarn, left last Sunday evening for the east to
resume their places in school.
Carson Sc Co., butchers, last week received
several head of deer, which were killed in the
territory.
With what an air Of calm superiority hen
vii! gob5ie worni after a rooster has scratched
i.up! There ar lots of hens in the world.
The hearts of the railroad boys beat with tn
multuos JOY as they saw the Pay Car roll into the
depot last Sunday.
We notice men digging in the excavations ON
Monday. The ground was frozen. and the dirt
was taken out in chunks The men were quarry
ing the dirt.
We are constantly receiving letters making
inquiries about lands. We believe the Immigration
in the spring will be larger than the immigration
OF last year.
The railroad company furnished coal to j.
Collar, Goa, dealer, during the latter part OF the
blockade, and Mr.. Collar supplied the people,
those who were needing coal with half ton at a
time.
"A number Of people have been engaged 20 skin
Some contracts were made for T. less amount. For
hides delivered ct the railroad stations seventy
FIVE cents Is paid.
There ought to be more effort made to secure
the attendance at sunday School of ail children
in Dodge City. or conrse there is soo,i attend
aace at the several Sunday Schools, but there
many children who do not attend, ought TO at n l.
A ball for tie benefit OF the poor will be giyen
in LyD-;.nds Mill or Monday night, January
eth Tickets are S1.a0, which can be had by a.,
plying to c. n. Bccson. This is fora charitable
purpose, uEd wc have no doubt the entertainment
will be well patronizel.
Now that Atchiscn, one of the three remain
Ing stronghOlds of the rum power has surrender
ed, the friends Of Temperance in Lcavcnworth and
Dodge City Elay take courage. The day Of delv
erarce draws near-Manliatian Nationalist Bro
ther Albert Griffin's paper.
1t is said that the Santa Fe Company is about
to make contracts fcE the construction of freight
cars and that arrangements have been made re
Gently with the Pullman company for fifteen pas
senger ard five cmi9rant cars, AM also fourteen
Messenger ears from other manufacturing firms.
The northern boundary OF the italian eli
mate in america has become on uncertain guam
tity in the weather problem OF the future. II the
late blizzard should serve as factor in the solii
ton, then this ethereal mildIcss which was cnce
onrs must the removed tofthe neighhorhood Of
the equator The late snap shed fo~r inches Of
snow at Galveston. and ran the Thermometer down
to 15o below zero at jacksonville, Florida. nip
ping the life out Of the young orange groves. In
the sou h it was the seyerest storm ever known,
and most people up north entertain similar SEN
timent about it.
Dodge City may ave been the typical town Of
frontier wil;.ness ard wickctness-in the eyes OF
eastern people y2ritablc pariah in Tcr.l an;l
social sense. BIT sc is rapidly emerging from
that de.rac.ing fog. The sWatdlii9 dirfy.garmcn
of her immoral infancy hare almost been torn
away, and every week shc looks cleaner and pur-
cr The purity of deccncy, the light Of in,clii-
gnncc ana the spirit os the church have been the
forces a; work, and every christian and
man is pIotii, of that modified tone which they
have so thoroughly wraugh: in the hardened
siGi atmosphere Of The city.
Go ard see Covert elegant stock Of
family groceries, just opened In brick
block on Bridge street.
More snow Monday last.
Last Thursday during the storm, Mrs
n. 4 T;.s., ;, ,c;fia,r i;f-irc- -, tho Do,r