Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-01-21
WOLFE,S STORE.

WOLFEs STORE.
EDITOR JOURNAL Seeing that
you have no correspondent from this
vicinity, thonght few items from
here would not 60 amiss.
SleiPhing is splendid.
Jack Frost visited som of the cellars
in this vicinity.
Benj. Beck left yesterday for Lock
Haven, where he is employed by J. G.
Beck. Ben intends to moYe there ere
long.
Mrs. Fannie M. Weaver and her sis
ter Sadie G. Bower are at present visit
ing friends in Penns valley.
John Emerick's runaway horse died
last week. His son, William, is slowly
recovering.
Charles Beck will leave tomorrow
for Tyrone where he intends to work
on the cars as brakeman.
Perry Condo will not moye to How
ard as was the talk. He has rented
the old farm again and will stay with
us another year.
The farmers of this neighborhood are
making good use OF the snow. They
are storing away lots of ice for the
summer.
VIM Kreamer is off in search of a
good horse. That's the only kind Bill
keeps.
Mrs. Jno. Luse'' and Jennie Luse, of
Lock Haven, are at present visiting
here.
SQUIBoB.
Kansas Letter.
WELLINGTON, Sumner Co., Kansas,
Jan 18th, 1886.
AS we hardly ever see anything In
your paper about this part of the world
few lines of Southern Kansas might
possibly be of some interest to your
many readers. The Journal reaches us
on Monday each week, and is eagerly
read by all. We had our first cold snap
for this season the first week i'm De.
cember. 1t came In the shape OF snow
about twelve inches deep and lasted
but a few days. All of Christmas
week you could see farmers blowing or
husking corn in their shirt sleeves. But
on the seventeenth of this month the
weather changed hands or something.
Well, it was regular blizzard and no
discount. It struck US about O'Clock
in the morning and lasted twenty four
hours. The snow was fine enough to
pass through the eye of needle and as
sharp as a Coburn grain dealer. 12o be-
low zero, on the sunny side of the dug.
out was the best we could get on that
day. But yesterday the sun was out
In all his Sunday glory, and ahone as
he can In sunny Kansas only. Enough
Of this, the signal service bureau will
take care os the weather.
In 1871 the first settlers notified the
buffalo and the Indian TO 60, and they
went. In 1872 the county was organ.
Ized and named Sumner. In 1874 the
grasshopper took possession and ate up
all that was good enough for hopper
to eat. The first settler returned home
! ia that year and in 1875 came back and
brought some Of his friends along. The
hopper had hoped from that year up
to date. This county was just hopping
along, and to-day-eounting babies in
we could hop about thirty-five thous.
and strong.
Three shanties then constituted the
county seat, they called it swelling.
ton." It was planted on Slate Greek,
in the great and fertile Arkansas val
| ley. 1t has grown up to be city of
| seven thousand people. 1t has two
main line railroads and one branch
road, with good prospects for one or
more through lines in the near future.
A street railway has just been complet-
| ed on two Of its main streets. 1t has
six churches, four schoolhouses, con-
tanning twenty three rooms heated by
hot air furnaces and finished in first.
class style. There are fifteen hotels,
several OF them equal to your "BroL or
hoff'' or "Bush House';' and as many
boarding houses and restaurants. More
than l50 rooms are occupied as busi-
ness places, many OF them not surpass-
ed in size and elegance west Of the
great river. Besides the "Queen City"
of Kansas we have eighteen other
towns, containing from two hundred
to two thousand people. An the land
started atS1. .25 an acre and all Of it ha 8
| increased ten times that much and a
great deal of It more than fifty times.
Crops have been fair for several years
past, and this county would take the
contract to beat the world for corn,
hogs and cattle.
| Coal was struck in the north part of
this county, and the wise ones say we
will have coal ip abundance. If that
is so then our basket is full. Cheap
coal is what we want. Soft coal sells
now at 81. % and hard at S13 per ton.
1t is somewhat singular that so many
hard workin, people In the East with
no homes and no prospects of ever
getting one-dun't come ont here where
land Is to be had for the asking, aid 1t
would be well for many an easter n man
to keep i'm readiness when "Oklahomo"
is opened up for settlement. Though
il would spoil one of the best hunting
grounds we haye, yet we are good heart
| ed enough, in order to see our friends
well fixed there, and, if live when the
proclamation Is issued, shall go Down