The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-27

Thank the Lord we have got around
again to new potatoes and string beans.
We have only to thank Him though for
one mess of strawberries, as the chickens
took the rest.
Mrs. L. S. Briggs, of Oshkosh, is visit
ing her sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry Black
man.
Rev. Hammond Marsh, of Iowa, ar
rived on Monday at his cousins, Mrs. J.
D. Fowler.
A few farmers commenced their bar
ley harvest On Monday.
All small grain crops promise good
yield and corn is growing finely. There
is an abundant crop of hay, both cult
waited and wild.
Mrs. Andrew Benedict arrived at Mr..
A.. ]. Benedict's on Wednesday Of last
week, and returned to her home in
Waukegan on Thursday.
Miss Louisa Castle, who has been
spending her summer vacation at her
fathers, Mr.. VIM. Castle, returned to
Evanston on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Bristow, OF
Rockford, arrived on Thursday at Mrs.
Bristow's mothers, Mrs. B. L. Vincent.
MIR. Abram Gulick had his winter
wheat in the shock last Thursday, and
the same day Mr.. Fowler's binder stood
proudly in the middle of the field while
his crop of winter wheat laid in bundles
on the ground ready to be shocked.
Mr.. H. A. Newbury has harvested his
crop of winter rye. Speaking of rye:
One of our citizens received visit from
an eastern city acquaintance that knew
:" Old Rye" One day, as they were
looking over the farm, they came to a
grand field of rye, when the visitor said:
"That looks nice, Henry; what do you
call thatW "That? Why that's rye;
don't you know rye p "Of course
know rye, but I never saw it in that
shape before; we always have it i'll
bottles"
D3vlin Bros. have had their threshing
machine repaired and newly painted, so
that it is as good as new, and looks like
brand new machine. They brought
their machine from Racine on Friday.
Mrs. David Pierce has been enjoying
visit from her mother, Mrs. Jonathan
Newbury, Of Wheatland.
Mrs. Jessie Fairbanks and her daugh-
ter Alice are completing their visit to
relatives here.
Masters Clarence and Herbert Leon
ard, of Kenosha, visited their grandma,
Mrs. Clark Burdick, last week. They
returned home on Saturday.
Charley Brande, at Spokane Falls,
Washington Territory, sent to Frank
Roberts specimen stalk of oats grown
there. 1t measures in length 6 feet 2
inches from the root, and the seed head
is plump IA inches long. You couldn't
drive a team through the hollow stalk,
but it would let food of lemonade
through.
DR.. E. G. and Mrs. Hazelton, of Ke-
nosha, have been sampling Bristol
breezes and sunshine. They were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Gulick,
and attended Sunday morning service
at the Congregational church.
Mr.. III. L. Adams has been feeling
considerably indisposed and has been
obliged to decline good deal of hard
work.
Rev. S. w. Pollard, of Union Grove,
occupied the pulpit of the Congregation
al church on Sunday morning, having
exchanged with Rev. D. M. Ogilvie.
He took for his text the 22d verse of
John 21st, more especially the last clause,
an injunction of Jesus to Peter, Follow
thou me-" The application of the COM
mand was made general, and many
strong reasons were urged for it.
The Ladies' Missionary Society of the
Congregational church meet with Mrs.
w. L. Marsh on Wednesday of next
week.
iDevlin Bros. have completed the
foundation for their silo.
I Thought the eclipse would connect
all right even if 1 did not sit up and
watch it, SO I went to bed and to sleep.
Well we're glad our pastor doesn't
talk us tired this hot weather.
Some kind soul has wonderfully i'm
proved the Tarbell graveyard by now
ing it clean and removing the hay.
Considerable haying has been done
this season along the roadsides, and it
makes il look better, too.
Don't worry" a wise and philo- |
sophical precept, was the topic discussed
by the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor at the Congregational