The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-04-21
CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS.

Osborne county lands find u ready
| sale on the market.
Oberlin is booming its G.. A. r..
memorial college enterprise.
One township in Ellsworth county
built five new bridges last year.
Jetmore contemplates the build
ton Of kite-shaped race track.
Hostilities have again broken out
between Enterprise and Lecompton.
Mcpherson escaped the cyclone,
but had Mrs. Lease on the same day.
a nailess horseshoe company has
been chartered TO do business at
Oberlin.
The Canton Odd Fellows will have
| q big time at their anniversary on
the Goth.
The Junction City amateur opera
company threatens to invade neigh
boring towns.
Ellsworth county will have a fair
next fall, and the kite-shaped track
is a sure thing.
1t is a fact that the sixth district
has more Hons" than any other
section of Kansas.
Easter millinery ragged with more
than ordinary virulence all OYER the
the state this year.
The Seventh District Editorial
Association was held i'm Sterling
yesterday and the day before.
Clay Center can put up a state
ticket all its own by allowing the
Times man To act as his fathers
proxy.
A new paper, the Blade, has been
launched at Hoisington without q
"salutatory." Under the circum.
/ stances il is impossible to predict its
future.
The Kansas militia has been in
vited to camp at Fl Riley this yesr.
The strange part Of this is that the
regulars should thus express q de-
|! sire to mix with the militia.
A Washington man run his buggy
out Of the barn the other day for q
ride, only to find that an old hen
had pre-empted the vehicle and was
engaged in Matching her brood.
An Abilene man writes home from
Galveston that he caught q shark.
Ii is probable that a real estate man
Of the Lone Star city tackled him,
and Of course got the worst OF 1t.
The meanest man in Minneapolis
goes along the street ahead Of Tom
Cordry, now OF the Messenger, and
anon drops q lead nickle in order to
arouse the avarice within the bosom
| OF Governor Riddles assistant.
Since deserving the calamity
party the Ellsworth Messenger has
been compelled to enlarge q column
to the page. Now IL 1t should desert
the Democratic party il could add
still another column, Just as well as
not.
Thomas Kirby, Abilene's leading
banker, is engaged In fixing up q
park for the general public in his
town. He finds this an easier way
Of immortaliziDg himself than by
running Tor Office on the Democratic
ticket.
The meanest congregation that we
ever heard tell Of worships In little
central Kansas church. During the
past year tue pastor performed %
marriage ceremonies that brought
him in IS on the average, and the
trustees deducted 500 from his SAL
AIRY on this account.
A Mcpherson woman kept q board
ing house, aud on the bresking out
of the smallpox her place was used
for q hospital. After the disease
was exterminated her furniture WAS
destroyed. She demanded 500 in
payment from the city, which vas
refused. After a stubborn Eight in
litigation the supreme court award
ed her $500.
Hoisington Blade: Is there money
In farming? Look at Cy. Town
send for your answer. The pro-
duets Of his farm made him the
owner of several houses In this city
that brings him in from $50 to 500
rent each month and another bust
ness house now being erected that
he has already leased for five years
at $50 per month. Oh, no, farming
does not pay-in Barton county.