The Globe-republican., 1902-07-10
8ucKLIN BREEzEs.

From Gzzr Regular Correspondent
Miss Margaret Kane spent the fourth
vFfcta friends at Gree nsburg.
sIrs- DIR. Fannon returned, Tuesday,
from q short visit at Ellsworth, Kansas
G8er Sidlow of Dodge City is taking
ttsra as night ccok at the Rock Island
restaurant
Miss Edna Roberts spent the fourth
with home folks at Minneola. She re-
t1raed Monday evening
Tue ratio since the Fourth is IL to /,
but where is The affinity between base
EsEt, broncho busting and the Fourth of
Iasy, any how
TIE infant child born to MIR. and Mrs.
w NJ Elliot July 5th died the fol-
Io~75rg morning and was buried in The
BaeEIlin cemetery on Sunday evening.
w L. Ayers, the tonsorial artist is
takiug a lay-of visiting friends and
h0ase folks at HazeIton and Conway
Springs, Kansas. Mrs. Ayers had gone
4 few Gays before.
Harvesting Is getting well along in
this part of the county and the next thing
will be the threshIng machine which
like the voice of the candidate will be
heard ia the land for many days.
Joe Miller and G. L. Wing of Dodge
City we're in Bucklin Tuesday. The
naEraes of both gentlemen will be before
tlGe Republican county convention for
nom ination, for county Office, and they
were around interviewing the dear
people
TIE Chicago Building and Manufac-
taCing Company have commenced work
on creamery here, SO it looks if it is
10 be a go, SO far as putting up the build
ing is concerned, after all. We are in
foCesl ed that the building Will be 24x54
feet
On last Saturday afternoon, Ray Cobb,
while driving team attached to head
er barge, was killed by lightning. There
were one or two others in the barge with
hiU3 5ut they were not hurt. One of the
horses was killed and the other one bad
Iy shocked. Mr.. Cobb was about 20
years old. The funeral was held Sunday
at J p. Rev E. L. Jones, Pastor of
the IL r. Church preached the funeral
seruiou- He buried in the Ford
cesn etery-
Well the GLORIOUS fourth has come
and gooe. 1t was a very quiet day in
BacKIin, exceedingly quiet. Those of
oUr people who wished to celebrate and
co0ld leave their business and raise the
necessary revenue, went to other places
60 spend the day, principally to Green's
burg and Ford. Some of them wish
now that they had not gone. Yes, the
fourth has passed again, leaving a
trSj0 OF pleasant and bitter memories
be2iud it, the usual list of so called ac-
cideuts, which are mostly the legitimate
result OF pure careIessness and wrecKIess-
ness We believe in the ''fourth'' and
its observance but we do not believe that
our heads, that we should endanger our
own lives and the lives of Others We
she0id remember that the deadly fire.
works, Is no respecter of persons but that
all. from the ragged street urchin to the
Presidents son, from the babe at the
breast TO the grey haired grand father
are liable to become its victims.
The country a few miles west of Buck
lin was visited by quite storm Of rain
hail and wind last Sunday evening which
did more or less damage to crops, stock
aud buildings, The hail that fell was
principally of the large variety. In fact
Judging by the reports brought in from
all parts of the district visited by the
storm, we would say that they were very
large. The largest one that we have
heard of up to this writing measured II
inches by 13 inches, and that is big
0GOugA +. "A. Gresham had a three
mouths old calf killed by tap from one
Of these chunks of ice. We heard of a
colt being killed by one but did not learn
the owners name. l.. P Sweeney had
a pig hit by one The pigs back was
broken F. H. KiSer says that there
were thirty four holes knocked in one
side of his house roof. G. Il. Ellis says
that his house roof is just knocked full
of holes Windows suffered considera-
bly, and there was considerable damage
sfouc to crops in the track of the storm
HE storm seems to have travelled al
most due north until it struck the river
then 1t followed tie course of the river.
Lit developed into bit of a cyclone
down on the old Mckinney ranch, but
we have not learned what damage was
done there. Altogether it was a record
breaker but then that is just like this
short grass country it is always breaking