This Week: Promotion, Perdition, and Premonition
The happenings in Hodgeman County, June 10-16, 1890.
Farmers in the eastern states are becoming more dissatisfied every day with their land and crops, and at last have gotten their eyes opened and are coming to Sunny Kansas where they can have plenty (of) land and large crops. Eastern people think an eighty acre farm very large, but 160 acres is double the size, consequently more grain can be raised. We are always pleased to see people come into our county and always have room for more …
… Let the good word be spoken that Kansas has room for thousands of dissatisfied eastern people. (Reveille)
Internet Archive: 1895 Osborne Catalog
Try a good cold milk shake at Patchen’s Owl Pharmacy. Lemonade also available. (Siftings)
The Jetmore schools closed Friday last. (Reveille)
School is out and the festive “kid” is now at large. (Sunflower)
Timetable of C. K. & W. Accommodation. Daily except Sundays. Jetmore: Westward 6:00 p.m. Eastward 8:50 a.m.
Don’t forget the play, “Among the Breakers,” to be given by the Knights of Pythias Lodge at the opera house on the evening of July 4th. The entertainment will conclude with a laughable farce. Cast of characters to be announced later. (Siftings)
Kansas will have the largest fruit yield this season that ever was grown in the state. (Reveille)
June 10th was the hottest day of the season. Straw hats were seen on every street corner. (Sunflower)
Noah Hardy is building a stone wall on the south and east sides of his residence property and otherwise improving the same. (Siftings)
We think that Sheriff Sweet or his deputy ought to keep the boys away from the trees in the court yard while they are so young. (Reveille)
The Keyes House is the best furnished house in the city. Good meals and clean beds. (Siftings)
Miss Della Bradley is rendering valuable assistance in the district clerk’s office this week. (Sunflower)
County Attorney, John F. Curran, has purchased a valuable typewriter, which he is now learning to manipulate. (Sunflower)
When the farmers of Hodgeman county get discouraged about crops for 1890 they should take a trip to eastern Kansas and see the difference between our garden spot and those of other counties. The wheat and oats in Rice county will not yield one half as much as those now growing in Hodgeman. We have had more rain than the east and our prospects are better by fifty percent. Then why will the people keep grumbling when we are better off today than farmers east of us? (Reveille)
Jetmore is still without a flouring mill. There is money in it for the right parties with this matter in hand. (Siftings)
If you are a kicker and see the shadow of a failure in everything that is proposed to help your town, for Heaven’s sake, go into some secluded canyon and kick your own shadow on the sandbanks and thus give men who are working to build up a fair chance. One long-faced, hollow-eyed, suspicious, fault-finding, chronic kicker can do more to keep away capital and business from a town than all the drouths, short crops, high freight rates, and resubmission combined. (Sunflower)
J. L. Roughton, father of C. E. Roughton, came in from Oklahoma Tuesday night. (Reveille)
There are many fine fields of wheat and rye. Some are harvesting the rye, and next week the click of the self-binder will be heard on all sides. (Siftings)
A. A. Johnson talks of getting a new binder to harvest his rye. W. C. Gowdy has invested in a new binder to harvest his hundred acres of small grain. (Sunflower)
Internet Archive: 1893 Birdsall Catalog
What we like to see at social gatherings is a goodly number of young people, and Jetmore has a good many. When the young folks turn out, the socials are always a success. (Reveille)
The jury in the Short murder case were unable to agree on a verdict and were discharged by Judge Vandivert. The jury stood six for acquittal and six for guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. This will necessitate a new trial at the next regular term. (Siftings)
J. C. Grant wishes us to inform Harry Mitchel that he hasn’t taken his cane to bed with him for a week. (Sunflower)
T. S. Haun, W. S. Kenyon, Noah Hardy and L. C. Miller made a trip to the springs in the west end of the county along the Buckner for the purpose of ascertaining whether they could be made available for the purpose of irrigation. The party were somewhat divided in their opinion as to whether or not a sufficient supply could be obtained for the purpose desired. (Siftings)
People who think that there is no water in the Buckner should go west about five miles and find … the stream being 30 to 40 feet wide. (Reveille)
Irrigation seems to be the talk of the times, and we think it is a good subject to discuss. We need an irrigation ditch through this county, and by a little rustling and work we can get one. In Sterling Township, where the ditch strikes, the crops look 100 per cent better than they do West or North. Let us join forces and have a ditch by all means. (Reveille)
Ten members were taken into the Farmers Alliance in Pleasant Prairie last Thursday evening. (Sunflower)
Gasoline for sale at Patchen’s. (Siftings)
COMMUNICATED. This refers to the article in the Reveille of June 5th, in which the writer charges me with personally abusing me through the Sunflower … I have said many times and I again reiterate it, Barney, you are a coward! It is not pleasant for me to enter into an engagement of this kind, but if these gentlemen wish to take issue with me, and insist upon it, I will sure make it interesting for them for a while at least, and will promise the readers of Hodgeman county something new and spicy. — Noah Hardy. (Sunflower)
Bert Bradley returned from Great Bend, last Saturday evening, where he has been attending college for the past few months. (Sunflower)
Judge L. P. Mack, an old and respectable citizen of this county, has just received a pension. He has been allowed $50 per month from last November until the first of March. From that time on he will receive $72 a month. (Reveille)
The many friends of Judge L. P. Mack, an early settler of this county, will be pleased to learn that he has recently received justice at the hands of the U. S. pension department. Mr. Mack has been an invalid of long standing and for the past two years has not been able to leave his room, and the just recognition which he has lately received places himself and family in a position to procure all the medical aid and necessities of life that money can buy. (Sunflower)
I will guarantee sale for all the broom-corn and caster beans that the farmers of Hodgeman county will raise. Come and make arrangements with me. I make this offer to encourage the raising of these important crops in this county. Marion Sheldon, Jetmore, Kansas. (Siftings)
Bernard very plainly showed in his last week’s issue that he is extremely “sore” over the fact that the Sunflower was awarded the contract to furnish the Immigration Bureau of this county with 3,000 extra copies containing matter of a beneficial nature, in regard to the superior advantages of our county and city. His bid for the same work was only $23.00 more than that of the Sunflower; we see no reason why the worthy gentlemen should feel that he had not been fairly treated. (Sunflower)
A birthday picnic took place in C. Jackson’s grove in honor of W. S. Gilbert’s 44th birthday. Thirty friends and relatives were present. (Reveille)
How is it about those new carpets you are getting—? (Reveille)
Professor Canfield, who lives on aristocracy hill, is the happy owner of a pair of fine prairie dogs, and takes great delight in whistling them up for their daily bread. (Reveille)
Several white topped wagons have passed through town during the past week, and strange to say they have been going west instead of “back to live with their wife’s people.” (Sunflower)
Meeting of the citizens for the purpose of making further arrangements for a celebration on July 4th …. On motion of Mr. Helm, it was decided that we have a basket dinner … and that coffee, tea, lemonade and ice water be prepared for all, free of charge. (Siftings)
The Governments of Germany, France, Russia, and Switzerland have signed the treaty for the repression of Anarchy. (Reveille)
DIED: An infant son of Chas. T. Bradshaw, on last Friday, buried in the Jetmore cemetery Saturday forenoon. (Sunflower)
Fairmount Cemetery, Hodgeman County
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