Marysville Pickings from Marysville, Kansas • 1

1 ARYSVILLE PICKING PICKING ONOE A MONTH TOE EVERYBODY. Vol. 1. ARYSVILLE, MARSHALL COUNTY, KANSAS, FEBRUARY, 1883. No.

2. THE THE ARYSVILLE PICKINGS. Rev. A. G.

Murray has commenced a series of meetings at the Methodist church, which are nightly growing in power and interest. When Charley Lemmon goes off see his his pa and says he will back in two weeks, just set it down that he is a worse prevaricator than Ana I i i i These are tears. The Kansas Herald calls Thk Pickings a The Rig Blue and the Little Blue should have been, down in the River and Harbor bill for $50,000 each, and Congressman Anderson ought to have voted for it. If you don't get a Pickings, call at this office for one. Our edition for January was 3,000 copies, and the same number for this month.

We shall print 5,000 copies for March. It takes a cloth-peddling swindler to be suspicious of an insurance company. No, not that! It takes a fellow who has gone over the county helping CEORCE H. POWERS, Picker. SOME WORDS ABOUT THE PICKINGS AND PICKER.

-Marysvilie, Kansas, has a new paper called Pickings. Tin; News was of the opinion that all the odd names for papers had bwn appropriated, but I'ickings is certainly original. Joe Daily News. George II. Powers is a natural born news-paper man, and us long as ho lives he will be inditing newspaper paragraphs graceful, easy, Mieaty paragraphs.

He's at it now. Mow comes a pretty and brilliant little monthly paper called Tun Marysvii.i.e Pickings, George II. Powers, Picker. It it in emit to advocate his insurance business, but that doesn't bore the reader. Clarinda (Iowa) Daily Star.

The St. Joe Western trains were but little behind time, in spite of snow and drifts. An effort is being made to form a bailiwick of a portion of Marysvilie and Waterville townships, to be called Walnut. "I don't want Tiik Pickings any longer, a fellow writes us. Well, what is the matter with you? Who said we were going to make it any longer? An old timer says that every time a United States Senator is to be elected in Kansas a vigorous snow storm comes along a result.

Thus is the State doubly blessed, for both are useful. The three months men of Rhode Island want $5,000,000, or so, from the government as back pay from the time when they went out of the service during the war until they got their discharge papers, which was last month a period of over twenty years. nias. Hanover is after a branch road of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy from Wymore. The Hanoverians are wise people.

The Chicago, Burlington Quincy railway is not a hoggish corporation. It will give them a direct and cheap line to Chicago, and ther will be an appreciable difference in transportation rates after it is built. It will accomplish more for the people of Hanover than all the legislatures that ever sisscmbled in the State of Kansas. Ex-State Senator Young, at a recent meeting of the Iowa Improved Stock Breeders1 Association, asked: "How can we teach our boys to follow the plow industriously, when they read We have received the Initial number of Tiik Makysvii.i.k Pickings, a monthly journal devoted to the insurance interests. It is conducted by George II.

Powers, formerly of the Clarinda, Iowa, Herald, and its columns are brimful of good things characteristic of the Herald under his management. We hope llrother Powers will Mud Tim Pickings mighty fat, and may keep himself insured against Mre here unI hereafter. Seneca Tribune. a cloth-peddling swindler to dupe the people, who thinks an insurance company incapable of performing its agreements. The Secretary of the Kansas Historical Society writes that the institution of which he is in charge can't survive without The Pickings to lile away in the archives of the State.

As for Tiik Pickings, it doubts if there will be a State any more if Thk Pick George Powers, the whole bent of whose genius is toward newspaper paragraphing, reports himself, through a pointed little sheet, he calls Tiik Mauvhvii.i.k Pickings. George II. is the Picker. His ready pen will win for him a host of admiring friends, by its pleasing, versative Mow, and its easy compass of thw very best news. We would like to see George permanently in the calling, for which he is so eminently fitted.

Clarinda (Iowa) Journal. The Pickings Picker isn't shouting peans in praise of Kansas weather as much as he was. Those mellow skies Mini' hnlsry breezes lb sit pmellcd of do We have received the initial number of Tiik Makysvii.i.k Pickings, a monthly folio published by George H. Powers, at Mar.vsville, Kansas. George, when actively engaged in the business, was considered one of "Iowa's best," and we see in Tiik Pickings an unmistakable longing to again enter the Meld.

He advances some wonderful predictions on fifty years hence," and having resided(a year in the same locality, we an? of the opinion that his views are well founded. Stanton (Iowa) Call. ings should fail. There were certain rumblings in this vicinity which seemed to us to make its publication neces-sa ry. The wife of Hon.

Charles F. Koos-ter, of this city, is in a very precarious condition of health. Her husband and friends are very much alarmed in consequence, and medical skill at St. Joseph has been employed to aid her to recovery. For a time Mr.

and Mrs. K. will regularly visit St. Joseph, remain licious spring time, were a snare and a delusion a fact to which our lee-ward ear will bear ample testimony. A bull pup could not have more completely used up that beautiful appendage of ours than did the storm of Thursday night, January 18th.

Hereafter we shall trust a woman, but never the weather in Kansas. It is amusing to hear Kansas people sit down and growl because there; is an insufficiency of rainfall, (iodgave these people the most wonderfully productive soil on the face of the globe. That was enough for IIi part of the in the paper at night that Jay Gould has made a million of dollars in a day by a deal in stock speculation?" Don't try it, Lafe. (Jive them a better chance. Let them follow in your illustrious footsteps go early into th editorial harness, and make the Jay Goulds of the land green with envy.

Marysvilie is one of the most prosperous of Kansas towns. But it has still greater future before it if the Kns-ters, Schmidts, Wate rsons, Hutchiu-sons, Barlows, the rich folk generally, and all the people beside, would make an earnest movement to secure the B. Q. railway from Wymore. Because an effort, such as might be made, would be successful.

It would give cheaper freights, increase business, add to the prosperity of the times, and give us a direct line to Chicago. At noon, Friday, January l'Jth. silt hough a bright and cheerful sun wtu shining, it was lifteen deerees belo.v zero. It was a general ear-thawing We have received Tiik Pickings, a bright little monthly paper published ut Marysvllle by our esteemed friend, George H. Powers, whom we knew for many years in Iowa.

Mr. Powers is an able journalist, who was for years in southwestern Iowa the recognized champion of Uepiiblieauisin, as many Democrats who have been dissected by his incisive pen could testify. Tiik Pickings shows his master hand, as its news is condensed into Hhort, crisp articles just what the reading public like. Hanover Democrat. ing for some days.

It is earnestly hoped by all that this excellent lady will speedily meet with improvement and be spared to her family and friends. Tiik Pickings reader who is not possessed of a forgiving mind should avoid reading the complimentary notices concerning the Picker, which are programme. But He didn't expect them to howl because He had not perfected all the elements to suit man's desire, lie presumed that they would be blessed We acknowledge the receipt of Vol. 1 No. 1 of Tiik Makysvii.i.k Pickings, from Kansas', ieorge 11.

Powers, Picker. It's a four column folio. The "lending article. "A New Year's Grueling," is "rich, rare ami racy." The local jottings, or "pickings," are full of pith and point, and sparkle with wit. It has the cur-marks of George all through it.

For Instance, in speaking of the usual "swear oil's" on New Years, he says he won't "swear, gamble, smoke, nor kiss tiny more homely women." Conway i Iowa) Champion. We have before us a copy of Tiik Pickings, published at Marysvilie, Kansas, by our old friend, George II. Powers, formerly of the Clarinda Herald, ami afterward the lied ford Argus. It will do any of us uood to read it. George could, and always did, get up one of the most readable papers in the Slate.

He Is one of the most brilliant writers I hat ever shoved a cpiill in Iowa. Success to you and Tnu Pickings, George, and don't forget to put us down on your cross list Hur-linglon (Iowa) Home; Journal, Tnu Maiiysvim.k Pickings, George II. Powers, Picker, is a neat four page four column monthly, duvoted mainly to advancing the cause of Insurance in which Mr. Powers is interested at his new home, Marysvilie, Kansas. Though engaged In a much pleasanter, and we doubt not more profitable business than average journalism, George seems to have lost noue of the spiciness us a writer which gave him a fine reputation as a newspaper man in Iowa.

George's many friends hereabouts will unite with us in wishing him great success at his new home and new business, Clarinda down) lleruld. with energy and sense enough to dot all these broad prairies with groves, which will bring rain in abundance and in season! Postmaster Smith had an "experience," tke other day. A man alighted from a covered wagon, entered the postoffiee, and asked: "Have you any mail for me?" "Aral who is demanded Mr. Smith. The fellow scratched his head, stammered a moment, and said he "couldn't think," and tin ally went to the wagon and interrogated a woman.

He had forgotten his own name, or else he was "vamosing" with some other fellow's wifu, and had forgotten the nomenclature they had assumed and were traveling by. published elsewhere. They are so neat and Haltering --so tieklesonie to one's own admiration of himself, that not to re-publish them would be to wound one's-self. Resides they come from old friends who have known us long and well, and who think vastly better of us than our merits deserve. Rut they will help to introduce us to the people of Marshall county, of Kansas, and of Nebraska.

They spe ik of us as a former newspaper editor, and they attribute to. us good and successful qualities in that profession. We shall try to bring the same into the business which has brought us to Marysvilie, and we hope to merit in the fullest degree the confidence and esteem of all with whom we shall have business or social relations. season throughout the city, except in rare instances. George Smith, of the News, complained of his nose, while the Signal man bitterly suggested that it was easier to thaw out the Cardiff Giant than his feet.

Becker, of th Democrat, was quiet for once, as the moment lie opened his mouth his tongue was threatened with a stiffness lhat no amount of energy could limber up. Besides Becker knews that would not look very handsome before a red-hot stove trying to thaw out th member with which he "cusses" his enemies and lauds his friends..