Highland University Nuncio from Highland, Kansas • 4

weather. It was a great storm. Did you hear the whistle? Harvest hands are very scarce. Have you seen the census enumerator? F. S.

Minier has views of Eagle Springs. Mrs. McIntosh visited in Troy last week. Miss Bessie Gion is the guest of Dr. J.

S. Long. David Kercher of Leona was in town Monday. Dr. Moore has secured a pleasant office on Main St.

Dr. J. C. Myers of Troy is in the city on a professional visit. George B.

Vinsonhaler starts for Missouri to-day on a visiting tour. The wheat harvest promises well and growing corn never looked better. Our band will go to the Station on the Fourth, provided Wolf river subsides. The catalogues are well under way and will be ready for distribution soon. Dr.

A. Leigh and family of Hiawatha were the guests of Dr. Lewis last week. Mr. Jacob Brokaw of St.

Joseph was in the city yesterday attending the wedding. Miss Sophie Hutt will make an extended visit among friends in Troy, Missouri. The Presbyterian Sunday School is placing a number of new books in its library. John Getz has been papering and painting his shop, greatly improving its appearance. H.

W. Scibird has shaken the dust of Highland from his feet, departing quite unexpectedly. Miss Mamie McIntosh starts for Chicago to-morrow and will make quite a lengthy visit. Miss Mabel Perry, who has been visiting Miss Mamie McIntosh has returned to her home in Troy. D.

M. Vinsonhaler has an ideal raspberry patch and the vines are loaded with the splendid fruit. Miss Jessie and Master Andrew McIntosh have returned from a visit among relatives near Atchison. Four of our young men rowed a boat across the fields from Highland Station to Eagle Springs last Friday. H.

S. Close is slowly regaining strength under the skillful nursing of our medical student, W. R. Breeding. Private dinner parties at the Wildey House are the latest.

W. A. Margrave from the Iowa and Sac reservation was in the city yesterday. Miss Luse is boarding at Mr. Scott's and will be glad to see her friends there.

Mrs. Owen and her daughter Sarah were in the city Tuesday attending the wedding. Miss Annie Kloss, who has been attending the conservatory of music at Oberlin, Ohio, will be at home next week. President Irwin and family will start east next week and spend some time visiting friends and relatives in Galesburg, Illinois, and elsewhere. Mrs.

Wm. H. Bayless entertained some of our tennis players Tuesday evening of last week. A pleasant time and several exciting contests are reported. At the special election held last Monday, June 16th, the proposition to vote bonds for a railroad was carried by a majority of twenty-six.

Look out for the cars! Prof. E. T. Mathes of Wathena was in the city last week. Prof.

Mathes introduced the high school course in the Wathena school during the past year, and is one of our promising young educators. Have we a city marshal? If so, why does he permit the reckless racing witnessed on our streets last Saturday evening? Respectable citizens have a right to use the streets without fear of racing rowdies. Miss Mamie Richie who has been visiting in Highland for a few weeks past will leave next Monday. Miss Lizzie Hutt will accompany her and spend some time visiting in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Georgetown, Illinois. Saturday night the news came to Highland that the supply of chewing gum at Eagle Springs was exhausted.

Everyone was delighted to hear it for they knew that our girls would be home soon. Later--The girls came home Monday. The storm did little damage in Highland, but our neighboring towns, Leona, Severance and Highland Station, suffered considerably from high water. Highland was practically without mail from Thursday until Monday, although a little came in Saturday night by way of Severance. Some of the belated mail has not yet arrived.

Bad washouts occurced on both the B. M. and Union Pacific railways. G. G.

Fox's horse has struck last report Mr. Fox was still unable at and terms with the refractory to make equine. Mr. and Mrs. D.

M. Vinsonhaler were in Missouri last week attending the funeral of a deceased sister. While returning they were caught in the great storm and had a very unpleasant experience. Miss Adelia R. Luse will be glad to meet all persons interested in the subject of elocution at the University chapel next Friday evening, June 27, at 7-8 o'clock.

Everybody invited. Admission free. Our local editor has severed his connection with this paper and is now in Beatrice, Nebraska. He will spend most of the summer there. Our business manager went to his home in Leona Monday.

The editor and the foreman still hold the fort. J. F. Shields, our lumber dealer, lost a ware house in his branch yard at Highland Station. The high water invaded the yard and getting to some lime enough heat was generated to set fire to the building in which it was stored.

The damage will not be very great. Mr. and Mrs. H. S.

Hogue of Hill City, Kansas, are here visiting their sons, Bert and Irvin. Mr. and Mrs. Hogue reached Highland Station Saturday night while Wolf river was still out of its banks. No boat could be obtained and they were compelled to remain all night in the depot.

George B. Vinsonhaler closed a very successful term of school in Dist. No. 31 last Friday. The closing exercises were excellent and very interesting, the little folks showing plainly the good effects of careful training.

Mr. Vinsonhaler was highly complimented by members of the school board and is to be congratulated that his work has given so much satisfaction. -We are happy to announce that Prof. Ainsworth, will probably have charge of the musical department of the University for the coming year. Prof.

Ainsworth is a graduate of the "Neue celAkademie" and private pupil of the ebrated Dr. Th. Kullak of Berlin, Prussia. He has already achieved an enviable reputation as an efficient instructor. He will give lessons in vocal and instrumental music.

We can say with perfect confidence that no better instruction in music can be received in the west than will be offered by the University next year. Mr. E. M. Smiley and Miss Hattie Scott married at 2.

p. m. June 24, at the were brides home. The ceremony was pronounced by Rev. A.

B. Irwin. Only a few friends were present and enjoyed Mrs. Scott's elegant hospitality. Mr.

Smiley fine is an enterprising young man, with traits of character and a bright business prospect before him. In capturing Miss Scott he takes from us one of Highland's ladies. Their future home brightest will be young Santa Ana, California, for which they took the afternoon train. The best wishes of a host of friends go with the happy couple..