Harvey County News from Newton, Kansas • Page 2

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I1AL.STEAD ITEMS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE Hamill HABYEY COUNTY HEWS. S. LEHMAN aJol Make ready and count your cash who are be recipients of your bounty. Brotliers CL OT HI BOOTS.

Dry Goods, Boots, SIWET, SHOES. MAm, jFi rill's ills' Goods. and woolens all Kintls. Suits frcm $6 to $3.50 LO. We mean business.

Come one and all and be convinced. HAMILL. BROS. Arkansas Galley TV 31 nECB ADSTSWORTH GEAHY, GENTS. Prospects Indicate that the State of Kansas will receive an overfiowinir title of emigration during the spring and summer ofls77.

in order to make an effort to secure to HARVEY and adjacent Counties a share of this incoming tidtof people, we have determined! to enter the field for ACTIVE SERVICE in the REAL ESTATE BUSINESS.) Lots of Texas ponies in town. Improvements are going on all around. Dow. Brewer is stitching harness for 'all's out" with J. Kuehny, our enter prising saddler and shoe-maker.

Clem. Philbrick our jovial grocer has put up an awning in front of his store. Clem is a "brick" sure enough. John Lehmann Co. shipped their first car load of wheat on Saturday last; they ship to Chadbourne Foster, St.

Louis. I am sorry to see our friend E. V. Tyler leave us. He is going to Colorado Springs for lus health: hone it will De uenenciai i to him.

J. L. Showalter has taken charge of J. Leisey's sheep farm one and a hall mile north of town and will make it his future home; the stock of sheep number now, about six hundred head. Lucas Kisser are at work with their steam thresher, and have already threshed three hundred acres of wheat for Mr.

Wiebe, and have contracted for the pres ent for all they can do. They are howev- ever, willing to keep- the machine run ning if it takes all the falL There seems some chance of a change in the firm of the Ilalstead mill and I hope it will be for the better. There is no reason why the mill should not be 1 run day ana night; as mere is wueat enough in the country surrounding, to supply the same- to its full capacity. Why are people so foolish and stubborn Or are they paid for doing nothing? C. Eisenmeyer father-in-law of B.

War- 4 kentin, with several of his daughters and a party of St. Louis ladies passed through to Denver the mountains a few days tLm Thev -will return next n-pek and spssd a week or ten days here. Mr. Eisenmeyer Is one of Illinois veteran mer chant millers, nis mills have a capacity of five hundred barrels of flour per day. The wheat is nearly all harvested and will yield a fair crop; indeed better than was expected; the average will be in this neighborhood about 18 bushels per acre-.

"But oats no end to them." They are the largest and best I ever saw. Go north of Halstead and you will find from forty to sixty acre fields of oats, as tall al most as yourself, and so thick on the ground that a traveling frog or grasshop per could not get through them. Bilmocs. IIAL.STEAD. Halstead July 10th 1877.

Ed. News. Dear Sir: I write this to let it be known that we have finished the wheat harvest in this part of the 'great desert," and the next thing in order is the oat crop. The oats are not as good as was expected. 1 hey won make over sixty bushels per acre.

I wish some of our bluejeans brethren east could see some of our oats in this part. They are dense of growth, and tall as grena diers of the guard. 1 would like to see one of these persons trying to bind "his hair' on a harvester. I think he would be warm enough to get along without a coat in the afternoon. I received a letter this week from Illinois Atatin that thev have finished planting corn, have had a fine and just now the rush is for early cabbage plants to set out.

They boast of having radishes large enough for use and think il happens, they will have plenty other garden truck in a few days. I wonder when their 4th of July comes; we had our's last Wednesday. Comments are unncsessary. Seeing is believeing. Don't you Newton folks wish you had a grove and" a river We think of planting a large grove at Hal- stead so as to be able to accomodate the the smaller towns with shade on.

future I here was a certain young man in this neighborhood who went out in the harvest field to work the 4th of July in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was breaking in on the national day, until the signs of the times become so strong that he had to see his mistake He quit at noon, put on his store clothes, took an extra pair of slippers under his near arm, and started lor town, lie said he felt tired after he started and had a notion to come back and stay at borne and read his bible, but he remembered it was the 4th which only comes once a year, and be went a bead. I told him not to stay late. He said he would be back by supper-time but failed to put in an appearance, and I had two pieces of pie for supper instead of one. This young man 'tripped the light fantatic away into the we Sma hours, and says the bard of Avon was right when he said ''the man that has no music in him and is not moved by the concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons stratagems' and spoils! 4 1 7 -a tut) uioiiuD) oi jrtw spini are as dull as night: and his affections as dark as Erebus! Let no such men be trusted." Our mer- chants say the number of men who want --jew imngs" unim alter tney tnresu is m. large.

This is all right provided one has any thing to thresh. They say the nam ber that "can pay next week" is also large; but when the time comes, they run "across tke way.Jiot 3a many false pre- tension! gentlemen please. Yonrs, It. Billiard. nearly ait ottne 150 country papers of ft Our local acquaintance here, and our connections cast, are sufficient to Jinsurc mt WitclH-gent and efficient prosecution of business.

Our facilities for V1SIT1NU and SHOWING LANDS and property are good, and we will take especial pleasure in answering questions business relations by letter. We have on sale somo very desirable properties in both CITY and COUNTRY at reasonable prices. We can mail detailed descriptions of property to parties applying by letter enabling purchasers to determine what may beat 6uit them. Our Commissions ars VEHY LOW, enabling OWNERS to place the VERY LOWEST FIGURES ou psopcrty in order to eucour-age sales. We will also Fay Taxes for Non residents.

Furnish complete abstract of title to propertg in Ilarvey and adjacent counties, collect rents. Lease property; bun and ell Land H'arvufe, Prosecute claims before the U. jS Land Officf. nt Wichita and the mcnts at Washington, carefully execute Deeds. Mortgage For fuil information, both general or special, call otv.tA or addrc the Arkansas Valley LAUD OFFICE, hi Nowton, II rvey A INSAVORTII 4t GEARY.

It's Pronosed Extension to the I Pacific Ocean. Several papers, both eastern and west- era are publishing rumors to the eflect mat mnrlinn hplsppn the new SOUtUem California railroad and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad is in contemplation, and will be made as soon as it becomes evident that a Southern Pacific road cannot be constructed at the expense of the government. The Atchison, To peka Santa Fe railroad is private proper ty, and was constructed by Massachusetts capital run in a southwesterly direction, tbrousu Kansas, through the- Arkansas Valley to Pueblo, Colorado, and thence proceeds to Trinidad. But the design of the com pany is to cross the mountains in a pass near Fort Garland, and thence proceed almost due south to Santa Fe, in New Mexico; the company have the money to carry out their design. J.

here will re main only the cap between Tuscon. the proposed terminus in Arizonia of the Southern California road, and Santa Fe, the terminus of the Atcnison, Topeka Santa Fe. to fill up. This is a distance of about 450 miles, and two rich corpo rations, that have already built several thousand miles of railroad, wiil not find it difficult to arrange for filling up so 8nort a which will give them a new and independent rout to he Pacific. Ex- A Father's Cruelty" Last Sunday, Mr.

Craig, who lives on the south side of the river, whipped his little son, a child about seven years old, for permitting a hog to stray from the premises. It seems tbat he lost all judg- ment, and very cruelly whipped the child with an ox whip and then sent him out in search of the hog. The little fellow wandered abo it the prairie and was bit ten on the toe by a rattle snake, when, from exhaustion he fell on the ground. where he was picked up by Mrs. Lewis, and taken to her risidence.

Medical aid was not had until noon, Monday, when every thing was done for his relief. He was insensible most of the time, except when roused by extra efforts. -On Thurs day eyening he died. The coroner at once summoned a jury, composed of Al fred Price, Chas. Chamberlin, John Hub bard, J.

B. Hannum, Joseph Gray and H. H. Kidder, and proceeded to hold an inquest. The father came in during the night and gave himself up to the sheriff and is now.

in jail, the general impression among those who have seen the child is that he died from the effects of the wh ipping. But, though death may have resorted from the snake bite, the father's conscience will never forgive him for his unguarded, not to say cruel, treatment to the child. He has three children left, two or tucin nine gins and the other a compositor in our office, who has devoted all his earnings to the surport of his brother and sisters. He is a young man of very steady habits and deserves great credit for the devotion he has shown in giymg his earnings to his father to aid in supporting the tamily. Having no mother, tlie little girls will find homes in good families, and be taken care of, dur ing the imprisonment of their father.

Later: Since writing the above, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict, finding that the child came to his death rroni mows tnmcted with an ox-whip in the bands of his father. The jurymen say the evidence of deadly marks are painfully visible all over the child, es pecially about his groins and the lower portion of the back, producing internal inflammation. Some seveu or eight witnesses were examined, all of whom witnessed the whipping, which was not all at one time, but at intervals. Dr. Hausneck testified tbat the little boy told him that if he died it would be from the whipping.

The little fellow had a plesant smile on his face after death, and wa9 a very bright, intelligent child. Great Bend Tribune. Letter From The Boys. Short Creek July 1st. 1877.

Editor of the News. We have a little spare time to day, it being Sunday, and thought best to favor you anu your readers with a snort com- ruunication from "Short Creek." We have now been here fifteen days and have taken in the towns of Galena and Empire I and their surroundings, and at the same time have not misse the siehts in what I is called the Bottom; called so from be- ing on the creek between the two towns. It has a population of about 1.000 I more or less but is left out in the cold, I i I I i not oeing inc orporaiea into eutier towns, Everything in general is what the bovs term "Bed Hot and still a It I will compare favorably with Newton in her palmy days. Here you can find all the games played, known to civilized Gam blers, or you can find any kind of amuse ment represented in any of your cities; but our morals being such" we cannot tell you anything about what some of those buildings contain. We read the signs, draw a long sigh over the follies of this world, and pass on (not in.) 7 hsrp firA nrwMit sir rvt- cprpn ttirancanil now ihA ih unt William have struck it big.

They took out about three thousand lbs last week. Tou ought to see them put on airs; they dont walk on the same side of the street with those miners who have not struck lead. Strange it should set 'em up so, but lead will do it, you bet. They bought another claim yesterday. and this morning came out with two standing collars apiece.

We -have two first class opera houses here, one in Kmnire nri nnln f3alni n-illi a tmniu selected from various cities of the east, always taking the best. They make their fi ret appearance to-night, and as we are going, must close this communication, and curl our hair. We hope our fellow citizens will not get the lead fever and come down herewith a mishtv rush. without a cent in their pockets, forIl taxes money to mase money bere: no luluB. UK WJfB Wb W.ent baCk wiUioof taking in the hurry.

Poor fellows; they wanted to get back to their wives. Charley will be I home in about a week to see his girl, and R1Te von ny furtner information I LI1HL Vnn TTIQV IIAAil Hitnm THE BOYS Who 6toppetl at Short Creek. A I A A I I US a gains in Meal Estate- BO YD MYERS, BTJRRTON, KANSAS, are offering the following bargains to parties who are desiring to purchase Seal Estate. 160 acres, 6 miles from Barton, 70 acres broke, a forest grove, hedge rows set; will be sold cheap. Boyd and Myers.

80 acres 4 miles from 40 acres under cultivation; will be sold cheap for cash. Myers. One half section, four miles northwest of Barton, Harvey a portion of which is under cultivation good house, soil No. will be sold cheap for cash. Boyd Myers.

Burton, Kansas. One quarter section, 4 miles west of Burton, 80 acres broke and under cultivation. Good house: will be sold at a bar gain. Boyd Myers. Burton, Kansas.

80 acres about 4A miles west of Burton, 30 acres under cultivation, fine house will be sold for $500. Boyd Myers, 80 acres 2 miles north-west of Burton, about 40 acres under cultivation, house. Will be sold for the small sum of S700. Boyd Myers. Jno.

GOODWINE, Dealer in Farm Implements, HARDWARE PUMPS, HARNESS, CUTLERY, etc. Sells the Old Reliable SKINNER PLOWS, the Vandiver Corn Planter. Double and Single Cultivators, THE CORR SULKY PLOW a specialty. Those in want of Goods in my line, need not go elsewhere for them. I aim to compete with this and NEIGHBORING TOWN'S IN LOW PRICES.

BTJRRTON, KANSAS E. ROYCE, DUTJGrGrlST -A-TSTD Pharmaceutist. Paints, Oils, "Window Shades, and everything un hand, usually kept in a drnii ftoro. Prescrip tions promptly and accurately prepared. BUKRTOX, KANSAS.

BURTON HOUSE. Burrton, (Ilarvey Kansas. Travelers will find commodion! apartments, clcnu bedc, and many other comforts and conveniences to be secured in a First Clans House. B. B.

BOTD. Proprietor. DR. M. LUPHER, Physician and Surgeon, BURRTON, KANSAS.

Will attend promptly to all calls in the several branches of Medicine and Snrgery. General Jlcrcliuntlise. J.H. GRESHAM, BURRTON, KANSAS. Farmsrs and others will iind it to their advantage to call at thin store before purchasing elsewhere.

Dry Goods, Groceries. Hootn, Mhmjs. Qoeensware, and everything to be found in a first-class Establishment. nlivttY on hand. HEW GROCEEY STORE.

J. n. JMc-iTJEE, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GKOCERIES, Queensware, Glassware, Crockery, Flour, etc. A large stock and good axfortincut of the above articles constantly on A good line of Cigars and Tobacco, a specialty. BURRTON, KANSAS.

A. W. BALLARD, BURRTON, KANSAS. Shares sharpened. Tires set.

Plows mended. Horses shod. Wagon repairing, etc. done on short notice, and at reasonable prices. w.

s. BURRTON, BOOTH, KANSAS, Dealer in Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, I am constantly in receipt of new goods. I am to keep everything in my line of business which the trade demands. NO TROUBLE to'SnOW GOODS. STOVE TINWARE, etc.

G. W. CROW, Dealer IX STOVES. CUTLERY, TIX-Wrre, Stove Furniture, I am tinder light expem-, and can afford to give Customers the benclit of a reduction from established prices. I defy competition in Low Figures.

BURRTON, KANSAS. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. H. B. BELL, Proprietor.

W.J. HOWARD Salesman. BURRTON, KANSAS. Good Teams and Carrinqrrs always on hand. Careful and accommodating Drivers.

Horsea for Sale or Trade. Horses boarded by the day, week or month. HUNT MOORE, Barrton, (Harvey Kansas, Dealer in Dy Goo fc, Boots, Sto, Groceries, Ac-. e. A foil stock of seasonable Goods always on band, and soid at bottom prices.

Parties indebted to us will pleue call and settle their old accounts before opening now ones. County Commissioners, Nkwiok, Harvey Km, 3, 1877, Board ol County Commit sloners met is ses sion aa is required by law. Following claims county were presented and allowed lOHOW, W-li: 3 oo 4 so 8 00 13 00 4 00 too 77 15 65 00 SI 30 43 30 153 00 36 00 36 00 36 00 30 00 36 00 36 00 48 00 63 00 28 00 42 00 43 00 2 00 3 00 32 77 4 00 13 00 3 00 3 00 2 00 4 00 750 58 40 Jehnson special election Alta tp 1877 Burdick, making; plats for Co McAdtma Kx books ana lunae tJo. 2 ar. 1877 and mileage Walker.

BDec elec Alta to 1877 blank books paper fcc blanks and Dooks Crane tax roll, 1377 Hamilton A Co transfer records HC Smith assessing Newton tp. l77 ogers tt Burton Macon Richland Pleasant Garden Darlington Halstead Sedgwick Lake Walton Danner Woodard Ed Marks Thompson BP Hill Matlock Martin Johnson Highland Knos Commons road viewer CLRood Gilbert Co Treas redempt 7 24 19 Fulton road viewer 2 days Dawson Co snr; survey roads plats-. Garrison ex or teacners STDanner Alex Reed Prob Judge ex books funds UoTrea 2nd arvm GW Martin 100 blanks A Gilbert, Co Treas. acct expr school Diet Co rands Ashbangh, publishing Bunker Co clerk cash paid out les fs received 32 70 25 17 12 60 5 85 4 10 8 65 4 50 5 60 Dods worth box envelopes etc Dunning Sner Seas co ooara pnsn McQniddv Co Sup cash postage expr Leonard Sheriff fees Magaw holding Brunner goods to pauper Fulton, for mileage acc i juror Apni term 1877 3 00 Ashbaugh spec elec proc Lake tp. 5 tw Altatp.

67 80 Dodsworth envelopes 8 95 A Li Greene ex Dooks ana innas to i reas 2nd or 1ST7 8 Collinter publishing J-J Iloll inter Co Com 4 days servce to date 00 Th. rvnnv c.nrlr wn Instrnctttd to Issue war rant, in the fnUbwinz named persons account of rent and salaries in the amount et opposite their respective names, to-wit: Hamill rent of Co offices to July 1, 1877 75 00 Muse Spivev Co rent or room io Jnl, 1 St. 1R77. (5 00 A Gilbert, Co Treas, 2nd qr 1877, salary less fees received JJ Banker Co clerk 2nd qr 1877 salary 300 00 John Reid Co att'y PJ IT IMWliiiririv i- Alex Reed Prob Judge ReDorts of fees received for 2nd qr 1877 by Co Treasurer ana vo u.erit receiveu uu mwri nrTiminan of hooks and funds of Co Treasurer for 2nd qr 1877 received, accepted and is as follows, to wit: Newton, June 13, 1877. To the Honorable Board of County Commissioner of Harvey Vo.

Kansas. Th. nnoralirnnrl committee on the above date examined the funds of the Treasurer ot Harvey A found the same correct in run as Mhrtwm Mitt tlltIZ Aim. Rkid, Probate Judge. II.

II. Mc Adams A. L. Greene. State of Kansas, I llawAV 1 17 Subscribed and sworn.to before mo this 13th Amxr r.f -Tnntt A TV 1877- sealI H.

W. Bunker, County Clerk. Th fnilnw ln order was directed to be spread nnnn tho minutes of the Board of Commiesio'rs: I. k. Ih.

Kninl nrrlini) thnt Chanter PCV- iT77fi of the session laws of 1877. entitled fnr and rahhit scalDs" approved March nr.t autnonzins a oonniy upon wun. vi-ic. 6th. 1877, be- and the same is hereby deciarcu in full 7r-o mil nffect within the countv oi tiarvey and it is further ordered that notice of this order be given by publication lor three consecutive "on motion the Board adjourned to Jnly 7, 7.

II. W. Bcnkxb, County Clerk. Newton, Ilarvey Co. Kas.

July 7th, 1 877 rnmmiiinnpni met in session as nor ndioarnment from 2nd inst. All members of the Board present and following are their pro The followine claims against the County were allowed as follows, to-wit Wm Antisdale road viewer 2 00 Cretcher 2 00 8 Foster D. Med attendance on pauper 7 00 23 00 9 90 7ft 75 2 01) 15 00 Thatcher blanks and paper Leonard. Sher Tees paid 0y memners Ilarvey Co Agricu'l Soc acct fees paid by members Ed Marks road viewer Oldham Com to date J. V.

Crawford. Register of Deeds, presented bill for amount mr indexing on Unmencni lnilar a Ii-pfl of Trust from A. R. R. Co.

Moved that be be allowed tbe.sam of thirtv-five dollars in full for his services. ixsi CnmmisBinnrrs Hollister and Oldham volin no. nnd Commissioner Cook votine yes. Moved that aiil ram nfj.w. firawtord he reiecren.

ar ried. Commissioner Hollister and Oldham, voting yes, and commissioner uook no. The petition of Topping and others for the vacation of a road in Sedgwick nshtp. upon the recommendation of the viewers, wm disallowed Ttnarl nrlttnn of IT Goddard and others for a road near Sedgwick was ordered located, Road petition of Saunders and others was granted for roaa in jewion tp. Road petition of Chas.

Schsefer and others for road in Sedgwick tp. allowed and road ordered located. Road netition of A Raymond and others for opening or all section lines in peimuii granted and section line roads ordered located, On application and affidavit of V. B. Chamber- ltn.

ahatemeni oi sd.di maae irom 1 8TB lot ill Comm rcia! Avenue. Sedgwick It BT Washington Avenue Sedewick. ordered redeemed noon receiot of ouit claim deed to aid lot from W. 11 uurd as grantor to a Ph.m horlin as prantee. On motion the Board adjourned to juiy j.

ion H. W. nUVKiR, uounty -ler. SEDGWICK. Sedgwick, July 8th 1877, Ed.

News: The great and ever glorious 4th is over. We had a good time and big turnout Our band completely paid themselves out of debt by what they re alized on the 4th, and are happy in conse quence. The ball was a success, with good music and lots of dancers, but a poor ball room flnnr tnr whirh we am sorrv. but hoDe at some future time to furnish a better place. We exDected to be able to procure the ball in the upper part of the schoolhouse, but some one or more obiccted and we U-crP "nilkpd The chapter of accidents on the fourth was small.

Mr. Hazard had a serious ip ipnm. Mr W. J. Hall could not remain at the ball as long as he would have liked owing to some serious obstacle in the person of some fair one, and the other floor manager waxed wroth in consequence, but no blood spilled.

We had quite a delegation from Newton, and were sorry they could sot all have stayed with us over Farmers are happy over their oats crop. and say 75 bushels to the acre. Corn is looking splendid. I understand Mr Scliaef- er contemplates moving to Newton toent er in business, and as the cash business is such a success here, he proposes to try the same rule there. I notice the dentist from Baltimore on our streets, but so far he has kept the peace.

Mrs. Seaton, (late Mrs, Dalton) returned last Saturday from La Cygne, for a short stay here. Mr. James Salmons has sold part of his farm to Mrs. Antisdel; so we now have two families instead of one on the quarter section.

Mr. Dal. Morris an old resident of Sedg wick, is stopping here for a few days recreation with old friends, and has (some say) a young lady in view. But that may be all in your eye. Tours Sedgwick.

Sedgwick. Sedgwick, Jnne 10th, 1S77. Ed. Nrws: The 4th has come and gone. We all celebrated it.

The committees did their work ell. The grove was filled with people, where almost everything was contrived tor enjoyment. Everybody happy, and nobody drunk. Mr. Jewett, or Sedgwick conn ty, and Miss Bessie Ferguson were made happy on the fourth too throngs the kind of-fices of Rev.

Mr. Cane of this place. The ram of Sunday night was never more welcome and opportune. The crops were needing it. Harvesting is almost done.

Yonrs truly, Ijtdrx. Keeps in stock a full lineof Shelf and Heatr to Table and Vocket ROPE, BUILDING PAPER, WAGON WOODWOPjr ot jonn utm viu urouna Flows, John Deere Gang John Deere Gilpin Sulky Plows, John Deere Riding Walking CuluTJt( Iron and vood beam DOUBLE SHOVELPLOK The Furst Bradley and th Browi SULKY PLOWS, OfBrien Patent Harroic Iren Harrows, Scotch narrows, DIA MOND COEN TLXT ERS. Bain Farm Waprons. Kansas Spring IVagons, Haiti nurtlavd Sjmng Wagon rjam, Zinc nnd roreelnin Lintd DPTJjMPS, PUMP TUBING, High Priced Cooking Stoves, Medium Priced Cooking Stoves, Low Priced Cooking Stores, Ilili Priced Ranges, Medium Prirnl'Knnrett, Piicid Itanpca IIaFn and.Prcsscd Tinware, Granite Iron Wure. Roofing, Guttering ami Job Work of .11 1 Kind, DONE TO ORDER.

We illicit inspection of on stock and priccn, nn we bclien wo can pn yon, both In prica nnd quality of S.LEHMAN XEWTOX, KANSAS. CHEAP rsill in two doors stwtli of PiilH-e Drag Store, where you will find full line of STUDEBAKER WAGONS. Scotch Harrow, etc. We warrant all the above mackiwrJ" give perfect satisfaction. Kcmember we WILL NOT HE 1 BOLD.

Give us a Trial and be 0 vinced. Bazutt SI Errors of Youth- A gentleman who nffcrp(l fur ycrj frw' 4 Toon Utbility. Premature lecia oi yoututui tu iafTcring humanity the recipe and dir- remedy by whicn ne was wren. "--jenCt ing to protl. me meniwra -doo by addrflntt in j.erfect 19-6 wo JNOtt.OUIEN.-edMSU AGreat Kcducllonln Price Guns, BevolTers, fc, Prieea rednced from 80 to fti' for Illustrated Catalogue, itb reau for 1877.

GREAT WESTERN OlJ.f 91 Smithficld bt a THIS OFFiCEJ HARDWAM CUTLERY HAIPJImc, Hardware, is i II A 3 as tr i i a i ii 2 1 50 El gc? I .31 JZ MS ction for h' Thursday. July 12, 1877. Celebrating the 4th at Newton. It Las become an unwritten law of the land tbat we mast celebrate oar national anniversary, once a year rain or shine. Just as surely as the fourth of July comes.

so surely do flags wave, cannon roar, bands play, Orators sprinkle salt on the American eagle's tail; and the boys burn their fingers, frighten the ladies, and dis gust every body with the sizzling fire cracker. And while loyalty to that proud old flag continues, which was baptized in the blcod of our fore-fathers, and has since been rendered thousands of times dearer to every lover of liberty by the sacrifice of more than half a million of lives and bil lions of treasure in its defence, so Jong will bon fires and illuminations continue to mark the annual return of our national holiday. While these demonstrations continue to evidence patriotism and general rejoicing. Kansas as a state, and our own progressive little Harvey County, as a body politic on a small scale, may be expected to partici. rate in them with a eood will.

This brings us to the point of speaking of cele- bration in Harvey County The old sett lers of this county have now known each other for about seven years, and if we are properly informed, not a fourth of Jnlv has Dassed without brineins with it a good demonstration of some kind com memorative of the day we celebrate, within the limits of our own County, and sometimes two or three gatherings have been had at different places on the day. The cities of Sedgwick ml HaTblcad' are each noted for their ability to surpass eve ry other place and. possibly to surpass each other ki celebratmg Each town has a beautiful shady grove, which is a grand attraction in a prairie and an open hearted go-a-head-come-and'enjoy-yourself population, which latter, for drawing a crowd, will discount even the leafy grove. This is as it should be, and we congratulate our sister towns on their advantages ad their pluck; we are glad to know that they are patriotic and can and will demonstrate the fact; and we doubt not that many of our readers while perusing this article will recur to the days spent in either Sedgwick or Ilalstead or both, hanging on the rim of a "free lemonade" barrel un able to drink any more. Or reistrrery waiting outside the bar of some ice cream and candy stand1' for some fellow to ask them to "step up," as about the best of their lives since they came to Kan sas.

The reader naturally enough recalls those pleasant scenes, and praises with full heart the people who rendered them pos sible. But who associates uny of those pleasant pastimes with Newton Not one! "These things ought not so to be. Newton is the "bos town on the Santa To road. She has business- houses and business men that would reflect credit on a much mote pretentious town. Her po pulation is nearly two an! every BMUv.

oman and child, would! bo glad, to see New boo celebrate arul all wonder that she hasn't "gone and done it." The only reason given for going to Ilalstead and Sedgwick to celebsatev when both towns nave at aincrcno times- signified their willingness and even to come to the county seat once at letutr is that we have no shade. Well neither has Hutchinson, but she celebrates just the same. Her business men put their heads tlielr hands in their pockets, and behold a platform I and shade spring up manufactured for the I occasion spring up as Jonah's gourd, and a speakers stand is found where the irre pressible Joe Waters can detail how "Jo nah swallowed the whale," or can detail anything else that he undertakes to detail; and after all is over, the business men are surprised to learn that every dollar they spent has come back to them with usury. We have heard it charged repeatedly of late that the business men of Newton are niggardly in regard to any thing of a public nature, that they would never invest a dollar in any enterprise unless they had ample assurance of making two dollars oaft of Ul. Now we don't believe a word of tfc Our business- men as a class are liberal, and we believe willing to do any thing to advance the interests of the town, we oeueve mat the only reason iur our iauure nereioiore lo ceieDrate is mere was almost a universal opinion that nothing could bo done without a grove of umoer.

ve admit that it would be a greas auxiliary to a good, celebration to i a I uave a gooci grove uere the suady branch OO MflAf AVAfrtnail trv I v. v.v.. canopy, where brooks murmur aad rills I ing; put we Delieve that In the absence I of these much desired gifts we can leara uo kuuu a ana urn wmr i wx 111 as-m A.a pte of Newton propose next year to cere brate at Newton. Sedgwick, Ilalstead, man we resi oi manKind are Hereby invit- ed ia attend, and we pledge them sitting room ana a good shade. Let it then be unueriiooa mat we ceieDrate, and that the prosramme of exercises will be such as do one will be ashamed of.

We on that occasion, to parade the four maaonlc bodies, including Knights Templar, the two Odd Fellows bodies, tue uood templars and the Grange at Newton and all others that may at the time be in existence In the county. Let us move early in this matter, so as not to interfere with the plans of any of our neighbors, and let it now be understood that Newton will have her maiden cele bration, July 4th 1878. Chicago, Jnly 9. The following spec lal has been received here from Janes- vmea vi.r A temoie tornado swept everything before it Saturday nighfs torm. At Feneansee station, 25 miles north of Green Bay, on the Chicago- N.

W. R. the Gardner Hotel, the largest brick summer resort hotel in Nortaer Wisconsin, was blown down, and eight persons are kown to have been killed and two miafllog. Several other buildings imuwo to pieces, -ine place is a fcXii wreck, fha saw mill, shingle mills, Mid store were totally destroyed. The lug Spray and a achpoaer are a total wreck.

Tb acbool boose fifteen houses were Mown ctofrp. A powerful gust of wind raised wa depot, and blew it acroea the track and prevented the pasaage ot the Green Bay passenger train for two boars. The. bridge was damaged and misplaced. I T.

MARSH Wholesale dealer in 0 c3 Eh V. 209 MAIN TREET, a a 0. NEWTON, KANSAS. ST0RE. Newt on Sixtli Street, DEALER IX GROCERIES! Kansas pnblislied the Kansas City hi h.

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