PLUM GROVE ITEMS

PLUM GROVE, BUTLER CO., KANSAS, October 24th, 1879

EDITOR: Gazette

Since our last communication, we have visited three of the so-called best corn states in the west, viz: Missouri. Iowa and Illinois. None of those named above states did we find a crop of corn as we have in Marion and Butler counties. Mr. Joseph Farni, of this place, has gathered one field of corn that yielded 75 bushels per acre. Farmers are all busy gathering their corn. The wheat crop is looking fine in this vicinity too.

☞S. M. Spencer is buying corn, paying 18 cents. Per bushel delivered at the Grove.

☞Married, at the residence of the bride’s father on the 22nd inst., Mr. John Ferguson and Miss Mattie Pershing, may their shadows never grow less. 

☞Mr. “Hard Tack,” did you ever read in the bible where seven women were hanging to one man’s coat &c, &c.? That is why Mr. John Jones went to Marion county just week; all of the neighborhood girls want to catch him. but he won’t be “catched.”

(“Hard Tack’s” reply from the Catlin Items of the 31 Oct. 1879 issue of the Peabody Gazette: Mr. ‘A Star Cuss” are you aware of the fact that Mr. John Jones in fleeing from the grasp or those seven Belles in Fairmount, who was reaching for his coat tail, fell breathless into the arms of a Catlin beauty who praised his raven locks and dark hazel eyes, and he seemed to enjoy it too.)

☞Ed. Burr, returned to Illinois on the 13th inst., he was well pleased with this section of Kansas; he reported that Peabody did more business than Dallas City,” Illinois, a town with four times the population Of Peabody.

A St✶r Cus.