Plum Grove Items
29 DEC. 1881, Thurs. Plum Grove and Vicinity. PLUM GROVE ITEMS.
Plum Grove and Vicinity. Editor Gazette : Our new machine has ground out but a few items this week. Mr. J. E. Kennedy is down from Missouri visiting his uncle and friends. Robert White will leave for Iowa about the first of January…
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Plum Grove and Vicinity. Editor Gazette : Hurrah for I. A. Shriver. His head is level if it is a mutton head. Whoop up the “city scales.” We will freely pay for weighing and thereby build up your city. You won’t hear us grumble. You know the adage, “Give a dog a bad name and…
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PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY. ED. GAZETTE – The election is over, and we Greenbackers are getting ready for another trip up “Salt-river,” as usual, but then we are so used to our annual trip that it doesn’t make us feel bad.
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PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY. ED. GAZETTE – After a long delay, I again come to the front with a few items: Farmers are almost done plowing for wheat and making hay, and quite a good many of us are waiting to get our grain threshed for seed. Unfortunately, the machines are three or four weeks…
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PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY. ED. GAZETTE – How is it about the groundhog? Guess he can go back and stay six months more, can’t he? If you don’t stop this miserable weather, I’ll stop your paper. ☞ Geo. Olinger’s little boy went horseback riding the other day with a steer for a pony; consequence, a…
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PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY. ED. GAZETTE – I should like to catch the man that wrote that poem on “Gentle Spring.” I would tie him to a post out on the prairie and let one of those “gentle spring” blizzards fan his cheek, and those “gentle spring” snowstorms pelt him in the eyes. Plowing is…
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ED. GAZETTE – PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY.
Tell the City Marshal of Peabody to prepare a large “Jimmy” and get theCalaboose in good repair by the last day of April, as I understand this part of the county will turn out “en masse” on that day to celebrate the incoming iron-clad temperance law by a…
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ED. GAZETTE .-TPLUM GROVE AND VICINITY. As editors are supposed to know everything, we would be glad to have you tell us how long this cold weather will last. We “clodhoppers” are getting anxious for a thaw. “Lum” Horn had quite a runaway last Tuesday. His wagon was upset with a load of hay, and…
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ED. GAZETTE .-The returns are all in from last winter’s weddings and considerably increase the United States’ military strength.
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Peabody Gazette-Herald, Peabody Kansas I will say that we are decidedly opposed to any organization that has for its object “controlling legislation in general”‘ in favor of any particular class. In doing this, you are pursuing the same policy that you complain bitterly of in others. We have read the proceedings of your convention at…
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ED. GAZETTE .- As Num Skull has taken unto himself a wife from the house of one Ferrier, we suppose that items from here henceforth will not appear in the GAZETTE. But, that being the case, we will occasionally try and report from this place. Last week, the Democratic barbecue at the Grove was an…
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PEABODY GAZZETTE
The El Dorado Brass Band will be on hand and furnish the music. S. M. Spencer asks us to say there will be no roast ox; therefore, you need not bring your perfumery bottles with you.
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PEABODY GAZZETTE
A splendid little rain fell on the 27th, but too late to help the corn crop any. The hay crop in this locality is very scarce and short. Corn cutting is the business of the farmer just now. The corn crop is very light in this locality, not more than half a crop this season.…
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Only one week has elapsed since “A Star Cus” liquidated his business interests in Plum, Grove and gone where the woodbine twineth, but already his sterling reputation has been sullied with malice aforethought. The reader can pervue the evidence in the Plum Grove and Clifford townships columns penned by the “Great I. A” and “Num Skull” in…
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EDITOR GAZETTE .-👉🏻 Mr. M. C. Snarf is the man who will run the store at Plum Grove; S. M. S. has stepped down but not out. So “Num Skull,” come to the front, and report the items that transpire at Plum Grove and vicinity as this will be the last from “A Star Cus,”…
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EDITOR GAZETTE .- After so long a time, we will send you a few items. First and foremost, the wheat, which the “grumblers” had past redemption two weeks before the rain came, is going to make an average crop, except that sown on sod which will barely pay for harvesting. S. M. Spencer is shelling…
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ED. GAZETTE:-For the benefit of any of my Peabody friends, who are contemplating coming to Colorado to make large fortunes, I would advise them to stay at home. One dollar a day in Peabody is better than three dollars a day in Leadville, taking everything into consideration. There are thousands of men in Colorado who…
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“Since the late rains, our farmers carry smiling countenances. The grumblers have concluded that this portion of Kansas Is neither too hot nor too cold. Too dry, nor too wet, too windy, or too calm, since they have heard of the destructions of lives and property in other States by the storm which occurred last…
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So that “Num Skull” may know the truth regarding our belonging to the greenbacks, we will inform him the party at this place wanted a man of brains. Not having any of that kind in their party, they called on us, and thinking that we might make a few dollars by accenting their offer, went…
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\Where was “Num Skull” last week that no items from him appeared? We noticed “Num Skull” when he read his previous communication in the GAZETTE, he believed that politically he had led a wrong life, but his father was a good democrat. He (Num Skull) was raised a Democrat and taught that the name Democrat…
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We will take notice of what you said in your last issue and make our speeches short; we will only add that the GAZETTES failed to come to time last Friday, which caused the postmaster here to receive any amount of abuse, he in return, abused the editor and his devil. Why was it thusly?
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👉🏻We needed rain worse than we did the late cold snap. Will you please tell the weather clerk to take due notice and govern himself accordingly.
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I. A. Shriver was the man who did the blowing in the last case tried before our Chief Justice; I. A. is a fair talker, a smooth hog buyer, and we think a proper kind of a man.
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👉🏻 The only question that agitates the minds of the people of Butler County at this time is the proposition to vote $4,009 per mile in Bonds to an R. R. Company. We are willing for a company to build as many railroads in this county as they wish; we are also opposed to county…
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A big excitement exists at this place on the prospects of striking oil; during last month, Mr. Wilder and Mr. J. G. Morgan commenced boring for coal; at a depth of fifty-nine feet, they found petroleum in small quantities. They are confident that they will find coal in less than two hundred feet or strike…
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This being holiday week, the only items to record are about twenty marriages in this vicinity; Rev. Budd has been busytying the matrimonial knots.
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Mr. Jacob Bricker and Mr. Hanson each had a horse burned to death caused by the stable taking fire from sparks from the house’s stove-pipe.
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