An encounter with a Mississippi Kite
I know the sound is incredulous, as borne out by some of the comments on the original Facebook post, but it really happened just as stated. However, the whole story is more unbelievable than my words can justify. It is incredible to me anyway.Granted, the area in question is posted “warning nesting area,” so I…
Things I have learned from (been taught by) my dog.
We like to look upward. We start as children, looking up to men and women, our mother and father, who do extraordinary things on grass and turf, hardwood and ice, chessboards, and battlefields. This act of looking up to others for inspiration is a powerful motivator. As we get older, we shift our focus from…
The Sprncer Brothers in the Civil War
The bloody conflict at the Battle of Shiloh, fought on the banks of the Tennessee River in April 1862, undoubtedly stirred deep patriotic sentiments within the Spencer family of Illinois. This emotional fervor was not uncommon during the Civil War, as families were compelled to contribute to the Union cause in large numbers. Among the…
Washington was a man of Providence
I draw profound inspiration from the unparalleled example we, as Americans, have in witnessing the guiding hand of divine Providence in our earthly endeavors. (read my testimony) Washington was a man of Providence because he often spoke of God’s divine Providence in influencing human affairs. A striking illustration of this divine interference is taken from…
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…
Plum Grove Items
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…
Plum Grove Items
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…
Plum Grove Items
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…
Plum Grove Items
ED. GAZETTE .-The returns are all in from last winter’s weddings and considerably increase the United States’ military strength.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
Plum Grove Items
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…
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.
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.…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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,”…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
GOLDfever in LEADville
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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
“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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
\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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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?
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
👉🏻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.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
👉🏻 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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
This being holiday week, the only items to record are about twenty marriages in this vicinity; Rev. Budd has been busytying the matrimonial knots.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
☞The last seen of “A Star Cuss,” he was on his way to El Dorado in company with three candidates for office in our county. What does it mean Stark, are you too going to run for office.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
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…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
There was a Greenback meeting advertised at this place; Mr. Dillon, of Sycamore, called the meeting to order. After looking the crowd over, it was found that there was not a Greenbacker present to make a chairman of, so your humble servant had that office to fill. Calamity Sam’s speech killed all of the Greenback…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
Sept. 12tth, on transports, and arrived at Helena Sept. 14th. Our destination was to march by land from Helena to Little Rock to reinforce Gen. Steel. Our Division not being needed at Little Rock, we left Helena on transports Sept. 30th, arrived Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 1st, and camped near the city until Oct. 6th…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
The past two weeks have seen candidates for the various county offices have called upon us for our opinion regarding their chance for the office they aspire for. To save time and traveling expenses to those that have not called, we will give our thought through the GAZETTE. There are four paying offices to be…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
☞We visited the farm of Mr. C. V. Cain on Saturday last; he has one of the best-arranged farms in Butler county; he has over 150 acres of corn, which is estimated will yield around 75 bushels per acre.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
☞There is considerable sickness in this vicinity, among the young children. Mr. H. Burr, B. Cloud, A. L Clever, and H. Struble, have each buried their youngest child this week. ☞Idiot’s report regarding Jim Tucker and Mliss Ella Stewart being married are false. We can, however, confirm the case of bigamy reported by McCurious is…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
Simply put, as the “IDIOT” adeptly pointed out in our last issue that “Num Skull” has “gone dead.” and “Star Cuss” fails to give all the items as they occur. Perhaps a further clue can be found in this week’s revelation of Stark Spencer’s latest venture “shipping 1,000 tons of hay to the mountains.” That…
A BUBBLE BURSTED
The February 6, 1886 edition of the Newton Republican gives J. R. Norris’s tale in which he was “persuaded” to join “a very large hunting outfit in which were several English and European high flyers, or nobles as they were called.” As the story goes, their hunting grounds comprised Harvey, Reno, and Sedwick counties. At…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
When your core reporters choose the monikers of “Num Skull,” “A Star Cus,” and now “The Idiot,” you can bet that your town may not be represented in the best possible light in the press. In hindsight this week, the propagation of news issuing from the office of the “Plum Grove Items,” replaced by “Notings,”…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
☞Some two weeks ago, Morgan of the Chase County Leader, got a free ride from Cottonwood Falls to Plum Grove with E. A. Kinne, the gentleman working for Uncle Sam, Morgan on his return wrote up the towns from the Falls to this place. In writing up the Grove, he only spoke of two firms…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
On account of so many horses being stolen throughout the country, the citizens or Plum Grove and vicinity met last Saturday evening to organize themselves into a Protective Society; after appointing a committee to draft constitution and by-laws, the meeting adjourned until next Saturday evening.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
☞ Mr. Editor, please send a few extra copies of the Gazette to this office to loan applicants, as we have only one copy ourselves. Each week has about forty applications to loan that. We invariably offer to lend them Our family bible in place of the GAZETTE, but they all prefer the GAZETTE.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS
He was a sober and honest man that never pounded his wife. He never took any interest in a dog fight, and never was known to pawn some other person’s watch. He never attempted to steal a sawmill, was above reproach, and was a shining light in the community. He was looked up to and…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS Peabody Gazette April 28, 1879
I had the strange sense that it was just a matter of time before the sparring journalistic duo known as “Num Skull” and “A Star Cus” would come to an impasse. However, I doubt their split had so much to do with the town being too poor to afford two correspondents. Their opposing ideologies and…
KILLED BY THE CARS
T. E., better known Ed Spencer, while in the act of making a coupling in the Santa Fe yard yesterday afternoon, was almost instantly killed when caught between the drawheads.
The accident happened almost opposite the freight house at four o’clock, in “making up” a train. Spencer and Jehu McCabe,…
This letter from Nace Finn to Burr Spencer was received after, Burr’s death:
I wish the guy that showed Fritzie bow to drop bombs was in the lower regions, for he makes it just that hot for us. Fritz fed us a little bailing shell this morning. It failed to explode, so we looked it over. It Was 17 inches through and 5 feet long and weighed just…
MUST STAND TRIAL.
Lou Blake furnished the most of the amusement and among other things testified that she “was no spring chicken” which was accepted without cross-examination.
In that day every man shall have his own fig tree.
Micah 4:4 (KJVA) But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY, March 28th, 1879
☞ On Sunday last, a terrific fire came in from the west, which swept everything before, destroying lives and property. Mr. Ed. Felter and his brother-in-law were burned so severely that they died on Monday morning; Mrs. Felter is lying in a very critical condition, not expected to recover. Mr. Felter was one of the…
PLUM GROVE AND VICINITY, March 9th, 1879
•Well, we give up; “A Star Cuss” was right after all we went to that wedding, and another fellow married our girl, so we came quietly back and had the aforementioned “Star Cuss” appointed our guardian. So from henceforth him and not us will be responsible for our actions.
PLUM GROVE ITEMS February 14th, 1879
that great question” resolved that the soul of man receives its reward at death,” was ably discussed pro and con last Friday at our literary; was decided in the negative; that settles it, we can all wait patiently wait for” Gabriels Trump.”
PLUM GROVE ITEMS February 7th, 1879
Whether lacking topics of discussion and debate at The Literary Society or a genuine doubt resides in the mind of the average inhabitant of Plum Grove, is not known. However, the topic must not have been fully resolved before, for it remains a topic for further speculation: “Resolved that the soul of man receives its…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS December 27th, 1878
Many of our readers will be pleased to know the fifty-second number of the WESTERN FARMERS ALMANAC is out promptly for 1879. — The weather is the chief topic of the day; this is the fourth cold day in succession. Our stockmen say it is the right kind of weather for stock to fatten.—A note…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS December 20th, 1878
PLUM GROVE ITEMS Editor Gazette — Seeing no account of the fight in Fairmont township last week, I Will send it to you. On the 7th inst.,a dispute arose between J. Clever and the Slay family concerning some stone the Slay’s had quarried on land recently bought by Clever, which ended in blows; in the…
PLUM GROVE ITEMS December 6, 1878
One activity which Plum Groveites found sporting, referred to in numerous books in connection with Frederic Remingtons year in Butler county Kansas, was that of “coursing jacks.” This activity, slightly more sporting to that described in the “items” of December 6, “78 below, consisted of chasing a jackrabbit and touching it with a long stick.…
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