Nebraska herald. (Plattsmouth, N.T. [Neb.]) 1865-1882, September 25, 1879, SUPPLEMENTARY, Image 6
PLATTSMOUTH. SEPT. 25, 1879. Eight Mile Grove Notes. COR RESPOXDEXCE. Ed. Herald -.Hay-making done. Thresh ing la just commencing in our neighborhood, hat yielding from 12 to 15 bushels per acre, I out 20 to 26 bushels, very little barley raised. ;Corn will not be near so good aa anticipated, 'and it already looks ripe enough to crib. Ear- ly potatoes are tolerably fair crop, but late cnes From Steel Citj. iare going to be very scarce on account of the JEFFERSON Co.. Sept. 15, 1879. 'dry weather. MR. EDITOR: -Allow toe to say a! Considerable sickness prevails in our vicinity ,.. . . !at PBBUU ic nBius.siiacciuiimug, im ir- .Mrs. John Pool is convalescent. Mr. Hall's ference to the Otoe Reservation, on new house is just looming up. and already be which I am a settler. !K'ns to make a grand appearance. Heisbuild- . . . . ... ing a very large two story house, which, when The country is settling up fast with :COInpIeted, will be the largest and bet b.nse a most energetic race of people. jin Eight Mile Grove. Sod corn will average about thirtv! Mr- Wm- KinS- tne Shenandoah Nursery KiicKaId nor r r ' r r meeting for fall and winter cauvasBinir average crop, being damaged by chintzistated he would make good all the old stoek he bugs and drought. I firmlv believe the soil here . to be!andTe? u'" ."TSf. of ,th? pople ain .uiM iiuaic own wiiu iaica ijuiu aumiu cog wneei. Accident jn . three cam to him in a runaway between here and Weeping Water Falls, mules ran away; broke the buggy tongue aid cut one of the mule's feet. Xo serious damage to persons. Some Doctors have got into the neighborhood, consequently quite a number are sick. Fevers and chills seem to be the main evils. Xll are getting along fairly. This dry weather is playing fun with wagon wheels. Fall plowing is adjourned sine die. I notice that several are going to test Winter Wheat. None has corn up ue and none will come up. iuim as piwuucuve as 111 ;iss o. e,t,eeu out to the Grove visiting have a nice variety of timber and good'K' mard-on water, we have jrood markets for the! Savcral ara lnsinrr im1voi man1 , delivered last spring that died this .ummer. !liere. TheT seem a litrlo lam ami Hotels are doing a thriving busing one has eighteen regular boarders. Dave Woodard hat moved to LouiJ yille with his livery. This makes thf nrrnA ..x.n.. 1.- A 1 - . . - A tuuu aixiuiianuienis 01 tins Kina ali doing fast business. Buggy rid?; cheap, girls scarce, come on girls if yd' want a ride. Baz. Ramsey has suspended practid ia the higher courts, a few days, acj has become a carpenter and joiner, bi he don't join worth a cent. Selah. m - x ue snow nas come ana gone ai there is another ne coming. The buf can't go to school show days, too uu business carying water to get into t Miss Avoca Katchcm. Florence; Henry Wolfe rejoices huielv in be- iniy "daddv " tia m tin irl Al A l Mr. Joseph Skilee has been over in Iowa vis- , . . i, . iilimr Mhitlvoa iml frian.1. H. 1UUU11U1I, x OUT. 1.111,3 TIBQI disposal or OUf products, Steele City .Mr. Geo. Clines has gone out t Hastings oai1'3 uemg ouij six in lies soutn, wmcn is a thriving tawn; we have also Fairbury twelve miles west and Beatrice sixteen mil PI south R-pct :ind aoiroral fcf lior -.n . - ,.... I.,- L.ium.n brooms t the srut F:r' ,,,., jour paper that I deem it aavisable oiiivwu ivniis nillllil lOdlAQLaUlO la- I o ' ' , , . , anceg fal1- iiood for i-harley. to take my pen iu hand. . Mr. s.M.iavis is the proud father of a fine t Where is Louisville ? In the Eight Mile Grove better look a leetle ou.lt.! - for one of these fi.ie days she may tee Kings-! 1 m m3Z BJ lnac It 13 Situated 111 the ville ou wheels. We understand they have not' north central Dart of thfl Statn nf Mr. Lewis I 'nlkinx lini a hrjt.H now mm J TO 111- Ljllistille buggy, and says he lias not much to do but to j ED. HERALD: It has been SO long bu'gy rice. since we h:tve seen anything from here .-xi. kj. ix. loi-j Hd xw ai ueu i lie urst pi e- i tin 1 ar show. Business before pleasure y(, you know. Tf Ti;i.iot...n.i i... ..i i settled here. 4 i.sner ooiey wno nas oeen a can didate for matrimony so long, was elected Sept. ISth by acclamation Lex. and readers of the llKRALDin old Cass. Vours very truly. D. W. FoLKEHf. light NOTES ON THE WING. Tkis Time from Seward County. ever three hundred names on their petition and we have no one to thank for his trouble i.Ktre than Dr. Root. Long may he live. SlPTflOKTE. From Rock Creek. Still the dry weather continues with not much pm.spect of rain. The order of the day seems to be the preparing of corn cribs, feed yards I will try and give you a few items as we have tiuie to-day. Corn is getting dry, and is good, wheat is running from ten to twenty bu. per acre. The new Rail Road that is goingnd other places to put away that im through this county, is graded west of ,mense croP o corn that is almost ready Ulysses. They are now laying theto crib- Some of the farmers have track. Farmers are greatly t.iicour-theircattl8 in the yard and are rolling aged, they are holding their wheat. jthe corn int them. Some of the farmers are selling out We thank the Three Groves reporter and' going into business at Ulysses. 'for leaving the Rock Creek Sunday There is a good opening for all kinds School picnic for us to write about, of business there except Shoemaker,:1 hve not much to say about it, ex of whom there are four there at pres-.P tnat il was verJ weI attended for ent ; there is room for a Doctor, they 80 busy a time. There was speaking, have no grave yard. It is quite a city singing, swinging, croquet and eating, and would be bigger if there were aud everybody went home haupy. more housas. j A festival at Mr. A. M. Holmes last It seems this country is noted fori Friday evening, was an entire success, fighting; one week ago to day one manjthere keing forty dollars raised for the met a couple of threshers, took them Kev- Mr' Uonistnorpe. I here were one from their wagon, whipped them and, hundred persons present. Xotwiih went on. Dobson is not through withl9taninT there was; an abundance of j i, jULlOIII Via mnyann ia ' n.if .w." SO linn U:. all KllldS ffif POO(1 thiniTi! In Ojt f.ir r.ll ... " uk vm !,jjj ijhii , :ii3, - o " - . yjovei'. Navies 13 victim nas quite a scar irom tne top v,l"J v,"""" i fujji t"ei";!t 1 vvsstaiid with a ha l - 1 1 . . I , . m . JTIll )l1VD ! rVAAil I 1 Mill 1 01 dis neau to iro iowr part or nis t.- iSucct-ss to him jaw. The blacksmith that did the J. limkins Rock Bluff Items. Mr. Editor: This is a vrv drv - - j time, the ground is so dry that we cannot nlnn-li e.irlv pnrn , B.., ready to be picked, late potatoes are dry they have failed to grow, the grass 1 and weeds have dried up and died,) the tires hav to be re-set or else lied Plattfcmouth on the B. & M. R. R. on with fence wire, cobs are dry and By the way Mr. Editor, we RepuMi-jbuin r.icly, some of our pockets urtt, cans in this division of the herd, think;dry for the want of some ixf neyjtn. inat tuo (jiivchliou irwaieu i iaus-1 we hib (mte urj lor me want oi sonv mouth rather shabbily. She shouldjnews items, but our Greenback cln! have had eight out of the nine cat4di-;has dried out entirely.sodry that then dates nominated instead of seven. It 'is not even a dust to be seen from them. may bo however that Flattsmeuth pol- The threshing of grain is all done in iticiam are makintr a saci iSce now in this vicinity aud sorghum making i order to found a basis for a more equit- bow in order for tho. e who have sudi able showing next fall. Please start, work to do, and nearly all the faruieis out a few lawyers and au editor or havo a patch of sorghum. two, soon, to explain things. Enough Jack dr ives' baby died one day last on this score or 1 sUall be dubbed "sore 'week. head," so to the items we go. We saw the Miiiiitig face of M. o. The Lewis Brothers were boUi i"ht-: Wee1 uf B"' viflt l"'. 111 streetn Hasemeiers skillful treatment they ;district the coining winter. seenj likplv tn rump nut vitiii-irnu N"f:irlv ;ill nf tlif f;irm.r mi.l l."r Grain is moving lively and our h'e'Shbors in this lo.-alitr, are going to r,,.,r i ..ii i...... .....:.. !fled steers this winter, and the most ... fe..x. xx.D .x.x UUOJ. ,.t... w, them ,iave comtliel!(V(J ;tIlt!ii4jv. laavesus but money takes its place Doctor Brad ford i.itfmls to If Vv,. ana maKes limes ueLler. in a lew U.iv, he is moving to OmaLa J. V. Glover has moved into liis which leaves us without any doctor. . gooo en nice now lor some youn ph:sicia:i to sel up an ollice. Tho necktie festival at A t Ecliols & Saylcs nave dissolved part-; Holmes lst Fiiday niglit was ouit.- a ' ...... 1. ; . . .....1 ..Ixi-.. i . r .,,nnna R , . . , i 1 I tw ..l.A..X f x I ! . ixiciaiiip .i.ni sjm lilteii SIOCK lo J. V . sul'l''M uununniij, muut iuiiv Uul.Ulb now store, a new stock of'goods aud; the I'ost Office follows him. i occupying the old ery and restauraut. hooting the lay of the hanging is still: in his cell; has tried every man around! to go his bail," all are afraid to risk1 Ed- him; his man is well also. Mr. Editor I would like to tell you hopes very Avoca Notes. Herald: Xews scarce and drv. was raised, and everybody seemed to be happy, really noisy happy. Limber Jim has quit spelling and 4 goue to ciphering; he savs that nine is 1 Can't you lend us one of your Jailsjne third more than six, and he prove.- 7 an u 1 a mui.il i: i u il IvCI ieaS U.l Hie' . ..-.i iu . , ... !ot hers. Mieets for our lair name. fn m r1!!,-',,,, r , r i i an te r it; iong or whom we spoke "Ul otiiwoi i.- jm .n-.-iiij; uneiy Mil- o: Miiaitilim lif-i y 1 1 - , 'itninr l.ii- it,L .. ;.. ...I :i .Threshing well alonir and lariiirs ,t.r ...x. r w .- ;,.;.,; .... i,.....i.....i. :.. I .xix .11 iiiainigClU' I VI 17. . '111 ItaS. iimi'ji -.'ij inn.il .',; n, ,, 11,1,11 . low. Wheat yields very iToo inanv little fellows for one teach !':l,k without the use of onsfchr. something of this county but must little, in this neighborhood will not er, is the only trouble, we need a "rad-i , U1V ,s !r:,rl','!ts'"lf m,t ' - nil . Iiai I'l . I I J.o.lll. mO r t T h 1 J I Mi II .Iaq A W . t h nmlrtrir OVA.x rru nl. ...... I .1.1. i t , . .... . , .. . . ...... .. . o w - v. - - Mujuria 1'ci ni i c , ro 9tiiuui Aim mil ll.lir II i Hie !:' ; I ; 'l."''t I'lM'!1':' t l. '.V: V o " all you that have no homes to come Many from this neighborhood are offjfutuie. Our new uepo. ia , n.t so liaad- M.. ar.- visiting 1 rieiids h. away to Seward county, where they to work on the R. R. at Plattsmouth. some as the old one, but it beats -,i Everything is so dry we burn brick and lime with hay, don't! Hadlock has very bad lu-k with hiJhawl car house ali hollow and will Leito c,,t thj? lHt,'r sh,,,t" ( i ,. r-o m;u. i. i i i ... . . i loais urx.ii, v.xuc jhh, no uas ihokwu me mmnjreai.y soon e. will hav i o want wood. coiiiiiiaiiii. i'MI LAN H ;: i; Ii. i i.:,-j 1 1 ;c s.