Saline County Standard, 8 August 1890, published in Friend, NE. Published every Friday by W. H. STOUT LOCAL SIFTINGS, page 3 --------------------------------------------------------------- CITY COUNTIL Wm. BURKE................Mayor H. F. ALEXANDER..........clerk J. D. POPE...............City Attorney COUNCILMEN--FIRST WARD Henry WISSENBURG, Joseph SONDERMANN --SECOND WARD A. S. McKAY, J.J. HOLLAND --------------------------------------------------------------- SCHOOL BOARD H.P. KING................President J. WARREN................Secretary E.I.FERGUSON.............Treasurer Wm. PORTER, Dr. GEGHTOL, James SMITH, B.F. RENGLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Prepare to attend the state fair. The hotel barber shop has a new awning. Hot winds have taken possession of the country. Call on HANER & Co. for choice meats of all kinds. The usual Tuesday evening band concerts have ceased. Hay is selling now on our streets at $8 per ton cash up. The G. A. R. boys are having a big time at Superior this week. If you don't believe that corn is a failure take a drive into the country. A little more dog shooting and our town will be very quiet about bed time. Potatoes at $1 a bushel are a luxery and they are liable to remain as such. The new cigar factory is located one door south of Friend Lumber yard. The B. & M. is doing a big business these days with their stock trains. Friend is now ready to play ball with the crack nines of Wilber or Tobias. The barber shop under the First National Bank will be found open on Sunday. Farmers are cutting their stalks and saving every thing that will make feed. H.P. KING has sold his corn in the field for fifty cents an acre. He got a big price. Horse thieves are abroad in the land and not far from Friend. Look out for them. Lynnie DORWART gave a birthday party last Saturday to a host of her young friends. Apples at $1.60 a bushel will do, and are cheap enough for those who can afford to buy them. H. P. SCHMIDT was limping around this week from the effect of a barb wire scratch on his knee. Mr. COTTON and Mr. PORTER will take turns looking after each other while their wives are absent. What has become of the water works that we were to have this summer? Don't all speak at once. Geo. TAYLOR shipped a car of cattle to Omaha this week for which he reports getting the top of the marker. Quite a number of young men who have been working on farms have got their discharge on account of no crops. The smoke house connected with the Lincoln packing house was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, loss about $7,000. A large number of young people enjoyed themselves last Saturday evening at the residence of Mr. TREMBLE. Politics have quieted down and the people are trying to conjure up ways for getting through the coming winter. The social given Monday evening by the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Baptist church was well attended and all had an enjoyable time. Henry PAXSON, a prominent stock buyer at Geneva, committed suicide last week. His body was found in a pond near his home. All persons wishing information regarding stand privileges on the fair ground during the fair are requested to call on H. P. SCHMIDT. Wm. WINSLOW has sold his residence property to CROFTON and Son. We understand that Mr. W. contemplates California in the near future. W. R. HAMILTON, of Turkey Creek has oats on exhibition in town that yields 4 1/2 bushels to the acre. Mr. H. is one of the lucky farmers this year. A switchman in the B. & M. yards at Lincoln had his leg terribly cruched Tuesday by falling under a moving train. The mans name was Frank SCOTT. The pipe from BURKE's elevator to the stock yards is laid and the water tank will soon be in place and will be a great convenience for stock buyers and shippers. The full term of school will begin the first week in September. Young boys who are now loafing on the streets will then have something better to do. J. W. PILLSBURY, of De Witt, was in our city on business Wednesday. Mr. PILLSBURY is in the insurance business and if we are not very much mistaken he has a risk here that requires a great deal of his attentions..(remainder of article, if any, was cut off). BORN Tuesday, Aug. 5th, to Mr. and Mrs. STEINHUFF, a son. The Catholics of Exeter and this place held a grand picnic in a grove west of town on Wednesday. A large crowd was in attendance and a good time had by all. The Friend fair association will hold a meeting on Tuesday Aug. 12, at the office of S. S. STOREY, at 2 o'clock p. m. All members are requested to be present. A card from John BOWERS informs us that he is now residing at Pierce, Neg., and orders the STANDARD sent to him at that place so that he may read the Friend news. Wm. BURKE has a large amount of old corn yet on hand from which he will receive a nice profit by the rise in price. This is as it should be. We like to see men prosper in business. Some of our business men who are interested in the workings of the Chicago board of trade are wondering how many thousands they will be ahead when old HUTCH makes the price. F. H. GILMORE has taken unto himself a half interest in the Tobias "Tribune" where he will be found occupying the editorial chair. The STANDARD wishes the new firm abundant success. A.E. MOELLER has resigned the position of manager of the telephone exchange at this place and we understand the proper person will be here the first of next week to make a change in location. The track at the fair ground is being put in excellent condition under the direction of Mr. Joe GILMORE. The association has purchased a sprinkler and the dust will be kept down during the fair. One of James SMITH's children, a little girl about twelve years of age while playing yesterday upon the roof of the porch fell to the ground breaking her arm. It was fortunate that the accident was no worse. Mc LEAN and VAN ALLER, who went west with their families by wagon two months ago, returned Wednesday by rail, having sold their teams. They report farmers in the western part of the state to be in bad circumstances so far as crops are concerned. Nearly all our merchants who had given orders for fall and winter goods have countermanded their orders and will buy in small quantities as they see a demand. Trade will no doubt be cut this year below previous ones, but many look for better times than is at present anticipated. George WILCOX, the blacksmith who is now doing business in the George PIERCE shop, is an old soldier and did service in the 8th Mo. Infty, the same regiment of which ye editor was a member. We expect many pleasant meetings with Mr. WILCOX during his stay in our city. Last Bro. WILD, of the Wilber "Republican," who is always hunting up something that will interest his readers, issued 2,000 copies of his paper for free distribution containing the full premium list for the Saline County Fair to be held at Wilber, September 2nd to 5th. DIED; At Beaver Crossing, Neb., Aug. 1st, 1890, of cancerous tumor, Mrs. Jane SALNAVE in the 74 year. Mrs. SALNAVE was the mother of Mrs. WATERMAN, of this city. She came to Beaver Crossing in 1869 and has resided there every since. She was unable to leave her bed for several months and had the painful operation of removing the tumor preformed about three weeks before she died. The following parties took their departure Wednesday for Boston where they go to attend the national G. A. R. encampment and for a visit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. CLARK; Mr. and Mrs. PIKE; Mrs. Wm. PORTER; Mrs. C. P. COTTON; and Chas. HUD. The STANDARD wishes the party a safe journey and a jolly good time. Dr. BEGHTOL visited Omaha on Tuesday. Henry WISSENBURG went to Wilber on Monday. E.G. HAMPTON spent Sunday last in Dorchester. J. W. PHILLIPS had business in Wilber Wednesday. Lou and Charley ANDREWS were in Crete this week. B.G. McKINZIE started Wednesday for Chicago on business. Miss Carrie CROWLEY is visiting friends in Lincoln this week. C.H. BUCKTEL made a blying trip Monday to Mildord and Lincoln. M.J. ROACH, of Omaha, spent Sunday in Friend visiting his brother Ed. A.S. McKAY is spending the most of his time at the capital city these days. Mr. Joel ANDREWS is attending the teachers institute at York this week. Master Frank SMITH took the train Monday for a visit with friends at Grafton. Frank JONES took the train on Wednesday for a business trip to Chicago. Mrs. M. McDOUGAL returned Saturday last from her visit with friends in the west. Mayor BURK returned Sunday from a three weeks visit in Chicago and other places east. The Rev. Mr. WEBSTER started this week for Canada where he will spend a few weeks vacation. Mr. Joel ANDREWS drove over to CLARKS Tuesday where he will remain for a few weeks. Mr. CAFFERTY, of Western, has been in our city for several days with some steppers for the fair. Mr. STEINHOFF shipped some cattle to Omaha last week and while there had a visit with old friends. Grant HAWK, of DeWitt has been in our city for several days helping to lay the pipe for the water tank. Mrs. ALEXANDER returned last Saturday, much improved in health, from a visit to the hot springs in Dakota. John R. CLARK, one of the oldest bankers in the state, died suddenly at his home in Lincoln Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. NELSON, Charles HOLT, and A. NORMAN, have been at Superior this week attending the reunion. Mrs. Frank PHILLIPS, who has been in Friend a short time visiting friends returned to her home at St. Joseph on Wednesday. W.G. HASTINGS was in our city last Friday looking up his political fences. We think he found them considerably out of order. T.C. CALLAHAN went to Omaha Tuesday to attend a meeting of the republican state central committee of which he is a member for Saline county. There will be a Farmers Alliance county picnic held August 21st at N. H. JOHNSON's grove seven miles west and one and one-half miles north of Wilber, and three and one-half miles Southeast of the center of Saline county. As we have procured able Orators to address the people on that day. J. H. POWERS, and C.H. VAN WYCK, and several others. We cordially invite everybody to attend. Committee on arrangements, M.J. MURPHY, David HYATT, J.W. MUNYAN, and J.D. SMITH. === Copyright © 2006 Sue Thomas Permission to Saline Co., NEGenWeb Project