Hello all.... Once again we have added more gleanings from Lincoln County newspapers to the website... April 21, April 28, and May 5, 1881 gleanings from the Lincoln County Beacon are up online at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/glean80.htm Normally I add the surnames here, but this time I included names mentioned in the report on the county commissioners' meeting as well as reports on happenings at the District Court and there are many, many names.... too many for me to type out here. I'd suggest that you either use the search engine, in the red box at the top of the main page for Lincoln COunty, or go to the newspaper gleaning site (URL is above) and look through the dates mentioned. The report on the County Commissioners' meeting took up a few columns of the paper so I just listed the names mentioned. You have the option of checking out the microfilm of the newspaper from the State Historical SOciety through interlibrary loan through your local library. Just go to http://www.kshs.org/ and look for the link to "Collections". There you'll find the NEWSPAPERS on microfilm section and another link on how to get things on interlibrary loan. Print off the interlibrary loan page so you can take it to your library and show the staff how to request the film. And don't forget to write down the microfilm reel number of the film you want. The Kansas State Historical Society does a great service to researchers by providing microfilmed material on interlibrary loan. I had some personal issues with putting the District Court information from the newspaper up online. Some of this stuff is pretty heavy.... alas, much of human history is pretty heavy. If you have any sort of problem with the court cases being up online please let me know. They must have caused a bit of stir at the time as well as in a later issue of the paper the editor, Mr. Wait, defended his right to put up court information on an individual who had verbally attacked something he'd reported on a court case. Neither gentleman minced his words. At times I also include short articles in the gleanings that give no mention of names to give a picture of the times/settings as seen by the newspaper staff. There must have been a wild night in Lincoln the day before a prohibition law came into effect the next day and Mr. Wait's comments I put up online were indicative of the moral outrage of many of the time at "the whiskey party." Keep in mind that Mr. Wait was a strong prohibitionist, a devout Protestant and a Republican (though if memory serves me correct he became a Populist later on). His writing style, common at the time, would at times seem inflamatory now. But like most newspaper editors back then he was not only providing information to his readers but also promoting his ideas/ideals. And after years of looking through Kansas newspapers I'd add that he was much more ecumenical/broadminded than some of his colleagues in other parts of the state. Good luck with your research Bill Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com - 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html