Hi, folks. As I am going through old newspapers I am picking up some gleanings, trying to pay special attention to people on the list. Here are some gleanings that should be of interest to at least one of you, and in some cases more! Even if your surname isn't here, I think you'll enjoy some of these. Tracee Lincoln Republican, April 30, 1891 ---H.S. Buzick started for Missouri last Saturday to visit his son-in-law there who is quite low with consumption. ---Lon Buzick's little boy is quite sick. It started with La grippe and has since become complicated in a manner to cause alarm. Lincoln Republican, June 18, 1891 ---Riley Strange is a peculiar fisherman. He ties fish hooks to his arm and goes down under the water and hunts up the fish after the style of a muskrat. When one is found the hook is made fast and Riley makes for the nearest bank. Lincoln Republican, July 2, 1891 ---Rettie Montgomery, the little daughter of Will Montgomery, was riding on a weed cutter, in the field one day last week and accidentally fell to the ground; and one of the knives caught her ankle near the joint, cutting it quite severely. Being only a flesh wound she will soon recover. Lincoln Republican, Aug. 27, 1891 ---On Monday the 31st of August, the Catholic cemetery south of the old town site, and one and a half miles from the Catholic church, will be blessed by the very Rev. Father Maurer of Salina at 11:30 a.m. The Rev. Father Hayden of Solomon City will assist on the occasion, and will also preach in the evening at 7:30. "Blessing of the cross," at the church. Everybody invited. C. Maujay, Pastor. Lincoln Republican, Aug. 2, 1894 ---Otto Shideler has purchased a photograph gallery at Burlington, Kansas, and moved his family there. Mr. Shideler is a hustling business man, one we could ill afford to lose. We bespeak for him success in his new home. (IF YOU HAVE SHIDELER PHOTOS AND YOU ARE TRYING TO DATE THEM, YOU CAN USE THIS TO HELP; THEY CAN'T BE AFTER 1894...) Lincoln Republican, Sept. 20, 1894 ---A party of town folks, took dinner Sunday with Mr. Will Meyer, out on Elkhorn. It was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Nimmons, Mr. and Mrs. Bower, Will Grosser, George Abel, and Jim Brockett. They had a big, nice time. In the afternoon, while on the lawn, a part of them got pretty badly jolted up, or down rather, by a bolt of lightning. They were stunned, but no one was seriously hurt. The bolt did not strike anything, but appeared to explode immediately over their heads. Brockett says that he can feel the thing yet. Lincoln Beacon, Dec. 13, 1894 ---Jacob Shafer of Bashan, one of Lincoln county's oldest settlers, was last Friday declared insane by jury in the probate court, and sentenced to legal restraint while his mind remains impaired. He will be taken to Osawatomie today. Mr. Shafer is afflicted with an aortic aneurism, and has become very hypochondriacal concerning the ailment. He realizes his condition and was anxious to have this measure taken, and regrets that it was not done before. Lincoln Beacon, April 18, 1895 ---J.D. Brockett a few days ago received notification from the state fish commissioner of his appointment as fish warden (or deputy commissioner) from this county. Mr. Brockett will do what he can to improve the fish stock of this county, and an informed and intelligent worker can do much. ---Friends of Rev. J.S. Strange lately purchased a vacant house of S.H. Bogh for $60, and N.S. Mohr moved it, free of charge, out to Mr. Strange's lots where his dwelling burned a short time ago. Charley Tilton donated the mason work. Lincoln Beacon, Nov. 14, 1895 ---Jacob Shaffer lately escaped form the insane asylum for the third time since last spring, and returned home as usual. He is quarrelsome and sinister in his language and actions, and is undoubtedly more or less dangerous at large. He was taken back to the asylum by an attendant yesterday. Lincoln Beacon, Dec. 5, 1895 ---E.C. Walters is feeding a herd of cattle for Henry Elrod of Lincoln, and has employed F.C. Broker to help him. Lincoln Beacon, Aug. 6, 1896 ---N.B. DeArmond and family will go in a couple of weeks to Manhattan to make their home there. Their primary object in removing is to give their "young folks" extra educational advantages. William and Miss Minta will at once enter the Agricultural College there. William attended the College last year. During all the 21 years they have resided here the DeArmonds have been good neighbors and excellent citizens in general. Lincoln Beacon, Aug. 13, 1896 ---Wednesday last week, Aug. 5, in company with 80 other people, we attended the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Thos. M. Strange and wife (formerly Miss Sarah Bird), at their home in Lincoln. A large proportion of the guests were old settlers, some of whom have been friends of Mr. and Mrs. Strange during all the years they have traveled through life together. A splendid dinner was spread, and the day will always be a memorable one to those who value an expression of honest and unaffected friendship. We hope that in company with the rest of the guests of this occasion we will help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Strange's marriage. To this worthy couple have been born 15 children, 10 of whom are in this life. It is a most worthy and highly respected family from father and mother to the least in years. Sterling integrity in all things is the family trait. A large number of appropriate, useful and beautiful presents were left with Mr. and Mrs. Strange as everyday tokens of kindly regard and concern. Lincoln Beacon, Aug. 20, 1896 ---Elias Rees and J.D. Brockett are in Salina attending the state bicycle meet. Mr. Rees has entered four races. Lincoln Beacon, Dec. 3 , 1896 ---Benjamin Walters and Miss Lina Von Fange, both of Bashan, were married Nov. 29, 1896, at the German Lutheran church south of Lincoln, Rev. John M. Hahn officiating. ---Mrs. Rhoda E. McKinney (nee Mann) of Battle Creek township was yesterday declared insane in the probate court. C.C. Strawn, W.M. Hedrick, N.B. Rees, Jos. Cheney, J.J. McElheney and J.D. Sherrick composed the jury. Mrs. McKinney was 60 years old and her insanity was held to be due to ill health resulting in hypochondria, and to a severe fall by which her head was injured a couple of years ago. She is not violent and was left in the care of Trustee E.A. Spear of Battle Creek until the asylum authorities report that there is room for her. Lincoln Beacon, Dec. 17, 1896 ---Jess Gourley is stepping as high as a blind horse. It is a girl. Lincoln Beacon, March 10, 1898 --J.D. Woody and family started from Lincoln Tuesday last for Colton, southern California, where they will stay for a short time or perhaps longer, while prospecting for a permanent home. The Woodys are excellent citizens and deserve a full measure of prosperity wherever they go. We would like to have had them abide with us, but 27 years in this county satisfied them that they will like it better somewhere else and we ought not to question their judgment. Mr. Woody is a son of Rev. J.A. Woody, who came to this county from Georgia in 1871 with a large family. Lincoln Beacon, June 21, 1898 ---Work has begun on A. Marshall's new dwelling at the corner of Second and South streets. H. Sahlmann began laying the foundation today. The house will be a full two stories in height, with a basement and full attic and will be furnace-heated from end to end. One dimension will be 56 feet - we do not know the complementary dimension. It will be when finished by all odds the finest dwelling property in the Saline valley. An Atchison firm has the contract. (THIS IS THE HOME NOW OWNED BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE YOHE HOUSE. IT RECENTLY MADE THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND WILL BE CALLED THE MARSHALL-YOHE HOUSE IN FUTURE...) Lincoln Beacon, Sept. 8, 1898 ---Last Tuesday evening an incident occurred at Charles Walls' home on Brush creek that has a tendency to make a nervous person feel creepy. During the evening, as it grew late, but before retiring, , the sitting room was occupied by Mr. Walls, his sister Jodie and Mrs. B.A. Farnsworth. They were in darkness. Miss Walls was lying upon the floor, her head upon a pillow, and all the doors and windows were open. The sill of the outside door is slightly below the level of the ground outside, a very slight noise as of something falling was heard, and Mrs. Farnsworth remembers seeing a flicker of a shadow at the door. (Outside was bright moonlight, inside darkness.) Suddenly a faint hissing was heard and someone arose and started across the room, when to the hissing, which grew louder, was added a burr-r-z-zz. Miss Walls got to her feet instantly, and a rattlesnake, angry and alarmed at its unusual surroundings, was found coiled upon the floor less than three feet from her pillow. Mr. Walls immediately killed it, and it was wearing seven rattles and a button.

Once again Tracee...We all appreciate what you do for the rest of us that can't access the materials.....THANK YOU......and keep an eye out for those Sulsar's <g> Tami Ramsey Dublin, VA > Hi, folks. As I am going through old newspapers I am picking up some > gleanings, trying to pay special attention to people on the list. Here are > some gleanings that should be of interest to at least one of you, and in some > cases more! Even if your surname isn't here, I think you'll enjoy some of > these. > > Tracee > > Lincoln Republican, April 30, 1891