This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fm.2ADI/127 Message Board Post: The Neosho County Record Saturday, December 9, 1876 Page 3 John BURROWS is now hammering tin at ALEXANDER’s. ------------------------- Dr. L.A. ALFORD has taken up his residence in Erie. Welcome! ------------------------- Sam. PHELPS has become the happy proprietor of a brand new wagon. ------------------------- Mr. GREGG, a brother of Mrs. TIBBEY, died last Tuesday night, after a protracted illness. ------------------------- Hannibal BURRIS has done a fine job of painting on Sheriff BRUNT’s house. ------------------------- Capt. BERRY, Jake and Henry ELLER, started to the Cherokee Nation on a hunt, Dec. 1st. ------------------------- Hereafter, and until further notice, Saturday will be our publication day. ------------------------- A Mr. McALISTER recently moved from the east, has taken up residence in STEINBERGER’s building, on Main Street. He contemplates locating here. ------------------------- The many friends of M.T. LONG and wife at this place, will regret to hear of their recent departure. Mr. LONG has removed to Parsons for the purpose of engaging in the practice of law there. May success attend him. ------------------------- Early. – If it be true that Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, G.W. INWOOD must possess health, wealth and wisdom in the highest degree. A beacon light shines from his window, soon as the voice of old chanticleer announces the approach of day. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Neosho County Record Saturday, December 16, 1876 Page 3 Mrs. BURRIS has moved her large dwelling house to town. ------------------------- Judge DUNHAM has moved into the premises recently vacated by Mr. INWOOD. ------------------------- Capt. WHERRETT and lady will visit Indiana soon, where they will sojourn for the winter. ------------------------- Mr. WEAVER, living north of Erie, was severely injured last Wednesday, by being thrown from his wagon. ------------------------- B.W. MILLIARD, the founder of the second store established in Erie, returned a few days ago, after an absence of two years. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Neosho County Record Saturday, December 23, 1876 Page 3 County Officers: Clerk – C.F. STAUBER Sheriff – John R. BRUNT Treasurer – Amos S. LAPHAM Probate Judge – C.E. DUNHAM Clerk of District Court – John D. CORY Register of Deeds – A.C. POST Sup’t Pub. Instruction – T.P. LEECH County Attorney – R.N. ALLEN County Surveyor – Sam. STANFIELD { H. LODGE County Commissioners – { C.N. ODELL { C.W. MITCHELL --------------------------- Township Officers: Grant Township – Trustee – T.M. HEWITT Clerk – F.M. MOURNING Treasurer – S. BENDER Justices – Sol. MICHAELS, A.P. PARKER Constables – James HADDEN, Milton CHAPIN Big Creek Township – Trustee – L. BARBER Clerk – Wm. MILLER Treasurer – J. HANSON Justices – A.J. HOWERTON, M.A. CLOVER Constables - ? ?TANFIELD, J.J. WHEATLEY Cannile(Canville?) Township – Trustee – A. GIBSON Clerk – A.J. COLEMAN Justices – Thos. REYNOLDS, C.W. CARTER Constables – W.M. WATT, M. ADAIR Erie Township – Trustee – W.R. HARDMAN Clerk – John BERRY Treasurer – Jos. M. BARNEY Justices – W.T. DUTTON, J.F. HEMELWRIGHT Constables – J. HUFFMAN, John BIVIN Walnut Grove Township – Trustee – W.R. SAMPLES Clerk – Frank ROE Treasurer – J. D. MAISBERRY Justices – J.M. GASTON, ____ ARNOLD Constables – Wm. RANDALL, T.B. TREADWAY Mission Township – Trustee – Richard BROGAN Clerk – A.P. McGUIRE Treasurer – T.M. BAXTER Justices – C.A. COX, John STEVENS Constables – Ben BRIDGES, J.W. BUGBEE Centerville Township – Trustee – H.L. HARBROUGH Clerk – G.W. CREES Treasurer – Jesse PAYNE Justices – G. CLAPSADDLE, Robt. AUDIS Constables – Sam LAKE, M.J. SCOTT Chetopa Township – Trustee – Wm. H. BENDURE Clerk – M. SAX Treasurer – H.C. FRENCH Justices – D.S. BOWMAN, J.M. DUNSMORE Constables – John SAMPSON, J.W. STIPP Shiloh Township – Trustee – Benj. McPHEETERS Clerk – A.H. LOCKHART Treasurer – Dennis GIBBS Justices – J.B. COMER, A.M. WHITTAKER Constables – B.E. ELDRIDGE, Wesley ADAMS Ladore Township – Trustee – L.A. REESE Clerk – G.M. COFFMAN Treasurer – W.N. EWING Justices – C.N. BACON, Squire ROSA Constables – Wm. SMITH, Ed. MAHER Lincoln Township – Trustee – J.W. NAZWORTHY Clerk – G.C. McGOWAN Treasurer – R.O. HARRIS Justices – Calvin McKEE, B.W. BENNETT Constables – I.G. LIMBOCKER, J.M. GEARHART ----------------------------- Col. TRENCHARD returned from the Choctaw Nation a few days ago. He has been employed as teacher and missionary at McAlister, I.T., for another year and will shortly return to resume his labors. ----------------------------- Fire. – The barn of Jos. M. BARNEY, four miles north of Erie, was burned on the night of the 15th inst. Twelve hundred bushels of corn and agricultural implements in the value of about $200 were consumed. Supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Neosho County Record Saturday, December 30, 1876 Page 2 The Meteor – A brilliant meteor passing across the heavens in a north-easterly direction, was observed on the night of the 21st of December. Descriptions of the phenomenon by persons who witnessed it from points widely separated, proves that there was but one meteor, although each one who saw it believed it to be near by. It was seen by parties here, and in various parts of the county. It is claimed by some persons living in Walnut Grove Tp., that the aerial wanderer fell in a cornfield near by Valley school house while a religious meeting was in progress. The most unusual electric phenomena are reported to have preceded the meteoric display. In Boston Mass., a flash of lightning was seen during a snow storm. Comets and meteors have always been considered omens of evil, and these remarkable occurrences will furnish rich food for the superstitious. --------------------------- Three Indian graves have been opened at Paola, and a ten cent piece bearing date of 1841, silver ear-rings, beads, pipe, etc., were found. --------------------------- Wm. BOLAND lives on the Saline, and returning home from his work a few days since, was startled at finding his home burned down and his children houseless. Mr. BOLAND came to Kansas in 1870, with $12,000 in cash and has suffered from fire every year, three years in succession, burning everything but his house and now that. Every stack of hay he was put up in the (transcribers note: article stops at this point). -------- Page 3 Geo. PENDARVIS and A.C. POST return thanks the people for their assistance in putting out the fire last Sunday morning. --------------------------- Judge TALCOTT, A.L. TAYLOR, W.P. OLIVER, W. HARTSHORNE, A. ROSS, _____ OLIVER, W.T. STAPLES, Mr. ELTON, R.M. WHERRETT, and others, distinguished themselves by their bravery at POST’s fire, last Sunday. --------------------------- Thayer Thoughts: Miss Susie MILLS is teaching school in Wilson County ---------- The good people of Thayer have been taken in by one Dr. ELFRED who located here a few weeks ago as Druggist and Physician. He was arrested last Saturday, by Sheriff BRUNT, and taken in chains to Texas, from which state he came. He is charged with having murdered his wife. --------- The wife of Frank HEFLEY was buried here on last Christmas day. Mr. HEFLEY and family have the sympathy of many friends. --------------------------- Administrator’s Notice: Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested that the undersigned was on the 20 day of December, A.D. 1876, by the Probate court of Neosho County, Kansas, duly appointed Administrator of the estate of Joseph Cole, Senior, late of said County, deceased. W.T. DUTTON, Adm’r.