This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fm.2ADI/131 Message Board Post: The Neosho County Record Friday, February 24, 1882 Page 1 Austin Atoms: A nephew of C. RICHARDSON will stay with him this summer to learn the blacksmith’s trade. ------ Mrs. E.L. HAMILTON went to Lawrence this week on business with her suit against the Mo. P. R. R. Co. for damages by fire, three years ago. ------ Geo. McGEORGE and Jno. BEAN have resorted to law about the horse that McGEORGE bought of BEAN that proves to have the glanders. ---------------------------- Your humble servant saw Ed EASLY working in the blacksmith shop for a few days. Success to ye Ed, if you don’t have any mud to sling you can sling a hammer. ---------------------------- F.H. HOLCOMB has sold out his store and also his store house to Henry HODGDEN, the finished invoicing the goods last week. Mr. HOLCOMB is going onto a large farm near Council Grove and is going into the sheep business quite extensively. Frank, we are sorry to lose you from among us, but if you will go we wish you the best of success in your undertaking. Mr. HODGDEN will take charge of the store and post office next week. We have been so used to Henry following the plow that it will look a little out of place for him to be behind the counter. ---------------------------- Samuel APT sold out all of his personal property at public sale yesterday and will move to Eureka Springs for the benefit of his health. Mr. APT has rented his farm to Mr. Jno. MOORE who will move onto it in a short time. ---------------------------- Rev. Emanuel RICHARD has moved onto the CARPENTER place, about one mile east of the burg. ---------------------------- J.W. CORKWELL moved onto J.E. MERRITT’s farm this week, and J.E. MERRITT moved into town. We have heard that Mr. MERRITT has went into partnership with CONDON & PENDERGRASS in the grain business and intends to start a lumber yard in connection with the grain trade. ---------------------------- John HAYMAKER’s team ran away last Wednesday night while he was in church completely demolishing the top part of his spring wagon, also breaking the tongue out and doing some other damage to the wagon. Fortunately the horses nor any one got hurt. ---------------------------- -------- Page 3 -------- Racy PARR left for Neodesha last Wednesday. ---------------------------- The air is black with rumors of a scandal out on Canville creek. ---------------------------- H.A. BURRIS & H.B. RUSSELL, Esq., left for Arkansas last Monday. ---------------------------- Asa H. MILLER is talking of building a residence where his old one now stands. ---------------------------- We received a call yesterday from Luther CONE, editor of the Chanute Democrat. ---------------------------- A young man by the name of ROSS, has been visiting at the residence of Wash PARR this week. ---------------------------- This precinct is without a Justice of the Peace since H.B. RUSSELL left. So much for g’b. management. ---------------------------- Mr. PETERY has just finished a book case and storage box which has been placed in the M.E. Church. ---------------------------- Dr. John REHSTEINER, who located to our city some three months ago, has removed to Kansas City, where he will engage in the manufacture of an old reliable German remedy. The Dr. was well pleased with our city, but became perfectly disgusted with the distressing healthiness of this locality –[Missouri Journal]. ---------------------------- There was a big blaze down at Oswego last Friday night. GRANT’s livery stable containing eleven horses and several carriages, the city fire engine rooms, and the public reading room, were all burned. Loss, about $6,000; insurance $1,000. ---------------------------- Marriage Licenses: The following marriage licenses have been issued by the Probate Judge since our last report: Hiram BENNETT to Sarah ROWE John H. CHASE to Sarah JINKS Thomas J. GLEASON to Hariet M. JOHNSTON James CAVANAGH to Rosetta GATTON Edwin H. CARWILE to Jennie A. STALL ---------------------------- Married: At the office of the Probate Judge in Erie, Ks., Feb. 16, 1882, by Judge WALLACE, Mr. Hiram BENNETT and Miss Sarah ROWE. At the residence of Jake NUNGESTER in Erie, Kansas, on Feb. 18, 1882, by Probate Judge WALLACE, John H. CHASE and Miss Sarah JINKS. In Osage Mission, on Feb. 20, 1882, by Rev. John D. CONDON, Mr. Thomas J. GLEASON and Miss Harriet M. JOHNSON. In Osage Mission on Feb. 21, 1882, by Rev. W.V.D. HOGAN, Mr. James CAVANAGH and Miss Rosetta GATTON.