145 years ago

june 18, 1880

Harvest is at hand. Wheat is well headed but short.

Dr. Hannaford was called upon Wednesday to perform a surgical operation upon a very valuable colt belonging to Ben Baker, which had been fearfully lacerated by one of these modern stock destroyers — a barbed-wire fence.

We understand that McPherson folks are contemplating an excursion July 3 to Marion Centre to celebrate the day in the finest natural park in the state. We hope there will be no liquor sold down there at that time. It is wrong to sell liquor on the Fourth of July.

Mr. Bradley is fixing up those two handsome houses of his more like palaces for kings than tenement houses, which they are designed to be.

Mrs. A.R. Hill was thrown from her buggy Tuesday morning on Main St. and was severely bruised.

One of the recent valuable additions to our businessmen is S. Thompson, who has opened a restaurant and bakery in the old Corbett and Bown building.

Well, the ladies did go a-fishing last Friday, we believe, but up to this writing we can hear of nothing they caught except crawfish and colds.