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From: "James Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] CRESSE,VIETS,COOK,BUCKMASTER,MILLER,BOWMAN,WUERTH,McPHERRON,GLYNN
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:51:21 -0400


The McLouth Times
Friday
June 17, 1898

Tone CRESSE has added a line of groceries to his flour and feed store. Mr. VIETS has painted and otherwise repaired the building.

The Missouri and Kansas rivers have been quite high again lately, and some of the small houses near their banks in Kansas City have been partially under water.

The Board of County Commissionersmet in Oskaloosa last week and raised the valuation of lands in Oskaloosa township five percent, in Union eight per cent, in Rock Creek four per cent, and in Kentucky five per cent.

We saw Frank COOK on the Southwestern train Tuesday. He was on his way home from Leavenworth and Paola, where he had been trying to join the 20th Kansas. He was rejected owing to his being cross-eyed, though his sight was not impaired in the least and he could distinguish letters at the required distance. He was very anxious to go and failing to get in at Leavenworth went to Paola. Fred BUCKMASTER of Oskaloosa also went to Paola with him and was still in the ranks waiting his turn when Frank left.

H.L. MILLER who is instructor in the Normal and who taught at the Grove school house a few years ago will be principal in the Nortonville school, the coming year. Harry as most of his acquaintances know him is a self-made young man who has earned his own way through school and is one of the best educated men of Jefferson county, he is thorough in every respect and is a model young man morally. Nortonville made no mistake in securing his services for the coming year.

Frank BOWMAN arrived home from Holton last Friday where he has been for the past ten weeks attending Campbell University, taking pen art and painting. Frank brought home a specimen of his painting which he was seven weeks in completing and which is a fine specimen. It is a very large picture, and Frank had it framed and in the art display at the close of the term. It received many favorable comments from both visitors and students. It is now on exhibition in his father's store.

Mrs. WUERTH sister of Mrs. Melisia VANDRUFF returned to Leavenworth last Monday morning after several days visit with friends here. (Melisia, spelled as printed)

Mrs. McPHERRON of Augusta, Butler county visited a few days last week and this with Don McPHERRON's and Mrs. Wilbur GLYNN. She departed Monday afternoon for Illinois to visit her sone who is a brakeman on a road running from Sedalia, Ill., up into Wisconsin. He having secured here a pass to come and visit him.

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