LONETTA ALEXANDER CHRISTMAS VACATION
Miss Lonetta Alexander, who attends Sumner high
school, from Bogue, Kansas, spent her Christmas vacation with her parents at the home town. Miss Alexander lives
here with Mrs. Kimble, 413 Nebraska avenue, a relative. (Advocate, January 5, 1923, page 2)
RICHARDSON'S
ENTERTAIN
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson entertained the following
guests, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Roswell, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Kimble, Miss Ceclia Rosell and the guest of honor, Miss
Loretta Alexander of Bogue, Kansas, with a dinner party Tuesday evening at their home at Fourteenth and Barnett.
(Advocate, August 22, 1924, page 1)
TALK OF DISORGANIZING RURAL
HIGH SCHOOL
Rev. G. T. Raimey of Junction City, Kansas, a former
pastor and the minister who built the First Baptist Church edifice in Nicodemus, Kansas, paid us a visit last Sunday
in the interest of the Rural High School of Bogue, Kansas, of which the settlement of our people in the eastern
part of Graham County forms a part.
There is a move on foot to disorganize the Rural
High School district and as Rev. Raimey has a deep interest in our people he procured an appointment at the church
so that he could talk to our people in the interest of the school.
That he succeeded in his mission was plainly evidenced
by the hearty endorsement which he received after the service was over.
W. L. Sayers and J. J. Sayers both colored attorneys
of Hill City, Kansas delivered convincing arguments in favor of the school. G. M. Sayers - Clerk of the Rural High
School Board, Bogue, Kansas. (Negro star, December 8, 1922, page 4)
GREAT JOY IN KANSAS
Hurrah for the Rev. Peter bollinger of Bogue, Kansas,
who, besides preaching has managed to harvest and is now gathering to his bins the golden grain of 80 acres! If
the Rev. Mr. Bollinger is as great in the pulpit as he is on the farm, he deserves to have charge of some big church.
While the average yield of wheat in Kansas this year is between seventeen and eighteen bushels, the Rev. Mr. Bollinger
of Bogue is getting about thirty-four bushels of good wheat to the acre.
But to herald the accomplishment of Rev. Mr. Bollinger
and remain silent as to his neighbors would not be fair to them. For instance, there is A. J. Rice who has just
finished the harvesting of six thousand acres of wheat. Mr. Rice is known as one of the wheat barons of Kansas.
As his land holdings are scattered, he was not able to give the entire acreage his personal supervison. Yet it
is estimated that his fields will turn out over twenty bushels to the acre, and that if one train were to be used
in taking his grain to market the cars would occupy about two miles of track. The Walsh brothers of St. Peter had
1000 acres in wheat that have proably produced 25,000 bushels. Mr. Ashcroft, a farmer who has cut 500 acres of
grain modestly refuses to place any estimate on the yield, as no threshing has been done in his vicinity,but his
very silence is eloquent. We are sure that Mr. Ashcroft will not be disappointed, though he may not attain the
high results that have crowned the labors of Rev. Mr. Bollinger of Bogue.
To emphasize the grandeur of Kansas, the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture has just issued a crop bulletin devoted to wheat. In order probably that the facts of
the harvest might surprise the world there has been disposition hitherto to make out that this year's crop, while
good, was not likely to sustain the old record. But the new crop bulletin frankly declares that this is the banner
season surpassing even the seaon of 1900 and making the Kansas contribution in three years to the world's supply
of breadstuff 267,000,000 bushels. (Worcester Daily Spy, August 16, 1903, section A, Page 6)
MR. GILBERT ALEXENDER
CALLED HOME
Mr. Gilbert Alexander, a student in the University
of Kansas was recently called home in Bogue, on account of the death of his uncle. (Captial Plainsdealer, February
28, 1937, page 8)
A WHITE BUMMER KILLS A
BLACK PEACE DISTURBER
Last Tuesday morning A. F. Hoskins, special deputy
sheriff, D. M. Smith, constable, and Willis Ellsworth, ex-sheriff, and all of Graham county, took Jefferson Stewart,
a white fellow, from here to the Ellis county jail, having reached here with him the night before. About 6 o'clock
Monday afternoon Stewart shot and killed Wm. Kelly, a colored man, in the billiard hall at Millbrook. Kelly's home
was about ten miles east of Millbrook, near the village of Fagan.
The tragedy is traced to an old grudge which dated
back to last spring. Stewart was then boarding at the City Hotel in Millbrook. John Hawkins, clerk of the district
court of Graham county is a colored man. It was then that Stewart slapped Hawkins for sitting down at the same
table with him. Kelly, we are told, raised a disturbance at three or four places in Millbrook on Monday and threatened
that he would "get" Stewart before leaving town. Stewart is said to have shunned him to some extent.
Finally both happened in the billard hall and each claimed to be "the best man." Kelly made at Stewart
with a billiard ball. Stewart warned him not to presist and about then shot him. Kelly was somewhat drunk. Stewart
seemed to be about sober. Kelly left a wife and two or three children. Stewart is about twenty-two years old and
unmarried. He will be tried at the next term of the Graham County district court.
Stewart was charged with breaking into a store
at Atkins, Graham County last spring. He was fined fifty dollars and furnished a bond in the sum of $500.00 for
the payment of the fine. He then went to Denver. His bondsmen had him brought back about a month ago. He was placed
in charge of the sheriff and they were released. This was the status of his case at the time of the killing of
Kelly, but the sheriff is appears did not have him under guard.(Western Kansas World, March 10, 1888)
HELP THEM (MR. &
MRS. FRANKLIN)
We hear that Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, the people
in the south part of Graham county, who have suffered so direfully from the effects of fire, have been assisted
materially by contributions from localities where petitions for this object have been circulated. No exact account
of the extent of the collections has been made to this office, but we are told that in Wa Kenney some fifty dollars
in money and about $75.00 in goods were raised; while at Millbrook and further north in Graham county the contributions
in money amounted to about seventy-five dollars. (Western Kansas World, April 2, 1887)
MRS. T. LAWLISS AND
BABE VISITING MRS. M. J. SMITH
Mrs. T. Lawliss and babe of Hill City Graham County,
came down last week to visit the former's mother, Mrs. M. J. Smith. Many beside her mother are enjoying Mrs. Lawliss's
brief stay in Collyer. (Western Kansas World, April 2, 1887)
MESSRS. PHILLIPS, SMITH,
SHRANYER AND TEMP SMITH GRADING ON NEW RAILROAD
Messrs. Phillips, Smith, Shranyer and Temp Smith
left Sunday morning for northern Graham County to spend a few weeks grading on the new railroad. Everybody misses
Temp. (Western Kansas World, July 14, 1888)
W. H. SOMMERVILLE
GOES CALLING
W. H. Sommerville of the south part of Graham county
was a Thursday afternoon caller. He says that several Democratic neighbors of his, who are old soldiers, declare
their intention to vote for Harrison and Morton. (Western Kansas World, July 14, 1888)
GRAHAM COUNTY
NOTES
As Howe was defeated for treasurer, E. P. McCabe
withdrew from the convention and asked his friends to support John M. Brown of Shawnee county and thus returned
good for evil.
Hill City Reveille, 16 - The lightning struck the
house of Lewis Dean on Monday morning, running down the chimney and passing through the floor. Mr. Dean was knocked
senseless by the stroke, but soon recovered.
Millbrook Times, 16 - E. J. Byrets, of Gettsburg,
has a heifer fifteen months' old which gave birth to a calf last week. The young "cow" is doing well,
but the calf died.
A Frechman, whose name we were unable to learn,
was badly gored by a bull on Mr. Newell's place in the east end of Wildhorse township, on the 2d inst.
Arrangements are being made for a Grand Army Reunion
and Camp Fire at Millbrook on Thursday and Friday, September 16 and 17.
Charley Hoskins got scared at a supposed snake,
while swimming in the "duck pond," the other day, and fainted away and came near drowning.
Millbrook Democrat, 15 - W. B. Kritchfield, one
of the most successful business men of Wa-Keeney, has purchased the large stock of furniture formerly owned by
H. D. White of this city and will open up a large furniture store in the Fuller and Ellsworth building. W. F. Littlefield
of Wa-Keeney has been employed by Mr. Kritchfield to take charge of his business at Millbrook.
James K. Hyde, while engaged in digging a well
on his claim in Bryant township was seriously injured by the falling of a large rock, which struck him on the head
making a fearful wound. The well bucket was let down to him and he was brought to the top, a distance of about
90 feet. Almost immediately on being kelped out he fainted and was for some time out of his mind. It certainly
took a great deal of nerve to hold on to the bucket after receiving so frightful an injury. Mr. Hyde is now able
to be found. (Western Kansas World, July 24, 1886)
MRS. VAN DYKE POSTMASTER
Again our good friends in the south part of Graham
county are about to have a post office. This time that excellent lady Mrs. Van Dyke will be the postmaster. (Western
Kansas Work, Saturday, April 25, 1885)
GRISSINGER'S HORSES
UNDER QUARANTINE
Geo. H. Moseley, of the southern part of Graham
county. He informed a World reporter that the sheriff of that county had ordered two of Mr. rissinger's horses
under quarantine at their owner's place for the glanders. Dr. Wagner has been caring for these horses. He claims
to have cured one of them of the glanders, but says that it caught the disease again from having been placed in
the stable with the other. The state veterinarian is wanting badly in that neighborhood. (Western Kansas World,
April 25, 1885)
WILLIE WALTON IS
SHOT AND INSTANTLY KILLED BY HARRY WHEELER
"Thought it wasn't loaded."
Hill City Reveille, 9 - Willie Walton and Harry
Wheeler, boys about 16 years of age, were connected with the amateur drama that was to have been played last Saturday
evening at Miller's Hall in Hill City. About have past seven, Willie was temporary door keeper, when Harry approached
and asked Willie jokingly to let him have a ticket. Willie replied by drawing a revolver and said laughingly, "Here's
your ticket," when Harry also drew a revolver, which is a self-cocking, and which he supposed was not loaded,
and snapped it in Willie's face, discharging the only load it contained. The ball, a number 44, entered the foreheard,
passed through the brain and lodged in the back of the head. Willie fell and expired without saying a word. Harry
became terrified, dropped his revolver and dashed down the street for a doctor. He found Dr. Ardery in his office,
who arrived at the scene of the accident within five minutes after the shot was fired, but found the poor boy breathing
his last. Willie's father, who was only a block away, at his place of business, was soon at the side of his dying
son, and became almost frantic when he realized that his boy was a corpse. A coroner's jury was soon impaneled
and rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts. The remains were taken charge of by Undertaker Lightfoot,
who, with the assistance of Dr. Ardery, embalmed the body and prepared it for burial. The interment took place
in the Hill City Cemetery Sunday afternoon, Rev. Conner conducting appropriate exercises at the house and cemetery.
The affiar is made doubly sad by the fact that Mrs. Walton was confined to a bed of sickness and could not attend
the burial of her boy. Nearly everybody in Hill City attended the burial. The grief-stricken parents and brothers
and sisters of the deceased have the heartfelt sympathy of everyone in this sad hour of trial and bereavement.
Harry Wheeler gave himself up to the sheriff Sunday
morning. (Western Kansas World, April 13, 1889)
