The rains of the last few weeks have improved the prospects for fall
pasture.
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The corn is about made through here, and farmers can calculate on their
winter supply of feed.
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The scarcity of water came near causing a difficulty between some of our
stock men.  It seems that some of the farmers from the north side of the
township drove their cattle to Elk Creek near THOMAS HARRIS and left
them.  The cattle broke into HARRIS' corn, and he and his neighbors
drove them off the creek and refused to let them water there unless they
drove them back or employed a herder.  HARRIS gurded the same with a
club and at last accounts still holds the claim.
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EDITORS JOURNAL:--Will you please announce in your paper that there will
be a meeting of the citizens of Decatur City and vicinity on Friday,
August 20, l886, for the purpose of cleaning off the grave yard at
Decatur City.  Everybody is invited to come early and bring their
dinner, axes, grubbing hoes, brush scythes, etc.  Everybody is invited
who feels an interest in seeing the grave yard fixed up in proper shape.

                                   JOHN STANLEY
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W.T. FOSTER the noted meteorologist whose weather forecasts have had
such remarkable fulfillments, has accepted a position on the editorial
staff of the Burlington Hawkeye, and will make his weather predictions a
special feature of that paper.  He is the scientist who predicted the
great drouth this year and also the recent showers.  The farmers of
Kansas had great faith in PROF. FOSTER'S prognostications.  He was
agricultural editor of the Leavenworth Daily and Weekly Times, and will
engage in similar work upon the Hawkeye.

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