From the 1894 newspapers

[T. Sackett]

     The bills for doctoring the poor of Elk county, as presented to the Board, are appalling.  Some men think that when they get a whack at the public funds they must cut deep, and many of these bills are simply outrageous.  But, a few hours loafing around the commissioners room, convinces us that our present board while careful that no just claim is refused, yet they can scent the "pigger in the woodpile" as easily as the next one and can see as far into the mill stone as the man who picks it.

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     A cyclone of small dimensions visited the people a few miles west of Grenola last Sunday.  It toyed with the barn of C. F. Morrell and left it a wreck, and just to show what it could do, it attacked the house and blowing it from the foundation some thirty feet, it proceeded to devour it and made a fair job of it.  The family took refuge in a cylcone cellar and thus saved their lives.

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     P.H. Baughman narrowly escaped serious injury on the stock train which left here Tuesday.  He was on his way to market with hogs and cattle and when the train arrived at Eureka, the trainmen attempted to make a running switch when the cars came together with great force throwing Mr. Baughman out of his seat and injuring his back.  So serious was the hurt he could not proceed, but was brought home on the evening passenger  and is now at his home. We hope the injury will not prove of a lasting nature.

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     On March 30, Mrs. Natchia was brought before the probate Judge upon a charge of insanity, but was declared by the jury to be sane.  On April 4, she was again tried and found to be insane, and is now at the County farm, and as soon as she can be admitted to the asylum, she will be taken there.  She has five children, all small, who are now on the county.

These first four articles are from the Elk County Citizen, dated April 12, 1894

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From the Elk County Citizen on March 22, 1894

     M.B. Marshall, trustee of Oak Valley township informs us that that township is the residence of the oldest person in the county and perhaps in the state.  Mrs. Francis Hammock was born in 1799 and is therefore 95 years of age.  She is a pensioner of the War of 1812.  If any other county in the state can show an older person we would be glad to hear of it.

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     Talk about your young "lollygaggers" but Howard has two young married couples who can out lollygag old Lolly himself.  They may occasionally be seen on the street in day time and the way they lollygag is enough to gag a cat.  Kissing, smirking and cooing like doves and leaning up to each other like a sick kitten to a hot brick.  Yum, Yum.

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From the Elk County Citizen on May 10, 1894

     Lightning struck the office of the Badger Lumber Co., last Friday night, tearing off the shingles from the roof, demolishing the flue, ran down the wall striking a row of paint cans and soldering them together and passed out by the way of the scales.

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     Youn Man, beware of the girl who sits in the parlor, trying to look sweet and say witty things, while her mother does the work in the kitchen and goes without decent clothes in order that the daughter may make an "appearance."  If you wish to know how such a girl will treat you as a husband, hunt up her old father whose nose has been held to the grindstone trying to pay the bills for fine clothes that the daughter may "cut a swell on the street."  Such girls make dirty, lazy housekeepers.  Therefore, in selecting a young lady companion, select one who gets up in the morning, gets breakfast, helps to lift the burden from mother's shoulders.  She is the one you should look for.