Grand Island Times
Wednesday, July 23, 1873

LOCALS OF THE WEEK

Two marriage licenses issued last week by Judge Platt.

About 1,000 Mormans passed over the U. P. on Sunday, on their way to the promised land.

For a nice clean shave, go to F. Drews on front street. He sets them up all right. Give him a call.

We are indebted to B. B. Kelley , for a supply of choice cigars. Many thanks, Mr. Kelley ; may your shadow never grow less.

Fifteen cars of ore and bullion passed Grand Island for the East, last Friday morning, under charge of Conductors Moore and Mellugh .

From Rev. J. C. Smith we learn that a new $1,200 school house is being built at Wood River Crossing, by L. D. Trenfren & Son. Dimensions, 23 x 30.

We noticed an improvement in front of Jenumans & Dumphy's boot manufactory, in the erection of a very neat and tasy sign, painted by S. W. Smith, ornamental sign painter.

Geo. A. Sisson , conductor of freight train No. 6, brought into Grand Island last tuesday evening the largest train ever drawn upon the U. P. by a single engine-52 cars laden with bullion, ore and wool.

We saw four men in our city last week, from Omaha, who came up with the intention of locating in our midst, that were unable to find a vacant house in the whole town. How's that for a lively burgh!

Mr. and Mrs. Pyne , while enjoying a prairie ride, discovered a beautiful lily, which they carefully took up, brought home and transplanted it into a vessel, and now decorates their garden border. They have named it the "Pyne Apple Lily."

Thirty-one young Chinamen, ranging from 8 to 15 years of age, passed through our city Monday morning, in charge of an elderly Chinaman, on their way to Springfield, Mass., where they are to attend school. They were clean and neat in appearance, and attracted a great deal of attention.

A party of five, two of whom were Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, passed through our city last Thursday, going West on a buffalo hunt. Bill and Jack made themselves generally familiar with the Pawnee Indians that crowd around the passenger trains, to the ?????? amusement of the eastern people in whom a real Indian was quite a curiosity.