Amanuensis Monday - Mayfield [Osborn Township] News - Oct 25, 1877 from the Sumner County Press

Oct 25, 1877 - Sumner County Press
Osborn Items
Excerpted from Page 356 - "Mayfield: Then & Now" - Clark & Kline

Rained every day last week.

The prairie streams were full and ground well saturated.

S. V. Walton and Miss Mattie Updegraff have returned from their visit to Iowa, both looking improved in appearance.  They are glad to get back and their neighbors are pleased to have them home again.

Mr. Barnard is building a residence 16 X 20, one and one-half stories high, with a good cellar.  Mr. Roberts is preparing to finish his dwelling with a coat of paint.

The Bellevue school will open about the first of November.

On the evening of the 13th last, one of the most violent wind and rain storms of the season passed over this township.  Mr. Rose's house was moved off the foundation, and 'Squire Houk's stable and granary were unroofed and many stacks of hay and grain rolled over.  The storm caught a wagon load of delegates who were returning from the Republican Convention, and for a time they were completely waterlogged.  Fitzgerald tried to sing the 101 Psalm, to the tune of Old Hundred, but choked on the water.  The storm raged with such fury that the team was repeatedly stopped, blinded by the wind, rain, and darkness.  The party finally reached A. Robinson's where they filled up with hot tea and waited for the storm to abate.

There is some dissatisfaction manifested on the part of Democrats because Mr. Thralls was not nominated by the Republican convention for sheriff.  Our own candidate seems to feel badly because he did not get even a complimentary vote.  Gentlemen delegates from Osborn, why was it thus?  But I never did hear of a convention that pleased every one.  

Bellevue [Mayfield] Items for 25 January 1877

Sumner County Press
January 25, 1877
Bellevue Items – By Charlie

(Excerpted from the book:  "Mayfield: Then & Now" written by Elaine Evans Clark and Sherry Stocking Kline

Our settlement has again been afflicted by the death of Miss Mattie Luckey, aged 17 years, daughter of James H. Luckey.  This is the second death in his family lately.

Our school house is enclosed, and we have church in it every Sabbath.

I find that a great many people are ignorant of the location of Bellevue.  I will describe it:  It is five miles north-west of the center of the county, and is the center of Osborn township on a high and beautiful location; and by the way, a good place for a hotel, it being on the old cattle trail and the direct route from Wellington to Medicine Lodge City.

A good blacksmith would do exceedingly well here.

S. V. Walton will deed a lot to any one who will build a business house thereon, provided no intoxicating liquors are to be sold in it.

The houses of this township are all as good or better than the average in the county.

There is not a dug-out or a sod house in the township.

We have a trail route running north and south, [the Chisholm Trail] and hope to have one running east and west soon.

Wheat looks tolerable fair.

Some improvements going on this winter. 

Note: Bellevue was one of the first names for Mayfield, Kansas, and it was founded by S. V. Walton and his family.