Harrison Township News

Article taken from The Portsmouth Times, August 12, 1876

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Editor times-- We will once more give you a few notes from Harrison, and then give way to "Ida Hoe" and "Fritz" if it feels disposed to write again, and then we will seek a new field of labor.

Farmers are very busy plowing for wheat.  As Josh Billings says, the ground is "very wet", if not wetter."

Purdy, Bennett & Co. have been making merry music in this vicinity with their steam threshing machine for the last week.

Wheat an average crop; oats not so good.  The prospects of a good corn crop are promising.

The picnic near J. Rickey's, last Friday, didn't amount to much.  We understand there were plenty of refreshments, such as whisky, beer, & cola. They had to place a guard around the "Flying Dutchman," Thursday night, to keep it from being chopped down.  People have been humbugged too much already this year in regard to picnics.

Mr. Rippetoe will teach another term of singing school at the Harrison Church, his first term having expired.

The Madison choir still meet and have pleasant singings.  Mr. Rippetoe will teach another term there this fall.

Mr. Jenkins is progressing finely with the new school house at Harrisonville.

Mr. Robert Dodge and Miss Aggie Minford were united in wedlock Sunday, July 30th.  rob may have been pretty good at a dodge, but he failed to dodge the hymenial loop.