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MIS' HITT'S HUSBANDS.
The young schoolmaster who presided dur
ing the spring term over the seventeen bare
footed children of District No. 10, East
Centreville, Johnson county,did not find the
social element of the ntigbborhood congenial.
There was no lack of society and social
gayeties. The schoolmaster had attended a
surprise party, a warm sugar party and a "so
ciable" during the first week of his residence
in District Kb. 10; he had been stared
at by red-handed, hair-oMed, tongue-tied
youths; danced several Virginia reels to the
tune of 'Top Goes tfc Weasel," rendered on a
shrieking fiddle or a hoarse melodeon; been
kissed by scores of buxom giria in innumer
able osculatory games; and had since re
frained from East Centreville festivities with
a sternness which had been looked upon as
"stuck up," and which may, indeed, have
been due in some degree to that complacent
self-esteem in which young schoolmasters are
not usually deficient.
He was fond of entertainment, however;
and being thus thrown back upon himself, its
chances seemed smalL The comfortable old
couple who boarded him were meek, indus
trious, deserving and commonplace, and he
was not hopeful of discovering anything
more exciting in District Kb. 10. He was
roused to a mild interest, therefore, when he
found the Settin' room," one morning, in the
possession of an odd and somewhat startling
old woman.
She was whitewashing the ceiling. She
stood on top of a stepladder, and covered its
cracked and yellowish surface with long
strokes of her stubby brush. She wore a
bright new calico dress with u short skirt
which exposed her heavy masculine boots.
Her hair, hich was gray and scanty, was
drawn Lack over frequent patches of bald
ness and fastened in a candid knot of the size
of a hickory-nut. Her face was brown and
wrinkled, with bright eyes, and she held a
pipe between her lips.
The schoolmaster inquired concerning her
as he sugared his lettuce at the breakfast
table; sugar and vinegar were tho approved
salad dressing at East Centreville.
'That's Mis' Hitt," his hostess rejoined.
'She kind of jobs around lays carpets and
whitewashes and papers and helps houseclean
in' times. She's a master hand, Mis' Hitt is.
'3Iiss Hitt she is unmarried, then.'" said
the schoolmaster.
'Law!'' the old lady responded,whiIe a faint
blush stole into her faded cheeks; "she's be'n j
married four times. Hitt,"' she added, scrupu- j
lously, "wa'n't her last husband; but we didn't j
neter git into the way o1 callin' her Mis' Doty.
It don't make no odds, as I know of Doty, !
he's dead."' I
A week later the schoolmaster, who had
conceived a liking for the outdoor aspects of J
District Kb. 10, wandering in the dusk of the
evening through an empty pasture lot which (
copious spring rains had developed into a
swamp, came suddenly upon a small red '
wooden building set into the corner of the
pasture and backed by a piece of woods. Its
unstable appearance, produced by the piles of
stones upon -which its four corners rested and
its several props, mado it obvious th it it had
been moved hither from its native spot, where j
it might have been a corn or hen house. In a
chair in the open doorway, leaning forward
on her elbows and smoking, was Mis' Hitt
The schoolmaster went nearer and raised .
his hat. The old woman took her pipe from j
her mouth and eyed him with a fleeting sus
picion; then she got up and shoved her chair
back hospitably.
The schoolmaster stepped inside and sat
down on an anonymous object near the door,
while his. entertainer lighted her lamp.
Its light .showed a cramped interior of one
room, ine wans were covered witn news-1
papers, tacked up; an unseasonable stovo re- j
tamed its place, for lack of other refuge. There!
were a few attempts at adornment, which'
the hardened fingers, and belated tastes of the
inventor had not served to render successful.
The schoolmaster's seat proved to be a nail
keg, whose hardness was not helped by its
frill of brown cambric.
"Mis' Hitt, from the one chair of the room,
looked at her caller over her pipe with no visi
ble curiosity.
'Saw ye t'other day," she observed.
"Teachin' here, ain't ye?"' And, when the
schoolmaster assented, relapsed into silence
with a nod.
'You are pleasantly situated," the school
master ventured, looking out somowhat
doubtfully over tho shadowy pasture lot.
"I don't know as I be,"' said Mis' Hitt, apa
theticallv. "I git along."
The schoolmaster made a second and a
bolder attempt.
"I have lately received the news of the
death of of an aunt,'" he remarked. "It is
exceedingly sad to lose one's friends, is it
not? But, perhaps very possibly you have
had no exierience of the sortf
Mis.1 Hitt removed her pipe, with a face
wholly unsuspicious. Her eyes shone in its
darkened and withered surface with a sud
denly increased brightness.
"Ive buried four husbands.' sbe said. Her
expression was a mixture of solemnity and
excusable pride.
'Ah!" tho schoolmaster murmured. "The
great consolation for death,"' he continued,
"is the remembrance of the felicitous hours
passed with the deceased. Your married life
lives were happy, were they notf
Wal, I don' know,1 said Mis' Hitt She
crossed her knees and clasped her knotty
hands around them. "I didn't have such
powerful good luck gittin' husbands,"'
"Indeed r said the schoolmaster. "One
might judge, from a casual view, that you
had been highly successful."
Mis' Hitt's boriousness did not alter. Ap
parently a joke was not in tho line of her
comprehension.
"Thar wa'n't none o' my men what ye
might call likely," she said, without disturb
ance from the recollection of her time-soft
ened trouble.
They was a pretty or'nary
set, I call m.
She puffed away in silent rumination.
Your first husband, for example?" the
schoolmaster suggested."
"Wal, he wa'n't much Ike Hoyward
wa'n't.' the old woman responded. Her eyes (
v .re fixed uneemingly on the blank stretch j
of sodden laud; her face was intent with the ,
absorption of reminiscence. "I was nigh on
to 10 when I married Ike, and Ike, he was
snmewar1 round 20.
I hadn t been calculatuv
Saitijr
to marry Ike Herward; wa'nt lookup toa j japgeof te and the feebleness of Hitt's char
vreek aforcband. I'd had it fixed up with, GCtristics seemed to have well nigh effaced
'Rastus Carter for a consul aoio speii; we a
got the day sot, and 'Rasttis, he'd spoke to the
preacher, i uon nion as i immu ju ,
what sp'ilod it: 'Rastus, ho flared up at some
thin' er 'nother; consid'able techy, 'Rastus
was sandv-topid, freckly folks 'most gen
'ally be. Wal, I didn't git him," said Mis'
Hitt, brightening the bowl of her pipe with a ,
puff or two. "And Ike Heyward he stepped
in, and we wero j'ined.
"Lived with his folks, Ike did: I don' know
as I should 'a had no trouble with Iko ef it
hadn't Lea fer that. Had the wing, Ike and
rae and the rest o' tho house was tho ola
folks': butolo Mb' Heyward was into that
wing enough sight more'n she was to hurn,
-c,r,' -.! ixvtonn' and nosin' round, bhe d
t-a in nfore breakfast, and set watchin' me
3-cttin' it, and telv as how I couldn't cook
potk no more'n a cat, and didn't know no
more 'bout frv-n' iiancakes "n I did Txrat
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i -i .j .iiAi nnH tmt crr-.tr ennrt wri n
half bileu: and she'd go round cryin"bout
Ike gittin' sech a poor, shiftless piece. She
was a ieky ole creetur.3
Mis' Hitt spoke placidly. Her long-ago
rrievances had developed with years into mi-
Tvrsonal facts.
'And Ike, ho was jest as chicken-hearted as
I ever see: he wa'n't no more "count 'n a dish
rag. He didn't reely know who to side with ;
all he fisrucred on was to git out o' the muss.
more -" ";" TZ " - ard my ' v, and 'Rastus he flared up; jestashigh
fiym':and as how I want savin, a- my -' , ns -p-ctaa was. He ninted
ilea tate nis nshpole and go on ana stay" on
day; oncet, when we'd ben havin' it pretty
tough, his ma and me, he staid off a week.
Long and spindlin', Ike was, and sailer; alwus
snortln' round with a cold, and wheezin' np
with asthmy, and ailin1; twa'n't no more'n I
was lookuV'fer when he started in to conch
stiddy there'd ben Heyward goin' off with
consumption eeace the beginnin1 o5 time, Ike,
he didn't hang on like some of 'em; his Uncle
Burridge, now, he was thirty year a-dyin'.
Ike, he went off eaddent, but he went dretf nl
hard. I never see no sech awful 6pells o'
coughin' as he did have; seam's though he'd
git ripped to pieces; and the way that creetur
used to sweat nighte wal, the Bheets'd be
wringia' wet.
The schoolmaster, listening with gratifying
interest, looked in vain for any softening of
the old woman's calmly narrative tone. The
tragedy of fifty years ago had become a casual
memory, interesting only for ite harrowing
details.
'He was jest skim and bone when he died;
his arms wa'n't no bigger round 'n a broom
stick, and his cheeks was sunk in so 't it fairly
scairt ye; he was a dretful-lookin corpse.'
Mis' Hitt turned her eyes upon her listener in
pleasurable anticipation of the effect of these
items. 'He was buried up in the old north
buryin' lot he was took up afterwards and
nut in the new one and I went hum again.
I was powerful glad to get shet o ole Mis' j fried cakes of a Sunday oncet, that he went off
Heyward, now I tell ye." to the woods and stayed thar fer a consid'able
"Our moot poignant sorrows have their alle- spelL KTetchod his death thar, too; he coma
viating features,"' the schoolmaster observed. back clean 6ick. Keuralgy 'twa3 to the fust,"
Mis' Hitt puffed at her pipe. The chirping ' said Mis' Hitt, with an increase of interest in
of frogs filled the pause. ( her tone; "but a dretf ul lot o5 things sot in
"You were induced to repeat the matrimo- pneumony and the janders and blood-poison-nial
experiment?"5 said the schoolmaster, j in' and the swellin' o' the jints; the doctor
""You married again, I infer?" t give in 'twas the wust case he'd ever come
"I was a widder fer six months," Mis" Hitt ' nigh. Laid thar fer six neeks, Doty did; out
responded: "but I could ben married afore , of his head the hull time, and undergoin' sich
that ef I'd a min to. "Kastus Carter, he come j sufferin's as I never hurd the like of; ye
round soon as Ike was put in under. He'd t could hear him hollerin' and groanin' clean
scraped up enough to git a place pretty fore- out to the big road. Made consid'able of a
handed, 'Rastus was and he was calculatin' j stir, being sech a terrible bad case: had as
to buy 'way up to the Corners, clus to the old big a funeral as I ever was to, Doty did."
tannery. Wal, I told him ef he was goin' to Mis1 Hitt's pipe was out; the pasture had
live round that ar tannery I wa'n't. and all grown quite dark, and tho noise of tho frogs
the powers couldn't make me; the smell was j was lessening. She got up and put her chair
fit to knock ye down, 'jest about; and as to; against the wall and closed the one small win
livin' with it right under my nose it made ' dow near the ceiling by means of a broom
me sick as a dog, the idee on't. "Kastus, he t stick. The schoolmaster, conscious that an
was mad as a hornet; he went off a ram
pagin', and "twan't a week afore I heerd he'd
ben and married Pauliny WLwelL She was
gettin' along, Pauliny was, and she was terri
ble glad to git him.
Wal, I didn't lay out to wait fer ever to j
git another man, but I vow I was clean sot
back when Elihu "Wilder come aidgin' round. !
Ole bach'ler, Elihu was; must 'a ben mgh
onto 40. He'd ben livin' by himself fer a long
spell, over in the holler. I hadn't never see
him more'n oncet or twicet. I declar I didn't
know but I was gettin' loony an' seein' sperrits
when he come nippin in. Wa'n't much high
er 'n a yardstick, Elihu wa'n't seemed to ben
stunted; and he was so kind o' dried up, thar
didn't look to be nothin' to him.
'Wal, ef I'd a-knew what 'twas keepin'
house fer a bach'ler, I wouldn't never under
took it. Fussiest, narvousest little creetur I
over come within forty mile of, Elihu Wilder
' was. He'd lived thar by himself till he'd got
as notional as a witch; he wa'n't no ways used
to folks, and. come to the pint, he didn't reely
know how to stan' it bavin' me thar. I guess
he'd 'a give considable to git unhitched agin,
and I wouldn't 'a held off nuther.
j '-It was a sight to behold, that ar house o'
hisn. Thar hadn't ben a hammer teched to it
sence 'twas put up, and o' all the tarnal ole
J holes. The front steps was all rotted away. ,
I Thar wa'n't a hull winder in the house, and
the ruf o' the keepin' room leaked like a sieve.
Elihu, he wouldn't hear to fixin' it up -tight j
as the bark of a tree. Elihu was. With all ,
my naggin', he wouldn't do nothin' but put
an old sawhorso by the front door, place o'
steps, and board up some o' the winders.
He'd ben strung up sooner'n git shingles fer
that ruf. Used to set tubs in thar when it ,
rainea ana Ketcn waier ivi- nuium , eim
'twas handy. "Bout as close-fisted as lever
come acrost, Elihu Wilder was. And what
with his bein' so notional, I don't know how I
stood him long as I did. He was wuss'n any
old woman I ever see. Had the foreroom all
crammed full of a sight o1 ole truck he'd ben
scrapin1 up and savin', the goodness knows
what fer dried yerbs and ole tin pans and
pieces o' rope and wagon wheels and legso'
lxxlsteads; and he wouldn't hear to havin1
'em cleared out; wouldn't have 'em teched.
He was sot in his ways as ever a bem1 was ,
rrtntp ipst. Went to bed at S o'clock.
vear in and year out, and got up at 4 to the
tiok- nncl4t30of a Sundav. and all the saints
couldn't 'a made a minute's odds. Ef thar what the man took. "Oil first, whisky af ter
was anybodv thar when the clock pinted to S wards," he said. Noticing my astonishment,
be never made no bones o" startin' "em fer he added: "He took salad oil, and I often sell
hum. Ef the heavens had 'a fell 'twouldn't a it If you use an oil lamp you may have had
stirred him out o1 his tracks. Ef I'd 'a knew ' occasion, when the oil was low, to pour water
what 'twas livin1 with n bach'ler, I reckon I'd into it. The water, being heavier than tho
'a steered clear o1 Elihu Wilder. j oil, goes to the bottom, sends the oil to the
VT' "Tia TTitt. ntirsuprf. with a greater'
tranquility of tone, "he didn't live but three
years, Elihu didn't. He was took off with j
dropsy, fer all he'd never looked to have a '
pint o' blood in him. Wouldn't git no doctor (
ner have nothin done fer him: he jest steeped
up them ole yerbs o hisn and set round tho
store stirrin' an' drinkin' o' "em. Wouldn't
give up till the last minute; then he did give
in to lettin' the doctor tap him. Thar was
"most a gallon took out o' him. lie wa'n't a
natural lookin' corpse; he was swelled up so i
you wouldn't a knew him.'' j
Mis' Hitt leaned over to drop the ashes of her")
pipe on the ground outside. Then she got up
and filled it from a saucer in the cupboard, '
lighted it by means of a match and the lamp
chimney, and t down, recrossing her knees. '
"Didilr. Carter reappear?" the school-,
master inquired.
' 'Rastus Carter, he'd went west a spell
back. Pauliny Wiswell, she'd died o' the
fever 'twa'n't no wonder, nuther, livin' so
clus up to that ar tannery and 'Rastus, he'd
picked up and went off to Injiany. It corno
back that he'd got married agin out thar."'
"And you followed his example?" said the
schoolmaster. '
''Yes; I took up with Hitt fer the next one.
Hitt. he hadn't ben livin' round here a eret
, wnljo; iut I declar I might a knew what he '
was by his courtin"; he was hangin' round
sich an everlastin' time afore he come to the
pint. I reckoned I shouldn't never git shet of
him.
'Wal," said ilis' Hitt, musingly, uthar
wa'n't much to Hitt, one way or "nother. Ho
was as lazy as all git out; used to set out,
whor 'tKias sunny, sort o' dozin' off fer a hull
day to a time; and that was pretty much all j
he did do.r
She smoked silently for a moment Tho
tim from her caemorj.
j ffitt)' g,e added, w
without emotion uHitt
was run over on tho railroad; struck by the
injine and histed forty foot in the air: wa'nt
a hull bone left in his body. Folks did S3y he
was too pison ln- to git out the way when he
saw the injine coinin'."'
Mis' Hitt's pipe was reinstated. Tho hoot
ing of an owl in the near wood sounded at
slow intervals amid the drowsy clamor of tho
frogs. The schoolmaster watched tho oddly
angular figure. whoe masculine effect was
not much detracted from by the vivid calico
dress. Mis Hitt's bright eyes roved in his
direction.
'Rastus Carter 'd got back from Injiany,"
Ehe said. uHed buried his last wife out thar,
and he was lookm' round fer another, and
when Hitt was took off he come spearin'
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not west azin. aniLl nainr never neertxi no
J more on i
( -Wal, I'd lived with a cur'us set o' men t
; enough, the land knows: but Abram Doty '
.-g iest about tho cur" uset. He was gittm' s
.jon towards TO when I took him and ha
was broke down consid'able; I don' know as
ho was jest right in Ins mind. He was sojer
rible pious thar wa'n't no livin' with him."
ills' Hitt's tone had no trace of nrwlccy.
Piety, seemingly, had lain without the bounds
of her experience, and therefore of her under
standing. "It "peared to 'a struck in; he was clean
possessed. Used to set round the kouse a
readnV the Bible and meditatin on bis sine
that ar's what he give out to be doin' "most
the hull time. Tkey was havin raeetin's down
to the pine grove, and Doty he was thar regu
lar twicet a day. He over-persuaded me to go
long oncet, and I wouldn't 'a ben got thar
agin fer no money. Sech a set o1 loose I
never see; and Doty, ge was 'bout the craziest
on 'em. He got up thar and prapced round
and screeched out as how he was lost in the
ways o'ein and give over to the powers o'
darkaeasan jest a-totterin' on the nidge of
etaraal jeetice; and then he bust out a-singin'
couldn't sing much more'n a crow, Abram
Doty couldn't. I declar ef 'twa'n't ridiculous ;
seventy odd year he was, and bald as a
squash.
"Wuas'n ever after that, Doty was. He
couldn't aboar to see me loolrin' no ways de
cent; he laid down that ribands and fixin's
was instruntente o' the devil; he chucked two
o' my bunnits into the stove and tore up an
alpacy gownd. He'd go without tastin' a
mouthful for a day to a time f astin', he give
out that he was dear knows what fer; he
was skinny as a rail to begin with. He got
so worked ud 'cause I stirred up a mess o1
ignoring of these signs would not avail him,
rose from his nailkeg.
"I presume you do not consider it probable
that you will marry again?" he lingered to re
mark. Mis' Hitt put up a bony hand to remove
the one hairpin from her diminutive knot, j
which was apparently to be reconstructed for
the night
"I don't know but what I've had "bout
enough o1 gittin' married," she responded,
with undiminished gravity.
She waited, unimpressed, while her visitor
bowed, to shut the door behind him.
The schoolmaster paid another visit to tho
isolated little domicile toward the close of his
sojourn in District No. 10, in consequence of a
rumor which had come to his cars. It was to
the effect that 'Rastus Carter had come back,
and that he and Mis' Hitt had gone promptly
to the justice and been made man and wife.
The rumor appeared to have substantial
foundation. There were two figures in the
doorway Mis' Hitt's stock of chairs having
been added to by one. The old woman sat
quietly smoking, her arms folded on her knees
und her eyes resting vaguely on the near field.
The change in her condition, possibly owing
to its lack of novelty, did not appear to have
affected her. The little old man at her side,
pale in comparison with her withered dark
ness, struck the schoolmaster with his resem
blance to a mushroom beside a blackened
toadstool. He had a round, shining crown,
with a fringe of white hair surmounting a
faded pink face. Its placid meekness might
have led one to believe that his "techiness"
and high temper were things of tho past.
The schoolmaster, with a haunting certainty
cf being relegated to the nailkeg if he went
in, contented himself with a bright impres
sion of the small red house with the woods for
a background and the swampy pasture for an
unlimited front yard, and with Mis1 Hitt and
her last husband sitting in tranquil silence in
the doorway. Emma A. Opper in Frank
Leslie's.
Drinking Oil Before Taking TVhlky.
While in the act of paying a check in the
Astor house restaurant the other day. I was as
tonished to see a city hall politician pour what
appeared to le oil into a glass. He took it
with a gulp, made a wry face, settled it with
j a half gla.ss of whisky, paid a half dollar and
' walked off, I asked tho "artist in liquids''
sunareauu reie iu iuiv. -luu "".
of course, that the fumes of whisky rising
and acting on the brain intoxicate?"' I pro
tested that I did not know from experience.
'Well it is so," the dispenser of liquids axlded,
and this man drinks the oil, which rises to
the surface of the stomach and keeps the
fumes of the whisky down. He is probably
going out with a fast party, and its members
will be surprised at the whisky "he'll drink
without becoming intoxicated.r I was told
afterward by one of the party that such was
the case. N. Y. News 'Babble."
Lean Men unci Fat Men.
An eminent physician remarks that at tho
age of 36 years the lean man usually becomes
fatter, and the fat man becomes leaner.
Again, between the years 43 and 50 his appe
tite fails, his complexion fades, and his tongue
is apt to become furred upon the least exer
tion of body or mind. At this period his
muscles become flabby, bis joints weak, his
spirits droop, and his sleep is imperfect and i
unrefreshinjr. After suffenng under these
complaints a year, or perhaps two, he starts
afresh with renewed vigor, and goes on to 01
or 02, when a similar change takes place, but
with aggravated symptoms. When these
grand periods have been successfully passed
tho gravity of incumbent years is more
stronglv marked. Chicago Times.
A r.lx Vela f Bnratd Umber.
A vein of xvhaS appears to bo first-clas
burned umber has been discovered near New
castle, Pa. It is twelve feet trido and of un
known denta and extent.
Principal Key of the Bmatil.
The principal key of ths old French Bastile
was recentlv discovered at Villeneuve l'Arche-
veque, in the department of Yonne. M. j
Heligand, who placed it before the Arcbreo
logical society of Sens and Touched for its au
thenticity, related that, after the first attempt
to storm the Bastile, the Locksmitn riancon
was asked to repair the damage to the lock.
He had not yet finished his work when the
Bastile was again attacked, and he was com
pelled to flee, taking the key with him. He
left Paris and settled in his native place,
Rignv le Feron, not far from Villeneuve
l'Archeveque. There he died in lSJJ. aiwr ;
having bequeathed the key to a friend by the
name of Vemay, in whoso family it has re
mained ever since. The key is over a foot
long and beautifully -Aorked- Another key '
of the Bastile. not belonging, however, to the
principal lock, was pre?ent!d by Lafayette to j
Walunton. and is still preserved at Mount
Vernon-Boston Transcript.
for broiling nat natural gas has set proved j
a success.
Shoe "Leather Consasned ia Brlla.
The question as to how much !hoe leather
is dailv consumed in Berlin was recently dis
cussal in The London Post, which paper
rSSSS,ttJnss?
mrTTfvrK--.ts:ind shoas. at an average cost
GOO wear boots and shoes, at an average cctf
of only 0 marks per pair, lasting six months. J
this would cause the daily wear and tear of j
shoe leather in the Gsrman capital to amount J
to S3.G33 marks. Eaxhanrc I
Great
THE .-. FUTURE
Situated on the A. T. & S. F. Railroad, midway between Dodge City and Garden City.
A 1400 foot double track, Oak deck bridge, and railroad side track now being built.
The First Great Sale of Lots will Oeeur
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1886,
At which time the best opportunity for making money ever offered the people of Konsas will be presented. Every person
who has an eye to business should be present at the sale and invest in one or more lots.
R. M. SPVEY,
W.A-COATES,
ALDEN" SPEABE,
t. l. Mccarty,
j. c. strang,
DIRECTORS.
New Stoek of
Fall -:- Clothing
Arriving Daily.
MANHATTAN CLOTHING CO.
Leaders of Styles and Low Prices
:Strictly One Price.:
Herman & Hess, Proprietors,
M. A. McKENZIE
-Manufacturer of-
Fine Carriages,
BUGGIES
SPRING-:-WAGONS.
Repairing, Repainting and Trimming
Promptly Attended To.
Wichita, Kansas
City Trade Solicited and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
C. A. STAFFORD.
& CO., -. - -Sfefc-
STAFFORD & CLEGG,
Real Estate and Loan Agents
Office south side Douglas ave, 2d stairway w of Lawrence.
CASKETS, ROBES, GLOVES, CRAPE, ETC.
Ha e two flne hear. A private telephone direct to Wlchiu Cemetery. Offlce always open on Dou?lai
avenue. Wichita. Kansan. Prompt attention to orders by Teleiq-aph.
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DEPOT and OFFICE 124
ICE Always on
Orders for Shipment and City Delivery i
Promptly
Telephone No. 128.
BUY LOTS IN
ip -:- (I -:- Fisher's
j These Lois are close to the City Limits, and are lying between Central Ave ;
and oecond otre
east 01 town.
No colleae,
and
ear,' terms
are to be built on them. For tems apply at
BTjTLER & FISHERS
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110 DOUGLAS AYE.
Sale of Town
C3l.
I-N-G-A-L-LS
:. COUNTY :. SEAT .-. OF .". PLUMB ;. .COUNTY.
326 Douglas Avenue,
T. F. CLF.GG
H. W. KENDLE,
FUENEAL -:- DIRECTOR,
-And Dealer In-
Wood, Cloth and Metalic Burial Cases
ICE!
WEST DOUGLAS AYE.
Hand at Depot.
Attended to.
S0HN & WILKIN.
-:- Second -:-
Fhese lots are tor sale oa cneap
Union depot o? machine soops
HARDWARE STORE
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ALDEN SPEARE, of Boston, President,
W. A. C0ATES, See'y and Treas'r, Topeka. Kan.,
A. T. RILEY, Agent, Cimarron, Kansas.
Wichita Citv Roller
ESTABLISHED 1S71.
-Manufacture the FoIIowlnR Celebrated Brands-
IMPERIAL, Roller Patent; WHITE ROSE, Extra Fancy; X. L C.
R., Fancy.
These brands hare ben on the market cam. west, north and south for tea year, and they hare won an
enviable reputation wherever Introduced. To try them Is to uy with thein. Wo are always In the market
for w heat at highest cash price.
OLIVER, IMBODEN & CO.
BUNNELL I MOREHOUSE,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents.
A., T. & S. F. E. E. LAXDS.
Bargains in city and county property. Our insurance companies are as
follows: Etna, Liverpool, London, Globe, German-American, Insurance Com
pany of North America, Hartford, Phoenix, of Hartford; Home, of New York;
New York Underwriters.
L. N. WOODCOCK,
, Ex-CoontyTreaa'r.
Jl. S.
WOODCOCK,
Office, Dorsey Building,
H. L. TAYLOR
DWIGHT
RE mm, ABSTRACTS k LOIS
TAYLOR, BEACH & CO.
Real Estate Art and Insurance Hers.
The Best Companies are represented by us. If you want an In
surance Policy written, or nave Real estate for sale, or wish to Pur-
i cnase, call on us.
MONEY
LOANED ON FARMS OR CITY PROPERTY-
OFFICE OVER LEWIS' SHOE STORK
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Real Estate Dealers.
OmCS-EOOK 4 KACLE KLTK.
K!rl stair-? f WsrtiiU U-aal
B. COELN,
Wholesale Cigars,
125 West Douglas Avenue.
iWICHITA,
Lots
Mi and Elevator.
I.XCOWOR VTEO 15.
GARRISON,
K.A. DORSKV,
Ex-County Cl'k.
D0RSEY & CO.,
Opposite Court House,
"WICIEZIT-A., KZJIsr.
BEACH-
LEE TAYLOR
G-ANDOLFO CAFE.
I. Fin est
Restaurant : in : Kansas.
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