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-"? s-v? EWVLShHJ ,jrtyPlBBW4;,.ETf Mr" -i.WS. "-t- " -. "V . . "TW.:." -J'. J "J V -C- ."-sS TT Vl '. -'-.- -bcli. V-.JWKS3,JC -r V '.V V - k-""l. fss y t 3 hi 1 ' Ml' Iii! In 111 i1' .4 Only 22 Miles to Cleveland. , LU1CBS&, $19 TO $22. O-ABOHKT -A.3iTr) ROCK SHlHSTGr COAL, $6. Sc $7 Corn, 40 cents. Flour, $3. to $3.20. Ellsworth flour, Horse Shoe, and flour of Plains. jsrviEZEtryr tkhjtg- kept tost stock:- Come and See Us &Save Money. LC1A.FISBEB. .L. A. HANCHETT, Manager. ' THE THOMAS COUNTY CAT. Thursday, Octobkk. Sth, 1885. Vote for Judge Nov. 3d. Indian summer. A little late this week. Jewelry nt the drug store. Clocks at Smith & Walker's, Magazines at the drug store. The school house loometh up. Funny papers at the drug store. (jo to I. 11. Builers' for hardware. Fresh canned goods at Donelan's. M. Donelan has received a new safe. Got your reading matter at the drug iorc . ' Don't fcget the show Saturday ,:ght. Ileular trains now run into Oberlin. Considerable real estate chang ing hands. Kead the commissioner:' pro ceedings. Mrs. 0. K. Corporan is visiting in Oberlin. A. Chitwood is suffering with the tieuralgia. Salt by the barrel at J. W. Al ien & Sons'. If you have a farm for "sale, call on II. K. Weld. Jugs, jars, crocks and churns at J. W. Allen & Sous'. New invoice of clothing just re wived at Donelan's. II. E. Weld buys and sells wild and improved lands. Go to the lied Front on 4th streetfor all kiuds of furniture. Remember Donelan carries, the lxwt brands of flour. The new postolHee building will bo enclosed this week. Don't buy an overcoat until you ec Donelan's new stock. I. II. Dullers made a trip to Wal lace on business this week. P. It Lewis i building a house on his claim this week. Will Harvey returned Tuesday from Carleton, Nebraska. A car load of "Vinton flour just received at Donelan's. W. G. Porter has purchased the Cat building of D. M. Dunn. Adams has had the front of his "building painted a bright red. Arthur Allen was down from Oberlin the first of the week. The new billiard hall is in run ning order this week, with Lou Carey in charge. M. Donelan will put in a com plete stock of dry goods, etc, in a short time. Fine stock gents' furnishing goods will be opened at Donelan's in a few days. Some one stole a pair of boots from in front of M. Donelan's store one day this week. Frank Pingree will soon com mence the erection of au otliee oppo- fsite the Cat building. W. 11. Copelaud is ceiling his of fice this week and making other im provements for winter. The Cat office will soon have a large job press in the place of the smaller one now in use. E. P. Worcester has sold his Grainfield paper and will move his family to Colby next week. M. Donelan has bought Lucas Zihlman's stock of clothing, and will move it into his store next week. Ohio has gone Republican by over twenty thousand majority, and the legislature is Republican on joint bal lot Smith & Walker have just re ceived an elegant line of jewelry. If you want any tiling in tue line, can and see them. Hines & Stout, contractors and builders, are prepared to attend to all business in their line. Let them fig ure on your work. John A. Weber has purchased the C. I. Payne restaurant business, and will conduct it on a ditferent plan. He invites a trial. Parties from the southern part of the State have bought the lot west of the Commercial House and will put up a store building. W. H. Copeland has over four thousand acres of land in Thomas and Sherman counties for sale. Sec his new advertisement Dr. Bretz, of Brooklyn, New York, was in Colby this week. He is looking after his laud in 6-3IJ. Buffalo mittens, seal skin and Sirrtiift buck eloves. iust the thing for driving, at J. W. Allen & Sons'. John Irwin will, for ten dollars, furnish an abundance of water in Carp Lake well. No water, no pay. John A. Walker has purchased Yousse's interest in the livery busi ness and now owns the whole thing. .-J. D. Hughes has started a store twelve miles west of Colby. He keeps groceries, provisions, flour and feed. Lumber from $20 to $22 per thousand. Jfssnrn Corktte Grinnell, Kan Messrs. Fral Greene, C. C. Sig gins and J. A. Warner, of Qiuckville, made this office a pleasant call Fri day. These long evenings there is noth ing so cnehanting as a story to read . The drug store has a stock to select from. J. F. nallibaugh and family, Aaron Tomlinsojj nnd Roy Chin started Wednesday morning for Red Cloud, Nebraska. Twins at A. B. Jardiue's, a boy and a girl, and all doing well. This all occurred too late for the census enumerator. Joseph Lamont, from Montieello, Iowa, is in town this week. He is a first-class barber, and thinks of start ing a shop soon. Dr. Henderson, the dentist, is at hotel, and will remain several days this trip. Don't hesitate to give him work. Wc can recommend him from this office. Quite a large prairie, fire broke out south of Colby Wednesday even ing, burning a strip some two or three miles wide. The people should take warning and break fire guards before they lose all their feed, and, perhaps, some stock. Several candidates are out this week. Our advice to the balance of the population is to announce. Of course there are only thirteen offices to fill, and you can't all be ':Eli's," but then just think of the fun of the thing. Having sold out my furniture store I now take pleasure in introduc ing my successor, Mr. N. J. Adams whom the public can find, will Keep a full line of even-thing in the furni ture luisiness, and at lowest prices. Give him a call. Jas. Auld. There is not a notary public in Thomas county. All the old notaries sent in their seals and made applica tion to the Governor to have their commissions changed from Sheridan county to this county, leaving us without a notary until the commis sions are changed aud seals returned. J. W. Huff, cashier of the bank of Downs, Downs, Kansas, has pur chased of M. Donelan the lot adjoin ing his store, with a view of cstal lishing business in Colby. Mr. Huff was accompanied by his brother. These gentlemen are firmly of the opinion that Colby will get the Mis souri Pacific railroad next season. That beautiful damsel that stands in front of J. W. Allen & Sons' store all day, and is taken in nights, and has all the appearance of one of the fair sex, paper bustle and all, causes some consternation among the boys. The first night in the village the pa per damsel was invited to six dances, and four locators offered her choice quarters three miles from town for a small consideration. She is getting pretty well known as au advertiser for Lenox Soap. DRUGS! DRUGS! t SMITH, WALKER & CO., Keep a full stock of .,, Drugs, Medicines, Toilet articles, Paints and Oils, Patent Medicines, etc. Thos. Truroix of Otterbourue. brought sonic fine turnips raised on sod to this office last week. They measured eighteen inches in circum ference. Mrs. N. J. Adams has gone to Ohio to close out her business there and arrange for coming to Colby, where she, with her husband, will make their future home. J. II. Huff, of Clyde, and his brother James, of Downs, both live b:s:ness men, are in the city. They seem favorably impressed with the appearance of the county and town. Governor's Proclamation. COLBY, KANSAS. CHICAGO LUMBER CO. -DEALERS IN- Climax, Four X and Queen of the west flour at Donelan's. Hard- Ho! For 1. H. BULLERS' ware Store. What bargains! Sheridan countv RAIL ROAD LANDS for sale by H. E. Weld. I. Donelan has just received a car load of Minnesota wheat flour. James Auld will now devote his attention to the real estate business. 500 Farms wanted. For partio nlars call on or address, H. B. Weld. Mr. Weaver, of Nodaway county, Mo., has purchased Mr. Swift's place, i Go to I. H. Bulbars' for heating stoves, cooking stoves, hardware and rope. All kinds of legal and landf office papers promptly and accurately pre pared by H. E. Weld. vt Masters, we are informed, has sold his hotel building to a Mr. Camp bell, from the southeastern part of the state. Wonder how Jake Ailing likes vine gar to drlnK? He was seen taking a pretty hearty pull the other day from a "little brown jug." Mr. Jaggar, of the firm of Lcs engcr & Jaggar, has returned from Tobias, Nebraska, where he had gone after his family. Mrs. Lesscnger i with them. The boys have come to stay. Judge Hardy, the right-of-way man for the B. & M., was in Colby yesterday. The Judge and his friends are looking the country over. tie knows that a mule has no love for a buffalo. Strayed. From the residence of Peter Grepe, 15 miles west of Col by, on Thursday, October 8. one large red cow. branded on side with "W H." Any information in regard to the cow will be rewarded. 2w The talk alrout taking town ten from this county is au ioonsnness. Tt would be death politically, socially, and give a man a close call physically that would go to Topeka and try to lobby through such a measure. 'Messrs. Stnrrctt & Son., of Hen derson, Iowa, have secured two bnsi r,D ifo in Prtlhv nnil enntomnlate i :.. i,n 1i.iWIw.iiy ind fiirm I implement business. They are of the nnininn that the Mo. Pacific railroad I will be extended to Denver next year. Statk ok Kansas, Exkcutivk Dkp't, Tuiieka. Oct. 8th, 1S85. Wiikrkas, A memorial, signed In- over two uuimreu anu iiiiy House holders, residents of Thomas county. Kansas, whose signatures to said me morial have been duly attested by the affidavits of three house-holders there of, showing that said county had more than fifteen hundred inhabitants, and that more than two hundred and fifty of said inhabitants are actual house holders, has been presented to me as Governor of the State of Kansas, praying for the organization of said Thomas county, said affidavits alleg ing that they had reason to, and did beTieve said memorial to be true, and Wherkas, W. G. Porter, a bona fide resident of said Thomas county, was duly appointed and commissioned as census taker, who was duly quali fied as such officer, and it appears from actual enumeration, by census returns duly made, certified and sworn to by said census taker, according to law, and there arc nineteen hundred and' sixteen bona fide inhabitants in said county, and that sevctf hundred and seventy-seven of them are actual house-houlders. Knw. Therefore. I. John a. Jiar- tiv ftnvpmorof the Stite of Kansas, ", v-" . . . . . 1 by authority of law vesica in me, u appointed and commissioned B. F. Heastan, W. H. Kingery, and E. A. Grouse County Commissioners, and Samuel Stewardson as County Clerk of said county of Thomas, and do hereby designate and declare me town of Colby to be Uie temporary wuuy Seat of said county. In testimony whereof, I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the Great Seal of the State. Done at the city of Topeka. the day and year first above written. By the Governor, Jno. A. Martin. E. B. Allen. Secretary of State. Bv W. T. Cavenaugh, Ass'tSec'y of Suite. LUMBER, Sash, - Doors, - Blinds, LIMB, CEMENT, All Kinds of Coal. Best Grades at Lowest Prices. G. H. HYATT, Manager. Yards at Colby and Cleveland. WINDSOR HOTEL. MILLER & MILLS, Proprietors. KZ-3STS-A-S- OOXBST. Boarding and lodging by the day or week. Are in their new BTTXXiJDXiTGr- AI-SO aoents for tub Halladay WINDMILL, PUMPS. Fixtures of all kinds. The best mill made. FUR NITURE !smith & bariteiu. H. E. Weld having moved into his new office, is now ready to tran sact all kinds of law and land busi ness promptly and accurately. Charley Clark and his brother-in- r. c. Sturgeon is now running law, Mr. Jay, of Empona, were in the mail and hack line to Cleveland town last week. They think of stark t1Tee times a week. He leaves Colby Inc a new lumber yard in Colby soon. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays. -Grandfather's clock ticked along and is prepared to carry passengers I nearly half a century. Those clocks and bring up express packages. at Smith & Walker's will do the same - and will keep right on whether the They are Coming. old man turns up his toes or not The biggest line of dry goods, no- Lewis & Beacon's Minstrel and . tions, boote and shoes, overcoats, un- Varietvshow, accompanied by Prof, j derwear, cloaks, dolmans, circulars Barbed military band, under the and millinery goods that ever struck management of Mr. Lew Ginger, will the west In about ten days we will I . ... r ii 1 -4 4-tx .nflfoi. KoiYTTlino mWr be in Colby Saturday nigut, ucrooer . ue prepay 6-. -- 17. Mr. Ginger, it will be remember-) helore equalled ana at pnw ed, gave an entertainment here in defy competition. June, giving good jmtisfactipn. J, w- Aiws Sons, AttentioiOtoldiers! All honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailons of the late war are requested to append their names to a blank request for a charter for a Post of the G. A. K. at Colby. I will leave the Wank application with Dr. Corpomn, at the Postoffice for tw weeks for signatures and earnestly hop all old veterans wiU sign. Bove Tlet us orjranlze under the banner of Fraternity, cnamy uu - MabKham. Late of 12th Iowa Infantry. Ifotice- AH persons knowing themselves indebted to Lucas Zihlman will please call on M. Donelan at his place of bus iness, and settle at once. J. W. Mahannau. JAS. AULD. I HAVE A FULL LINE OF Bedsteads, Cots and Mattresses, Safes, Chairs, - Wash stands, Mirrors. Bar Tor Sato. I have for sale at my farm in Raw lins, county, on section 16, town 5, range 36, 50 ton of millet hay and 25 ton of blue stem. Price, 8 per n TTav all in trood condition. T. H. Minor. McCloud,lLawlinsCo.,Kn8.- 3w Land Papers Of all kinds made out and TOWN L 0TS FOR SALE. DBALEKS IN Heavy and Shelf HARDWARE, STOVES, BARBED WIRE, In fact everything usually kept in a First-Clagfi Hardware store JAS. AULD, Notary Public. Cbra and sea me. FESN AVENUE, OBERLIN, KANSAS. 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