Carpenter's Kansas Lyre from Rossville, Kansas • 1

J. S. CARPENTER, Editor. ROSSVILLE. SHAWNEE COUNTY.

KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 1883. VOL. Ill, NO. 15.

Local Notices. The Rossville band will furnish the mush; at the rink to morrow evening. Tht Mailt. Mrtil Koing went closes. MniltfoiiiK enst eluses Right mail closes Chicago Produce Market.

(Tnpeka Commonwealth. Oct. 16.) The Wheat market tended lower again JJ'IDDS a OAUUEY, rhysiclans and Surgeons, IIOBSVILMC, KANSAS. ORIc on onnt Hide of Main treat. ,12:20 P.

V. ..6:15 P. to-day, deeliuinir on the afternoon board to H71 which is ths lowest point touehsd CHURCH DIRECTORY. We are under obligations to Mr. II.

M. Hire for late copies of Cratvfordsville. papers. Rossville pupils now shout: seek foi rest everywhere, but lind It only in a corner wtth a hook." during the present decline. The decline lias nee a an unusunllv severe one aim tins caused verv manv tunall holders to throw ILLBR Fit ATT, Physicians and Surgeons, UoHttvrLMC, KanhajI, OfTlee on Main Btreet, north of drug store.

wheat on the market which aided some in A Boom lrpressing values. The radio if in corn diowed a little more animation, and prices were pnite steadily held, closing generally a shade higher than yesterday. PllllHnVTKKtAN ClH'HCH. Divine StT- vires every other Sruday at 11 h. m.

nml 7 p. m. Prayer nieeimir every Wednesday evening. T. C.

I.uce, piiHtnr. Baitist Oiixncn. Divine services every oilier Snmliiy nt 11 b. m. and 7 p.

m. Prayer meet in Monday evening. AH arc invited. W. O.

Arclier, pnstur. CiintsTiAN Cirrnrn. Serrirn held every aileron tu Kev. A. C.

Ueed, pftstor. E. C'liriuir. Services enrh alterntdo Buuday in Baptist ehureh. All are invited.

Hev. J. Cloek pastor FOR ROSSVILLE. There is some complaint In the country newspapers concerning the hasty arrests made by special policemen during the reunion. Our visitors must pardon these temporary cops.

Their zeal was greater than their discretion. Next time they Hardware Store I The Indies of the M. E. church will give a dinner and supper on election day, Nov. 4ih.

The place and further particulars will he given hereafter. We are requested to announce that the members of the Baptist Ladies Aid society will jfive an oyster supper in the city building nct Saturday evening. There Is hardly a score of peoole that get their mail at this postofl.ee who do not read the Kansas Lykk. We statv thin for the benelit of our advertisers. Qucenswnrc and glassware at Smith A Gilbert's.

i You can prolong your lease of life and keep a sunny temper by buying your boots and shoes at Peter Shearer's. Lowest prices in town. Tinware of all kinds at Binns Co's. Largest stork, cheapest prices and best goods at Hmlth (HUR'rt's. Nice fresh cranberries at PetPr Shearer's, warrunted lo curt family Fence posts at Smith ft Gilbert's.

Binns ft Co. are receiving a fine lot of cook and heating stoves which they sell way dow n. Dry goods at cost at Frbbmsn ft Cohn's for the next 20 days in order to close out stock. Fine lamps at Hmith ft Gilbert's. Nails are advancing In price and hard to get at any price, but we have a full assortment and aell on very reasonable murglns.

Binns ft Co. Go to Miles ft Navarre for anything In the line of jewelry. A fine line of goods just received. They do all kinds of repairing promptly and satisfactorily. Now is the time to buy your furniture while it Is selling at cost at Smith ft Gil hert'a.

come we hone to see cvervone of them wearing a G. A. It. budge. This ill save them from annoyance.

Topeka Mail. We have complete stock of Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Hegnlnr meetings of Hesperian Lodge No. Ill A. K. A.

Hnliirdvy night mi or before full moon and two week- thereafter. K. Hikns, W. M. V.

W. HifiniNBOTllAM, Sec. Itegulnr meeting of Col. Fulton Post, No. 827 0.

A. first and third Friday of each mouth. DANIEL JONES, Commander. U. B.

Evans. Adj t. Mr. P. H.

Butler, living six miles north of Silver Lake suffered severe loss last Friday in the burning of his barn and three valuable horses. lie estimates his Ions at $2,500, insurance 900. Which we are ready and willing to sell at TOPEKA PRICE3. Come anil see ua A friend of mine says I have pronounced and distinctly original manner of waltzing, and that he never saw anybody with one exception, who waltzed as Idid, and that was the recently deceased Jumbo. I could waltz more easily if the rules did not require such a constant change of position.

I am sedentary'ln my nature, slow to move about, so that it takes a lady ot great strength of purpose to pull me around on time. I had a purdner, and be convinced. We mean business. Mr. T.

C. Overbids has put in a grain mill in the rear rooms of his establishment on Main street which will be run by APROPOS. Headers, patronize those business men R. BINnS CO. a stationary engine with engineer Jones at the helm.

He expects In a few days to once, who said I waa very easy to waltz who advertise in the 1vnn. A man who will not advertise hi business in his local paper is not a safe man to deal with. We get our back up over the dash hoard this morning and spiing this prize bit of advice upon a great republic and ti free people without extra charge. with. She moved about with wonderful ease und a poetic motion that made my have things In running order and be prepared to grind meal and chop feed, and do a general custom business.

There Is one thing in which every Call at Peter Shearer's and examine bis stock 1m-fore buying elsewhere and there-b) save time and money. legs stand out at an angle of 4-r)0whcn we turned the corners. She told me to trust If vou want garden seeds that will grow parent is directly interested, but which is neglected more than any other. How her implicitly, nml that she ould sec ifo to Smith ft Gilbert's, and get tbem in that I got around on time. My feet only bulk.

many of our citizens ever think of visit iug the public school. Yet It Is a duty Builders hardware at Binns ft Co'. Canned fruit, dried fruit, fish, chesse. touched the floor three times during the dunce and one inn has been a little longer than the other ever since that time. D.

W. YOCUM, DBS.LKB Staph iQr) Fancj Groceries, Provisions, ETC. Carries a complete line and Is ready to meet auy and all koneat competition. ItOSSVlLLK, KANSAS. owed by every parent, at least.

Your (Tuckers, at Smith ft Gilbert's. Rnpsvlllc, Rliawnce County, Kansas, is au enterprising, progressive little city of about 600 inhabitants, situated in the most fertile and handsome portion of the famous Kuw Valley, at this place embrac Ing a width of over four miles. It contains four handsome churches, two school houses, one just completed at a cost of (10,000, one of the finest school buildings In Shawnee county. A large flouring mill costing $20,000, and the mercantile business represented by nearly every braach of trail. Rossville Is a station on the Union Pacific supplied with telegraph and express office.

It is situated sixteen miles from Topeka the capital of the state, and 88 miles from Kansas City, the metropolis of the west. It is also In reasonable proximity to the state penitentiary. The noted Pottawatomie land located here, oue of the neatest and most convenient real estate offices in the west. The town 1 composed of citixens from nearly all the eastern states, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa predominating, aud occasionally an Inhabitant hailing from Wliincpcwankleglngersuapelymago-gary, Maine, or Scabtown, Tennessee. We particularly iuvito the attention of our eastern friends to the many conveniences and advautuges here onVrcd for acttU ment.

We believe our little city is regular Kohinoor. Any of our mercbanta or business men will cheerfully give reliable answers to any Inquiries by letter. Somethjng Fresh. The Rossville Cornet band will play at the rink Saturday evening. There are 1H7 pupils enrolled in our schools, 111 of whom are colored.

presence at the school house occasionally would encourage the teachers und pupils. Try it. Heep your feet dry by buying your at Peter Shearer's. The largest Mfist of the other dancers left the floor and watched us with great Interest. Finally I asked her If she didn't want to sit down and fan herself till I could get her a glass of water.

She said she didn't feel stock in town. Photographer Proctor Is heartily vexed. His gallery and out tit which was shipped John Crossley again assumed charge of the night office at this station last Mon day. by freight from Glrard, some two Old papers for Bale at this office. Furniture and coffins at Smith ft Gilbert's.

Lime, hair and cemens at Smith ft fatigued at all, and then proceeded to whirl me around some more. It makes me shudder yet to think of it. Every time the eld buss viol would "i.u, ti.i.X, 7.7.2 1." she scrunched my shoulder blades together and swung me around like a wet rag -Bill Nye. There will be an oyster supper at Mr. Gilbert's on Friday evening, for the benefit of the Christian ehnrch.

Kansas Valley Drug weeks ago has up to this writing failed to appear, ami he is coucerued lest his corn-era will have grown Infirm and bald-headed in the service of the admirable slow freight system of the United States. Latkh. The gallery arrived yesterday and has Iwcn put up near Smith ft Gilbert's grocery store. Cost, Cost. Furniture at cost for spot cash at Smith ft Gilbert for the next thirty days.

STORE Mr. Isaac Stanley this week purchased a half interest In the grocery house of S. II. Miles and will hereafter be identified with the firm. Notice.

Thoso knowing themselves Indebted to Binns ft Co. please call and arrange for set A littlo kindergarten scholar com-ptiuuod to his mother that "Jaime wasn't a good boy to-day. Ho didu't put his baud over his eyes." "Why should ho do thalP'1 was asked. "Because teacher says we must put our hand ovor our eyui when she prays, and J.niiiu did not do it, Im.xu.iju I looked through my lingers and saw hiui." tlcmcnt, as we must close up our old ac Mr. T.

G. Smith is erecting a handsome residence in the southeast part of town. The building will be his future home and Is 14x2H In size with a kitchen 12x14 feet. Just incident to 1 ho Ohio election an Indulgent father thus Implored bis young hopeful upon the Issues of the day: "My son, you failed to saw any wood counts. Respectfully Binns ft Co, LOOK OUT.

for the kitchen stove yesterday, as de J. W. Millur and I). A. Weibly are now The dance In the new Frishman build ing last Wednesday evening was quite i rvady to do all kinds of Carpenter work.

manded by authority, you also neglected to dig those potatoes for your ma, as I Bills for lumber made out free of charge. told you to, you left the front gate open Miceessful affair. Quite a number from Silver Lake were present and participated. About eighty tickets were sold. Give them a call.

I will In a few days be prepnred to grind meal or chop feed. Will do a general ttustom business. I solicit a share of your patronage. Respectfully, T. C.

and let In old Stepandfetcbit's brlndle cow, you cut a piece off the damask win The insane dodge in murder cases is bo coming so very common it may oe ex pected any minute that some bright law Some miscreant broke a light In the vlndow of Alex Montgomery's restaurant last Sunday night and reaching through the aparuture thus made helped himself to several plugs of choice Climax which Alex had on file In the window. or will spring up and de.iare that Kf A full line of everytfcltif pertaining- tomflrst clana driif atm eonntantly on hand. bavs tan cruh to paj for all foodi we bujr We own our own Building, Pay no Clerk Hire, Do our own Work, Have no high sty1 to keep up. We can and do sell yoodi aaebeap or a little eheapor than any drua store tn the Kanaaa Valley, We court and Defy Competition with the whole State of Kansas. Wfc thail do otii shar to draw to uiaes to KoMVllle to trade, by tivlnff tb lowent poasl was laboring under a fit of emotional in sanity when she ate the apple, but uo one would bring such an accusation against a lady for using DeLuud's Chemical Baking rowaer.

dow curtains to finish your Indian cos tume with, you eat a custard pie that your mother was saving as a last resort and our compnny yesterday had to eat hash and tit bits of superanuated grub for dessert, yon hung your sister's hustle out of the second story window. Now, I think capital punishment will be In keep Ing with the hour. You will please divest yourself of your outside clot hi and prepare for the conflict." "Are all the counties heard fromf asked the- candidate. "Not exactly, there is evidence of more monkey business In Jones' block of which no accurate returns have been made." "Then you will not be justified In pro The Weekly Capital and farmers' Journal. The Weekly Capital and Farmers' Jour nul Is an eight page, 56 column weekly paper, published by J.

K. Hudson at Topeka, Kansas. The Capital is the official state paper, and gives cry complete reports of the meetings of the Legislature, and all conventions and associations at the tate capital. It contains a A. R.

department, and Its general and state news features are strong. It Is a splendid representative paper. Sample copy sent free. Paper will be sent one year to any address, in or out of Kansas, for one Thirty Years' War. For more than thirtv vears Del Jin ft Co.

have been A very Inrge pelican was exhibited on the street last Wednesday. The specimen was chot in this vicinity and measured over eight feet across the wings. From the looks of the unimul's mouth and throat we judge these birds must have a digestion like a corn shelter. waging war upon impure and adulterated Saleratus and Soda, by placing within POTTAWATOMIE LAND OFFICE, the reach of every body a perfectly pure rutiu. jucir 11 ZEISTS BHIFMAN ble prices on anthln ws bars toell.

Hossville has the well earned reputation of being the most moral town In the Kaw Vulley. There is population of L. BHOItT, HOHEOPATHIST. ceeding to extreme measures until the Annual Meeting of the State Temperance otllcisl count is In." (Successor to Dr. E.

It. Mclntyrc.) Rossville, Shhwnee County, Khhses, Offers for sale the beat lands of the stiite of Kunmia uq1 ut prices to auit buyers. HARTZELL TATMAN. Union. Shortly after the official vote was KdHsvii.i.it, Kansas The annual meeting of the Kansas Rtate Office anil residence at Dr.

Mclntyre's thrown before the house and from the some six hundred and not a single saloon or drug store that Is engaged In the sale of whisky. This is commenduble for a prohibition town, and is practicing what they preach. Rossville Cor. In Topeka Mail. Pasture lauds, open or fenced, stork ranches, small or large farms.

former residence. Temperance I'ninn, will be held in Rep peculiar intonatioii of the applause it was tpiite evident that the boy was badly resentatives' Hull, Topeka, on Tuesday und Wednesday. October 27 and 88, com beaten. Still in the Llad. mencing at 7:39 o'clock Tuesday evening.

HONEY TO LOAN OX IMPROVED FARMS At lowest rates of interest. Write or come and see us. ZENAS C. SIIIPMAN. II.

M. BINNS, All churches, Sunday Schools, temperance societies, and all other in PERSONAL Will Hudson returned last Huturday sympathy with the cause of temperance, Contractor and Builder whether connected with the Stale Union by membership or not, are Invited and frum his yMt to the Ht. I.outs exposition. Mr. W.

Khrlmrt, principal of the urged to send three delegates to this meeting. Pastors of churches, superinten Silver Lake schools win in town on Sat ROSSVILLE, KANSAS. THROCKMORTON HEDGE TRIMMER urday hist. II. M.

Rice last week showed us something of; a monstrosity in the pumpkin line which was given him by one of his farmer friends. Iu point of size It was a veritable, regularly ordained Kansas product, and In shape we cannot describe It better than by saying It would make an excellent crudie for twins, although Rice will probably use It for pic. Mr. L. Pennington, who has held the position of night operator at this station tor the last two months, was releaveri from duty Monday night by Mr Crossley.

Mr. Pennington took the eurly fright train Tuesday morning for abroad. In the hurry of departure one or two Utile tin dents nf Sunday schools, and officers of ull other organizations, will please see Mr. Bum Kerr, of tlila place, attended that delegates are elected at once, and provided with duplicate credentials, one Plans and specifications furnisned on the meeting of the Urnnd Lodge I. O.

O. F. in Topeka the first part of the week. Mre. Dr.

Sturgeon, of Topeka, wu copy of which should be mailed to me im application. SMITH GILBERT, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, Quccasware, Glassware, Etc. mediately, and the other retained by the delegates to be brought with tbem to the the ijueat of Dr. Miller and family the early part of the week, returning home Just what ercry one needs that has twenty rods or more of hedjro. It will trim at any anirle, the sides aa well as the top.

Ibe Manufacturers Claim a Man Can Trim Three Miles a Day with it, D. M. Howard has trimmed one hundred reds In one hour and thirty-three Close EstimatM on ill Work WarnqUi convention. James A. TnouTVAN, Tuesday.

Secretary. satisfaction and first He guarantees paid bills were overlooked which would M. J. Hoots, fltation ajrent of the Union Pacific, returned last Mondur from class work. for Sale or Trade.

minutes. For sale by have otherwise been paid. St. Louis, where be has been taking In I have one sixteen inch Flying Dutch the exposition and the city for the past Mr. J.

n. Boy let, of this vicinity, had a 3D. Howard, Romvillk, Kansas. man riding plow, for sale or trade. Will ten days.

calf die last Tuesday of the toothache. trade for cuttle, hoga or corn. Mr. D. N.

Durjrc, of North Topeka, MAXWELL HOUSE. F. Gabdky, Hossville, Kan Bare money by paironUlnf us wbsn lr need of anything- In our Una. On examination, the Animal's teeth were found to be very badly decayed and were was shutting bonus with hia numerous friends In ltossvlllo lust Tuesday. Mr.

Directly opposite K. P. depot, so painful it finally refused to eat. Truly this la a world of wonders and manifold National Yeast Is always reliable, and It Burjre is the Republican nominee for is cheap. It never falls to raise.

Ask Rossville, Kansas. Clerk of Shawnee couuty with unalloyed -OBALH IN- Best Goods and Lowest Prices prospects of election. surprising variations. The next thing we expect to hear is, that some dead beat has paid his newspaper subscription and died of remorse. your groceries.

Old papers for sale at this offl ce. S. B. MAXWELL, Proprietor. U.

P. Time Table. Grain and Coal. KOTARY PUBLIC AND INSURANCE AGENT, Also Ml Passenger, west (don't stop) 1 15 Neat and oomforUMo rooms and good borne- They all claim to be headquarters. We allow tho people to suy who Is beadquarten.

also keep 802 east 45 200 west 07 A 204 east 2 07 A use muuiH. Quests Waited on at Night Trains G. II. MULLEll, ROSSVILLE, KANSAS, Receives Deposits, Buys and. Bells.Kastcrn Exchange, Pays Interest on Deposits i' Lime, Hair and Cement, 205 west 8 18 20S east 6 10 A Our readers will notice tlto advertisement of Mr.

A. C. Boucher, dealer la harnesa and saddlery, In this Issue. Mr. Boucher has recently removed here witb his family from Perrvville.

As he Is a practical harness maker aud a good workman, we predict for him a liberal patronage from the people of KosBvllle and vicinity. He keeps everything in the line of horse millinery. Call aud iee blia. Bam pie rooms for Commercial vueatt lull over bu nays. COLLECTS DRHFTS MD NOTES, Is prepared to do all kinds of Car 213 Way Freight west 4 10 and compare prices.

214 east 2 15 A Ktiaaouable ratoa. EVeryuuu- nm-maw. Livery and Feed Stable In oonnectton wtth th itabtlshawnt1 201 and 202 are dully, all others dally penter work. Call and Se9 ine, Remits promptly, Tho patronage of the public solicited. Reference First uank of Comnerce, Kansas City, Mo.

SMITH GILBERT. except Sunday. National bank, lopcKa,.