The Washington Daily Post from Washington, Kansas • 1

TOL. 1, NO, 83. Peice 5 Cents. WASHINGTON, KANSAS, MP-AT, JULY 25 1887 Local and Close By. GREENLEAF.

THE CAUSE IS THIS Art Swan, of Haddam, la in the city. Ash Smith, of Greenleaf, was a caller to-day. Tit Department Is In chnrpe of Mr. James T.Hukdos, who will attend to all buoinuas con-netted with the Port In (Iroonleaf All ad-vo-tlslng handed to him liotoro 10 o'clock a. mj will be printed in the Post of the same da).

Any item of gonoral Interest have only totte handed to blm to Insure insertion. The bne oilli-e beooraes responsible for every-tUng-contained herein the same as any other dipartment in this paper. Wm. Funnell, of Clifton, was in the city to-day. Mr.

and Mrs. A. J. Thomas' baby Maiden Meditations. The man wha takes the red, red wine bliall never glue his Ups to mine.

The man who chews the navy ping, Will, in this parlor, get no hog. Who smokes, or drinks, or ents a deok Bliull never, never bite my neck. The man who guzzles lager beer, tthall never, never ohaw my ear. Drink nothing stronger than red pop. Or in your lap I'U never flop.

If ansht bnt water yon e'er taste, JuBt keep yonr hand from round my waist. If yon drink wine or other slop, You'll never hear my eorset pop. The man who smokes a cigarette. BliaU never squeeze me, you can bet. Institute Matters.

died last evening. Hiney Lewis, of Scandia, is in The Reason "Why We Buy for Cash. Tillotson's cigar trade is on a town visiting relatives. Harvy Knight, of Kimeo township, visited the county seat to-day. A.

Davis visited our metropolis around in the shade talking bout the town in which you live. live the town a chance, and it will do very well, A month's quarreling may be forgiven by unprejudiced people on the outside, but where it is continued a year at a time, it is likely to attract unfavorable comment. Every man finds it Bufficently difficult to get along under the most favorable circumstances; don't add unnecessary burdens to his load this hot weather. Some gallant young man, who probably was "gone" on a Kansas school ma'am, eulogize them thusly: "There is many a Kansas school marm who carries her lunch in a basket and who walks two or teree miles every morning to shape the future destiny of voters, who is ten times as beautiful as Mrs. Langtry.

And as they go tripping across the prairie humming perhaps, or the 'Star Spangled the little wild flowers nestled among the blue stem vow them infinitely more handsome in the sphere of dutiful womanhood." Jim Woodrum is gaining gradually and will fully recover in time. When taken down a week ago his DUlSO Went down to forty find hid nnn. Harry Waters, late of the Cuba Pilot, is here visiting his brother Med. rVm. Hogan, of St.

Louis, is in the cily to-day. We know what Goods are worth. Our Ex Charlie Hutchinson left to-day for Des Moines, Iowa, where he will spend his vacation or about a month. The first two weeks of Institute proved the most successful of any that perience is large. We always give full value.

Above are some of the reasons of Pickard McElhaney L. A. Green started to-day for Marion, where he goes to work. May uas ever Deen neio nere. The attend ance has been better than common, and ne get ncn ana escape tne cniggers, the roster now numbers one hundred and twenty-five, the following having Kansas has four hundred and Grand Army posts.

No. 1 is at Selling so many Goods. They sold Carpets yesterday for Topeka, and No. 445 at Havana, Mont ueen auueu since our last report: Ollie Hinton, R. L.

Rust, Rosa Brown, Lucy Lamphere, Mrs. Clark, Delia Hoffhine. gomery county. E. Todd, of Blue Rapids, came dlmn Sunday.

Iladdix Truesdellsold four of their oice lots ip? Capt Tobey, of Washington, was in Gieenleaf last Saturday. jMck Weiden and family rusticated in the country yesterday. fcVill R. Evans, of Kansas City, was a Visitor here last Sunday. il.

Nesbit, an Atchison traveling man, Sundayed in our thriving "burg." A. D. McLeod is building three noli-by suits of clothes for Waterville this week. Ai D. McLeod, the merchant tailor, has' received a nobby stock of fall goods! The pay wagon came through yester The Register has finally found something of its size and has jumped AdaPursley, IdaOtwell, Cedda Jwans, Jennie McCallum.

ten rooms, and can afford to Sell Cheaper than river or any other competitors. Call and see us then, if you wish to Save Cash. We Sell Extra Cheap to make room for more. Pickard McElhany. dition was dangerous.

The cause was "onto" Davidson's little amateur Mattie Peck, D. C. Young, daily with all the force of its four edit overheating combined with troubles Of an older data and menr.ul ors combined. Victor Reeve, Bertha Martin, A. L.

Campbell, D. M. Beaver. Jim has a host of friends who will be The last half of the delinquent tax Lucy Mc Atee, Josie Magers, giad to hear that he is on the mend and that all danger is past. Amelia Marquard, Burt Hamilton, M.

S. Laisure, A. C. Pacemka, L. L.

Earles, Adie Flock. Owing to a defect in the informa On the 4th day of August President SPECIAL SALE! warrants are now in tne hands of Sheriff Scott and those who wish to save costs will waltz to the front and pay their taxes at once. The latest current rumor is that Jesse Rector is to go in partnership with Steve Hamilton in place of Judge Wilson who will go out of his present Taylor will lecture before the Institute. tion Caffefty was dismissed and immediately rearrested on the same charge. He will come up for trial again tomorrow morning.

The examination will he lipid nn day and made the railroad boys all Friday and Saturday. August' 4th and 5th. The contractor savs that the Wash happy. Several coaches passed through here The membership will be largely in ington National Bank can occupy their partnership and probably out of the state. yerterday for the branches of the road on the 27th.

creased this week by the attendance of many old teachers who could not afford new quarters August 15th. Somebody will have to get a move on them if it Is done. About 9 o'clock Saturday night (Jeo. Tillotson and family spent yes to devote a whole month to the work, l.ut who will take it up now and con Bob. Snradlino.

Olnf Pnrrsnn. terday with friends and relatives in the. country. tinue to the end of examination. Frank Werner and Miss Annie Hummer, of Greenleaf, called on Geo.

Hageman and were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. May they live Ions; John McKee and Elmer Foreman. four bloods from Greenleaf, took in "Rev. Cairns, of ocp.unind -There's nothing in the world 6 and prosper. the pulpit at the M.

E. church last tne sights at Washington Sunday. Sutday morning. Cliff Clark, of Greenleaf. who haa We forgot to mention it, but C.

Fortv-six cars of stock over the Cen been on the sick list for a week at the residence of Wm. Keesecker, returned tral Branch in one day is not a bad showing for a railroad. Burch has sold the Wymore Union to J. M. II.

Frederick. It is a live sheet, and the man with the alphabet name will have to keep rustling to keep it up to standard. nome Saturday night. mysteriously funny as a newspaper advertisement. The prime, first, last and all the time object of an advertisement is to draw custom.

It is not, was not, and never will be designed for any other human purpose. So the merchant waits till the busy season, and his store is so full of customers that he can't get his hat off, and then he rushes to the newspapers and puts in an advertisement. When the dull season gets along, and there is no trade, and The treasurer staked off irrniind Three professional coat makers from for his new counter to-day aud it will be built immediately. Kansas City are now employed in Mcleod's tailor emporium. Somebody claims to bave found a If the countv attornev mnvps thin substance that is three hundred times as sweet as sugar.

It is not known Mrs. J. W. Werner, who has been sick for the past week, we are glad to week he will have to use a ladder to reach his office. what that substance is, but it is sup sayte improving very rapidly.

posed to be about eighteen years old and to wear a bustle. Special inducements this week at Moore's Great Closing Sale. We have hunted our stock over and have found Borne plums for you, in the way of Jobs. You will find them on the counter and all over the house. The figures on the tick-et mean to go.

Our special sale of Shoes have cleared out a pile of them, and we have concluded to put the knife into other lines, so here goes; 15 per cent, on Carpets, Rugs, means Manufactory Prices. We are shipping them all over the country. Other towns are taking advantage of this great opportunity, and laying in a supply, Call early and get a slice Yours truly, A. W. MOORE.

-Isaac A. Ricliv. nf (Vinmrriin in T. P. Roney, of Washington, visited ue wants to sen gooos so Dad he can't pay his rent, he takes out his advertisement that is, gome of them do, but occasionally a level-headed mer in the city visiting with John E.

Even if a traveler reaches the end his brother D. C. of this city, yesterday, and returned home this morning. ncKaro. of a railroad journey with a whole skin, -The second storv on the 2d and fi chant puts in a bigger one and scoops Mr.

Brooks and family, from Water street blocks is going up rapidly. ville, were the guests of G. E. Tillotson, of this city, on Sunday last. be may be burnt alive at the hotel where he puts up.

The only safe way seems to be to sit down in the middle of a twenty-acre lot, and perhaps get struck by lightning. -N. B. Don't fail to go to Farley's C. M.

Clark, who has been sick for and see and test his magic polish. It costs nothing to try it. F. Farley. the past week at Washington, returned home Saturday, greatly improved.

This is the season of the year when Tlifl wonder nf tho acta F. II. Werner has accepted a position we are thrown into the society of the man who rocks the boat for fun if he goes out with xpu for a row on the lake or river. He never gets to be over 30 an tne misiness, wnne nis neighbors are mortgaged to pay their gas bill. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if you planted a cannon behind the door, and that is the time the advertisement is sent on its holy mission.

It makes light work fer the advertisement, for a chalk sign on the sidewalk could do all that was needed and have half a holiday six days in the week; but who wants to favor an advertisement? They are built to do hard work, and should be sent out in dull days, when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts and in a harness shop at Loup City, Iowa, and left for that place this morning. A couple from Blue Rapids yester Magic and Normal Polish." LOST About two weeks ago, a (told locket, shape of album, with little Kirl's picture. Leave at Cullimore's hardware store aud receive reward. Westen Stock: and Poultry Fool. day had the misfortune to have their years of age, and generally participates in a double funeral.

Beware of him. C. M. Cafferty has run against the city government again. Last evening he took Dr.

Harrell's steppers a whirl down street and was promptly taken buggy capsized by the horse becoming frightened. OlofPerraon, E. E. Foreman, Bob Sptadling and John McKee, of this BLOOMFIELD, IOWA. Bukb Oak, June 2.

1887. kicked insensible with bankrupt reduc by the marshal. He defends and his place, tooK in tne sights at the county To the Public: seat yeaterday. tions and prices before he will spend a cent. That's the aim and end of an This is to certifv that we have, since Lite war a The Downs' celebration will have a ran Jan, 1, 1886, bought and sold two lots of the Western Stock and Poultry very small attendance from Greenleaf owing to the action of the railroad com Jf'ood.

Have had third lot in 80 or 40 pany toward the bond boys. The Waterville people say that they days, 6 dozen 5-pound boxes. Our customers claim they cannot do without it. Still goes on, but the Greenleaf we have used it ourselves and found it the best remedy for cholera among will wait and see how our system of water works pan out before they agitate the removal of the division again. advertisement, and if you ever open a store, don't try to get them to come when they are already sticking out of the window, but give them your advertisement right between the eyes in the dull season, and you will wax rich and own a fast horse, and perhaps be able to smoke a good cigar once or twice a week.

Write this down where you will fall over it every day. The time to draw business is when you want business, and not when you have more business than you can attend to already. Bridgeport (Conn.) Post. poultry, anu can be beat for hogs and horses. Williamson Cumming.

The work of excavating the Elwood Seventy thousand pounds sold in six WESTERN LUMBER COMPANY, cellar on Commercial street prepara months. tory to the erection of a hne two-story building was commenced this morning. The Salvation Army man was on the For sale by D. Parkinson Washington, Kansas. We are terribly afraid the follow Has got the best of the fight and the Monopoly pools are squealing all around.

case is still occupying Judge Maunder with City Attorney Smith and Jesse Rector to furnish the trimmings. Walt Mason, the Frankfort boy who has won fame as a poet and writer of parodies, has left the Atchison Globe and taken a position on the Nebraska State Journal. Walt is one of the mighty few original geniuses of the century and if he will cut loose from the "gang" in his new location he can not only win fame but pile up ducats. This city ought to have a vagrant ordinance of some kind so that about half a dozen toughs could be handled. At present there are a half a dozen boys, who do nothing but raise sheol, who are sleeping areund hay lofts and stables, and are a constant menace to security of property against fire.

An ordinance under which they could be arrested and put to work would be a good thing. If you have a boy named Bill, Bud, Sam or Tom, you need not fear that he will be drowned during the swimming season. The boy who has a plug name and whose hair stands up straight like a hazel brush, and who has stone bruises on his feet, is not in danger of drowning. But if your son has curly hair, and if he wears shoes in summer and has a pretty name, you had better let him swim in a washbowl. street yesterday and he has been re-in-forced by another of the same belief, and between the two they made the meeting interesting in the extreme.

ing from the Parsons Sun, is another of Brother Lusk's lies, but for fear it POST IB IF true we puDiisn it: "A good story is told of a young man and woman of This company takes contracts for all kinds of buildings, and furnish all kinds one of the townships of this coun A nine year old girl was the cause of Builder's Material. They carry a complete stock of Paints, Oils, Lime, Hair, of a warm contest before Judge Birch yesterday. It was sent to Rev. Geo. Hageman some time ago from the N.

Cement and Lumber, and can furnish the same in any sized orders wanted, at ihort notice and at Bottom Prices. fafDon't fail to get their prices if you are ty who appeared before a certain justice in Oswego a few days ago to be married. The young man handed what he thought was a marriage license, and the ceremony was proeeeded with. Arriving at home the justice discov going to build. HAS THB x.

Orphan Asylum and was given to Mrs. J. Edenfield, who gave it to Mrs. Eldridge, who gave it to Mrs. Coder.

It seems that Mrs. Eldridge wanted it back, but the judge did not see it in that light. It is quite proba ered that what he supposed was a mar SOUTH SIDE ble that Mr. Hageman may take pos riage license was simply a pedigree of a bull. Fast as his horses could carry him he rode to the house of the newly married couple.

The young lady had already retired and the young man was in the act of disrobing. The justice broke in upon them exclaiming: "Hold on there! Put on your clothes! You session oi tne cniid again and find, as he has an undoubted right to do, a home for her, The legislature last winter passed Finest Line of Type It is an Old saying that a man in the dark cannot tell whether bis cigar is going or not, and that a blind man can derive no comfort from smokinir. W.J.WILLIS Manager. Washington, Kansas. a law which is now in force making counties and townships liable for dam are not married! You gave me the Wrong license." When the matter was explained the young man dressed himself again, and cursing his stupidity for ages arising from defective highwavs and bridges, where such damage does Seeing a blind man smoking the other day we put the conundrum at him, and not arise from contnbutarv negligence presenting a registered duii certificate instead of a marriage license, he bade in order to recover it must be shown Keepi full line of Summer Drinks.

Boda-Pop, Cider, Champagne Cider. Lemonade, Mend, and a line line of Cigars and, Tobaccos. that the county or township had five he laughed at the assertion, affirming that he had just as much enjoyment out of tobacco as anybody, that his pipe tasted good and that he needed days notice or tne defect. tlfMZOi co's. his prospective bride good night and went sorrowfully away.

The next day the proper license was found, the ceremony Was performed again, and now happiness reigns supreme about the The county commissioners lid a And la better equipped than any JobJOffloa 1 Northern Eausas. meeting Saturday and passed a few or ders for the removal of oflices to the Lima. newiamuys hearthstone." hew building. The treasurer, countv clerk and county attornev will remove The people of Washington oueht COX SOUTH BIDB MEAT MARKET, to hold a mass meeting, and resolve to tnis weeK and be at home to their friends under the new dome In a few taiK atxmt each other less in future. During the present dull and hot season nobody to tell him when it was out.

Jim Hammond is reaping the reward of bucking against public sentiment, and we are sorry that a young man of his parts and standing in the community should go to the extreme of flying in the face of a strong public sentiment and even defying the apparent will of Deity. But such is life, and by the one act of rushing in and putting the fire out that had fastened upon "Muldoon" the other evening he has won the distrust of the entire com days. Chas. Wolf, mernlin OPTICIAN, the people have a great deal of idle time on their hands, but certainly they can find better employment than gos va. 1 (uaj infftnn.

waa in th rifv vnuiairT For FINE Job Printing o- 1 vj jvavviunj laying in a stock of goods, and made 1 TT 1J mo iieium a pieasant call. St. Jo- 1 IT 1 siping about each other. It, is. possible that while A may be able to learn something to the discredit of B.

it is al sepn neram. Washington, Kansas. EWQIasaes ground and correctly fitted to the eyes. A perfect flt guaranteed. No eharga Mr.

Evans, special agent of the munity. From Btreet talk we are inclined to believe that about the onlv so possible that may be' able to rake up something concerning A. Thus, for examination. Muscatine Mortgage and Trust Co. is way he can even up now is to take that in tne cuy.

ue is to day looking over li Ke the DrooK, it may go on forever. Choice steaka, chopi and cutlets, salt and obopped meat constantly on hand. Poultry and nib. Everything- In the beet of shape young hoodlum on somewhere and the country precincts, piloted by Capt, Willis. It is a poor business, any way you look at it.

It also is a poor business to sit GREENLEAF, K1NSAS. drown him. Being your orders to THE POST JOB PRIKIU.G OITICK. and only me best grade of stools siaugnterea..