Penny Post from Pittsburg, Kansas • 1

Penot Fl II II NO. 49. VOL. I. PITTSBURG, KANSAS, OCTOBER 14, 1802.

Church Directory. CONGREGATIONAL. Horvlres every Sabbath at 11 a. in. and 8 V.

Mariin. pastor SabbrttJi school at 9:15 a m. Prayer meeting rimrsday evening nt 8 p. in BAPTIST CHURCH. Herv ces heldTii Y.

A. hall each alter-niUe Monday, at 11 in. and p. in. Rev.

A. K. LiiWi.i, pastor. Sunday school at :4.rj a. in.

Hapilst Young people's Liu ion every Sunday al7 p. m. UNITED Services every sabbath at 11 a. ni. and ft p.

ni in canyon building, on north Hide oi Third street, between Kim and Locum streets. t. Wlnwncr, pastor. Mthbath bcIiukI. at 9.80 a.

m. Prayer meo iu Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The St. Louis Trades and Labor Union has issued an appe'il to similar bodies throughout the nation to take united action to prevent in the future the calling out armed bodies of men to overawe strikers. George J.

Bedford, desperate criminal, but the patentee of two thief defying mai' pouches, has been arrebted in New York city. He patented his mail pouches while in the Iowa penitentiary for robbieg a bank. There is another good reason why men should shave the hair off their faces. Medical experts have announced that dholera 'germs are very likely to settle down and go to housekeeping in the roots of a heavy mustache or beard. Prof.

W. Blackmar of the University of Kansas will deliver the Columbian day address before the st udents of the Nebraska state university on October 21. J. Willis Gleed of Topeka will deliver tho Columbian address before the students of the Kansas uaiversit.y. The people's party has done a good deal of boasting oyer gaining Jim Legate to t' eir ranks but after his speech at Erie the other day" we could find none so poor as to do him reverence.

He made votes for the Republican party by bis abuse and lack of anything like argument. i i Y. M. C. A.

Mfu ft meeting very Sunday 4 p. excepting llif lirst Sunday in cult month, Which it a union meeting. Itible Htid training iluss each Monday al p. iu UNITE)) PRESBYTERIAN. Horvh; It i.

in ant 8 p. in. -bl nth School nt a i.hi olhni lCiiU'ivur (union meeting) at j. in. -Horner Fifth nd Pine streets.

J. II. Gibson. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. C' mniuuioii iiiiil (U'votional services every Sabb ith at 11 a.

in. scnooi ni ii.ii) a. in (J. 7 p. ni uv ry "uddiuii.

P. is 7 p. ni uv ry wabbath. ra.ver-tneet4ng-T It rsflay -erwrms -a 8 n'eli-ck. You can't take care of yourself, and have what is known its "good timei" too, but you will have a better time when you are old.

A geranium if applied to a bruise will heal it, and will look better than raw beef aiid smell nicer than the old fashioned herbs. A sissy man wearing oar-rings and curls, led around by a woman weariig suspenders, was a sight at the union depot last night. The Ladies' Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will meet thii afternoon at 3 o'clock at the resideace of Mrs. Andrew Brown. A woman in town makes pawpaw jam.

She has the ague every fall and smokes a cob pip, and her grandfather was one of the first settlers of Missouri. The' lead and zinc sales of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas last week aggregated $97,559.05. The output was small because of the lower prices. The entertainment in the hall Saturday evening promses to. be of a high order.

PattijRosa brings with her a most enviable reputation a3 a public favorite. There are too many prizes distributed broad( cast to girls who are the best musicians or dancers, and too few given to girls who can make, the best bread. Girard wasj-epresented by car loads of attendants upon the Jerry Simpson meeting, last evening. Fully one half of them went home duly sober. B.

J. Gunn, Republican candidate for County Superintendeot, bearded the lion in his den, so to speak, by attending the Alliance meeting sere yesterday. When a door lock gets caught, and can't be opened, the man on each side of the door is full of advice as to what should be done by the man on the other side. There is less kissing done at the union depot now than ever before. The people are either getting colder hearted, or wait until they get.

home to display their affection. Arthur S. Henry of Jackson, and Miss Bertha Scott were married Wfcd-nesday evening by Rev. Hudson Sawyer. After a bridal tour, the newly-wedded couple will live in Kentucky.

The glee singers who follow the Jerry Simpson Combination, are good musicians, and should be employed ia better business than the livery of heaven in which to serve Jerry Simpson. Tke parade and fireworks last eve-ning was a decided success. The (ire-works made a brilliant Bhowing, and the parade, mostly drum corps hirelings, required just 24 minutes to pass a given point. A country man and his bride were in town to-day and for dinner they ate a sack of peanuts, Home licorice drops, a banana each, and then wound up by drinkaUg a glass of strawberry soda between them. LOCAL MATTERS.

Mrs. Bowman has returned from Fort Scott. T. J.Evans of McCune heard Jerry yesterday. Mrs.

A. P. Hi rue is visising ia Washington, D. C. C.

S. Stewart of Fort Smith was here last evening. C. S. Burt of Fort Scott was in town last evening.

II. C. Mosley of Joplin was in the city last evening. A. S.

Booker of Hutchison heard Jerry last evening. Ed Eubanks and wife hare returned from Fort Scott. 1 Geo. B. Lang, the "after," iras here.of course, yesterday.

'1 L. F. Sale of Monmouth took in tke rally last evening. Mrs. Bevins has returned from her visit, to Fort Scott.

Miss Lillie Mohtar has returned from her visit to Noel, Mo. W. L. Crawford of Kansas City did business here yesterday. Not one person in ten pronounces "inocuous desuetude" right.

Geo. E. Townsend of Chicago was do-ing busmesB here yesterdav. Oak circle meets this' evening, with Mrs. Van Gun Jy as Moderator.

Mrs. Lizzie Gwynn returned yesterday to her home in Anderson, Ind. The town was full of people, last eye-ning, and many of the visitors were full, too. OnG of the best treats of the season will be the Patti Rosa entertainment, Saturday evening O. WheeW, maaager of the Patti Rosa combination, was registered at the Stilwell yeiterday.

Tell a man leoks sick and he will hunt up ji miiror to see if he looks bad enough tQ go to bed Every boy expects to see somebody killed some circus day by ihe elephant, for feeding it tobncco. Every man hopes to accomplish more in the next two years, than he accomplished in the past ten. Frank Parsons and Miss Emma M. Neil were married Wednesday evening, Rev. R.

M. Scott officiating. S. W. Johnson, familiarly known as was found dead in his room, yesterday morning.

His age was 77 years. Sixteen mules buried in a shaft at Pittston, fweeka ago have been found alive and in fairly good condition. If you hate any one and want to abuse him in as few words as possible, it is a good ay to say he is "gimlet headed." Be careful of what you eat. The winter cholera now prevailing in town is not only annoying, but liable to become terious. Yotmy I'eotle'H Union.

Topics unit lenders of the Young Peo pie's Union of the Firsst Baptist church er Pittsburg, Knn. OFFICERS. Miss Jennett Steklk. President ConnelL Booker. President (Jordie Allen Secretary Mint a WiLCOX.Correeponding Secretary Chasj.

COMMITTEES. -il't'r'ijPearl Croiss. Grace Allen. Irrational O. B.

Booker, Geo. Brewer, iM. C. Booker, Chas. Wvman.

Sot: i Stella Allen, Clara Stover, Maud Davis, Frank Hill. Mrs. R. W. Ramsav.

Laura Cross, Laura Beecher, Alma Khienharty ITT I acter are respectfully solicited at this office. They 'will be cheerfully pub-lisaed gratuitously. Don't expect the -editor to run himself to death to hunt down a item in which you are the interested party, because it. you do, you will be disappointed. In getting up aa amateur entertainment, it is good policy to include as many children as possible in the cast.

The parerts and all the relatives will buy tickets to see the children in their family perform. They will not feel so proud if the children are grown uo young men and women. D. II. Woolley, a lawyer in Girard, who ie billed to make a number of Peopled party speeches yet this campaign, has renounced his ramhow party, denounced its leaders, and says hap gone Republican again by a Jarge majority.

Enough more will follow sui; between this and the 8th of next month to give the People's party a caniption tit. The police records will never show the number of fights engaged in by the pious reformers last evening. At the Gulf depot, a half dozen or leas fisticuffs were indulged in before the train left town. Fighting inside and outside the cars amused those who are of a pugilistic turn, until even they became tired of the sport. It was probably the Democratic element iu the new 1 movement which created the ruction.

J. M. Stono returned from a visit to Fort Scott. The rain yesterday morning caused the cellar wall of the new Jennees building to cave. leiufH'Miice iviary wucox, mary James, Amos Allen.

motion Mnry CaUiff, Emma Boy: John See ley. Meetings evury Sunday at 6:30 p. ra. in V. M.

C. A. rooms. The following is the topic for Oct. 1G The Beginning of a Great Victory.

tam. art 13 14 Mary Cailiff. All orders left with us during this week for job printing will be received at the following prices tr tieudf, per $2.50 Not, heads, per i 1-50 Bill. Loads, per 1,000 1.50 StatoiiK per 1,000 1.50 Envelopes, per 1.WX) 1-50 Tho nbovn to bo in 3,000 lots or larger. All work nt tho same ratio.

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