The Star from Elk City, Kansas • 3

THE STAR. J. H. McVean, Editor. ELK CITY, FRIDAY, JULY IS, 18S4.

BUSHTESS LOCALS. Cheap Flour at L. B. Davis. Subscribe for the Stab.

If you want a first class Sewing Machine go to Quigg's. Mrs. McYean will sell Millinery goods cheaper than ever. Quigg wll hare a car of Northwestern Barbe "Wire at lowest prices. Go to Quigg's and see the Tnrnball farm wagons.

They are daisies. Extra Choice Coal at I. B. Davis'. Mrs.

MeYean received a new lot of Millinery Goods last Wednesday morning. Call and see them. If you want money or insurance, or have a farm for want to buy a farm, call upon West McVean. We have an abundance of ice, and you can get a drink of ice water atL. W.

Myers' "with out money and without price." Remember L. B. Davis runs a delivery for his business only. Entered at the postoffice at Elk City, Kansas as second-class mail matter. A brilliant offer! Read it.

We have made arrangements with the Lea-vnworth Standard to club with the Star at the rate of $1 25 per year; that is, we will furnish both papers for the small sum of $1 25. To our readers we can say, yon know just what the Star is, both as to religion and poli tics, and to those who are not acquainted with the Standard, we can say that it is a bold, fearless end outspoken Democratic paper, replete with all kind of reading and miscellaneous matter, it is opposed to the grasping influence monopolies and to the high and iniquitous tariff and all other isms -Of the day; It will be a splendid campaign paper and the low price ol 81 25 for both papers is within Ithe reach of all. IiOUAIi ITEMS. L. W.

Myers had nearly 2,000 bushels of wheat. Geo. Hancock commenced threshing last Our new lumber yard is here. This makes three large yard at this place. The quality and yield of the wheat this year is simply immense in this vicinity.

$3,000 life policies in a reliable mutual company written by J. H. McVean Co. for $4. J.

P. Swatcell will soon erect a new. and neat brick residence in the southeast part of town. We learn that the Havana Times will move to Independence and will be turned into a six- -column daily. Five steam threshers are within hearing distance of our.

city and. their tooting may be heard all hours of the day. Misses Mary Myers and Lena Morgan are taking a long vacation from being devils of the female gender in the Star office. Mr. D.

C. Paullin and lady have charge of the Burchfield hotel while Mr. Burchfield is absent visiting friends and relatives. On Monday last Frank Clingan gave himself up and plead guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace Saturday, before W. Baker, J.

P. Joe Avery says that he is now convinced that the reason the boy stood on the burning deck was because it was too hot to sit down, or, at least, he says that was his experience on the night of the Fourth. F. M. Agnew's Infant child died last Wednesday and was buried yesterday.

Cholera infantum and flux combined was the cause of its death. Mr. and Mrs. Agnew. ha ye the sympathy of our citizens.

The Campbell Family concert at the Baptist Church last Monday night was short and sweet and the singing was excellent, but the sexton, should not make a miniature hades of the church by cutting oil all ventilation from those who pay 25 cents, to keep a few small boys from hearing a few stanzas of solos and duets. The Havana Times, as the boys say, is bringing us to tow for some irregularity fn our little Star, but in doing it, it murders the king's English by connecting two different past tenses together with the same form of the verb. If we committed an inaiscretion we stand corrected, but there Is something we learned in early youth about casting the beam out of thine own eye first, and those living in glass houses must not throw stones. A Curiosity in the way of a folding bed can be seen by call-ng at A. M.

Leadman's Furniture Store. LOOK HERE PHOTOGRAPHS, GEMS, and AIi-BTJMS, and FRAMES in various styles at Jasper Ultts' Gallery, Dresser's old stand. Independence, Kas. Persons desiring Photos from negatives taken by Dresser can have them on application. ELK CITY BRICK YARD Brick! 100 000 NEW BRICK Just burned And are in splendid order for shipping.

I will sell at the kiln or deliver them on the railroad ready for shipment. Correspondence solicited. Prices given upon application. Call on or address WM. STARK Elk City, Kas Monday.

Wm. and John Wright had a brother visiting them last week. Rev. Sidney Allen, of Neodesha, came over to see the boys last Tuesday. N.

H. Ives was elected a delegate to attend tne Republican convention this week. What do you think of our wheat raisers by their showing' in our columns elsewhere? The Rev. Brown, who tied the knot for Belle Ashbaugh was a happy visitor at our office last Monday. On the Hancock farm on the 15th inst.

Jack Davidson, with the McKinster machine, thresh ed 1,545 bushels of wheat. Why don't Bob Elliott spell his name L-i-ot? It would sound just the tame and his wile would know him just the same. S. B. Davis, our alert and well-known townsman, has accepted the situation of general manager of the new lumber company.

Corn Is now 30 cents per bushel and wheat 53 cents. What protection does the producer get forjhis grain raised by the sweat of his brow. 8am. Ruble says he don't get the Star but we send It to him all the 'same. He has commenced threshing and we pity his chicken roost as Jack Davidson and Tom West are with him.

-Wm. Proctor died on Tuesday morning last in the 50th year of his age. While in Texas this spring he contracted a disease mhls head which reduced him in strength, and he was not able to withstand the flux which disease carried him off. Mr. Proctor was born near Maysville, and came to this township in 1S72 where he resided until hts death.

He was unmarried, but leaves two brothers and three sisters to mourn his loss, besides a host of friends of whom he had the universal respect. As the bells were chiming their.devotion and the good people were offering up their supplications to the King of Hosts, Garland A. Watson, of Freeman, was quietly united in tbc bonds of matrimony to Miss Martha A. Ashbaugh, of Louisburg It occurred at the residence of Mrs. J.

II, Ashbaugh, on last Sunday, with the Rev. H.J. Rrown officiating. The old saying, "the better the day the better the deed" may be true, bu it don't take away any of the stings in loosing the fairest lilies of the valley. HENRY BERKfN, Fsliiona'ble and TT Air DHJE2SSer Mr Berkin will be happy to meet all his old friends and customers in his new quarters, jast.South of the Bur-chfleld Hotel.

A clean towel and easy shave guaranteed, D. W. Baily still assists me in the business. NEW LUMBERR YARD! LOG-BELL LUMBER COMPLY. Have opened out a new and complete stock of PINE iiUMBEB and will handle every thing in the line Our Wheat Crop.

Below we give the yield of wheat of some of our farmers who have already threshel, with the number of acres raised by each: No. acres bu.pera. John Wright will go to the Nation next week to be gone three months. He will take his son Willie. Henry Cross, and Herschell riper with him, and contemplates putting up hay and wintering stock.

There was a mistake in the article on the 2nd page about threshing It should read that Jack Davidson threshed last week 5,159 bushels, and Geo. Sater 5,103 bushels. Our 'type got on 'a "spell" aud did not keep their places. By the Kansan we see there was a 4th of July celebration at Independence, but by the other papers a casual observer would not know there had been a celebration there. We were, and are still, proud of our celebration City, and give thanks to everybody for it.

On Monday last our city authorities appointed Joe Avery city marshal and street commis-! sioner. This is a good apoaintment and will give general satisfaction, yet we will look to see Joe dodging around the corners and outbuildings watching the boys, and would advise him to take -some anti-fat before corraling swine, kine, and equine, and especially before arresting any bipeds. The Long-Bell Lumber Co. come to the front this week and call the attention of the en the community to their immense stock. What can speak better for Elk City and our whole surrounding country than our lumber yards and the amount of wheat raised by our farmers.

The postoffice address of every farmer whose name we have mentioned is Elk Ctcy, Kansas, and can be written to for farther information. P. Monfort 90 31tf Thomas Reed 16 34 Geo. Hancock 67 25 S. U.

Ruble 43 2 CT.Vandiver 20 31J Ed. Bertenshaw 65 24 Joe Bobbins 65 31 Wm. Welchel 70 37 L. W. Myers 90 23 Ed.

Slater 110 21 Dick Slater 53 2 Willard Hancock- f-'X G. R. Chrisman 110 23 Otto Main 22 S7 John Monfort 65 27 James Hutchinson 41 27 Elliott Bros. 110 81 Gottingham Markham 45 Daniel Garren S9 Lloyd Hancock 1C) 31 Dccrs, Sash, (Blinds, Lime Hair, Cement, (Plaster-(Paris, Cedar split (Posts, Our stock is completeand we chal-enge competition in quality of lumber and prices. Give us a call.

The above are all the items we have at going to press. The postoffice address of the above men la Elk City, Kansas..