Shockeyville Independent from Shockeyville, Kansas • 3

Slioctey Tills Mepiuit A fine line of huts nnd tfry goods at Gillespie Co's, and they won't be under sojd. 1 1 Buslnwi local i touts par line for oh This great family publication will be sent to any nddre lu the. United States or Canada, postage prepaid, for one year, on receipt ot If you want to buy a farm cheap; If you want to sell a farm; if you want to trade anything, call and see me. T. It.

Hounaday. Wo will give you inwe space and larger circulation, for less money than any paper in tho Real estate men, examine our method of advertising, terms and circulation of our paper and give us a call. We ae indebted to Gus. Anderson Persons receiving this paper need not afraid to read and enjoy It, as it has been paid for and you need have no fears of a coming bill. Our terms are strictly cash in advance, and no one will receive th paper regularly unless it is paid for.

for a skin pie of the best cigars on tho market. If you want 'a good cigar call ou Gus. and you are sure to get it. LOCAL MENTION. There will be a raffle and shooting rwatch for turkeys, horse racing, at Shockeyville, December 24th.

All are invited to come aud have a good time. Splendid sleighing. We expect to make real estate advertising a specialty. In the near future we will publish a real estate bulletin monthly. We can make Farm Loans in moderate amounts at 7 per cent interest.

T. It. HORNADAY'S, Landj Loan Insurance Agency. We have reduced the subscription price of the Independent down to suit hard times. One dollar for one year; fifty cents for six months; twenty-five cents for three months; payable in advance.

Monday was a daisy. Services were held in the hotel last Sunday. All orders for job work received at this office. We have 350 bona fide subecribers but still have room on our books for a few more. We wint to increase our subscription list to 500 during holidays.

L. R. White and W. I). II.

Shock-ey werecaught iu thestorru Monday on their way home from Cincinnati, and were compelled to seek shelter with J. M. Hoss. Groceries cheap at Gillespie fc Cincinnati. Hugh Day lost his hat in the blizzard Monday.

Final proof papers made out free, nt this oSiiee. Fakm Loans: We are prepared to make loans on farms at as low rates as ajente in Grant or Stanton V. F. Strut hers went to Garden City the first ot the week-. counties can.

T. R. Hoknaday'b We ptill hfcve room on our books for a tew more subscribers. Twenty-five dollars reward will be given to any peison who will complete the chain of evidence against tho pariies broke dowu my fence about the 15th of October. W.

p- H. Suqckey. School Money Subscriptions to the last term of school s.t this place are long past due. Those knowing themselves in arreas will kindly favor the school officials by paying theidues to T. R.

Hornaday by Saturday the 17th inst. To Farmers. Can you afford to lose your property? No matter how careful you may be, you are liable to loso by fire. There seems to be no cause for the oroginofthe fire, you leave home and return to find nothing but ashes. You go to bed at night to be awakened by the devouring element.

Insurance against fire, lightning, tornado, cyclone and windstorm. Insurance written up at low rates by T. Ii. Hornaday. agent for the Kansas Home.

Ci. S. IToffecker, of Ulysses wai in the city over Thursday night. T. R.

Hornaday, our rustling real es ate man went to Ilartland Sunday. A. W. Nixon had tho misfortune to lose most of his chickens Moriclay night. Land, Loan fc Insurance Ag'y.

Married, Ou Tuesday evening, Dec. 13, 1887, at tho residence of the groom in Cincinnati, Mr. Chas. E. Nary, of the Standard, to Miss Minnie Smith, J.

C. Colin, J. officiating. Commercial. Tho smallest mail that ha3 ever left this office, left yesterday, monthly, consisting of one letter.

There is on an average from fifty to sixty letters leaves every day, but on account of the blizzard they failed to arrive. Boots and shoes cheaper at Gillespie's, than any where west of the Mo. river. A new cen.etery site has been selected on A. W.

Nixon's claim ad-Joining town. lilt fjjl W. D. H.Shockey, of the Shockeyville Independent was iu town last week and stayed several days, investing in Cincinnati esUte. Mr.

Shockey is a rustier, a staunch Cincinnatian, and expresses great confidence in hvs future Commercial. It. E. Shaw has moved his family 'into the building formerly used for a school house. On account of the storm Monday, the mail did not arrive from Cincinnati until Tuesday morning.

I can't buy any land, but I can make loans on lands at lowest rates. T. R. Hornaday. Real Estate Men Attention We will give you more space and larger circulation than any paper in the.

southwest, for the same amount of money. Notice the manner of our ads. and read our rates. We expect to publish a real estate circular once a month fur the benefit of the southwest, which will be furnished our patrons in quantities desired, at as low a rate as can be expected. Each patron will be expected to describe bis own property ml number the same.

No ad. will bo received for less than 9i) days and shall date from the first issue of the paper containing such ad. Mr. O. W.

Fry, of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, brother to Mrs. W. P. Struthers, arrived here last Thursday to attend the funeral of his little niece.

Mr. Fry is wellpleasccl with this part of Kansas and thinks that Grant county will become one of the leading agricultural eontics in the state. Subscriptions taken at this office for all newspapers and magazines. If you want to take auy paper, call and see us. Insurance: Insure your property with that reliable Kansas company the "Kansas Home of Topek'a." This is a co-operative company and gives Insurance at net cost.

For full particulars about this company call on the Shockeyville agent. T. R. Hornaday. Parties who were prisoners in the late war will confer a favor by giving their names to L.

H. Merdick, Suoekey, Kas. For Sale: 330 shocks of fodder at 25 cents per shock; also 8 tons of millet, and 2 tons of cane. Enquire at this office. HORNADAY'S HACK LINE' U.

S. Mail and Passenger Hack runs daily (except Sundays) between Shockeyville and Cineinnnati, via. Surprise. Connects at Cincinnati with stages on tne G'eat Western Stage Line, going north and south. Going South.

Leaves Shockeyville :30 a. m. arrives at Surprise 11 a. m. Leaves Surprise 11:10 a.

m. arrives at (lu-cimiati 11:30 am. Going North. Leaves Cincinu-iti 2 p. m.

arrives at Surprise 2:30 p. m. Leaves Surprise 2:40 p. m. arrives at Shockeyville 4 p.

in. Passenger fares and charges for all baggage or will be moderate, and must be paid to driver, in We would like a good correspondent in each vicinity surrounding Shockeyville. Who will be the first to respond, and send us a good Notice. Bear Valley Post No. 431, meets on Saturday, Dec.

24, 1887. All members of the Post are requested to be present, as bustuess of importance is to be transacted, also the election of officers. L. II. LIeedick, P.

C. Shockeyville is uot enjoying a mushroom growth, but i moving along in her quint way, uiakintr aduuuee. R. Hornaday, Prop. R.

E. Shaw, Manager. some permanent improvements, tnd when spring opens up she will be ready to move steadily along. Her prospects for a railroad are faltering and before another year rolls around she will be connected with the outside world by rail. The funeral service of little Yetta St rut hers was held last Friday, coti-ducled by Rev.

Dunkleberger, and the remains interred in the, Maple Grove cemetery, east of town. Miss Nellie Elliott, Miss Speace, George Holland and Geo. W. Perry, of Cincinnati were in the city Sunday afternoon and gave the Independent a pleasant call. Our door is always open to such.

Anderson Divine have received large invoice of groceries, which theyhavo opened out in the new building on Main street. If you want anything in their line it will pity you to give them a odl. A. L. Houston started for home Monday evening, but on arriving at tne edge of the townslte, the storm so blinded him that he lost all traces of the nad.

lie immediately returned to town and did not venture niun until the next morning. M. P. SHOCKEY, HOUSE OMENTAL PAH TIB. I aia prepared to do all kinds ef House, Carriage and Ornamental Painting.

Graining a Specialty. All work guaranteed. Give me a call. SHOCKEY, KANSAS. The Hornaday hack line have just put on a new and comfortable hack for tne winter, between here and Cincinnati.

If you want to visit any point east, weft, north or south, take this hack for Cincinnati, when; it connects with the Ran land and IIu-goton line. R. E. Shaw t'-ie genial and accommodating will see that all pa-s-engers receive the best of on this Jiue. ALYlil CAMPBELL, Aitorney-ai-Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, AND LAND ATTORNEY.

Choice bargains in farm and city property. CINCINNATI KAS. Strayed Stole b. 1 Bonel mul about 15J hands high eyes show signs of hooks, blemish on right fore leg above knee, projection on jaw 1 inch long, also 1 bay pony, poor order, 2 black pony colts, 3 years old, star in forehead, left hind foot white of each good order, 1 black 2 year old horse, star in forehead; very gentle; last spring colt. Any information us to thp above will be liberally xewaiCtd, Address this office, ast Monday morning' it commenced snowing In regular old fashion ntyl and continued until latp in the afternoon when a genuine northern blizzard set In which lasted during the night.

Several inches of snow fell which will make the irriuii'l in splendid condition for in a few flays, and our far-in. i will nuike good use of the I.