The Monitor from Clay Center, Kansas • 1

ill km 11 1 TO Hi u.T fi i Hi fci i liitiiiimi NEW SERIES, VOL, i. NO. 5 ESTABLISHED 1S32. OLVY CENTER, KANSAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1881. The christening of an infant Arch-uchess of Austria occurred lately.

Business Directory. JJ. DAW ES, ATTORNEY AT LAW Ot'fW over Clay County Bank. A. biARR, BLACKSMITH and Hore eshoer.

(Shop on Grant Ave. NOLL JIM HOTEL. Jas. A. D.

FrazeJl proprietor. Comer Otii St. Avenue A Hardware" Tinware, Stoves, Harness and m). South Fifth street. HA.

i LOSS, House, Sign and or-i uhu ntal painter. Shop on Fifth Mivet iiniih of Beegle's gallery. XJii-NUl' SMITH, Boots, Shoes, Fan-ix cy roeories, fresh oysters, ice 'ivui. etc. in season.

South 5th st. r. Ell McALMOUNT dealers ii.il. 'in groceries, provisions, flout, vU Cor. Dth f-t.

and Grant ave. plU'i GE HOUSE. H. S. BARNES proj' etor.

On opposite Opera Good accomodations, reasonable. T) S. LOOFEOURROW, JUSTFCE 01 ihe Peace, Collector, uuu Gen. Ins. Agt.

OfiAe in the Cuummie Block, up stairs. I. Mil LEE. GEO. O.

BLAKE' A1T0BNEYS AT "Will practice in all the courts, State and Federal. Prompt attention given to collections. I District court convenes on the 11th intt. The docket, especially the criminal part, is unusually heavy. It seems there is talk of removing the headquarters of the Santa Fe railroad fromTopeka.Topeka is disposed to kick.

Chauncy A. Green, the new sheriff of Clay county, has moved to town and will be a citizen of Clay Center for the next two yearn. The New Yeat 'i edition of the Daily Capital is magnificent. It has taken great amount of labor to compile the valuable reading matter contained on its well filled 1G pages. Insure in the old reliable Home of New York, or the Fiiuaax of Hartford agaiubt fire, lightning and storms.

Save money by calling on J. II. Pinkertou Co. and getting a policy. In Topeka ou Aew Yeai's day seventeen houses were kept open for the reception of callers, but no wine was offered to guests at any of them, coffee or chocolate beioj; substituted.

Job Simpson, an old gentleman who worked iu 'M. V. Smith's tuilor establishment on Lincoln Avenue, died last Tuesday night. He was a member of Home Hill Lodge of I. O.

of O. in Ohio. Gov. St. John bays ne is not a candidate for the State Senate or for any other office, and will not be.

He bays what ho wants is to see prohibition iu Kansas a success, and beyond ihut ho has no ambition. W. Quinu, contractor aiui builder of this city, gives special attention to conntry work. Farmers contemplating buildiug new houses or bams, or repairing old ones, will find it to their interest to get Mr. Qainn, as he is a good wCIkmeu and his prices are reasonable.

f. Tho pastor cf the M. E. Church got New Year Cards with an invitation to attend tbe Gospel meeting aud divided tha citv into districts and had members of the church go intfi every house in tbe city yesterday and make them a New Year's call and invite the people to attend tbn services of the church. Concordia Critic.

And now they sav the B. M. rnnd will not come to Cly Center, but the Kansas Central will be changed to broad gnae from its terminus nt Vl tonvale to its intersection of the Bine Valley rond, and wa -will ye have coin- mumVation the North and Nortlienpt, The Kansas Central will yet. become an important factor iq our commerce. Land Sales.

The land list of H. Pinkerton Co. covers all the land for sale near here. Tbey can suit any person in want of a home, lare or small, improved or unimproved, (nil on them. CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, Contract work solicited and done at thpi lowest fimires.

Country work and rmb1' buildings a specialty Clay Cen ter, Kansas. Signed to Death. At Atchison last Saturday right the house of a Mr. Styles, of that city, nought fire, nnd before the fact was discovered the flames bad spread to sneh an erctent that Styles was unable to escape from the house, find with her child in her nrms rs burned to "awn in thft bnildinff. The remains wero ta ken from the debrs abont three o'clock in the morning.

Styles, with t-vo children ami little nnr.e girl, escaped. but for some reason the wife and anoth er child List cf Letters- Remaining in the poskrfiee at Clay Center. Kansas ff the week ending December 31, 1883. Adams, W- R. Brewer, E.

Eklune. Lars. Doris, Danis, Wm. Mrs. Mary.

Oallaher, Mrs. N. I Johnson. O. W.

Miller, Mrs. Mollie. McLaughlin, J. W. Mackley, Mrs, Nilsson, Jro.

-Feters, Clarence. Seeger, Herman. Smith. Emilia. Tenglin.Misa M.

Van Buren, Walter. Miss Sarah. Persons calling for any of Jthe above Listen to the fire bell. Very few realized the value of a Cm bell until we got one. The Emporia Sugar aud Company, with a capital of fifty thi -Fand do'llars, las been incorporate'.

The works will be located at and they will receive semi-syrups fr 1,1 ocal factories along the lines or tn railroads passing through the town, an i woik it up into sugar. AMINISTS VTOH'S NOTICE. State qf Kansas, gg Clay County, In the probate court, in and for sai county. In the matter of tne i.stato of. 11.

Iutchinson, deceased. WitinA id iiprfhv triven that letters of flilminihtrutlnn liivebopn crauted to thij undersigned on tin Estate of II. W. Hutchinson, late of said county, liv fiA 1-Tnnnrnlilrt. the wrobate court of the county and State aforesaid, dated the 2ita day cf Decern her, A.

V. lej. LiIZZIE Li. HUTCHINSON, Administratrix of the Fstate of H. W.

Iutchinsou, deceased. Clay Center, Dec. illtri, 1M.J. S-3t. There is a proier onfoot to build a bridge ucrowt the riv nt what is willed tlit air Iin two or three miles west of this city.

XotLiius is settled niwn yet, as the first movement Is to ascertain what would probable cost of the xtrivture. This would be a great convenience la we number of our oest farmers in Elu.nu township, and would bring to our city a vr amount of grain mul trade that goes to Morganville and other this enterprise Una to bo underta ken almost wholly bv voluntary subscription, it looks to uh like suoeess as lar from certain. bat there is (to telling what niuck and energy will do. It wouU' be a crand thing for our eity anJ the entire community. jv 4 oft'ie river.

as it would nave them many nines ot travel ni 'pHlne- to town. Here is a chance for brldue builders to make propositions and bids, and then it will soon be seen what the people will do for it AVe are for good substantial bridge on every thoroughfare la the county, if the thins ts possible, and we would be glad to the projectors of this scheme suetcssful. Our Imprcvenenti The year just past has been one of unu sual prosperity and growth to our city and county. "Anions the most substantial improvements made iu the city during the year we mention the following; Chits. Kownmg, a large two story brielt block, on Fifth street.

occupied below with his meat market and residence in the upper story." Mr. Siiarpe, lias put another story on tne old Kubnle store room, ami reraodled it until it is one of the ffnest rooms in the city. Bixlei completed a line two story brick on Fifth street, now occupied by Ira. A. Flood dealer in Hardware, etc.

Ed. Newell has erected a large and commo dious stone livery and feed stable on street. II. II. Taylor has filiod up the space from ids building on the corner to the alley, on Fifth street, with four convenient business rooms, built of brick two stories high.

Sehllt, a two story brick warelious.r, south of the railroad track. Knell's new elevater has been completed and run by water power from mill. The new stone foundry ts in working order and is lire proof. Water power from Hester's milt. A creamery of large size, and capable of tuni ng out a largo qu-intity of but ter p.r day.

The German K. Church, a frame structure, ami neat in all its appointments. Allaway's huge two story factory, ineludimr iblacksinithing, carriage and wagon shop-, paint shop and carpenter shop. The roller skating rink an extensive building, of prominence. tieo.

lngaiiull's two story brick business block on Fiftfi street. The Fair Grounds have been put in good shape and the Association aim to make it one of the finest in the State. The Telephone reaching to every part of our city. The New Depot, one of the neatest arrd most convenient ou the branch. "4 two hundred private residences have been erected, some of them costing iarge sums of motley.

Among the enterprises talked fcf for this ye ir is a complete system of water works, Fellows and Masonic Temples, H. 11. Taylor a large brick on Lincoln Avenue, J. Miller vnd Dan Myers a large double brick business. block, and many other extensive.

Improvements. JVe'wMi we could add to Ibis, the erection of a suitable Court House on our public square. -New residences, bams and important improvement have been erected by our farmers in all portions of the county. New, substantial bridges span most of thest minis 011 all the thoroughfares, and handsome school houses have been built in about every school district. More grain is shipped from Clay Centre than from any other point in Northwest Kansas, and in most instances, the highest price is paid therefore.

"Who says our city is not on a boom. LOCAL ITEL13. Pressed for time Mummies. Top boots cover a multitude of shins. A ruler over men never ought to be crooked.

Hay is scarce this year and commands a good price. Read the new ad. of the People's Grocery in this issue. The "poet's scoruer" in a newspaper is usually the editor. Niagara Falls.

Well you wouldn't expect it to run tip hill, would you? New Yeat'a day was a dry day in To-peka. All the saloons were closed. J. H. Pinketton Co lend money at 7 per cent interest.

If you need a loan on your farm call on them. Work is snspended on the foundation of the M. E. Church on account of the severe winter weather. Miller Blake are retained in the celebrated Washington county case to be tried at the next term of court.

January came in like a roaring, raging lion. It will no doubt go out like a very mild and innocent The use of alligator leather has become so general that it canses the slaughter, every year of 0,000,000 pigs. Barnnm's white elephant cost him $200,000. Many more costly white elephants have been owned in this couu-try. A Frenchman is teachla a donkey to talk.

What we want in this country is a man who wy.l t'-ch Lot to talk. Col. Miller lost seventy-five or eighty tons of hay last fall by fire, and now has to seud his stock away from home to winter. Baker Pasha goes to take command at Soudan. The Baker will, of course, take charge of the flower of the Egypt ian army.

rrof. Swing says that "poetry arises from the fact that men like to see two things at once." And yet all inebriates are not poets. The 'Washington Hatchet announces that prose and verse will be paidfor at the regular rates, and that "the rate for verse is death." The funeral sermon of the late J. W. Sherwood, of this city, will be preached in the Chiiatain church, January loth, at 11 o'clock, a.

m. The Koran says, "God is with pa tient." After the doctor is called in, however, it often hapehs that the patient is with his God. An Indiana family that uses black tea because they are in mourning, are prob abJy as sincere mourners as though they wore crape on their hats. In 1883 the number of miles of rail road built" in the United States was about 5,000. Less than half the num ber of miles built in 1882.

A singular flower grown a New Orleans man has been christened the "Confederate rose" probably because the Confederacy didn't rise. You can rent a sealskin sacque in Chicago for $50 a season. This is cheap. er than house rent, for a woman can live in a sealskin sacque on the street al winter. Sain Langworthy is in the.

coal business near the corner of Lincoln avenue and Fourth street. He commenced the year with a heavy run of business. May it continue. The front part of this week, assumed all the rigors of winter; but the ther mometor did not get down into the "thirties" as it did last week in Yermont and other eastern States. The Good Templar lodge meets every Monday evening at 7, o'clock.

Let the tha members bear this fact in mind and be on hand promptly at-the hour. The meetiugs are usually very interesting. The fact came by cable The name of the royul infant will be Kent over by steamer as soon as the royal secretaries gee it copied. One difficult problem on hand at Washington just now is the question how to make liO clerkships of the of Representatives go around among soma three thousand very hungry Democrats. Do you think the old court house will stand up much longer under tbe weight of legal talent that is accumulating in our city especially if the Washington county bar should swoop down upon us in ubody nrxt teim.

They havo been having heavy storms in the eastern States with much rain and suow. Considerable damaKe las been done to shipping cu the coast, and buildings unrooted or blown down in the cites and towns. The Texas Siftiugs eneeriugly re marks that "If jou want jour grave dug in Memphis they make you pay cush in advance." There is nothing very wrong in that. Once allow a man to tiy on his grave and he will never como back to pay for it. Iu a railwar carriage "Guibollard" ask, very politely.

"Madame, does imoking trouble you?" "Oh, yes, mon sieur not ordinarily, but to-day" "Ah madmne," replies GuibollarJ, in a very sympathetic tone, "how much 3 ou are about to suffer? At the dedication sorvicps st the Presbyterian church fast Suuday a sub scription was taken up for the purpose of clearing the church of debt, and over $900 was raised, exceeding the neces sary amount by over iiity' dollars. We congratulate them. In Armenia children are sometimes betrothed while iu tbe cradle. The mat. rimonial engagement is l.ot quite so headlong in this country: but now and then a young couple are married who ought to be still in their cradles though very few infants are "still" in their cra dles.

Last year there were Ht executions in the United States. South" had 03 of tbese, the western States and territories 18, the middle States 13, New York 7, and the Ne7 England States 3. Georgia and Arkansas tu-nihes 16 each, and Texas and Yirginia 9 each. John Loader, whila performinor last Saturday night as "Pete" in the "Spy of slipped and fell, dislocating his knee, causing intense sufi'ering for a time and laying him up for some weeks probably. A lemon peal carloss-ly dropped ou the stag was the cause of the accident.

1 Newbern, a law that im poses a fine of not less than twentv-flve dollars or more than fifty dollars 011 any person who goes into a saloon on Sunday. The citizens think it is a very un just law that impells a. man to enter a saloon on Saturday night and remain there until Monday morning. The of Atlanta" was well rendered at the Opera house on Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings of last week. JThe play is very fine throughout, and the acting was good, as well on the part of the members of the Post and the ladies who assisted them as on the part of the troup themsolvep.

The battle and prison scenes were life-like and thrilling, the tableaux were simply Yawcob Schneider, the 'fat Dutchman, was real life, and Pete, the colored "gemmen," "executed, his 'various pranks fh the most approved etyle. We regret to Lote that on account of the unfavorable weather the attendance was not so large as was desirable.and consequently the proceeds were not so large as was expected. Capt. Dobbs and his associates are, a decided success in their rendering of this popular drama. 11 Kansas.

T) ABO 1iTEG T. 1'liKS, specifications, estimatss, prepared on short notice. Also Heut all kind3 of architectural iron wotk. with couniy surveyor, court house building. DeTm.

KOZEL, 1Vi.ec no Physician- Obstertbicax, er of 3d street 3 blocks west of tin Ihodist church, tenders his services, to the people of city and country at 1 c'lrs. Specialties to chronic Cures warranted or money w-fmtded. "sr. o. onu viteis MAN rFA CITHER OF SAEBLES AND HARNESS, Her airing Done on ShortXotice.

Hay Center, Ivan fas. THE OLD RELIABLE CITY BAKERY, On Fifth street south of Lincoln Ave next to Downing's Meat market. Fresh Bread, Tier, Cakes, Hot Coffee, A Good LrxcH Pure Kentccky Cider. 3tmz Gobls, Prcprietor. J.

-MILLER Jl'STiOE OF THE PEACE, (For 11 years his, own successor. Clay Center, EDITOR "LITTLE HATCHET." MOTTO. Ihe Platonic propensities of our ston ach yearn for turnips and string beat s. ttonev to Loan. On Jong time at 1W: rates of in.

crest' Jf yon need any Money on or wish to increase your Uc it be to your interest to at B. IAMS' LOAM OFFICE, ir coin A venae. Clay letters please say advertised. G. M.

Stxattos, P. M..