The Pratt County Times from Iuka, Kansas • 3

Entered at the Postoffice at Luka Second class Mutter. PR.ITT CENTER, KANS1S. LOCAL GLEANINGS PRATT COUNTY TIMES. -Croquet is becoming quite popular among our young folks. The best barbed wire in the market at Lucas' hardware.

W. Williams preached in Xaron district last Sunday. Mr. Thomas Huxtable returned from McPherson on Thursday. -A little child of Lowell Jones, Tuka, has baen very sick for several days.

-One of Christ's teachings while earth was, "Let the dead bury their dead." --A new restaurant has been opened in the Smith building, opposite Fullen's store. -Temperance meeting next Sunday at the M. E. Church in Iuka, at three o'clock p.m. -'The County Normal Institute Pratt county will commence on the first Monday in August, next.

Rev. II. W. Williams preach at the school house in Luka, next Sunday at eleven o'clock a. and also night.

-Harvest is almost completed, the oats being about all there is left of the thousands of acres of Pratt's small grain to fall before the sickle. -Stephenson Stewart have on the road to Pratt Center the first car load of goods ever shipped to Pratt county, which will be received in about ten days. -The foundation for Mr. Randall's large building was laid on Monday, and the work will be pushed at a two forty rate, with S. J.

Fulkerson as head man. -Steve Harrel called around to see us on Tuesday. He says that he got his meat market down from Iuka without removing the front and did not break a glass. -A very pleasant party, the first thing of the kind for Pratt Center, was enjoyed by quite a number of our young folks, at the residence of Thos. Cline on Tuesday evening.

-Stephenson Stewart will receive in a few days, the largest stock of goods ever brought to this county, which they will display in their two large store rooms, on Main street. -The organization of the school district at this place was completed on the 8th inst, by the election of John Iligman Director, J. W. Calvert clerk, and Esla Stephenson Treasurer. -Crossfield's hotel will soon be moved from Iuka to Pratt Center, and we have been informed that it was the intention of some parties in Iuka to start a hotel in II.

P. Cooper's building. Mr. James W. Martin, of Hazelton, Barber county, and Ollie Rich, of Medicine Lodge, were up to Pratt Center to spend the Fourth and visit friends and relatives.

They returned ou Sunday afternoon. -Geo. H. Apperson, City Editor of the Topeka Daily Capital, in company with his father, W. W.

Apperson, of Crete, Nebraska, are in town this week taking a view of the "Furture Great." The latter gentleman is looking for a location and thinks he has found the place for which he is looking. -Three covered wagons drove in to town on Tuesday evening, that had painted on their feed boxes in large letters, "Pratt County or Bust." The fact that their teams are in first-class condition. and each face had a cheerful look is proof that they reached their destination without "busting," and if they will do as well here as they have done in coming here, there is no need of their coming to that dire extremity. -D. R.

Green, of Kingman, proprietor of "Green's Cannon Ball' hack line between this place and Kingnan, was in town on Tuesday talking up a fast freight and express line from Pratt Center and Kingman. Our citizens responded cheerfully to his proposition, and we believe will give him the encourage- ment and assistance he does most justly deserve. Mr. Greene has proven beyond a doubt, by his former accomplishment, the establishing of the Cannon Ball line, that he is campetent to do this successfully and satisfactorily. -New style of clothes wringer at the new hardware store.

Card of Thanks. We desire to thank our friends who gave us their assistance and sympathy during the sickness and death of our mother. J. W. CALVERT, SARAH C.

CALVERT. -Go to the new hardware store for your gasoline stoves. After having lung fever and pneumonia I had a dreadful cough and could not sleep at nights. The doctors told me I had Consumption and would die. I have taken six bottles of Piso's Cure and my cough is entirely gone and I am well as ever.

EMELINE FORD. HANOVER Feb. 13, 1884. Nearly every harvesting machine in the county was kept under full sail last Sunday. While we do not believe it is just the thing for a man to make a practice of working on Sunday, we have not a word of criticism to offer on this occasion, for men were only doing what was necessary and right, and what 110 man can blame them for.

The wet weather at the commencement of harvest kept a great many out of their fields for one or two days, and when wheat ripens as it does here in fortyeight hours, two days means a great deal. Hence the absolute necessity of Sunday work. DIED -At her home near Iuka on Sunday evening, July 6th, of sporadic cholera morbus, Mrs.Sarah Calvert aged 75 years. Mrs. Calvert was the mother of J.

W. Calvert of this place. She was born in Louden county, Virginia, in September, 1809, to Ohio in an early day, from thence to Iowa in 1850, and come to this state with her son last fall. In childhood she embraced religion and lived a consistant, and in her active years, a useful Christian, dying in peace. G.

H. M. The funeral services were held at the residence of J. W. Calvert, one mile northeast of Luka, by nev.

Mathis on Monday morning. The remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and relatives of the family. who extend their heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved ones in this hour of affliction. -Mr. Hopper's residence was moved into town on Monday and placed on the foundation in good shape.

-The only accident we heard of on the Fourth, was the upsetting of a wagon at the crossing on the Ninnescah after dark, by which a lady, living about 12 miles southwest of town, was quite seriously injured. -Dr. Whittenmyer and Krail Wiley, of Centerville, Iowa, are looking over the county this week, with a view to locating. Mr. Wiley thinks that language will not express the advantages of this county, and he is very enthusiastic over our immense crop of wheat and the very flattering prospect for a crop of corn.

-Dr. E. Williams and Rev. D. H.

Waller, of Cincinnati, accompanied by Isaac Williams, of Florence, Kansas, were in our county the first of the week visiting the Farmer boys, who are nephews of the former gentlemen. Dr. Williams is one of the most skillful and most noted eye and ear doctors in the United States, and returns to his home with a kind word for Pratt county and her people. -Last week after we went to press, Zack Fleming made us a call and informed us that he had a new boy at his house and proposed having his name in the paper there and then, but we reminded him that it was the Fourth of July and we were in too much of a hurry to speak of the young gentleman, but would do so with pleasure at our earliest opportunity. The lad is doing finely, is about usual weight and the very picture of his dad, "so they say." -Messrs Peak Brewster, the pleasant and enterprising proprietors of the City Drug Store, showed us through their store on Thursday.

This is one of the finest buildings in south-western Kansas, both the interior and exterior finish being of the finest workmanship. The store-room proper is a building 20x50 feet with a ware room 12x20 feet 111 the rear, a large and commodious otfice andconsultation room. south of the store room makes a street front of feet. The shelves and counters, the I work of Mr. Ernest L.

Hornbeck, one of the best workmen in the state, are finished in oak and walnut, adding much to the beauty of the interior. And their large stock of drugs, patent medicines, books, stationery and fancy toilet articles arranged in a tasty and artistic styly, gives the room a very pleasant and attractive appearance. Altogether it is one of the finest establishments of our town, and is wellworth a visit. -If you want money at 1 rates so low that it is cheaper to borrow than not, see J. A.

Stine at luka. --Eldorado engine oil at the City Drug store. -Money to loan, on 60 or 90 days time, Calvert, Robbing Munch. -Money to loan, on short and long time. CALVERT, ROBBINS MUNCH.

-If you want to know what land is filed on in the county, go to Calvert, Robbins Munch. Better Rates. Money to loan on good farms at better rates than ever before offered in Pratt County. J. A.

STINK, Iuka, Kansas. -Complete abstracts at CALVERT, ROBBINS MUNCH. -The only complete set of filing abstracts in the county at CALVEET, ROBBINS MUNCH. BLAINE life. thentic Agents Published edition wanted at of for Au- his allgusta his home.

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Better send 25 for postage, on free outfit, now ready, including large prospectus book, and save va uable tine. ALLEN Co. Augusta, Maine. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that at the regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Pratt county, Kansas, in October, 1884, there will be presented a petition, signed by J.

E. Patterson and fifty other resident electors within the limits of the territory here-in-after described and bounded, asking that said territory be set off and organized into a body politic and corporate with all the powers of a duly organized township under the lawe of the state of Kansas, said territory to be bounded as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the north east corner of section 36 in township 27, south of range 14 west, thence running west on the section line to the northwest corner of section 31 in said township and range, thence south on the range line 7 miles to the southwest corner of section 31 in township 28 and south of range 14 west, thence east on township line to the southeast corner of section 36 in said last named township and range, thence north on the range line 7 miles to the place of beginning--all in Pratt county, and state of Kansas. Dated June 1884. R. F.

McGREW, Att'y for Petitioners. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that there will be presented to the Board of Commissioners of Pratt county Kansas, on the firsc day of the regular session of said Board in October 1884, the petition of at least fifty resident electors in township 28 south, of range 12 west of the 6th principal meridian, in Pratt county Kansas, asking that all of said territory within said limits be set off and organized into a body politic and corporate under the laws of the State of Kansas and that an election be ordered in said township so set off and organized, and that a voting precinct be established therein. R. F.

McGREW, Attorney for petitioners. STRAY NOTICE. Taken up by Mrs. Harrington, six miles north of Iuka, one light bay horse, heavy set, about 8 years old, near 15 hands high, long heavy mane, has collar marks, leather headstall, rope halter. The owner can have the same by paying for this advertisement and keeping.

Mary Harrington. STRAYED or STOLEN. One span of large bay horses, both have stars in forehead, will weigh about 1,300 and 1,400. The larger of the two has an enlargement on right fore leg. Liberal reward will be paid for any information or the return of the horses to J.

J. MURPHY, Pratt Center, Kansas. An American Story. "THE MAN FROM TERAS," Henry Oldham's New Novel, shortly to be published by T. Peterson Brothers, Philidelphia, is a powerful romance, sure to make a decided sensation.

Iti: entirely about American, and with an excellent plot, borrowed from any of the worn out romances, but is given its interest from the peculiarities of life in the section where the seen are laid in Missouri and Kansas during the closing days of the rebellion, and a more vivid and theirs given, description being a of true guerilla and impartial warfare was picture of those dark and terrible times. There is a strong favor of reality about the romance that adds greatly to its charm, while plenty of love scenes are provided, and we predict for it a large sale. Local agents are wanted in every county: large wages can be made, as it is published at the popular price of 75 cents in paper cover, and 81.25 in cloth. Address at once. T.

B. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia, for special terms to agents. Palace Drug Store! SMALLEY GOWDY, Proprietors. DEALERS Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, 3 Window Class, Toilet and Fancy Articles, Prescriptions Carefully and Accurately Compounded By a Competent Prescription Clerk. Will Also Take Orders For all Kinds of TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS, FOR FALL DELIVERY, Pratt Center, Kansas.

St. Joseph Store. ON NORTH MAIN STREET T. A. CLINE, Proprietor.

PRATT CENTER, KANSAS, KEEPS A FULL LINE OF Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Grocereis Queensware Glassware. Machin Oils Back Oils. Gents Furnishing goods and Ladies Dress goods a Specialty. Highest Market Price Paid for Country Produce. Prices as low as the lowest, and satisfacion guaranteed.

T. A. Cline, OPPOSITE THE Furniture Store. A. P.

AMBROSE. F. M. BROWN, J. J.

ENYART. President. Treasurer. Secretary. The B.

G. KIMBALL LUMBER COMPANY. Pratt Center. Kansas. Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Lime, Hair, Sash, Doors, Windows, Cement, THHHEE STFAARR Livery, Feed Sale Stable.

FLEMING BOYD, Prorietors, The Nobbiest Rigs and Best TEAMS IN TOWN. EVEYTHING NEW AND NEAT. Good Wagon Shed and Feed Lot in Connection with the Stables. Pratt Center, Kansas. Fleming CHI OF Boyd PROPRIETORS Fleming, PRATT CENTER, KANSAS.

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