The Liberalist from Liberal, Kansas • 3

"8 4 8 EYE TROUBLES Stories by the Old Timers. Telling of Scenes and Incidents of Early Days. Si Pi Pi pi to 4 I I One of the principal features of our business is fitting glasses, accurately, scientifically, and guarantee them so. Come in and see our Eye Glass Mountings that STAY ON Pi blocked by the snow, and when a stage stable was reached some twelve miles south of Garden City, about A o'clock in the after- C. S.

JARRETT Jeweler and Optician A VAV AvAA A' s. Our Specialties il t1 Pi Pi 1 Pi Pi pi pi Pi i I 2J Groceries, Flour Feed and Coal We can satisfy your wants in these lines with goods and prices that always please. Central Grocery Co. Phestit51 noon, Dakota Charley" halted and declared he. could go no farther.

The road was almost hid den and the horses could not be made to face the storm. The teams were unhitched and put into the sod barn and the passengers sought to make them more comfortable by stuffing some of the largest cracks and holes with hay. Then they wrapped the blankets and robes about them and set out for a small dugout a half mile due east of the barn. They had a path to follow and after much difficulty arrived at the place in safety. The dugout was not more than 10 by 12 feet in size, and may have been smaller.

In it they found a man and his wife, two girls ten or twelve years of age, a calf, two dogs and an old cow was standing on the south side with her head in at the window. The arrival of the four stormbound visitors increased the number of occupants to twelve and the available floor space" was completely occupied with "standing room at a premium." But American ingenuity is usually equal to its surroundings. Near the house were Pi We Buy We Sell Poultry and Produce Groceries, Flour, Feed of All Kinds Coal, the Best Kinds AT RIGHT PRICES The Big Blizzard of '86. The mildness of the present winter, with no snow and very little cold weather, has caused the memory of many an Old Timer to hark back to days that were different. There have been famous blizzards here since the white man made his home upon these prairies, and the story of them is passed along from the pioneers to the new settlers and the younger generation.

On Nov. 16, 1886, at a season of the year when we usually look for the first killing frost, there came one of the worst snow storms ever seen in this Southwest country. It began about daybreak, continued all day and until far into the night. Snow fell to the depth of a foot or more and while the storm continued it was hurled through the air with the fury of a terrific wind, blinding and-baffling all who happened to be out of doors. The mercury fell steadily all day and on the morning of the 17th the country was covered with a blanket of snow that glistened and sparkled in the wintry air, with thermometers registering from 12 to 15 below zero.

In the valleys there were great drifts and on the level prairies all grass and vegetation were hidden from view. There are two men now living in Liberal wTho were out in that storm and neither of them has forgotten his experience. As the old Concord stage coach drawn by four horses and driven by "Dakota Charley" pulled out of Fargo before daylight on the morning of Nov. 16, there were three passengers aboard, Abe K. Stoufer and W.

D. Miller of this place, and another man whose name has been forgotten. By the time the stage had reached Springfield, three miles distant, snow was beginning to fall, and as it pulled into Ivanhoe about, noon the wind and snow had increased to a heavy storm. The passengers were all anxious to reach Garden City that night, Pi I fx I I I I I I 1 Pi 1 1 'S -y 'I I a 14 We are located on the corner north of the Blake Hardware one block north of Pf 0. Liberal, Kansas and are prepared to fill all orders on short notice.

Yours in search of more business, today, tomorrow and all the time. Eagle Mercantile Phone 66 rs rc Shoes! Pi pi I 14 Velvet Suede and Cloth Tops a Specialty I i I I I' I I I i I 1 I I Pi i I i shocks of cane bound into bundles six or seven feet long. These were carried to the house and set up so as to make an enclosure on the south side. Into this temporary shelter the cow7 calf and dogs were placed, and the eight people remained in the dugout quite comfortably during the night. The next morning they had breakfast in the dugout and then the stage and passengers resumed the trip to Garden City.

The wind was still blowing as keen as a knife, and every blastsent a shiver to the bones. After baffling through snow drifts for several hours, the party arrived" in Garden City benumbed, shivering and almost overcome by exposure and Why pay more when you can get it for five or ten cents at the 5, 10 and 15 cent store. Get ready for spring work by having your old harnesses repaired by Eight, the harness man. A market the year around for Patent Leathers in Button and Lace i 8 8 Pi iirkpatrick Co. Second Street 14 14 pi I where thev were to take the train for different points east.

Trie driver was a resolute fellow whom nothing daunted. Neither bad weather nor bad men had any terrors for him. Macy's Studio Makes Photographs that are as permanent as skill can produce As soon as dinner was over and fresh horses hitched to the coach, the party set out again, R. T. Nichols, B.

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Thos.L. Diseases of the Eye Nose, Throat andEar Phone No. 45 Liberal, Kans J. Macy, Prop. this time in the teeth of a raging The wind was almost butter, eggs, poultry and hides at highest cash price.

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Four room house, well, windmill, three lots. Very desirable. Terms. Call at this office. was it to face the furious storm.

Liberal, Kans. Citizens State Bank Bldg. The road, too, was becoming.