The Liberalist from Liberal, Kansas • 3

Our Specialties Stories by the Old Timers. ft i3 Telling of Scenes and Incidents of Early Days. til the meat was gone. He called Groceries, Flour, Feed and Coal We can satisfy your wants in these lines with goods and prices that always please. Central Grocery Co.

Ph isi. it buffalo meat, but it might have come from some old cow about ready to die in Barbour county. it il i4 Wo got to the northeast corner of section 9-35-33, two miles south east of Liberal, looked over this 3rd Street section at the southeast corner, went east a quarter of a mile and found some bunches of sand grass; said to the locator "this will not suit us, the water will I run right through." The old fel in 1 low would take out the wagon rod We Buy I We Sell Poultry and Produce Groceries, Flour, Feed of All Kinds Coal, the Best Kinds AT RIGHT PRICES in In in and run it in the' ground full length. It was wet that spring. This section has been our home 14-N 14 14 in in in for the past 25 years.

We hiked to Garden City and got our filings on a preemption and a tree claim. The boys borrowed me out of We are located on the corner north of the Blake Hardware one block north of P. 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 as Reminiscences of G. W. Light In the spring of 1885 the writer started west with two wagons, four mules and four horses, from Linn county, Our intention was to go to Arizona so we loaded up wife and myself, Harry, Charlie, Paul and Kate and some 7 Barks. I traded around and got a $3 revolver, an old style Colts with a long barrel. As near as I can recollect it would not hit anything it was pointed at and we did not keep it.

Loaded for bear, it would go off and kill somebody when let alone. It was a good show gun if not loaded. We camped each Sunday and at Ottawa, Kansas, we met Jay Hugh Hurd. Hewanted to come west and get some land. He was an Old Virginian.

We made a dicker with him to drive one of the teams for his board. Monday morning we started out and on the second Saturday night we got to St. John, Kansas. Here we met W. H.

Blood, now of Woodward, and Hawkins, a locator and real estate man when Liberal first started. We talked Arizona to them. They said, "Tomorrow morning: we are going to start for Seward county, Kansas. We would like to have you go down there with us." This we concluded to do as the Kansas fellows stuffed us and said a grasshopper would not camp in Arizona. The next Saturday night, June 7, 1885, we camped on the Cimarron river near where Fargo Springs was afterwards located.

There were no houses there at in in money except enough to buy a few boards to cover a sod shack and a few provisions, and $5 worth of dry salt bacon. Jayhugh says, "Old Man, is that all the meat you are a going to take down there for weuns?" I said, in I have got no credit here." He Shoes! Shoes! in I said there was more eating in a bushel of beans for the money than anything else. I know Boston people are great on beans, but my; experience was in Connecticut and there wooden nutmegs were legal tender. VP fa Velvet Suede and Cloth Tops a Specialty 14 14 14 I I-I- 4 1 I i i we got back down on 9 in 9 in in in and got up a sod house. The meat Patent Leathers in Button and Lace question got to bothering us so we started south on a hunt for buffalo bones, ran onto a place where some 20 buffalos had been I I I I killed and got a good load of Kirkpatrick Co.

Second Street bones. We hauled them to Cim arron to trade on. i While loading up, an antelope w. came near. Jayhugh got down that time.

On Sunday it was a flat on the ground with cross sight to see fellows with teams sticks for a rest. He squinted all day around a barrel near the and squinted. I said Jayhugh river getting water. cut her loose, we are out of meat" There was also a roundup there He crippled it and the dog caught it and held on until we knocked it on the head with a hoe. It was that day.

Thousands of head of cattle were scattered over the hills. Cowboys were yelling and R. T. Nichols, B. S.

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Thos. L. Diseases of the Eye Nose, ThroatandEar Phone No. 45 boards?" I said to him, "I tried to keep them in. They must be along the road." We hauled our drinking water from Fargo Springs until Jan.

1, 1886. The first well put down was at Old Liberal, one mile west of the John George corner. It was completed about Sept. 1, '85. The brings us up to 1887.

If you want pictures to go with this apply to L. D. WeidensauL G. W. Light.

notlong after this until we could firing off their revolvers, and women folks were scared. One not get near an antelope, so many were shooting at them. fellow to be smart came yelling and firing two revolvers. A fel In, 1886, a fellow came from Iowa with household goods and low near us got his Winchester lumber to build onN. E.

10-35-33. and says "I will drop a shot as Liberal, Kans. Citizens State Bank Bldg. near him as I can and not hit him." He did so and the cow boy quit his monkey business. The next day he came over to our place saying his wife-would not like it here.

He wanted' to sell his relinquishment bad. I said to him, "If you will wait until we My wife claimed the river was Macy's Studio Makes Photographs that are as permanent as skill can produce can get some folks out from Mis souri, we will try to fix you up. full of fish, but I never tried fishing. They never would bite for me, and setting around for half a day to get a bite never did suit Liberal, Kans J. F.

Macy, Prop. He had some lumber that had more knots in it than there weTe For real close prices on Hats, Shoes and Ladies Skirts see Harris Dry Goods Co. Why pay; more when you can get it for five or ten cents at the 5, 10 and 15 cent store. We are selling Men's and Boy's Hats at less than wholesale cost. Harris Dry Goods Co.

market the year around for butter, eggs, poultry and hides at highest cash price. The Liberal Cold Storage Co. me. boards in the deal. This was Monday morning tne men started south with an old buffalo taken back to Campbell's lumber yard at Springfield.

When I got hunter locator to find some land. Drs. Cayton Grimble REGISTERED VETERINARIANS DENTAL SURGERY A SPECIALTY Office at the Carson Feed Yard. Office phone 252 Res. phone 64 up there Harry Evans was clerk.

The old buffalo hunter had a gun He said to me, Where are the ny sack with some jerked beef in it. -We stayed with that sack un- knots that belong to these.