The Moline Mercury from Moline, Kansas • 1

MB 1 MOLIM1 Jcj VOL. 1. MOLINE, ELK COUNTY, KANSAS, MAY 12, 1882. NO. 4.

Reports from Iowa indicate that NOTICE. All persons indebted to J. H. Rod R.R.Time Table. WEST BOUND.

Mail and Express No. 1. Leaves Moline, at 7:57 p. m. Freight No.

11, 3:35 p. m. EAST BOUND. Mail aud Express No. 2.

Leaves Moline at 7:37 a. m. Freight No. 12, at 11:40. All trains run daily, except Sunday.

TME MERCURY, Published every Saturday, by JASPER CARTER Editors. CHURCHES. Prof McClure was in town Monday evening. "Lots" of strangers was in town the past week. Take the Mcrcury one year for S1.00.

Business of all kinds is good at Post Office. Office hours from 7 o'clock a. m. to 8:30 p. m.

Money order and Register Letters from 8:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. All mail mat ter to insure going out in the morning should be deposited in the office the evening before.

M. CARTER, If. JUL. The Mercury one year for $1. Mr.

Cleveland has given his house a fresh coat of paint. We are going to have plenty of peaches this year. Read all the Locals carefully; there is something we want you to see. We want a few good correspond ents from different localities. Mr.

George Rettig is typo in the new Mercury office. Call at James Eaglin's Hardware Store, when you want fresh Lime. Miss Mary Bassett has been visit ing her sister, in Chautauqua county, the past few days. i Henry Hess and J. M.

Long done the carpenter work on the new Mercury building. They did it well, too. Subscribe for the Mercury, the best paper, for the money, in Elk county. Buy your Dry Goods, Clothing and Groceries of R. D.

Harris. He sells cheap. The Mercury office has been removed to the 1st door south of the Fnrnitnrft store. air. u.

r. iricKerei nas painieu bis new building, wtacn adds to its nnnpji.rn.nnp. 'miirhlv." I Our fighting editor is here now better vou look a leetle out" for dat hotfai Trrvit IrwtLr i Inntlo rnr" Trr nor. I deicher man. We are informed that Mr.

Gallatin and son, Charlie, will locate at Cave Springs, this county. We will furnish the Mercury free for one year to the first couple who get married in Moline. If you don't want to purchase land I in ii.iK county, you naa netter steer clear of J. K. Glasscock, or "Tom" Chapman.

M. C. Jenkins, of Winfield, in forms us that he was offered a good position in the Courant office at Win- field, Kansas. Mr. B.

F. Pickerel has his new Store building almost completed, and we understand will proceed at once to dealing out groceries and provisions, Rev. Bristow was down from Howard Tuesday afternoon to see his daughter, Mrs. Chapman, who was very sick. George Hanson has not been to town since May 3d: but that a all right, George we suppose that little boy has to be taken care of.

Chautauqua Springs has a "Gin house." We suppose the landlord's the prohibitory constitutional amend ment is to be submitted next month, and will be carried by about 40,000 majority. It is similar to the Kansas amendment. Irishmen of Boston offer So, 000 reward for the cowardly assassins who murdered Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke. This is an index of the universal horror with which Irishmen regard the deed. The President has signed the anti-Chinese bill in its new shape, in which it reduces the term of exclu sion from twenty to ten rears, and extends the notice from sixty to nine ty days.

Whatever the leading Texans may be, and however they may regard the stage coach passenger as fair game for the enterprising outlaws of the State, they are at all events, determined that their children shall be good if legislation can effect it. First of all the States Texas has practically prohibited the sale of The Police Gazette, TJie Police and other sensational illustrated papers by a tax of $500 a year on every person sellinsrthem. -The Catholic Citizen, of Milwaukee prints a strong article on the temperance agitation, which severely condemns the course of the Democratic party and threatens it with desertion of the Catholic clement on account of its too utterly utter devotion to beer and whisky interests. The world is full of trouble. What is the poor Democratic party, that only seeks to get on the strong side, going to do, in the midst of such complexities and embarrassments Hired Girls.

If country girls who meditate a career in the city would turn their at-tenMpn. to service, instead of thronging the stores and workshops, mistress and maid would be mutually benefitted. It is an employment that is healthier, more respectable and better paid than that of factory or shop-girls, and I believe I may truly add, more profitable than dress or bonnet-making, or any sort of sewing, and to my mind, quite as respectable. I honor all workers who do their work well, no matter what it may be, save that it is honest, useful work. And so does everybody whose respect and esteem is worth having.

If there is any reason, why "hired girls" are imbued with the idea that their occupation is regarded as very inferior, it is solely because they have been so outrageously ignorant, unskilled and unfit for the position. A FAVORITE PAPER. For judicious editing, select and popular contributors, and sprightly and entertaining reading, the Youth's Companion, of Boston, has no superior among the. youth's publications. It has more than two hundred thousand subscribers, and unquestionably merits its success.

A Special Correspondent- the well-known au thor, Mrs. A. H. Leonowcns has been sent to Russia by the Youth's Com- panwn, ana win soon contrioute a striking series of articles on "Life in the Out-of-way Nooks and Corners of Russia." Formerly Lafayette, Bloomington Mun-cie and Lake Erie Louisville Railways. The shortest and most direct route, maki-immediate connections for passengers East and West.

The shortest and most direct route, between Kansas City, ClevelanJ, Buffalo, New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Washington, Baltimore and all points Eat making close connections with all the Trunk Lines. First-class equipments.

Steel Rails, West-inghouse Airbrakes, Miller Platforms and Coupler, elegant new Reclining Chair and Drawing-room Cars attached to all through passenger trains, free of pxtra charge to all lirst-class passengers holding through tickets. The few changes by this route are all made in Union Depots no Omnibus Transfers. Ask for tickets to any point Last via the Lake Erie Western R'y. Maps atd other information furnished free upon application to principal Ticket Offices, or address, W. SMITH, GenM Pass.

Agent. LaFayette, Ind. man will find their accounts with M. Carter for collection until the first of June, and all accounts not settled by that time will be put in an officer's hands to collect. J.

H. Rodman. We noticed that our merchants did a lively business the past week. The fact of it is they work hard to bring trade to Moline, and they are getting it too. There is considerable competition in trade, but that is a good thing, we like to see it.

The Mercury has a larger circu lation than any paper, of the same age, in Southern Kansas, and by the way we are patronized we believe our friends are going to stand by We tender our thanks to all, for the liberal support we have thus far received. We notice the wheat is looking extra well all along the Elk valle3r, between here and Independence. We are also going to have plenty of fruit this year. Taking it altogether, the present year bids fair to be a year of prosperity. We paid a visit to the Moline School last Friday, and were agreeably surprised to see the interest mani fested by both teacher and scholars.

Mrs. Emma Oliver who "wields the rod" seemed to be at home in the school room, lue little Chaps seem to be improving very rapidly. We failed to get a copy of the program for the exercises in the afternoon, but suffice it is to say that all present en joyed themselves exceedingly well. rail m. 11 me numoer oi scnoiars enrolled is 76, of which 44 are females and 32 males.

The visitors present were Mrs. D. D. Holten, Mrs. Lee Cross, Mrs.

M. Carter, -Mrs. R. E. Hankinson, Mrs.

J. II. Rodman, Miss Nellie Hankinson, Mr. Frank Oilman, Dr. I.

V. Powers, J. Carter. We think it would be a good idea for parents to visit our school as often as tbey can. It will help to encourage the little folks.

If they notice tha their mrents take an interest in the school, it is very apt to have a good influence with them. The Sedan Journal comments on our "Tribute to Kansas" (which ap peared in No. 2 of the Mercury), as follows The Moline Mercury, a very youth ful sheet, published at Moline, Kansas, indulges in a little talk about Kansas. Now this is all right, but a little flow ery, hills "The cattle upon a thousand are ours. Come to our western home, for here the wilderness blossoms as the rose, and the deserts rejoice No doubt, some one had just rpn the fercury a Mexican dollar on sub- onrintinn nr tip ninfewn nnrt nro.

scription therefor, had just struck him. Young man, in two or three years your song will be more common- place. You will refer to Kansas as I the land Of delinquent Subscribers. ere the cattle on af thou- sand hills belong to somebody else besides the newspaper editor, and his starving family. The land where the editor dodges the butcher and grocer every day as he goes to dinner.

The land where life is not all a panorama of good things for the man who prints the news fifty-two times a year for $1.50. It is well to have these rose-colored views, they furnish happiness for the time being, but when the cold and stormy waves dash around you, when politicians cure you, and friends Prove untrue, and all the world looks itor will sigh to himself, 'Since so very soon I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. 1 J- Parties who are about to commit matrimonv would do well to call at the new furniture store of Thompson Varner, furniture. and get their prices on The Crown and the Singer Sew ing Machine very cheap at West Scboficld'5. Moline.

Subscribe for the Murcury, only $1.00 per year. m. Isn't it about time to prepare for the 4th of July. begin to Those who deserve success erally achieve it. gen- Call and see us at the new Mercury office.

J. R. Glasscock is the boss Real Estate agent. He has sold a number of farms since he came to Moline. Mosquitos have already commenced to "rattle their little bells" of evenings.

We acknowledge a pleasant call from H. W. Young, of the Star, at Independence, on Friday evening last, Another refreshing shower on Sabbath, which will almost good crops. insure We are prepared to do all kinds of job work at the Mercury office on short notice and in good style A vile tongue is a ruthless weap- on. am more airaia of any man's tongue than I am of his fist.

A little boy came to his mother recently and said "I should think if I was made of dust I would set Mr. Duff Pierce took a trip to Wellington, Friday last, accompanied by Mr Quartermas and Mr. Geo. Martin. They returned on Monday.

In next week's paper we will publish a letter written by a youn ii lJ Gentleman ins lauy. iove. kjj. course we will not give any names. Mr.

Auspatcb, better known as "uncle Tom," has purchased the blacksmith shop and tools, formerly owned by Mr. Henry Gallatin. Copy of a notice on the beach at Brisrbton "In case of ladies in dan ger of drowning, they should be sciz- -I II I 1 ll ed by the clothing, and not by the hair, which generally comes off. One of Grenola's merchants says, "Grenola does twice the business that Sedan does." We can't swallow it however, it sounds too much like "taffy" that we have heard sometimes. On Tuesday evening of this week, we received a copv of the School Casket from Sedan.

It is a brifirt little sheet, and a credit to the editors, J. B. Sands and C. M. Shartel.

A Mr. Walker from Grenola, came down to Moline Tuesday even- to De some connec tion of T. W. Walker. T.

W. didn't tell us just how much "kin" he was though. George Merrill purchased a busi ness lot a short time ago for $70, and since tnai lime ne nas Ueeu OUereil mteDdS tQ bUUd tlUS summer' I -nri: nnA I iUC JJCV'JJIG Ul Mill illgu- Whnnil hnvo arrnnoWl with Mr. W. IT- Lamb to open a wSgon road through his farm, which lies just east of town.

This will be quite an advantage to the people east of Moline. It was reported in town Tuesday that the dance to be at the hall that evening, was "nlaved out," but it was'nt, for they met and had a good time, we understand. This may be all right, but it is our opinion that the sick should have attention in pref erence to the gaities of the ball room. Moline, Kansas, May 8th, 1882. Ed.

Mercury: Can you tell what became of the $15 raised at Moline for the Garfield memorial fund and handed to the committee to be for warded to the treasurer of the fund. It is the general impression that it has never been forwarded. If it has, why is it that there is nothing to show for it? Subscriber to the Fund. We do not know, but perhaps the Editor of the Cherry Valley Torch could give the required information. -Ed ME.

CHURCH Preaching every sec- ond and third Sabbaths, at 11 a. m. aud 7:30 p. m. Rkv.

TV. C. Goodwin, Pastor. BAPTIST Preaching every fourth Sabbath, at 11 a. ni.

and 7:30 p. m. Covenant meeting every fourth Saturday, at 2 p. m. Uev.

F. L. Walkkr, Pastor. M' OLINE SABBATH SCHOOL Every Sabbath, at 9:30 a. m.

"Singing" at a p. m. W. J. Harrod, Superintendent.

O- TJ. W. Lodge No. 87. meets at City Hall, every Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Visiting brethren are cordialy invited to attend. F. GILMAN, W. M. 11 Smethers, M.

D. V. Powers, M. D. Smethers Powers, Physicians Surgeons.

Snecial attention eiven to Diseases of the Nervous System and Chronic Diseases. Offlce one door north of Post office, Moline, Kansas. MoSEE HOUSE JOSEPH jttcGEE, -MOLINE, KANS. (EAST side main street.) Free transfer of Baggage A good Sample Itnom will be furnished for Commercial men, Good Feed stable attached. PIERCE "HOUSE D.

C. PIERCE, Proprietor. ThR onlv firt class Hotel in Moline. New Sample Koom for Commercial men. MOLINE, KANSAS.

Tom- Chapman, Notary Public, AND Real Estate Agent, Office over Moline Store. KANSAS. V- Barber Hair Dresser, MOIjlftE, KANSAS. Call and get Shaved and your Hair Cut. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

1DI1 wh PROPRIETORS. Wagons Carriages made to Order All Vim! of Vehicles Renaired on short notice. Shoeing Implement "VTO IR, a Specialty. All Work Warranted. name is "Gin," as nothing else would $100 for it, and refused to sell, be-do, since Kansas prohibits.

cause he wants it for his own use. He A coat and hat blew off the east nrnnn ru UUUUU Vl'-Alll iUUUUaj iUUllllliga 1UC norcon wlin fnnnd thpm will nnnf Ar favor by leaving them at the depot. Mr. James Eaglin sold within the past week nine Cultivators to some of Grenola's citizens. This speaks well for Moline, but it is rather bad on Grenola.

The Chinese bill having passed the Senate will be signed by the President. One of the changes made is the reducing of the term of suspension to ten years instead of twenty. LOST a Blouse, on the Railroad, just east of Moline. Will give a liberal reward to finder, to return the same to this office. J.

M. Hitching. 'Taint no use for you to go to the Moline Store for Molasses, for they are kind enough' to hang out a card with O. Molasses" on it, to let you know the3r haven't any. In last week's issue of the Mercury, where it said "on Saturday last we added seventeen new subscribers to our list," was intended for.

Saturday week last. 9.