Elk Falls Signal from Elk Falls, Kansas • 3

i Cnnri .1 TPLE SIGNAL. ii A CISC It G. vLt, nil, in it ii-w iui, I ami the crowd of people will sw arm" to the Big Stone Store to secure bargains from J. R. Clarke's mammoth upriug i stock of Clothing, Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, etc.

3 FRIDAY. APRIL 8. 1881. Retail Dealers in a Papers along the lines of the was-to-have-becn extensions of the Gould railroads arc trying to make themselves believe that the withdrawal of the several propositions is only a temporary postponement. Suppose Mother Shipton's prophecy should prove true, and the world should come to an end this year what chance will you have in the next if you have not paid the printer? Better pay at once and run no risk.

Mr. Lewis Woodward, one of our enterprising liverymen, stopped in front of our office last Tuesday afternoon and invited us to ride a few miles in the country with him, and to say that we accepted his kind invitation is unnecessary. His new buggy is a daisy and the ponies he drove on this occasion are flyers. Our old friend Tell W. Walton, who established the Mulvane Herald (the natal day of which was the same as that of the Sional) but disposed of it last winter, has again grasped a Faber ajid goes to work with a will.

He has purchased the Caldwell Post and will continue it as one of the spiciest local papers on the border. So far wcare unable to give anything definite concerning the murder case against Milton Lyons, except that some queer evidence has been produced by the defense. Considerable interest is being taken in the case, and not withstanding that it is a strong one against Milt, a bold light is made. The result is dillicult to detcrmiue. I RAILROAD TIME TAIH.E.

K. L. AS. Jl K. rtTWRD BOnci MAIL ASI Xl'HFS.

TT6 KanpasCity, Arrive at ImlcpeniU-nrw, p. m. F.1W Fallg, CMm. Arrive at WintieH. Wellington, JUSTWABD MAIL AD rxr Ito Vllin(rtn.

'TV. V.n' Arrive ntWimicM, Klk Kails, (20 w. breaking) 7 Iive Elk Kails, 'l' Arrlvp at Kansas t'ily, in- FHF.IOIIT Westward bound, leave Klk rail, Komwurd 12:39 irlPsesptifrtT and Kxprcts train run daily iept Snndav. reights run daily. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES.

CLOTHING! We wish to call the attention of the public to the immense stock of goods we are just receiving. Our stock is now complete in all departments. Having bought in large quantities, we are able to compete with any house In the county. Wc sell at Exceedingly Low Pkices. 'Attention of the ladies is called to our PRINTS AND DRESS GOODS.

fffaT" A large assortment of Gloves, Hosiery, Felt Skirts, Shawls, Nubias, Umu.uwkah, We guarantee our prices, ana respectfully solicit your liberal patronage. We make a specialty of Last Tuesday our old friend Harry II. Slough, foreman in the Cowley Co. Monitor oftice, at Win field, was married at Eureka to Miss Mary L. Davis, a sister of Mrs.

I. M. Olney. Wednesday morning the happy couple arrived at Dr. F.

S. Olney 's residence in this city, where they made a short but apparently pleasant visit, until the arrival of the evening train, which they boarded with a pass to Wiufield, their future home. While iu this city Harry made our headquarters a pleasant call, and we gave him all the advice we could think of. We tender the happy pair our congratulations and hope for them as much pleasure and real happiness as it has been our experience to enjoy may their fireside be surrounded with all that tends to make home happy. The Wellingtouian has a curiosity in the shape of a portion of an aerolite which fell from the heavens recently, a few miles east of Hunnewell.

Its fall was witnessed by several ladies and gentlemen. The paper says "The piece which fell covered a plat of ground some twenty feet long by tcn feet wide and burned the green sod entirely away from under it. The piece left us is a strange looking specimen. It is of a darkish hue the lead color predominating and is exceedingly porous, looking much like formations that are sometimes created in the burning of a straw or hay stack, or that which is often noticed in the bottom of stoves or furnaces in which cobs are used as fuel." Since Monday it has seemed like Sunday in this city. Many of ourcit-zens are attending court at Howard, forty being witnesses in the murder case.

Subscribe for the Signal now Our "devil" is a somnambulist. Mouth of showers but none as yet. It is estimated that there are 13,000 Masonic lodges in the world, aggregating a membership of In the United States alone there are 8,000 lodges. Our citizens may have a chance to spend several dollars of their spare change for the benefit of circus companies this season. Seven circuses are headed for Kansas.

Li T. It CLOAKINGS! Remember the place Cor. Osage and Seventh Streets, Master Clay tie Eainbo has a new velocipede. A "soiled dove" in town a few days of this week. Good plow shoes ami moccasins at John Mack's.

2 Betting hens are Laving their usual ppring troubles. A colored lady iu Topeka is said to bo turning white. Who would be a czar since dynamite baa been discovered? 3ST KANSAS. Gr ELK FALLS, Hardwire and farm machinery cheaper than cri'rat G. W.

Jilaekbiirn's. 49-51 SEEK FURTHER! A farmer near Independence, who has been experimenting in raising cotton, cleared $120. 92 on two bales grown on three acres. He will plant one hundred acres this year. 'Tis an old and tried saying that early spring rarely brings an abundant' harvest, and" that March grass makes a light hay mow.

If so, we are fixed in this country. Miss Kate Claxton is in Southwestern Kansas. She appears iu the celebrated romantic drama, "The Two Orphans," to-morrow evening in the Eagle Hall at Wichita. All Ions; ftandiiiK accounts will be left in the hand of V. Blake, for collection, alter March 7th.

By m-Uliug with him at once you will confer favor. (50) J. Claiik. One of Fredonia's business men was, on Wednesday night of last week, relieved of $132.00 iu cash and a draft for $15.47, while holding his hands above his head and gazing into the muzzle of a six-shooter. The gentleman was stopped and robbed in the middle of one of the business streets while going home from his store.

Rev. Bristow last week made his third move since conference. First he removed his family and household effects from Howard to Mrs. Lillburn's residence in this city, then to the parsonage, and now he occupies the Geo. Goodknight residence, one block south of the M.

E. church. Where he will go next is hard to determine. Thirty Russians were recently made citizensof the United States at Topeka, and subsequently registered in order to exercise the proud right of American citizenship. They were a part of a colony that originally located in Brazil, but becoming dissatisfied with that country they sought the free and more salubrious air of Kansas.

OUR EQUAL IN Variety, Style, Quality, Prices, Not Found in Elk Falls or Ek County! The only straw lumber factory iu the We hear of a few farmers who have finishing sowing their oats. The Buckeye Plow Sulky is a success. Hold by Lisk Fain. 3 Gould has a Sherman House, but no Gitchcll or Elk Falls hotels. Fannie Gitchcll visited friends in Howard the first of the week.

Croquet and base ball season approaches, as also does Christmas. It is about time for pic nics, but they are rather indefinitely postponed. Rambo is ''head over ears" at work opening his spring stock of goods. 3 Houses are in demand. Build one or two and they will soon be occupied.

Wonder if the Fourth of July and Christmas will be on time this year? The colored exodustrs from the South are headed for New Mexico this year. Go and hear lie v. Boicourt next Sunday morning at the M. 13. church.

The M. E. church at Cherryvale takes a man's note for contributions. The ground hog proved himself a I.Isk Fain are selling Hardware and implements cheaper than they wpre ever before gold In Elk Falls. Call and see their stock.

50 Last week a jury in the Chautauqua county court found John Sanford, who was captured at Silver City, New Mexico, some time in January, guilty of the murder of a citizen of that county whose name has slipped our memory. Sunday evening Sheriff Lyster and his deputy arrived in this city in carge of the murderer and one L. J. King, who was found guilty of rape upon the person of a young girl near Sedan last December, and Monday morning they took the train for Leavenworth, where the prisoners will be compelled to learn a trade. Sanford goes for fifteen years only.

This afternoon Mr. G. T. Sherman and his family, with their large stock of hotel furniture, took the afternoon freight train for Grenola Avhere they take possession of the Grenola House. For just a year Mr.

S. has been running the railroad eating house in this city, and we sincerely regret that circumstances were such that he could not remain with us, as he and his family have proved themselves worthy of the respect of the entire community. Mr. Sherman is one of the best hotel men in Southern Kansas, and we congratulate the people of Grenola upon securing him as one of their citizens. Sample copies of the Monthly Xation can seen by calling at this office.

"I'm on the press," said Tom E. Thompson, as he folded his girl in one sweet embrace. "Well, that's no reason why you should try to pi the form," she replied as she re-arranged world, located at Lawrence, was burned down recently. It contained much costly machinery, made expressly for the business, and the loss is heavy. A special edition of the new revision of the Bible will be necessitated for Kansas, or Paul's advice to Timothy, "Take a little for thy stomach's sakej" will have to be stricken out entirely.

tfirard Is one big hospital at present. There are three hundred persons sick, and the matter with them is the measles, whooping cough, pneumonia, malarial fever, chicken pox, mumps, etc. Each school district must now have four months school each year to entitle them to share in the State semi-annual dividend. This is an advanceofan-othcr month over the old requirement. Ham and eggs would be a cheap diet now if the price of hams would come CASH.

W. HAMBO, Has opened a General Stock of FANCYDRYGOODS NOTIONS, Boots, Shoes, Furnishing Goods, And all the newest and latest styles of CLOTHS DRESS GOODS Expressly ibr the "Winter Season. He has just Ided a large and frcsli stock of GROCERIES. New Stone Store, 1 door north of Fletcher Rambo's old stand. nearer corresponding with the price of fraud this time, in other worus, ne lied.

If this has been spring's "ethereal mildness" we are no judge of the It is well known that peach brandy enters into the composition of the mucilage on postage stamps; therefore, reasons the Florence Herald, if a man is seen, after the first of May, "under the influence" it won't be fair to lay it to whisky he may have just mailed a letter. The reckless editor of the Corry Herald remarks that a man who is continually borrowing his neighbor's local paper, and never subscribes for one lor himself, would pasture a goat on the grave of his grandmother, and we are inclined to believe said editor is about correct. An excursion is on foot to run from Howard, Elk county, this State, to San Francisco, California. The excursion, we believe, starts next week. We did not learn the fare.

Gould Pioneer, March 31. Guess it "petered out," as we have heard nothing of it down here. Reports from various sections go to confirm the statement that the wheat crop of this year will equal the immense crop of three years ago, and that the corn crop will be above the average. This is good news for those interested in the grain business, and the farmers generally. A good assortment of garden and field seeds at the Iloss Hardware Store.

411-51 her uacK hair anu smoothed her tumbled collar. Fact. rCherrvvaleGlnhe A "heap pile" of Flax and Millet But you don't want to let his home seed at S. A. Brown lumoer girl hear of it, or you'll hear something drap.

You haven't heard the best one on him yet, however; last Saturday yard. 3 The first sermon ever preached in Hunnewell was delivered last Sab infint ne was ciuieu upon 10 su up wnu Will Deed's sick child, at Howard, and he did. eggs. A Cincinnati firm has leased the Leavenworth brewery for ten years for the purpose of operating a starch factory. Mr.

L. M. Gibson, formerly of Howard, but now a "drummer" from Kansas City, honored us with a call last Tuesday. Every morning robins are thick as black-birds on the commons east of our residence. They make musical mornings.

(). U. Malian will stand his Clydesdale stallion at his place, on the opposite side of Elk river from the John Hughes place, every Saturday anil Monday. 2-5 Parties riding or driving across our sidewalks should bo required to contribute a specified amount of cash into the city treasury. We see by the Democrat that work is progrcsssng rapidly on the canal between the Arkansas and Walnut rivers at Arkansas City.

bath. This week the spring weather has proved decidedly unsafe to bet, or even guess on. The Signal and St. Louis Journal Messrs. Woodward Bussey are up one of the finest and most com JOSEPH ROOT, Dealer in TIN, SHEET IRON And Granite Ware.

STOVES! A full stock of goods, such as will always be found at a first class Stove and Tin Store, will be kept constantly on hand at this establishment. plete livery outfits in all Southern Kansas. They are quite particular to buy the best horses they can find in of Agriculture for $2.00 a reduction of the country, and their buggies and wagons are being received irom the best factories. These gentlemen arc fifty cents. Millet Shed.

A ear load of German millet seed just received at the lumber yard. 3 The cussed town cows still roam unmolested. What will the now council do with them? well known to be energetic and enter prising business men, and we predict that success will attend them in this their new branch of trade. Doubtless they will receive a liberal share of 'the ELK FALLS, KANSAS. West Side 7th Street.

public patronage. I have a small assortment of sewing machine repairs. (49-51) G. W. Hlackiii-iot.

Eastern papers predict a better mercantile trade this season than for years past. Fruit buds were bursting a few days To-day Mr. E. B. Cole takes charge of the Sherman House and will make ago, but we couldn't swear as to their S.

A. BROWN C0.5 Dealers in LUMBER, an earnest endeavor to retain its reim J. R. Clarke will have, when it has all arrived, the largest and best spring stock of goods ever brought into Elk county. Call and see him.

2 Dave Dodd, an ex-devil In the Howard Journal office, came down last evening to assist iu the mechanical department of the Signal. Rev. T. N. Boicourt will preach in tation.

He is a young man of consid erable experience in he hotel business. having superintended more than one railroad eating house in the eastern states. We hope and doubt not that success will attend him in his endeav It is rumored that Jay Gould has at last secured the controlling lutercst in the 'Frisco road. Some of our exchanges seem to doubt the rumor, but are liberal enough to admit that such a thing is not among the.impossibili-ties. About seventeen different young ladies in as many different towns have said, "To kiss gracefully and artistically, and hug splendidly and emotionally, are real accomplishments not to le learned in a day," A Howard girl is the last to get it off.

This morning our old-time Wiufield friend, ltev. C. J. Adams, now of Independence, honored the Signal office with a half-hour call. He seemed as pleased to meet us as we were to meet him, and encouraged us with his congratulations and well wishes.

The Adams Express Company has opened up tho express service on the whole of Kansas City, Fort Scott Gulf road, also the Kansas City, Lawrence Southern, doing business at Kansas City heretofore done by the U. S. Express Company. Telegram. If yon have not seen au on your paper, look out for it.

We understand that Messrs. Martin Henderson and J. H. Crotsley have purchased John Maurer's stock of con ors to run the Sherman House to the best satisfaction of the travling public condition to-day. Pleasure seekers will soon turn their attention to the shady banks of the pellucid Elk river.

Charley Henderson is afflicted with the mumps, and Frank Hollingsworth is drayman pro tem. If there is a hole in the liquor law large enough to creep through, it has not been discovered. The clear notes of the meadow lark etrike tho ear pleasantly after the long eeigo of cold weather. If you think our weather items arc "mixed" this week, what do you think of the weather itself? and tne patrons oi the house generally. The Brettun House, the new $23,000 Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Lime, Cement, Stucco, Hair, Coal, Brick, Paint, Highest Cash Price A "NT I At Yard ortl paid for all kinds of VX-ZjL JL of Railroft(l Track, ELK FALLS, KANSAS.

the M. L. church next Sabbath at 11 o'clock a. m. Rev.

Bristow will occupy the pulpit iu the evening. While in Howard last Monday Mrs. A. E. Joscelyn, the best artist in that city, presented our lady with a photograph of her little terrier purp.

Stanley Crandal and Clay Rush, two Courant office boys, and Dave Dodd and Vol. Momma, of Howard, took in this city last Sunday afternoon. Hunnewell, in Sumner county, is incorporated as a city of the third class. The first corps of city officers will be elected next Wednesday. A month ago it was Hayes who did hotel building at mnheld, which is not yet quite completed, had a narrow escape from lire one day last week.

The tinners at work on the roof went to dinner, leaving their furnace sitting on the pine sheeting. While they were absent some coals of lire rolled out, setting the pine on fire, and it had been fanned into a blaze when discovered. It was indeed a narrow escape. Subscribe for the Signal, ami reeolvo a a premium the Monthly Nation. G.

W. BLACKBURN, -Dealer in- fectioneries, cigars, tobacco, and will continue the business at the same stand. Just let the world see which wnv HARDWARE, Cutlery, Iron and Steel, you are determined to go and it will Some days ago wo purchased of Lisk Fain the latest thing out in the way of a clothes wringer. It is no cheap affair, but simply the most complete and durable article of tho kind we ever saw. The springs on cither side work Independent of each other, thus enabling the "Champion" to do better work and give better satisfaction than any wringer previously patented.

Next Thursday evening the Dalby Family will render "Sarah's Young Man" at tho stone hall in this city. 1P4Kaw Iii.I onl.intA Iw.m. set us mighty shoulder to the wncci and help you along, caring but little whether your objective point be heaven or hell. NAILS, LOCKS, BUTTS, WIRE, FINE GUNS, REVOLVERS. Fort Scott, Topeka, Atchison, Leav-worth and Wyandotte will soon bo connected by telephone.

Kansas is certainly prospering, judging from tho number of new papers starting and about to start. Tho largest stock of spring and summer clothing and general merchandise received daily at J. R. Clarke's. 2 The dray is kept busy hauling boxes, trunks, crates and barrels from the depot to the different business houses.

Mrs. I. M. Olney, of Eureka, Is visiting in this city with the family of her brother-in-law, Dr. F.

8. Olney. Tho fanners of Neosho county are said to bo getting rich by raising crops pf castor beans, llax and broom corn. Last Friday morning, April 1st, mercury registered 18 above zero. This morning where, Oh where was it? Tho church going people of Gould have run out of "sugar" and are compelled to suspend work on their church building.

Slnco disposing of his farm Mr. II. C. Waterman has removed his family and household goods to Mrs. Lillbum's residence In this city.

We understand that Longton, down in Elk county, has another newspaper. If this one receives no better support than tho balance that have started and tarred out In that little burg, It will be a Short lived Gould Pioneer. A complete and well selected stock of Jl ILIKJ MniA DVJIVVvHJH. II liUT might expect a good attendance, but the play they advertise is quite old, our Home Dramatic Company having recently rendered it in a creditable not suit the stalwarts, and now it is Garfield. Tho only way to please everydody is to run a newspaper.

The year 1816 is said to have been without a summer, and 1881 will be the year without a spring, if this ice-frost-snow-wind doesn't let up soon. During tho past week thrco of our old subscribers ordered their papers discontinued, and wc have added to our city list alone seven nkw names. Master Clifford Walling and little Emma Pratt arc among our most regular callers. The Franciscan fathers have commenced work on the proposed convent at Emporia. Subscribe at once for theft.

Louis Journal of Agriculture, the best agricultural paper In the West, and the Sional for J. (Hi only. Hold Thomas Is A handsome dapple Rray hors, sland Kl't hands high, weighs lh. nnd Is only 0 years obi he Is Norman nnd Clydesdale stork. This horse will tnnd at Woodward A llussey's llvcrv stable In Elk Falls on Friday and Saturday of each neck Mondays ami Tuesday at loiigton Wednesdays iiml Thursday at iny farm, i miles north of Elk Fulls.

3-(l MOHUIS A Card. I wish to lei all thaKccfesand Mulrahy know-that they will oblige me by keeping away from Harry Wbb iuforms that ho now has on ale, nt tho depot la this city, ticket to all paints Iu Tcxa, Oregou, and In fart to all principal points In tho Great West, Nonth-wsst, Northwest ami South, as well fig to all Eastern points. 3 On Saturday five or six well-equipped teams, with a party of fifteen, from Elk county, passed through this city for Alamoso, Colorado, where they expect to get freighting. Wichita 'Beacon, April 0. Mr.

Lufkin, of the Elk Falls Hotel, has rented tho old Illinois grocery building and is fittiuir it tin iu irood SPIErJ? HARDWARE. jjiuijfii'r Th best brands of cooking and heating stove at U. W. lllacklnirn'. 4(1-51 The reports to the effect that the heavy freezes killed tho peaches and all early fruits, are Incorrect.

Most of the buds show life, and from present indications this summer will, bring plenty of the usual excellent oualltv shape for a sample room. It Is con veniently located and affords an abun dance of room. of Kansas fruit. -Atthc- The following were the eitv officers Wonder if the younir ladv collectors elected In this city last Monday: Mayor, F. S.

Olney; Police Judge, F. Hollingsworth; Couiicilnien, C. W. Rambo, V.lilako, Geo. Blackburn, G.

Fain and M. W. Tanner. for the Baptist church have discontinued their weekly visits? If not, wc tako priilo in their good Judgment "Boss" Hardware Store in Elk County. New Stone Stoic, IX Side 7th Stwt, ELK FALLS, wuuii uivy puss us we nave neon "bunted" for just seven wcckH.

I my prenilte until invited worn ro inn win M. NoUiTA. Tli fioNAf. and Monthly Nntl for 50. is snilirieiil..