Lerado Weekly Ledger from Lerado, Kansas • 2

ON TO II FFXCE DRUG ST LeradoLedger. LERADO, RENO COUNTY, KANSAS. An exchange publishes the following conundrum: We arise and ask anyone to explain why it is, A doctor will sit down and rite a perscription time, five minutes paper and ink, cent, and the patient pays from 50o. to $10, as the case may be. A lawyer writes ten or twelve lines of advice and gets from $5 to $20 from his client.

While an editor writes a half-column puff for a man pays a man from 50c. to $1. to put it in type, prints it on several hunbred papers, and then surprises the pufied man if he makes any charge. f3 1 i Ce pi 1 www AND TOILET AND PAINTERS' Kingman Eesident Property, Lerado Resident Property, Or, Good First Mortgage Bonds, bearing 8 and 10 per cent, interest per annum: FOR- Good Kingman and Reno County Farms. Would prefer farms situated in the Roscoe, Loda and Rell townships.

Address, KimMA'M, KAIL Lerado Town Lots For Sale; also, Eesident Lots in Kingman. OFFI0E GROQEfvY STORE. These oU people ere in consequence of the That he can and wiil the money than any Coffee, Sugar, CANNED Gcedzd! oid eo we S3 other Xaa. Tlio World. hTaBaai Best 9 For larjre or tmall guine E2 calibre, 40 prains powder: S3 40 cml.

60 Kt.t 45 cal. 70 and 85 er. The stroncest shootins Perfect sccnracT anaranteed and the onlr abdolntelv fl Gallery. safe rauBceo. JUt I A get ItiUea.

world renowned. The standard lot lanret snootlnc. huntiriR. and snooting sallerles. learleea different styles, prices irom DO NT FAIL TO CALL AT THE jf NEW GROCERYMPmp LERADO, KANSAS.

HARLIW FIRE ARMS Hew Haven, Conn. Two targets made with one of our 12 ca'lbre rlfl'-a, twenty conserntlve Bbots afterflfty 6hntshad flredand no cleanins daring the entire seventy shots. These puns carry eff nrarly ail Uia prUea at tar(et inatciiee because tbejr wo alwara accurate and reliable. The Eock Island Rapidly Pushing This Way. We take the following paragraph from the Hutchinson 'AYr of last Friday Dr.

John A. Brady, of Lerado, is in the city to-day. He says it is now defin itely settled that the Itok Island goes to Lerado, and in a conversation, by telephone, with Mr. E. L.

Preston, engineer in charge of theurveying "corps of the Kock Island, Mr. Brady was informed by Mr. Preston that he was or dered by the company to locate the road to the city of Lerado immediately. This will give Lerado quite a boom. If there is any man in Kansas, who deserves success, it is a rustler like Dr.

Brady. A $20.00 Eibie Reward. The publishers of fin Hedge's Monthly ofl'erl2 valuable rewards in Monthly for January, among which is the fallowing We will give 20.00 to the person tell ing us which is the longest chapter in the Xew Testament Scriptures, (not the revised edition), by January 10th, 1S87. Should two or more correct answers be received, the Kfward will be divided. The money will be forwarded to the win ner January 15th, ISS7.

Persons trying for tin; reward must send 20 cents in sil ver or postal notes (no postage stamps taken) with there answer, for which they will receive the Monthly for February in which the name and address of the win ner of the reward and the correct answer will be published, and in which several more valuable rewards will be offered Address, Rutlfdoe Pi-bushing Com pany, Easton, Pa. SALLEK Kt'IICES. Christmas has come and one. C1 We wisn everybody a happy Nt Year. ew George Brenner came home to spend Christmas with his family.

and Williamson Is still bed fast, but is recovering slowly. Oscar McCartney's child lias been seriously sick the past week but is now improving. There was a at Home school house on Christmas night. Mrs. Dutton gave her husband a grand surprise in the way of a birth-dav dinner on Chrislmas day.

Quite a number of friends were in a jolly good time was had. Several birth-day presents werej also' presented to Mr. Dutton Paxsv. Notice. I hereby give uotice that I have taken the contract to enlarge and deepen the Water Works well in the city of Lerado, Reno county, Kansas, and should any accident occur to any person engaged in the work, I will not be held responsible.

Thompson Browx. 27ot33 from New Home School. or HOXOR. Maggie Dunn, Bettie Ramsey, Bertha Reasoner, Clara BuTlard, Ham. Bur-ehell, Tallie Jones, John Cheatuui, C.

Dutton, Win. Burclull, King Billiard, iiuben Milliard, A. Dutton, Chas. Burthen, Albert Plush. TAHDV KOI.I..

Daisy Jones, Micla I'oteet, Ellen Po- teet, Jone, (ieorg-j Belt, D. Kamsey. IMPEftTKCT ROLL. Miseia Poteet, Ellen I'oteet, lona Cheatum. Maggie Childers, R.

Jones, Dock liamsey, Thos. Cheatum, Claude Williamson, Nelson Childers, Ora Jones, John Whiteside, Sadie Cheatum, Will Voorhees, Jasper Cheatum. PiioF. A. A.

I'katy, Teacher. Report cf Eell School. KOI.L OK IIOXOll. Minnie Bradshaw, Louis Wagoner, Alfred Bradshaw, A. Wagoner, Lizzie Bradshaw, Clara Wagoner.

Walter Pratt, Jno. Showalter, OUie Pratt, Annie Wagoner, Rosa Pratt, Russel Showalter, Jessie Ilickey, George Hasty, Mattie Hickey, Emrie Hasty. ABSENT. Ella Holland, Rosa Roland, Chas. Rolland, Daisy Graves, Bertha Showalter.

T.RlT. Samuel Roland, Omer Stifller, Voiiy Stifller, Miss Molmk Aykks, Teacher. The Great Rock Island. Zrerythins is Lovely. Wr clip the following from t.his(Thurs-day) morning's Wichita Daily Eagle, which gives a true idea of how we feel and how we are booming: "A telegram was received last evening by a gentleman in this city, from Lerado, stating that the surveyors of the Rock Island railroad had surveyed the final route through the town and that the city was in a blaze of excitement all day, canon firing, flags flying, and the festivities concluded with agrandballat Ilammel House, which was attended by several hundred cuests." Bob Xe3T, late of the Sun City Union, who has been filling an engagement with the Kempton Comedy Company, is now at Wichita orgaiizing a dramatic company of his own.

Bob is a favorite in Kansas and his new departure will undoubtedly be a success. Pratt Press. A mound near Liverpool, 111., was recently opened and several skeletons of very large men were found. The skulls were so large that they would go over an ordinary man's head, covering it to the shoulders. There was also found a steel anvil, perfect in form, and so hard that a file made little impression on it.

Also a setof false teeth, copper and ivory, large enough far a giant, and of excellent workmanship. Special figures on Lumber by the car load, by T. A Brown Lerado, Ks. 8. Entered in ih-i Pzet-ol; a as txa MULACX EROS.

Proprietors. THURSDAY, DEC. SO, 1885. The liquor ouse of La Joif, of Leavenworth lias ground through the mill, and the jury has aquitted the man. KQ The Iowa State Register says that if prohibiten was to be resubmitted in Iowa, it would carry hy troui 40,000 to 50,000 majority.

JPinkertou that he has at last caught up with "Jim the Adams express robber, and will soon bring him to justice. The First Xatonal J3ank of Milwaukee, was robbed Monday afternoon of in new $5 notes, about one half of which Were unsigned. Thomas of Leavenworth, late Democratic candidate for governor, was nominated last Wednesday week, for governor of Wyoming Territory. na A bold train robbery was committed about noon last Sunday, on the Fort Worth Denver, at Uelievue station, seventy miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. X1m' A tailor at Newark, Xew Jersey, been arrested and lined $59 and costs for employing a irirl under fourteen years of age.whL-h is violating a recent law passed in tiiat state employing child labor.

According to the law passed last winter by reference to the presidential succession in case Pros' Cleveland should die, Secretary ot State Day-ard would become president, as there is no vice president. Ve are in receipt, from Secretary Sims, of State Veterinarian Ilolcombe's special report oa "Indigestion in Copies will be furnished on application to Win, Sims, Secretary State of Agriculture, Topeka, Kan. A man in Xew York citv is willing to wager $4,000 that he can Jive on hay and oats for twenty-five days. Probably he can, for the man who wonkl attempt such a feat is the kind of an animal that esteems thistles a dellcacv. The nation again mourns.

John A. Logan, the great soldier-statesman, died at his home in Washington D. Sunday evening at clock, of brain fever, after a brief illness. Messages ot condolence -x-i pouring in from all of the counti v. A newly discovered Mexican iIover is quite a wonder if reports be true.

It is said, to be in th" snoring, red at noon a ne. blue at iiiui au.i is lurtber credited with emitting perfume only at the middle ot the day. It grows on a tree of the Isthmus of A Texas Fteer fot loose in the street I of Xew York and frijjhLeneil the natives very mucli. The ofneer who slipped 1 11 lil i. oeiiind tiio wild snot niiu through the heart after lie had been and tied to a stake, is now looked on as an intrepid hero and a miracle of marksmanship.

iCwi It is announced that the London Times gives the receipt of a compound composed of onions, oils and poppy heads which will sustain life indefinitely and take the place of all other food. It would do away with all the paraphernalia of the kitchen and table service and the oats would be so trilling that a life would be in reach of the humblest wayfarer. The accumulation of wealth Is meeting with more discouraging obstacles every day. A man may spend a life-time in laying up a fortune but in the end have it squandered hy monetary indiscretion. A died reeeutly and left an estate valued at of which $10 is to go to his son.

Thirty-seven lawyers are now engaged in united effort to break the will and about the same number are at work to defend it. The scarcity of hard coal is not confined to Kansas alone. In many of the large cities it is impossible to get a pound, of it. This is accounted for in two ways. First, the freight traino all over the country is greater than ever before known and second, the owners of the mines have combined to reduce the out-put i as to raise the already high price.

If they raise it any more out here, they wiil do so by putting on the straw that break? the camel's back. It is now as eostlj' as we can afford. One of the features of a thanksgiving service in a Minneapolis church was a strikingly beautiful cornet solo. After services a reporter asked the organist the name of the piece. "It is beautiful, as you say," said the musician, cautiously, "but it is so particularly secular that the Presbyterians here would be shocked if they knew what it This answer was printed, and now all Minneapolis is trjdng to find out just what that cornet player played.

In IJroekwayville, Pemisylyanta, a little girl was recently shot in the head, the bullet actually penetrating the brain matter, and the brain exuded through the aperture. The doeters probed to the depth of three inches in search of the ball. For a time paralysis followed the rupture of the brain, but gradually' it wore away, and at last accounts the child was in a perfectly normal condition except the unhealed opening. The actual functions seem to be in no way impaired, and no danger has resulted from 'inflammation. Such cases have been heard of before, but they are rare.

s-STOP The husbands of Washington terrtiory are beginn ing to kick against there wives going on juries. One of them writes as follows toil is local paper: "My wife has gone away on the jury four days I have not had a square meal since r-lie left. My children are crying for bread and everything goes wrong, lam hungry amriy, and all out of sorts in every way. I write this to warn the person who advocates woman's rights in my presence again to be a very large man, and if ever the sheriff comes after my wife again he had better bring a posse witii him, for my shot gun is and I will not hesitate to use it." The largest pension ever paid by the government to any one man at one pay ment, was paid to John T. Montcrief, late a member of Co.

11th Illinois cavaliy. lie was injured in 1SG1, in the Atlanta campaign by his horse being shot and falling upon him, from which he has been insane ever since. The pension amounted to $12,214,12, and will continue at $72 per month in thy future. It was paid to his guardian Morgan Chandler, of Greenfield, Indiana, and will be applied to the maintenance of his wife, ami the maintenane and education of her five children. Less than a year has seen ex-Presidents Graut and Arthur, Vice-president Hendricks, and presidential candidates McClellan, Hancock, Seymour and Til den, all laid away to rest in that narrow bed.

Very seldom does the history of a few months show a mortality so large, among the men who have stood so prominently before the "people of a na tion for political preferment. They have been conspicuously before the American people for the past quarter of a century, and they are now at rest, within a few months of eaeli other, with only their names and their deeds left to the people whom they served. Ten years ago Mrs. Ada Martin, of Bronson, Michigan, broke her left leg. and paralysis of the limb and loss of speech followed.

For some years pa-d she found pleasure in making crazy quilts, sending toeminent persons for biL of clothing for the patches. Among others she sent to President Cleveland, who se.it a patch and a neat letter. Martin received the letter on Wednesday and was so pleased that she attempted to rise, and in doing so knocked her sons revolve. off a stand near by, the pistol was fired by the fall, the ball passed through Mrs. Martin's paralyzed leg.

The shock restored her speech and apparently the leg will be nil right again after the pistol shot wound heals. Sarjiy Kansas. Just think of it. At Clinton, Iowa, teams are crossing the Mississippi rivt'r on the ice, while in Minnesota and other northern States people are wading and plunging through two and three feet of not the springlike weather of Kansas keep your bloods within due bound-; just now, and are you uot happy because you are not compelled to lay out any more money for fuel or The mildness of a Kansas winter is unapproachable, and its summers are bright and warm, with just cool air enough at night to require slight cover, ing. There is no place like Kansas, and this Is why emigration is so rapidly increasing.

Every eastern State is pouring its population into Kansas. Let them come; there i plenty room for all. The Col-inbia Bicycle Calender for 1S87. The Columbia bicycle calender for '87, issued by the Pope manufacturing company, of iioston, is a truly artistic work in chromo-lithography and is most convenient as each day of the year appears upon a separate slip. The calender is mounted upon a back of heavy board, upon which is exquisitely executed in oil color effect, an allegorical scene, representing the earth resting among the clouds, and Thomas Stevens, the famous bicycler, in heroic size, astride his Col umbia bicycle, circumbicycling the globe.

The sunshine illumines one side, while the moonlight gives a contrasting aspect to the other, and together, make a remarkable eiieet, vivid, yet artistically toned and softened. A smaller portion of the board is devoted to a picture of a mounted lady trieycler speeding along over a pleasant road. The new calender as a work of convenient art, is worthy of a place in olf.ee. library or parlor. Eeatty's Organs and Piano3.

Hon. Daniel P. Beatty, the great Organ and Piano manufacturer, is building and shipping more organs and pianos than ever. In 1S70 Mr. Beatty left home a penniless plow-boy, and by his un-domitable will he has worked his way up so as to sell so far, nearly 100,000 of Beatty 's organs and pianos since 1S70.

Nothing seems to dishearten him obstacles laid in his way, that would have wrecked any ordinary man forever, he turns to an advertisement and conies out of it brighter than ever. His instruments, as is well known, are very popular and are to be found in all parts of the world. We are informed that during the next ten years he intends to 200,000 more of his make, that means a business of $20,000,000 if we average them at $100. It is already the largest business of the kind in existence. Send to Daniel P.

Beatty, Washington, New Jersey, for catalogue-. i --'fv a SS1 er- a fig 41 V. Jm -tw ARTICLES, SUPPLIES, having a jollification announcement cf sell more good's for store in Kansas. Tea, Spices, GOODS. A3-- ajaiij)ia If Mn all kinds of Pi a a a a I iransas.

JOHN CRAGUN, Cashier. era 4 HENRY HAMMEL, Proprietor, cimerly Propriotcr Sterling Ecar.e, Sterling Sansas. Tliis new an Elegant Hotel is now open and ready for the Reception of Guests. It is furnished in grand style throughout. A VERY LARGE LIVERY STABLE OX THE PREMISES.

LERADO, KJL1ST. J. cat. 55 rliie made rliie ontnemar- Sportins and Tar. AUcatibrsfTorn22to 45.

Madeln ia.uu vp. bend lor illustrated catalogue. AT THE4- TOWN OF 15, 22, and 23, Township 9, West, in HEADQUARTERS FOR Staple and Fancij mit -AND- (HIE! Ill I Consisting of 3 Foreign and Domestic Fruit, Pure Missouri Apple Buttei Fresii Gidor, (Jass and Delft Tableware. in THE NEW Located on sections 14, 26, Range urn J'i! 'i -AisriD- I have sold mv trade and "ood will to Mr. I -who will hereafter conduct the Red Barn Livery.

I bespeak for Mr. Ely the liberal patronage that has been extended to me in the past. Thanking the public for their liberal pat mi I i k-h m4K JUL Ot all Classes Wanted. ronage, I am, respectfully, Zingman, CASH CAPITAL, EDGAR HENDERSON, President. TERMS: One third cash.

Balance Six ami Twelve months with 8 per cent Lots donated for good buildings. The Company invite correspondence, "and request that yon go and see that hat they huve represented is true. Address, Lerado Town Company, Lerado, Beno Kansas.