The Elgin Clipper from Elgin, Kansas • 1

THE ELGIN CLIPPER. VOL. 1. ELGIN, CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1891. NO.

21. 0. M. Atkinson, Proprietor of the Southern Kansas Hotel, ELCIN, KANSAS. Everything arranged for the com fort and convenience of guests.

The transient public will find it to their advantage to stop at the Southern Kansas. We received a call from Mrs. Virgil Ilerard, who was on her way home from Manitou Springs, Col. She says Manitou is a very fashionable resort and is visited principally by eastern people, Texas, however, is well represented there. On July 28 it snowed over a foot on Tikes Peak.

Ladies visit the Peak every day and it is no uncommon thing for them to faint while looking down upon the clouds. The guests of the hotels spend the greater part of their time dancing the "York" and waltzing. Every hotel has an orchestra. Deputy marshall Taylor, stopped over Sunday night at the Lawson House. He was accompanied by Frank Laberdie, whom he was taking to Pawhuska on the old charge of cutting walnut timber contrary to law.

Laberdie was arrested last spring on this charge but neglected to fill out a bond. After the departure of Taylor and Laberdie for Pawhuska, Monday morning, under Ayer's Hair or restores color and vitality to ak and gray hair. Through its hca ing and cleansing qualities it prevei 's the accumulation of dandruff and res scalp diseases. The best hair -essing ever made and by far the mt -t economical. G.

W. Dale dii i at his home in Cedar Vale last Monday morning. The deceased was an old and respected citizen and was Probate Judge of this county from 1S.S2 to 1884, and postmaster at Cedar Vale during Cleveland's administration. The capturing of two horse thieves last week, with thirty-seven head of horses they had stolen from an Indian will net Lee Taylor something like 1 ,000. According to the Osage laws the man who captures a horse thief receives from the national treasury a teward of S250 and one half the value of the property recovered.

As this is the second heavy draft that has been made on the treasury of late there is considerable THE Carries a full line of Harness, Saddles, Whips, Etc. Hoot, Shoe, and Harness Repairing Neatly Executed. KLGIN, KANSAS. If you want Groceries, 3Dry Goods, ICTotiorLs, Boots or Slices go get 'em of IEA STOUT. ELGIN PAWHUSKA Stage Lino MAGEE GRIQSBA, Pro's.

Stage leaves Elgin, 7:30 a. m. arrives at Pawhuska, 1 1 a. m. Stage leaves Tawhuska, io p.

m. arrives at Elgin, 6:00 p. m. CHURCHES. sheriff Lowe and deputy sheriff Mc- TATHOLICj Services every second urew arrived town for the purpose of arresting Taylor for the assault JSundav in each month.

Rev. S. Louiamet pastor. he made on Taylor Hicks at Chautauqua early last spring. Joseph Bigwolf, of the Osage Nation, made us a pleasant call last CHRISTIAN; Services every fourth VSabbath in each month.

Elder J. D. McBrian pastor. Tuesday. Mr.

Bigwolf is a full-blood Osage and was on his way to Haskel Institute. He attended the Indian ETHODIST EPISCOPAL; Regu- talk of reducing the resvards. Charlie Louden is in the neighborhood with his thrasher and it has been suggested that we prepare a special form of affidavit on which our farmers can make out statements of crop yields be published. When good men? come in and report forty bushels of wheat and seventy of oats to the acre, to say nothing of twenty of flax and sixty-five of corn, something must be done to entitle these statements to consideration away from home. Of course they pass all right here, for we can all testifiy to their truth.

PAWHUSKA. B. H. Dickinson, dentist, was at school at Carlisle, for three A'Alar preaching every first and third years, and there learned the art of When in Elgin call on 13D2rDJLlTf Sunday in each month by Rev. Wood.

printing. From a long talk with him we should say that he learned it LOCAL BREVITIES. DEALER IN better than did some whom the Agricultural college at Manhattan have turned out as masters of the art preservative. He informed us that the Haskel Institute will shortly be DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, and got his prices. gin the publication of a monthly, the typographical work on which will the Leland a few days this week.

be done at the institute by the pupils. Mr. and Mrs. Bopst, of Hominy Post, were in town Monday and Wednesday we had the pleasure Tuesday. BENJAMIN BAIR, of making the acquaintance of the venerable father of Mr.

Joseph Lock-hart. The old centleman lives near Dr. R. E. Bird and L.

C. were contemplating a trip to Humbolt, in Allen county, and is Colorado, this week, but will be de paying his son a visit. He is seventy- The Elgin Mercantile Co. will buy oats and wheat. Master Earl Hartley, of Pawhuska, is visiting with the family of J.

H. Hartley. Mr. John Leahy has gone to Sedan to read law in the office of Dan M. Pile until the beginning of our school.

The Elgin Mercantile Co. have heed for twenty-five more teams to haul lumber to Gray Horse and Hominy Post. Anyone needing any thing in the line of coffins can find what they want at the furniture rooms of the Elgin Mercantile Co. Misses Pearl and Maud Hartley returned home yesterday from a visit with friends and relatives at layed on account of Mr. Patterson having met with an accident while conveying a prisoner to Stillwater Mill six years old and up to four years ago was engaged in active farm work, tending forty acres of corn himself, but an attack of rhumatlsm compelled the latter part of last week.

A big dance was given at the him to rent the farm and since then he has been taking life easy. He ti. Fronkier house on Monday night, proiiQjy Doasts tnai wnen ne was The minister for this place has seventy years old he threw a man weighing three hundred pounds who been appointed and is expected by Tinware, Iron, Nails, Cutlery, Etc. ELGIN, KANSAS. next Sunday.

had the reputation of being the "best On Monday evening a select party man in Allen county. Pawhuska and Gray Horse. Baldness ought not to come ti of young ladies and gentlemen were boating by moonlight on Bird creek. Monday morning Mr. Magee will put another hack on the stage line between here and Pawhuska.

It will the age of fifty-five or later. If the A birthday dinner was given by hair begins to fall earlier, use Hall W. R. CAI. KLC.LV POSTOFITCE.

the family of Judge Rogers on the I'. 8. HAKHtH, leave Pawhuska at 6:00 a. m. and Hair Renewer and prevent baldness it being the Judge's natal day.

A big dance in the evening will arrive here at 11:00, giving the Pawhuska people who wish to go and grayness. I have a good milk cow of nativ CALL ECA-ZEWRIS, east, time enough to get their dinner stock, 5 years old, with a young calf, before the east bound train arrives which I will sell cheap for cash or The hack which leaves here in the good smooth head seed wheat. The DKALLUS IX morning now departs at 8:15, thus cow is gentle and a good milker, giving passengers for Pawhuska who Qualities all good. Call on J. Low, 3H miles north of Elgin.

arrive on the west bound train an opportunity to get breakfast. This new arrangement, we believe, will be ended the festivities of the day. A number of guests were present from town. The Judge was the recipient of some valuable and useful presents. W.

S. Bennett, who was sent to the insane asylum at St. Louis early last spring, returned home on Wednesday of last week, he having been pronounced cured. He appeared to be sane until Monday night, when he began raving as only a mania: can. The only occupant of the house with him was a feeble old man by the name of John Dearborn.

If the ladles would abandon cos Merchandise. metics and more generally keep their appriciated by the traveling public and the patronage it will attract wil more thaa compensate Mr. Maaee Diooa pure and vigorous by the use of Ayer' Sarsaparilla, naturally fair complexions would be the rule in J. I. Edwards surely would like stead of the exception, as at present, to be the Chautauqua county Repub lican Messiah.

If the Cedar Vale rule blood Is the best beautifier. W. R. Call received word yester Bennett proceeded up stairs to the Star reports him correctly the good old man room and told him to Leaders in Low Prices I day that on the 13th a son was born people of this county ought to give him a cromo. The party of great demonstcate that he was Jesus Christ, to Mr.

and Mrs. C. M. Barnes, who now live at Benedict, Kas. This is and upon the old man's failing to do moral ideas surely feel proud of that the third grand son presented to Dr.

effort. Every Republican should so Bennett kicked him down stairs and drove the old man to town at Call within the last two months, but carry a copy of this around in his All Kinds ot Produce Wanted the point of a pitch-fork, making pocket as a campaign document. the ur. seems as proud of him as he was of the first. Read it again and tell your neighbors him wade the creek and prodding to keep up his speed.

Bennett came about it; tell everybody what a great Sanky Johnson who is cultivating into town yelling that he had the leader has sprung up among us. He said: this playing Jesus virgu iierard's Wichita farm passed devil and for everyone to come and AT HIGHEST PRICES. Kansas. tnrougn town yesterday with a stalk is played out." Again he said: "We see him. Dearborn was rescued and Bennett captured and lodged in safe Elgin, have caught and it is time to ot corn twelve foot high tied to his wagon.

Mr. Johnson was very proud quarters, where he will be kept until put a stop to it." Now if this is not further decision as to his disposal. calculated to raise the standard of or nis sample of corn until he struck Big Caney valley, which he says unquestionably has better crops than morality what will, Go a little farth Strayed or Stolen, er with this stirring campaign ad dress and he tells you that "Kansas About July 2st, from my pasture one WILLIAM TURNER, PROPRIETOR OF THE GRAND AVENUE ast year produced two monstrocities: mile north of Elgin: One bay mare mule about fourteen hands high, five the man without socks and the man with the hoss-tail beard." This is fair sample of his eloquence, and years old. Dranded "WHC" (connected) on left shoulder. Also one bay horse mule, four years old, and are to be seen between here and Wishita.

The County Commissioners met on Wednesday of last week and granted the petition for the establishment of polls in Elgin. W. R. Call is entitled to the thanks of all the voters in this part of the township for the part he took in the matter. That there was no objection to the petition shows that evrybody con- should be printed in pamphlet form Livery, Feed and Sale Stable.

about fourteen hands high. Brand and placed in the hands of the central committee for gratuitous distribu ed with a straight bar, up and down, on the left shoulder. A reward of ten dollars will be given for informa- First-Class Ki rs Turnised. with or without Drivers to tion. After it has done its work, in charity lay it among the archives of the grand old party of morality that succeeding generations may learn on leading to their recovery.

L. C. Wait, ceeds that we are entitled to a voting 1 Tr and all points at Very Reasonable Kates, ELCIN, KANSAS. what kind of people lived in iSjt. Klgin.

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