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Wa-Keeney Tribune from WaKeeney, Kansas • 1

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1 LIU eenej NO 10 WA-KEENEY. KANSAS. MARCH 9, 1SSS. Charley Benedict has returned home THE TRIBUNE Kosolutions of Respect Wa-Keexkv, Kax, March 0, 1883. On behalf of the Wa-Keeney Lodg from Millbrook.

He went over on wheels and came back on runners, No. 200 the A. O. U. W.

we take tl is THE P'ONES DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL IN WESTERN KANSAS. leaving his wheels behind him. It looks very much as if Charley wants opportunity of extending out heartfel $1.50 per year in advance. TEUMS: an excuse for going back there. Mr.

Morton, the gentlemanly and effi sympathy to our beloved brother M. D. Ilolister anil his wife Ella Holister in the loss by the death of their young TalBUNE PUBLISHINC CO. prop's cient agent at this place, gives the est son, Richard Ilollisfer. hile realize that our sympathy cannot chee following information relative to traf-tic At this point.

Freight receipts for DIHISCTVUr. O'lUSTT OFFICERS. the panges of sorrow that comes to the ir February, 13SS, were 8 1,033.83, tickets hearts, yet we would tender them ou sold, He informs us that Mellis Bros, received two car loads of County Clerk O. A. Hour Treasurer.

Chan. Qibbs love and sympathy hoping that it may come to them as a rift Jn the cloud Itegister ot OeeUs Miss Ada Clin and, though God's a4 not on young cattle from Morganville, and that a Mr. Harrison Cole has just arrived from Bellevue, Ohio, with a C'Xintr Superintendent A. B. Baker County Attorney A.

J. Harlan ways, may they realiz in the time to The Farmer and the Tariff. "What are the prospects of farmers in your state?" "Well, they are pore. Never was so pore, in fact, sence I've be'u there. Folks wonder why boys leave the farm.

My boys left so as to get protected, they said, and they went into a clothing store, oue of 'em and one went into hardware and one is talkin protection in the legislature this winter. They said that farm in' was gettin' to be like fishin and huntin', well enough for a man. tlint has means and leasure, but they couldn't make a livin' at it, they said. Another boy is in a drug store, and the man that hires him says he is a royal feller." "Kind of a castor royal feller," I said with a shriek of laughter. He waiied until I had laughed all I wanted to and said: "I've always hollered for high tariff in order to hyst the public debt, but now that we've got the national debt coppered I wish they'd take a little hack at mine.

I've put iu fifty years farmin' I never drank licker in any form. I've worked from tan to eighteen hour3 a day, been economical in cloz and never went to a show more'n a dozen times in my life, raised a family and learned upward of 20.) calves to drink out of a pail without blowing all their vittles up my come that whom He loveth He cbas teneth and our prayer is thatEUie fani ily circle broken here may bejre-united Blu-riflT John B. HoRan. Probate Judge If. n.

Conger. Clerk District Court A. H. Blair. J.

M. Welch. C. Itidgway. Kufua O.KoHlr.

County Surveyor Clias. J. Ferris. CITY UFF1CEUS. aboqe.

S. II. Co WICK J. II. Rick, E.

D. Wheeler Mayor A. L.GIeason I'roaiilentcf Conned A. (ilcuson. "That looks well on paper, but what does it really amount to? Sgon as a farmer boy gits in a place like that he forgets the soil that produced him and holds his head as high as a hollyhock.

He bellers for protection to everybody but the farmer, and while he Bails round in a highty-tighty room with a fire in it night and day, his father on the farm has to kindle his own firs in the morning with elm slivvers, and has to wear his son's lawn tennis suit next to him or freeze to death, and he has to milk in an old gray shawl that held that member of congress when he was a baby, by gorry! and the old lady has to sojourn through the winter in the flannels that Silas wore at the riggatter before he went to congress. "So I say and I think that congress agrees with me. Damn a farmer, anyhow?" He then went away. Bill Xve. Tho Burlington System.

Of nearly 6,000 miles of steel rail, well ballasted, with iron and steel bridges, an equippment Unexcelled, with ovor 300 passenger trains daily, traversing the great states of Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota and the Territories, with trains made up of Pullman palace sleeping cars, the Jluiiiiigiou's celebrated dining cars and improved modern free chair cars, is unquestionably the route for travelers to take going east, west or north. Three daily fast trains between Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth ami Quincy, Burlington, Peoria and Chicago without change. Two daily fast trains between Kansas City, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines, Minneapolis and St. Paul, with no change.

Two fast daily trains between Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison and Old Settler's Association, of Colyer, CoiXYEit, Mar. 3, 1888. l'ersuant to adjournment Feb. 13 18S8 the old settler's association met at Collyer, March 3, 1358.

The association was called to order by the president, carload of household effects. By the way Mr. Morton is a 'Democrat and a true blue one at that. A new and extra gang of auxiliary surveyors and graders, who are assisting the force alrpa ly in the field engng-ed in building the Salina branch of the U. P.

It. R. were in town yesterday, They bought about $250 worth of supplies from Marshall Ufford, and kept the large force in that mammoth cst-ib1 lisment worked to its utmost capacity for a few hours. This branch is now built to "Waldo, in Rusiell county, and is to strike Plainvllle, Millbrook, lloxie and Colby. There seems to have been a regular shaking up among the newspaper fraternity of this city.

The Republican has changed hands, the firm now being named Shpard Janes. Mr. C. II. Janes, of Topeka.

first purchased a half interest in the paper and oflice, buying out Mr. Shepard, Mr. Shepard stood being out in the cold about twelve hours and then bought out his former partner, John Barrett. Mr. Janes is a practical printer, and in newspaper work seems to be to the the ma'nnrborn We welcome him to a residence in this W.

Burns. T. K. Philips, secretary, being absent, li. G.

Kessier was duly elected and installed as secretary. On sleeve. My wife worked alongside me motion the chair was authorized to appoint an executive committee as fol A. II. Blair.

B. J.F. Ilnnna. M. W.

McCoy. 14. C. Wilson. F.

I'orter. City Clerk W. H. Dunn. Treasurer lee Monroe.

Police Magistrate B. M. Hutzol Wurnlial Josi ph S30C2ETI23S. G. A.

II. Meets lsta4 2nd Tuesday of each month at UiOirhall. W. S. Krus, W.

B. KhitchfiKld. Com. Adit. h.

o. u. w. so7m Maota every Tuesday night at Masonic hall. F.

W. Lbmon, M. D. KoLMSTEn, H. W.

Itecorder. A. Meets 2n(i and 4lh Sutmd'iy tdfdil ol adi mouth iu their hall in the KenVy lilock. F. H.

Cungkk. S. B. Cowick, W.M. bee.

sewin nevr seats on the boys' pants, Bkimniin' milk aud even helpin' me lows: R. G. Kessler, Chas. Adams, Geo. York, James Seibert G.

W. Kessler and J. W. Burns. The ladies executive committee toco-openita with the above load hay.

Tor forty years Ave toiled ulong together and hardly got time to look into other's faces or dared to stop and got acquainted with each other. as follows: Mrs. L. Lellron, Mrs. C.

A Sperry, Mrs. J. C. Martin Airs. O.

Then her health failed. Ketched cold dubbins, Mrs. B. York, Mrs. G.

W. in the spring house, prob'ly skimrain' milk end washiu' pans and scaldin' Kessler and Mrs. B. I Bartlctt. On motion the chair appointed a commit pails and spankin butter.

Anyhow, tee on invitation viz: Capt. C. C. Fouts, she took in a long breath one day while the doctor and me was watchin' her R. G.

Kessler, and L. LeBron. The executive committee make and she said to me, says she, city, and a fellowship in a fraternity I've got a chance to and she put whose peculiarities are known only to special request, that all old settlors of 78, 79 and 80 inclusive, of Collyer and vicinity and whose poat bflico ib Collyer I. O. O.

NO. 304. (tests 07ery Wednesday nifc'lit at Masonic Hull. S. C.

1'kaoock, N. G. M. W. Ouvn, fiecy the disciples of thejart.

one tired, and worn out hand, and I kuow she's gone where they don't work all day and do chores all night. Dro. Tilton strikes the truo key note will correspend promptly with Tl. BAILttOAO fl.TIK CVKD. Kessler, chairman of executive com In his "Do not wait," in reference to the setlingout of trees on the "I took time to kiss her then.

I'd been too busy for a good while previous school house grounds. "What is eve mittee on or before March 13 and state that they will attend personally and also what they will furnish in the way to that, and then I called in the boys. Denver, without change. The line carrying the government fast mail between thu east and the fur west. Any ticket agent can give you maps and time table of this well known route, or you can address II.

C. Orr, general southwestern passenger agent, Kansas City, A. C. Daws, general passenger and ticket agent, St. seph.

Mo. The Western Farm Mortgage Trust Co. has never missed a proof- See Geo. C. Ward for Loans, body's business is nobody's business" After the funeral it was too much for GOIKG EAST.

Ko. 3V2, Express a. m. Ko. 201, Pusscnper 6:28 p.

in. WEST. No. "Ol.Kxpresii (Overland Flyer) 0 .28 p. rn.

Nu. 203, Passenger 10:07 p. ni. J. h.

Moutos, ARent. Wa-Keeney, Kansas. them to stay around and eat the kind of cookin' we had to put up with, and nobody spoke around the house used to. The boys quit whiailin' around the barn and talked kind of low by LOCAL ITEMS- themselves about goin' to town and gettin' a job. 'They're all goneuow, aad the snow Owing to the fact that wo were busy cousumating the trade and taking an invoice of the office, at the time we should have been gathering local news, this department is not as well filled as we would like, and many important of provisions for the dinner, that will be served at the G.

A. R. hall, in Collyer at 2 o'clock p. m. sharp March 17, 1888.

The committee on invitation will procure from Trego county good and able speakers and it will be expected that all present will take part and have a genuine good on the tenth anniversary of our advent into the Great Sunflower State. Come! Old settler, come, with a hi heart, and a full basket and make day worthy of remembrance in the history of Trego county. There will also be a permanent organization effected and officers elected for the ensuing year. R. G.

Kesslek, Sec. Geo- C. Ward will furnish you money to make Proof. is four feet deep on mother's grave np there in the old berryia' ground." Then both of us looked out of the car is an old adage, but all that is needed in order to insure everybody's he public's) business attended to. is to designate and appoint some person or persons to do the work.

By all means call a meeting and appoint a committee to see that the grounds are set out to trees this spring. A years' growth is an important ltwm in tree culture, and if the school district Is not (lush with funds, the public spirit and generosity ol our citizens will provide the funds iw procure the, necessary trees. diedJ Gen. Curtis, son of Geo. M.

and E. Li. Ufferd. born August 22, 1888. died March 5, 1SSS.

The little boy was buried on "Wednesday, March 7. 1888. It is unnecessary to say that Mr. and Mrs. Ufford have the sincere sympathy of this entire community, of which they are honored and respected members.

window quite a long while -without matters have probably been overlook saying anything. "I don't blame the boys for going in- t) something else long's other things Old Metal Wanted. We will pay the same as Kansas City foundries for old type or stereotype plates tf Rock Springs Coal. F. O.

Ellsworth has the agency for the Rock Springs coal the best in the market. pay better; but I say and I say what I know thiit the man who holds the prosperity of this country in his hands, the man that actually makes money for other people to spend, the man that eats three good, simple, square meals a day and goes to bed at 9 o'clock, so that future generations with good blood and cool brains can go from his farm to the Flour and feed of all kinds at F. O. Ellsworth's. See Geo- C- Ward before making Final Proof.

senate and congress and the White ed, but we will tiy to make amends in he future. Judge S. Osborn went to Ness City to-day and ex puds to return next Saturday S. II. Co wick started to Kansas City yesterday evening, in the interest of the printing committee, of the U.

P. Immigration Association, of which committee he is a member. F.Tosli visited his young friend C. M. Henkel at Wallace this week.

He expresses himself as suprised at seeing so thrivins a town as Wallace, in the extreme West, but says that Wa-Keeney downs them all. Ed Wilkin, of the firm of "Wilkin "Wilkin, of Scott City, is at home this week on a visit. Mr. "Wilkin represents Geo. C.

"Ward's loan interests at Scott City, and must be a rustler from the manner in which lie rushes the business in. He is an energetic aud wide-awake business man. house-he is the man that get3 left at Patents Granted. To citizens of Kansas during the past week and reported expressly for this paper by C. A.

Snow Sc patent lawyers, opposite U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. ft: J. Ahrendis, Monmouth, churn; W.

Dixon, Clay Center, wire and picket fence machine; J. B. McCray, Corbin, car coupling; E. W. Miles, Glen Elder, plastering machine; II.

A. Murphy, Elk City, L. Russell, Cherokee, telegraph repeater; A.M. Stoner. Topeka, velocipede; J.

W. Trout. Cherry Vale, veneer last to run his farm, with nobody to help him but a hired man and a high Timber Culture Affidavits. The new blanks required for timbe culture entry on hand and for sale at the Tiubune office. protective tariff.

The farms in our state i3 mortgaged for over $700,000,000 Ten of our western states -I see by the papers has got about three billion and a half mortgages on iheir farms, an I they don't count the chattle mortgages filed villi the town clerks on farm machinery, stock, wagons and even crops, by goshl tnat ain't two inches The best buggies in the west are to be found at F. O. Ellsworth's. In Brief, and to the Point. Dyspepsia is dreadful.

Disordered liv er is misery. Indigestion is a foe to good high under the snow. That's what the nature. The human digestive appara Ask Geo. C.

Ward about Farm Loans- The best make of wagons always on hand at F. O. Ellsworth's. prospects is for farmers now. The government is rich, but the men that tus is one of the most complicated and An infant son of Mr.

and Mas. Frank Lucas, died Wednesday. Thefun-neral will be held at the residence at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. List oi Jurors. The following is a list of the jurors drawn for the March term of the District Court, which convenes on March 20,1888.

Charles W. Bell, Gibson, Edwin R.Moffltt. W. A.CrandeU Wright Speua. Samuel Bingaman Banner Theodore Counting, John A.

Freas, Alex Hazlett, Pelig Collyer J. H. Smith, C. W. Wellman, Gea.

E. Fellows. Wa-Keeney C. H.Mchatuhlin, Charles W. Sweet, C.

A. Beavers 1 B. Gaisford, A. F. Tosh, A.

B. Cooper, Ogallah W. S. Knapp, Henry Cutler, Ed Griffith, A. Cockerel, M.C.

Adair, Adair. wonderful things in existence. It is made it, the men that keep it. the men that fought perare fires, and perarie wolves and Injuns and potatoe bug3 and blizzards, and has to pay the war debt and pensions ard everything els6 and hollered for the union and the Republi Get your Loans through Geo. C.

Ward- Money always ready. easily put out of order. Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food, bad cookery, meutal worry, late hours, irregular habits, and "many other things which ought not to be, have made the American people a nation ot dyspeptics. But Green's August Flower has done a can party and high tariff and every Rewarded are those who road thia Mr. Sigler gave a free excursion last "Wednssday evening.

Not on the cars, but on a mammoth sled. lie had as exursionists a wagon bed full of merry, light hearted girls, who filed the night air with the musicjof their voices From the look of the ground.now, it seems as if they got their sleigh ride just in time. Stlnson Harsher of Stark county, Ills, arrived in Wa-Keeney lastevejiing and will try the productivness of Trego county this season. Mr. Baraber is a friend and former neighbor of A.

W. Hotchkiss, and owns the south-nast of section 21-13-21 He will work for Mrs. S. A. Munsoii.

this season and if he is suited with the country, will im-l; ove hud next year, ICIILYi and then act they will find honorable employment that will not take tliera from their homes and wonderful work in reforming this sad business and making thu American famine. The nrotits are lurire and pure for people bo healthy that they can enjoy their meals and be happy. Remember: tning else that they was told to, is left high and dry this cold winter with a mortgage of seven billion and a half on the farms they have earned and saved a thousand times over." "Yes; but look at the glory of sending from the farm the future president, the future senator and the future member ,61 No happyness without health. But Green's ugust Flower brings health every industrious person many have mad" and are -now making several hundred dollars per month It i easy for any one to make $5 and upwards per day, who is willing to work. Eit.h"r sex, young or old? capital not needed: wo start yon.

Everything new. No special ability required reader, can do it as well nti anyone. Wr'ta to at once for nil prtiniiltr, which we mail free. Addreaa, Stiusoii 1 'oft laud, Malay. and hippy nes8 to the dvspeptic.

Ask vour.drugmst for. a bottle; seventy- uyu ceuia..

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