The Coyville Star from Coyville, Kansas • 1

THE COYVILLE STAR. VOLUME I. COYVILLE, WILSON COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1897. 12. FREDONIA.

Geo. Dornblaser is visiting his parents this week. Senator Lamb of Woodson county ras in town Tuesday. T. J.

Hudson is in Chanute this week on legal business. The prospects for a good fair is improving, nine running horses having come in last Tuesday. County Attorney Jas. Kennedy, and family made a short visit to Stafford, Kansas, the past week. B.

F. Carter made a business trip through western Kansas last week. He reports. a mammoth wheat crop, but the corn crop is almost a complete failure. The annual school meeting last Thursday was probably better attended than any preceding one for years.

The meeting divided strictly on party lines and the republicans won by a majority of 58. Salaries were cut badly in several departments. The peoples party met last Saturday in convention to nominate candidates for county offices. The office of county treasurer was left vacant with the understanding that it should be filled by the democrats. The tollowing persons were nominated: for sheriff, W.

H. Bray: clerk, Chas. Isham; register of deeds, Howard Dean; coroner, Dr. Jones; there being no competent person for surveyor, that office was also left vacant, and at the close of the convention Ed Little addressed the audience in his characteristic manner. List of Deeds Recorded.

List of deeds filed for record for the week ending Aug. 5, 1897, as shown by the abstract books of Atwood Cady, Bonded Abstracter, Fredonia Christian F. Englebort, by sheriff, Jasper Bracket, sheriff's deed. 160 acres Fall River township $400. Forest Oil Compady to Standard Oil Company, warranty deed, 32 lots city of Neodesha, $2000.

Wilson county to Franklin Neff, tax deed, 3 lots city of Altoona, $4.39. Sophia G. Davison and wife.to S. W. Sturdevent, warranty deed, 150 acres Pleasant Valley township, $1360.

Samuel H. Ergenbright and wife to Fleeta W. Moon, warranty deed, 12 acres in Neodesha township, $1600. Rachel M. Elliott to M.

E. Canty, warranty deed, 134 acres in Colfax township, $700. Abbott and husband to W. Steele, warranty deed, 2 lots city of $34. Charles W.

Carter and wife to Chas. H. Carter et warranty deed 65 acres Pleasant Valley township, $1600. P. C.

Young and wife to W. H. Metcalf, warranty deed, 3 lots city of Neodesha, $700. R. W.

McGrath to Henry A. Stauffer, warranty deed 80 acres Center township, $1000. Anna B. Nichols and husband to W. Smith, warranty deed, Und.

1-14 of; 0160 acres Prairie township, $300. Marriage Licenses. been issued Aug. 5, as follows: Edwin: J. Loye, Joplin, Mo.

25 Elizabeth Berry, Fail River Kan. 23 Gus C. Parberry, Fredonia, Kan 23 Maryland E. Kelley, Fredonia, 15 New Cases Filed. Sarah Barnes vs.

B. F. Stilwell. E. R.

Marcum vs. Angie Marcum. Frank Blossom vs. Florence L. Blossom.

Tax Levies For 1897. State .50. County .75. Courthouse .10. Frisco Int.

.20. Sinking Fund .15. Jail .10. List of Jurors. Following is a list of jurors drawn for the September term of district court: J.

D. Munson, S. L. Wolever, Michael McGrath, C. W.

Scott, F. R. Curtis, Center; J. D. Jackson, Talleyrand; Jno.

Penney, Clifton; B. T. Harris, Fall River; Rob't. McGregor, A. S.

White, Verdigris; J. H. Young, B. F. Stilwell, C.

A. Boatman, Neodesha; S. L. Freidline, Pleasant Valley; B. A.

Colaw, Colfax; D. L. Matthew, Webster; J. B. Anglin, Clifton; Frankenburg, Ceder.

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Call at this office NEODESHA. From this week's Neodesha Sun. Miss Emma French is visiting friends for a few days in Kansas City. Henry Witt and wife drove down to Nowata, I. for a visit with relatives last week.

D. C. Krone sends us an announcement of a picnic in his grove next week Thursday. R. R.

Crawford, of Crawford Steam Laundry visited in Joplin Se.turday to Monday. Walter Moulton has purchased the ice business of the Osterhoff Ice taking possession last Monday. The barber shop proprietors of town have signed an agreement to close up shop on Sundays This will be in effect next Sudday. The band boys passed around a subscription paper Tuesday and enough money was subscribed to build a band platform which was put up at the corner of Main and Fourth streets. Con certs will be held there twice a week Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Two excellent games of base ball were played on the Neodesha diamond Monday and Tuesday between Winfield and our home team. The first game resulted in a score of 11 to 5 in favor of Neodesha. Tuesday's game was won Winfield in a score of 12 to 5. The tendance was good and the best of feeling prevailed. At the temperance meeting Sunday night in the Presbyterian church Rev.

Floyd, Baptist, of Mound Valley Rev. Funston of Erie who were on exchange of pulpits, made principal addresses. The meeting Was crowded and enthusiastic. the meeting held Tuesday night the Methodist church definite action was taken and a set of resolutions ranged to receive the indorsement signature of all of the temperance ple. This will prove the true sentiment of the community, and is intended to encourage County Attorney Kennedy to make the proper prosecutions, and to aid in securing dence.

This is just exactly the course to pursue and failure is impossible if the work is kept up. work will be put in the bands an excutive committee who will on the county attorney, and take tive measures to prosecute offenders. Daisy Meta Mary Clara BE. 30C IOC 35c 50c 50c 1.00 165c 1.00 STOC 11.00 I 00 $1.55 2.00 3.05 4 00 3.05 4.00 75c 1.00 50c change and are only further information. A very small per cent of the people actually patronize the joints in Neodesha.

Less than half give them any favor whatever, either from business motives, spite of another crowd religiously, politically or socially, or for any other reason. There seems to be put one thing that makes it possible for them to run and that is a failure of the temperance people to pull together. All those who drink, sell or profit by the sale of liquor, know no religion, political party or social caste that is above their love of the cup; while the temperance people, as we have found by investigation, are prone to consider who it is that is going to do the closing up of the joints. At various times this set or that set have worked hard to down the jointists, usually with very good success too, but have been opposed and criticised by other temperance people. Thus it is that a united minority defeats a divided majority.

This will be the result under such conditions every time just as stably as water flows down hill. If temperance is to permanently prevail in Neodesha, and there is not one man in ten but what in the bottom of his heart desires it should prevail, those who are pulling now must keep pulling until a majority join them. While a few ple may close the joints temporarily, nothing short of a majority will keep them closed. Heretofore some of the people have tried some of the time to close some of the joints. Now let all of the (temperance) people try all of the time to close all of the joints--and it really looks as though they will.

Ex-Senator Dan Mc Taggert Dead. Ex- Senator Daniel McTaggert of Liberty, Montgomery county, was shot Tuesday by Henry Sheesley and expired in a few hours. Dol McTaggert, his son, was also shot by the same person, but received only a flesh wound in the wrist. A judgment had been secured by McTaggert against Sheesley who had his mill leased, and it was during a constable's sale of mill stuff to satisfy this judgment that Sheesley, becoming enraged at wrongs he believed he was enduring, committed the rash act. Sheesley is in jail.

Both families are well respected and Mr. McTaggert was one of the best known republican politicians of the state, having been in the state legislature for fourteen years. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 20c or 25c.

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H. Where They Teach. Teachers are located as follows as officially reported by district clerks: Niswander, dist. 21, 6 mo. term.

Dennis Sheedy, 50, 6 mo. Minnie Myers, 63, 6 mo. Agnes Zachary, 92, 6 mo. Bailie, 48, 7 mo. George Bideau, 1, 7 mo.

Jessie Canty, 1, 7 mo. A Neff, 1, 7 mo. Chamberlain, 22, 6 mo, Loether, 25, 8 mo. Rogers, 65, 6 mo. Read, 8, 6 mo.

Truesdell, 24, 6 mo. Damewood, 91, 6 mo. Belle Killion, 31, 5 mo. Loreta Skinner, 67, 6 mo. Starkey, 94, 6 mo.

H. Peyton, 54, 8 mo. Stryker, 13, 6 mo. These are unofficially reported: Dodd, 49, 6 mo. Hendricks, 11, 6 mo.

Lulu Townsend, 66, 6 mo. Alfreda Coleman, 86, 6 mo. Amanda Cook, 32, 6 mo. Pearl Killion, 32, 6 mo. Ramp, 38, 6 mo.

Orrie Colaw, 99, 6 mo. Guy A Jamieson, 51, 6 mo. Ella Sheedy, 72, 6 mo. Katherine Cole, 26, 6 mo, Florence Cole, 76, 6 mo. Alson Lamb, 7, 7 mo.

Mrs. Kate Jones, 7, 7 mo. Fink, 78, 7. Mattie Barron, 78, 6. Georgia Mariner, 56, 3 mo.

Sterns, 70, 6 mo. Young, 73, 6 mo. John Dunbar, 16, 6 mo. Spencer, 3, 6 mo. Woodard, 101, 6 mo.

Williams, 18, 6 mo. Martin, 10, 7 mo. Whitaker, 52, 7 mo. Connell, 75, 6 mo. Carrie Johnston, 79, 6 mo.

Owers, 64, 6 mo. Vliet, 61, 6 mo. Joseph Spurgeon, 46, 6 mo. Jos A Deardorff, 80, 7 mo, Elsina Butts, 17, 5 mo. Emma Potter, 98, 6 mo.

Edith Lines, 90, 6 mo. Dora Bingham, 48, 6 mo. Wm Cauble, 45, 6 mo. Orrie Davis, 55, 6 mo. RT Brown, 29, 6 mo.

Matilda Anderson, 83, 6 mo. McFadden, 82, 6 mo. Ina Bryan, 82, 6 mo. Ruth A Moss, 59, 6 mo. Russell, 33, 6 mo.

RT Madden, 47.8 mo. Carrie Welty, 47, 8 mo. Lines. 47, 8 mo. Smith, 47, 8 mo.

Lizzie Jones, 47, 8 mo. Winnie Morrison, 47, 8 mo. Carrie Moulton, 47, 8 mo. Emma French. 47, 8 mo.

Metta Kiddo, 48, 8 mo. Mary Babb, 47, 8 mo. Herman Shoemaker, 47, 8 mo. Mildred Dye, 48, 8 mio. Campbell, 40, 9 mo.

Howell, 40, 9 mo. Hal McFadden, 40, 9 mo. Fannie Butts, 40, 9 mo. Jennie Foster, 40, 9 mo. Mrs.

Campbell, 40, 9 mo. Mrs. Flora Parks, 40, 9 mo. Mabel Jenner, 40, 9 mo. Carrie Heath, 40,9 mo.

Jesse Jenkins, 37, 3 mo. Rogers, 41, 7 mo. Allie Teter, 40, 9 mo. Hall, 12, 8 mo. Educational Notes.

BY COUNTY TEACHERS. No. 64, known as the Ward school, will build a new school house this fall. H. H.

Peyton has returned from Ft. Scott, where he has been attending school. Altoona's school board is out seeking a teacher. Fifty years ahead of the times. District 11 (Bethel), located south of Altoona, will furnish its pupils and teacher with a new building.

W. G. Smith and bride passed through Fredonia Tuesday, on their NEW TORE Having purchased the Middletown store building of Puckett. and placed on the shelves an entire, new and complete stock of General Merchandise, I solicit the trade of the people of Middletown and vicinity. All the old goods have been moved away and my stock is new and clean.

will not sell on credit but expect to sell cheap and treat everybody right. All kinds of produce taken in exchange for G. P. STEELE, MIDDLETOWN, KANSAS. way from Baker, Ok.

Mr. Smiln has a position in the Neodesha schools. The clerks in general have been prompt in their reports. A small number have not as yet reported on "text books." An early report is desired. The average wages for teachers this year will be lower than any previous year, but more uniform.

We trust this does not indicate that the material has become of less worth. District 24 has more money in the hands of the district treasurer as a balance than many of the districts of the county raises during the year. They levied the enormous sum of 3 mills for all school purposes at its annual meeting. All pupils, teachers and others interested in the cause of education are cordially invited to place on exhibition in the educational department of our county Fair specimens of school work done in the county. No Entry fee.

See "Premium List" for rules and regulations. Some of the districts voted on the proposition of "district ownership," and carried with the requisite majority of those presant. The law requires a two-thirds vote of all the legal voterg of the district, hence the proposition was lost in some of the districts that supposed it had been carried. Will Teach in Neodesha. and here the At at arby eviright The of call ac- In an interview Wednesday with Mrs.

G. W. Smith, formerly Miss Phronia Eckes of Baker, we learn some facts regarding the preliminary trial of Miss Grace Allen of New Albany who was charged with poisoning Mrs. Smith, then Miss Eckes, which were either not published in the county papers last week or were given out incorrectly. The most important of these were that the doctor did not use nor testify to having used Fowler's solution, containing arsenic, also that Miss Allen testified to having known of Smith's engagement to Miss Fekes all during her correspondence and association with him, cover.

ing a period of over a year. While Mr. and Mrs. Smith fully believe Mrs. S.

and her mother were poisoned, and strong circumstantial evidence to this effect was brought out in the trial, they are pleased to have Miss Allen go free and do not wish to persecute her, nor prosecute her farther, since the matter has terminated so happily. They do wish however to not be thrown in a false light, and this the newspaper reports of last week furnished by Atl'y Kirkpatrick of the defense certainly did, if what Mr. and Mrs. Smith gay is true and we believe it is. Mr.

Smith's testimony was corroberated in all important respects by Miss Allen, and she does not claim to have been deceived. Mr. Smith will teach school as he had been engaged to do in Neodesha. Mr. and Mrs.

Smith are at present staying with Mr. Smith's parents near Altoona. They were married last week Thursday at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. and Mrs. J.

N. Eckes, near Baker, Rev. Eckes performing the ceremony..