Burr Oak Rustler from Burr Oak, Kansas • 1

"BLIC 4M mm 4 as GEO. HILL Editor ft istor. HEV TO LIE LI HE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WiOE THEY MAY $1.20 l'til 1 LAii VOL. 1 BURR QAK, JEWELL COUNTY, KANSAS. THURSDAY, 11.

1887 DUMBER 35. HOTELS. We pre aiui.ov.noe the You nUhouzh times 'be ft Proiram of the miMlc meefinsr of TH REPITCUGAK. u.me of A. Me Rtooa little hard, afford to lvwithoatngocd nwnspip.

as a eand.o,: lor oihee nvwm uMi loves companv, x- ot -oflda, subject to I'nd you wil Want to know bow man- 3 JC- OFFICII HOURS. OflQcehours am. to 9 p. m. Open Sunday from .9 to 10.

30 a. in. Money Postal Nqte and Reg-lstery Bustnessirora 8 a.m.to p. A. S.

JUDY. P.M. H. L. Horner Asst.

P. M. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. COUNTjr OFFICERS. Kepresentative K2d DIs.

E. Wiison. (ilerk DistCourt Ross J. J. Dalton.

Ksjzister.of W.N.Hoskinsji. T. L. Muuson. asheriix H.

Woolen. sjup't. W.Turner. Probate udge 'li. C.

Kyle. County Surveyor. Tliyrarn. County Attorney II. Meachem.

'Coroner Dr. Young. 1 J. Goodwin. County Commissioners.

i W. Scott. W. D. Cook BCRR OAK TOWNSHir Trustee Dick.

Treasurer Wm. Itiuer. Clerk ....0. L. Knapp.

I S'tanan. Justices, T. Il.Moore. o. ones constables.

V. M. Bates. CITY OF BUHR OAK. tt 1 Mayor, W.

B.uear's' Police udga, W. S. Cauau. cky W. lieaston.

Treasurer, P. II. Spear's. snrshal, W. E.

C'oyner. i). A. Sally F. lioyer.

couacilmen, J. A. Boyer II. Vy. Lathrop (T-u- ue bU)ffi5 Pray.r.

Hecitatioa Edna Oleny. Paper Mr Mclvitniey lieciintion, Jessie Uox, vSinglng. Hesitation. Louie Knapp. of Alcehol Dr Hawley.

Declamation irvLn Mcintosh. Singing. Declamation Merlie Gresn. Select itedg. Miss Mary Kneeland Recitation May Sally.

Singing. Jtecitatlgu, Jessie Fisher. SO athered facts Mr. Cox. i Siutring.

Benediction. Texas held hor amepdment on tbe 4 inst. Tho prohibitory uue.wttB Kiiuwtfu miucr uy majority. of 80,000. TJiiir wan lo have been ejected in a state with a democratic ma jority of over 180,000, and in winch one third ot the citizens cannot read Given Dtuio-cracy, illiteracy, and whisKey, and the large amount of boodle furnished by tho brew 1 lil era ana distillers, ana ine arm of co-woiKera all over tho country lor campaign purposes, and one can easily imagine the dtliuulties under which the temperance people labor.

But the advocates tHnperuiivH) there aa else where will Keep pecKing away, and many ol them will live to see their cause ao ltvo a glorious triumph. Bo mote it Le. Ilolfman, the train wrecKi before his oxeoutiou, wrote following letter lor general publication. Who is able Lo understand the remorse and distress of heart which prompted it? WARNING TO ALl TO UNO MEN. I write these few linos hoping that some ycuug man.

whom I have played with may them and take warning and uevcr tip the poison bowl to your lijiH. Young man, when you ill your hist glass, set it down and think, oh, tliinK deep down in yonr heart, iiiiw many graves it hns filled. Oli, how many children'! lathers it has turn away from and how many poor Wives ars left alone in sorrow; and grief for the loss of tbeir dear loved, beloved husbands. How many dear mothers' hearts it has jroken. Oh, young man.

turn from thut broad path. Oh, stop and think of oue who was free and happy, but whoso heart is now overflowed with grief, almost, laid his looely giave, and that miserable liquor. Oh, young men, take warning before it is too late. David Hoffman. In St.

Louis last Saturday1 six Kickapoo Indiana wera peddling moccasins, when a. drunken loafer deliberately knockec them down. Theun-tutored sons of the Jorrest went to their camp, procured their Winchester rifle and re turned to the place where tha man was. One of the Indiana. also had a and advanc ed on the white; man, who, pulled a pistol and shot him.

He then ran into a house and began liring back at a lively rate. The people in the neigh. orhood fled in all directions. I'he battle continued until two of the Indians, fell to the, pavement, morta'y The Indians then retreaied to their camp, bearing their-wounded with them, Tliey surrendered. While the bat-, tie was going on the Indians; were utteiing their wn-J, war whoop.

Men, women, and. children fled in all directions and the police well, ti were not iiieutionediu Ue iliv p-'tchts, out we huppuae thPJ': made, a maoteiiy Times. Commercial House. Jesse MpDaniela, Prop. Bast hctel in ths city.

Cood sample rooms. BcrrOak, Kans. WHITE HOUSE. W. J.

WHITE, PROP. Good Table. Clean Bads. Bus to and from all trains. EurrCak, KAn.

1j. Thornberg. prop iy CITY RESTAURANT Opposite Dr. llayi.Wj's Residence. BurkOak, Kan.

A.W, mim public, Fension papers a Specialty. COLLECTIONS MADE AD MONEY TO LOAN ouLONG or SHORT time AT CURRENT RATES CITY Bought or Sold. A. W. MANN.

BURR OAK AN ORRIS. AND ft Proprietors CF THE Barn just west of Coramer-oial Hotel. Good rigs an first accomidations. Commercial trade soliceted. S.

H. Lain Livery Feed Stable. good rigs furnished with 01 without drivers. Burr Oak, Insure Your I'rcpcity Against loss by fir.E, Ligeimkg, Cyclones and Tornadoes WITH A. GODFREY, Agent for the American Central, oj St.

Louis, Mo. the German, of Peoria, and The Rockfprd, of Rockford, Ills. OFFICE AT RESIDENCE, Where I will attend to PENSION CLAIMS, and all Notariei bueinesa. SATISFACTION CUARENTEED. A.

J. Godfrey. BURR OAK STOCK MARKET Hogs corn 40 to45o Wheat45, 55c. Rye 40c. Stock Cattle 3.004.00 PRODUCE MARKET.

Eggs 08o. Butter 12Jc. Potatoes 1,00. jeal $1.00. Flolr 31.80$ 3.00 Young Chickens $1.00, Old Ohickenhena-SlJO, LISY STA1LE.

Geo. Hill tlditoiaud Propriety. Published every Thursday 15 nit Oak, Jkvei.l Co, Kansas. TE.RMS.' $1 .23 I'EI A. LOCAL ITEMS.

U-t. iS alloy is ou tho sick list. Dr. Saunders, of Mankato, was in town Sunday. 1 yon want a good home paper subscribe for the Uuitbucan.

We had hot winds Herved up to us agajn on Monday. Go to Ir. Ilawley's for pure drugs. Monahan left this morning for her hoine-J auction City. A feOod houseleppcr can got good wages and steady work lit A.

W. Mann'B. The Normal students have come home, and will take a much nveded rest. ''I stood on tho bridge at midnight," Reading about baraiuH. The M.

E. S. S. Concert last Sunday was whJi utteuded and pasaed of nicely. Go to the Farmers' Store for hats at cost Sherifi.

Woollen and Clerk Dalton made a budinuss trip to our town, on Tuesday. J.ow cut shoes ij.nd slippers at costt at A. C. Slumps, Conductor Davis will soon move into the house lately vacated by i'rank Gilbert. ppr choice bread go to A.

C. C. J. Canfield brought som sweet potatoes to town last riutiu'day the ni'st of tbe si a that we have seen. Doni forget to subscribe for the itEPpiiolCAN.

The V. C. T. U. Public meeting wih liekl ac the Uaptiot Church nxi Muidj'l'J evening.

il respeclully in If you want to rent a hpuse pr buy a uouse and lot oi any town or country property A. he has som oai'aius in cacn Midii liadio Taylor and Miss Ethyi Spears, who have beou vising nionu and relatives, in Illinois, leturneJ lat Friday. A. W. Jli'nii will sell yqu pretty I jI right's ad on from 1 io 5 uu(e at a low rate of interest.

If Doc SLoup had some water-melons shipped in last week. Ho waid tho wore excelljsut, that is all we kno.s abou thein. Go the Farmer's ftae an.l look at worsteds at twenty-livj) per ccn! below cost. Frank Gilbert is taking in thi sights of Kansas City this week. Frank Igou went along for moral support.

40 acres farm at ch6 new town for sale cheap. Catch this a head of the boom. 11 A. Manu. Born, Sunflar morning.

August 7th. to M. and Mrs. Avery Calahan, a daughter. Mptlier and babe aoing as well as could be expected.

Irving Jo.hnson, John Boyei, Birdie Itoyer and VVillie llovey succssfnlly passed the common school examination and received their diplomas. The regular meeting of theW. C. T. U.

will meet at the Baptist church riday Aug 12t at 7 o'clock in the eve ning. CTc in 6mall lots is selling at 50 cents per bushel oats 30. Those who held their last year's crops are having a soft snap. FRECKLES CANNOT BE WASHED OUT with "VVbite Laundry" eoap, but it is the Best Made for hard or eo't water A' C. Shoup sells it Amongst the many city improvements lately made, is the repairing of the sidewaike in front of the business houses of A.

C. Shoup and T. B-Carpenter. Drugs! Uo to Ilawley's tor your pure drugs and choice reading. vi of disisiol wf the UepuUican -County Convention Notice isherehy given of a county Convention of the Union Laboi party will be held at Mankato Kan.

Sep, IZil. Far tlm u-f)ii of patting in nomination Co-, each township entitled to 5 delegates, to primary election to be held ep. 1' 187. Hy order of com, S. Davis Chairman.

County convention: A mass convention of lly Toinpor-anco yotors of Jewell Co. will bo hold -at Mankato on Wednesday, August 21, ub 11 o'clock a. to put in nomination ticicet composed of lionetit comphtent temperance men, jvithout regard to past aliliation. Many Voters. NOTICE.

J. U. Douglas, the greatest rlcutist, living or dead, has located at Maij-kalo and will visit li.urr Oak more freqmv't-ly in the future than in Uie past. Wil' be there at bite House, on hurday Uie lb of Aug. ill remaju but cue uay.

Attention Laboring Mn. rOLIflCAL MASS MEETING There will be a meeting of all men who labor for a living-farmers mechanics, merchants, Burr OaK on Thursday evening at early cuddle light, August 18th 18S7, for tho pur- pose of organizing a Lmon Labor Club. The meeting will addressed by Geo. E. Ward, who will discuss the issues of the day from a Union Labor standpoint.

Hall. "I'm weary of waiting and atching for thoo" to drop thy prices, old dtiil'back, so I am going right ijown to A. C. 8houp's to liny my booth, shoes slippers and groceries The Dernaiu hoys yon horo oil a visit last week. They are cnga.od in the grocpiy businoss at Alma, Jfob.

and are doing well. This their niany friends hore ore glud to know. Will Heastqii has greatly added to tht value and oppeai auce ol cozy borne by placing a fence of modern style and iinish along the entire front- ago of his lots. Well did, William. No tomatoes, and of god quality iiavo in ado 'heir ii pear, nee in our Tliey wro from ii.ausa-4 City, we be'ieve, uud fyi iixv would indicate Aud now the storjr comos to U3 thtd in thii Grand Island, region ihero bt'en so rnuh rain thut the crops nro a e'jthu fcilure.

The Spriiikluig cjirt is very much out of ux this year. By request there will be a sermon preached at the ilethodist next sabbath morning, by the Pastor appn "Iluman Jnympatli All are cordia'liy invited. Jim Gilbert and Frank Igou made flying trip to Nebraska last week, i'hoir object was, we learn, to purchase corn and hay. 1 hey secured some 20,006 bushels of the former, and 150 tons of the latter. A.

Bailey, candidate for Reghter ol Deeds, is putting in full time, and making it count. Ho reports every thing serene and lovely, and we believe him. About the time'of the conven tion you will see Bel there or there- tuouta. John Colernan, of Harrison lupUJS lip as a CrtlididuU l'yl Keglolel of peedf. Mr.

C. is a geutlemau in the, full meaning, and eminently quai- ilied for the position, and should the people see tit lu elect him there is no, Uoubt that the dutie? ef the ofllce would he faithfully attended to. borne members of the Council visited the slau6ULei houses in this vicinity, auU found them in a wieichedly luitiy coadiiioa. fue proprietors thereof were interviewed ou tuesuujet, and is probable the abuses will be cor- recieu; not we win have more to say in the future. The town of Millbrook, County Seat of Grahaia Co was practically demohbhbd by the storm of last ihursduy evening.

There was but one building left The loss will aggregate One man kille.1 out right, and and another has since diet aaio luiuun), am io ucuik i a IOWA ct villa and Hill City, also in the track the storm, were damaged but to what extent we have not learned i a i it kind generally nro sufforing: The llo' publican will keep you posted, there fore subscribe for it; only $1.25 for a whole year. Oa the mcrning after the storm some of our boys ninusod themselves by tiring oif an anvil. Some of the Eleoiiites, hearing the reports, figured it out that Burr Oak was rejoicing over fh Avstruot ion of their town. There is not a shadow of an oxc.uso for the fool killo to lio wound or want of a joty. Elder Harrison, of Mankato, was in town Saturday, and' gave -us some "chunks on the vast improvements being maue in his town, and her gior-iour prospects.

It the lirst loou yl' the kind we had had for some time it was taken in with an avidity we seldom display, lie Reports a goou corn crop around This are glad to li'tar. Thai shall be our Kgyyt. N. 11. Poinery disburses to a All have noticed tho complete transforuiiition that property mh undergouo sinco it came into his Nov he is having another well bored, and will at onco erect a wjn i-mill and elevat od tank, by which he can hnve the water distributed to whatever point ho mnj doiro.

Nick's wuy ot 8qnmuioring money is com mondaolo, and it would add greatly to tho looks of our town if all who were able would follow his exampln. Good soaking rain have fallen during the piiHt week in some portions of this and other counties. We did i not know how it is elsewhere, but in this locality, bo far as the corn is concerned, ram will bo or n-i beuofit, except jt may be to soum of lhet late pianung, tanners are now cutting and saving lor louder. A good sclieiue. save every stock, you inuy need il before Bpriug, and if you uoii't, youi' neighbor or sume one else may, and vyill be glad to pay you a good price for it.

We hoar considerable complaint in regard to tho town pumps-one not being in woiling order at all, thu othor but littio better, and tho wiuur unlit or uko. This is not an ltslioulu be. Persons coming to our town Loin a or water iui thuir toam.3. 'i'iioiu pi.iity of il and it should be easy of euxm W) t.cpu the genlit n.tia whoso Luar ness it is to see to such, mut.iri will do their duty, that there may be to more cauiio tor complain A teiritilo wind, stonn, accompaniei oy vivid dailies of am terrjiic peals of thundor, visited this ivgoiu last Thursday ovotiing. It came from the uorttiwost, and for time it soomod as though all things portable would bo compelled to move on, but after all theie was but littio damage done to our town Tho rain fall was light, Not Sufficient to do any good.

At the uew town of Eleou the damaee was considerable. A storeroom owned by Morris Weil, jnst built but unfinished, was blown over, and will have to be taKen apart and rebuilt, two other structures were somewhat wrecked, but tho damago to them was slight. Those who failed to, attend the con' cert given by the ladies last Friday evening (and we are sorry to say that these comprised by fur the greater portion of our community) missed good entertainment. The programme was an excellent one, and as indeed finely executed. For the pasu three yeais, to our certain kuowlodgo, this same quartette has promptly spspoiid-ed to the call for on any and ail occasions, and they have been frequent.

No compensation was demanded, none has ever been given, If we mistake not, on one occasion there was a vote of thanks tendered. Music cos money-publishers do not give it away, and in order to raise some funds for the purchase of a stock so to have something new, and variety, this concert wus couceivod. No pains wore spared to make it au entertainment worthy ot patronage; the pitiful sum of twenty-five cents was aked far admission, butnogo I ibuta Bcortj of our people coald btani The poorest of the many poor snides that nave paid this town a visit were better patronized. It is not right; it ia net just 1 cHritcit.x Rev. 1'Ieisher, tstor.

Preaching every Jabbath at 1 1 a. in and 7 p. m. Sabbaih School 10 a. hi Young eople' meeting 3 p.

m. Clmrnh. Ur. Mcintosh Piitt-v. ev-r? Sabbath, at a.v., aftij at, 7 o'clock.

Nun- dir it 'GUildreu's meeting 1. -JJr. Eclectic. Earr Oak, Kansas. G.

Burns, M. D. HOMSOPATHSST Bdes Oak Kans. DR. J.

E. Hawley, PHYSICIAN SURGEON. First class drug btore in connection. Offica one door west of Faidly's drug store. But Oak, Kansas.

IRA F. I1DDS0H. ATTORNEY AT LAW Offio ia Bank Building. Burr Oak, C. L.

KNAPP, Rsal E8tata and I-asurancei tAHDAND LOAS OITICE. TlTtlS EXAM NED, AND COLLECTIONS VAI'E, CAT AN. IjHnd, Loan, Insurance Aprent. Two doors south of Chicago Lumberyard, BURR OAK Old Jim Dick, Clyclone Auctioneer, of the west. Will cry sales, in Jewell and adjoining counties.

Satiefac-ion gua'nteed. 0. Adress, BurrOsk, irOM CLAD RESTAURA8 Ol kootx, VnK Heals at all hours. Boardintfby the day or eek. Barr Oak, Kansas S.

M. HARTLEY. C'ONTBACTOK AND BTTlLDER. nans and estimates furnished whan desired. Barns and mill training a ppecialty.

8hop ppoBiU'D. A. Sallev's lumber yard. Burr Oak Kans. John Kloffm, Carpenter.

Contractor and Builder. Plans and specifications short notice. BURH OAK, KAN. B. Bpbabs W.

B. Speabb. iBURH WU, KAH..