The Wathena Advance from Wathena, Kansas • 3

THE WATHENA WEEKLY ADVANCE, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1878. ASGLLSGS. THE ADVANCE. FLXA5 CIAL STATEMEN T. Of the City of Wathena, April 2d, 1878.

RECEIPTS. Balance on hand fr.m list report, 164,84 Received from dram shop license, 5T3.06 Merchants 115,00 Hotel 10,00 Peddlers. 18,20 Butcher Troy Items. Troy Is honkey right end op with care. March term of court, which begua the 25tL will close Saturday April 5th.

Jury in at tendance, but three days and only out ease tried by jury. That was an action brought by the MeConnick Reaper Company against Albertsoa and Williamson 316, for Reaper and Binder, defts claiming thai It did not do good work as warranted, yet they out one hundred acres of grain with it Verdict for defts. Jury composed of farmers. Juries are good institutions. This one cost the county over $300, to try one case.

Judge Otis is fearfully vigorous iu the en Mount Airy Anglings. New fences, new farms, and many other improvements, are visible all over the neighborhood. Mr. J. V- has grubbed fifteen acres, whit is ready for breaking.

Mr. Wagner ha feneed about fifteea acres" more to his already large farm, and did most of the breaking during the winter. We learned that there was a dant-e at Mr. Evans' (he other night, and some of the lads felt tolerably tired and sore the next morning, when they had to go-to work. We advise them not to go to dances when busy times set in.

The theme for farmers bow is, getting the corn ground ready. Mr. Rice intends to ITEMS OF IXTEEEST- A Microscope with 100 Mounted 01-jeets for tl.00 Smith's Micrograph with 100 beautiful Microscopic picture protograpned oa glass ten len i.iauMon a slide. Photographs of all the Presidents tbe United States. Pilgrim's Progress illustrmted-Coptes of coolly woie art, OimieaJ Mi aeliaueous ctures.

all pure and moral in character. Will be sent to any part of the) counirv by mail on receipt of One Dollar. Address, D. L. SMI 'fit, aterbarj, Conn.

BABY Illustrated Catalouge and Price LisL Cheapest and best in the Market. Matt Fostkb St Co, Kansas City, Mo. n37eowtm2 Scltool Exhibition. The xhiuitioa of the Wathena public school, Monday night, was well patronized, the hall being crowded to overfl jwing We have not room to give a critical notiee of the programme, and tbe part each person took in it, furthermore than to say, all acted their parts well and creditably. The exercises were too long, however, for the audience and actors who became, wearied with the four hours performance.

The following is the programme in full; Opening Remarks, F. CDat music, A Welcome, Maut Alwabd Gus, Dialogue Under the Greenwood Tree, Dialogue Good Time for Boys, Johs Estes. Why Little Fishes are Still, Kosa PrArrLr The Little Stream Llzzii IHetek. The Little Tramp, Dialogue My Brother, Asxa Files TABLEAU, CAPTAIX SMITH. The Little Peace-Maker, Dialogue Bain Tuesday.

Easter begins to Uiielea. Fresh fish in our market. 11 fon are ailing, try bine glass. Jack Frost is hovering about We had our usual storm last Friday. Eggs 6 cents per dozen in this market.

How the boys did electioneer last Sunday. Base ball is agitated, and the arnica trade is livening up. The Bulletin's immigration edition was good, but we are going to beat it. Snow storm last Friday, and rain Saturday. We have had some frosts lately, but none to Injure the fruit crop.

Swinging is good excerciae, but not healthy when proposed by a jury. Full-orbed aud brilliant, the dollar of our daddies beams above the horizon. Koll on, silver moon! The boys are determined to catch that big fish at the damsaid to be two feet long. Co for him, little ones Tbe most reluctant slave to vice we ever saw, was a man who got his fingers caught in one at Pfaffly's shop last week. Show us a town that advertises big and we will show yon a town that has a good trade.

It is the lite of business. We have hundreds of old papers for sale at 50 cents per hundred. Tiiey are worth that much for wrapping paper, to say nothing about Ihe good reading they contain. The boys who climbed up into the R. R.

Boom on Saturday from the outside, left a muddy trail behind them on the weather boards. It made Mr Hulan red hot, too. The Elk county Courant-Ledger is the most unblushing thief in the the Burlington Independent comes next. A firm faith is the best theology; a good life the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty tie best policy; and temperance the best physic, section Is the best in the State for fruit. If we have no freezing weather, this Spring, the shipment of fruit from here this season will be immense.

When a man nearly breaks his neck trv- Ine to get out of the way of a "lightning bug supposing it to be the headlight of a loco motive, it is time for mm to sign the pledge People must remember that tbe late ground hog was a miserable failure as a weather prophet. Put not your trust in ground hogs. It is easier for an elephant to turn a back sommersault through the eye of a needl than it is for some people to keep from pok ingt heir noses in other people's business. Mareikd la this city, on Sunday, March 81st, 1878, by E. F.

Dixon, Mr. Thos. C. McGee, of severance, and Mrs. Sarah J.

Gordon, of Wathena. Newspapers ar he literary bees who gather up their stores from every corner of the earth, and from whom all feel privi- liged to steal their intellectual honey. The man who now expends but a cen a day for a newspaper, can have at th9 end of a year, a greater library than very many learned men owned three centuries ago. Jones says there has been peace in his family for a week. II is wife's mouth is closed for repairs.

She had all her teeth pulled last week and the false set is not finished yet. The Advance publishes a standing statistical advertisement of the county, condensed, but full and we havn't blowed about it, nor asked a cent of any one for "puffing the county yet." We hear much talk about hard money a ruined country and many other calamities, but we will be content with greenbacks for all payments due this office, and trust to God for the salvation of the country. Don't lay me on the river bank amid the fragrant flowers, nor where the grass is watered by by the early Summer showers but put me in the kitchen range and open wide the damper, and then my vaporous remains can up the chimney scamper. There's untold millions in buying goods from merchants who advertise. The man who is too penurious to advertise will not give yon bargains in anything he offers for sale.

Eemember this, and buy your goods of merchants who advertise in the Advance. Arthur's Home Magazine, published at 227, south sixth street, Phiadelphia Is oneof the best magazines which eomes to our table. Its literature is pure, elevating, moral in tone, and its fashon plates first-class. As a lady's magaziue, it is second to noue in the country. The use of the word "grand" has become almost universal.

Granddance, grand picnic, grand exhibition, grand drawing, grand lottery, grand piano, etc. If you put all "grand" things down as "grand" humbugs, you will be right nine times out of ten. Eemember that Jones' stove and tin store is the place to buy stoves and tinware as cheap as you can buy in St. Joseph or anywhere else. Tne stock is all new, and stoves of the latest design and finish.

Be sure and call at the "Old Reliable" house before going anywhere else. Immigrant wagons for western Kansas continue to pass through this place at the rate of fifteen to twenty per day. We counted thirteeen children in one wagon Thursday, the oldest being not over ten years of age, all belonging to one father and mother. "Love's labor lost," is the way a fellow put it the other night, after he had wasted a box of blacking, and was an hour's time blacking his boots, on his arrival at the girl's home, to find that she had got tired waiting and had waltzed off with another fellow. A rosy sunset presages fair weather, and a bright yellowish sky in evening indicates wind, and a pale yellow, wet weather A neutral gray is a favorable sign in the evening, and an nnfavorable one in the morning.

If the forms of the clonds are soft, undefined and feathery, the weather will be fine; but If the edges are hard, sharp and well defined the weather will be foul. Any deep unusual lines bounding the clouds betoken wind or quiet and dollcate tints bespeak fait weather. So men who are wheal heiwl'e say, E. A. DAVIS EDITOH.

ATHENA, KANSAS. ATXS OF ADVERTISJiQ made knowB ox AplKaUu. to liai xftw of Amy perao. taimir a Bewepaper iwrolarly fro th. Pou-ofbue, wtMUker directed to in.

rtimn irr uotber, respouiuUie tor the paymait. Paper may be aent to aobaeri here until an ex-pira. order to diseoaciBae reoeida anil all arrevaM. are pant, aareqn trad br lair. Merely returning a Blunter of Umj paper by mail ia not auAoieut, Of refusing to take it out of the onto.

ST. JOE DENVER CITY RB TIME TABLE. 8.44 am Joseph 4.40'p 10.00 am WATHENA 108pm 1 0.39 a Troy 8.40 1 am A Junction 8 33 1 1.19 a Severance 8.01 12.27 m. 1.63 Hamlin Ii3pm 1-60 Sabetha 12.47 Lis vixri 8.4S Seneca 11.36 a 8.22 11.02a 3.64 in Beattie 10.30 a 4 38pm 8.5) am fi.40 in Hanover 9.00a airoury. v.o a iu 7.4S 70.5 a s.lgpm....

Belvidere 6.20 a in 1)18 pin. oil am 1.43 in Fairfield 4,60 a U.SSpm Hastings 4.00 am IGJ-Passengers will not be allowed on reight Trains without Tickets except from iiomts where no Tickets are sold. The time given above is 27 minutes slower than Chicago, ana 17 minutes slower man vmncy, Deing St. josepn, jno. lime.

Through Tickets to anv Dart of the Uni I ed States can be obtained at the Depot iu Wathena, as low as at general city offices. Trains daily except Sunday. L. D. TUTHILL, General Manager.

J. W. Atwill, General Ticket Agent. County Directory. dgc Second Judicial District.

A. O. Otil I Istrlct Clark. Frank Brown. County Attorney.

P. K. Armstiong. Oouotv Commisaionei. A.

8 bong, C. Leland, W. H. Deckard. Hieriff.Cliailes Borkhalter.

Iieaaurer. Robert Flickinger. I ounty Clerk, D. W. Morn.

Ri-gteter of Deeds, J. F. Hampeon. 1'iobat. Robert Wilkios in.

Pablfc lnatructfun, D. D. B-se. oron.T, W. W.

Carter. KurTeyar. Charlea Corbualer. City Directory. II arar.

Ruben Knonn. t' -imclliuen P. H. Drenalnr. John HraEeltoQ, I.

rlier, Feler Miller, ttm. Uan.om. I JuJge, J. T. Uraidy.

1 reaeurer, Jacob Suter. t'lerk, E. F. Dixon. irsnal, Minor Wai Society Directory.

1 TA IHEJfA LODGE No." 64, A. F. A. H. 1 Reru'ar communications held on each Satur- l.v evauinar on or hfnrn th full mrtnm If io a In good standing cordially Invited to attend.

B.C. SuaiT, 8. HATCH, Sec. W. M.

air ATHENA ENCAMPMENT No. 21, 1. 0. O. P.

Regular meetings tbe first and third Mondays I i each month in Odd Bellows Hall. Brethren in .1 standing cordially i.ivited to attend. .1. SaSWABT, U. FKT, Scribe.

if. p. 1YHOENIX LODGE No. 41 I. 0.

0. F. Regular meetings every Wednesday evening, in Odd t-ellu'vs ilall. Brothers iu good stauding cordially nviled to attend. GORDON, N.

G. Ada. Muxaa. 17" ATHENA RED RIBBON REFOUM CLUB. Regular meetings every Tuesday eveirug, In I'resbyterlan church roomln Braidy's building, up stairs, open vny day, from 7 00 a.m.

till 10 00 p.m. Donations oi papers, periodicals, books, thankfully receded and preserved. E. F. DIXON, Aua.

Miu.u, Prea. JOBMSTOII, C. BOWMAK, Mmicia, Sec'y Vice Presidents. Church Directory. I IJKSBYTERTAN CHURCH.

Preaching the flrst t. tiud third Sabbaths of each month, at 11 o'clock a. in, and7 30p.m. Sev. T.8.

Dinsmok, Pastor. rtlliST BAPTIST CHURCH. -Preaching the flrst aud third Sabbath of each month at 11 o'clock a.m aud 7 80 p. in. Sunday school at 9 30 a.m.

1 i er meeting Thursday evening. Church meeting i lurday evening before tbe first Sabbath in each Rey. B. Alwabd, Pastor. E.

CHTJRCH. Preaching on the second and iT.l.e fourth Sabbaths of each at 10 46 a.m. a 7 p.m. Sunday School at 8 p.w. Prayer a -el i every Thursday eveuing.

ft. A. HorraiAN, Pastor, KEEPS A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF vJiovES and Tinware, And makes a specialty of Jobbing and Repairing. floods and Work First Class: Call and examine my stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere. t.

Joseph Wathena, Kansas. HELVETIA SALOON. THE BEST OF WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, ALWAYS ON HAND. Guouge Proprietor. 0pp.

Hiller'a Furniture Store, Wathena, Kansas. OI TY HOTEL, Wathena. Mir. E. Meekb, Proprietress.

hotel Is a well arranged brick edlfloe, wiih good table, pleanant roonu, and nice beda. -Charges moderate. Uood Stabling for Stock. WH. GEIEEIIA1JN Roith aide SU Joseph Wathena, Kansas.

CASSIMERES FOR SUITS. Or for Sale by the Yard. SATISFACTION GUARANTIED, AND WORK WARRANTED. Fidel Gramer's SALOOIT On SI Joseph Street near Post Office WATHENA, KANSAS. FRESH, COOL BEER AND Choice Liquors Cigars Dog Tax 11,50 Police 71,50 Total J779 10 DISBURSEMENTS.

Amount paid out on vouchers aa -per files in the Treasurer's office to April 2d, 1878 $378 86 Bal cash on band 100 24 R. Knopp, Mayor of the City of Wathena, do hereby certify the above to be a correct statement of the financial condition of the City of Wathena, as shown by the records, April 2d, 1878. R. Knopp, Mayor. E.F.

Dixon, City Clerk. Your Local Paper. The New York Times says you mljjht as well forget your churches, your academies and school houses, as to forget your local iper. It speaks to ten times the audience that your local minister does. It is read eagerly each day and week from.beginning to end.

It teaches you all, and if it has a lower and less wisdom than a sermon, it has a thousand times better chance at yon. Lyinff as it does, on every table in almost every house, you owe to yourselves to rally liberally to its support, and exact from it as able, high-toned a character as you do from an educator in your midst. It is in no sense boaeath notice aud care for it is your representative. Indeed, in its character, it is the culmination of the importance interest and welfare of all. It is the aggregate of your own consequence, and you can not ingore it without miserably depreciating yourself.

A half scholarship in Balies Keokuk Mercantile College cheap. Now is your time. See advertisement in another column headed "Young V7 athena Markets. Office of the advance Wathena, Kansas, April 5, 1878. Wheat winter 751,00 Spring 65R5 Rye 85 Corn 24 Oats 20 Flour best Fall wheat spring 2,75 2i00 Corn meal Bran per ton 10,00 Shipstuff perton 12,00 Potatoes per bu 25 Butter per lb 15 Eggs per Doz 5 Hams per lb 6l4 Shoulders per ft 4W Sides 614 Lard 6 Chickens per Doz 1,75 Coffee per lb 22 Tea per ft 601.00 Salt per bbl 2,10 Syrup per gal 601,00 Dried apples 64 peaches 7 PETER MILLER.

UNDERTAKER, Manulacturer and Dealer in Metallic, Rosewood Imitation, and Walnut Coffins, and all hinds of Furniture. FURNITURE REPAIRED. Pictures, and Picture Frames, of all kinds snd sizes. Also the New American Sewing Machine, Wathena, Kansas. FOR SERVICE.

The celctbraed Jersey Bull, Dom Pedro, Warranted full blood. Four years old. Terms of service, $2,00. V. 1 Berkslilre-Polandf Aleck.

Terms ofs $1,00 cash. Can be found at the old Ramsel farm, joining Wathena on the south, Fred. Dubach. U'rod. Steplmii, PAINTER AND IIanfie WATHENA, KANSAS.

I J. Sll0e llsii MAKER' I forcement of court rules aa discipline gen erally. Attorneys and all others must toe the mark. The dignity of the court is elevated several degress and maintained Uiere at the point of the bayonet. The county Commissioners have been prancing and slashing away in the city park.

It like i well-picked garden. Mirah Griffith has moved bis family and livery stock to your city. His competitors here got hold of the stable he occupied how, and ousted him, much to the regret of his many friends. He is an old man broken down in health honest and accomodating, and your Wathena folks will be doing a kind act if you give him a good run of patronage. Mrs.

Bishoff disposed of her team, wagon, cow and part of her furniture, at auction last Saturday. Sheriff Burkhalter bought the ponies and harness at 6120, and resold them in half an hour to H. H. Wheeler for $140. Mr.

Leland got the wagon far $16.50 Gramer the cow for $20. The mother and daughter left for St. Joe. Mrs. Bishoff was not so much indignant at her absconding husband for stealing her money she said, as she was for having "kissed" her only, a quarter of an hour before leaving.

The young lady won the affections of some of our sentimental youths, and left her com pliments with some of them so said. The boiler down at the mill exploded last Friday, badly scalding Matt Nutter miller, and Mr. Statter, stone dresser from your city. Some danger to the mill; will take two weeks for repairs. It is said the boys in the mill bad often begged the proprietor to fix the dome as it was known lo be defective.

The city election verified the prediction of those who know Troy the best. The the temperance folks run Rappelye for Mayor, and Reedor, Byers, Strahan, Prica and H. H. Wheeler for council, polling 64 votes. The "citizens' ticket" had H.

Bo-dcr for Mayor, and Perry, Van Buskirk, Bursk, Mann and H. Kotz for council, polling 106 votes. Some twenty five or thirty "blue ribbon men" voted the "citizens'" ticket The blue ribbon leaders had urgent business in the country or in their places of business on election day. Only a few ventured on the street, and the most of those were soon hiding around the corners and hunting for holes to crawl into. The trouble is, we ail want office so bad we daren't say our souls are our own.

We can beat the very devil praying for the Lord to cause righteousness to run down our streets like a river, but we haven't got the stiffening in our back-bones to go on the streets with temperance tickets iu our hands. D. S. Sergeant aud4 Andrew Loyd have swapped their farms for John Wilson's store. The city hotel has been undergoing repairs and is now opened for business in finer style than eve: The steam elevator fs busy shelling, elevating and loading corn.

R6V. J. A. Amos, has rented a house and will soon bring his family to Troy. Gossip.

It is the duty of all men to preserve their self-respect in their own eyes, from their own standpoint to always remember no one can debase you but yourself. Slander, satire, falsehood, injustice, these can never rob you of your manhood. Men may lie about you, they may denounce you, they may cherish suspicious manifold, they may make your failings the target of their wit or cruelty; never be alarmed; never swerve an inch from the line your Judgment and conscience have marked out for you. They cannot, by all their efforts, take away your knowledge of yourself, the motives, the in tegrity of your nature. While these are left, you are, inpointof fact, unharmed.

St. Joseph Election. The following ticket was elceted in St. Joseph Tuesday The Democratic and Working-men's party elected J. A.

Piner for Mavor. S. Bl Green for Recorder, Phillip Rogers for Marshal, Wm. Fitzgerald for Attorney. The Republicans elected H.

N. Turner, for Collector, and Enos Crowther, for Register. Of the seven councilmen, six are Democrats and one Independent. Elwood Election. The following ticket was chosen at the Elwood municipal election Monday last: Mayor, Aug.

Schultz; Councilmen, Al len Porter, Robert White, Sam Hender son, Alfred Wilson, B. T. Skidmore. Po John R. Stone.

The Workingmen's Union carried the day in the election of this ticket, though there was a split in it. But the colored troops fought nobly, and helped them out of the split. Troy Election. The election in Troy, Monday, resulted as follows: Mayor, Henry Boder, Jr. Comncilmen N.

B. Wood, Perry, Wm. Mann, C. VanBuskirk, Robert Tracy, and James Reville. "I only get ninety cents a day," said the man to his comrades, as he came along from work, "and how can I and my family live They all said it was impossible for him to exist upon that sum, upon which he invited the entire party into the nearest saloon and treated the crowd at the expense of forty-five cents.

We have sent specim copies of the Advance to quite a number of persons, hoping they will become regular subscribers. If you lfke the Advance, please say so, by sending us your subscription for a year, or six months. It takes money to run a large paper like this. Aug Miller is renovating and cleaning up his drug store, for the Spring and Summer campaign. He has also put up a new awning in front ot tiie store which is quite an improvment.

C. J. Nahfung's black horse, Prince Frank, is one of the best and handsomest animals in the county. Mats. A parly' of boys with dogs, killed 143 rats at an old log on Peter Groli's place last Sunday.

be the first one for corn. Mr. Rice is the boss sheep grower in this locality. Mr. Aug.

Schwope went to Missouri last week to buy him a span of mules. Mr. Schwope is one of the many farmers in this vicinity who lost part of his horses by dis ease last winter. We noticed a good many farmers taking advantage of the dry roads last week, and were hauling off their grain. Mrs.

Olden, from Missouri, Is visiting in this vicinity. Showers of rain the 27th, in the morning 28th, the peaches are in full bloom and the wind is blowing from the northwest cold enough to freeze. The 29th, in the evening, the wind blew from the southeast still colder in the evening snow covered the ground. This is not very good weather for our fruit that is in bloom now. What has become of Granger, of Marion township We would like to read more of his items.

You Bet. Wathena Public School. Report for the term, commencing Oct. 1, 1877, and ending March 29, 1878: GuAHMAB DePASTMENT. Whole No.

enrolled Males, 27, Females, 23. Total 52. Average enrollment, 38. Average daily attendance, 33. Neither absent nor tardv: Herman Suter.

W. S. Platt, Teacher. Intermediate Dbpabtment. Whole No.

enrolled: Males, 28, Females, 32. Total 60. Average enrollment, 42.. Average daily attendance, 35. Cassie A.

Braidy, Teacher. Pkimaht Dbpabtment. Whole No. enrolled Males, 44, Females, 46. Total, 90 Average enrollment, 60.

Average daily attendance, 54. Chas. Htjpfmas, Teacher. Colo bbd Depabtment. Whole No.

enrolled Males, 21, Females, 20. Total, 41. Average enrollment, 28. Average daily attendance, 26. F.

C. Day, Teacher. Summary. Whole No. enrolled Males, 120, Females, 123.

Total, 243. Average enrollment, 168. Average daily attendance, 148. Total at tendance in days 17,612. S.

Platt, Principal, Exchanges Please Copy. A good photograph-artist can do well in Wathena. Any man who will start a good bakery and confectionery will make money here. An agricultural and wagon manufactory is needed here. There is no better point in the West for such an enterprise.

There is a geod opening here for a wool en mill. Any person or company who will start a fruit canning establishment here will make it pay, as this is in the very heart of the greatest fruit growing country in the West. Besides, all the vegtables thrive here, and grow to perfection. Please remember this. A general brush and broom manufacturer will find this the best point in the est to open a manufactory.

A paper mill can do well here. We have plenty of water, timber, sand gravel, clay, stone, to accommo date any kind of manufactories which may start and our location is peculiarly adapted to a manufacturing town.which Wathena must eventually become. Any person desirous of further informa tion, will obtain it by addressing the editor of this paper and enclosing two 3 cent stamps. Personal. Geo.

W. Barr came home Tuesday. Miss Pauline Bryan, of St Joseph, is Visiting at her fathers, Milton Bryan, Esq. -Miss Minnie Kearny attended the school exhibition, Monday night Mrs. Riddle, of St.

Joseph, Is over visit ing her daughter, Mrs. John Brazelton, Miss Carpenter, from Troy, presided at the organ at the temperance meeting last week. P. C. Day, late teacher of the Wathena Colored Scliool, left for his home at Parkville, Tuesday.

W. S. Platt, late Principal of the Wathena Public Sehool, left for his home at Lacine, Linn Kansas, Wednesday. The good wishes of our people go with Mr. Platt.

"Wo hope to see him again in this locality. Among those who went over to Tootle's Opera house to hear Beecher, were Mr. and Mrs Snively, Mrs. and Miss Minnie Craig, Mr. and Mrs.

and Miss Katie Cook, Miss Lillie Latham, J. H. Wright and W. Stewart. The Tank.

Some boys turned the valve at the Railroad tank in town on Sunday last, and let the water all out Consequently the agent, Wheeler, had to work all Sunday night pumping to fill it again. If any boys are caught fooling with the tank again, they will be immediately arrested. Advertiseing attracts new customers In a busy season, and retains old ones during a dull spell. People like to be invited to trade with you, and the advertising columns of local newspapers are tho medium through which every man can ask his friends to come and see him. No business man is ever so long in one' location that advertiseing is useless to hiin.

New people are constantly moving in, and even the oldest inabitant will forget a merchant if he does not occasionally remind him of his existence, by an attractive advertisement in the home paper. It Is about time for the foreign fruit free agents to make their appeaiance. The best and safest order you can give them when they call is to order them to leave your farm as soon' as possible. Their fine fruit, raised in some Eastern nursery and sold as refuse stock for almost nothing, nine times out of ten will prove to be different from what It It represented to be. Give them a wide berth.

Wanted A giri to da housework. For particulars address this office. 88-3w. No business man can affored to write bos mess letters without nsing printed letter-heads. The oust is trifling and the identity given to his business will far more than repay the eost And we will remark further that this office ean print such things aa cheaply and neatly as ean be done anywhere, and we wont add the Old folks, young folks, old bachelo- married folks, single folks, boys and girls, hear us 1 Don't send away from home for name cards when you can get them printed much nicer at tbe Advance office, and just as cheap as you can get them abroad.

have all styles, and can pleaae everybody. Call and see. Those wanting job printine should earl at the Advance office. Good work and low rates. Billheads, Monthly Statements, Circulars Letter Heads, Cards, Posters, Postaf Cards, Ac Satisfaction guarranteed.

and work done expeditiously. A few loads of wood wanted at this office- Before yorr buy any goods examine our advertising columns. Bring along your plain and ornamental job work. We want a correspondent in every township in the County. Who will be the first to respond Onion Sets.

Fred Paul sells 8 quarts of onion gets for 25 cts. Remember this. 36 11 Horses for Sale. Mrs. Mekee of the City Hotel in Wathena, has a span of good work horses and a new set of harness for sale.

35-tf For Sale. Blank Constable Sales and Summons for sale at this office. Also, Road District receipts, tf Horse and Jack Bills. Those wanting Horse and Jack bin's-should call at -the' Advance office and examine samples and prices. tl Frank Drenning has some choice Br-ma eggs for sale.

33-U WHAT OF THE This subject is now absorbing tbe attention of the civilized world. For ages thinking people have been divided upon the point as to a literal Hell, some contending there-is a big one, to which railroad men and editors are rapidly travelling, others affirming there is only a Httle one, a pocket editioaa, which is carried with us daily in our hearts while others elaim there is none at all, ana only as our actions in this world are guidedl by pure motives and wise counsels, will we find peace hereafter. Therefore in the future, as lu the past people wilt continue to be divided upon these points-Butthere is one point uponwhich all and the testimony comes from the East West, North ond South, and that is that the Old Reliable Hannibal St Joseph Railroad is still the people's favorite. Remember this is the only line that can offer through Day Coaches and Pullman Sleepers, leaving Kansas City daily for Chicago-via the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad, and through Day and Pullman Sleeping Cars leaving Kansas City, Atchison and" St. Jo.

daily for Toledo Ohio, via the Wat-bash Railway, without change. Important! The train leaving Kansas City at 5:30 P. Atchison at 4:45 P. St Joseph at 6 fl8 P. takes a through day coach to Indiana ports, daily, (except Saturday) via the Wabash and B.

W. Ry's, without change. T. PENFtELD', G. P.

T. Ag't, Hannibal- G. N. Clayton, West. Pass.

Agent, Kansas City- El. F. DIXGltf, Justice of the Peace, NOTARY PUBLIC, And General Conveyancer, Collections given prompt attention-WATHENA, KANSAS, Mrs. Louisa RamscI DEALER IN Groceries Provisions, GLASS ANB QUEENS WARE, Country Produce Bought ndlSoIi. WATHENA, KANSAS.

PHYSICIAN SURGEON, Office In City Drug Store, south side ol St JsSeph street. CHAS. 0. MADOULET, Attorney at Law and Mary Pnlc. Collections Promptly Made.

Office at Petersburg. Post office at WATHENA Doniphan KANSAS. Maf tin Friebc, HARNESS MAKER I UPHOLSTERER! (One door North of Dockhorn' state WATHENA KANSAS. A First-class stock ot HARNESS, SADDLES WHIPS, Bridles. Collars, Etc- Makes a spedaltr of philtertag ami repairing Chain, Sefae, Leengei, er enjiliJue la li at use work Recitation, Reading Class Recitation, Piimary Grade Courtship Under Difficulties, Dialogue Testing Her Scholars, Dialogue Passing Away, Anna Makvilxb A Hard Case, Dialogue TABLIiTJ, TOE BACHELOR.

Creed of the Bells, Noba Mukcik Little Children, Dialogue To Be Happy, You Must Be Good, Dialogue Over the River, Svsah Milxeb Base Ball Enthusiast, Dialogue TABLEAU. RAISING A BEARD. Lord Dundreary's Visit, Dialogue Candy Pulling, Habbt Duon miscellaneous. Spirit of the American Revolution, John Polly Ann, Dialogue TABLEAU, RURAL COURTSHIP. Burning of Chicago, W.

S. PlAtt Boarding School Accomplishments, Dialogue- The Two Villages, James Mottjeb TABLEAU, IT'S ALL IN MY EYE BETTIE MARTIN Rather Mixed, Bettie Montgomeby Gone with a Handsomer Man, Dialogue A Talk to the Boys, Frank Hardino Scanaal, Dialogue A Roarer, Harbi Dixoy Closing Remarks, W. S. Platt MUSIC, GOOD NIGHT. City Election.

Tiie election in Wathena Monday, passed off quietly. There was no rows, no quarrels or disturbance of any kind. The men elect ed are all old directly interested in the growth and prosperity of Wathena. There was two tickets in the field, but neither were temperance or anti-temperance, so there was no issue on that question. The following Is the vote for councilmen: I.

Zeiser, 67 A. J. Selover, 62 J. -Straus, M. Bauer, V.

Therit, F. Gramer, W. W. Carter, Peter Miller, S. Jackson, n.

A. Dockhorn, E. F. Dixon, for Police Judge, R. Knopp, for Mayor, B.Harding 52 71 49 56 59 75 50 68 112 80 43 The new council are as follows: Mayor, R.

Knopp, re-elected; Police Judge, E. F. Dixon. Councilmen: I. Zeiser, re-elected; A.

J. Selover; M. Bauer; W.W.Carter; Peter Miller, re-elected. Plant Early. -From years of observation in Kansas, we conclude that early planting, as a rule, is safer for the inner.

By early planting we mean that Spring wheat should be sown in February, if possible; potatoes, of the early varieties should be put in about the 20th of March, later kiiid3, about the 10th of April. Corn ought to be in by the 20th of April, or when the ground begins to warm up. It is labor lost to plant corn if the ground remains wet and cold any length of time after planting. Lettuce, radishes, peas, and beets caq be sown any time this month, Sweet corn, tomatoes, beans and other garden not be planted until the ground gets thoroughly warm. As a rule, field crops should be put in as early as possible.

Early planting wins nine times out of ten, but the farmer must be judge of the proper time to plant certain kinds of seed. An early planted crop of corn, well tended, stands a fair chance to withstand a severe drouth, and would be too tough for grasshoppers should they come in the Fall. Public Schools. The public schools of Wathena closed last we are'sorry that the Board did not conclude to have another term before discharging the Principal and teachers. But it is not too late yet for the Board to re-considor their action in this matter.

Six months vacation is too long. The scholars almost forget their studies, and it is like commencing anew again after so long a recess Mr. Piatt, the Principal, and the teachers. Chas. Huffman, and Miss Cassie Braidy, have given good satisfaction, to the Board and to the parents of the pupils in attendance.

The primary department, especially, under the management of Mr. Huffman, advanced rapidly. All performed their duty faithfully and well. We repeat: We hope the Board will re-consider the matter, and give us three more months of school. Colored Scliool.

F. C. Day closed bis term of the colored school last Friday, to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Day is a good teacher and a gentleman.

We hope he will re main here. Arrested on' Suspicion. Austin Conch, of St. Joseph, who was with Charles Vories at the time he was murdered, has been undor arrest at Wichita. He was arrested on suspicion, founded on a statement made by one of tne brake-men of the train on which Voi les had been riding previous to, and probably at the time of the murder.

Vories and Couch left St. Joseph together on Wednesday. March 19th, it will be remembered, with some horses, which they were taking to Wichita. Xeu Livery Stable. Mr.

Griffith has moved his livery stable from Troy to Wathena, and has opened out for the present on Doniphan Street Anybody wanting a good livery ilir, single or now be accommodated at reasonable rates. Mr Griffith inttmds running a hack to St Joseph, the accommoda-' tlon fo the poople. A livery stable has long been wanted here, and will, no doubt, be well patron ized..