The Canton Monitor from Canton, Kansas • 5

m.1 "'J THE CXNmXHOXITOR. Amos li.iim, junior editor of Tin: Monitor, started Saturday evening last Jor Decatur, Illihois, to visit his parents and we presume some one else. He will bo absent about ten days, and on his return he will stop in St. Louis and make some much needed purchases for The Monitor eliico. JJU.

W.MAY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Canton, Kansas. All calls promptly attended to, day or night. Office at Smalley's drug store. May be found at night in postollico build APRIL THURSDAY, 29, 1880. RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

T. AND B. F. B. Oolng Eait.

ing, up he Mcpherson Accommodation, 6 45 p. m. Passenger. 6 a. m.

Going West. LOAN AND TRUST Office opposite Court House, Tins' project" to incorporates Canton is growing and gaining friends daily. The citizens seem to be awakening from their lethargy. J. D.

Morris, late of Indiana, has taken charge of the Empire House, and will make it. one of the hotels in this part of the State. in Rev. Marvin returned from Presbytery last week. He has been assigned to this field for another year, at which his people are well pleased.

49 Work has been commenced on the telegraph line from Marion Center to McPherson and the poles are up five miles west of the former place. Girls know only one-quarter as much about courting, as because they have only one year in four in which they are allowed to practice. The passenger traffic on the main line of the Santa Fo road is larger now than ever Injfore, most of them going to the mines of New Mexico and Colorado. Accommodation. 12 50 p.

m. 8:55 p. m. KANSAS. McPUERSON, LOCAL NEWS.

0 Mill ready for The Omaha tribe of Indians numbering about sixty, passed through Hillsboro, fourteen miles east of here, last Saturday, en route from the Nation to Nebraska. They were supplied with ponies and had money in their purses, leaving quite a nice sum with the merchants for supplies. Mr. Frank White; our well known "correspondent from Canton whose interesting letters appear in each week's paper, is in the city attending district court. There are few better lawyers in the county than Mr.

White and we are glad to note that he has an extensive practice-Republican. The speech of Mr. White before the jury on the Brown vs. Witter Kile case, action for damages, is very highly spoken of as a master effort in behalf of his clients. Prairie flowers in bloom.

Has the band petered out? Wanted. A good soaking rain. Still covered wagons continue west. to go There is a new meat market in- town with talk of a third one. McPherson needs a large and comfortable school house.

So does Canton. Our school board should bo looking after this matter, so that next fall when comes McPherson county has three as good i 1.1 i A CUi Rev. Mr. Wingate, of Spring Valley, had his new one and a half story house blown down last week, there being no one living in it, nobody was hurt. Canton has one of the most obliging and accommodating station agents in the west in the person of J.

A. Lucas. lie has our thanks for favors extended. time to open winter school we will have towns as mure tt.ro in wie oiuiC. a building amply large and comlortable, vJan fill all good loans promptly at 8 per cent, interest and low commission, or higher interest without commission.

BAKER, CANTON, KANSAS, Wishes to inform the public that he will have a choice lot of Sweet Potato, Cabbage and Tomato.Plants, in due season to sell at reasonable prices. QITY MEAT East side Main str't. Canton, Kansas. Keep oii hand at all times all kinds of JFresli Meats AT REASONABLE PRICES. Also dealers in live stock, hides, tallow and pelts.

Terms strictly cash. IIangor Vanvalby. milE PIONEER STORE, JOHN MURPHY, John Murphy will sell his stock of boots and shoos at cost to close out. completed, furnished and ready for occupancy. Care should be taken in selecting a healthy and convenient site and erect a building large and substantial.

And if possible it should be built of either brick Everything is getting pretty and green in the shape of natural vegetation. or stone, as the cost of insuring the The season is at hand and the boys building a few years will more than pay the difference in the cost of the raw ma should organize their base ball club. terial, not taking into consideration the durability of a stone or brick building and Rev. w. JJ.

Shiels. ol lioxDury, was the amount necessary to keep a frame building in repair. Give us a school in town Monday and called to see us. The post, oilice department at Washington seems to be behind in their orders and the result is a scarcity of stamps at all the offices in this part the country. Catholic services will be held in the old school hoiise, McPherson, on Sundav May Pth, 1880, at 10 o'clock a.

m. All Catholics in the county are requested to be present. W. N. Harris while riding a horse at the race Monday" was thrown from his horse and miraculously escaped being instantly killed.

He was considerably hurt and bruised. house that will be an honor to the town McElrov Schulte have named their mills the ''Model Mills and The Canton Lodge of Ai F. A. A dance twelve miles south attracted a U. D.

was duly instituted on evening of Monday 26th of April in their commodi number of young people from Canton. ous and comfortable hall over Kevte Hornbeck's store. A large delegation of It is about time for candidates to com mence to circulate among the "dear peo KANSAS. CANTON, ple." masons from McPherson, Marion Center and Newton were in attendance. D.

G. S. T. Howe, of Marion Center, instituted the Lodge and installed its offi Dealer, in' Everything at the Model Mills are in apple-pie order and they will fire-up and begin to crush grain this Hurrah! Who says Canton iis not booming The Western Lumber of Newton, cers. i Business '6ver, Judge Peters, of have something to say to you in this is Groceries and Provisions, CANNED GOODS, despite the dry weather sue.

We have received the ''Star of Bethle Newton, delivered to the officers and members an excellent address. Labor ended, all adjourned to the Empire House for refreshments, partaking of a sumptuous provided by. host And everything kept in a first-class gro- Ike Jackson will move to Caldwell this week where he will go into the livery hem," a fine steel engraving from the eery store. Henry liill Publishing ot aorwick, business. Ct.

It is a fine work of art and is sold for the low price of $3.50. IJIHE CANTON HOUSE, Judge Samuel R. Peters, judge of the 9th judicial district, was in the city Mon The time for tree planting is nearly Morris and his excellent lady. The officers elected and installed were J. W.

Jones, W. M.j W. J. Keyte, S. W.

J. T. Mitchell, J. W. H.

El well, Treasurer; G. 'Witter, Secretary; W. 1). Shiels, Chaplain F. G.

White, S. D. 0. W. Heckethorn, J.

D. J. B. Maddox, S. S.

W. H. Morris, J. S. J.

Sipes, T. day evening. A horse race Saturday afternoon be past and still there are a few more business and residence houses that have not tween John Morris' two horses was the been ornamented. The owners of them are asleep to their dwn interests. Main St, North of McPherson Ave, GOOD BOARDING.

CHARGES REASONABLE. CANTON, KAS. J. M. McClaix, Proprietor, There were fourteen visitors present The engine and boiler of the Model Mills are now in nlace.

the mason work from McPherson; three from Marion Center and one from Newton, among whom were Judge S. R. Peters, Newton, Messrs. Dr. W.

W. Murphy, T. E. Simpson, F. Dodge, Horace McLain, D.

0. Barker, Geo. J. Beach, B. E.

Smith, Jos being done by John W. Franklin, and' is pronounced by all who have seen it as a master-niece of work, showing the skill of the workman. 1 gOCWELL HOUSE, In the district court, the case of Brown vs. Witter Kile, action for damages, OPPOSITE DEPOT, 'i C. Ml SOCWELL, Proprietor, the jury brought in a verdict in favor of Vonatehen, Harry McQuade, Henry Bixby, D.

C. Welch, Hulburd, and Wat-kins, McPherson, and S. T. Howe, Marion Center. wish the Lodge an nndisturbed career of prosperity and usefulness, peace reign within its walls and fervent charity be the pole star of its existence.

"So mote it be." sport of the day. Although the physicians report considerable sickness there are but comparatively few deaths. C. H. Corey thinks of taking a trip to Chicago and his old home in Toledo during the summer.

1 Some horses sold Saturday in front of the Canton Stables attracted a crowd and 1 irought good prices. Rev. B. F. Edwards called Friday during our absence.

We are sorry, but hope he will call again, Rey. Dr. Shiels, pastor of the Baptist Church preached on Sunday, being his regular appointment. Dr. Tidyman spent three days in town last week.

The Dr. is building up a lu Brown for $400. A motion for a new trial will be argued before Judge Prescott at Canton, Kansas. Sauna next week. id Dr.

Murphy was in town Monday even ing attending the instituting of a Masonic Lodge in this city. While here he gave Good accommodations and terms reasonable. GIVE ME A CALL. The Monitor man a. call.

The Dr. is one of those whole-soul fellows that does your very heart good to talk "yOLF DOLE, A small child of Mr. Isaac Ledbetter, IJIIIE KANSAS CITY TIMES. $10,000 I NO ASH THE KANSAS CITY WEEKLY TIMES i WILL DISTRIBUTE THE ABOVE AMOUNT IN while the" parents were visitinc the fami- crative practice in Canton. ly of Mr.

F. A. Miller, got. hold of a box of concentrated lye and while playing Collection and Real Estate AGENTS, CANTON, 'KANSAS: McPherson county has five newspapers with a good opening for the sixth as soon as the new town of City is with it go the lye on its hps and its mouth, eating and inflicting a painful sore, though not dangerous. CASH TO ITS SUBSCRIBERS ON APRIL 30TH, 1880.

F. S. Presbrey, editor of the Republi Offer for sale 40,000 acres of unimproved can, was summoned to the bed-side of A' railfoad from Salina to Newton via. Canton is being talked. The projectors hope to secure, township aid.

-Freeman. The new church is now enclosed anil from appearances we will soon have a house in- which to attend divine worship, land at irom $3 to $10 Per Acre, ONE GRAND CASH PREMIUM GOLD OR his sick wife who is visiting in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Friday evening last. We hope he may find her not so seriously sick as was supposed but soon recover and return with nim to sunny Kansas.

GREENBACKS, OF $5,000. 1 M' Ji I SPECIMEN COPIES, CIRCULARS, SENT -ON FROM- FREE TO ANY ADDRESS. J. G. Johnson and Miss Jennie E.

Bruce, both of McPherson county, were married at Florence. Wednesday, April SPECIAL TERMS TO AGENTS AND GETTERS UP OF CLUBS. o- 1 Our Roxbury correspondent has arisen from the dead, for one week at any rate. A new one from Fiddlersville makes his bow in this issue.1 Still, McPherson. Galva, Hillsboro and Spring Valley fail to connect.

We patiently await the toot of Gabriel's horn to awa'ken them from their Rip Van Winkle slumber. 1 to 11 Years Also a large list of IMPROVED FARMS.S Office in the Postoflice Building." 1 ADDRESS, THE TIMES, KANSAS CITV, MO. We are glad' to. state that Mrs. Ogden is better and hopes are entertained of her recovery..