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Republican Record from Fort Scott, Kansas • 5

Republican Record from Fort Scott, Kansas • 5

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FRANK. LOTTERER, THE REPUBLICAN RECORD. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. The wind bloweth where it list-eth." James Voss may now be found each day on our streets expatiating upon the merits of a patent harrow, Call at J. K.

Kerr's restaurant, west side of Market Square. His table is largely supplied with the products of his own farm north of town. C. H. Boyle having sold his interest in the lime-kiln at this place, is IXojae Happening.

preparing to start for Montana, where The Finest Line of Cook and Keating Stoves the city. DUTTONS'S COMBINATION CHIMNEY, FLUE AND TOP, made of Plasttsr of Paris and Cement, and covered with Sheet iron, combines perfect safety and durability with finish and ornament. Cheaper and better and more ornamental than brick. South side of Market Square, Fort colt, Eansass, QrTJNTX MAEE, LAND, LOAN COLLECTION AGENTS, We have a long list of Farms and cannot fail to suit parties desiring to purchase, both in price and Quality of Lands. DO NOT FAIL TO GIVE AS A CALL.

RSONEY LOANED on first class security at 8, 9 and 10 per cent interest. CAREFULLY INVESTIGATED, AND ABSTRACTS FURNISHED. OFFICE UP STAIRS IN DRAKE'S NEW BUILDING. -JJ-ISS 8. K.

WILLIAMS, FASHIONABLE MILLINER, WH street, South aide of the Opera House. Manufacturer of Hair Goods of all kinds at lowest rates JJSjJfStamping neatly and promptly done, A wagon with a load of corn broke down on. the Mill creek bridge last Tuesday. It proved to bo the best place on the road to break down for no no one could pass and the road soon became blockaded, and all took an interest of getting the man out. During the week a machine has been on exhibition at Pap Perkin's book store which comes the nearest to perpetual motion of anything yet claiming that quality.

Its motive power is electricity of which there is no apparen waste. When asked if it will run forever, tho proprietor answers "hardly forever" but it will only lack a few minutes of it. Rodgers Endicott, have nearly completed their Foundry on the north side of the Marmaton, and their machinery will soon be in full blast. They will do all kinds of manufacturing and repairing. Both members of the firm are thoroughly experienced In the business and they will no doubt be able to give entire satisfaction to their customers.

We hope that the new enterprise will bo aa profitable to them as it will be beneficial to the city. Mr. Patrick Rogers, formerly a prominent and citizen of Sc. Louis, and for a long time connected with the Broadway iron foundry, has been on a visit to the city during the lait few days. His friends, of whom he has a host here, were delighted to see him.

Mr. Rogers is now proprietor of the Eagle Iron Works at Fort Scott, Kausas, and his visit here has been chiefly in relation to the further extension of his business at that point. His St. Louis friends wish him the largest measure of success in his new venture. St.

Louis Times. The following is the list of jurors drawn for the December term of the District Court George Hanway, Scott township. Charles Herring, Scott township. Harry Brown, city. James Keyes, city.

George Lotterer, city. J. C. Owens, Franklin township. V.

F. Brillhart, Timberhill towns'y. J. M. Thompson, Osage township.

Frank Thompson, Osage township. y. W. Jewell, Freedom township. Peter.

Windle, Franklin township. Wm. Bowers, Mill Creek, township. A. W.

ALBURN, Proptietor. Ft J. NUTZ, Superintendent. FORT SCOTT FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS, Manufacturers of Engine', Mill an i Mining Machinery, Contractors and Builders Iron Work, Well Drilling Machinery, iron and Brass Castings, Boiler and Jail Work, Steam and Water Pipes, Fittings, The phonograph man was in town -B. Sexton has the thanks of this office for some Arizona papers.

The Democracy of Bourbon county has gone into the hands of a receiver. 'Market Square is now crowded with teams every day. Our wholesale merchants are having a lively trade. Elaine Illuminating Oil 175 fire test at Graen Use no other. Improvement of the Baptist church is being talked of.

B. Bayless is the authorized agent for Santa Claua. Does a scull race require much head work A car load of Texas exodusters arrived in the city last Wednesday. Our police have not been spanked jr several days. A new stock of lamps of latest styles at Graen Sixteen new buildings are going up in the city.

The hotels are doing a lively business. Only a few days more until Congress is in session. The School Board meets next Monday. Elaine Oil is used for light houses and government vessels. Marshal Brunei' took in.

a couple of confidence men last week. Live stock shipments from this city are on the increase. The city at the present time is being supplied with tine Michigan apples. No special burner is required in the use of Elaine Oil, as it burns well in any lamp designed for petroleum. Grant has built a new carpenter shop on the comer of Locust street and Scott avenue.

Tax-paying makes things quite lively around the Court House nowadays. Elaine Oil is a positive protection against explosions. For sale at Graen Co's. Quit a number of our citizens have become afflicted with the Montana fever. The docket of the next term of the District Court is beginning to assume shape.

Elaine Oil lasts longer and gives a more brilliant light than any other illuminating oil. The trade in corn, wheat and oats upon the streets lias -been unusually liv the past week. The officers and directors of the Laclede and Fort Scott railway hold a meeting at St. Louis next Saturday. The Chicago Alton surveyors report progress on the survey of their line.

The reasom the Democracy still booms for Tilden is because "boom" has two ciphers in it. It takes four trains a day to accommodate the coal shipments on the Southeastern road. Col. Huntington received a pair of pure bred Mcrino rams from Breckinridge, last Friday. Mitchell, book keeper for W.

P. Dilworth, went to Findlay City on business the first of the week. Louisiana still has its KelloggSpof-ford muddle unsettled. 11. When the Princess Louise arrived at Liverpool she traveled in a Detroit-made Pullman car to London.

Horatio Seymour will bo 70 next May. Rather too ancient for a Presidential candidate. he contemplates going into the stock business. The Fort Scott Southeastern R. R.

was opened to Coalvale, three miles south of Findlay City, last Thursday, and coal trains are now being loaded at that point. The new E. Church now in process of erection is to be heated by the same kind of a heating apparatus that is used at the east side school house. The walls of the M. E.

Church are rapidly rising. The building will be completed and ready for occupancy by the first of the year. The Children's Pinafore Company, now rehearsing, will give an entertainment soon, that will be one the best concerts the city has enjoyed for a long time. The Fulton grain dealers are beginning to feel the effects of the Fort Scott boom. Farmers are hauling their corn through that place to this market on account of better prices.

The Bostonianshavean anti-death league by hanging, shooting and other methods so fashionable with suicides. They are also opposed to morphine, strychnine, etcn The people of Bos-always were hard to please. J. D. McCleverty, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of A.

F. and A. M. for the State of Kansas, paid an official visit to Rising Sun Lodge last Friday evening and delivered an interesting address on the subject of Masonry. Few are aware of the importance of checking a cough or common cold In Its first stage.

That which in the beginning would yield to a mild remedy, if neglected, soon preys upon the luogp. Dr. Bull's cough syrup affords lnstaut relief. U. S.

Treasurer Gilfillan owns a farm in Bourbon county. He is an uncle of Robert Gilfillan, who lives on the farm, and of the popular clerk, Ess. Gilfillan. The entertainment to be given by the Pinafore troupe of this place will doubtless be a complete success, because no one who has arrived at the years of in-discretion will be permitted to take part in the performance. J.

M. Courtney shipped two car loads of hogs last Wednesday night to St. Louis, that were among the finest ever shipped from this station. The hogs in one car averaged- 375 pounds each, and the other car 350 pounds each. Alex.

Crowl, of Prescott, Linn county, came down the road last Monday and stopped in the city a few hours. He is engaged in work for the temperance cause and shows his colors by wearing a large Murphy ribbon on the lapel of his coat. It has been said' that it falls to the lot of each and every man to swallow just one bushel of dirt in his life-ti'mo. Since the street sprinkler has been taken from the streets, the citizens of Fort Scott have progressed rapidly in swallowing their quota of dust. Baby showa are the fashion now, but as long as mothers continue to nurse their little ones with laudanum or other opiates, they cannot expect their babies to look bright.

If your baby needs medicine get a good and harmless one men as Dr. Bull's baby syrup. Two pugnacious individuals got into a discussion, on Market Square, on the question of their physical strength and pugilistic powers, each claimiug that ho was the other's superior in those respects. Marshal Brunei-finally stepped in and acted as umpire and the disputants settled the matter by contributing to the school fund of The Maine returning board will commence the canvass of the vote of the State next Monday, December 1st, BO YOU BELIEVE IT. That In this town there are scores of persons passing our store every day whose lives are made miserable by Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour and distressed Stomach, Liver, Complaint, Constipation, when for 75cta we will sell them Shiloh's Vitalizer, guaranteed to cure them.

Sold by W. Moore, Druggist. committee a majority of whom shall constituie a quorum. 12th. The executive committee shall have the power to fill any vacancy in the officers of the association.

13th. Every member hereof shall pay an admission fee of one dollar. 14th. Every member hereof upon receiving notice of the 1oe3 by theft of any horse, mare or mule, belonging to any member of the association shall pay to the treasurer for the benefit of such person and of the association the sum of fifty cents. A failure to pay said fifty cents within ten days after notice of such loss shall preclude such member from any benefit of the association provided that such member may be re-instated by paying to the treasurer one dollar and fifty cents.

15th. Tho treasurer of the association shall upon the order of the executive committee pay to the owner of bu "'orse, mare or mule stolen, if not recovered, the value thereof to be ascertained by said committee. 16th. The executive committee after receiving notice of any horse, mare or mule having been stolen from any member of the association, shall notify each member of the association thereof, and shall ascertain the amount of reward to bo offered for the recovery of the property the conviction of the thief, or for both such recovery and conviction, together with all necessary expenses and shall draw their order orders on the treasurer therefor. 17th.

Every member hereof having a horse, mare or mulo stolen shall at once report such loss to tho Secretary, who shall at once notify the executive committee thereof. isf.h. The executive committee Anti-Morse TUief Association. At a public meeting held in the city of Fort Scott, Nov. 21, 1875, for the purposeof providing some remedy for the growing evil of horse-stealing.

Fitzpatrick was called to tho chau-and J. N. Cole was appointed secretary. After brief addresses, C. O.

French, reported the following articles of association and by-laws, which were unanimously adopted ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. We the undersigned hereby associate ourselves together as a society to bo known as the "Bourbon County Anti Horse Thief Association." The object of the Association is Soles Made Perfect. Louis Gruber, the artistic shoemaker, near corner Main and Market Strs. rnanufuctures and repairs boots and and guaran shoes with promptness, tees satisfaction. 1st.

To insure tho members hereof All kinds of letter heads, bill heads, note heads, and every species of job work, at the lowest prices, this office. Klmll select and secure the services of against loss by theft of any horse, mare or mule. 2nd. To provids means to recover horses, mares or mules stolen from the members hereof, and to oif'er. a reward for the arrest and conviction of the thief.

3rd. To provide means to employ a suitable attorney to assist the county attorney in the prosecution of horse thieves brought to trial in Bourbon county. BY-LAWS. 1st. Tho officers of thi3 association shall bo a President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary.

2nd. The regular meetings of this association shall bo on the 3rd Saturday of November in each year. 3rd. Special meetings may be called at any time by order of tho president and secretary. 4th.

The election of officers shall be held at each regular meeting, 5th. Every member present shall be entitled to one vote at each regular or called meeting. 6th. The officers hereof shall hold their office from ono regular meeting to another. 7th.

It shall be the duty of the W. II. Henry has 13,000 bushels of an attorney to assist tho county attorney in the prosecution of all persons charged with horse stealing aud on trial in Bourbon county, and shall draw their order on the treasurer to pay such attorney. 19th. It shall be tho duty of the attorney to be the general adviser of the executive committee in all legal matters relating to this association.

20th. The names of all members hereof shall bo published the first week in January of each year, in some newspaper published in Bourbon county, Kausas. 21st. These by-laws may be amended at the pleasure of the association. 22nd.

The executive committee shall provide for tho expenses attending the organization of the association bv their orders on the treasurer therefor. Thereupon the association proceeded to tho election of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows President, Z. Hornadny. Vice-President, Thomas Cochran. Treasurer, Dr.

A. E. Currier. Secretary, J. N.

Cole. On motion, adjourned. A. Fitzpatrick, Ch'mn. J.

N. Cole, Seo'y. Immigrants desiring to know tha cost of building material in Bourbon county, should address Dulaney Ware for prices. For Lame Back, Bide or Chest use SHILOH'S POROUS PLASTER. Price 25ots.

Sold by W. J. Moore, Druggist, Ft, Scott, Ks. WE CHALLENGE THE WORLD. When we say we believe, we have evidence to prove Shiloh's Consumption Cure is decidedly tbe best Lung Medicine made, In aa much aa it will cure a common or Chronio Cough in onu half the time, and relieve Asthma, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, aud show more oases of ConHiinption cured than all others.

It will cure where they fail, it is pleasant to take, harmless to tha youngest child and we guarantee what we ay. Price lOotp, oOctB, aud $1.00. If your Lungs are sor, Chent or Back lame use Shiloh's Porous Sold by W. J. Moore, Druggist.

The most popular and fraerant per, fume of the day, AdKMIfiTACK," try it. Hold by W. J. Moore, Druggist Ft. Brothers, Manufacturer of Brooms, president to preside at all meetings of wio ciry.

N. the association, 8th. It shall be the duty of the vice corn purchased of farmers in this vicinity and not yet delivered. Prof. Bealo delivered a free lecture on the subject of music at the Baptist Church Inst Monday night.

There are well authenticated rumors that Jay Gould has secured the M. K. T. Railroad. Rev.

Porter delivered a very ablo and interesting address to his congregation, at the Presbyterian Church, last Sunday night. Prof. Lawhead spent eeveral days of last week in the northeastern part of the county attending to official business. The Methodist minister from Par-nous assisted Rev. Cherrington in conducting theiommunion service at tjie Opera House last Sabbath, The team that "hauls the baggage wagon, while standing at too M.

K. T.depot.Tuesday, took fright and made a magnificent start for a runaway, but they were brought to a stand before tlicy did ay damage. president to preside at all meetings of The shipment of grain and produce south from this point Is unprecedented in the history of tho carrying trade of this country. Tho grounds around the depot are crowded with wagons duriug the entire day. Tho railroad Is increasing Its shipping facilities as rap-Idly as possiblo, but its supply of cars is not half equal to tho demand.

Last Saturday neither cars nor storage could be found, and many of the farmers who had brought corn to town to sell were compelled to haul Jt back borne again, the association in tho absence of the president. 9th. It shall bo tho duty of the treasurer to receivo aud pay out all moneys of the association upon tho cider of the executive committee. To turn over all funds in his hands to his successor, and to make a report of his doings at tho regular meeting at tbe close of his term. lUth.

It shall bo tho duty of tie secretary to make and keep a reoord of the proceedings of each meeting. 11th. Tho president, vice president and secretary, shall transact the business of the association na rm executive Dr. R. I.

Pearson begs leave to inform the citizens of Fort Bcott and vicinity, that he has lately received a Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas) apparatus of tho latest and most approved pattern, aud persons desiring it, can have teeth extracted without pain, Ami dealer In Brooms na Broom.com, IV (mat. isttect, oJifl door eiwtof Hoot I A vet nu, tfOWHCUTr. KANSAS,.

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