The Head-light from Thayer, Kansas • 4

THAYER. Bar. We learn with pleasure, that LOCAL NEWS, Read it Appieton aavoruse- raent is reading matter. Teacher' Fxamlnaliom Post, the Recorder, is to have a vault, in which to store his books. A "Bran new" fence lias enclosed our Court House yard, during the past week.

Tho news, of the Settler's victory was received with much enthusiasm. Powder was burned on the "o'kashun," and many expressions of joyfulness gushed forth from the mouths of every one. Prof. Winfield's exhibition promises to be a success. Our Austin Correspondent says: After many efforts the famous Neosho has been dammed; but like the woman and mouse it still wants the last word and has for the past week asserted its right to it by keeping the dam completely submerged.

However, by finding it could do no great harm, it has gracefully retired. Just below the dam, the east bank has been cut out to the extent of ono hundred yards, caused by a cross current thrown in that direction by the new and uncompleted part of the dam. Carter Bros, and De Muth, this week received their mill machinery, which they will proceed to put in diately. Prof. Turner has returned from his home in 111.

where he went somfe five weeks since, to attend his brother's funeral services. DIKU. Stall. At the residence of his son, Hon. John bull, in bhihloh County, Kansas, on llie 12th day ol April, leio, David sia lin the seventv-iourth year of liis age.

Continental Insurance Company of New York. Statement, January 1st, 187G. Assets Liabilities, 1,189,102.11 W. VV. Wokk, Agent, Thayer, Kansas.

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5 On our old friend, M. T. Long, of Osage Mission, has been admitted to the bar. Sudden Death, Mrs. Williams, wife of the Chanute Druggist, died suddenly Wednesday morning April 12th in a sinking chill.

Mrs. Williams was a Christian woman and one beloved by all who knew her. AWAY. After this issue, the Head Light will be published at Erie, Kansas. The reason for this step will be appa rent to' anyone who glai.ces over the records of receipts and expenditures of this office while it was in abler hands.

We have no complaint to make on this account, for we fully considered the situation before accepting it. We did not expect to win wealth and fame, or rush to sudden distinction. We intend to publish a good readable home newspaper, if we can and we can. One that will pay its own way and secure to us a reasonable return for our labor outside of what benefits it may receive from the public crib. With the local support which is guarantied us at Erie, and the advantages furnished by a more central location in the county, we are convinced that this intent can be more successfully carried out there than here.

However indifferent some may be at our departure we cannot but express regret at' leaving a place with which is linked so many pleasant associations. Here we have witnessed the change from an almost trackless prairie to a thriving settlement, and here we drove the squatter's stake, while yet the glass grew rank on the present site of Neosho Avenue. It has been but eight years since the Osage shook the dust from his feet and removed his wigwam from the banks of Chetopa to other hunting grounds. Yet, in that brief space of time, events have followed each other in quick succession, and Thayer and vicinity have made a history of which the people have no rea son to be ashamed. Lut we will not waste time in vain regrets or in expressions of sentiment which perhaps, no one will take the trouble to read.

With the hope of continuing the friend ships here formed, we take our de parture for the other side of the Neo sho. IT1 ins ion Item. "More rain more rest. Tho city election last week, passed off quietly with the following result For Maj'or, A. B.

Stoddart; for Po. lice Judge, W. H. Morris for Coun-cilmen, L. Steadman, D.

Zehmer, J. II. Woods, Frank Vest and Wheat. B. W.

Lemert and J. II. Woods, attorneys at law of this place, have formed a partnership under the firm name of Lemert Woods. Nathan, our clothing man lias returned from Chicago where he has been for tho last week or two, buying goods. 'Tissaid that two young chaps of this place, were admitted to the bar, (we don't mean whiskey bar) at Erie last week.

We do not like to mention their names, particularly, without their consent; but they have our best wishes. Our school opened again Monday, after a vacation of two and a half weeks. The measles have about disappeared. The news of the decision of the great Land case, in favor of the Settlers, came Monday evening, and was welcomed with great rejoicing. The flag was flying to the breeze, and anvil shooting proclaimed the good news to the neighboring farmers, who came flocking to town to learn the fact.

Ex Tem. From trie. The Honorable court has adjourned. The county Commissioners have met and transacted the business pending on the county at this time. Charley Coffin's efficient deputy, Sam Denison, has been appointed Treasuaer to fill short term.

The county printing is let to G. W. McMillen. Money to Loan. Inquire of II.

C. Anne, St. Cloud Hotel, stef W. J. Yatesfc ATTOliJfEY AT K.AW ThaveiJKansas RTwTconnell, PHYSICIAN fc SU1WJA THAYER, KANSAS.

Special attention paid to obstetrics umi diseases 01 women, uinee uiiu remiitiinr ono door cast of Holmes Drug Store. H. Cram. Manufacture and Dealer in Fashionable BOOTS SHOEy. Shop nearly opposite Mammoth Hole' Neosho Avenue THAYER, KANSAS.

v3n23tf AUSTIN ELOUfSK W. S. Whisenarid, Pro. West Side B. opp.

Depot Ottawa JKans M. WOLFE RESflDEfT DENTIST Humboldt Kansas. Okfick Over Wakefield Chainnerlin" rug Storo, Bridge Street. Branch fiVe Dhanute on Wednesday ol each week. Dr.

Geo. X3. Sanford IDIEILTT 13 Osage Mission, Kansts Graduate of the Pennsylvania Dental Suigery. Collcur St. 7EL, Thayer, Kansas.

EE. C. Arms, Prop'r. NEAHLY OPPOSITE PASS'E DtPOT. This House having been recently is prepared to oiler as good accommodations as any other Hotel in the plan-.

Sherman House WICKAHD BR OH. Poprieior. HOLMES, Druggist, Has just received fine assortment of Violins, Strtitffs, Hows, Bridfesi Pejs, Bow Hair, Tail Pieces THAYER KAN S. j. w.nvn-iDiDoix:,, Dealer iu eCCEFIES, STONEWARE, FLOUR FEED Thayer, Kansas.

All (ioods first-class and second to noiut in the market. Remember the place lit flag first door west of St. (Jloud Hotel. Sept. 17th '7 THE COMMERCIAL BILLIARD HALL.

Thayer, Kansas. i 3IALOXE, rroprirloi. THE BEST KKASDS OF WisiCN, Iiiiioi-M A t'ijrrsi ALWAYS ON HANI). Administrators Xotiee Notice is hereby given that letters of ml-mitistration on the estate cf.Iohn O. Hi deceased, late of Neosho cotintv, Kanv.

were, on the 10th day ot March A. I). IsTti. issued to the undersigned by Probate Court of said count t. M.

Sai.tki:. Administrator. S5 to S20 riJ- I fre. SrrtsoN i Sat FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1876. Present Judge Richmond ia in town.

The material for the new mill is on the ground. S. B. Wagner is building an addition to the rear to his store. MU C.

T. Ewing Oo, are doing a profitable banking business, A monument of corn is to bo erected over the grave of hard times. Official. Prank Young has been appointed -clerk of the newly elected city council. Canativ.

A beutiful canary, of excellent musical powers, died at the Baldwin House, last Wednesday. School. S. W. Brewster, former ly principal of the public school at Hhanute, is to have charge of the school hero this summer.

B. Coleman, who lives two miles west of Tliayer, thinks he will have at least one hundred bushels of peaches, if nothing befalls them. C. B. Cook, who owns a nursery four miles west of town, is selling fruit trees at "bed-rock" prices.

Give him call. Internal Improvement. That new fence which E. C. Robinson has lately built around his premises, is an ornament to the town, as well as a benefit to his own property.

Extra. At the request of parties, who did not receive a copy of the Head Light Extra, of the 10th, we insert the article in regard to the jand Case in this iss'ie. Fruit. The rumor thai, the fruit was all killed by the cold weather last month, has proven to be only a 'scare." The early peaches are injured, but with that exception we have every assurance that there will Ijea full crop. The funeral services in honor of Ihe late David Stall, were held at the school house, yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock Rev.

Schock-ley officiating. Hot. Hon. John Stall is one of the most patriotic fellows in all the land. He is temperate and the uintesence of honest living, but when he heard of the decision in favor of the Settlers, he indulged in a brand new hat.

By the way, no man has done more honest hard work for the Settlers cause, unless it be M.J. Salter or Father Dick, than honest John Stall. May he live long and prosper. Cattle. Almost daily the great Wilson County cattle case, assumes some new feature, and it seems that the cattle in dispute are to become as much distinguished on account of their forced marches as the army of the Potomac under McClellan.

With a little additional practice, they will be able to lay Sherman's March to the Sea," entirely in the shade. They lately came from Fredonia here by way of Chanute and it it is true that possession is nine points in law, Thayer is now several points ahead. TnosE who think Thayer has no poetical talent, will bo convinced of their mistake, upon reading this acrostic which a friend and well-wisher handed to us Acroatlc Thayer Head Light, name suggesting Hurrying, rushing enterprise Art iurmounting difficulties, Yearning, struggling for the prize, Ever battling 'gainst the headwind. Riding swiftly to the goal our fathers dreamed of age, Era ol such wondrous art, As the age of iron horses Daahiig wildly through the hills Lifting up Uisir fiery eyeballs In the regions of the wildman, Groaning, shrieking through the plain Highest mountains scaling grtsdly There my muse has "taken flight" An examination of teacher's trill bo held at Thayer, on Saturday, April 22, commencing at 9 o'clock a. Erie April 11th, 1876.

T. V. Leech, Co. Sup't. Pub.

Inst. Health John Grant, who left Niagra Falls in bad health last au tumn, to breathe the pure air of the healthiest town in Kansas, has improved so much since ho came hero, that he will require an introduction to his eastern friends when ho We haye not yet seen him exercising on a turning pole, or breaking prairie, but we have no doubt about his having muscle and endurance enough to do either successfully. Accident. Next 'to the Railroad Companies, Bennio Conrad is the greatest loser on the nccount of the recent land decision. While ho and his comrades were celebrating the victory, a spark of fire dropped into some powder which he was carry-ins and his hands and face were badly burned by ihe explosion.

Dr. Connell reports that the injury will not be permanent, but it will bo several weeks before be is entirely well ascain. Arrival at St. Cloud Hotel, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. MONDAY.

M. Cross, City E. Sapp, City B. Smith, Labette county Ks. E.

Carson, Henry Millet, Corning Iowa, U. Marshall M. E. Wolfe, Humboldt Ks. Joe A.

Shelty, Chanute Chas, Sweeney, Fredonia J. W. Hill, Fre donia. TUESDAY. C.

M. Swope, N. Y. A. Wheeler, City; J.

G. Kennedy, Fredonia Ks. J. K. Bound, Fredonia, Ks.

C. C. Parist, Cherry vale Ks. C. II.

Coleman, Strauss, N. Y. John J. M. Dunsmore, City E.

Sapp, City; James Burks, Fredonia T. J. Hudson, Fredonia J. W. McCrone, Bourbon county Wm.

Clarke, Olathe Ks. M. Cross. City. WEDNESDAY.

L. J. Hawkins, Chanute; H. Wel-don, Chanute J. D.

Wright, City C. J. Hudson, Fredonia Ks. J. Burks, Fredonia J.

R. Bound, Fredonia H. C. Tripp, Kansas City Mo. B.

Johnston, Osage Mission A. B. Rob-inet W. C. Jones, Iola, G.

N. Mills, Kansas City; J. B. Watkins, Lawrence Ks. as.

II. Grossman, Humboldt; E. C. Stewart, wife and tire children, Neodesha. Good.

The weather has been very good this week and farmers all feel good over the glorious prospects. They all feel rejoiced at the decision of the United States Su premo Court. It is natural that men should feel so under ordinary circumstances, but when home is at stake, as in this instance, they look upon it as the removal of a heavy weight from their breasts, feel that a corpse had been removed from their houses, a mortgage taken from their lands, as if the famine had been stayed, pestilence driven away and peace, prosperity and good will would reign again. Now they have their confidence restored in the re publican form of government, that the Supreme Court of this great nation is not corrupt and rotten as demagogues would have them believe. Now men will go to work because they know whoso land they are improving.

They can watch the rising of the glorious Kansas sun, and remember that tho darkest hour was just before the dawn thank God for deliverance. Let us advise our friends to go to work in earnest improving the land, and remember that in less than two years, this land will all sell at the rate of fifty dollars an acre." God has done a great deal for Southern Kansas, and now when we can read our title clear, let us do our share. All honor to John J. Ingalls, Gov. Salter, Gov.

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