Pratt County Democrat du lieu suivant : Saratoga, Kansas • 5

NEW STORE. LOCALNEWB. Verily our city booms. Al. Williams has sold his drug store.

Wc have a shooting Gulcry in town. A. E. Gregory and Tom Dingle have gone to Carthage' Missouri. Mr.

Caswell will erect a wind mill for Cooper at ids residence. Rowan's new building on the east side goner, Ova Wonder, Lottie Cooper, Rello Smith, Clara Baker, Alieo Stull and Miss Cells. For getting ioe Mr. Jerry Ilarrel. For getting watermelons Mr.

J. Lowo. For leo-crenuj Messrs, D. Laury anil J. W.

Stull. For waiting on tublec -MIphps Addle ropenhouse, F.ttle Taylor, Eltic Stall, Lou and Clara Celtic Laury, Tilda Witt and Ella Waggoner and Mrs. Lowe and Mrs. Radobnngh. For helping the ladies in arranging the talles Mew-re.

Radcbaugh, Fay, Laury and Baker. The committees lire requested to meet at the church Friday afternoon to arrange tho tables. Anon Srn Secretary. Whs tho comlssioner living east of here greased? Dkar Piurr Have you heard any late railroad news? W. V.

Hastle of Mt. Nobo was in town Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Fletcher's little boy has been very Kick but Is bettor.

Wo call attention to the new advertisement of Dr. Dickason in thin paper. Tho last day or two has been a picnic for Saratoga's handsome old batchelors. Mr. Hurst will still remain in Saratoga and most likely go Into business again.

George Youngs lias just got in a big iitock of boots and shoes as well as clothing. Tifr. Ollio Rich, foreman of the Pratt Times onicc, gave us a pleasant call last Monday. Hip! hurrah! now for the rall-road. Its coming.

We kindly send tho nsws to Pratt. MEW STOCK. Minlsterlnl Association, The following is tlic programme of tho Ministerial Association of tUo Mo-Pborson District, Arkansas Valley Conference, U. 15. Chuvch, to be luid Saratoga, beginning September 3, and to continue until the Cth.

Inclusive Tlie Annual Sermon will preached on the evening of tlio 3d, at 8 o'clock, by Rev. A. S. Kelpie. Subject, "Systematic Theoloey." "Why Arc We Here?" W.

L. Illn-nhaw. "A Model II. Watt. "Tho Importance of Systematic Pastoral Work" I.

A. Koons. "Conditions of Salvation" E. Hill. "What Arc the Proper Qualifications of a J.

II. McNew. "What Can Vvre Do to Occupy the Unoccupied Territory of the District Geo. II. Smith.

"Should a Minister Be Allowed to Exercise the Rights of Citizenship?" J-P. Ogborn. "Is Sanetifieation a Separate and Distinct Work from Regeneration, and Subsequent to It?" D. J. Cole.

"The Observance of the Burgoyn. "How to Promote Revivals" D. C. Myers. "Arc These Associations I.Rollins.

"The Propriety of Organizing a Min-Jsterial Institute" W. II. Myers. "Is the Punishment of Sinners Knight. "How Can the Laity Assist the Ministry W.

II. Ilinkle. "The Relation of the Sunday-School to the Church" 1). S. Herringor.

"What Should a Minister Do in Preparing for the Pulpit?" E. Oabun. "What Course Should Be Pursued with Persons Who Won't Pay the Preacher?" A. E. Helm.

On Friday evening an address, Subject, "The Etl'ect of Religion on the Worid" John 15. Loury. On Sabbath morning at 11 o'clock a Missionary Discourse W. II. Myers.

Gno. II. Smith, I. A. Committee.

Largest Exclusive Grocery House in Pratt County. Call find. Tlio IIisliest Price Paid Tor Country Produce And Groceries At Bottom Prices Festival. There will bo a grand festival given In the M. E.

church at I.nka Friday evening, Aug. 2S. Ice-cream, cake, fruit and watermelons will be served. It is earnestly hoped that we may see the friends of our immediate neighborhood and town and that while partaking of the luxuries, we may be enabled to make and renew old acquaintances and have a sociable time in general. Let everyone come, for all are invited, and help us while helping yourselves.

Following is a list of those on committee: For soliciting Misses VYag- i if Travis Son tho Plaza is about completed. Judge Fay of luka, and Max La Mont of Haynesville, were in town yesterday. Dr. H. 8.

Gregg of Harper is in the city. lie buylngelty property here. 1 The photograph gallery seems to be doing a good business and is producing some line work. Sirs. Gibbons, mother of tho Gibbons boys, was taken suddenly ill Tuesday evening, and is very sieic.

It is a mistake that the commissioners have left the county. They are supposed to be hi a dog-town hole. What should be done now, would be to call an election to elect a board of Commissioners for Pratt County. If Pratt Center has nothing else in the world it has a board of County Commissioners. Pratt may Keep ein.

The railroad party will be back soon; We can tell you this much, for sure, you can draw your own inferences. The old settlers of Pratt County, will hold an old settlers meeting, at luka October 2'Jth, Program later. S. W. Taylou, Sec.

J. D. Caswell has returned from a trip to Newton where was on business and visiting hiii many old friends. The new building of Dr. Williams and Tommy Dingle is nearly completed and will soon be occupied by them.

J. G.T. Koening of St. Louis was in town this week, lie bought property and ordered the Doiockat to his address. Mr.

James Skillman has leased the Livery I5arn of Thomas Finan. He will add a stock of buggies and horses to the business. Flint of Pratt was in town town the other day selling Grant's memoirs, lie said he was from twelve miles out north west. Oh Flint! The proprietor of the Little Western Hotel lias erected a bran new 'sign in front of the House, which gives it an imposing appearance. W.

31. Pancoast lias just returned from Lamed where he has been attending to the Guilder and Kurz cases be fore the U. S. landOilice. Pratt Center heaps siander and vituperation upon the citizens of Saratoga without stint, but let a deserved rebuke be administered to any of the Pratt Cusses, and they squeal in unison like a lot of pigs caught under the fence.

The Misses Kinsley, arc handsome and accomplished young ladies, and evidently enjoying toeir trip west. Ia a few months wnen there is a 1 city here and tlioy come in on a palace car, tlie stage-trip of to-day will be a pleasant reminiscence. L. i). Ilees who bought out Hursts is an old timer, having done business for a number of years at Wellington and medicine Lodge Kansas.

He will at once increase tho stock, and invites the public to call on him, on South Kim Street. Why didn't the '-dog in tlie manger" commissioners meet openly like men and make the order, and not skulk in todo it. Tlie transaction if it were not so boyish and senseless that it don't even merit decent rebuke would look mighty black. I). Hess Co.

have purchased the building and stock of goods formerly owned by A. I. Hurst. Wc know per sonally Mr. Less and his associate partner, and can say that they are gentlemen in every sense of the word.

We predict a good trade for them. 3Irs, Kinsley and daughters, accompanied by 31rs. Cooper and others called on the Dkmocuat yesterday, and left us some fruit as a memento of their first visit. Their next trip. Col.

Green will have gone further west to rustle and they will come in on the train. The Hon it. F. MoGrcw, otherwise known as tlie attorney for two hundred other petioner was on hand taking notes, in the interest of the little town up the creek, during the visit to Sara-atoga of the rail-road men. What a daisy! send down another.

One of the commissioners is said to have buckled on nine revolvers and swore by the horns of the sacred cow that if Pratt Center would protect him from the man from Saratoga, known at that hour to bo in luka that he would proceed to have tlie county seat removed at once. Tho case of W. W. Miller vs. W.

31. Pancoast before the U. S. land office at Larncd was decided in favor of W. 31.

Pancoast. It involved the title of tho south-east quarter of section 10, township 27, south of range 12 west. This virtually settles tho case and leaves Pancoast In possession of the land. Elijah Cat tell of Philadelphia, Severy of Emporia, J. L.

McDowell and E. B. Purcell of Manhattan, stock holders and directors of the Santa Fe railroad were in town Sunday evening and went back 3Ionday morning. The next will be the liovel brigade, leveling the way mid "mjikina; tii path A Curd. To Tin-; Pmu.n;: Having been an npplidantfor appointment, as Judge of the 20 1 Judicial District, the reason I am not a candidate for nomination may not inappropriately be given: The appointment was not sought by me for personal reasons, but because of the solicitation of prominent men of the District, urging the unfitness of Mr.

Nimocks for tho posittion. After thirty years of active professional life, I prefer the position of advocate to that of Judge; it is less arduous and contining. It is with the greatest pleasure, that I support for that honorable and responsible position, Hon; Ansel R. Clark of Sterling, a man of broad culture, ripe experience as a lawyer, an old Kansan, a brave Union Soldier, stainless reputation, without opposition upon personal grounds and with that cool, balanced, judicial cast of mind, r-o essential to the proper discharge of its duties. lie is a candidate the result of petitions so numerously signed by men of high position in all professions and vocations that lie was not at liberty to decline.

'This is what we want, especially in a Indicia! oiilec that the cl'iiee should seek the man; lie then presides without i a shadow of ground to charge that lie is rewarding his friends or punishing his opponents. lAeei him, ana no wm prove trie peer of any judge in tho state. .1. K. BmscxnimoiT.

Lyons, Kansas. Sen-! in Imports. For tlie purpose of publication and showing the result! of the harvest in i this county, wc invite the farmers to send to us, "accompanied by their names land post office addresses, the results of tiie liarvett, giving number acres devoted to each crop and the yield. We tiro not afraid to invite comparisons with any county in the State, for we are confident that Pratt county, for herage, can make a showing in crops as good as, if not better than, any other county in Kansas, and Kansas beats the world. Saratoga, Kansas.

-OAT To-day is the most blustery day of tho summer. It is a regular Pratt Center kind of a day. The ladies of tho railroad party were handsomely entertained by Airs. Cooper and other ladies of this city. Mr.

Alfred Dunn, of Washington Territory, came into town last Sunday and made this office a pleasant call. Maiihied At the residence of the bride, seven miles east of town, Sunday, Aug. 10, 1 3Ir. John J. 3IcGregor, of Saratoga, to Miss Eliza vV hittit.

We Bend the news to Saratoga. Pratt County Times. And there wero two thousand went up tho hill, and there were two thousand came, down again. Tlie tower for the church bell was put in position to-day. That is we suppose it is a bell tower though it looks more like a wind mill or an oil wcdl derrick and still more like the eye-tooth of an ancient Mnstadon.

It is not right in f'-ont of one of the entrances, neither, and another objection, it is not painted red. 'A few evenings ago a number were sitting in front of the Great Western, when a large meteor In the north was which lasted for several seconds. Speculation was indulged in as to the probable distance we were from it. It was generally concluded that it was near tlie Santa Fe railroad. It will probably be of interest to the party to know that it was twenty-five miles this side and that the meteoric dart passed clear through the top of a hill and singed the grass below for several yards before passing linally into tlie ground.

Yesterday, when the railroad party were about getting in the carriages. Mr. Alhaugh, of the Sun, would have given as much to know which carriage the handsome Misses Kinsley would be assiirned as a speculator would to know which htrect of a new town is to be the business struct, but lie got into the wrinjr one and it was amusing to see the lines and get out In dis-I Kiwi' when lie saw some of the older la-! dies of the party coming his way. And I to-day when Miss. Hair and Sisler, two as bright and handsome ladies as Mei'licrson contains, called at the Sun otllee, with ids usual luck, was out.

Kiowa. The editor and family drove to Jfew Kiowa last Saturday leaving here at 9 o'clock a. m. Sunday Mr. and Mrs.

Hates, of Kiowa, drove us a long trip through the Indian Territory, We met thousands of cattle on their' way to Kiowa for shipment to Kansas City. The military is still on duty on the "border. Coming back Monday, tlie trip was made again in a day, and one of the ponies that made the" trip kicked a fellow clear across lie stable in an hour after being unhitched. It did the same thing at Kiowa the evening we got there. With such a team, of course the trip was enjoyed.

The north part of Harbor county is about as level as an Exploded vo'leano, but after leaving iicdieine Lodge.it is a beautiful country all the way to Kiowa. But we saw no country, either in or out of the Territory, prettier than Pratt county. We were told that all eyes are turned to tins county, watching and waiting, and that, when the railroad starts we will have the bbrgest boom ever sesn in the South-west. J. I).

Caswell has on the road a carload of new stoves, which, will be here soon. He has a full stock of all kinds of hardware, pumps, gasoline stoves, wagon stock and wind mills, a complete lirte of shelf hardware, including a fine stock of cutlery, also the hnest stock of door locks in Pratt county. Give him a call. The Saratoga House is tlie travelers' home. Good beds, good board, cool, airy rooms and every attention paid to tlio comfort of the guests.

Unbr St. 00 a day. Stables in connection a ith the house. T. Fisax, Propiicto New Market.

On the east of Elm street, Mr. Skill-man will keep on hand all kinds of meat and vegetables and the very best that can be bought in tlie market. Prices will be found asloasany othcrplace in the city. Come and give him a trial. lit hw I 'Ban Francisco PASSENGERS FOR.

ST. LOUTS and all Eastern points should travel by the W. ifc W. Railway, Kingman to Wichita, where' direct connection is made with through trains of tho "FRISCO LIN for St. Louis without change of cars.

The '-FRISCO LINE" Is the only route running through solid trains with Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars to St. Louis without change. Don't Forget the popular "Frisco Line." C. W. Koprers, D.

Wish art, Vice-Pre't Gen. Gen'l Passen-Manr'r, St. Louis. per Mo. I.ouIk M.

xW DRUG Wr IT rv NEW DRUG stoke, jupi'iis: tore store. ce Us. a Fall Line MKDICXNES. BLAIR, SARATOGA, KAN. You Will Find DRUGS AMD Now For rl'lics TIIlilT DAYS! IX ORDER TO MAKE SOME TRADE'.

I I KEN'S STXAW EAT 3 AT JTJGT HAL? TSICE Will Sell Parasols Worth 5.00 for $2.50. Will Sell Parasols Worth $3.00 for $1.59. Will Sell Parasols Worth 2.50 for Will Sell Parasols Worth $2.00 for $1.00. All Millinery Goods for their Value. Trimmed Hats Worth I.5Q for $1.

CO. Trimmed Hats Worth Trimmed Hat3 Worth $3.00 for $1.00. Trimmed Hats Worth $2.23 for $.75. Trimmed Hats Worth $2.00 for Trimmed Hats Worth $1 .00 for $.50. Will Sell Plaid Dress Good Boca yard.

"Will fesell All Style? Ilewt Px-iii at Only Oe Yard. Gauzs Underwear, Both Ladies' and Gents', atlav Prices. Low Cat Sb.033 and SIipp3r3 at Cost. Good Over-alls for 5Cc a Fair. Tine Moleskin Pants, 1.25, $1.35, Worth Three Tinea the Price Asked for Than.

C03I13 Alt IVY ATS'J 1UI ISATKiAIXH! (TEMPLE JBttOTlIEKS OLD STAND.) CHAS. SOUTH SIDE SQUARE. JOHN .1. DAVIS, SOUTH SIDE PUPLIC SQUARE.