Towanda Herald from Towanda, Kansas • 1

U'UO Towanda, Butler Kansas, 55. L. JONES Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents. Prompt Attention Given to all Business entrusted to our care, Office Herald Building fa, THE HERALD. THE HERALD; DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF TOWANDA AND BUTLER COUNTY.

T. to CHAS. E. MARTIN, Editor, X. JONES, PUBLISHER.

TOWANDA, KANSAS. Polished V9ry Thursday. Entered at the post-ofllce in Towanda, Kansas, as second-class matter. Subscription Rates. One copy, one year, $1.25 Five copies one year, $5.00 Invailutly In advance.

ADVERTISING RATES made known at this office on application. 1 1 OFFICE OYER PALACE DRUG STORE, Towanda, Kansas. Job Printing of Ml Kinds DONE NEATLY AND PROMPTLY. CI NO. 29.

TOWAJSDA, BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. VOL. I. DIRECTORY. The Chicago and New York league I.

MOONEY, ball clubs, which stand respectivelyS first and second in the league for this Palace Drug Store, LONCER, Proprietor, TOWANDA, ICAS, The Palace Drug Store was established in 1883, and al NATIONAL DIRECTORY. President, Grover Cleveland Vice President, Tho. A. Hendricks Chief Justice, Morrison R.Waite Secretary of State, Thomas F.Bayard Sec of the Treasury, Daniel Manning Sec of War, Wm.C.Endicott Sec of the Navy, Wm.C.Whitney Sec of the Interior, L. Q.C.Lamar Attorney General, A.H.Garland Postmaster General, Wm.

F.Vilas Speaker of the House, J.G.Carlisle though yet in its infancy, it has become an established fact that it competes with older houses It has been my aim to make friends, and try to please "all by being uniformly polite, prompt and accommodating I want you to get in the habit of Member of the St. Louis, Ft. Scott Wiehita Railroad Emigration 'Society. The Longest Established Real Estate Agency in TO And one of the Oldest in Butler County. coming to me for articles you need in my line, and if pure goods, low prices and constant attention and civility will do so, I will make you feel at home in my store.

13y untiring efiorts to make my Stock complete in every particular, I anneal to Vour judgment because of an earnest determination to treat all fairly and honestly, I ask for COUNTY DIRECTORY II.C.Sluss, Judge 18th Judicial Dist. A.L.Redden' State Senator 28th Dist. J.M.Randall, Representee 70th Dist. F. W.Rash, 69th Dist.

T.R.Purcell, Charman.) J. K. Skinner, Co. Com. Geo.P.Neinian, J.

Austin County Treasurer, James Fisher County Clerk, Vol.P.Mooney Clerk of District Court, G. P.Aikrnan Probate Judge, J. A McGinnis Register of Deeds, your consideration ana on tnese principles I base my claim tor a sliare ot your patronage. 1 have just got in the largost stock of Ever brought to the city also have a good supply of Lead and Oil, and various other kinds of paint, PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, RUSHES, Ef C. Hayward.Webb Supt.

ot rub. Inst Anyone wishing to buy or sell Real Estate, or desiring reliable Information regarding Land, will do well to Correspond with him. He is thoroughly acquainted with the Country one of the first settlers and can furnish the wanted intelligence. tie takes pleasure in answering all Correspondence, accompanied with a return stamp, Keeps on hand at all times a large assortment of O.E.Lobdell with clubs occupying the same position in the American base ball Association. We will get out a suppliment in the near future containing a write up of our business men, and the town's history.

It is necessafy for some new material to be "added to our stock in hand, before such can be accomplish' ed satisfactory. Saturn, the wondei1 of the skies, with his complex arrav of rings, moonsl nnd beltsi, passed his perihelion last Wednesday at 7 o'clock a. iti. A generation of men will pass away before-this peerless planet will complete another circuit of the sun. Science expects to add much to her 'knowledge of this remarkable planet.

America falls heir to another czar of Russia bestowed upon Clark, of Cambridge, Mass.j the golden honorary medal of the empire, in acknowledgment of the excellency of the great object glass, made! by Mr. Clark for the chief telescope in the Pnlkowa observatory. We would warn the czar not to gaze through this glass too often, or he may be shocked by its revalations. it's American, you know. The great dam across the Ohio river at Davis island a few miles below Pittsburg, was conr.pleted several days ago; and the occasion celebrated by the "smoky" city in a royal manner: Notwithstanding the immense body Of water that rushes through this channel in the spring when the break up occurs, there are times during the' season when the water gets too low td float the river craft, and the navigation is stopped.

The building of this and other dams on the headwaters of the Mississippi are merely experimental efforts of science to discover if it is County Attorney. Sheriff. County Surveyor. Coroner. My stock is Large and Complete, and you are sure to find what you want in my store, and at prices that are bound to H.T.

Dodson Chas. Schramer, II. C. Gabbert J.S.Dutton please you. Give me a trial.

REPUBLICAN TICKET. Wild Lands and Improved FABMS Also Improved Town and City Property, Is agent for the Railroad Company has about all the ttnimproved Lots in Towanda DC sale. Will trade or exchange lands for town property, or town property for lands, or either for goods. OAXji AND SBB TTSf. Otlh-e in Pbstoffice.

Aill be found Eahi.y and Latk, all days except Sundays, to wait on customers. 1. Mooney, Towanda, Ks. X.J i Jl. ('.

P. Van DUKBehg. Mi M. Van Denbekg. For Treasurer: John H.

Austin. For Clerk: James Fisher. Ftir Register of Deeds: J. A. McGinnis.

For Surveyor: W. S. Buskirk. For Sheriff: H. T.

Dodson. For Coroner: J. S. Dutton. For Comwissioner 2d Dist: J.

K. Skinner. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Treasurer: John F. Shannon.

For E. K. Robinson. For Register of Deeds: John Oldham. For Surveyor: L.

T. Wilson. For Sheriff: J. C. Lines.

For Coroner: P. E. Ashen felter. For Commissioner 2d Dist: Geo. McGahey.

DEALER IN Van Benberg TUPLE AND FANCY ROCERIES, -DEALERS IN- i'l And a general stock of HARDWARE, At Lower Prices than was ever known in the county before. Terms always Cash. LIME, HAIR, PLASTER OF PARIS, building and Fencing Material of all Kinds. i KANSAS. Next Tuesday we vote.

Exercise your suffrage. The Chinaman must go. Chester A. Arthur, is ill. The Chicago Times id for sale.

HO USE TO EXPLAIN THAT WE Northern Michigan has a foot of snow. iHf ILL Business and Professional Cards. DR. J. Di PHYSICIAN SURGEON, Towanda, Kansas.

Oflice at Metropolitan Drug Store. All calls promptly attended. The campaign is a cjuiet one in these diggin's. Mrs. Garfield is writing a hiography SIZES we Have 12 different and styles of of her husband.

Jay Gould has not tasted whiskey THE for twenty years. not possible to hold this surplus of water and avoid the disastrous floods that are becoming almost yearly occurrences along the courses of these streams. If those already established suhtain the shock of the immense ice floes, the erection of a complete system of dams and locks will be inaug-erated. It will also prove a sanitary measure. We are in receipt of the towanda Hekald, published at Towanda, Kansas, and we notice our old, friend Chaii Martin at the helm as editor.

The Herald is a healthy looking sheet. We are pleased to see Charley at the editor's desk. Success to you, old Westville (Ind.) Indicator. the Indicator is published at our former home, and we have remembrances of that place as containing that period of our lives known as Auld Lang Syne. Yes, 'twas there' we devoted ourselves chiefly to the pranks and mischievousness of our tenderer years, and was the cause of much maternal solicitude.

We ako' took our initiatory degree in the profession of our adoption in that charming little city, and remember E. E. Drum, the editor of the Indicator, as a gentleman of staying qualities. We admire your grit; shake, fi. There is a time in the history of every community when it becomes of vital necessity for the factors thereof to band together for the advancement of their common welfare, arid the future prosperity of their business.

Towanda, though her steady and substantial growth bears promise of a town of more pretentious dimentions sometime in future, it rests with her live business men and warm friends to' The Northern Pacific railroad has Saint Louis, Fort Scott ail COOKING STOVES AND A2J O-iEJ And are the exclusive agents for the celebrated superior cooking Stoves, Fire Back warranted to last 5 years. We also have 20 different styles and sizes of Heating Stoves that we will sell lit -prices that defy competition. Do not fail to come and look at the St. Clair soft coal AND WICHITA RAILROAD, FROM FT. SCOTT TO ANTHONY, A distance of 215 MILES, Is the most pleasant Route to all Points EAST, NORTH And SOUTH Passengers via this line have no change of cars to Chicago, St.

Louis and llannibal from Ft. Scott. Shortest and quickest Route to New York, Sanantonio, Boston, Elpaso, Philadelphia) Ft. Worth, Washington, New Orleans, Cleveland; Chattanooga, Buffalo, Nashville, fj Cincinnati, Lexington. It is the shortest ftnd best route tcf all points irt Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Indian Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and all New England Texas, Arkansas, Louisana, Tennessee and all Southern States.

PflUmai Palace Sleeping Chair Cars Attached to Passenger trains'. Leaving Towanda at 10:40 d. Ft. Scott 5:00 p. arriving at St.

Louis Union depot 6:50 a. aailil: throuah fcASfc BUHNER, and the Hard Coal BASE say what this development may nffinr 37,000 acres of land to sell. A receni cyclone in India destroyed 100 villages and 10,000 lives. The Philadelphia Ledger gives Mr. Childs an income.

of $1200 a day; There is talk of making the archbishop of Baltimore a cardinal. President Cleveland, it is repotted, says that New York will go republican. $30,800,000 is; the amount' of gold that was mined in this country last year. The Maxwell-Preller case is postponed till spring. Maxwell's defence will be insanity.

The Douglass Tribune came to our table last week with a suppliment. Prosperity was stamped all over it. the Ferdinand Ward trial is in progress at New York city. Great difficulty is being experienced in finding a suitable jury. the newspaper fraternity of Gotham seems to be at outs generally, and fealty and brotherly love is among the things that were.

Kasai is the name of a recently discovered river in Africa. Length, not known. Four hundred miles above its juncture with the Congo it is six miles broad. Our new" P. Andrew Swiggett, fits himself into the official chair with grace and ability.

It would entail a long search, indeed; to find one better suited to fill this exacting duty. He is the right inari for the place. John Oldham, democratic candidate for Register of Deeds, visited in this vicinity ancf Friday of last Week. John is a resident of Richland township On the SedgwiK county line and goes into the race villi a hand-s6me ccmlpl erne nt of votes from that wo lnseperable trom uie nistory oi our larger marts are the works of their citizens, and their steadfast efforts in its behalf. Our growth has not been marked bv davs andmonths.but a few We also wish you to hear in mind that we are Headquarters for years has given tone and a confidence its resources and strength that is Hardware, or anything in our line, and that we will not be Undersold by Anybody lacking in towns of and from Towanda to St.

Louis, 20 Hours, mushroon growth. A time has arm--ed, when the friends of Towanda are called upon to assist in the procuring And are prepared to dp all kinds of Repairing neatly and promptly. 'As we buy our Goods for Cash, mid pay as we go, -we will always be able to sell goods a of enterprises and industries which shall add fresh life and vigor to this plaite. Towanda needs a bank. All we have spoken to on this subject realize the importance of an institu tion of this kind and would, we be liSIe Cleaner.

Hian Anyfiofiy elM can. We also have a tin shop; lieve, lend a hand in securing one it the opportunity was offered. We believe in a meeting, effecting. Thanking you for past favors and kindly asking-a continuance of the same, We Kemain, Respectfully, mu.Kiny aireci connecnon in union ae-pot, Sk Louis, for points East; and Southedst; making the running time between Cincinnati and Louisville 81 Hours, tcf Washington, 49 Hours', To Baltimore, 50 Hours'; This is 5 hours faster time thari b'y any other route. Land tickets to Reece, our land pcint, are on Sale at principal ticket offices throughout the United States.

Parties holding onr Land Tickets can purchase tickets at hall fare, to the ent of the track. For' any further information call on any of oir' agents, or send for maps papers giving description Of line to undersigned. C. P. Rfxtor, J.

VJiAxn, Asst. T. TV A. C.Tf T. A.

Ft Kah. Jit connection with our Store, an organization under the name of iroprovment society, which shall have its officers and committees to wait up-, on strangers seeking investment for capital or a location lor industries. cuer our columns to all in tnis BROTUBRS, Towanda Kansas. matter, and it will pleaao us to ce a lively discussion of the same. Such a course emmot but be of value on' ritth? 4.