The Preston Plain Dealer from Preston, Kansas • 1

Mi raw? MiSZ.ifWgW aqsg PRESTOfy, PRATT COUNTY, kANS AS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1893. NO. 33. VOL. 5.

Grand Opening Have you seen those Lamps 9 (Housing, Stand and Student's) at OF Town and County. Fight your own buttles. ltemombor Hawkins when yon tiool tiny coul. P. F.

Stcolo shipped Ills broom oorn hist Saturday. S. T. 18C0, X. Anil the same dill n-t arrive.

Write them. Ilavo you noticed tho stock of clothing on hand lit Yeo Mrs. Joe Triiitt has been sick this week, in bed most of tho lime. lion), in Liberal, on the 21st to Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Combs, a daughter. A Cullison woman In Pratt last Saturday spent $10 in bargains alone. Tho cold south wind wo were iavored witli last Saturday was very sarching. Do people read advertisements They do, when thoudv is in tboPLAix- DEALKIi.

The Thanksgiving services in the M. E. church on Thursday morning were well nt tended. Sectiou Foreman Oossnell has just received a magnificent lot of nevv tie, for tiio Holidays. My son, if you want to bo independent of your unelii don't be too fresh with your ante.

X. Tho capital letter will be found but twice in tho Old Testament and three times in tho new. Quarterly conference at Carmi on Fall and Winter BcnJ. Shields and. family moved to the Jesse Ganiblo place, east of town, lliis week.

Mr. Shields owns quarter section adjoining, on which ho proposes to build next summer and also to send tho children to school into town, was tho object of tho change. The progressive high-livo club met with Dr. and Mrs. McCoy on Monday evening, and Miss Maine lligman car riod off the honors, with A.

F. Jones and F. E. Gloyd watching tho game pi etty close, as it were. It was suggested that the two gentlemen go some place where they could loarn the game.

Mrs. Smith MeElwain has accepted a position in Tillman's Bazaar and would be pleased to have all her old friends and customers call to seo her, where she will sell them goods cheaper than ever. Gid Combs raised it big flock of ducks the past summer and experimented with threo of them the other day in this way Ho fed tlio threo a half bushel of corn and then put them in the half bushel measure and they diil not (ill it. Gid says ho would like to have this mystery solved aud learn what became of tho corn. No owner has ivor turned up for the pocket book found by Mrs.

Dake, south of town several weeks ago. It must have been lost by some one while en route to tho Strip. It is said to have contained something over A drummer, in leaving tho Santa Fe Hotel in Hutchinson tho other day in a hurry, in order to catch a train just WHY WE ARE THANKFUL. II. II.

Hopkins that ho and his family aro safely back in Preston. Dr. Blaekwell that ho is postmaster. Win. Yeo that collections are so good.

A. B. Uaskill that his trade iu the meat market is improving. Jim Hopper that he got his big horse registered. Tom Coats for a girl.

A. W. Elwood that tho dancing club has been organized. J. T.

Shafl'er that ho got 'i certificate to teach school. B. W. Hall that his piano is finally getting in tune. Jim Gossnell for all those new ties.

J. T. Hawkins for the cold weather, it makes a demand for coal. Will Harrel for many blessings, especially that his house enjoys tin: trade of the Four Hundred of Pratt. Bill Daily that he has a good job for two years.

J. H. White forhealth. Prof. Robertson that lie has a big house to live in.

F. A. Allen that he was re elected justice of the peace. Tho restaurant man that he is able to do his own cooking. Geo.

B. Williams for that boy." Gid Combs that his pork turned out so well. Treasurer Mason that lie has another year at the county tit." Pete Dick that he lias his residence about liniahed. W. II.

Clements that he is in town for the winter. T. Wo SSTlloclt IsJhj id Railway PRATT, ROES, Watch KANSAS. GOODS I WlVi BARGAINS V111ASNS Has just reirmved to the Peak B.lock, re-centiy occupied by the Pratt Hardware, Imple. and has put in a large stock of Groceries and Provi Don't THE BAffi OF PRESTON, IjOiHG PROPRIETORS.

stock consists ot Lumber. Shingles, Doors Lime Hair, Cement, Etc. YARD REAR OF THE BANK PRESTON, KANSAS Prices to Suit You By purchasing for Cash and in large quantities, lean give my customers the benefit ami will do ho. Call and see my stock and get prices before buy-and I will saw you money. Monday last.

Dr. Martindale, the pro- iding elder, was present. A crank called at tho White House last week 10 borrow of his friend, Grover. Ho got it. in a horn.

County Supt. Gebhart the Preston schools a visit last Friday. He reports nearly everything serene. A man named Myers, of Rice county, who bought eighty acres of lai.d of the Widow Hill, moved here litNt week. You can't toll what a man may do in a horse trade by tho amount of noiso lio makes iu church.

Ham's Horn. Anil they have a J'reston now in Oklahoma 'ibis is no doubt intend ed as a compliment to Preston, Kans. The M. E. Conference of this district meets in Wellington on tho 21st of March.

Bishop Mallalieu will preside. Mrs. S. H. Oouily, tho accomplished daughter of Col.

W. F. Fitzcr, is under the parental rooi in Pratt for tho Holidays. Pond Creek Sentinel Joo Center formerly of Tnron, Karis is, has returned to this city where ho is engaged in business." rrank Elwood eamo in from Arizona last week, a littlo under the weather, aud will probably remain until after tho Holidays to recruit. The Carmi school, Miss Staples, teacher, gnvo a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday and an enjoyable literary entertainment, by the scholars, afterwards.

Did you feed at the table spread by the sisters of the M. E. church on Thursday evening Nearly everybody was there, but you. Teacher" Do you understand tho phrase 4 rapid enunciation Boy Yes'm. It's tho way folks say their prayers on cold nights." X.

Tho Stafford Peoples' Papei truly says The Missouri Pacilic can beat all records changing time." Wc don't protend to keep up with them. A runaway on Monday through town caused some excitement, Bert Ci i a.nd his mother. Two-hort team, but Bert held them taut in the middle of the street and finally brought them up standing in the rear of tho lumber yard. No damage. The Voice, published at Iluuncwcll.

with Miss Sunshino Johnston as local editor and business manager, has bi on received. Miss Johnston seems to wield a pencil with easo and graeo ami gets up her page filled witli interesting locals. Success to her. Gid Combs butchered last Saturday and ho was thoughtful enough to remember tho Plaindealek wiih a grand feed of the ribs. You lire talking," said Preston teacher to a pupil in a far corner of the room, whose back was turned.

How do you know asked tho boy, and when the teacher said, by the mus-. clos in tho back of your nock," tho boy groaned more physiology One of tha would-be prominent citizens of Pratt before going to church the other Sabbath morning called his better half a consummate fool, she meekly replied "that's what everybody called me when I married you." Mrs. W. H. Luther and her two little daughters lefi Wednesday niorniug for Wichita on short visit to relatives and friends, Will drove them to Cairo to tako the early and on returning said he found the south wind coming from the north very sarching.

For tho lovo of Heaven, Lizzie," said Hev. Dr. Fourthly, calling to his vvifo in toned of thunder, count and tako this squalling baby out of the room before she drives nie crazy I'm wri- ting a sermon oa Bearing One An-' other's Burdens about leaving, picked up a nicely I'ded piece of green paper on theollice floor iu front of the bl oom theportet was using in sweeping out tho place, remarking to that ollicial, you ought not to be sweeping stuff like that out. On reaching tho train aud getting into a seat lie examined tho piece of papei and was agreeably surprised to lind it to be a crisp ten-dollar bill. He ought to divide with tho porter tho lirst time he is at that hotel again.

Mr. Brnj. Shields brought in a tine young turkey hen as a Thanksgiving offering to tho Plaindhaluu. May his shadow continue to grow. Would that there were a lienj.

shields on every quarter sectiou of Pratt counly. for in that case, all hands would pay up in advance, and publishing a newspaper in Preston would then be mi fait. We don't exactly know what that means, for it takes something extra to express our feelings. Out in Morton county they elected a member of ihe legislature, although there was no vacancy and the governor had not ordered the election. The returns have been received in Topoka and the stale canvassing board nn in a stow what to do with them.

The Republican was elected. A Naron township man was in Pratt the other day with a couple of dressed hogs and adudish young fellow, about ilisizo of J. K. told the farmer he would like to have some spare ribs and back-bones, when the countryman inquired if the city people eat back-bone; that the people iu the country did not, and tho dude wanted to know what they did with them. Eat the meat off and throw tho bones away." The team moved on.

A literary was organized in the school house last Friday n'glit. J. T. Hawkins was chosen chairman, Prof. E.

M. Rowell secretary, and B. W. Hall treasurer- A committee on by-laws, also one to investigate and approve the treasurer's bond, were selected and tho question, Should politics be taught in the public schools the first subject debated at the meeting last uight, Fri- day. As I grow older, said a man of moderate means.

I lind that I have much to be thankful for. Wealth wen, past my door and stopped at my neighbor's. But, then, so did death hile health stopped at mine, and has kept us jolly ever since." The idea of a man being appointed postmaster and then not allowing him to remove any of the objectionable employes ho finds iu the office when he takes possession Grover, you are making us very, very tired. An exchange says that a happy husband in Edwards county relates that ho has been married twenty years and during all that time his wife and he have only once had an idea in common, and that was when their house caught lire and both did their best to see who could get out of tho door tirst. Herington Signal Rev.

Pearson oocupied tho pulpit at the M. E. clujreh on Sunday. His sermon in the morn ing was a strong and ablo argument backed tiv pure and si mule Bifle evi dence. Mr.

Pearson is one or those theological lawyers who, when he preaches, hews close to ihe lino and keeps his audience busy dodging tin chips as they fall. Geo. W. Marvel and M. A.

Bryan Seventh Day Advcntints, are in jail in Centervillc, for working on Sun day, and consider themselves martyrs for conscience Sake. A ship left Baltimore last week for Antwerp, with a cargo of bu.shelsofwlie.it. Great Ciesar J. S. Barnes that the Pops of Kansas arc on the run.

Dr. J. II. Frankliu that he does not live iu Honolulu and would be more thankful still if some of his ex-patients would pay up. Attorney J.

C. Ellis that lie has a good bed, enjoys three meals a day aud that his nag has gained thirty-live pounds since the racing season closed. Attorney J. Q. Thompson that lie has good health, plenty to eat and his creditors lenient.

Co. Supt. Gebhait, that it is no worse than what it is. County Clerk Curtis that he was only defeated by two votes. Judge Bitshore, so many things to make me sad and so much to see that I condemn such a superabundance to pity that I don't know where I am at.

Jim "McMnin for evemhliJsv well supplied. Ji. y. Stokes that he js still able to kill an occasional skunk. Charley Chafiin, like my old neighbor in his prayer, I thank God it is as well with me as it is." Dr.

Dique that he is still able to read the New York Try-bime." Cass Elliott for a single standard." Editor Miller that the boil on his neck lias busted. Editor Reece for the co. printing. J. K.

cliran that Jeff Naiou is no longer his boss, Gust Carlauder, life and strength for the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Dr. Gray, nothing. G. F.

Berry, owing to a gwd. cash trade. Deacon Tage that he is alive. Geo. V.

Stewart that it is as well with me as it is. T. W. Roe for a good trade and being wildly in love. M.

D. Lodge for a Democratic prosi dent. W. T. Peel because ho always has good bread.

Sam Calhoun that ho has plen'y of horse feed. Attoruev.trawfoi-d that it is nothing worse than it is. W. M. McConnell, for a good many things, good crops and those indebted come in, for instance.

Homer Shrack for being able to do full justice at the table. Sheriff Williamson that ho will fc.ed the prisoners for two years vet. B. B. Morley that the Lord gave him an eye to tell a good bullock from an old cow.

Tillman, he of the Bazaar, that ho has such a superb lot of employes with i grand stock of goods. Chas. T. Warren, that ho is a Metho dist. Reddy that ho still owes an elec tion bet.

Jim Hickman that he can write deputy sheriff" under his name. Dr. Douthart that wheat is going up md Kansas has been redeemed. John Fletcher, hasn't studied it up yet. Judge Wonder that the Republicans didu't get it all and for au occasional marriage.

Jim Porter for health. only. POOR KINGMAN Kingman Leader. Man) mouths agothe Le.uUi-( ourier 'Milled the atteuliou of Ihe people of Kingman to tho fact that each year tho cilv is running behind, that its expenses are more than its income. has Jed to much dit-ciissiou ami the general opinion is that the water works, and the electric light must be cut off.

T'io water works, as a protection from, lire, has amounted to Hi lie the pat ytnr iiuyhow. There should be nc unnecessary delay in this niaUe: sions Fail to Kan. IMPLEMENT Co, expect to (M as as at the good Manager. Kansas McMains Pratt, HARDWARE Wm. M.

McConnell. Hardware, Farming Implements In an Endless Variety, BARGAINS, for the Cash! PRATT, KANSAS. STOVES YOUR medicines FOR and Drugs GO TO blackwell's drug store, PRESTON, KANSAS. Where do you A. Kalb.

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