The Thayer Weekly Graphic from Thayer, Kansas • 1

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THAYER, NEOSHO COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 19 1895. VOLUME 1. NUMBER 32. UNDER THE LOCAL LENS. THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC.

Are the Best Something You want. As Gleaned by Our Reporter In Mis Saunterings About Our Fair City. McCormack Binders and Reapers. Among the Lodges. THAYER LODGE 97, A meets every Tuesday in their hall at 7:30 p.

m. A. D. Mathias, M. W.

I Barnes, Recorder. A Batchelor's Reverie. Fred R. Call. Written for the Thayer Graphic.

NOW ORDER Farmers are very busy' now-a-days. Corn is com ing into market here quite lively. T. R. Johnson left forSalt Lake City Tuesday with his family.

Will Strickland will keep Arnold's trotting stallion, Dayton, at his stable this season. The Santa Fe is hauling lots of Texas cattle into Elgin where they are to be grazed. R. E. Miller, Galesburg's postmaster was over with his family Sunday visiting his parents.

Win Johnston and Ed Royster of Chanute were among the visitors in THAYER LODGE 456, I meets Friday evening each week in Masonic Hail. McGowan, Van Horn, Secy. THE DSC SHOVEL AND CULTIVATORS, Best canned corn, worth 15c per can, only 6c Very best tomatoes 7c Best mustard 8c Lobsters, worth 35c 10c Farren's gooseberries and black SRRNG TOOTH THAYER POST 339, A meets 2d and 4th Saturday evening each month in A Hall. Fayette Nelson, Campbell, Adj. You also need HARNESS, BUGGIES, WAGONS.

raspberries, finest on market. 10c Big red apples, per can 8c Boston baked beans in 3 pound our city Saturday. Tne Nashville Students performed here last Friday night to a nil house. The singing was good and the character parts well rendered James Crosby proved an excellent colored comedian reminding us of the old days when Nelse Seymour was on -the boards at Bryants minstrel in New York. Nelse was also a long legged comical genius.

Lowery cornetist is very proficient in bringing music from that instrument and we believe has but few superiors. If the prices had been 25 and 35 cents a much larger audience would have been pleased with the performance. Harve Lowrance was farming some Wednesday. That ishewas hauling corn from his farm to Wickard's crib. He was fresh when he started in, but grew weary, oh, so weary, as work progressed.

With each shovel full he gazed wistfully from crib to wagon, longing for the appearance of the bottom of the wagon. He evidently thought each load to be the biggest ever hauled into Thayer. The Thayer nine played a game of base ball at Galesburg' last Saturday with the nine of that enterprising burgh, and came off victorious by the score of 24 to 7. We hope the Gales-burgers will not feel discouraged but come over here and play a return match, when our boys will be generous hosts and only beat their visitors a little bit. cans, splendid, per can only.

8c Wanda smoking tobacco, worth I was seated one day in my shanty, thinking of my past life; And was just preparing supper, so I held in my hand a knife. And I pondered; oh, how often had I thought in the same old strain, ''Was life scarce worth the living," when down came a pelting rain, Right into the shanty it entered. and set everything afloat; And it saturated everything I had, even a bran new coat. For the shanty was of stone, with timbers and dirt for a roof; And I hadn't had time to fix it so 'twas not waterproof. I sat there in my chair and thought of my life again.

Then I had determined to end it for it caused me bitter pain. I raised the knife, but a friend just happened in at the door; One of my batchelor chums that had visited oft before; And he chaired me about things and me looking so awful glum, So I brightened up a bit, and I was right glad he'd come. "Well, we laughed, and talked quite awhile; I listened to what he said After a 1 it I again raised the knife, This time to cut some bread. Mrs. E.

C. Smith who has been visiting her daughter at Neosho Falls, arrived home Saturday. The state assessors past through here Wednesday accompanied by Supt Barnes of the Santa Fe, 20c per box 10c (While it lasts users of fine tobacco are requested to give this a trial.) new PRocess GasoLene Have all the latest improvements. You need one at your house. WHILE YOU ARE AT IT Examine our line of CLOCKS and take one home with you.

You can Fine pin head tea, worth 75c a peund, while it lasts 37c Finest Japan tea, cheap at 50c, get any of the above at our GENERAL HARDWARE STORE. while it lasts. 19c Best tea siftings in pound p'k'gs 8c Ed Crawford of St. Paul, nee Osage Mission, was in the city interviewing our harness dealers Monday. B.

D. Lorton left today for Wellington, where he reports for orders as telegraph operator on the Santa Fe. M. A. Mitchell started for Denver, Monday.

Stien Sims elevates letters and postal cards and slings newspapers and periodicals in the P. O. now. Sifted kernel black pepper per lt 10c EVANS CROSS. THAYER CVP 972, M.

w. A. meets in A Hall the 1st Wednesday evening of each month V.r Post, Hendricks, CI. LADIES CIRCLE of the GAR, 21, meets in A Hall the afternoon of the 2d and '4th Saturdays of each month. Emma Tout, Pres.

THAYER COUNCIL 158, A A meets in Masonic Hall every istand 3d Wednesday evening each month. Abbott, A Reinhart, Secy. THAYER LODGE 149. A. F.

A. meets 1st and 3d Saturday each month in Masonic Hall at 7:30 p. m. A. R.

Sargent, V. J. F. Long, Secy. GEM LEGION 43, S.

A vr, meets in A Hall 2d and 4th Wednesday evenings each month. Uarnes, Thos McNulty, Recorder. ground ginger, per lb 12c stick clove, ground cloves 12c nutmegs, 2 for ic; per lb. 50c 10 qt. galvanized pails 20c C.

H. Egbert, of Neodesha, was in the city this week. Coffeyville and Cherryvale were No 1 galvanized 55c Noj visited Monday by a hail storm of unusual severity, during which hail stones the size of hen's eggs proved HOUSEWIVES STAR GROCERY Where there is constantly on hand a full and complete line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. No 3 89c very disastrous to window glass. The No copper bottom wash boiler 69c same storm also destroyed the fiuit near Dennis, and demolished the glass No 8 copper rim wash boilers 1 00 Born, April 16, 1895, to Mr.

aud Mrs. Frank Sutton, a daughter. The R. R. Photo car will arrive at Thayer the first of next week.

Harry McNulty, wife and children arrived here Thursday from Illinois. Guffey Galey has commenced drilling for oil and gas on Charley Beck's farm in Colfax township. Fred Carter has moved from the Ew-ing homestead building, to the Gelwix house corner of Preston and Greenwood streets. in the west windows of the houses in that small city. y3 Nickle top sHgar shakes, inely decorated, worth 50c only 10c On the 11th at St.

Paul, nee Osage Ralph Oliver, Miss Delia Ferguson, Glen Bendure and Miss Rose Lytle, of Thayer, were visiting in this vicinity Sunday, and in the evening dined at Lane's hotel. Galesburg. Enterprise. Ladies, call and see the new styles in spring hats at Mrs. Barnes'.

Yon want a new hat this spring of course, and you could not do better than to select one from her new stock of latest styles. Orlando Wymer, of Stark county, Ohio, brother to Mrs. Louisa Stall, came on a visit Thursday. He will go with his sister about May 1st to Port Townsend, Washington, to visit her son, Chas. W.

Stall and other relatives and friends. Lawrence muslin, per yard 4c Special Attention given to Canned and Evaporated Goods. Mission, the change of name indicated took place. On the 12th two fires and LODGE 53 A. H.

T. meets the Thursday night on or before the full of the moon in A. O. U. W.

hali. h. M. Zabriskie, Seey; J. Beach, Pres.

Tie FINEST LINE of TEAS and COFFEES. Bleached muslin, yard wide 5c a bank burglary happened. Thus Lonsdale bleached muslin per j'd 6c Best prints made, per yard. 4jc soon does the old city with a new name seek to put on metropolitan airs. The best corset made at 93c Geo.

R. Vosburg of DuBois, arrived from Oregon the 16th to visit CRYSTAL LODGE 14, Select Friends, meet the 2d and 4th Friday evening of each month in A Hall. G-j. DvLls, A whitteker, Sec. Our summer corset is better than any summer corset offered 44c his son, Geo.

Jr. He was on the The Highest Market Price Paid for Country Prolnce. STAR GROCERY J. H. MINNICH, Proprietor.

road for some seven days owing to ac Best carpet warp, white per lb cident to one of the trains, and was consequently somewhat travelworn and weary. Valuable Information. We learn that Mrs. Frank Smith continues improving in health, and contemplates visiting friends here at an early date. The season for hydrophobia is approaching; kill off the worthless curs.

"An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Frank, the infant son of C. E. Ferguson was seriously ill this week with a combination of asthma, whooping and chicken pox. Hancock and wife, with Mrs. Colored Tyc Clarks crochet cotton on spools.

4c Embroidery floss on spools pr dz 8c Best sewing silk, 100 yd spools 8c Knitting silk, half ounce spools. 10c We learn that the Buffalo Oil Co. has paid up the defaulted oil leasss made by them last fall in this field, and will soon commence operations under some of them to explore for oil. Best knitting silk, j4 ounce sp'ls 20c The home talent who concerted, elo- Ettie Lorton widow of I Lorton, re cuted, and tamourined here the 30th did the same thing over, for the entertainment of the Galesburg people last Saturday night. W.

C. Strickland, Erie's popular liveryman, was a guest at the Lindell last Friday. Osage Mission Independent. We deny the assertion. However popular W.

C. may be in Erie, he is Thayer's liveryman and police judge. He has stuck to Thayer many years, and Thayer proposes to stick to him. We may have some citizens we would be willing for you to locate somewhere else, but William is not of them. Excursion Rates.

For Kansas Republican League, meeting at Topeka, April 25, 1865. One fare for round trip. Tickets on sale April 24 and 25, good for return April 26, 1895. F. E.

Shumard, Agt. Best B. F. Japan tea 25c a pound at J. H.

Zabriskie's. Others sell you the same tea for 50c. Want a hat? moved to Altamont the 17th. They will make that place their home. Thos.

McNulty is having his residence reshingled, and repainted outside and inside, and the crest of the roof ornamented with a neat iron crest rail. Ex-Treasurer of Wilson county, W. H. Cramer, with Wm. Girser, representative of the Buffalo Oil Co.

were Our Straw Hats are ripe and POEMS IN HATS. Peslgns for Thayer Wometv. DREAMS IN FLOWERS AESTHETIC FEATHERS BEAUTIFUL CONCEITS ORIGINAL DECORATIONS. A New Stock Jnst received. Spring Mats.

Easter Beauties. AT MRS. BARNES MILLINERY STORE. such a crop as we have got! in the city on business connected with oil leases, the 17 th. Mrs.

Ferguson of Thayer, is visit ing Mrs. Corkwell south of town, tuis week. Galesburg Enterprise. Born: April 13, 1895, to Rev. Car-gay and Alice Cargay, a son.

Wa greet the newcomer and wish him a long and happy life, and extend to the parents our warm congratulations. To day our schools close until next September. Parents of the pupils and patrons of the schools will have an opportunity at 3 pm, to examine the written examinations of the scholars. A good writing Tablet can be bought at Graphic for 4 cents. Turner's bread, pies and cakes are always fresh and sweet.

You purchase no stale goods at Turner's. The best writing- tablets, containing the most and the best paper, are to be had at Barnes. Money pfoes a lonj way without petting tired if you take it to Arnold's Department Store. Go to the Grpahic printing office for your job printing. "We not only can do the BEST, but do it.

J. T. Turner solicits your patronage in confectionery, fruits, segars, at Hancock's old stand. Out of sight, out of mind; in sight, and in mind the bargains in table linen at Arnold's Department Store. Some cigars are called "weeds" because they smell as though they came up wild in the woods, but T.

Turner's cigars are a delight to all. 19 residence lots situated in various parts of the city of Altooua will be sold at reasonable prices within the next 20 days. E. L. Barnes.

If you ever want, as )rou certainly often do, some nice, fresh nuts, go to Turners and buy some. You will always be glad that you did. Half a million saved would be a Mr. Winters and family, of Thayer, were visiting in Galesburg Sunday guests of Cantlep and wife. Rev.

Foster, pastor of the M. E. church, moved his household goods STANDARD ROTARY SEWNG MACHINES. Newest and best on the market. Very low price for cosh only.

into the parsonage this week. what is more palatable than fresh fruit, such as oranges, bannanas, apples, etc. You can always find a good supply of them at J. T. Turner's, which he sells at reasonable prices.

Cow Brand Soda for 6c; gloss starch for 6c; Faultless starch for 8c at J. H. Zabriskie's. Others sell you same brands at 10c. W.

Collins came home from Baldwin THIS IS THE SEASON Saturday. His ill health prevents his finishing the course. ucl Henry Giles formerly boss on this Of the year to puchase your PLANTERS and CULTIVATORS and OURS is the STORE at which to BUY them. section, has moved with his family to Elgin. The R.

R. Photo car left yesterday, after having made pictures for nearly every family in town. These gentlemen are the finest artists ever in our section, and of all the work turned out here we have heard no word of complaint. Howard Courant. A dime social will be given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Church Wednesday evening the 24, at the residence of Mr and Mrs Smith.

Instrumental and yocal music will be the main entertainment, supplemented with refreshments. Everybody cordial Ladies, bring in your butter and eggs and get a new hat at Mrs. Barnes 4S WE HAVE THEM. uggies arv frmg ergons THE NICEST AND BEST STOCK OF SHOES The R. Photo car will leave Cherryvale next week for Thayer.

The work done in this car is the best ever seen in southern Kansas, and their prices are about half that usually charged in this county. 25c Kansas City Baking powder, 20c 15c i2c 10c 8c Bakers delight baking powder for 20c at J. H. Zabriskie's. ly invited and expected.

Willie Bullard returned from Joplin, the early part of the week. We are requested by County Superintendent Hunt to give notice that an examination for teacher's certificates will be held at Erie, April 27, 1895, at 7:30 a. m. Almost a frost Tuesday in this section of Sunny Kansas. Bob Ly tie, of near Galesburg, was over the 15th.

There are about 12.000 bbls of oil stored in the tanks in this field' await ing a condition of the markets which will make the freight rates available OF ALL KNDS. AND WE GUARANTEE PRICES TO BE LOWER THAN ANY CREDIT DEALER CAN Beauty, style and good quality is the main features of the new hats at Mrs. Barnes cheap too. for profitable shipment. A consider able quantity of the oil seeps through Why not ride to town comfortably when you can do so at so little cost.

Our buggies and wagons are of good quality and are within the reach of all. DONT BAKE THE AIR, DONT HEAT YOUR HOUSE, QUICK GASOLINE one of ovr MEAL stoves. And do your cooking with ease and comfort. Our stock of General Hardware, Tinware, Fanning Implements, Barb wire, is full and complete. Buy now.

pretty good sum for any family but if you cant save quite that, you can save part of it by dealing with Arnold's Department Store throughout 1895. There are 119,900,000 old cooper pennies but nobody knows whit has become of them. The government issued them years ago and they have disappeared. This shows the value of pennies. Save enough of them and you will have a fortune.

You can save them by the units, tens and hundreds by trading at Arnolds Department Store the tanks is a completn waste. A fa vorable settlement of the freight rate question would result in a large num ber of wells being bored here, which would cause this vicinity to look like a forest of derricks, each covering pro PROGRAM ArmusJ Corrvrcercerrvervf' of fKe TfAyr fiigK ScKool fRory, Aril 22, 1895, etf tKe (U. CKurcK. Overture, "The Diadem," Herman. Orchestra ducing wells.

POSSIBLY MAKE. THE LARGEST, BEST AND CLEANEST Stock in the city. We are showing HENDRICKS STALL Invocation Rev. L. W.

Foster Our stock of Wall Paper and Heath Milligans Climax Paints. Any one having a few minutes to spare would save themselves money by taking a glance at our styles of paper and having the merits of the paint explained to them. Call and see us. Quartette, "Away to the Meadows," Taylor H. J.

Hendricks, Jennie Moore, W. Clute and Ed Eagles HIGH GRADE DENTISTRY Salutatory, "Uses of Rich Men in our Brewster Boschert Williams. I don't fill teeth for 50c, because I cannot do good work unless I charge $1.00, but for $2.00 up to $5.00 according to size of cavity, I do as good work as can be done. We are going to start a new GROCERY STORE in Chanute. Will be ready In a very few days.

Don't fail to try us at least. Chanute, Kansas. A. TIJ I TO YOUR MEMORY Trio, "Music Box," Muller, Hendricks, Jennie Moore and Letha McGown Oration, "Is Education a Homer Pownall Duett, "Calm is the Waves," Vv vOute and Eagles Valedictory, "What shall the end McNaught Solo, "Angel Serenade," Violin Obligato, Braga, Mrs. H.

J. Hendricks E. E. Kelley "Marien- Waltz," Eilenberg. Orchestra So that you will not forget that we sell 1 1 i II II TTTTTHTTHHTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTT NONE SO BLIND AS Choice Family Groceries, THOSE WHO WONT SEE Fverything sold for Spot Cash Only.

Superior Flour, Choice Teas and Coffees, Canned Goods, Butter, Cheese and Eggs. Also that our. Meat Market Country Produce Taken in Remarks School or Superintendent Presentations, of W. Forest Duett and Class and Winnie Barnes and High School J. G.

McElroy Is reversed when you call and have your eye sight rectified. flEYES CAREFULLY EXAMINED AND FITTED WITH GLASSES DEHTIST C. M. MCGOWN OCCUL1 Thv-; I McKay Clute, No Flowers, OHANUTE KANSAS..