Washington Kansas Daily Republican from Washington, Kansas • 6

5223- THE GERMAN, Washington County Answer. Hadclam Cards. Come to Washington via Atchison, on Missouri Pacific railroad. A I least 15,000 questions are answered by Hanover Cards. AUGUST A K)CK K'S' A MISSOURI PICTURE, The farmer on a summer's day, Stood In the meadow ni.tkiiif,' hay; beneath his turn lull flowed tin' wealth, Of a nose too rosy for rustic health.

lie shook with malarial chill Slapped the mosquitoes and swallowed pi II. 11.1 VMM I A Ml M. 1 Don't Moetqage Your farm. Nineteen out of twenty of the farmers Who inoitKiiKO their farms to build, to go into stock, to buy iniieliinery or for almost any other purpose route out badly behind. When once yon get your land go ahead as last as yon can, but do It on your own money and yon are safe.

We wrote tit least twice to nearly even tieriuan i Muling olllee within two hundred I miles of tis, to get two columns of Herman type to use in our A.svi:it, but not one ro-I ply did we receive to all our impiine s. Therefore we are disappointed, and unable In print tin- (ieimaii. Oflice ut rer.iii.-m unro of Port, Oilier e. I.i.ll- 1 each copy of the A.nswkii. Fun price list of lands in Washington county address L'uiinnns A (iroody.

Jiiiin liueiiting, of Hanover, is secretary of loo (Jeriuaii Immigration Society. w. sun OX, M. General Store I I'll Ysll I A i the i The finest business mom in the county, Largest and Best Stock of iM Mile of town. CLAIiK'S JNO.

REAL ESTATE TAX LAW. Talcs will be due nml paynlilo after Novecniher Int. as follow: I'nlil licceinhcr liiMh her or the whole tin nniy he piild. If tlie whole be paid, a rchnte of IS per cent, on the second half will be iiimle, mill If only hiilf he piilil the remaining half muy Hand until June ijuth following without cott. December penalty of 5 per cent, attachea to nil taxes on whic a payment of one half him not been paid.

March 211, an additional penalty of 5 per cent, attache to all unpaid real estate tax on which a payment of one-half wim not paid prior to the glut day of December. June 21st, a penalty of percent, at laches to all tax utill remaining unpaid. Land are advertised In and wild 1st Tuesday of Kcpteinher, and after sale the taxes and cost will draw interest at the rate of 1 per cent, per annum, until paid. Three years from dale of sale the holder of certificate will be entitled to a deed, and two years thereafter the deed becomes absolute. Jew Bool iiiiii Shoe SSiop.

Perfect lit noil general KatUMctiou guaranteed, 'I'm is issue of the Axsw Kit was printed at home, on the llfiitihliriiu'n new power press. Fun information concerning any land in Washington county, call on Emmons (in iily. Ir you know ot a man whose condition would be bettered by coming to Washing i Jf yon have land in Washington county to sell, see or address Emmons A (Iroody. Washington county Is generally conceded to bo the best corn mid slock cottntv in the I We.sl. Ot it city tuts now about 1-WO inlialiiliinls, i but it will be 8,000 in less than live years.

Mark Unit. Tun class of buildings now going up in Washington would do credit to a city of lil'ly thousand people. I O.N io of the linest and most valuable llauiiltoniitii we have ever seen is NXHSTV GOODS In (he city at Prices that Defy Competition. Kor the best llurgiilti uhvuys ciill on AUGUST JAKDICKK. KOSS BUDKINS, GBEENLEAF Is an enterprising young city of about four hundred people, at the end of the first division of the I'aeilic railroad west of Atchison.

At this point the Washington branch leaves (lie main line. It is in the in iil-it of one of (lie linest agricultural districts of tin; Stalls nod is making quite a raj ml ami substantial growth, In keeping I Willi the surrounding coimlrv. Among her enterprising citizens we wish especially to ineill ion -Messrs. Scott A- Maxwell, general 'Merchants; T. Ktiradliug.

druggist: Tim early settlers of Washington county used to consider that the timber on speculators' land was public property, and accordingly many valuable tract of timber was transformed into a herd of stumps in a single winter. It is told of Mr. J. M.SIeele, of Joseph, a large land-owner in tills enmity, that one day be caught an (ieriuuu chopping in his limber. Mr.

Steele, stopped his carriage mid the following conversation ensued "My friend," said Mr. Steele, "do yon know that yon are chopping in my timber? My name is Dealers In ton county, send 1 tin a copy ot this paper. Tun seating capacity of our city churches is as follows: Kpiscopal, 1100; Presbjteriitn, VJ: Fvungclical, 'i00: Catholic, U5. I SWAN MoiiBOW. i General Merchants Gkain and Stock Dkalf.rs, I We buy nnd sell anything and everything necs-I tury to keep tin1 Hiiriuess uf lbtcidum Moving, I Gi nig our Customers every possible advatt- tujre of the market.

F. X. VKUDEB Steele! all 1 yah I yon steal, me steal, (I. W. Nhehi bankers; Moore A-iiliss, of tlie (licciileaf Journal, all of whom luive ad vertisciacnts in the Axswkii.

everybody steal, (loot py, niiiie frien. I owned by 8. V. Low ie, two miles northeast inns vorit last; mine iwo poys ne come HiU cltv General MMidLse, Agricultural lmpli incuts. Kverythlng First-rlusa mid Price ns Low liny houne in the county.

4 middy guick mil der onder STATISTICS OF THE COUNTY. Number of acres In the county taxable acres 517. MO acres under cultivation I4il.Hon Assessed Valuation of tlte county True Valuation of the county Population of the county 15,097 county seat Number of miles of Railroad in county School Houses in the county, 112 JamksCukjiuitii.s raised seven thousand I bushels of corn the past year on his farm in Mill Creel: township, and is feeding itall to I stock. PACKING HOUSE "WANTED. I Our town needs a packing house about as Mr.

Steele bowed politely and retired. YIELD OF CORN. i i bad as any thing, and there Is money in such directory on page Farmers' Exchange The following is a statement of the yield A l.nn.K I lose of Sharan calf was born tit Knowles Moorhead's farm a few days since which Mr. Know les values at SI, 000, of corn, as given us by a few of the farmers who furnished corn for our State Kair ex Dealers in General Merchandise, South side of Main Street. Full wtock of the hest good tit low prices.

Nothing wauling to make my store complete, Call for bargains. an enterprise here. Washington county ships hundreds of carloads of hogs and cattle to the Kast annually, pays an exorbitant price to have the meat cured anil then ships hack lurice quantities of the same meat, paving freight both was. This meat is then BKKN'S, SNIVKLY Dealers in IdercHanclise, Wli are under special obligations to all the excellent newspapers of this county for favors. See business first for list of them.

Washington county, as will be seen by the map, is thirty miles square, and Washington is less than two-and-a-half miles from the center. 'I' I IK nights in the summer union. especially pleasant here; free from that close sultry atmosphere to be found in latitudes farther east. Osaok orange makes a splendid hedge in T. C.

BALDWIN, Dealer in hibit. The northwest half of the county seemed the most fortunate, while every township had good ami poor fields: Charleston township. M. Thomas, 40 bushels per acre; 1). A.

Cleavenger, ISO to II. L. Itoberts, 45; i. W. A lien, 40 to 4.5.

Clifton A. K. Smith, 40. I'nioti Henry Speers, S5 to 40. Strawberry- K.

ISateman, 40; (ieo. Campbell, :0 to 40; James liasbenson, til). Washington James McNultv. 45: A. A.

'olil at l- to 'ill cents per pound, very often i to tin men from whom it was bought I at 3', to twit: kt notuid. It seems to us very easy mailer to Uf.rc uit a tine on an investment of a few thoie-und dollars 1 hiapackingliiuisc right here at Washington. WHEAT. We have not said much aboul wheat in Grain, Stock and Farm Machinery. Near the Depot.

KHWAIil) BINCK, Duller in General Merchandise. Call anj vXd.a'.ne W'mb-inglou street opposite the Democrat oilier. Card of thanks. We are under obligations to so many of the people of Washington comity, for kind and substantial assistance in publishing this issue of the Asswmt, that we cannot find space to mention all. We therefore wish to thank all who have, in any way, rendered us assistance.

Neither pains nor money has been spared to make the Axswkii just what thb occasion rfiiiircs, an neiir ns It Is pos- sible for us to do so. We feel confident that we will nil get full pay for our parts in the work; ami that the Ax.swkii will help to I lead many thoughtful, reading liomeseekers to investigate our county, and consequently D15UGS, GI10CE11IES, Jtc, Sou I ii Mile of Main street. Everything you can think of In these lines, fri-hh una iiri i'isis. lint says that amount would not buy it. TiintTV-Two Lutheran familiescan locate rvitltin three miles of a good church and a railroad station, and each have H0 acres of land.

Ilarnes is the place. Write to us and we will meet you there. Kmmoxs ami (Iroody are both Notaries, mid take pride in making papers so they will sunn! the test of law, and ncvtl' caiise trouble. We both have experience. No charges for papers in sales we make.

Washington county lias one of the best and most reliable abstracters in Kansas, Mr. (Ieo. II. '1'liiele. His books and his documents are a model of neatness and accu this paper, because the man who makes a business of raising it here, or in almost any other part of the country, fails.

But we do A. B. BBOMLEV'S i-XAmrsss shop. AT IIAAK 1 MUTH'8 Ll'MHER YARD. Complete stock; repairing promptly done.

J. II. TLWSl'OLDE'S Northeast Corner of the Square. Miniicar, 50; K. B.

Piatt, 40; A. Thomas, 25 to S. Musser, 55; S. Lynd, TO; J. Thompson, 50; others about" the same.

Little Blue. George Mathison, DO: Joseph Amphlet, 45. Hollcubcrg. K. C.

Holliugs-worth. W. tiarver, 40; M. McNitt, 40 to 50; W. I'.

Lanphere, S. Uitst, IIP. Mill Creek. H. Long, 50: Joseph Fitch, -K); A.

F. (irover, to 40; J. J. catch, 40 to 43; Win. Cunmiings, 40; W.

Ko.el, 50; several others about the same. Sherman. Nichols. 00; W. W.

Coder, ISO to H57 three to four years if properly handled. Many of our farmers are growing this fence, but more of them ought to do it. In Washington the wells are forty feet deep, and the supply of water is incxhnusti- ble. The quality of the water is not ex-! celled in the world: everybody says so. H.

Loxii, one of the large fanners and stock men of Mill Creek township, tells us that the corn along Iowa creek, on which be lives, averaged 40 bushels per acre all through. It is our opinion that corn will never to locale among us. We have studied fully everything we have said, in order that no one should be deceived in any way, and think we have succeeded. Again we thank till who have assisted us in this work. racy.

It is a pleasure to recommend him. lit. it. grass, clover, timothy, and in fact T. S.

STEVEN SOX, House and Sign Painter. Satisfaction Ciiaranlced. raise it: here to some extent, and often get good crops of it. ICvcn the past year several iof our farmers reported an average of hi to 25 bushels, id excellent wheat. II to I raise wheat here, of course, but it 'isn't quite safe for a man to "go his bottem dol-' laf on it, like he can on corn, rye.

oats and i stock, Kvery fanner, who can, ought to i raise enough wheat to broad his family, and have some to sell. In fact Washington I county usually ships many thousands of i bushels of excellent wheat, and the past i year the yield will as much as bread ns at least. i 1 HANOVER. Cheap Homes A full and complete stock of General Murehun. dise.

which will he Hold nt the Luwivt Prices. Country produce taken in exchange for goods, liive me a call. 1 a rii. ma i FrTx Dealer in GENERAL MERCII ANDIS Also keeps the railroad restuuruiit. Southwest of tjie depot.

a i 'gust Dealer in Southeast comer of Square, again sell for less than 'JO cents a nusiiei in this county. The large amount of stock here -For Sale Ily WASHINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Our city has a beautiful brick school house, located at the north end of and facing Commercial street. The grounds comprise live acres of smooth, pretty land. The house lias six line large school rooms, besides a full-sized basement, mid is supplied with hot-air furnaces.

When we compare this maguilicent school building with the two poor, small houses of two vears aim we and to come will create a home market for i nearly all of it. XT. Vincent, BB.INO SEFDS. almost all kinds of tame grasses will grow very luxuriently here. For proof, see many of tlie yards in Washington, and a number of the best farms throughout the county.

Daily stages rim between Hanover and Washington and Belleville and Washington. Tommy Dodd manages the Hanover line, which connects with east and west trains, ami Lee Hackney the Belleville and Ilad-dani line. In all parts of this county building stone of the best quality abounds, (iray limestone, magtiesiau limestone, and sandstone of diireier kinds and qualities are the kinds. Many farm houses are made of stone and some fences. 4 The second largest town in Washington comity is Hanover, situated near the Little Blue river, on a strong prairie swell, overlooking the beautiful valley of the Little Blue that stretches away for miles in front of it.

It is about one hundred and twenty miles west of St. Joseph, with which it is connected by rail, and is the terminus of the first division of that road. Tills fact gives Hanover commanding position, ami is an Land and Loan Agent. Who lmn a I.uro XiimlxT of wrll Iniprovnl Fimus. well located nnd in good neighborhoods, I'or salt; very rheiip.

parlly on time; nls-o ft Lnrse List of Wild Lnntls in Washington nnd It-piildic comities-. Kmtf-un, and Tliayeraiid tlelTernon counties. IVehnislia. .1 11111 uuo conipieie siock in tlie line, cheaper than liny oilier store in the city. C1IAS.

BBOWN, ATTOHNHY at LAW. Notahv Pcr.i.ic .1 Loan Aiiknt. Fhkqiknt calls for land near Washington are now being made upon us, and we want a due tiling we would advise all farmers to few more good places, large and small, at bring with them, when coming to our couii-wbatevcr juice the owner is willing to sell, ty, and that is seed. If you have an extra Call on ns very soon. variety of corn, wheat, oats, rye, sugar cane, Collision Allen has sold to C.

vegetables of any kind, or any other kind seed, or can get it. bring it along. Ot riteh Ins interest in the drug In in of i we groat vuri.dv of produce, Fitch Allen. II. C.

Sprenglc holds the ami some of it very line, but wind you have office of cottntv treasurer till October next, he superior "to anything ynii can find -Hi, here. It on do not come out von might when m. Jacobs, treasurer elect, will fake ,..7 for Cull nnd exainino list-and price 4 or writo pariiciuars. clement of success to its future career. It lias a fine, rich agricultural country surrounding it and tributary to it.

The country round about it for miles is well settled by industrious ami economical ionium farmers. They are a thrifty people and have its fruits. In the center ot the town is a handsome square ornamented with shade trees and enclosed by a good fence, and in the center of the square is a city hall, a neat brick struc are proud of the change so short a time lias wrought. We have as many mouths of school as the interests of the scholars demand, and the best of teachers are employed. Five rooms are occupied at present, and Professor Haines informs us that the sixtli department is almost an absolute necessity, and will soon have to beorganized.

The average daily attendance is The teachers are as follows: J. W. Haines, principal; J. A. Branson, Mrs.

A. K. Holcouih, Mrs. T. It.

Johnson, and Miss Alice Collins. The rules, regulations and course of study can be had on application to Prof. J. W. Haines.

We can safely say that no town in Kansas, the si.e of ours, lias better educational facilities than Wash-1 G-reenleaf Cards. Hanover City Mills. C. S. CHAPMAN, 1'roprletor.

One Mile south of Hanover on the Little Blue. as good Klonr as the market afford. Jim I'll ill I In Ion. I suiiiethinirgooil. Our seasons lire quite long, and anything that will mat 1 tie in almost 1 any of the states will mature here.

Hoxois-liiiioiiT, we do not want any man to come to this county whose condition would not lie bettered by doing so. But a man lias got to be pretty well tixed that could not fix himself a little better here SCOTT MAXWELL sack of seed sent by freight will not cost the office. Mrs. Win. Frank has sold tier millinery store to Mrs.

W. I'. Klwell. Mu. Woodbury Informs us that the Kure-ku Mill is to lie k't'eatly improved the coiiiini; i i iilt tlie addition of steam and two or three new runs of hurts alreadv being as- much, ntnl you will also find the mails very at the coiivenU'iit to transport your seed.

We have seed storos where the staple seetls are kept in any usiiit ily. hut what we want here 111 Washington enmity is to have the best of cvervthiiiiC that will grow here, both of the vegetable and animal kingdom. ington. sured. The mill is large and substantial Great tor tlie same money.

ii services siud Sunday schools are held in many of the school houses of the county every Sabbath. We are proud to say that we have a church-going, school-sup tore II FN BY MENKK Dealers In i SADDLES II All NESS West side of Square. If yon have land in Washington county to enough to admit of these improvements. and it is truly to be hoped that the good sell, see or address Emmons A (iroody. A full line of I Hi-pairing promptly done, prices low.

work he. our Debt. ture. The business portion of the town surrounds the square; the streets are in good order and the sidewalks are laid with stone. The town has gootl wells for the public.

The Little Blue and its tributaries, including Mill creek ami others, afford a sutlicient aupply of fuel. The little Blue is one of the finest water-power streams in the. State. Several mills at short distances are located on this stream. Fine, magnesian limestone is found in abundance a mile and a quarter from town.

Kcligious societies are well represented here. The Lutherans and fceticnl societies have each a good brick church, ami the Catholics have a line stone church, one of the largest in Northern Kan-f sas. The school house, a stone building which cost occupies the most eligible (t site in town. There is a great deal of busi-I ness done in Hanover. Indebtedness of Washington County and the Townships and School Districts.

TIM- JOHN KBIM, I Itinovei' ItLiclvHinlt li. W'et hide of Stjuare. work will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. I'autihs ishing to buy land in Washington county will save time and money, and often save trouble by coming direct to headquarters. Von should never buy until you know your title is Too many sorry mistakes are made in buying land of flouring Mill Wanted.

A year ago last fall Messrs. Sehepple it kSteginaii Brought from Trego county, this State, 11 little Homing mill and located it at Clifton, tills county. From the very start, Mr. Sletcnuin tells us, this mill has been a paying inst itulion. Its enterprising proprietors hiiv- kept constantly improving it, till now it has all the modern appliances lor making tlie best grades of Hour, and its products hint ready sale alonir-slileol tlie finest Goods delivered to nil parts of (Ireenleaf.

For Fair Dealing and Low Figures call on us. Highest Market Price Paid for Country Produce! CIT DRUG- STORE. The following is from the pen of J. Voting, our efficient county clerk The first ImiikIs issued by Washington mitntv wore iuoil fi 1.K71 fur tin. i.nv- IIAXOVEU IIOl'SI-Bv II.

MABQUABl). Special Attention to Tnon-ient u.luin. The party for whom wo pose of building 11 court house, to theainoiml UTesponsinie men of all ot which have lieeu puid. sell pays us for our work, ami we take porting, intelligent class of people In almost every part of our county. A (ioon society of Quakers live nine miles southwest of this city, and another about the same distance northwest, on Kiddle creek.

Services twice a week in each settlement, one at Horn's house, nnd the other at Bales's school house. Tin-; average of corn in this county for sl was a little oves v30 liusheis per acre. II Uau- to U- hush, at cents a bushel, equals Nearly all of this corn is being fed to stock, and ill bring much more than SO cents. 1.1,000 copies 0ftl1eAxswK.lt are printed, for free distribution. They are worth just as much as if you iiad to pay .1 cents a copy, which, in the aggregate, would be ST.TO.OU.

Now hurry around and get a few mailed to Barnes station. i lie sei'om issue ot homls was made giving the man who comes to ns March 1, ls, i to l.oihi 11 cono.ty tail, to the amount of This issue is also paid in "''vantage of the best bargains we have. full. -TllllfeW 11 I lor. Hour frtitit the fiver -Wr-rrrr-riri i in-stiince ssimply to show tout the question of fuel is not so great as smiie would have us think, Hint that a steam flouring mill here in i Washington, if properly iiiannticd, would be success) lroni llie very day it commenced work.

It is true Hint we have Iwo very good little grist mills almost in the edge of our! I). MICI1FLSON, First-Class Furniture Store in Hanover. Bl'BNS McCXmjytl Drugs, Medicines, Cigars Tobacco Jum( northeast of depot. i Bv J. H.

WHITE. Always Has and iihniyx will be the ideiHiiutest and most orderly saloon in town. The third issue was made Mav 1ST2, pav-! i able ten years after date, to tlie amount of i east of This issue was for the purpose of rainier, nnd will soon have a church five funding our indebtedness, and are drawing I miles northwest of that town, and another 10 per cent, interest, 1 here is money 111 tlie i r. treasury now to pay this issue in full Mav 1, nft 1,1 l'asU MU llis Isn-j wlieii due. doing well lis a rule, and are quite well The fourth issue was made April 15, 187.1, satisfied with their Washington county IcrS, 1 His address is Balmer.

Kansas, ami total bonded indebtedness of Washington lf his faith ho wish information can county I address him there. We have plenty of cheap city, but when we see the stacks of Hour that are piled tip in every stoic in town, and the feed that Is brought from laigcrniilis we Barnes is on the Missouri I'aci tin railroad, 'six miles west of Waterville and six miles east of (ireenleaf. See county map. It i hits a depot, a switch, and a general store, hotel ami pustothVe, all kept by Henry Ober. It has a Lutheran church, that cost $1,000, in which the Methodists also hold religious services.

Tlie country surrounding is as tine as tlie sun ever shown upon, lint so much of it is vacant. We have tiiiuty-two oi AHTKit suctions within three miles of Barnes, all excepting one quarter for sale at less than ten dollars an acre, ami just (now wo have some extra good bargains down there. This would be one of the linest cannot In ueknow filimor that hoso in stilutioiis are far from being adequate to tlie I your friends. Two copies will go through ileniiimls, nml that a grand good Untiring i the mails for one cent, mill, witli all the modern machinery and tiiiliiiin-'s. would bi.naiiza to its own-' a co.w, mining company has been organ- IITTTsPfiADLlNO, Proprietor.

The only Kirsl-rlnss Ping Store in the City. Prescription Ctmfully Compounded. su Kill bank. Do a General Banking Bu3ine3t). Steamship Ticket Agents.

Special Attention to Collections. guf.enlf.af" XiuAJKTX OFFICE and Insurance Agency. Thin oniee is located at the Great ltailroud On-terof Washington County 11:1 miles west of Atchison on tlie Central Itrauch of the Mo. I'acitic Railway. Iraigrints and Land-Sselicis will save Money by their tickets forflreeuleaf the first division west of Atchison.

loon- are 0111 iiuee low iisuiiis inai nave lands In the neighborhoods of these churches, ers, as wi'll as a great lienelit to our people. ied at liltoii ith enough eanital and any bonded indebtedness, viz: Washington Mil. J. S. Chapin, who used to be id I'i'l snnin got id mail or company of men BILLIARD HALL.

W. WEN DEL, Prop. South side of square. Cigars nnd temperance Palmer, but is now nt Ii.depemlet.ee with 5" i'lV i 7S i -it i mil will do toward helping to build such an his friends, tells us that every one of the institution. 1 Hanover ami 1 I it ton.

Washington township issued for the pur-putHse of luiildim; bridges Novemlier iiajiihle ten years after date, wU.li 1(1 per cent interest. Also Fehrtiary 1, drinks, lunch, etc. places in tlie West tor a small colony to locate, where they have the advantage of railroad station, and excellent land as well. The water is pure, good and plenty, ami determination to carry them fifteen hundred feet into tlie earth, if necessary. It is confidently expected, however, that they will get a four-foot vein at a depth of seven hundred to one thousand feet.

Hkki-: is your timothy seed. Mr. Heuben wlirt litin frjini Sl.oilliiirtt 1 many stock in Union Township. .1. C.

Morrott, of Iladdam. is one of the the soil, a deep black loam, with, clay nuu- nll, way down. Its fertility is not surpassed in the county, nor State. JOHN HUENTING, LAND, LOAN entcrpi ising nml extensive stock growers of B. Taylor, pastured acres of timothy Fninn township, six miles north of llaihlaui.

meadow until tjuite late in the season, and Mr. Morrow has operated in stock in Tnion then permitted it to go to seed, which he cut Agent. ami from it threshed 54 bushels of good seed. Oh! no, tame grass won't growing Washington county. CI if tun fen'cte.

imo, ror mo same purpose, pavaole ten years after date, with Id per cent interest. And on the 1st day of an issue of was made to the Waterville and Washington Bailrnad Company, due thirty years after date, with 10 iier cent, interest, thus making tlie total indebtedness of Washington township Hanover township issued to the St. Joseph ami Denver City Bailroad company, Nov. 1X71, Ixinds to the amount of bearing interest at the rate of 7 per cent. Also July 1, 187'J, with lUper cent, interest, payable July 'J, 1S77, was issued for the pui'Hise of building bridge.

Clifton township, January 1, 1.H7H, Issued to tlie Republican Valley Bailroad Company payable thirty years after date, with interest at the rate of per cent. Correspondence solicited and promptly nnswi red. Address. Land Ot tick. Agency of the sas, while at Palmer, were delighted with the soil of our lip-hind prairie.

It is as good as their bottom lauds down there. That is it And people are beginning to learn that it doesn't pay to farm the Southern Kansas np-Iand prairie, and are giving it severe letting alone. One acre of our land, almost any of it, is worth three of theirs and does not cost as much. Wo have never seen Southern Kansas, but we have the word of many who have been there. Who should come to Washington eounty? It is perfectly safe for any man or woman, Ixiy or girl who will work, whether he or she has money or not, to come to Washington.

We do not need loafers. Men with money can make money here as fast as any place in the world, unless they strike oil or It hni lieeu roimfitiullv uf.ili.it lliitl- the feneesof the 1'nited States cost more than i Korth-German Llovd Steam Shin Cfl At Barnes a nice little trading point run Id very readily be built up. and its soon as the vacant land is nil settled, and surely at the priees we are offering it, that day is not far distant, a good little town will spring U)) here. The man who conies to us first for a bargain near Burnes will make a lucky strike. We sincerely consider this the choice locality in tlie county for bargains, and will gladly furnish tiny desired information con- eerning it.

If any man or party of men wlio wish to look tliis land over, with a view to business, will notify us a day in advance of the time they will lie there, we will lie on hand with our ponies to show them tlie eorners and give figures. We have two quarters cornering in tlie center of town, for sale at a bargain just now. township for the last six years, and il isn't loo much to say that he has got rich at it. The past year he sold worth of cattle anil has head left to winter, lie has hogs, of course, and makes a great deal of money out of them. His profits he figures lit an I'Vfii i'i compound interest, since he commenced.

Swan, who used to live in our city, but who is now a partner with Mr. Morrow in tin; mercantile business nt ilaiMiiin. has invested largelvwitli Mr, M. In slock and hereafter tin; rancfiewill be run hy V- Swan. I the farms, and we have never seen the as- sertion disputed.

1 hose counties of Kansas -und- Hamburg-American Packet Company. Greenleaf Journal The Largest and Best Paper in the County. Prm-isiiun Evkiiy Fiiiuay by MOO I IK IILISS. Proprietors. wineii, in tneir inlaney, adopted the herd law, and have steadily maintained it, are fori iiuutc.

(7ffMifon. Washington is one of those fortunate counties. Clifton Cards. All or tne iNiiuis issued tiy tlie foregoing named townships to said railroad companies were in payment of stock, whicli is or great value to said townships. Tlie bonded indebtedness of the various school districts of this county is decreasing Mr.

Morrow says that I moil township, Willi itss line nml plentiful wafer, it.s cheap Binds, itiul its bountiful supply of grass, is r. SOl'TIIWtCK. President. W. SNYI1EK, President.

c. w. ssrnr.n, Cashier. I Iolleiilx'i'y; Oai-tls. PALMZB.

pay di.1.'' Men without money, who have uie iiiioi locality lor siocK-raismg ne lias energy and good sense, can get a start here eversecii. In this township we have a num J. li. ber of siH'tioiis, half and quarter sections at Tun first annual fair of the Washington County Exposition occurred last fall on their new grounds just north of Washing-1 ton. The society is made up of men who are determined that Washington county I shall have a successful fair every year.

Their grounds mid buildings are paid for and their premiums are puid in full. This condition was never reached by the old society. SNIDKll at the- See eounty map for the location of this town. The following very nent sketch of i BANK OF CLIFTON Capital, $20,000.00 Does a General Hanking and Exchange Uiixiuci's. to su icr acre on nine, it necessary, or all of this land can be bought of lis without any extra exK-use to the buyer.

rainier is lietter said bv a correspondent BIG STONE STORE, at a rapid rate. Hie total indebtedness of all districts in the county in 175 was aliout and in lnsi it was almut l.VO,ooo, making in six years a reduction of over one-half on the entire indebtedness of school districts. Tlie average rate of taxation throughout the county tor all pui Hises in the year was 4.07 on each is UK), in the year l-STtl it was in the year iwi it was :1.14, and every year the amount of taxable nrnncrtv Clifton Flouring Mills SUIKPPLK A- STKGMAN, Props, Dealers ill Mkiwimmusk, Maciiixeky, Stock, Jcc, At'. Wc guarantee our priees as low nni fltock a good as Ht any store within mile. .1.

11. Smiiku's slock farm, on Devil creek, ten miles northwest of Washington, is an enterprise of no small importance to Washington county. Mr. Snider now has SOO acres -1 very good land, embracing Tiik officers of tlie Washington county Horticultural are ns follows: President, Dr. Charles Williamson, who is also a grows larger, and consequently the rate of assessment will decrease.

I than we could say it "Palmer is situated upon the Solomon Valley extension of tlie Missouri I'aeilic in midst of tlie finest portion of the most eounty in Kansas. Nine miles I east of Clifton, thirteen west of (ireenleaf, eighteen south of Washington anil twenty -lortli of Clay Center; it is the natural business center of a scope of country of extent aml resource to insure its turn success. Not only is fho si.vo'i.'.oUv. l-oiury uniimiteil in natural capacity, but settlol by mi intelligent and energetic class of p'ople, from tlie Middle ami New Knir- as quickly as any place. In fact any person who Is good for anything any here in the world, unless their whole life has been devoted to some trade not carried on in an agricultural district, can do well in Washington county.

Mil. S. U. Campbell, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, bought a piece of wild land of us two years ago two miles northw city. Vie 'iw IWK fes 'acres plowed.

The past year he raised 2-jO bushels of corn. 151 bushels of wheat, 133 bushels of rye, and KK bushels of (Hitatoes; has put out an orchard ami made other very giod improvements: has Just got six barrels of potatoes from Michigan, we lielieve, that cost 10 iier barrel. His farm member of the State Hoard of Horticulture; Supplied with all the Latest Machinery jiwJULn; several small lainis. At iiresent his catt i 'llWell. Lsecretui I iWU, I "HoIIenberg House.

i 'in. Cunmiings; trus- looooi-i joi, lino tins- ne j. ason: treasurer, XV vniaratiiee as i iihmi niitr as is made at any mill in tlie West. Custom Work A. Specialty! r.

Zr. i i I lw W. 11. Nen.lU M. Proprietor.

Win. Iiulllmore and K. I.1..1 .,.,.11. 1.1 1 Linn. The new town of Linn is nine miles south of Washington on the railroad, ami under the guardianship of C.

F. Schwerdt- Ac eaKiy. Keed Stahle in connection with this house, coininodations first -cIiism. s. a.

M.i:i,n.u, D. 1IAUVON lani who utilize its many advant wiuir makes tne money, us mt cent, annually is the safe figures lie places on his Interests in this industry. He figures his calves up at dollar a month and the e-jiense of keeping only a song, compared to the increase in value." At one year a calf is Tun Washington County Horticultural Society iH'gan its work one year ago last spring. Washington county is fast push-; MISS F. A.

ALfiEO, Mllllm-l. nnd At the Ohio House. NEEDHAM HARMON, Dealers in Agricultural Implements J. lug to the front as one of the best fruit growing regions in the state. Every orchard planted here hag proved a success where it lias not lieeu neglected by the owner, or the tree peddler has not sold him damaged trees A.

CLAPP, Dealer In wortli two years, three years, So far this winter be has fed very little or no corn, and his cattle prefer to pick their mm food from the prairies most ol thetime. We have several sections of good cheap land out in the iieighlHirhood of Mr. Snider. All we want now is the stock men to buy them. IXSCISAXCK AtiKXTS.

X'est door lo Keview Dtlice. 1MAN iHIOTlHKiisi General Merchants, South side of Parallel Street. General Merchandise. At the Pest (Itlice Store. that were simply shipped here to die.

ages Some thirty French families live within a few miles of Palmer, and Mr. Francis Na-rteau, one of the jolliest Frenchmen on earth, keeps the hotel. The town has a line elevator, nnd Mr. Charles Lnthrop, of Atchiwui, the owner, promises the people a laixe steam flouring mill in the spring. All lirntichc of business are represented liere, and the town is keeping pace with the tiitr-ronmlliiK country, which Isn't asleep, by any means.

Near this town we have some ten or twelve good iiuartcr sections of land at six to eijiht dollars jier acre, on time, beside a few improved farms. feger. trout Illinois, is assuming tlie amiear-ance of a live little town. Mr. S.

is ottering good inducements to those who may wish to establish in business there, and tlie tine location, connected with ids enterprise and liberality will soon make Linn a profitable as well as a Pleasant place to locate. All the vacant hinds and some of the Improved farms in this vicinity are In our hands for sale, and we can give some excellent bargains just now, Clifton, Is located in the southwest corner of our county, in the margin of the broad, fertile and beautiful valley of the Bepublican. It is made up of a variety of citizens many of them very enterprising nml pleasant; and is siirroiiodisl by a rich and beautiful farming country, as well adapted to agriculture as any part of the State. It is thickly settled, anil conseuitciitlv not unite so well adapted I cost him less than S10 jier acre, and it would now take i it acre to buy It. Mr.

Ciiinp-iwdl doesn't claim to lie a farmer. Imt he has demonstrated that Intelligent work will win. Mkssiis. J. L.

Earnest and Scnccr Davis from Appanoose enmity, Iowa, friends of A. J. Morrison, four miles northwest of this city, each bought half-section farms of ns during the holidays. They had traveled considerably through Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, hut found no place that '-took their just like Washington county. The land they bought was f.irtbeirchildren, but they exjiect to sell out back in Appanoose county and come to our vicinity them-' wives.

They are just the kind of men we want. Prices as low ns any house In the romitv. and Tim first entertainment in our new Opera House was given by the Louie Lord Combination, for whose, accommodation the south business room of tlie Ojiera House was temporarily floored and roofed. They goods guaranteed satisfactory. Mil.

K. F. Tainter, one of the most successful jslieen-raisers of our county, bought a section of laiitl of ns in Hollenherg township lust month, for bis own use. He proposes to fence it all in a body and put sheep on it. Mr.

Tainter tells its that his IliK'k of "Al sheep two vears ago last In I ALBEKT HALS, Opposite Snider Sture. "iTTFALKNEIL Coiitt iu-lcir Sr Tluittlor Ix WiMin ami Stunk. Woik (Jnaranti cl l'ip-t lass. gave six entertainments beginning Monday C. C.

FI NNELL, Dealer In all grades of Pine Lumber, night the Pith lilt. I'r to January 1st there was but three cost and were in rather bad order. II South jidc Parallel Street. has iiiiiile clear oil tiietii. and has 'lays on which the fanners of our county sheep left, which are worth toslav one- 1 did not idow.

Some nun IIh.v i.l.- tliild more than the oriirinal tloi'k cost. Tlie i n. i i i-i coiuimr Mav. with g.M.d luck, he will have V. ar- ot CLIFTON REVIEW, to extensive stock-raising as the north half Money to Loan Sekii Coitx.

The lanrcst and finest white SKI lainis. Mr. Tainter ha spent a gixd k'" year so far. It isn tlie want Published by N. V.

HEWETT, A live lorn! paper; strictly devoted to linmi- in- corn we had at the Slate Fair was raised by --ts in farming and stock-raising. i hut sa lie has neer before loiuiil a place ti-rciils. anil full of home new, (rum I'hiv ami on n-w Y1JAHS tdii: WlTHOliT IXTEKKST I No Srcnritv lli'dttin-l. Piiriirnlar aUiiit ii i iriuii in' nu nil 9fiiii iriin farm, two miles east of this city. He has 300 bushels of this corn to sell for seed.

Call on or address J. I. Rockefeller Co. of time that keeps our people from getting a great deal of work done. Tiik following are the olliivrs of the Washington County K)Kisition for lssc2: President, F.

M. Layering; Vice Piesideut, Wm. Allen; Treasurer. J. O.

Voting; Secretary, C. W. Aldrach; Financial Secretary, Charle Smith. Wasiiimitox has four trains daily over the Missouri Pacific railroad, making close naslitngton counties. I'lUt YHAH.

WM. FI NNELL A- SON. General Icrcliaiita I Oldest Store in Clifton. Kvervthintr in the line of lieneral Merchaiuiisc at Hottom Price. HOLLENBEBO.

of the most enterprising and rapidly-jrrowinir towns of the county is nnf the St. Joe. I). railroad, near the 1 le Blue, and surrounded bv one of the fi st airricultural districts of tlie State. It.s nuM- tloiiring mill.

J. it. Snider new stone business house and liKill. the taliltshmeiil thereof several olhcr business houses nnd excellent citizens, are aiun the ioiMirtaut improvements of tlie pasl year. This town, and the vicinity, is svtrjed by an euterprisiiiif class of N-o'ple.

atnli lliillcnlsTif will not always be one of tin-1 iialh'st towns on the line. I of the vacant land in this county can throtiKh us, and we take aius to Uie buyer. B-ttT ciine dlnt to lis. tlie advertisements in this p.ijicr. 1 as mu li the columns of reading XoU Ilicy iin ItimkaMt; ut a rrvuiium.

Ue haw ol tlie county. HADDAH, In the northwest part of the county, is growing rapidly; has an excellent location and is surrounded by one of the finest farming and stock-raising Vicinities of llieiniinty. Nearly every branch of business is represented, anil success Htul enterprise are apparent on every hand. All that Iladdam needs to make it one of the finest towns in the county is a railroad, and it seems to lie (putc prosjieroiiH even as it U. Tki.i.

your friends that Washington county is the banner corn county nf Kansas for I-snL Tlie "banner county" of such a State is no small credit. where lie could do as well with sheep as he can in Washington county. A I'KW days since we astonished a traveling gentleman when we told him that the very best quality and highest-priced land in Washington cotuily was only ten dollars an acre, lie said llis business took him all over lie I'niled State awl Canada om-e a year, anil tliat our binds ranked among the verv best of the Western and Middle States: ami lie wonlil consider an investment now in our ten dollar land, equal lo ii jier cent, interest. It is his opinion, and it is tlie opinion of inativ other, that the landsof Wasb- FIFTV THOl SAXH Soi tii and west from I lolleubei-g we have a large numlier of piece of very fine land, and a number of excellent plai-es for stock raising, well watered, at S-1 to per acre, in large or small tracts for cash or on time. Orn wisest K.id most successful farmers' and stock-raisers neter fail to sow a patch of rye, and let their cattle feed on it in the fall and winter.

Of the he-1 iid l.ilids ill Xortlieni will pell ii at Low Price and l.on Time. For Further Pprticulars address or mil on Kf.iiil 1hf.rt. Heal Lstsieand iwR Hmkprs. iiiLdoii county will bring a much In five vou come intu Washington rou connection at Greenleaf, with all trains east and west on the main line. TniiiTV-Two quarter sections of the finest vacant land in Washington county ithin three miles of Uarne station, at a very low price.

Titr.rr miles northeast of Fairhnrr, we have mjij acres of beautiful laud bt sell A 4. a fUa liti, 1 I II mhi.to count na nines oij'ihe man who get a farm lure now Illl- will sit the siirn of Emmons A liroody. su-peliiied over the stre't at the southwest corner of the sip.iare. Our ollice upstairs railroad, -alncl nt S.115.nst, and paying a i proves it, and holds to it, has a fortune. HENKV OLEIt General Merchant, Hotel Keeper, Stork ft Graia Bayer, kc, c.

Want, tamn fort bnincP mnp In enme ii.il run nf kia kaj.f Jl fmk paint fur lite tIMMinv tax in the comity nf over 11,000. Witiiis three miles of B.inies station we have thirfy-two quarter sections of as fine laud as there Is In Washington at less than sio fiir aa. over A- A. v. "torf-, southeast ot the sit'ju We to Notarif nt tamp will mail two copies ot hk.

Oxk ff the of )s n10 fT. at nmunt of wet or drv weather it can sUml and ftill prutlticti goaa Clivjr. rublic, nml nivvirj lnsto icers in ItinnCT Kmutons A Ciro'vH- for list e( lauds iu oTi-hutfwn cvmit'. jr on rai all (4 set I tkn 5 ana 3, 4 niw, mU do ntM luiiMgr 1.