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F. CANUTT, Editors. Thursday, December, 2, 1886. $1.00 A YEAB, ARLINGTON, GEA0D 00 KAN, TOMD AY, VOL 1 NO, 14 "GEM ITT AND VICINITY. Some men will buy goods all summer, then, when their corn is D.

H. Boyer, Agent for the Blue Mound was in the city last week. Mr. Boyer resides at Hiittrille, this county, and is an honorable and reliable gentleman, one that is safe to do business with. He informs us that he has oommenced to canvass the count for orders.

Try him and be convinced. The above-named gentleman has kindly consented to act as agent for the Gem. We hereby authorize him OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. (From onr Begular Correspondent.) Washington, Nov. 27, 1886-Thanksgiving day in Washington was quiefj as it usually is.

The only publio demonstration contemplated was a parade by the Fire Department, but that was spoiled by the torrents of rain. There were family reunions and dinners that represented the highest culinary fkill of each house hold; religions services at the come a cnndi late tor the Prai lencv in 1888, He says Mr. Edmunds has a. loftier ambition, namely: to represent Vermont in (he nuited states senate; and that he Gr4en Mountain stata will -allow him that privilege a long as he lives. "Why," asked he, ''should a great stateman want a small position, like that of dispensing petty offices, to which the Presidency (has degenerated This reminds me of wjiat Mr.

Joseph Howard, says about Bead our Washington letter, Wm. Lawler, went to Eureka Springs last Friday. Papel Boyer and sons, called at the Gem office last Saturday. Miss May Hagan of this city sun-dayed in the country. 6 Jofin Harth's little boy is quite lick this week Mart Hagan is hauling coal from his mines this weeki' John O.

Myer one of our sub soribers dropped into see us last Mon- Call again John. P. It. James now runs the Pettit blacksmith shop Give him a cal Ote Truesdale has just com pleted a barn on his premises -'-One of M. Hagan'a horses died last week Miss Mamie Traber left for her home in the east Monday.

Now is tha time to plant your holiday advertisements. Bring them long. We noticed a number of Com mercial travlers in the city this week, Bed bugs are' quitely resting from their labors duiing the heated term. I. E.

Sanderson our populai drnffsrist is wrestlinsr with a sore tooth this week. The young folks nre waiting in n-ri-n aolioitnde" for old Santa Uiautj to make his appearance. The shooting match last Wedues day for turkeys was largely attends ind a pleasant time enjoyed by a 1. F. R.

Cornelius our himbermai received several car loads of lumber this week. The Carpenters are putting tb finishing touches on the McFarlan id ice house this week. A. Froffue of Fort scott, but formerly a prominent business man of Failinfrton, is town this we renewing acquaintances with the Farbngton people. Thin Farlinotrfn merchants ar allreceiviner new iroods thin week Jatibnize your home merchants.

Jas. Bill in started last Monday evening for Sherman county. This i one of the best counties in norm western Kansas. P. L.

James baa jusl col drill, and, is now business. i completed ready for A man by the name of Cody, died yesterday forenoon at the residence Of Wash Howell, in this place, of erysipelas in the head. -t-S. B. Janes it Co.

keep a general stock of dry goods, clothing boots and shoes, Groceries etc They are pleasant gentlemen to deal with Giro them a calL -A til SjtJtn'e one hung a turkey on ouz well curbing it just happened that the next day was thanksgiving, bo IJ t7- gathered will take the money and go to Fort Scott to buy their goods, then swear because their home merchants "keep such small stocks." Such men are not doing to others as they would have other do unto them. We would like to have a correspondent at Arcadia, Mulberry Grove, Pittsburg, Girar and in fact from every locality in the coutity. To re gular correspondents who will furnish us news items we will send a copy of the Gem free and furnish stamps and stationery. Send us in sample news items from your locality. Leach Tyler have just completed one of the finest farm houses in Crawford County for a Mr.

Cook who lives about five miles south west of here. They inform us that the painters are now pntpg on the nuishmg touches. ihe dance as tne Mail on Thanksgiving night was a grand success. There were in attendance twenty seven couple. The music was from Girard an'1 it was pro nounced good.

The boys danced til a lute hour and went home with the girlB in the morning. Charlie Baker i furnished the supper at bis note and the boys say it was a affair. grand Bev. Paine of Girard is holding a series of mee ings at the Baptist church in ths r.ity. We und rstand that considerable interest is being manifested, and lhat great good likely to result from these meetings, -I)r.

AdHington of this city wa called last Saturday, to see Mrs liObt. Kourk of township who hut been seriously sick for the past six or Beven Weeks. The Dr. Bav 'hat she is improving and is in a fair way to get wei. Mrs.

Wrtr. S'titeler aocompAnie by Di. Alexander went to Kansas City last Monday to haye her litt oaoes uair up opaea. on oy surgeon of that City. The members of the Baptist church it tbis ace and (Jato, made tnei oastdr.

Elder Collins a present in the snipe of a Buit of clothes a few days ago. The Eider Bars he thought done had struck hm. This right, be remuner ateu tor tneir services tne same ah other people. There 'will b'e a shooting match for Turkeys next Saturday at thin place. Lovers of fun take notice.

To parlies look'ng for suitable locations t'd establish manufacturing industries We would say, do not locate in townB where they have to bhip and haul water 20 to 40 miles. Come to Farlingtdn where water is pleuty 'and to spare, in Uh, it is no object. Coal in inexhaustible quanti ties. Farlington is the place for you to invest your money and don yon forget it. Dr Addington says: reason that Hid.

uunsucter wears sucb a broad smile all over his face is be cause it is a girtj Parties who have poetical ef asions and desire to unload, are re quested to hold them in reserve until "Spiing time comes gentle Annie." School Report. Average Monthly Report of Cleveland School Djftriqt No0 116, the month of November1. Bead ing 85; spelling 80; pennmanship 75; iriUimatio 90; history 83; geography Sfo grammar 83 attendancd, 90; punctuality 98; deporfment 88. Journalism and politics. He thinks Mr.

Cnmmings, the New York journalist recently elected to Congress is taking a step in the wrong direction by forsaking an honorable position in that sphere in order to go to Congress. Mr. Cummiflgs explains, his reasons for coming to Congress by paying that he simply wants to get behind the scenes politics) in order to make himself more competent and useful in journalism. He has no intention of giving up hte newspaper work The experience will be of great advantage to Mr. Cummings, but ijj is not certain that his constituents will appi flve his motive -It is said that Ireland is aroused and determined to resist to the uttermost the coercion scheme of the lories.

On the 29th inst. Lord Mayor Sullivan issued a summons for a meeting the citizens of Dublin, to be held Friday Dec, the 8rd to protest against the tyranny of the government in enjoining public meet-iugh and endeavoring to suppress freedom of speech. The people are i itensely excited over the threatened revival of bayonet and packed jury rule, and are resolved to resist by all means in their power the coercion policy foreshadowed by the secret doings and sayings of Hioks Beach. In tho case of John Dillion, who has been summoned to answer a charge of using seditious language, which comes off on Friday, Mr. Dillon will act as his own" counsel, while both the attorney and solicitor generals for Ireland will prosecute the case.

The Gut would like to see Ireland fred from tyranny and oppression and allowed Home Rule. State Items. Cowley county has a population of 35,000. Harland, smith county, has voted bondM for new two story school honse 40x40 feet. Several school.

in Douglas County have been closed for a time t)u ac count of diphtheria. The Presbyterian charch of Eldor ado has raised $1,000 with which to put in a new pipe organ. Emporia expects a new railroad in the spring. An effort is being made to make the town A memorial of the late Samuel Morley1 is to be erected at Notting ham. Francis Murphy says be never found it litJteessary for a matt to de sert any political party to be a tem pttaUce man.

Mr. and Mri Chill Stters re thined home yesterday from Fort Scottj where they had been tlsiting" riends. Mr. John lidenbangh of Calven, made the Gem office a pleasant call Ms morning. Buy your Hardware at churches; closed Government Depart ments and liberated clerks, while at orphan asylums and public institutions the inmates enjoyed additions to their ordinary bill of fare, through the generosity of the charitable.

The city has a sombre appearance now on account of the Arthur mourning. Flags fly at half mast from hundreds of staffs, and public build ings are heavily draped in black. It is quite an item of expense to the Government to put up official mourn ing. It took twenty men three days to drape the Patent office alone Each of is big pil ars, and there are forty eight in all, required forty yards of bunting. All together about 6,000 yards were used lor the Interior Department at a cost not far from 11,500, When this Depart ment was draped for Gen Grant the cost was nearly $1,700.

But a great deal of new material was purchased at that time, some of wmcn was utilized for Vice Piesident Hendricks, and some ct which is now bting used for the third time. Of course the es pense ot draping the Interior De partment is greater than that of any other, because it includes the Patent Office, Indian Office, Pension Bureau, oi Education, the Goo ogical survey, and oth rs which are all in separate buildings. The cost of draping other depart ments is about $150 or $175 The superintendent of the Post office department, for instance, is disposed to economize. He buys the bunting and employes his own men and car peci'ers to do the work, looking after it himself. The bunting used costs thirty cents a yard.

It remains up for thirty days and then it is taken down and such oi it as i not tattered and fuded by the wind and rain is packed away for the next occasions of public sorrow. I he President has completed por tions of his message to Congress, ami has read them to the Cabinet The message will be shorter this year fian last, which is a kind of i form that will be approved by everybody. The President's friends as we 1 as his al eged enemies are kept buy deny iog what the newspapers accuse them of savin and tmnking and plaumnu imd attemDtinsr. His old law part Mr. iiisseu, who has just been uere, di-nies ever having sought to influence the President in making appointments.

I Mr. Cleveland, whom he knew as sheriff, mayor, and governor, always. discharged the 'Uties of these offices without much advice or assistance, ahd he believes tie will be edhalijr successful in his present trust. He also denies having advised -the President to sell his country place as quickly as possible of the gossip about the sy ndi cate formed over his property to ad vaticeifi'd estate in that direction. And lenator Edmundd, the Presi-dhtl so bailed bitter foe, denies ntaAlfcina.

denies that he is preparing an attack hi bB this winter upon the president's civil ervice policvsv and he says the at sit i tempt to. criticize Mr. uieveiana in OonneOtlpa' who iub puixuaoo ui um country home is unfair. The exten sive Improvemeuis coniempiatea in the direction of Oak View, haVe be- nome a nubiic necessity and the sub ject came up in CongreBS long before tag ir.jsiueni nau ever seeu mo aoe; One of Senator Edmund's con- gtitnents is indignant mt the allega- to receive subscriptions to the Gem and receipt for the same. Judge Hatch of Arcadia, was in town Saturday.

Advice from the Corner. Bay "for Christ man Gifts sucb things that are useful as well as or namental something that can be used every day-jwhat nicer gift to the old folks, wif, husband baby or sister or some 'other fellows sister than a nice Jtiockur or some other article which can be got at Gardner's Furniture Store, Girard, for a small amount of mon -ey. By Obbee Cornbb Cbawforb County. Report of Garfield School. Report of Garfield School for the month ending Nov.

26th; number of days taught 19; total number en roiled 27; males, 15' females, 12; permanently oKit of average daily attendance 19; number of tardy totaflulnber of mtoufcs lost 325; names of those neither ab tent or tardy; Laura Jones, Alfre Jotis, Erfie Wortley, Oscar Keener, Bert Keener. Visitors Miss Susan E. Bi ling. Mr Eli Draper, Miss Lydia L. Kountz.

P. L. Keener, Teacher Kansas City Markets. Corn 31 l-2c. Whent 70 to 72c.

to 4.00. tileShipping steers fa good de mand; tiutuh6 steers 0,40 to fooo; cows 2 to Farlington Markers. Corn 27o. Coat 7o. Butter 1BS.

Eggs 15c. Pota'oes 70o. Apples 50o. What the torn Would Like to See. A prospect bole for coal sunk at this place.

The peotele of Farlington patroniz- their home merchants. A better feeling existing between certain parties in this place in regard to ht best 'fray and the mott suitable place tc sink a prospect bole for coal A long pull, a btrong pull and 'u pull an together. The methouiBts build a church building at this place. Gdod nd substantial sidewalkn put doAvn.on all the priuciple street of nurlittfe ciVy. Our bu iness men enconiagf- manufacturing establishment to locate here.

Twthty or thirty good substantial cottages built in Farlington to rent. Oolonel -dW 'Ingersoll's throat is sorely tr.oubliBg.him and he does not make any long speeches without eeling decided ill effects. Kalamazoo Gazette: Mr. Glad stone has a rent roll and land in come of $70,000 and ft 'iV ported to hold sewaL million larls Worth, df tkUrOad. 3ahares.

mma you wo aio, nwe? it -spue. Dick Margin our popular and ac-bommodatinj? Agent at the Gulf d. pot, UaMhat h6 ndw Has a Hew floor to yralkvupon at th depot, The building has recently ben re tainted and Dick looks as Bnug as a bug in a rug. We are informe'd thai the reason thatour frien'd and neighbor Ben not, Attend the coal ineeUbg Herlqcker's lat Tuesday; was( 'occasioned tngca Vtnt pf a hew'boy iij fcf jAddipgbn'sajs Benwill at the peVineeung.br send hissopJ represent hm. bWfrthxtiiii'Betfator intends to be EdxI 1L TfryBttf, Teacher,.