The Brainerd Ensign from Brainerd, Kansas • 1

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY: H7V mi CENT 1 VJOj 1 VI li Ji. WTBMSHKD EVERY TUmSOAY BY R. P. MORRISON- KDITOR AND PltorttlKTOU. LISTEN! President Grover Cleveland President of Senate John Sbermaa Chief Justice Morrison It.

Waite Secretary of State The mas Bayard Treasury Daniel Manning War Endicott Navy Whitney Interior LQC Lamar Postmaster-General Vilas Attorney-General A Garland liS Senators Ingalls Congressman 4th District Thomas Ryan STATU. Governor John A Martin Lieutenaajt Governor A Riddle Secretary Alien Auditor Timothy MeCnrty Treasurer James VV Hamilton Attorney General Bradford Sup Pub Instruction II Lawuend Chief Justice Albert II Horton which contains a large number of AND USEFUL ARTICLES, VOE TUB I have juat come home from listening to one pe nniless grumbler thanking his lucky htar that he had GOOD with the dangers surrounding a place wituated on such a miasmic frog pond a is Whitewater at the crossing, where there are no improvements and a smaller and poorer extent of territory than here Rather, providing he hasn't escaped from Otaatomie, wouldn't be more likely to plant his household goods in a twn like ours, where a good start has already been made, hose mayor is a pastor; whose councilmen and city officers arc temperate, energetic, christian men; where the Oddfellows and Masons an5 established; where the (tchool house and church would do honor to a place ten times its size; and, above all, where the offices of marshal and police judge are mere names and where the jail is never used; a place where the water is as good as that of a mountain spring; whose streets and sidewalks are wide, in fact, a town whose healthy good looks is but a composite photograph of the generous, big hearts that planned it? Brainerd is not going to become "merely a station on the Ft. Scott Railway." Such men as Afessrs. 31 Valentine I A Johnston Associate Justices Clerk Brown These Goods are not Poor Truck, but every arbiols is a JUDICIAL. 2Gth District Alfred Redden Clerk Volney Mooney District Court for Butler county convenes on the first Tuesdays in March, June, October and December.

2UTT JL DO NOT TO THIS iUSTID MBRiLG THJ) OJPJPOHTUNlTY COUNTY. Clerk Auditor Treasurer Probate Judge Attorney Sheriff Deputy Sheriff Recorder Supt Pub Instruction Surveyor Coroner Health Officer James Fisher Frazier Austin Aikraan II Uutchins II Chas Schram A McGinnia A Brumback Buskirk VV Long A McKenzie Jake Skinner moll foresight sufficient not to invest Brainerd property. Then, as he is to be paid by a swampy lot, he ex-toled the merits of an attempted village started bv one of Butler county's host but not necessarily most unselfish families. As I saw his want of logic was not noticed by his audience, I take it upon myself to think out loud through the medium of the Ensign mid, if possible, show how utterly nhvird it is for us to fear the present habitation of our defunct billiard hall. To be sure, the gentlemanly proprietors of that town on the Whitewater, will try to convince You that their burg is the coming ity, It i their business to boom their ague-invested crossing and 1 would do the same thing in their place; but I am neither buying or lots and I look at thin question from the standpoint of a Brain-crd citizen.

I am not decrying the owners of that towm site nor objecting to -what they Hay; but I do protest against our people believing them md dmu" what is detrimental not Jrainerd, Harder, Stev. Barker, Commissioners BUSINESS CARDS. A Huster TIME TABLE, FT. W. W.

E. R. 1 C. F. Claassex, Cashier.

Horace McLaix, Asst. MM AT 'MARKET A. II. 3EcLaix, President. Glst.

II edeh, Vice President, Horace Mc Lain, Joe. Sbuinan, E. S. Raymond, Joe. Kelly, Neil Bale and others too numerous to mention are interested here and they are not the kind that sit around twirling their thumbs.

Brainerd is going to grow; her merchants aie here to stay and she is bound to draw population and trade. Faith. EASTWARD Commissioners meet the first Monday in January, first Monday after first Tuesday in April, and first Mondays in July and October. Special sessions on call of chairman. WESTWARD.

STATIONS, A 'PITEUSON BKAMCH MA J' CITY. Ar8 2012.0 A. S. Eauffman, Proprietor. Tast Side Broadway.

46 7 23 Lv. 1 50 2 38 11.1 12 7 4.4 I bit i Rankin Morrison Ashenfelter Newburv BaH Mavor Clerk Police Judge Marshal Treasurer 7 50 7 39 7 25 10.4 2 55:8 10 J. I. Lowe, Raymond Shuman 10.2 10.0 Be Loyal to Your Town. We use the word loyal in a gener- Councilmen 7 14 Gas administered for extracting li i nl Keiise as terraininsr to countrv.

9 40 7 03 Of Brainerd, Kans. teeth 1 omiinson Ciaassen Council meets second and ourtn Thura days of each month. TOWNSHIP. 3 18 8 24 3 3318 33 I 3 5o8 4G 4 23 a 05 4 5519 22 5 26 9 42 Annelly 5.0 44 ton 8.5 Hesston (5-5 Mound Ridge. S-4 El ria 60 OUlV TO ini'mCl'lb, i a town.

There is but. one business but it applicalle to almost every 9 05 6 42 Office over DefiTmbaugh's stoie. phase of life. We may be loyal to thrit will succeed in that low down $100,009. KANSAS.

-17-3m- 6 26 XEWTOX, Authorized Capital Paid up Capital, 7 57 6 06 Trustee Clerk Treasurer Constables Wm MeCrnner Vrhinery r.ale .1. C. Purinnu 7 30 5 50.0 55'Ar. Lv.5 50 place and that is the one of medicine. Malaria lays in wait in every drop of water and blade of grass, hoping to poison the poor creatures who trv to live and oulv succeeds in dy Physician Justice of Pence V.

E. Ashenfelter 1 A our country, to our wives and lovers, and we can be loyal to each other in our business relations. The greatness of our country, the happiness of a people and the success in our business relations all depend upon the lovaltv of the Individuals. Upon our loyalty to our town depends its growth and prosperity. bCliOOL.

human i Oltice first door north of lloacb Bros Cl-rk Treasurer Director No.470 makes connections at El Dorado with No. 450 for the easL TUroujrb free reclining chair car to Kansas City; Pullman sleeper via. Ft. Scott to St.Lou-R Leave El Dorado 8:30 p. m.

Yates Center, 12:05 a. prrive. Kansas City a. m. Ft.

Scott, 2.20 a. m. arrive St. Louis, 5:35 p. m.

J- Vr. Fims-r. Agent. Does a Gencal Banking Business Interest on time dposits; real estate loans made. Money paid when papers are signed.

E. T. 'EATOX, Rewarding His Friends. i Notary PcjBmsi Each city and hamlet lias its advantages. A loyalty to those advantag Office at Kelly Dolman's es is its life.

First, we must in our trading and buying patronize those Brainerd, Kansas. 13 President Cleveland has shown that whatever faults he may possess, forgetting those who have been his political friends is not one of them. In his long winded treatise on the tarilf he rewards his English free trade supporters with a sop that is J. E. FEAMPTOH CO.

trades and businesses in our own city instead of going to neighboring or distant towns. We are obligated -DEALERS IX- A nar TTnrt.v vflflrV experience in ti preparation of more nA Kttnrirad to do this, because if our fellow cit- intended to pay up all debts of grat-! ing. So our genial Dr. Horner might find inducement to bury himself in that swamp; but there is no danger of his turning his back on this sun-kissed town, even if a few patients were promised him. Ho we will not lose our doctor! But, a word to you farmers.

You are the weal or woe of any country. This town was started with the expectation of your patronage and it is right and just that you ahonld trade here. It depends on you in a greater degree than on the citizens whether this town shall be an honor or a joke to the country. Its growth will be steady and its people will flourish if you and the citizens join hands in earnest efforts to improve it. Stop weeping and wailing over paper railroads.

There is enough wealth here to support a good town even if we ire denied the questionable benefits bestowed by two er more roads. Do not go to Newtcn, El Dorado, Furniture, Carpets, Curtains, Sewing Machines and Repairs, Also Undertaker. iztn is doing his duty by us he is patronizing us in our business or Tbonaand applications for patents in the United States and Foreign eoon-tries, the publishers of the Sctentitl American continue to act as solicitors for patents, caveats, trade-marts, copy- calling. If the clothing merchant aasaasnss riRQis, ere, ion VAl 1 to obtain pateDta in Canada, England, France, 12 A. H.

McLain, Gust. Harder J-North Main Street. N. A. Hltx, O.

R. McLala I8tf W.G.Oldfield, Joseph Morse, C. Classmen go to another city for his stoves, ituae he may feel that he owes them, by reason of the fact thatthey spent their money freely to compass his election. The money put up by foreign syndicates to purchase Mr Cleveland's election would be well invested capital were it possible to destroy the hardware man is justified in going to the other towns for his dry-orod. Should such thinsrs become UvnuiiT.

ana ait wiiiwr uuuw. nee is unequaled and their facilities are nnso- and specifications prepared and file to he Patent Office on short notice. Terms Tory seasonable. No charge for examination of modest drawings. Advice by mail Patents obtained thronennnAOo-awnotioed lnthe SCIENTIFIC AMERICA, which ha.

the largest circulation and is the most influential newspaper of its kind published in the wr-The advantages of such a notice every patentee This iarae and splendidly illustrated newspape mm the protection principle dominant general in any one town the dissolution of that town is uot far off. In no other business in a city more than in the newspaper and nrintino- hnsilieSK. does this dislov- I ta published AVKEKLY at S3.w a year, ana in this country and make this a free aJa i ether departments of industrial progress, P- trade nation. As forMr. Cleveland, -j--'SS he has clone his best to satisfy his month n' WHINERY McCRANER, Dealers in Live Stock, Grain, Coal, etc.

South ofR. R. Track, M. WERITC5R-, DEALER IN GOALS; GRAIN. BRAINERD, KASSAS.

alty show itself, and no other busi npn' in the e.itV ean be Or is more I If yon have an invention to patent write ness in tin, ouv uu ue "i backers that they may count on him publishers of scienuflo Awm Oval to the town than the newspa- Ud0lieiB York ffi fl(im 11 strat on to the end Handbook about pWt raaUsd fr. Feabody nor any other cities for LI UIlllllUll u-jnn- a tiowsn.inr for even a short time ig goods you can purchase for the same monev here Don't you see that ev nore the interests of the city in ery cent you place in the hands of a foreign merchant onlv benefits him and hia citr and makes it harder for jour own town to succeed; whose KEEP AIT EYE PIT THIS SPACE ZR-EJID SOHROKE has appended a NEW FliESH HL.I3STE OF GROCERIES to his ELEGANT LINK of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS SHOES which he don't propose to sell AT COST, but at a I thank you for your patronage in the past, and solicit a cxmtimi-nce of the same. aaccesi means your success, means a which it is published, a cry and complaint would go up from every hand. If we will for a moment stop to consider the injustice we are doing when we are going off to another town to purchase our comforts and necessities; if we will consider that we are disloyal to those who have joined in with us to build up a community, we will not do so unjust and disloyal an act. We become tr.iitnrs t.o those who are loyal to us home market for your produce and LWEBYjMLE.

PENNER BROS. Proprietors, West Neiman St. near depot, Brainerd, Kansas. 45 an increased value for your land EED FBOFT Livery Stable, GEORGE WATSON, Proprietor, EAST HORNER STREET, 13 RAINERD, KAN SA am not a real estate acrent, but for free trade and plenty of it. It will be noticed that he gives particular emphasis to this part of his message, the result of which will be that European governments which are interested in the United States becoming a free trade nation will be moie than ever ready to assist the Democratic party next year in re-electing Cleveland.

Capital. Some one has just introduced to pnblic notice a new fuel which is designed to take the place to coal in the prairie countries. The fuel is made by grinding corn stalks and coarse prairie hay together, moistening them, and then pressing the pulp into blocks about twelve in conscientiously am able to call my self an nnprediudiced observer andl S. S. THOMAS, and to whom we are under obligations to trade and traffic.

There is another form of disloyalty to a city which more quickly and certainly saps its prosperity and retards its growth, and that is to live in one city and have interests in another. 'This is keenly felt where Vin fit.ies are rival towns. Choose Brainerd 13 Headquarters at the House. have traveled from the Atlantic to Kentucky to Canada and I have never seen a better countrv, men wider awake, nor reasons for prospering greater than right here in the fertile valley of the Whitewater. The- merchants that stick to this town ma- not get rich in the twinkling of an eye, (tory book merchants are- tiie only ones that get rich that way and their property is generally held in trust by the state General Dray AM) AE3B vewhom ye will serve, lor can- -r Jl it Times: The financiers of the senate are promptly on hand with their various money schemes.

Senator Bowen has introduced a bill to cive the countrv more silver, Sena-tor Beck one to give it more paper money, and Senator Aldrieh a bill to reduce the surplus by applying it directly to debt payment. There will be many more to follow, all. to not serve botn. iacn lnoivsauai has a right to transfer his allegiance from one community to another, but it is his duty to let all parties ches long and four inches thick. It is claimed that one block will give an hour's steady heat Tmd that the fuel can be produced at $3 per ton.

infield Courier. Carriage A.M. CARPENTER, Proper, BRAINERD, KANSAS concerned aiww jm longa. A man who lives in a town for no other purpose than to snck from that town his wealth and his all "his acts go to benefit some other, and perhaps rival town, than a traitor. lie is a There isonly one nation on the face of the earth whose land is free REUBEN REITZ, OUR BOOT-AND SHOE MAN, be grouud over in the mill of the finance committee.

Out of the to work as good as new. Horse shoeing done makes to those who will take it; whose eitn while they work out a term in the "I'en.) but are sure to become substantial, well-to-do business men in a few years. There is ever so much vitality in this young thing and nome day she will cast off her baby clothes ami surprise the chronic growler by her antics! the foolishness of imagining every cross road grocery is a dan- abundant material furnished it is barely possible that little legislation ultimately may be evolved. and work warranted in every respect. ISTo do to order.

vampire, which, while sucking the zens are guarded against the cornpe- blaodof it victims, thes titlon of their brethern across the wounds. He covers up his treach-p ery with words of loyalty while in sea who will not join them here, and his heart and acts he is working whose gravest problem now is to re-for some other dty and will satri-; ce kg incomo And vet a man general work irilinespertaining to our business Give him a call for what you may- Johan Most gets in the New York need in that line ince tne one i uwci nes men of the one to benefit the from Buffalo says the country is 1 the leroU3 drain on our population and speeches. Lucky that he didn't iT First door north i -r -r isrosbftritv! Do you suppose a reas- men of the other. Garden -danger of going to smasn. opeka earn.

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