Arkansas City Star from Arkansas City, Kansas • 1

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No. I7 ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896. Vol.1. No. 10.

rtm YOUR MONEY The Pastime Ball. The fourth annual ball of the Pastime Club was held In Highland hall Wednesday night. After the ball the club banquetted at the Gladstone. The ball was a continuous whirl of the beautiful at their best, and the banquet was such as would baffle the foremost of the Epicures. The ladies present were as follows: Mrs James Duff, Mac, Geo Chaney, Cunningham, A Villepiquo, II An Ad That Is Use Full THE Of STAR Sunshine For Will Results Is Not Wasted MS ADVERTISING-Don't Pay? That Depends W-yiFf YOU Advertise in The STAR IT DOES.

If you have any reason to doubt the statement, ask us and we will explain the reason, but it Is a fact. MS When you. pay ONE DOLLAR PTT.T?. VTT. for sill tho nfvnrs nrvn- Hatch, A Miller, Drenan, E.Salisbury, Ross Statton, I Mcln-tyre, Harry Squlers, A Repp, Hodge, Charles Hunt, Mack Love; tamea "Warm Up Your Misses Maggie Neal, Bertha Stafford, Maude Kanney, Lizzie Scbermerhorn, The Arkansas City Star 2 Business.

AC 5 Sunflower Seed. Jessie Elder, Jessie Lewelling of Wichita, Daisy Welch, Myra Roebuck Clara Roebuck, Tita Stanford, Grace Pottle, Sherley Morse, Mattie Shlndcl, Blanche Howard, Emma Earlougher, Maud Houghton, Margaret Pottle, The Subscriber's Paper. It contains instruction, informa Officers to be Elected. Natural gas was first discovered ia In the First ward there are two 1870, near Fort Scott. nt, tion and amusement, far every one dsfe Nellie Stauber, Blanche Murry, Lilli members of the school board to be an Wilson.

elected and a councilman. Mr. Lent During the first eighteen years of and Mr. Sollltt retired from the school 3w the family. News of the City, her history, Emporia never had a The gentlemen in attendence were Messrs Duff, Williams, Mclntyre, Mac, board and Mr.

Salisbury fron the coun Chaney, Cunningham, Theaker, Hart cil. Mr. Salisbury has held the ofilce The McPherson polie Judge fines fel ly, Underwood, Prescott, Villepigue, Hatch, Ruby, Brown, Miller, Drenan, ot councilman for two years. He re fuses to be a candidate again. lows for "using euphonious Ian- In the Second ward Councilman News of the State, News of the Union, TERSELY STATED.

guage. Salisbury, Beal, Curry, Stlllwell, Rohr, Dixon, Stratton, Earlougher, Fowler, Mclntyre, Squiers, Repp, Denton, Huey, Bauman, Cree, Hunt, Love, John Landes retired from the counci and Mr. Reed from the school board. in the Third ward s. 1.

Stauber re MS Reed, Maxwell and others. tires from the council and Fred Knowl- Know what other T)eor)le are do- ton from the school board. Mr. Know! i i An Addition. ton will be a candidate for re-election wr mo" fLiici von win ranw nfiT.Tfvr now In the fourth ward a councilman LU UU.

Kansas fruits were capturing first premiums in the lar je Eastern states a quarter of a century ago. The first street railway in Kansas was built in Lawrence, aud began operations November 25, 1871. Cowley county was organized February 28, 1870, and nam for Lieutenant Mathew Cowley of the Tenth Kansas. Wednesday the contract was let for the addition to the Presbyterian church, and yesterday the work on will be elected to succeed W. H.

Pot tie. C. W. Burt retires from the schoo board. the foundation was begun.

The front end of the church will be enlaged, by There is but little interesti mani fested in the approaching election Subscribe for Arkansas City Star And get the news. an addition on both sides of the old part. It will give them an auditorium and three weeks prior to election clay there are scarcely 200 voters registered sixty by fifty feet, which, when con pleted, will be the largest and finest A jail delivery was prevented at Guthrie, O. Tuesday night by the auditorium in ihe city. The Ladies' ms a Office in Hess Basement, West Fifth Avenue.

discovery of an underground tunnel in Aid society have the money on hand to puy for the improvements, and all bills the United States jail, where one hun Hill be cashed when the work is done, SHE -M wJI A Cedarvale miller mixes one-third Nebraska spring wheat with two-thirds Kansas winter wheat and make a flour which children cry for. A Hutchinson minister overlooks the fact that Sousa writes fascinating dance music and tells his congregation that they ought to hear the band. dred and twelve prisoners are incar- created. The leaders were Bill Dool The ladies will give a social in the church this evening which in, Bill Rcider and Bob Montgomery will be the last social in the old building as it uow stands. Next Sunday's Star Beams.

three members of the famous Dal ton gang. The outlaws-had revolvers and List of Patents. Granted to Kansas Inventors last services will also be the last service in The mills and factories established the old building. The constantly week. Reported by C.

A. Snow Solicitors of American and Foreign knives in their possessions to protect themselves. Doolin says ho will never wait for his trial but will escape, or die in the attempt. growing audiences have made this ad dition a necessity. The church is in Patents.

Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. A.

M. Hunger- a more prosperous condition this ford, Mahaska, Burglar-alarm; J. E. Perl, Osage Mission, Auxiliary gun- spring than it has been for years. Snap Shots at Arkansas City.

barrel; C. C. Stincr, Girard, Strainer for pumps; G. WornstalT, Fort Arkausas City now has a mysterious Scott, Combined llour-biu and dough- disappearance. K.

U. world. board. The Traveler insists that there is both oil and gas near Arkansss City K. C.

World. Those problems In arithmetic; Are I vow, Last leap yeur she was thirty. Ami she's twenty-seven now. Washington Star. The Winfleld Courier wants to know vhy Arkansas City is like a fishing pole.

1 ull of joints of course. Wich Y. M. C. A.

Notes. Rev. C. C. Rarriek will address the men meeting Miriuay at 4 clock p.

m. Special music. All men and boys invited. Last Saturday night a few friends and members gave a surprise party to Itev. Glover and family.

The following were present: The Misses Millie Kemp, Alice Fowler, Lutie Work, Etta Caldwell, Mrs. Lizzie McGinnis, Ilattie Pettit, Vina Brown, Lucy Burke, Laura E. Burdine, Girtie Will-ian Messrs Allen Brown, A. B. Bur-dine, Win.

Caldwell, Banks Burdine, F. L. West, Thomas Evans. The table was loaded down with many good things and all present marie cx-cclK nt use of them. Septimus Andrews is still giving the jail officers no end of trouble.

His latest hallucination is that his body is covered with leeches and that they are crawling in his ears, nose, mouth and eyes and iu his efforts to kill them he is in constant danger of doing himself serious injury. This morning he found a lead ncil in his cell and was discovered just in time to prevent him from running it into his ear. Although at times he appears rational and talks intelligently of his condition, it requires constant attention to prevent self-destruction. Courier Manton has been employed as assistant city assessor by City Assessor Chapel. Both gentlemen are now at work taking the assessment.

S-W Ry. Maintains the fastest and handsomest equipped passenger trains from St. Louis to the east. Three daily trains St. Louis to Louisville, three in this country by the Salvation Army give employment to 10,700 persons.

Rain-in-the-Faee, who was a leader in the Custer massacre, is now a policeman at the Standing Rock agency, and is looked upun as a valuable man. A sensible Now York woman, whose husband, now a prisoner in the Tombs, has fallen heir to I million dollars, declares that the first penny received shall go to buy fresh milk for the babies. Most women would have thought of diamonds or a seal skin cape. Ex-Governor Taylor of Tennessee tells tli is story: A stranger approached him recently with extended hand aud said: "Your face is familiar; where in hell did I meet youV "I don't know," replied the ex-governor, "What part of hell are you from." A Cleveland (Ky.) clergyman refuses to perform the marriage ceremony on Sunday. He holds that no other legal transaction can be made on Sunday and stand the test of the courts, and that as marriage is a legal transaction, it cannot be legally performed on Sunday.

In a fit of absent mindednoss Mrs. Bert McConuell of Seville, thrust $3,1500 in money, notes and securities into the tire. She had been carrying the valuables with her while calling and, on her return home, gathered up a lot of waste paper in the yard, ai.d thrust lie refuse and the riches into the stove together. A Western judga, sitting in Chambers, seeing from the piles of papers in the lawyer's hands that the first case was likely to be hotly contested, asked: "What is the amount In question?" "Two dollars," said the nlain-tiff's counsel. "I'll pay it said the judge, handing oyer the money: "call the next case." He had not the patience of Sir William Grant, who, after listening for two days to the arguments as to the construction of a certain act, quietly observed when they had done: "That act has been repealed." Tom Potter said to the Farmers' Institute at Newton: "Stick to your farms: I know no occupation more honorable or more remunerative." Chester Long offended a Newton editor by sending him a copy of the report ot the war department ten years old.

The older the war dedart-ment report the more valuable it is. Reynolds, of the Sedan Times-Star, conies to the conclusion this is a just world after all, as he reflects on the fact that there are forty editors, ex-editors and printers In congress and not one in the penitentiary. The inequalities and lack of uniformity in making the assessments In the various counties of the state are forcibly brought to notice it the statement, by way of illustration, that in Reno county con is listed at 4 cents a bushel, in McPherson at 12, Butler at 5, Ottawa at 8, Pratt and Johnson at 10 and in Cowley at 15 to 24. There is a man Jo Beloit by the name of James Friend, engaged in the mercantile business, who claims to know how to stop the hot winds incident to this part of the country. Ho has gathered together 307 portions of Scripture that he claims supports and proves his theory.

He has deli v-ercd several lectures in that part of the country, that have proved very entertaining and enlisted most favorable comments from the press. He claims that his system of cooling the atmosphere and subduing and preventing hot winds would not cost to exceed $2 per acre. He says in his ex-permcnts he cooled a room ten feet square so cool in-midsummer, when the thermometer was 103 In the shade that he would produce frost in the room, and he didn't use chemicals, either. He is a plain uneducated man! and attends his store, putting in every spare moment studing his theory, lie-expects to demonstiate his theory this summer more throughly and astonish, the world with results. Ita Eagle.

In acknowledging a serenade the Arkausas City Traveler speaks of the affair as a howling success. Wichita Eagle. Septimus Andrews of Arkansas City, who was taken to the insane asylum, lmagened he had a tapeworm in his throat and tried to cut it out witli a razor. Wichita Eagle. There was a crowd of Arkonsas City boys up Sunday courting Wintield girls.

This may be a little hard on WinlieUI young men, but it is evidence of mighty good taste ou the part of the visitors. Courier. Dick Howard, of Arkansas city, says the beauty about evening is that they deny the war rumors in the morning papers and bring glad tidings of peace on earth, good will towards men. Wichita Eagle. Dick Howard, of Arkansas City, is trying to be a Parkhurst, and he warns the parents of that town that recently a teacher had several of her girl pupils up before her ch raged with circulating a piece of bad poetry.

Wichita Etgle. Prof Conway is up from Arkansas City today to attend consultation meeting between Prof Spindler, Prof Hickey and County Superintendent Anderson relative to normal work, the normal will commence June 8 with Prof Conway as instructor. Courier. daily train St. Louis to Cincinnati, two daily trains St.

Louis to Columbus, 0., and Pittsburg, two daily trains St. Louis to Washington, lialtimore, Philadelphia and New York. For rates, tickets and other information inquire of any ticket agent, or address J. M. Cliesbrougl), general passenger agent, St.

Louis, Mo New Fast California Train, On October 29 the Santa Fe route will inaugurate new and strictly limited lirst class service to Southern California. The California Limited will leave Chicago at 6.00 p. m. daily, reaching Los Angelos in three days aud San Francisco in three and one-half days, a saving of half a day. Time from this station correspondingly reduced.

Equipment will consist of superb new vestibuled Pullman palace and compartment sleepers, chair car and dining car, through to Los Angeles without change. This will be the fastest and most luxurious service via any line to California. Another daily train will carry through palace sleeper and tourist sleeper to Sau Francisco and tourist sleeper to Los Angelos, as at. present. For full particulars inquire of local agent Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe li.

K. We do Job PRINTING. Let us figure With you. Born. To Mrs.

L. C. Ball, of the Fourth ward, a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs.

W. A. Daniels, Sunday night, a son. To Mr. and Mrs.

Alberu Fu.ler Su day, a son..