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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
One OF THE BOYS.
Wendail.

The messenger death" has visited one
of our homes and taken away IA wife and
mother. leaving mourning husband and
two helpless little children
Mrs. Edward Omara died Tuesday,
July 9th. at $50 in the evening, after an
illness OF nearly five weeks
The funeral services were held at the
home of the deceased, at two clock the
next day, and the remains were inferred
in The Reed cemetery
Rev. Armstrong, of the Vi. Z. Church.
Cumberland circuit, conducted the fun
ersl services. He gave an impressive adj
dress to the living, taking for his text the
fortieth verse of the twelfth chapter of
ST Luke.
Mrs Omara was born in Pennsylvania
Jan. 9th, 1856. Her maiden name was
Mary Mona Book When she was one
year old her parents moved to Andrew
county. Missouri. When six years of age
she was made an orphan by the death OF
her mother For four years she lived
among strangers When she was ten
years of age her father was married the
second time, and she went to live with
him in Holt county. Missouri.
She attended the common schools and
obtained fair knowledge of the common
branches,
On Feb. 18th. 1881. she was married to
Edward Omara After their marriage
they resided three years in Holt county,
Missouri. From there they moved TO
Brown county this state. where they
lived one year. Leaving Brown county,
they started west to seek for cheap land
in good country. where they could build
up comfortable and pleasant home.
Their present home seemed to be the de-
A n,rh had
misfortune. cheerfulness and hope for
the future seemed to prevail
When she was first Frustrated by sick
ness she thought her time in this life was
near its end. Her father was sent for.
but before he arrived she began to amend
and seemed in fair way for recovery.
Her father returned to his home in few
DAYS: but she had a relapse. All the med
zeal aid tina; cO:ild be had was obtained.
She was well cared for by her husband
and relatives, supplemented by the con-
slant aid of the kind ladies of the neigh
borhood. but all to no avail During her
last sickness she did not expect to die.
She said. the day of her death, if death
Old come it would be very unexpected to
her. When asksd if she wanted TO send
for her father, she replied that she was
not going to die; that she would like to
see him. but did not like to cause him to
have so much expense
Mrs. omara had a kind. sociable. oblig-
ing disposition. Those who knew her
best were her best friends.
She was interested in the welfare of the
community, and took part in the literary
work of the neighborhood so far as the
opportunity afforded. She had never
embraced religion, though she was be.
lever in the truth of the bible and took a
good interest in the Sabbath school. and
worked for its promotion as much as cir
cumstances permitted
Mr.. Omara has sustained great loss in
which he has the sympathies of all who
know him.
B.D.P.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
THE THOMAS COUNTY CAT.
EDEN. July 18th, 1886.


EDITOR CAT:-Not having thu
Measure of reading any news in you
valuable paper from western Thomas
county, and seeing you have adver
tised for items. we will send in few
This portion of the beautiful coun
tv of Thomas we will name Eden, fol
it has been discovered by the early
settlers that this is undoubtedly the
Garden of Eden, as the soil furnishes
sufficient evidence, which the oldest
inhabitants dare not dispute.
Wheat and rye harvest is over, Oats
will soon be ready to cut. Small grain
of all kinds is a splendid crop. Corn
and potatoes look well and promise an
abundant yield.
1t is getting very dry again and
some of our croakers are beginning to
prophesy continued drouth and a short
corn crop; but we hope they will miss
it as bad as they did during the May
drouth. The majority of the settlers
il r.; '-ic;~,::ty have come to stay, and
are well pleased with the beautiful
garden of Eden.
Messrs. Brown and Parker are 90.
ing to Nebraska next week, after theil
cattle They think there Will be an
abundance of feed for their stock this
winter.
Mr.. j. I. Getting is building quite
a commodious little mansion on his
claim, and expects to have it finished
by August 1st.
Mr.. J. A. Dobbs, of Beatrice, Neb.,
is now on his claim, and is busy max
ing the necessary improvements, such
as building and breaking prairie. John
is an energetic young man, and we are
glad to welcome him in Our midst.
Mr.. F. L. Newton is going to make
a trip to Nebraska soon We don t
know what his business is, but guess
he is going to see his wifes folks
Prof. d. j. Reynish is keeping bach
elors hall at present, but it can be
plainly seen by the professors sad
eountenance that baching doesn't
agree with him; and we think ere the
leaves begin to turn he will take in
one of the fair daughters of Eve.
Mr.. Woriey is building store room
on his claim and expects to put in a
large stock Of dry goods and groceries
rs soon as the building is completed
The new school house at Sheriff
Kingerys is nearly finished, and relig-
ious services will be held there every
Sabbath.
\ new postotfice is talked of in this
vicinity, as there is much dissatisfac-
ton among the people concerning
Hughes postoflicc. We think it would
be much better if the postoffice was
moved four miles west of Hughes, as
most Of the settlers in western Thorn
as and Eastern Sherman get their mail
at Hughes.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Garden plains.

Services at Garden Plains Sunday
evening by Rev. Caldwell A large
crowd in attendance. As an expoun-
der of the gospel we think he cannot
be surpassed in the county.
A Sabbath school not far from here
ought to adopt some good author on
parliamentary usages. More than one
speaker deranges the regular routine
of business. The school ought to
have Il voice in all business, and not
left to one or two.
The cold bachelors are making
preparations for the picnic ''pound
cake" Recipes are in great demand
at present. COMPOs MENTIs.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

TEN is Oh Tile DOOLu uSdlu-picuCy
of water and a new sod house; and a
blacksmith shop is wanted badly, a
doctor, preacher and meat market,
&c.
Our Fairview Sabbath school is
fourishing. Attendance good. Preach
ing every third Sabbath by Rev. Arm
strong.
Mrs. Mary Omara died last Tuesday
at six o'clock.
Mr.. David Eatenger is building a
house on ne or 22-7 81.
Mr.. Hoback has his harvesting done
and in the stack.
Mr.. Rose is building house for
Mr.. !Salina.
Mr.. Patrick wants to sell out.
Mr.. Saddler wants to sell his i'm
proyements on homestead.
Mr.. Coin has the boss patch of
wheat of Thomas county.
Mr.. Hoback has q splendid crop of
corn.
Our school is in fine order. Atten-
dance good.
A good lumber wagon for sale OF
trade at Gem.
Gem p. o. is on the regular route,
now, from Kenneth to Colby.
Gem store is the boss place to get
provisions, dry goods, notions, cheap
for cash OF produce.
Base ball and croquet every Satur-
day at Gem. Come one, come all.
Two more souls are to be made
happy ere this is printed. Oh, if we
dared to tell who. More anon.
Elk. S.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
YouTake No Chances.

When you buy Chamberlain's Co0lic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is
claimed for it. An attack of bowel com
plant and gripping pains are so> often
remedy. Ask your d.. gistep.
berlsin, q Cole; ChUlr M B<
Remedy, Manufactured u DIS - -.
Iowa. and be sure ~ e1t re 3f OF
sizes 5octs., and 100 bottIss. Ell
BY Walker 4 Yousse: al
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Books at the Central.

Books at the Central.
Remember that Frank Pingree sells
more claims than anyone and still has
few for sale.
McGonigal & Son have span of dandy
mares for sale on terms to suit the pur-
chaser.
Don't purchase paint until you have
called at the Central Drug Store. We can
save you money.
Prescriptions carefully compounded
day or night, at the Central Drug Store
If you have claim for sale or trade
Kingery & Harvey have customer for
you.
Ladies combination suits at 81 and 81 %
at j w. Allen & Sons.
Don't borrow money until you have
seen WillcOXOn Il Hovey.
Remember that Probate Judge Lacey
can save you trip to Oberlin if you de-
sire to make final proof.
The best stock of Boots and Shoes in
western Kansas at the Great Western DRY
Goods and Grocery House.
Remember the old Pioneer on the cor
ner is the place to buy dry goods, grocer
les, boots and shoes, etc.
Just think of it, a sack of flour for So
cents an J. NJ. Gamble & Co.'S. flour and
feed store Try sack.
When you want feed of corn, sack
of flour or bushel of potatoes go to Gam
BILE & Co.'S flour & feed store.
The STAND Bye cigar gets better as
the brand gets older, unlike good many
other brands. Sold by Walker & Yousse.
Call and get your picture taken at Bebb's
photograph gallery opposite CAT office.
PatrOniZe him enough SO he can afford to
stay.
You will find large stock of drugs,
medicines, paints, oils and every thing
pertaining to the drug line at Central
Drug Store.
The Paris Restaurant, A. Nadeau, pro
prietor, has furnished several rooms and
you can secure a good clean bed at his
place.
Don't forget that the Central Drug
Store keeps a full stock of paper and en-
velopes, toilet articles. perfumeries and
every thing in their line.
-McGonigal sells the Rock Spring
get it hauled for 49, Lay in your supply
while there is plenty on hand.
McGonigal & Son have first class
decided section of land one and One-half
miles from town for sale cheap.
McGonigal s. Son have section of
school land for sale cheap within miles
of the center of st. John county.
For sick headache, female troubles
neuralgia pains in the head take DR.. J.
H. McLean's Little Liver and Kidney
Pillets. Twenty-Five cents vial. Sold
by Walker g. Yousse and at the Palace
Drug Store.
When You are constipated, with loss of
appetite, headache, take one of DR.. J. H.
Mclean Little Liver and Kidney Pillets.
They are pleasant to take and will cure
you. % cents vial. Sold at the Palace
Drug Store and by Walker & Yousse. If
For bargains i'll claims, in Thorn
as and Sherman counties, call on
Kingery & Harvey at Colby. Locat-
ing a speciality. School lands for
sale at great bargains.
Imperfect digestion and assimilation
produce dsordered conditions of the
system which grow and are confirmed by
neglect, Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthen
ing Cordial and Blood Purifier. by its
tonic properties, cures indigestion and
gives tone to the stomach. S1OO per bot
tle Sold at the Palace Drug Store and
by Walker & Yousse If
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Keep Quiet.

And take Chamberlin's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t cures pain in
the stomach almost instantly, get bot
tie, take nothing else to cure the worst
case of DiarrhOea, cholera morbus or
bowel complaint This medicine is
made for bowel complaint only, and has
been in constant use in the west for
nearly fifteen years Its success has been
unbounded and its name become house
hold word in thousands of homes. Try
it. Sold by Walker s. Yousse. If
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
HOtiCo.

There will special session of board of
county commissioners at new court house
July, 10Th 1886, for the purpose OF making
any arrangements in regard to repairs OF
court house, and any other business that
may legally come before said meeting.
FRANK PINGREE, Chairman.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
inflammation Of The stomach.

And in the infiammatory stagesiOf dysen
tary no better or safer medicine has been
found than Begg's Diarrhoe Balsam it is
prepared expressly to relieve all inflamma-
ton of the stomach and bowels and
does not leave the bowels constipated.
Always keep the best on hand it costs no
more For sale by Walker & Yousse,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

STRAYED -Strayed away the 18th of
July, one gray mule with halter on, be-
longing to Ole Olsen, living in Thomas
county, town 8, range 36, section 80. Lib
eral reward for any information. P.O.
Gopher, ST. John county, Kansas.
2022Ju22
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Notice.

Sealed bids viii be received till next
Monday, July %. 1886, at 10 o clock am.
for plastering court house and building
chimneyS on same. Contract to be let to
lowest responsible bidder. Work to be
completed by Aug. l4th, 1886.
JAMES n. FIKE.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
B. D. P.

Old people suffer much from disorders
of the urinary organs, and are always
gratified at the wonderful effects of DR..
J. II. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm
in banishing their troubles 500 per
bottle Sold by Walker & Yousse and at
the Palace Drug Store. If
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Notice to the PUBLIC,

1t having been reported that we have
stopped making real estate loans, we de-
sire to state that we have been and are
now prepared to make Real Estate Loans
upon improved farms on the most favor
able terms ever heard of. No cut throat
clauses calling for attorney fees
and payment in gold.
THOMAS Co. LAND & LOAN Co.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Notice..

All persons indebted to the Chicago
Lumber Co. will confer great favor by
calling and settle before June 10th, as we
are closing our books for the year and
all accounts must be settled.
G. H. HYATT, Manager.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

If your kidneys are inactive, you will
feel and look wretched, even in the most
cheerful society, and melancholy on the
iolliest occasions. DR.. J. II. McLean's
Liver and Kidney Balm will set you right
again $1.00 per bottle. Sold by Wal
kar & YOusse and Martin Bros. If
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
c. w. Friend,

Contractor, house painting, calcomin-
ing, paper hanging, granting and sign
writing.
Practical painters wanted
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Artists Take Notice.

We have now on hand an elegant as
sortment of artists tube paints. Would
be glad to have you call and interview
our obliging clerks on the subject.
G.. H. MARTIN & BRO.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

Get your reading matter at the Centred
Drug Store.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22
Gem CIeanings.

Gem is on the boom again-plenty
of water and new sod house; and a
blacksmith shop is wanted badly, a
doctor, preacher and meat market,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

Imperfect digestion and assimilation
produce disordered conditions of the
system which grow and are confirmed by
neglect, Dr. j. H. McLean's Strengthen
ing Cordial and Blood Purifier. by its
tonic properties, cures indigestion and
gives tone to the stomach. ST 90 per bot
tle Sold at the Palace Drug Store and
by Walker & Yousse If
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
The Clutch of Monopoly.

Do you know l never until recently
felt the iron hand Of gigantic mono
poly close on my throat, and so real
lied how slowly but surely it was tight
ening its constructing folds. like the
deadening upas tree, over whose blight
ed valley there flies no living bird and
comparatively few dead ones, as it
were, upon the life of the nationp
TApplause and loud cries of "Go onp']
Needless is it to say that refer to the
railroad. I live in small village on
the line of the Pennsylvania railway.
We have no competing line. We lie at
the feet of the monopoly that hauls us
in and out of town; we are passive and
helpless. The other day | had two
boxes of freight to send west by this
monopoly. went crouching into the
office of the freight agent. When l
told him i had two boxes of stuff to
send to Chicago, distance of about
eight hundred miles, saw his eyes
light up with the keen glare of savage
greed. He said he would ask Harris
burg for rates, which / knew was a
mere subterfuge to gain time while he
could guess how much money could
raise this side of the grave, and then
the grasping tool of soulless corpora
ton charged me 50 cents for carrying
two big boxes eight hundred miles.
What's more, he made me pay it. It's
no wonder that shippers kick. am
only surprised that they don't boycott
the railroads.
Let us return to the days and quiet
ways of our good old fathers, when, by
paying only One-half of the price of the
boat, l could have sent my boxes to
Buffalo by canal and the rest of the way
by lake boat and got them through to
Chicago or the bottom the same year.
-Burdette.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
Limit of Temperature.

Investigation shows that the limit Of
temperature at which men can work
depends upon the length OF their ex-
posure, the amount of eXertion they
put forth, their condition, and the ma
ture of the atmosphere, particularly as
to its degree of moisture. II is stated
that men have been employed on rail
ways at 104o, in mines-under very
favorable cOnditions-at 1875 Q, and are
said to work occasionally in the stoke
holes Of tropical steamers at 1860
Prof. Dubois is reported to have esti-
mated that temperature of 1929 can
be endured when the air is as dry as
possible, but that even lO4 9 is likely
to prove fatal IN an atmosphere satura-
ted with moisture. 1t is also consider
ed certain that men cannot become ac-
customed to stand for any considerable
time a higher temperature than from
l45o TO 100 Q, even when they keep
perfectly still and are in quite pure ar.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
Reading Aloud.

II you ask eight people out Of ten
now, they will say that they hate being
read to. And why? Because from
their childhood they have been unused
to it, and used only to such monotonous
drone as robbed even Arabian Nights of
half their charm. The husband, at the
end of hard days work, returns home
to pass the evening absorbed in his book,
or doing over the fire, while the wife
takes up her novel or knits in silence.
If he reads to her, or if he could toler-
ate her reading to him, there would be
community of thought, interchange of
ideas, and such discussion as the fusion
of two minds into any common channel
cannot fail to produce. And 1t is often
the same when the circle is wider.
have known a large family pass the
hours between dinner and bedtime, each
one with his book or work, afraid to
speak above his breath, because ''it
would disturb papa" Is this cheerful,
or wise, or conducive to that close
union in household which is bond of
strength through life, which the world
can neither give nor take awayP
cannot blame them, for they all read
abominably; and it is enough to have
endured the infliction of family prayers,
gasped and mumbled by the head of
the family, to feel that listening
to such a delivery for any length of
time would exasperate one beyond en-
durance.
But it was not always so. In the last
century-even rs late as fifty years ago
reading aloud was regarded as an ac-
complshment worth the cultivation OF
those( e(especially those who lived in the
country with pretentions to taste; and
it was, consequently, far more frequent
ly found enlivening the domestic circle
There were fewer books, fewer means
of locomotion, fewer pleasures OF winter
nights outside the four walls of the
country parlor. The game of cribbage
or the sonata on the spinet, did not oc
cupy the entire evening after 6 O'Clock
dinner; and Shakespeare and Miltor
were more familiar to the young gener
alton of those days than they are now
mainly, feel persuaded, because the,
were accustomed to hear them rea'
aloud. The ear, habituated to listen, i
often more safe conduit to the memo
ry in youth than the inattentive ey
which rapidly skins page.--Nine
teenth Century.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
COlOratiOn of Animals.

Correspondence in color with the
general hue of the surrounding medium
is especially common wherever single
tone predominates largely in the wider
aspect of nature. Arctic animals, as
everybody knows, are always white.
Ptarmigan and northern hares put on
a snowy coat among the SHOWS of win
ter. The uncommercial stoat needless
ly transforms himself on the approach
of cold weather into the expensive and
much prosecuted ermine. Imagine for
a moment the chances of life possessed
by bright scarlet animal among the
snow-felds of Greenland, and one can
see at once the absolute necessity for
this unvarying protective coloration.
Even royal duke would scarcely ven
ture to approve of flaring-red uniforms
under such conditions. All she con-
spicuous creatures get Immediately
weeded out by their carnivorous ene-
mics, owing to their great obtrusiveness
and loudness of dress; while those alone
survive which exactly conform to the
fashionable whiteness of external ma
ture. So, too, in the desert every bird,
lizard, grasshopper, butterfly, and crick-
ct is uniformly dressed in light sand
color. The intrusive red or blue but
terfly from neighboring flowery fields
gets promptly eaten up by the local
bird, whose plumage he can not dis
tingulsb from the sand around it. The
intrusive scarlet or green bird from
neighboring forests finds the bread
taken out of his mouth by the too severe
competition of his desert brethren, who
can steal upon the native grasshoppers
unperceived, while he himself acts upon
them like red danger signal, and is as
sedulously avoided by the invisible in
sects as if he meant Intentionally to
advertise with flaming posters his own
hostile and destructive purpose. In
short sand hunting creatures are and
| always must be necessarily sand-color-
ed. A few tropical flat-fsh, however,
living as they do among the brilliant
corals, pink sea anemones, gorgeous
holothurians, and banded shells of the
southern seas, are beautifully and vivid
ly spotted and colOred with the Gveli-
est patterns. In this case the necessity
for protection compels the fish to adopt
the exactly opposite tactics. All those
young beginners which happen to show
any tendency to plain brown colorine
are sure to be recogized as fish, and
get promptly eaten up among their
bright surroundings; only those which
look most like the neighborlng inedible
and stinging nondescripts stand any
chance of escaping with their precious
lives. A Quaker garb which would
easily pass unobserved in the murky
English channel would become at once
conspicuous by contrast among the
brilliant organisms of Amboyna OF
Tahiti. This beautifully proves the rel
ativity of all things, as philosopher:
put it. Ordinary people express tn,
same idea in simpler language by say
ing that circumstances alter cases. -
| Tho (Ior,1b,II 1Tunn z;a1o
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
1t Took Away the Hurt.

A little boy and girl, each perhaps
five years old, were by the roadside,
this morning, on their way to school.
The boy became angry, and struck his
little playmate a smart blow on the
cheek, whereupon the latter began to
cry, the big tear drops filling her bright
blue eyes. The boy looked on sullenly,
moment or two, and then said, in a
softened, penitent tone; Don't cry.
Katie; didn't mean to hurt you, and /
am so sorry that ! was bad and struck
you" The little maiden's face at once
frightened, like the sun shining through
an April sky, and she said, in such soft
accents: "Well, if you are sorry you
struck me, Willie, it don't hurt; your
saying so, has took all the hurt away"
and brushing away the pearly tear
drops, her face was as bright and
seraphic as though lit by heavenly
vision of ETHEREAL loveliness. - GoodalPS S
Chicago Sun.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1886-05-12
Glad of 1t.

"Did you execute this instrument
without fear or compulsion from your
husbandP" blandly asked Judge Noon
an of a large, terce-looking woman in
n land suit.
Fear or compulsion! He compel
me! You don't know me, Judge"
The Judge remarked in a low voice
that he was glad of it.-Iexas Siftings.