Thomas County cat., 1886-11-18

A terrible blizzard came upon us Mo-
day evening. 1t showed and blowed. an
it was well-nigh impossible to be out
doors. 1t reminds us of last winter.
The regular services of the Presbyte
ian church will be held next Sabbath
the school house near Gem postOffice, /,
IL q. m. and in the court house Mt Cobb,
30 p. m. All are invited.
Shanklin & Vail have the contract t
put up new building between the Ger
trail Drug Store and Bullers' hardwar
store. 2Ox3O feet. with glass front.
will be used as business building.
| A. j. Senter is fitting up the postOffic
in elegant style by putting in additions
lock boxes. and re-arranging everything
Phil TrOutfetter. assistant postmaster
takes an interest in making things right
and aims to suit all.
Wallace is the scene of another mur
der. J. E. Stevens. proprietor of tn,
Union House. at Wallace. shot one Franz
Mcdaniel. Mcdaniel had been bOardin,
at the Union and could not pay his bOart
for want of money. hence a quarrel aros'
with above tragedy.
We were pleased to meet E. P. Wor
cester. formerly of this paper, last Satur
day. He stopped off from the noon train
to see his friends and see how much
Grainfield had grown since the Cap Sheai
was down i'm the little lumber Office
one year ago last July.-[Grainfield
Cap Sheaf.
The suit to set aside the sale of March
9Th, 1886, in reference to school lands in
Thomas and Sherman counties. was not
dismissed. but continued for better ser
vice till next term of court. Not one
will be dismissed. The court must de-
eide it, There can be 10 question OF the
final result. The sale will be set aside
The commissioners Of Sherman county
met and counted the vote of one town
ship. ItaSca and declared Sherman Cen
ter the permanent county seat of Sher-
man county. anG everybody on Sherman
Center ticket elected. Of course that is
not the law for it, and the law will no
doubt be invoked to settle the matter.
Elstis is conceded to have received the
most votes for county seat.
DEAR HoG.-A II. Ellis, ESQ. is feel
ing good over q vic,ory il tie celebrated
Osborne coUnty hog case, before Judge
Smith and !: illy last week. The hog is
said 20 be worth $1,000 There have been
FIVE trials to decide the ownership, the
bill of costs footing up over $500, and
the total sum Spuandered over il being
about Si,500 Great IS tne American S
sand when he gets started in lawsuit
Il LBeloit Gazette.
The entertainment given on Monday
evening under the auspices of the ladies'
aid society. was attended by Il large and
select audience. The recitations by c.
o. Case were highly appreciated; and
the music. furnished by Prof l. H. Bull
lers. C. NJ. Hovcy. E. p Hovey. Messrs
French and Boden. and Mrs Hovey.
Spencer, Boden. French and Miss Mar
bic, was enjoyed by ali; and many of the
pieces met with continued applause.
Withal. the entertainment was as adver
tised: Strictly first-class.
Mr. Chamberlain editor of the Pleas
antville Telegraph, Pleasantville, Iowa.
was il town This week. He is taking a
trip looking over the country, and eX
poets to locate with us in Kansas at no
distant date Though an unpleasant
blizzard greeted him while here. he is
highly pleased with northwestern Kan
sas and Thomas county, and particularly
Colby He is very intelligent gentle
man, and we enjoyed his call upon us
highly We hope he will come to Kan
sas. Kansas always extends cordial
hand to enterprise and push.
A geographical social is the latest
craze. and here is how they do it: The
counties of the state, or as many of them
as may be necessary, will be stenciled on
paper and pinned badge fashion from the
shoulder to the belt of the dress of diff
ferent young ladies'. The county seats
belonging to these counties will be writ
ten OF slips of paper, and folded so they
cannot he seen. These will be sold to the
gentlemen at ten cents apiece. who will
find the lady wearing the county to which
his county seat belongs, aId take her to
such as mush and milk,
pumpkin pies. etc, which viii cost him
the small sum of 25 cents couple
Globe.
WANTED MILLION CArs.-Inuuiry
into an advertisement that recently ap-
peared in New York paper calling for
4 (ltA 00l cotc a1ici-nI tho n,