Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-03-22
CAT SUPPLEMENT.
THURSDAY, MARCH q, 1883.
Another little blizzard.

Another little blizzard.
April 4th is Arbor Day. Plant your
trees.
Mr.. Francis A. Fee came In from Ober-
lin Tuesday night.
A stock company has been organized
at Eustis to build go, 600 hotel.
Mrs. C. E. Corporan is visiting friends
and relatives in Oberlin this week.
Mr.. Ed. Case was up to Oberlin last
week looking after contested claim.
Gentlemen, go to a. C. Shimp's if you
want pair of fine dress shoes. 51tf
The old Colby school house has been
vacated, and will be used for laundry
hereafter.
VanMetre & Dallam are now prepared
to make farm loans. Money furnished
for final proofs.
Elder Stewart has been called by tele-
gram to WaKeeney to hold meeting.
Will be absent from Colby two weeks.
W.T.. Tate. of the Red Front, and
Charley Behne, of Huntley & Behne.
were both laid up last week with colds.
Mr.. B. L. Dedrick, postmaster at Mon
ument, came up Saturday night and made
his relatives and many friends here a
short visit.
Miss Edie Lawrence, teacher in the in
termediate department of our city schools.
will take three weeks vacation apt her
home near Quickville.
We make a speciality of city
property, vacant and improve
ed-McGonigal & Son.
Miss Clara Beaver has been engaged
to teach the spri ng term of school in a
district about five miles northeast of Col
by. She is young in the profession, and
we wish her success in this undertaking.
w. A. Reynolds. an experienced cutter
and tailor, is now with b. Z. Shrimp, who
will do the best work, and guarantee ev-
erv piece made or cut by him to suit.
Cutting, repairing, cleaning. ETC., neatly
done.
There will come time, in our opinion.
when all in the county will realize that
giving aid to and getting the Rock Is
land into our county was an act fraught
with good to the uttermost corner Of the
county.
Tuesday turned out fair day, and the
consequence was that large vote was
polled. This was well, as thereby we
obtained an expression of opinion on
the subject of voting for bonds from
nearly every voter in the county.
The Union Pacific Railway Company
has put on pony dispatch line between
Colby and Plainville. Mr.. H. L. Korb. of
Hoxie, has the management between
Colby and Millbrook. He will make the
trip from Colby to MillbrOok, distance
of eight miles, one day and return the
next.-Hoxie Sentinel.
Elsewhere will be found the majorities
mot Officially of the various townships on
the bond election to the Chicago, Kansas
& Nebraska Railway. The large MAORI
ty in it's favor attests the appreciation
the people of this county have of the
benefits to be derived from trunk line
railroad in this county.
A Mrs Edsall. in Sherman county,
purchased a REIMBURSEMENT on NV Or g.
$50, went to the land Office at Oberlin
and made homestead entry. One. Nc
Kisson, lately squatted on the land. Mrs.
Edsall sent her boys to build on her
homestead last week, and while at work
were fred upon by Mrs DR.. Swisher.
mother of Mrs. McKisson, with q rifle,
and if it had not been for her unskillfnl
handling of the weapon one of the boys
would surely have BEEN killed. The old
lady was finally disarmed. The case has
been referred to the land ofiie at Oberlin.