Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-05-24
CAT SUPPLEMENT.
THURSDAY, MAY "a, 1883.

! Every pair of shoes is warranted al
Boerner Bros.
Every patent medicine known at the
Palace Drug Store.
A. G. Mcbride, Esq, of Oberlin visited
Colby on Saturday.
The cheapest and biggest stock of
pillow shoes at BOerner Bros.
Car load of new furniture arrived this
week at Niskern's Furniture Store.
All kinds of fruits at P. O.
Store. 8
II. c. Shimp has just received his spring
stock, which he is selling cheap. stiff
Gentlemen, go to H. c. Shimp's if you
want pair of fine dress shoes. 51tf
McGonigars Lumber Yard is the
place for all kinds of building material.
If you want your horses insured
against lightning Pingree & Plaster can
do it.
j. NJ. Summers. our genial County
Clerk, was laid up with fever a few days
last week.
G. D. Montgomery, Esq, proprietor
of the Goodlsnd Town Site was in the
city last week.
Copeland & VanPetten have
an addition of acre lots for
sale.
The wind was so strong Sunday after
noon that it blew over Mr.. Huntley's
barn, and various other small houses.
Thomas Lapsley, of Knob Noster, Mo-, "a
friend of j. NJ. Summers, is in the city
Mr.. Lapsley is in the fruit tree business
The Oakley s. Colby Ry. now use their
handsome depot building at the foot of
South Franklin Ave- A decided improve
ment
1t is about the time of year now for
some ''smart aleck' editor to say ''the
busy little fly is here and its discovery
is made by the little '.'.'.:::' all over the
wall.-Winona Clipper.
Col. Henry Baker, of St. Joe, Mo-,
representative of the Rock Island Ry.
passed through our city Saturday, en-
route for Sherman county to look after
matters connected with township bonds
to the e., X. & N. Ry.. in that county.
r. F. Musson. Esq. of the Thomas
County Bank, departed on Sunday last
on visit to his old home at Champaign
Illinois. Mr.. Musson will be gone a num-
Der of weeks and dame rumor is busy
with specrlations as to whether he may
not return full fledged benedict.
Colby Hardware Co. have
just received two car loads of
barbed wire, and are selling
oh eaper than ever sold before
in Thomas county. Call and
see us.
Mr.. Mohler. Secretary of the State
board of agriculture in his monthly re-
port for April. says that in north west
Kansas the rain fall during the month
was light and crops have consequently
suffered. As to Thomas county this re-
port is untrue and we think it untrue as
to surrounding counties. In the latter
part of April the rain fall here was ex-
cessive. the full being for the month 81
inches.
A woman in Horton gave birth to a
quartette of children one day last week. |
Here is family joys with vengeance.
Think of the father, mother, hired girl |
and hired man, with one of these little |
'.iewels' and a bottle of soothing syrup
all walking the floor at the same time.
God pity all of them. Kansas is getting |
too prolific The line must be drawn |
somewhere and it should be tightly |
stretched at quadruplets in families
Whiting News.
The Abilene Gazette has changed |
hands again. Mr.. ROhrer, the former
proprietor, claims that the paper was
conditiOnally sold to a Democratic syn
dictate last November and has been con-
trolled by said company up to the present
time, but owing to failure on the part of |
the syndicate to carry out their contract,
it became necessary to transfer the paper
to more responsible syndicate. The
Gazette is the only Democratic morning |
paper published in the State.
Frank Pingree, ESQ.,. came near being !
poisoned Saturday He had been planting |
corn which had been soaked in strychni2e |
and had picked some of the grains open |
with his knife, afterwards using the knife |
to pare an orange. Feeling peculiarly in
disposed, he called on DR.. Beaver. who |
at once recognized symptoms of strych-
nine poisoning. and administered proper
remedies. Frank went on about his bust