Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-05-02
Buy your lumber of
John s. Foster e.
Sons,

Last Saturday the streets OF Colby
were crowded all day long by men and
teams, and our merchants reaped har-
vest in business.
There will be Catholic service in Colby
Sunday, May 5th, by the Rev. Mainville,
at Mr.. A. Picklum's residence, east of
school house. All invited.
An old farmers plan to poison ground
squirrels is first boil the corn, the strych-
nine will then saturate the entire grain,
and any squirrel eating one grain will
surely die.
Capt. J. B. McGonigal returned on
Sunday from Denver. He found Mrs.
McGonigsl quite i'll when he arrived but
she was much better and on fair road
to recovery when he left her.
Geo. Fl. Hyatt, whom all our older
citizens know as the former manager of
the Chicago Lumber Yards at Colby, hut
who is now located at Grandin. Mo-, Wis
tied Colby this week and shook hands
with many friends here.
Europe is all very we'll, but don't you
think it is only fair as an American to
know your own country thoroughly? Try
the American Alps" on the South Park
Division of the Union Pacific in Colora-
do this summer. There's nothing like
them in Switzerland
Mr.. Chas. II. Mattox, of Piqua, o.
gave an Evolutionary entertainment at
Armory Hall on last Friday night Mr..
MattOx is good reader and declaimer
and Colby should have shown her appre
citation of this sort of entertainment by
larger audience than was accorded him.
Our city has been over run with tramps
lately to the annoyance of all. and the
discontinue of ladies living in isolated
places in and about our city. City Mar
shall Dodd has had his eye on them and
makes them move on as fast rs gang
arrives. He says they will be put to work
on the street if they stay longer than one
day in our city. Good
The effect of prohibition in Kansas has
been Enthusiastically advantageous and the
suppression Of the open dramshop traffic
in the state was one of most extraordi-
nary results of modern civilization. If
the question would again be submitted
to the people, have no doubt it would
be adopted by vote practically unani-
]. Ingalls,.
Oakley News Letter: Several of our
citizens having taken a survey of the
wheat crop in Randall township, Thomas
county, and Oakley township, this coun
ty, estimating the same at only ten bush |
els per acre. will yield from 50, 600 to 1885, |
600 bushels. This estimate at only ten |
bushels per acre is very low estimate.
You cannot 60 to any one these farmers |
and buy their crop to-day, paying the
market price per bushel at the estimate
of ten bushels per acre. With nopreven:-
ing hand the crop will yield 20 bushels per
acre, making a total of $50, 900 to 25O, 900
bushels.
Here is the way Bob Ingerscll puts it:
Here is a shoe shop. One man in the
shop is always busy through the day
always industrious In the evening he
goes counting some nice girl. There are
i've other men in the shop don't do any
'uch thing. They spend half of their
working evenings in dissipation. The
arst young man by and by cuts out these
others. and gets boot and shoe store of
MS own. Then he marries the girl. Soon
be is able to take his wife out riding of
IN evening. The five laborers, his former
who now see him indulging
n this luxury, retire to their neighb0r-
ng saloon and pass resolutions that there
. an eternal struggle between labor and
capital"