Thomas County cat., 1889-08-22
PURELY PERSONAL.

i L ANONASIANs
J.E. Campbell, Esq, spent few days
at Levant this week.
Samuel Yousse and son Bert left last
Sunday morning for Oklahoma.
H.V. Gates, chief engineer of the U.
P. Ry., is at home in Colby this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Ford, of Rexford,
were in to do some trading on Wednes
day.
Attorney Joseph A. Gill made busl-
ness trip to Topeka and spent Saturday
there.
Sam Wallace, the freight agent at the
Rock Island depot, is visiting his parents
in Illinois.
Theo. Weld, Esq. who has been hav-
ing a long spell of sickness, is recover
ing slowly.
Mrs. Nj. E. Cook spent few days this
week with her youn g friends Charles and
Carrie Geovrez.
Mrs. J. G. Passell has returned from
Rawlins county where she visited her
parents for a week.
II. E. Weld, Esq. left yesterday for
Burlington, Col, where ne will institute
an l. o. O. F. lodge tonight.
Mr.. Z. W. Hovey, of Valparaiso, Neb.,
arrived last Friday to visit his sons C. NJ.
and Ed HOvey for short time.
Several delegates from the Atwood
Convention came to Colby, drunk, Tues
day night and tried to take the town.
Mrs. Rev. Ferguson accompanied Miss
Ferguson and brother Charles to Nebras-
ka last week and will visit there for a
while.
r. S. Newell. of Burlington, Colo, one
of the former boomers" of Colby. was
in the city on Tuesday meeting old ac-
quaintances.
]. d. Baum and w. Tilden, of Norton,
were in the city on Wednesday visiting
the Misses Harper, who are attending
the institute.
John A. Goodier, editor of the Oakley
News Letter, and city clerk of Oakley.
was in Colby one day this week and gave
us friendly call.
Mr.. David Olds has returned from
Carleton, Thayer county, Nebr., where
he visited his old home. He reports crops
good in that section.
Mr.. Fred Fenity has accepted a posi-
tion among the U. p. corps of surveyors
in Wyoming, and last week started for
the ew series of labor.
William Miller, who resides eleven
miles northwest of Colby, called on Sat
urday. He reports crops booming in his
locality with plenty of rain.
Mr.. F. f. Storey. of Cambridge. Neb.,
was in Colby last week looking at the
country with view to purchasing prop
erty. He was favorably impressed with
the city and county.
Miss Irene Werner who will give an
entertainment next Monday night. is
graduate of Fulton & Trueblood's S school
of oratery at Kansas City, and will be
sure 10 delight all who may hear her
S. B. Thomas, prominent attorney of
Washington, ID. c., who has lately locat-
ed in Atwood. Rawlins county, was in
Colby on Monday and favored the CAT
Office with pleasant call. He is well
pleased with his new territory.
Misses Nell and Clara Harper, of Rex
ford, who are attending the institute,
spent Saturday visiting at home and Sat
urday evening they enjoyed the pleas
ures of dcdicating the ReXford new
school building.
c. c. Winchester, of Cambridge. Nebr.
a subscriber to the CAT and prominent
land owner in this section of country,
was caller on Saturday. He is much
pleased with our crops and says they are
better than in Nebraska.
Mrs. and Miss Behne, of Seneca. Kas.,
mother and sister of Charley Behne. ar
rived in the city on Tuesday to visit the
latter. Unfortunately. Charley is off on
a hunting tour in Nebraska. The ladies
are stopping at the Opelt.
Mr.. J. NJ. Diffendaffer, former we'll
known business man of this city, but
now Of Auburn, Ind. is back here on
visit shaking hands with many friends.
Mr.. Diffendaffer is looking we'll and re-
ports his family all well. Our Office had
pleasant call from him to-day.
Mrs. DR.. Evans. of Dow City. Ia. ac-
companied by her brother Chas. Butler,
was in the city last Sunday and Monday
visiting her old friend and neighbor Mrs.
S. S. Dunkin. Mrs. Evans is veteran
teacher and of course took occasion to
visit the normal. She was highly pleased
with the work she saw done.
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.