Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-01-31

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4. Meglemne's.
Read our extraordinary club offer to be
found in another column.
Sample copies Topeka Weekly Capital
Commonwealth at this Office.
C. S. McGonigal. of Kansas City; Kas.,
visited his relatives in Colby last week.
Twenty Books offered free by the
Thomas County CAT. See our great club
offer.
Crown Point linen collars and all the
newest styles in ties just received at
Shimp's.
B. n. Trotter, one of our farmers living
northeast of the city, made us pleasant
call yesterday.
This Office is in receipt of a beautiful
calendar for 1889 from the e. K & N. Ry.
Co. Many thanks.
Ira Thompson, of Smith township. was
in the city yesterday, and made us q
brief but pleasant visit.
Visit Van Epps' photograph gallery
this week if you want some fine work
done. One week only.
Just received, spring and summer suit.
lngs, In all the newest styles. Call and
see them. SHINIp.
I buy and sell. or exchange lands in
Thomas County. ISAAC MULHOLLAND,
Hoxie, Kansas.
have good supply of Bovine Vac
cine Virus on hand.
VIM. NJ. BEAVER.
Mr.. j. A. Brooks and son, farmers of
Thomas county, called Thursday and
took advantage of our liberal club offer.
Mrs Mason, of this city, was sister of
the late congressman James n. Burnes,
of Missouri, whose death is chrOnicled in
this paper.
1t is with pleasure we note the recovery
of Miss Mae Edwards who has been sick
with severe attack Of quinsy for the
past two weeks.
w L. Yarger, of Wendell township,
has returned from an extended trip to
Nebraska. Will was in Colby Friday
last and paid us short visit.
1t is said John w. Gilmore has packed
about 400 tons of ice for the consumption
of Colby people next summer. Several
other dealers have packed large quanti-
ties also.
DIED.-Infant son of Nathan Byars,
Monday, January 2Sth, 1889. of lung few
er. The sympathy of neighbors and
friends is extended to the parents in the
loss of their little one.
We received pleasant call from e. H.
Plaster, of North Solomon. He reports
the literary at that place in rull progress
and a very interesting time is enjoyed by
all every Saturday evening.
And now. Will e. Hydon, editor of the
Cheyenne County Democrat, leave other
things 60 for minute or two and tell Us
what you people up in Cheyenne county
want in the way of division of this judi
cial district.
Mr.. Ruley Walters, who has been Wis
iting his parents and friends in this city,
returned to Denver on Tuesday, where
he has been employed as foreman of a
gang of plasterers. Ruley is good work
man and well deserves high position.
Until the past few months this part of
the country has been free from rats, but
now they are getting to be an intolerable
nuisance, and something will have to be
done to thin them out. The pests are
playing havoc in some of the cellars
about tOwn.-Edmond Times.
Salina Republican: Western Kansas
farmers are the poorest farmers on earth.
They lend every energy to accumulate
without cultivating what they have. 1t
is better to have forty acres we'll titled
than forty sections laying to waste. Most
people do not believe this 1t Is true. none
the less.
The scheme for land office removal still |
agitates the people of the land district. 1t
is one of the ideas that gains strength as
the days lengthen. A perpetual lease on
the land Office by Oberlin is direct in
jury and continued menace to the well |
fare of the settlers of the district Raw
Inns Democrat.
The Hill City Star says: ''If the 18th
judicial district is to be divided and it is |
to be hoped that it is, then we are in ia
vor of the so-called 'shoestring' division. |
Hoxie Sentinel.
why is the Sentinel in favor of the
shoestring' district? Explain, Brother.
Humes"
Searg't T. B. Jennings, assistant direc-
tor of the Kansas state weather service,
made Colby flying visit on Sunday. The
observers throughout the state