Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-11
The Colby Hard
ware Go. is closing
out at cost and be.
low.

How.
Miss Mae Wallace leaves this week fol-
her home at Marshall. Ill. Miss Wallace,
during her STAY in Colby, created warm
friendship with all of this city's young SO
ciety people, who regret to see her leave
their midst.
Mr.. Baugh, father of o. p. Baugh, OF
the Colby Drug Store, died on last Sat
urday night at Alpin City, Mo. Mr..
Baugh was in attendance at his bedside
at the time of his fathers decease.
NH. Markham, Esq, that sterling old
veteran and Republican, called on us last
Friday. He is looking quite we'll this
summer. Mr.. Markham has formed q
partnership with D. U. Grice, and they
are doing a general merchandise bust
mss at the flourishing little city of Rex
ford
FoR SALE.-51sO town lots. 48S lots in
Parsons: 753 lots in Wa;Keeney: $50 lots
in Leoti: rs lots in Oakley; 1905 lots in
Scott City; 1893 lots in Jerome. Kansas.
These lots will be sold at an average price
of $500 per lot. For plats. descriptions
terms. etc. apply to w. C. L. Beard,
Wa-kceney, Kans. 18tf
In the failure of the State Bank, of
Colby, many residents of the south part
of the county lost all their spare cash.
some put the amount of the loss to the
people along the line near 81, 600, scatter
ed among about % or 30 families. Quite
safe is it to say that these families will
hereafter follow the text and put not
their trust in princes" but rely little
on the family sock. which has for so
many generations served faithfully for
the safekeeping of the household valua-
bles.-Rawlins Democrat.
The State Bank of Colby has not fail
ed. 1t was the Hall & Martin Bank.
No class of citizens is benefited more
by the establishment of factories in q
community than the farmer, as it gives
him market for his product. Especially
is this true of such industries as use as
raw material many of the products of the
farm. The farmers should be foremost
in working for the establishment of such
industries in this country. The fax mill.
the oat meal mill. the paper mill, the
glucose factory, the sugar refinery, the
wooden mill. and such other industries of
this nature should find natural abiding
place IN the west. With proper effort
they can be induced to break away from
the east and come near to us. There
should be earnest effort in this direction,
and the farmer and business man should
be found pulling tOgether.-Falls City. |
(Neb.) Journal.
The time SO long waited for by the
reading world has come. when The His |
tory Company would allow the incOm-
parable historical series of Hubert Howe
to be broken and sold in separ-
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tory of literature. Thousands who have
desired to possess some of the volumes.
but did not care to buy them at all, can
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own benefit and to the benefit of the
The manner IN which Mr.. Bancroft
his unique undertaking is
known to our readers-his in
gathering of material from the four quar-
lers of the earth; his expenditure of the
best thirty years of his life and over a
million of money: the erection of bull
ding specially for the accommodation and
Of his priceless library: the
writing of his history, etc, etc. Had not
his been done this history of Alaska new
r. could have been written. The country I
should be proud of the man who has .
lone this, unaided and alone. and should |
oatronize his works literally, as well I
rom motives of patriotism as on account
If their merits.
1t is a most fascinating study to follow
his author in his labors. The whole
tory, Says the British Quarterly Review
Mr.. Bancroft has told with much force I
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