THE WINFIELD COURIER

THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

A. J. Pickering, of Cambridge, called Tuesday.

Sim Moore, of Burden, made us a call Tuesday.

One of Mrs. Hamilton's children died last week.

[THIS WAS THE FAMILY THAT HAD SCARLET FEVER.]

Rev. J. A. Hyden left Tuesday for his new charge at Larned.

Johnny Howe, one of Winfield's old boys, visited here.

A. Requa is getting up an express wagon for the Adams Express Co.

Senator Hackney returned home quite sick Monday. His disease is pneumonia.

District No. 13, at Seeley, want a $1,200 school house built and desire bids for the erecting thereof.

Allen B. Lemmon has fitted up offices in the second story of the Winfield Bank building and has hung out his law shingle.

Messrs. Allen Johnson and Al. Requa have fitted up their office in sumptuous style.

The Telegram has a report of the death of Miss Fannie Skinner, at the Ponca Agency, where she was teaching.

Mr. Dever is making arrangements to occupy the building vacated by Mr. West, with his Star Bakery. The building in which he now is will be moved away to make room for the new brick building to be built this spring.

The fish in Beaver creek, in Silverdale township, were all killed this winter. The water was frozen so deep that the fish were smothered.

Messrs. Soward & Asp have been "cleaning house." They have recarpeted, painted, and papered their offices till they resemble a Fifth avenue parlor. They mean to have things comfortable and pleasant and are succeeding admirably.

Messrs. Hendricks & Wilson have removed their hardware store to the old Saddler stand. This gives them more room, which they have needed badly.

A gentleman by the name of Fennimore, who has been doing a lucrative trade about town in rags and old iron, has been for the third time called upon to donate $1.75 to the sidewalk fund. The three fines and "trimmings" thereof amount to about forty dollars. His wife caused the last arrest. She tracked the gentleman to a house of bad repute, and together with the marshal made a raid upon the institution, capturing him in a rather embarrassing situation. After a curtain lecture and a scene that would draw tears from the eyes of an Early Rose potato, he was lodged at the hotel de Siverd for the balance of the night. The next morning a compromise was effected. He was once more taken to the bosom of his family and all is now as peaceful as a little rippling rill.

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Charles Willard, living near Salt City, cultivated twenty-five acres of land last year, but he did it well. He had one and one-fourth acres of potatoes, for which he prepared the ground well and mulched heavily after planting. From this patch he supplied two families one year and sold two hundred bushels for two hundred dollars. He planted twenty acres of corn and took care of it, producing eight hundred bushels of good sound corn, which is selling at thirty-five cents, and will amount to two hundred and eighty dollars. Considering that 1880 was a year of general failure of crops, this will do to show that good culture and less acreage are what is wanted for successful farming in this country.

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Mr. S. L. Gilbert has again entered the loan business "on his own hook."

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

W. C. Garvey, station agent at the Santa Fe depot, has now on sale tickets to all principal points in California and Oregon, via the A., T. & S. F. and Southern Pacific. This new route to the "Golden Gate" was opened to the traveling public on Thursday inst., the 17th. Passengers with first and second class tickets are taken through to San Francisco in four and three-quarters days. There is also an emigrant train which makes the time in about eight days. The express train leaving Winfield at 3:55 p.m., makes connections at Newton, with only two changes for the whole distance, at the latter point and at Deming, where the Santa Fe makes connection with the Southern Pacific. This new route is destined to become immensely popular, and will prove a great convenience to parties in this vicinity who may wish to go to California or Oregon.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

WINFIELD MARKETS. This past week has shown more activity in trade. Merchants are opening up new and desirable spring goods, and are jubilant over the prospects of an early and prosperous trade. We quote wheat today at 75 cents for No. 2; 72 cents for No. 3; rejected 6 cents; corn 33 to 35 cents; oats 33 to 35 cents. The produce market is active: butter in demand at 15 cents; eggs at 10 cents; potatoes 75 cents and $1.00 for table use. Live chickens in demand at $1.50 to $2.00 per dozen; dressed chickens more active and higher prices. We quote dressed chickens at 7 cents; turkeys 8 cents. Sheep pelts, 25 cents to $1.00 each. Wood, dry, $4.50 to $5.50; green $4.00; very little on the market. Coal, soft, $6.50 to $7.00; hard, $16.00. Hay, very scarce, owing to the bad condition of the roads; prices advanced to $6.00 and $7.00 per ton.

The stock market remains unchanged. Butchers have no trouble to supply their markets with good stock, at prices from 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 cents per pound for cows; 3 to 3-1/2 cents for steers. Hogs $4.00 to $4.50, shippers' prices. Spring seeds, retail prices: seed oats, 45 to 50 cents; corn, white and yellow, 75 cents to $1.00; grass seeds, clover, $7.50; timothy, $3.50; blue grass, $2.00; flax, $1.50 to $1.80; millet, $1.20 to $1.50; Osage hedge, 30 cents per lb.; onion sets, 40 cents per qt. Early northern seed potatoes, all varieties, $2.00 per bushel; home stock, $1.50. Sweet potatoes for seed $2,00. Market well supplied with garden seeds of all kinds. Telegram.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

WEDDED BY WIRE. Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of witnessing a most novel and interesting ceremony. It was performed by telegraph. The lady, Miss Frances Crow, with her relatives and friends, were at the telegraph office here, while her affianced, Mr. J. Denning, with the officiating clergyman, was at the office in Lexington, Illinois. About half past six the little instrument on the operator's table began ticking out the words which joined the parties in the holy bonds of matrimony. The operator copied the dispatch, the bride stood up, and the operator read: "Do you, Frances Crow, take this man, Jerry Denning, to be your lawful husband, etc., to which the bride answered, "I do." This answer was sent over the wires, and after a quarter of an hour of suspense, the operator again read: "I do therefore pronounce you husband and wife." The operator then announced that congratulations were in order, and the bride was surrounded by friends who extended the usual courtesies. She left for the east on Wednesday morning's train and will likely meet her husband half way. She has not seen him for several months, and should they fail to make connections and not get together for several days, it will only heighten the romance connected with the affair. The COURIER extends its congratulations to the happy couple and hopes that the experiences of married life may prove more real, tangible, and satisfactory than the ceremony that made them one.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

The Republicans of the First Ward of the city met at the courthouse on Saturday evening, the 19th. Called to order by W. J. Wilson of the Ward committee: D. A. Millington was chosen chairman and S. M. Jarvis secretary. J. E. Platter was nominated for member of the school board by acclamation. A ballot was taken for councilman, resulting in E. P. Hickok 34, C. A. Bliss 12. Mr. Hickok was declared the nominee. The chairman being authorized by a vote of the meeting to appoint a ward committee of three, appointed M. G. Troup, W. J. Wilson, and R. R. Conklin such committee.

The following 13 delegates were elected to represent the ward in the city convention to meet on the 26th: D. A. Millington, W. P. Hackney, E. S. Bedilion, T. M. Bryan, Jacob Nixon, James Bethel, J. W. Crane, S. M. Jarvis, J. E. Conklin, J. L. M. Hill, H. D. Gans, E. P. Greer, W. J. Wilson.

The Second Ward Meeting was held at the opera house. G. H. Buckman called the meeting to order. James Kelly was chosen chairman and J. P. Short secretary. J. L. Horning was nominated for member of the school board. M. L. Read was nominated for council. James Kelly, T. H. Soward, and S. H. Myton were chosen a ward committee.

The following 12 gentlemen were elected delegates to the city convention: G. H. Buckman, N. A. Haight, H. E. Asp, T. M. McGuire, T. H. Soward, W. Bitting, J. L. Horning, C. M. Wood, M. L. Robinson, Archie Stewart, H. Brotherton, I. W. Randall.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

BY MARTHA A. WRIGHT.

Martin F. Wright died near Winfield, March ___, 1881, of dropsy, aged 65 years. He was a kind and affectionate father; was born in Licking county, Ohio, April 14, 1816; moved to Fulton county, Illinois, in 1839; to Washington territory in 1876; to Neosho county, Kansas, in 1879, and lived about three miles northeast of Winfield until the time of his death. He was a life-long Christian, a Methodist class leader, and had a license to preach while he lived in Illinois. Almost his last words were: "If there is a Heaven, I will find it. May we be one unbroken family in Heaven."

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Some thief or thieves went through Henthorn's office and Dr. Wright and J. M. Hooker's residences. They didn't get much. They'll smell powder the next time.

Citizens, let us appoint a day soon and all turn out and plant trees on the various streets in town. Will you do this? R. F. Burden will furnish the trees.

J. M. Hooker, J. H. Phelps, and Sam. Tull will bid us all adieu and file out for New Mexico in about a month. They intend to be absent during the summer only, and will return home with their pockets full of (gold) dust.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Mr. _____ Jennings, a brother of our county attorney, has arrived in Winfield with his family and will probably locate among us. He has invested largely in Cowley, and Frank's bright description of the country induced him to come hiself. He is well pleased with Kansas.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Mr. Bullington is preparing to build a new residence on his farm.

Joseph Furman is just finishing one of the finest residences in the country; it is a stone two stories high.

Mr. John Smith, of Silver creek, has rented L. B. Bullington's farm, and will engage in the cattle business.

Bullington & Elliott's new mill will be running in a few days as there is water enough to grind now, for the first since the mill has been built.

The station here does more business than any other town on the K. C., L. & S., outside of Winfield. Mr. C. S. Jenkins has furnished us the following, showing the amount of business done since the first day of March, 1881, up to Thursday, the 17th. It is now in order for our neighboring towns to produce figures that will beat these or forever hold their peace.

Number pounds freight received . . 121,275.

Number pounds freight forwarded . 13,275.

Amount of cash received . . . . . $380.50.

The citizens of Torrance shipped last Saturday a carload of rock to Kansas City, to be inspected by stone masons at that place; and if found saleable rock, we understand the railroad company has promised Torrance a side track, provided they will make to the railroad company a good bond as a guarantee that one hundred carloads of rock will be shipped from that point in one year from date of contract. They have worked hard for railroad accommodations, and if they succeed by fair means, no one has a right to complain.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

POLO, KANS., March 19, 1881.

Mr. J. R. Weimer has gone to Coffey county on a visit.

Mr. Charles W. Doty is attending the Iowa City Law school this winter. He will be with us again soon.

Mr. N. K. Park and wife have returned from Indiana, whither they went to spend the winter. They return with an addition to their family. It is a girl.

Mr. Joseph T. Park, from Indiana, is building him a residence here and will be a valuable member to the farming community.

We are very sorry that Mor Curd has left. May he be successful in his new abode is the wish of his many friends.

Several cases of mumps and croup in the neighborhood.

Messrs. William Holt and George Wilson have gone to Colorado on a visit.

Mr. J. T. Park is sick. Dr. McCormack is in attendance.

We are soon to have a store at Polo and the post office re-established. We will then get the COURIER on Thursday. As it is now, we have to wait until Saturday.

The literaries at Bellwood and Summit have adjourned until next fall. M. C. SELTER.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Mr. F. H. Stolp started for Barbour county on the 17th.

Mr. W. H. Gilliard has been very sick the past week.

The literary closed the 15th.

The township Sunday school convention will be held at this place the 5th of April.

Mrs. Elwood started for her home in Minnesota the 17th. She has been visiting her parents and family at this place.

Mr. Belknap is building a house and Mr. R. S. Thompson is putting up a sod blacksmith shop.

After an examination of the peach buds, we see that they are all killed, also the blackberries.

Miss Alice Stolp is talking of teaching a subscription school this summer. If she does, we hope she will teach a better school than was taught the past winter. JULIUS.

March 19th, 1881.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Mr. Craig is burning a lime-kiln on Captain Stephen's place. He will complete it in a few days.

Mr. Robinson started to Wyandotte county last Wednesday. He is going through with a team and wagon.

I. N. Lemmon will teach the spring term of the Queen Village school and T. J. Floyd the Pleasant Hill, beginning the 11th of next month.

Miss Ray Nawman closed her school at Wilmot last Monday.

The "Prophet" has purchased a fine team and spring wagon, and now he makes railroad time when he takes a notion to go any place.

March 21, 1881. SIMON.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

Mr. Adam Stuber, recently from Illinois, has consented at last to reside with us. He is going to build on the old homestead, as soon as possible. He has a large family, of which brings another couple of young folks to our town.

Immigration into this neighborhood is still increasing this spring.

Still they come and still they go. J. V. has set the pattern and to our surprise who follows: Bennie Wilson and Calvie Holt. Let the Lord be with them now, henceforth, and forever.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

VALLEY VIEW, KANS., March 19, 1881.

We had a wedding on the 10th inst., Mr. C. R. Myers to Miss Ella Schwantes.

Mrr. Denson and family intend starting in a short time for their old home in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Will Allen lost a valuable cow last week, she having wound herself up in a rope and broken her neck.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 24, 1881.

I have for sale 160 acres of first-class land, 4 miles north of Winfield, the same being known as the Pat Kirby farm. For sale cheap. Payments part cash and part credit. For further information inquire of the undersigned at his residence, of M. G. Troup, at his office in Winfield, Kansas.

FRANK WEAKLY,

Administrator of Pat Kirby.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

This week has been one of unusual interest and excitement. The trial of Jas. Gilkey for resisting an officer of the law, was attended by a large crowd of people anxious to see the result. After a great deal of quibbling (and the necessary amount of pettifogging by the lawyers) a jury was empanelled and they proceeded to try the case. After examining the principal witness, the defense was ready to effect a compromise, which was done by the defense paying off the judgment and costs.

Rev. P. G. Smith, of Dexter, is with us today. He intends to move to Illinois soon. Dexter will then lose one of its best and oldest citizens, our west wishes is with him.

Jas. Schofield and family have returned from their visit to Indianapolis.

Mr. McIntire, the Deputy U. S. Marshal, was in town Saturday looking after the lawless portion of this community. He found some things not just according to law but nothing was done.

The grocery and drugstore of J. L. Hodges is the favorite resort for the populace to get good bargains in groceries. J. L. is a thorough good man and does business on the square. About 800 dozen of eggs were brought in town today, yum, yum.

Gooch & Goodrich have commenced work in their new shop, and are now prepared to do all kinds of work in their line with promptness and dispatch, and at the lowest price.

Mr. Myers is very low with the Typhoid fever. Dr. N. M. Schofield is tending him.

Mr. Liken is mending slowly.

Mr. Fred Nance and family leave this week for Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Babbit will run the Hotel de Nance after he leaves.

I. Howe is preparing to start for Colorado in a short time.

Wm. Howe is home from the mountains; will return soon.

LEAD.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

The Telegram tries to make it appear that R. L. Walker was here last week for the purpose off trying to run the city politics, and especially to secure the nomination of Lovell H. Webb for city attorney.

Now we happen to know that he came down on business entirely disconnected with politics. The editor of the COURIER, who made the nomination of Lovell in the convention, had openly advocated him for the place many weeks, without reference to Dick Walker, or the fact that his name is Webb, but because we know that he is well qualified for the place.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

The Lindell Hotel has changed hands. Blendon & Rider are now the proprietors.

Charley Holmes went back east some time ago and returned last week with one of Indiana's fair daughters.

J. P. Baden is removing into the building vacated by Lynn & Loose.

Archy Stewart is credited with a new arrival at his hotel. We hear it is a girl of the regulation weight.

Albert Roberts, a splendid musician, has returned to Winfield, and will make his home with us hereafter.

Joe E. Saint, with Ridnour, Baker & Co., of Kansas City, one of the hardest working men on the road, has returned from a trip to Winfield, Kansas. Las Vegas Optic.

[QUESTION: IS THIS EX. SAINT??]

J. M. P. Butler's jewelry store has been removed into the old Ehret saloon building. The room has been fitted up elegantly and will make a handsome jewelry store.

The sale of the Gardner farm to Mr. Williams, of Iowa, was affected through the agency of Bryan & Harris within three days after it was placed in their hands. Quick work, that.

Tom McGuire is the happy possessor of another shaver: a dried beef shaver. It is a valuable piece of machinery about a grocery store, and will have an enlarging effect upon the dired beef trade.

Judge Boyer returned from Durango Monday. We have not learned whether he brought any silver mines home with him or not, but it is probable that the $17 per week for board was too rich for his blood.

The total number of voters registered up to the closing of the books Saturday night is five hundred and forty. The first ward has two hundred and nine-four and the second ward two hundred and forty-six.

The council has passed an ordinance granting to the Winfield coal company the right to mine under any street, alley, or public ground belonging to the city, provided they begin to sink their shaft during 1881 and find coal within three years.

Mr. Fred A. Williams, of Montrose, Iowa, has bought the

A. B. Gardner farm, four miles southeast of Winfield, and will make Cowley county his future home. Mrs. Williams, formerly Miss Wickersham, has many friends in Winfield who will welcome her back.

Our sheep men are indignant at the failure of the Legislature to enact laws against the peace and welfare of strange dogs, and at the last meeting of the Wool Growers' Association passed some resolutions on the subject.

The "corners" stairway has been besieged by broken-down politicians and sore-heads for the past few evenings. They converse in mysterious whispers and seem trying to settle on an "opposition ticket." Stray rumors are afloat which indicate that Lynn is to be put up for reelection. We thought they looked disconsolate, but did not dream that it was as bad as this.

Sheriff Shenneman returned from an ineffectual effort to bring back a man who forged a draft for five hundred dollars and sold it to the Arkansas City bank. The police in Chicago captured the man and sent for Sheriff Shenneman. On the way back, when the train was pulling out from a station early in the morning, the prisoner jumped off. The train was immediately stopped and the sheriff got off and spent several days and nights trying to recover his man, but was compelled to return home Monday evening without him. The Sheriff purchased shackles for the prisoner in Chicago, but after reaching the train found that the locks were defective. He then resolved to stay awake and guard his prisoner. He had been up two nights, had traveled over a thousand miles, and was worn out; and as the night advanced, began to get drowsy. The prisoner took this opportunity and jumped off as the train started from a station. The sheriff has offered $100 reward for his capture, and as he escaped with hand-cuffs on, he will certainly be re-captured.

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On April 1st another COURIER boy branches out for himself. John Camp returns to Bushnell, Illinois, to assist his brother in the management of the Bushnell Record, which excellent paper has been recently purchased by them.

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The "marriage by telegraph," a report of which appeared in last week's paper, was perhaps the best attended of any ceremony ever performed in the state. All the telegraph offices along the line from here to Illinois furnished witnesses to this novel ceremony. Our exchanges from various points along the line of the K. C., L. & S. contain accounts of the affair, and many persons were at the depots the next day to get a look at the bride as she passed through.

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LOST: A dark red milk cow strayed from my yard in Winfield last Monday morning. Anyone leaving information of her whereabouts at my office over Spotswood's store will be rewarded.

JAMES McDERMOTT.

The meeting of the ladies of the Library Association will take place next Tuesday, April 5th, at 2 o'clock p.m. Of course, the members will all be present, for they are determined to make this institution a great moral and intellectual success. Already it has become the nucleus from which is radiating health and life-giving rays.

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The report of the death of Miss Fanny Skinner proves to be only a rumor. Miss Fanny is still in the land of the living and writes a letter to Curns & Manser from Ponca Agency, where she is teaching school. Her many friends in the county will be glad to learn this fact.

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J. P. Baden made the boss shipment of produce on Monday. It was the largest ever sent out at one time by any Winfield dealer. The shipment consisted of twenty-six hundred and seventy dozen eggs, six boxes of butter, and one basket of poultry. Mr. Baden has worked up a splendid business in produce and is now reaping the benefits of his labors.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

RECAP: Judge Soward and Ed Greer were appointed tellers. On motion of Hackney, delegates were requested to deposit the ballot on the call of the secretary. Nominations being in order, the following gentlemen were placed in nomination for mayor: T. R. Bryan, S. C. Smith, J. C. McMullen, and M. G. Troup. On the fourth ballot Mr. Troup was nominated.

On motion rules were suspended and Lovell H. Webb was nominated for city attorney by acclamation.

T. R. Bryan received the nomination for city treasurer, and S. C. Smith for treasurer of the school board by acclamation.

For police judge J. T. Hackney and James Kelly were nominated. Mr. Hackney received the nomination.

For justice of the peace, Capt. Tansey was nominated by acclamation.

For constables: J. H. Finch and Capt. Siverd, by acclamation.

Fred C. Hunt was made chairman of the central committee, when the convention adjourned.

NOTE: J. T. HACKNEY...POLICE JUDGE NOMINEE.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

Married at the residence of Wm. Overley, in Vernon, Cowley county, Kansas, March 23rd, 1881, by Rev. P. B. Lee, Mr. Elwin M. Freeman and Miss Mattie E. Overley, all of Cowley county.

NOTE: ONE PLACE...OVERLEY...ANOTHER PLACE...OVERLY.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

RECAP: Committee investigating what is best to be done with our wool read his report and committee was given further time to investigate more.

Resolutions adopted: 1) tendering thanks to Senators Hackney and Wilkie for their support of proposed dog law and getting it passed in senate. Since law not passed the Wool Growers Association determined it would protect them themselves, though the dogs may suffer.

Next meeting: first Saturday in June.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

Died at his residence in Lazette, Kansas, March 16th, 1881, Manly Hemenway, in the forty-fifth year of his age.

Mr. Hemenway was born in Lorain county, Ohio, March 24th, 1836, and was married to Mary C. Fulmer, January 1st, 1862. At the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in Company F, 35th Iowa Volunteers, and was in the front works through the siege of Vicksburg and many other hard fought battles. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and return to his family in Iowa. In 1866 he moved to Allen county, Kansas, removed to Neosho county in 1869, and in 1871 came to Cowley county and engaged in the mercantile business, and in the fall of 1871 was elected county surveyor. Mr. Hemenway was a man of fine education, and more than ordinary ambition. By his death this community has lost one of its best citizens: one who was respected by its best citizens; one who was respected by all who knew him, and his loss will be sorely felt. He leaves a wife and two children, a son and daughter. The family has the sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement. T. W. J.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

WINFIELD: Misses Loy Pybburn, Maggie Stansbury, Ella Hittle, Jennie Carey, Caro F. Meech, Maggie Seabridge, Ella S. Kelly, Messrs. I. N. Lemmon, and W. B. Dickerson.

BURDEN: George Wright.

CAMBRIDGE: Miss Sue Weaverly.

NEW SALEM: Miss Jane Whetstone.

DEXTER: Thomas J. Rude. H. H. Fawcet, E. C. Million, Misses Ida M. Black and Florence Goodwin.

FLORAL: Mrs. A. M. Gillespie.

TISDALE: Miss Sadie Cains.

GLEN GROUSE: Mrs. D. M. Pomeroy.

CEDARVALE: J. H. Bartgis.

OXFORD: Mrs. P. B. Seibert.

UDALL: Mrs. L. C. Turner. Telegram.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

Our young friend, A. W. Berkey, of the Winfield Bank, was in town Saturday last, shaking hands with his many friends.

Hunnewell is still clamoring for a newspaper.

We notice the work on the city water-works is being pushed toward completion. The tank is almost finished, and the windmill as well as pipes, hydrants, etc., are on hand, and at present affairs look well for the same to be in good working order by the first of the month.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

I have done no scribbling for two or three weeks. Reason why, fingers have been too tender and sore, the affects of pruning blackberries and digging and walling up a stock well. That portion of the well which is in the water being laid in cement keeps the sediment and sand from rioling, [?] and I would now announce to the thirst tipplers of Winfield and vicinity that I have two excellent and almost inexhaustable wells, the thirst-quenching capacity of which we will warrant to be greater than the dried up saloons of Winfield combined.

Mr. Editor, I think Susan B. Anthony hurt the woman suffrage cause (but herself more) when she vowed she would labor for the election of Hancock, because the republican convention would not introduce a woman suffrage plank in their platform; and we know

D. R. Anthony has destroyed much of the influence of the Leavenworth Times by his enmity and bitterness towards the cause of temperance.

On last Sunday evening, just as the rain and snow began to make doleful music on our cottage roof and door, inspiring within us due appreciation of "home, sweet home," our door opened and in stepped the amiable squaw of Pawnee Waddie, whose leige lord soon followed in her tracks, and as they seated themselves by the fire there fell from their lips the gutteral sounds, "Heap rain, heap snow, heap tired, sleep in house." We invited them to our board. They did ample justice to he inner man without exhibiting greed. Mrs. Waddie did not help herself to pie until invited.

And as the storm increased in fury, we had not the heart to turn them out. So we sent them not forth till the morn. They were clean and respectable looking Indians.

Mr. Carter, of district 50, built a splendid residence. We believe it was he who introduced the fultz (or furlee) wheat in Cowley, at least he is one of Vernon's most successful wheat raisers.

J. B. Evans is making his new home look cheerful and home-like.

Kile McClung's new house and barn and lately set orchard look like his longings for the clay hills of Virginia and the blue grass pastures of Missouri had ceased.

The wheat in district number fifty looks splendid.

Mr. Pennington on the Arkansas has built a neat story and a half house. I think his and Mr. Hon's catalpa and walnut groves the finest in the township.

T. B. Ware has one of the finest maple groves I ever saw.

Ike Wood, John Dunn, and one of the McCarsons are erecting new residences, I understand.

Jacob Nixon's new house will soon be completed.

E. C. Martin, having sold his home and 80 acre farm, is pushing improvements of his other farm of 160 acres. He will build a snug little house.

Vernonites sell not to emigrate, but to become more substantial citizens than ever.

Mr. Croco, our new neighbor who purchased E. C. Martin's place, is a pleasant, amiable gentleman from the good old state of Ohio, and I believe he is a bachelor. We warn him that Vernon's fair maidens are setting their caps for him.

Mr. Editor, I believe that bird who signs herself "Blue Jay," is a migrating bird that takes to a horse, and if some one of Vernon's sons do not capture her, I miss my guess.

The happiest man in all Vernon is William Steinhour. It is a bouncing boy this time.

M. LEWIS.

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BURDEN, KS., MARCH 26, 1881.

EDS. COURIER: We this morning attended the funeral of Cornelius Goforth. He emigrated from Tennessee with his children in the year 1879, purchased and located two miles north of this place, and after a painful illness of more than a year, which he bore with Christian fortitude, passed on home. He had a large circle of friends and family.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

The past week has shown more activity in trade than was noticeable since the first of the year. The daily arrival of new goods for the merchants and the increasing demand for our produce in the western market, has made trade in Winfield bright and active. We note but little change in quotations since last issue.

I SKIPPED THIS TIME...THEY GOT ALL THIS FROM TELEGRAM.

IN FACT, I AM GOING TO SKIP IF THEY HAVE MORE!

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THE WINFIELD COURIER MARCH 31, 1881.

Spring has come at last: the season that poets rave about, and of which school-girl compositions prattle so sweetly; when the cackling of many hens are heard mingling with the lamentations of the housewife as she fees the huckster for kindly ridding her of her plentiful harvest of avoidal fruit; when the whitewash brush and the mop waits through the dreams of the house-cleanist, followed by whirling forms of wall paper, carpets, curtains, and unlovely wood-work; when colds are the rule, and an uncontaminated handkerchief, and a nose above suspicion, are very rare exceptions.

Ki Hudsel and J. A. Miller have taken a contract to build 500 rods of stone fence for Mr. Sherrard.

Miss Any Robertson is visiting friends and relatives in Illinois, and Georgie is lonesome.

Last Thursday evening the young folks enjoyed a social hop at C. C. Pierce's.

Miss Ray Nauman has closed her winter term of school and is at home again.

Mrs. Sherrard will soon leave for her old home in Illinois on a visit.

Literary at Odessa closed last Friday evening.

Lafe Sherrard, of Illinois, is visiting his brother, and from present appearances will make this his future home.

Our township trustee, A. A. Becker, has begun work in earnest.

Dave Lamb is preparing to attend Normal school.

Victor school will close in a few weeks with an exhibition.

R. B. Corkins has moved to town and rented his farm to Mr. Palmer, a gentleman from Ohio.

Our old friends, Jim Williams and Theo Wright, have left pap's, and gone to housekeeping.

Ella Pierce is receiving instruction on the organ from Mrs. Sherrard.

Charlie Seeley is becoming quite a violinist.

Miss Dickie is teaching her second term of school in our district. Her pupils think she is one of the best teachers we have ever had.

March 26th, 1881. ELSON. [LOOKS LIKE THAT!]

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THE WINFIELD COURIER THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1881 - FRONT PAGE.

The following is what Vinnie Becket writes of Winfield to his paper, the Norton County Advance.

WINFIELD, KANSAS, MARCH 14, 1881.

DEAR ADVANCE: Down the Santa Fe road through Emporia, Newton, Wichita, and other nearly as important though not such well advertised hamlets, last Tuesday's train brought us to Winfield, the capital city of Cowley county.

Six years, to a day, had passed into the unknown region where the dead lie, since I took a tearful farewell of this then bright and beautiful village and rambled east into Iowa. Those years as viewed by memory's eyes and gauged "by what I had done," seem hardly so long as that many days, but by Winfield's growth, and development, we could readily believe it half a dozen decades.

From about 1,200 inhabitants in March, 1875, Winfield has risen to a city of the second class, with 3,500 population, and its then temporary and generally common buildings have given place to solid, substantial, and beautiful improvements. When we took our departure Wichita was the nearest railway point, forty-five miles distant. A lumbering stage coach drawn by four horses jerked us over the frozen ground and pounded the life nearly out of the solitary passenger upon the hard sides of the capacious inside. Now two railroads, the A. T. & S. F. from the north, and the Kansas City, Lawrence and Western road from the east, accommodates the extensive travel and freight business. The ease with which the Wichita trip was made this time was not in the least noticeable among the improvements time has wrought.

Winfield is a brag town. We say this without prejudice, though it is true we have always loved the city and its people. It is a brag town in the matter of sidewalks. This is the first subject of remark by strangers. From center to circumference few are the streets that have not a four foot stone slab pavement on both sides of the road. An abundance of stone six and eight inches thick and of indefinite length and breadth is found handy to town and those are put in position in sizes to suit, at about fourteen cents per square foot.

It brags on its new hotel almost completed. The Brettun House is a magnificent three story and a basement structure built of the famous Cowley county stone, which is nearly identical with the white magnesia found in such quantities in Trego county and also in Grant township of Norton. The building is fitted with every appliance of modern invention and is complete in every part. No hotel in the state can distance it in any respect.

It brags on its fine and expensive residence buildings which are exceedingly numerous when the size of the town is considered. It has two magnificent churches, Presbyterian and Methodist; Episcopal and a Baptist, equally fine, in course of erection. These with the two school houses, the east and the west, are all that would be expected of a city of fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants.

A ten thousand dollar opera house delights the traveling shows and the resident public.

Three newspapers, the COURIER, Monitor, and Telegram, enjoy excellent support and are really model journals. The first two are Republican, issued weekly, the latter is Democratic, issued daily and weekly. The COURIER is one of the best edited and handsomest typographically of the state papers and has a proportionately strong support. We venture to say that not another county weekly in the state has an equally large paying subscription list, which verges on to two thousand. This is in strong contrast with the days when I was one of the ruling spirits of the sheet, when the infant from 250 circulation crawled up to 600. Messrs. D. A. Millington and Ed Greer would not trade this property for a silver mine. Winfield is noted for its liberality with its newspapers. Its people in this show the strong common sense and business capacity which is apparent in all things has made the town such a model.

The Telegram office cannot be equaled for beauty and completeness in this western country. A two-story stone edifice lighted by gas, heated by steam; the business office and editorial rooms on the ground floor in front finished with solid ash and black walnut, carpeted, and with all appointments in first class style, press room just behind, and engine room yet in the rear, with newspaper and job rooms above, with speaking tubes and elevators, not an item is wanting to make the establishment perfect in all details. Charlie Black, the editor and proprietor, is proud of his journal as well he may be.

The above are the chief points of which the average native boasts, we have mentioned, but there are others: for instance, the summer garden and greenhouse, which, even at this season shows neatness and rural beauty, the roads from which the spring mud dries in a day as it does in Norton. The delightful climate, which to me was always glorious, and the crowning, chiefest recommendation, the citizens whom we meet. There are doubtless just as pleasant, sociable, intellectual, hospitable, and generous people elsewhere congregated together; but my fortune has never been cast with them.

When I came down here to take a look at the scenes and friends to memory dear, I really expected to be almost a stranger in a nearly strange land: The latter I find fully realized. I am in a strange land. The few land marks of ancient days are so changed by additions, fresh paint, or imposing surroundings, that with difficulty I recognize them, and had I been dropped here without warning or previous knowledge of my whereabouts, I should never have suspicioned that I had seen the place before. But the people have changed much less. Scores of old friends are here and strange to say, appear to be glad to see me, even though I was not indebted a cent to them when I departed hence six years. So kind have I found the old acquaintances and the new ones made, that I nearly spoiled and I linger loth to pass along upon my journey to the unhospitable land of the greaser. There is danger of my staying to wear out my welcome, but I'll try and tear myself away tomorrow. A part of three of the young men of Winfield go my way and I shall join their party.

I look about me here upon the boys who were the companions and acquaintances of my Winfield days, and a great lesson impresses itself upon my mind. I find that with hardly an exception these young men have become established in business for themselves. They are the sole proprietors of more or less pretentious residences which are occupied by sweet, affectionate helpers and blooming and not less helping children. They are prospering and happy as the world goes, and the ramblers who like myself have little to care for and care very little for that, gaze with envious eyes, and wish, with a heart that knows its needs yet hesitates to satisfy, that we were not such arrant idiots. We might live in this world to the age of the most ancient gentlemen mentioned in holy writ and be but an useless blot upon the face of nature. I have resolved to come back from New Mexico with a strong resolve to mend my ways.

In company with a couple of friends I made Howard, the capital of Elk county, just east of Cowley, a visit last Thursday, for a visit to one of my friends, Abe Steinberger, editor of the Howard Courant, the handsomest paper in the State. We make this boast authoritively. Abe is postmaster and has other interests in this beautiful and prosperous town which places him in the list of soulless corporations. He has a heart large enough to cover all deficiencies there may be in soul, however. I am the only man in the United States, outside the family, whom Abe gives free leave to kiss his wife, and I flatter myself that I am the only one whom she would kiss, and am consequently puffed up with pride, and never fail to visit their house when within hailing distance. There is no family in the world that I would go further to see.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Arkansas City Traveler: Stacy Matlack purchased one of the finest otter skins we ever saw from an Indian last week. It measured five feet and six inches from tip to tip, and was two feet wide, and was perfect in every respect.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

As I have seen no notes from Crabcreek in any of the county papers, I thought I would write a few items.

Farmers here are getting along with their plowing very well, and some early ones are going to plant soon. The Harris boys will plant Thursday, and Hendry as soon as they are done with the planter, and others soon.

School commenced in district No. 124 Monday. Miss Florence Goodwin is teacher.l School is held in the house on Mr. David Hite's place. Attendance good from the first.

We meet to organize a Sunday School at Fairview next Sabbath. All are invited to come.

I see Johnny Hightower is home again. We are glad to see him.

There was a joke on the boys Sunday when all the girls prepared to go home alone or with Ma. No wonder there are so many bachelors on Crabcreek.

I was down Grouse creek last week and saw the farmers all busily plowing. There is some wheat along the creek that will probably be plowed up, but I saw some nice wheat. That of Mr. Daniel's is good, as is also that of Mr. Gillstrap, but the piece belonging to Mr. Foly is the best on Grouse, if not in the county. DOT.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

It seems that there is a second Bender family living in Cedar township from what took place there last week. It seems they had an illegitimate child born there on the 21st ult., and it lived until Friday night and died. Mrs. J. Smith was sent for to wash and dress and lay it out and when that was done, she went home. In the morning, the body was put into a box by the family and buried without the knowledge of any other persons. Why is this let pass unnoticed? JUSTICE.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

A great many Republicans were not satisfied with the Republican nominations for city officers, and joined with the Democrats to nominate a citizens' ticket. They met at the opera house on last Saturday evening and put in nomination J. B. Lynn for mayor, O. M. Seward for city attorney, T. R. Bryan for city treasurer, J. D. Pryor for treasure of the board of education,

W. E. Tansey for justice of the peace and police judge, John Moffitt and A. H. Doane for councilmen, N. L. Rigby and E. P. Kinne for members of the school board, and J. T. Quarrels and

B. McFadden for constables. Mr. Bryan was not present at the meeting, but it was understood that he would support the straight Republican ticket, having already accepted the nomination for city treasurer tendered him by the Republicans.

Mr. Tansey had been nominated by the Republicans for justice of the peace, but made a speech accepting the nomination of the Citizens, and enlisting to support the whole ticket, going back on the Republicans. Of course, it was inconsistent for the Republicans to keep on their ticket a candidate who was fighting the balance of the ticket, so the Republican committee met and struck off his name and placed the name of J. H. Kinney in his stead, which was eminently proper and right. E. P. Kinne was not present at the time of the Citizens meeting nor on the day of the election, but we understood him before he went that he would not accept a nomination on the Citizens ticket. N. L. Rigby positively declined to be a candidate.

J. T. Hackney withdrew his name from the Republican ticket, and James Kelly was put upon the ticket for police judge in his stead. This made up the issues: as to candidates.

On Monday evening the supporters of both tickets held meetings, and speakers harangued the people. The Citizens held their meeting in the street, and used the stone steps of the Winfield Bank for a rostrum.

We did not get a report of the speakers, for we were in the other meeting: that of the republicans in the opera house. Of this meeting Col. C. M. Wood was chairman, and made a stirring address, which was followed by strong and pungent speeches from H. E. Asp, M. G. Troup, W. P. Hackney, and T. H. Soward.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

The election of last Tuesday was one of the hottest little elections we ever had. The interest taken was intense, and the friends of each ticket worked with a will, but with good humor, and we think there was no bad blood stirred up. Neither party can crow much over the election. On the Republican ticket only four candidates were elected, while the citizens elected nine of their candidates, if we count Bryan, on both tickets. But the Republicans carried the head of the ticket and that may serve as a set off to several of the subordinates. There are some things, however, that this election has demonstrated. One is that the disaffection among Republicans with the Republican ticket, whether reasonable or not, was very wide and serious; and another is, that the people were widely dissatisfied with the late administration of the city, particularly in the matter of punishing for offenses. Personally, John B. Lynn is every whit as popular as his successful opponent. Everybody likes him as an intelligent, large-hearted, energetic businessman, but many believed that he had not enforced the laws as he should in relation to gambling, liquor selling, and vice, and the desire for a change in the executive head, and in the police, was all that prevented the citizens from electing their whole ticket by sweeping majorities. The dissatisfaction with the head of their ticket of course affected, to a large extent, their whole ticket, for many will reject the whole if feeling opposed to the leading candidate.

There are some things that might be learned from this election. First, that in our local matters it is very difficult to run an election on party lines.

There must necessarily be conflicting interests of north end and south end, or some other end; or differences of opinion in the management of schools, or business rivalries and jealousies, or differences of opinion on particular matters of policy for local government, either of which may be strong enough to override party lines, and no amount of bulldozing or party coercion will keep a man within his party when its candidates do not suit him in the particular matters in which he is most interested. There is only one possible way to make a party ticket succeed in these elections, and that is to make a fair division of the offices among the leading conflicting interests. If that cannot be done, then the only way is to let the voters divide on the local issues most prominent at the time being, as they will be sure to do. There must be mutual concessions, and a general understanding, or men will not "take their medicine."

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Rev. D. P. Mitchell, who was suspended for a year as a preacher by the conference of his church, in an editorial in his paper speaking of the second coming of Christ gets back at them as follows.

"One thing is certain, if He was here and should pronounce the anathemas against those who take usury, as He did in Jerusalem, if He drove out the money changers and overturned the tables as He did in the temple, He would not be allowed to preach in the Methodist church for a year at least."

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Howard Courant: It is astonishing how readily one can adapt himself to the surroundings. Since the saloons were closed we have observed men drinking water just as naturally as if that liquid was made for the purpose of sinking thirst, and to all appearances with as much satisfaction as if it had been Anheuser beer.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Dan Maher was on the streets Tuesday.

The "fraud" cry was in great demand Tuesday.

122,692 telephones are now in use of the Bell pattern.

Agent Garvey has on sale coupon tickets to all points in New Mexico and Colorado.

Bring along your pictures and have them framed at the Champion Furniture House.

The City Mills have put a handsome red wagon on the streets to deliver their flour, feed, etc.

Boys' wagons and carts, also children's carriages at the Champion Furniture House, west side South Main street.

Mrs. D. L. Williams and family left Monday for Kansas City, where Mr. Williams is now engaged in the hotel business.

Tell W. Walton has purchased the Caldwell Post. Tell is a boss journalist, and will make the "Post" as lively as the town.

Mrs. A. B. Sykes is visiting her parents at Rolling Green, Sumner county, during the absence of her husband in the east.

The stone work on the Brettun House received its finishing touches Monday. The building is now ready for the finishing work.

1816 was the year without a summer, and 1881 will be year without a spring, if this ice-frost-snow-wind business doesn't let up soon.

Bill Burke and Jim Allen had a set-to on the streets Saturday, in which Jim came out second best. Burke came near depriving Allen of one ear.

Mrs. C. A. Bliss stated for Eureka Springs last week. She will be joined in a few weeks by Mrs. Rigby and the two will spend the summer there.

E. F. Shinn, the Fort Scott nursery man, is on hand with a stock of trees. His splendid present of fifty shade trees to our school grounds is appreciated.

The Santa Fe company have issued a time card covering all their lines and connections, from Kansas City to San Francisco. We are indebted to Agent Garvey for a coy.

The authorities ought not to allow the voting places to be located on Main street. It is impossible for ladies to pass along the street for the crowd which congregate in front of the polls.

Mr. Burganer, of the "Bee Hive," returned from New York last week. He laid in a magnificent lot of goods for the spring trade, which will be open for inspection in a few days.

Ed. G. Gray severed his connection with the Traveler and left on Monday's train for Colorado. Ed. is a first class journalist and will make his mark, especially in the west, where his fire-eating proclivities can have full sway.

Allison Toops, the prisoner who escaped from the jail last week, has been recaptured. He was found on the road near Maple City, and was completely worn out. It is thought the fellow was partially deranged when he left.

Why don't the Santa Fe give us a decent express car? Winfield sends out twice as much matter as the Caldwell branch, yet they luxuriate in a carved and painted car, while we have to put up with an improvised cattle car. Why is this thusly?

Mr. Al. B. Sykes, our foreman, left for his old home in Pennsylvania last Monday. He goes to pay a visit to his parents, whom he has not seen for twelve years. During his absence the mechanical department will be under the management of Will. W. Frye.

Bids will be received by me for the erection of a stone barn, 80 feet long and 46 feet wide, walls twelve feet high and 19 inches thick. Address M. S. MANWELL, Grenola, Kansas.

Several Winfield gentlemen have organized a coal company with their base of operation at Grenola. They have several fine specimens of surface coal from the shaft, taken out six feet below the ground. They intend to go down one thousand feet. Col. McMullin is president, and Dr. Mendenhall, secretary.

[THEY HAD McMULLIN...NOT McMULLEN.]

We were shown a pencil sketch of a farm scene last Saturday, drawn by Eugene Sanford, son of H. J. Sanford, trustee of Richland township. The sketch bears marks of much artistic talent, and considering the fact that Eugene has never had instructions in drawing, is an excellent production. Eugene's pencil may yet win him fame and fortune if properly trained.

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The teachers' meeting Saturday was especially interesting. Professor Phelps, of Arkansas City, conducted the exercises in physiology, and Professor Trimble in algebra. Work in botany was mapped out, the lesson for the next meeting, April 30, being "leaves." As the new school law classes physiology in the first grade studies, those teachers who have followed the county work have done well. Botany is a delightful study and teachers can succeed well with this science in the spring. As a means of furnishing teachers with object lessons, botany has no equal. Teachers present: Professors Trimble, Phelps, Gridley, Hickok, and Mrs. Caton, Misses Cook, Melville, Bartlett, Aldrich, Kelly, Frederick, and Nawman.

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Mrs. Saint had a little scare on Tuesday morning. Smoke was discovered coming into the room from the walls of her house, and investigation disclosed a fire within the walls, extending from the base up between the studs and rafters entirely to the top of the roof. John Moffat was called, and with three other men who happened along, cut holes in the siding and roof and with water extinguished the flames. It was a close call. The fire originated in some ashes which the girl had thrown out close to the house, and which had not been observed by Mrs. Saint.

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Tuesday's mail brought to Henry Goldsmith and his brother the sad intelligence of their father's death. He died at his home in Ostrowo, Prussia, on the 15th of March, of apoplexy. He was a man of many noble traits, and greatly beloved by his children. The blow is sudden and severe, and the boys have the sympathy of many friends.

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The Winfield Bank declared its fourth semi-annual dividend on April 1st of ten percent, with a good surplus left. The bank stock is rising rapidly. An offer of $1.10 was refused last week. At the present rates of interest, Winfield Bank stock, as an investment, is worth $2. The bank is booming and no mistake.

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The Brettun House had a narrow escape from fire last week. The tinners at work on the roof went to dinner, leaving their furnace sitting on the pine sheeting. While they were absent some coals of fire rolled out, setting the pine on fire, and it had been fanned into a blaze when discovered. It was a narrow escape.

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A correspondent wants to know which is correct: to use the knife or the fork at the table? If eating soup, beans, peas, green corn, and such delicacies, by all means use the fork. In taking coffee, tea, chocolate, lemonade a la fly, then the knife is the only prandial appendage that is countenanced in good society.

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The crowd of men around W. A. Lee's implement house, fine teams fitting, and wagons fitting up for the mountains, indicate that a number of our best citizens are going. Mr. Lee deserves credit and patronage for the amount of trade he is bringing to our town.

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Our Maple City correspondent mentioned in the COURIER last week in relatino to a case in court against Mr. Gilky that the latter proposed a compromise and paid the costs. This was a mistake. The compromise was proposed and the costs paid by the other side.

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C. J. Kempton, of Bolton township, was brought before His Honor, L. H. Webb, U. S. Commissioner, Monday inst., charged with selling liquor in violation of the revenue laws. The examination was continued to April 26th.

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The Winfield Jewelry House has an ad in this paper. Mr. Geo. Schroeter, the manager, is one of the finest watchmakers in Kansas. He has fitted up his store in magnificent shape, and all would do well to call.

AD: THE WINFIELD JEWELRY HOUSE, GEO. A. SCHROTER, MANAGER, HAS

REMOVED TO THE NEW STAND NEXT TO HORNING, ROBINSON & CO'S. STORE.

They have fitted up the rooms in Palatial Style and have the Largest Stock of Watches, Clocks & Jewelry, etc., etc., in City. Repairing & Engraving done promptly.

NOTE: ARTICLE SAID "SCHROETER"...AD SAID "SCHROTER".

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ANOTHER AD:

THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

REMOVAL OF THE HARDWARE STORE OF HENDRICKS & WILSON to the room formerly occupied by B SADLER & CO'S STORE, -BEING- 3 DOORS NORTH OF OUR OLD STAND. A LARGE ADDITIONAL STOCK OF HARDWARE, STOVES & TINWARE. REMEMBER THE STORE -IS ON- MAIN STREET, NEAR 10TH AVE.

HENDRICKS & WILSON.

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ANOTHER AD:

THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

REMOVED. YOU WILL NOT FIND BADEN -IN HIS- NEW AND COMMODIOUS STORE ROOM, -ON THE- CORNER MAIN AND 8TH AVENUE, IN BLACK'S BUILDING. REMEMBER THE PLACE. J. P. BADEN.

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ANOTHER AD:

THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

APPLES! APPLES! APPLES! 400 BUSHELS OF BEN DAVIS APPLES -HAVE BEEN- JUST RECEIVED -BY- T. M. McGUIRE AND WILL BE SOLD AT THE MOST REASONABLE PRICES! IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT PURCHASERS. I HAVE ALSO PURCHASED 10,000 BUSHELS OF CORN! CORN! WHICH I HAVE FOR SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICE. T. M. McGUIRE, CORNER MAIN STREET AND NINTH AVENUE, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

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Mr. A. H. Doane is making some very valuable improvements in the west part of town.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Some worthy gentleman left a copy of the bible in the depot last week. It excited Wat's surprise and curiosity. He ran all around our town, and finally had to come to this office to find out what it was.

Several new farm houses may be noticed out in Sheridan township, besides several that are being erected new. Sheridan is one of the best townships in Cowley county, and is populated by an energetic, emterprising class of people.

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Winfield Courier, April 7, 1881.

On last Thursday evening was gathered in the magnificent salons of M. L. Robinson one of the largest parties which have assembled in Winfield this past season. The honors of the occasion were conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Spotswood in the most graceful and pleasing manner, making each of the guests feel delighted and happy. A new departure was made in the hour for reception which we cannot too highly commend, that of substituting 7 o'clock for the late hours which usually prevail, but the habits of some were so confirmed that they could not get around until nine o'clock. The banquet was excellent beyond our power of description. Nothing was wanting to render it perfect in all its appointments. At a reasonable hour the guests retired, expressing the warmest thanks to their kind hostesses and hosts for the pleasures of the evening. The following are the names of the guests as we now remember them.

Miss Nettie McCoy, Mrs. Huston, Mrs. S. H. Myton, Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. Eastman, Mrs. Ticer, Mr. M. G. Hodges, Mr. C. A. Bliss, Mr. W. C. Robinson, Mr. W. A. Smith, Mr. W. J. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Loose, Mrs. Herrington, Mr. and Mrs. Van Doren, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Linn, Mr. and Mrs. Wallis, Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Platter, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harden, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hackney, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Pryor, Mr. and Mrs. Black, Mr. and Mrs. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. Hickok, Mr. and Mrs. Conklin, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Dever, Mr. and Mrs. Bedilion, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Barclay, Mrs. W. F. Baird, Mr. and Mrs. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Doane, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Millington, Mr. and Mrs. Horning, Mr. and Mrs. Troup, Mr. and Mrs. F. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Baird, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Read.

THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

The result of the city election of last Tuesday is given in the table below. Names of candidates on the Republican ticket are in Roman, Citizens ticket in small caps, and on both in caps.

SKIPPED ALL THIS BREAKDOWN...

FOR MAYOR: M. G. TROUP AND J. B. LYNN.

TROUP WON: MAJORITY 28.

FOR CITY ATTORNEY: L. H. WEBB, O. M. SEWARD.

SEWARD WON: MAJORITY 27.

FOR CITY TREASURER: T. R. BRYAN.

BRYAN WON: MAJORITY 483.

FOR TREASURER, SCHOOL BOARD: S. C. SMITH, J. D. PRYOR.

PRYOR WON: MAJORITY 17.

FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE: J. H. KINNEY, W. E. TANSEY.

TANSEY WON: MAJORITY 84.

FOR POLICE JUDGE: JAMES KELLY, W. E. TANSEY.

TANSEY WON: THEY SHOWED MAJORITY OF 1...CONFUSING!

FOR CONSTABLES: H. H. SIVERD, J. H. FINCH, J. T. QUARLES, B. McFADDEN, E. P. HICKOCK...I THINK!

SIVERD WON: MAJORITY 58; AND

J. T. QUARLES WON: MAJORITY 106.

[NOTE: THE PAPER SHOWED QUARLS...??]

FOR COUNCILMEN: JOHN MOFFITT, M. L. READ, A. H. DOANE.

JOHN MOFFITT WON: MAJORITY 57; AND

M. L. READ WON: MAJORITY 22.

FOR SCHOOL BOARD: J. E. PLATTER, N. L. RIGBY, J. L. HORNING, AND E. P. KINNE.

N. L. RIGBY WON: MAJORITY 3; AND

E. P. KINNE WON: MAJORITY 4.

IT WAS HORRIBLE THEY WAY THEY HAD THIS ALL LINED UP! I MAY HAVE GOOFED UP ON WHO WAS RUNNING FOR WHAT!

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Last Thursday the Walnut Township Board completed the contract for the erection of the Timber Creek bridge. They worked for five days before getting a satisfactory proposition. The abutments are to be thoroughly repaired and straightened, and the superstructure is to be of the best wrought iron. When completed this will be one of the best bridges we have, and will be "put there to stay." The Board will superintend the work closely, and see that no inferior material is used. The people are largely indebted to Mr. Robert Weakley, Samuel E. Berger, George Brown, and others for the work which made it possible to secure the bridge. The Board also put in some faithful work and showed much business ability in bringing the propositions within the limit of money on hand.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

We do not believe all the yarns we hear about the peach buds being killed. John C. Roberts brings us a lot of twigs from his farm, showing every bud to be as lively as a bud can well be, and believes he will have a full crop. Others express similar opinions. We are under the impression that the upland peach buds are not injured, but in the low land a greater or less proportion of them are killed.

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Peach buds are all right.

Wheat sown broadcast is badly killed.

The ground is in fine condition for the plow.

Oats nearly all sown.

D. V. Killian has sold his farm and gone to Missouri. Dan was one of our best citizens, and will be missed by our community. He had but one fault, and that is he would vote the Democratic ticket, a trick he learned when a boy in Indiana.

Three staunch republicans with their families have moved into this neighborhood from Iowa.

Simeon Martin has been called to mourn the death of his wife. Her loss will be deeply mourned by all who knew her.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

Philip Tete, John Bogner, John Sturgell, with their families, left last Tuesday for the carbonate mountains.

J. Parks and W. Butterfield have sold their farms, preparatory to removing to Colorado. Others are talking of falling into line.

The United Brethren are holding a protracted meeting in Red Valley school-house. A good deal of interest is taken.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 7, 1881.

The following is from the Howard Courant, Abe Steinberger's paper. We take great pleasure in recording these little scraps of history of the early days and early boys of the COURIER.

"We omitted last week to acknowledge a very pleasant call from three as welcome visitors as ever darkened the Courant door, viz: James Kelly, formerly proprietor of the Winfield COURIER, V. B. Becket, an associate editor with Mr. Kelly, and Ed. P. Greer, the present local of the same paper. The three came to Howard for no other purpose than to visit me and my family, and we were truly proud of the compliment and their well wishes.

"We cannot account for having overlooked their call, unless it was because of accompanying them back to Winfield and having so much enjoyment basking in the sunshine of their company, that we forgot their having been to our town.

"There is a little history concerning this family which has never been written, and we cannot refrain from giving a partial synopsis of it. In the summer of 1872, a boy in his 20th year, who had just finished his apprenticeship in a printing office at Independence, felt very strongly the injunction of the father of printers, to "go west," and accordingly started across the then new and barren country for Winfield, a small town eighty miles towards the setting sun, where he hoped to find a change for the better. The journey was made on foot, he not having money enough to pay for a ride on the stage, which was then the only public conveyance between the towns.

"The printers are characteristic for their walking propensities, and this one was not an exception to the rule. The journey's end was reached in two days and a half, and on a bright Saturday afternoon in the month of July, 1872, the pedestrian found himself again employed in a printing office in Winfield, happy with his success. He worked in all the printing offices in the town during the next year, at the end of which time he accepted a position in the COURIER, edited by James Kelly, mentioned in the beginning of this sketch.

"About the same time another boy started from the same Independence, and after walking on almost shoeless feet for three days, swimming all the streams, and soiling his good clothes, arrived at the same COURIER office, and was so fortunate as to secure a situation. The two boys worked together a few weeks, and became attached to each other as brothers. They soon proposed to do the mechanical work in the office for the sum of $20 per week, each to receive an equal amount. This proposition was accepted, and they continued working in this manner for about a year, growing more and more attached, and thinking when one had a dollar both were millionaires. When this year was about expired, the older one married and started a boarding house, open only, however, to the associate printer who, alike with the landlord, tested his credit and exhausted his salary to keep up the boarding house table. A few months after this, the married one purchased an office of his own (all on credit, of course), and started a paper, which, after being moved from town to town, for a couple of years, he finally succeeded in placing it upon a self-sustaining basis. The other boy seeing his old partner's name at the head of a newspaper, soon tired of journeyman work, and he, too, started out to seek his fortune, and after traveling over two or three states and trying his hand in a dozen different towns, established a paper as his chum had done, and is today growing rich.

"The elder boy referred to is the proud writer of this bit of history, and the office mate is V. B. Becket, editor of the Norton Advance, one of the ablest conducted papers on the Courant exchange list. While in Winfield we dined together with our old "boss," Mr. Kelly, and were made as welcome as though we were his own sons. The boys are proud of their old-time guardian, and Mr. Kelly says he is proud of his boys."

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Mr. Hatery's brother-in-law, Mr. Shelton, has arrived here from Indiana. He says there will be about twenty start from there about the 15th of this month.

Dr. Daniels is having fifty acres of breaking done this spring, and Mr. Charley Hatery twenty five acres.

Sam Howard has moved to Greenwood County.

Edward Dee is prospecting for coal on the farm of John Loper. He is an old miner and says that the signs are good.

Mr. Leonard Harnet has the finest flock of sheep in the country. He has 300 and keeps them through the winter without losing a sheep.

We understand that L. S. Cogswell will be a candidate for County Clerk this fall. Who next? NASBY.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Having recovered from the mumps, we come again. Health is good excepting a few cases of mumps.

There will be a good deal of cane planted in this section this spring.

The Baptist church has granted unto T. J. Jackson a license to preach.

R. S. Thompson is now prepared for work in his shop. Those wishing work done in his line will do well by calling on him.

Wm. Jenkins has finished his pasture and is now fencing in his timber for hogs.

March 4, 1881. JULIUS.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

The Oxford pontoon bridge has been built anew in much more substantial form and is now ready for business.

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NOTE: FOR SOME TIME MILLINGTON HAS SQUARED OFF WITH THE MONITOR OVER DIFFERENT ISSUES RAISED BY THE "BANSHEE" AGAINST THE COURIER AND THE "INNER CIRCLE" RUNNING WINFIELD...I HAVE SKIPPED ALL OF THIS GARBAGE...I DO NOT BELIEVE IT WAS IMPORTANT IN THE AFFAIRS OF WINFIELD.

THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

The late city council closed its official record by ordering the issue of a certificate of election to J. H. Kinney as justice of the peace. It strikes us that they must have though that their record would not be complete unless capped off by some act of astounding stupidity. It is of no consequence whether two justices should be elected or only one, whether James Kelly was elected last year to fill a vacancy, or for a full term, so far as Kinney is concerned. Kinney, certainly, is not elected. If Kelly is not justice, there is now a vacancy. No one was voted to fill the office he has held. There was no attempt to elect two justices. No one voted for more than one candidate for justice. There was no idea or intention of electing more than one. There were two candidates for that same office which Tansey was holding by appointment, Kinney and Tansey. Tansey received a great majority of the votes and received the certificate. If Kinney is elected, Tansey is not, that is all there is about it. The supreme court has so decided in an exactly parallel case.

This idea of getting into office by a trick or dodge, against the express will of the voters, is getting to be looked at in its true light, and the courts for the last two years have invariable "set down on" such pretensions. No man of honorable sensibilities would accept of an office under such circumstances. No one would respect him if he did. We believe in a "full vote, a free ballot, and a fair count;" and are "down on" all attempts to get elected by indirection whether by our friends and partisans or our enemies.

We have no doubt that a year ago James Kelly was regularly elected for a term of two years, but that cuts no figure in the matter of this certificate.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Gilbert & Fuller have a new ad. in this issue.

AD: GILBERT & FULLER [S. L. GILBERT/H. G. FULLER], LAND, LOAN, INSURANCE & COLLECTION AGENTS. NOTORIES PUBLIC, OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE, WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. Do a general Real Estate, Insurance, Loan and Collection business. Make abstracts and transact business at U. S. Land Office. Collect Rents and pay Taxes for non-residents. MONEY TO LOAN on Improved City or Farm property, Long or Short time, at 7, 8, 9 or 10 percent.

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A new crossing is being put in on Main street and Ninth avenue.

Esq. Stanley, of the "Traveler," comes to the hub once a week.

Rev. Tucker and family are now "at home" at the M. E. Parsonage.

Tony Boyle has gone into the hardware business at Durango, Colorado.

Spotswood is fitting up a glass show window for his fancy queensware.

Mr. Al. Woods, of Wellington, spent Sunday visiting friends in Winfield.

Herve Cole is preparing to move his drug store from Oxford to Winfield.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

See Timme The Tailor's "pronunciamento" in another column. He has removed.

CARD. I would respectfully announce to the public that my establishment, formerly located above the post office, has been removed to the ground floor one door north of Johnston & Hills, where I shall be glad to show my Patrons "Old and New," a complete line of Cloths for gentlemen's wear, embracing all the Novelties of this season. As I guarantee a first class fit, I differ but in one respect with "Ely," of Chicago in prices, giving you the same article for half the money--a fact--so if you want to pay two prices, I can safely recommend Mr. Ely. All other houses, especially in Kansas City, I cannot conscientiously recognize as worthy of notice. Thanking the public for their generous support, I remain respectfully, T. R. Timme, The Tailor.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

George Mann, the gentlemanly operator at the K. C., L. & S.

depot, is off for a visit.

The pauper bills allowed at the present session amount to over eight hundred dollars.

Miss Cora Berkey has secured a position with Bulene, Moores & Emery, of Kansas City.

Rev. Rigby has been quite ill with pneumonia for the past week. He is now much better.

Mrs. Jay Page arrived in town last Thursday. She is looking after her property interests here.

Joe Houston, one of Cowley's bright young attorneys, was in the city Tuesday on legal business.

The city received the new fire bell Tuesday. It is much larger than the old one, and of much better material.

Our market is well supplied with "garden sass." Several baskets of lettuce were shipped west Saturday.

By Terrill is now the happy possessor of the fastest roadster in the county. He purchased it of a Wichita man for $350.

Frank Gallotti left for Colorado with Judge Pyburn Tuesday. He talks of going into the real estate business at Durango.

The prices of hogs has gone up a little this week owing to the Armour Bros., of Chicago, attempting to squeeze the market.

Cap Siverd has filed his bond as constable. It is thought that the commissioners will accept it. It represents about $175,000.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

See Baird Bros. ad. in another column. They have some novelties in ladies' wear, which had never before been brought to Winfield.

AD: DO YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY? IF SO, GO TO THE NEW YORK STORE WHERE YOU CAN SAVE 40 CENTS ON EVERY $1 THAT YOU SPEND. WE ARE SELLING: DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS & CAPS, CARPETS, TRUNKS, ETC., CHEAPER THAN EVER OFFERED IN WINFIELD! BAIRD BROS.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Gilbert & Fuller have fitted up their offices in excellent style. They are preparing to do business thoroughly and systematically.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

See the ad. of Lynn & Loose in this issue. Their goods are mostly all in, and their magnificent store room is full to overflowing.

AD: LYNN & LOOSE, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MEN'S & BOYS' CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, AND GROCERIES!

We have new on exhibition one of the BEST SELECTED STOCKS OF GOODS EVER BROUGHT TO WINFIELD. We have made the wants of the public our study and we now offer NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS At very low prices. We wish to call special attention to our magnificent stock of NOTIONS, DRESS BUTTONS, TRUNKS AND VALISES, HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HOSE, MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S MEDIUM AND FINE SHOES. CALL AND SEE US AND GET A SQUARE DEAL. LYNN & LOOSE.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Hon. R. F. Burden spent Monday on the streets. He does not get to Winfield very often since his retirement from the Board.

Several of Conklin's subscribers are talking of circulating a petition asking him to refund their money or give them something to read.

Judge Pyburn left for Durango, Colorado, Tuesday. He goes on a tour of inspection, but will settle there if he is pleased with the place.

Talk about "retrenchment and reform" in city affairs, when there isn't enough offices to go round.

Mr. Clarke, of Vernon township, informs us that his peaches are all alive and that he will have the largest crop this season that he has ever had.

Mr. H. G. Shivers, of Quincy, Illinois, has accepted a position with Jarvis, Conklin & Co. Mr. Owens leaves to take charge of their Kansas City branch.

Hudson Bros. have put up an elegant new sign this week. They have also repainted the front of their store room, and otherwise improved the premises.

Mr. Loose, of the firm of Lynn & Loose, returned from the east last week. He purchased a magnificent line of goods, which are being opened up this week.

It is stated that the travel over the new line to the Pacific is something wonderful. The Santa Fe trains pass through Newton carrying all that the engine can haul.

A petition is being circulated for the pardon of Alfred Conway. It has been signed by the county commissioners and many citizens, and will likely be granted by the governor.

Jailer Siverd has had his boarders at work cleaning up the courthouse grounds during the past week. It makes a wonderful improvement in the looks of the public grounds.

Jim Hill is making some long needed improvements in his store room. He is washing the accumulated dust of years off the ceiling, and will paper and paint the room throughout.

Robert Hudson is putting in an addition to his bath house, and will soon have two more tubs in running order. With his new improvements, he will be able to give as good a "Turkey" bath as you can get in Chicago.

The amount of funds on hand for school purposes will be exhausted this month, but several teachers are organizing private schools, so that all who are able to pay the tuition fees can have schooling for their children.

Buckingham, the boss grocer, has transferred his headquarters from the Hoosier grocery to A. T. Spotswood & Co.'s. "Buck" is a genial, whole-souled fellow, and can accommplish much in the grocery trade. Spotswood shows good judgment in choosing Buck as his lieutenant.

Correspondents must remember to sign their names in full to all correspondence sent in for publication. We have been compelled to consign several excellent articles to the wastebasket this week because of the omission of the writers to give us their names. We do not wish to publish the names, but must have them for our own protection.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Clay Center Dispatch: A. R. Robinson, Esq., familiarly known among businessmen as "Read" Robinson, was in town Monday and Tuesday, taking orders for the great western clothing house of Joseph Cahn & Co., of Kansas City. We have known Read for years, as he was one of the pioneer clothing salesmen in Kansas, and have met him under many and peculiar circumstances, but the "trip" he made last October over a new "route" has made him a changed man. The route was through Illinois and he secured a new customer, and though she may increase his "expense account" for a few years, the pleasure of her society--that of an intelligent and most estimable lady--will certainly compensate our old friend for his change in direction and desertion of bachelor acquaintances. The twain live happily, board at the Coats house, and enjoy life as only two who have agreed to travel together through all the seasons can enjoy it. Come again, Read, and bring Mrs. Robinson with you.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Willie Fogg, the boy whom friends recently got pardoned out of jail, was again incarcerated Sunday. Saturday morning he borrowed Mrs. Olds' pony, got a saddle of Mr. Enright, and left, saying he would ride out in the country a short distance and return. Saturday evening they became uneasy about him, and reported the matter to the sheriff, who began investigating and found that he had told several different stories to get the pony and saddle. This convinced him that the boy had stolen the outfit and had no intention of returning, so he started in pursuit and succeeded in capturing the boy, pony, and saddle about twenty miles in the Territory. This boy seems to be a natural thief or a lunatic, without regard for friends or his own good. Father Kelly had interested himself in the boy's welfare, and was doing all he could to make a man of him. The best thing that can be done for him is to give him the five years in the penitentiary at hard labor. He will come out a wiser if not a better boy.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Conklin is immortalizing himself slowly but surely. His last paper was a marvel in its way--that of reading fellows out of the republican party. If he continues this policy, it is only a question of time until he will be the sole embodiment of the party in this county. He last week branded Mr. Tansey as a Judas Iscariot and no longer a republican, told Mr. Kretsinger that he could never have an office at the hands of the republican party, and informed O. M. Seward that he must step down and out of the chairmanship of the Republican Central committee. After having rid the party of the above gentlemen, he devotes enouch space to the Democracy to call the editor of their organ a "cur" and advise them to get "A MAN" to edit their paper. Verily, this political giant controls Cowley county politics with an iron hand.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Messrs. Jarvis, Conklin & Co. have started a branch office in Kansas City, Missouri. Their business is spreading rapidly, which necessitates a more central location, or one with greater railroad and telegraph facilities. Their headquarters will still remain at Winfield, although we are afraid that this Kansas City move will in time leave us only a branch of their business. However, we are glad to see them prosper, if the firm does not continue to be strictly a Winfield institution.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

A. T. Spotswood contracted with a Colorado man last week to furnish him twelve thousand dozen eggs. This is the largest hen fruit contract ever made in this part of the state. The fulfillment of this contract will keep all the hens in the county busy for a week, even if the roosters could be induced to help along with the laying. The hens are doing much for our commerce, and if they but hold out a little while longer, Cowley will be known as the boss egg market of the state.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Mrs. Lou Harter breathed her last Sunday morning. She was buried Monday afternoon, the funeral services being conducted at the Methodist church. Mrs. Harter was attacked some time ago with that dreadful disease, consumption, and failed very rapidly, although everything that human hands could do was done to save her. She leaves three small children and many relatives and friends to mourn her death.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Mr. Sam Gilbert and H. G. Fuller have formed a partnership in the loan business, and have rented the three front rooms in the Manning building for offices. This will make a strong firm. Mr. Gilbert was the senior member of the firm of Gilbert, Jarvis & Co.; and much of the success of that institution was due to his energy and business ability. Mr. Fuller is well known in business circles, and wide awake and energetic.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Harry Slough, ye foreman of the Monitor, and Miss M. L. Davis were married at Eureka last Tuesday week. They arrived here Wednesday evening. Harry is one of the boss printers of the southwest and can "justify a form" with neatness and dispatch, which is an excellent qualification in matrimonial matters. We wish Harry and his bride a happy journey through life.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

In our advertising columns this week will be found a notice of the organization of a new township out of part of the territory of Windsor. This is the first notice under the new law requiring publication before a change of township boundaries could be made. The new township is to be called Washington.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Quite an aged couple were wedded in Tisdale township on Tuesday. Harrison Herrod, an old resident of that township and nearly seventy years of age, was married to Mrs. Lackey, who has seen the snows of sixty winters. The bridge is the mother-in-law of the groom's oldest son.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

The Old Phoenix of Brooklyn, Pryor & Kinne, agents, paid last Tuesday the S. D. Johnson loss. This was made on the new form insurance department and had been drawn but little over a month. This speaks well for the Old Phoenix of Brooklyn.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

We learn that Lafe Pence has located permanently at Chico, Colorado, and has formed a law partnership. Charley will leave for the west next week.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

To the Honorable Council of the City of Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas.

Gentlemen: To the end that we may mutually understand the condition of our City affairs at the time when they are turned over to our care and management by our predecessors in office and be mutually and understandingly advised as to the obstacles and difficulties that we shall necessarily encounter in our endeavor to faithfully administer said affairs so as not to make them an unnecessary burden upon the people, and at the same time to be able to turn them over to our successors in office unencumbered by debt, I deem it my duty to submit this paper to your consideration.

Now that we are elected and installed, we are no longer the partisan candidates of any "ring," "clique," or "act," but as men, worthy of the honor conferred upon us, we are the servants of every man, woman, and child, resident in our little City, and as honest men, are bound to regard the rights of all, however humble or exalted their station among us. I hope that "equal and exact justice to all," and "a due regard to the right of protection to person and property to every individual citizen," may be the thought uppermost in the minds of us all, in the discharge of our several duties, at all times, during our relations as officers of this city.

The first and most serious obstacle that we shall encounter will be the question of a revenue with which to meet the necessary expenses incident to a faithful and prudent administration of the city government.

As you are all aware, the principal source of revenue of cities like ours, has been entirely and unalterably cut off by the adoption of the amendment, and the enactment of a law to enforce the same, so that we are now called upon to administer our affairs without that revenue, and are, as I look at it, bound to do so in the way and manner that will be least oppressive to the public.

Your clerk has kindly furnished me the following statement of the receipts, and expenditures for the year ending March 15th, 1881, with the amount on hand at the beginning of the year, namely on March 15th, 1880.

RECEIPTS.

Fines Police Court ............................... $ 254.25

License drays and busses ......................... 302.50

License concerts and shows ....................... 64.50

License pedlars and street ....................... 80.75

License shooting galleries ....................... 21.00

License billiard tables .......................... 57.50

License auctioneers .............................. 38.35

License public scales ............................ 29.60

License express and telegraph .................... 24.20

License saloons .................................. 2,000.00

License druggists ................................ 190.00

Rent from county ................................. 26.65

Dog tax .......................................... 68.00

Old tax county treasurer ......................... 157.01

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Total receipts ......................... $3,320.31

Amount on hand March 15, 1880 ............... 649.87

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Total resources ........................ $3,969.98

Total expenditures ..................... 3,423.73

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Balance: ......................... $ 545.25

NOTE: MAY HAVE SOME OF RECEIPT FIGURES

WRONG! HARD TO READ!

EXPENDITURES

Officers salaries ................................ $1,460.05

Street crossings and gutters ..................... 771.90

Work on streets .................................. 237.50

Extra police service ............................. 28.50

City printing .................................... 143.68

Books and stationary ............................. 34.44

Office rents ..................................... 120.60

Boarding prisoners ............................... 64.30

Judges and clerks election ....................... 20.00

Rooms for election ............................... 8.00

Express and postage charges ...................... 17.30

Public wells ..................................... 122.95

Water works committee ............................ 200.00

Merchandise and lumber ........................... 62.08

Fuel ............................................. 27.20

Tool repairs ..................................... 12.95

Repairs on jail .................................. 34.82

Rent engine house grounds ........................ 30.00

Remitted license ................................. 10.00

Removing nuisances ............................... 18.00

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Total expenditures: ........................ $3,423.73

The above balance was the cash resources of the city on hand March 15th, 1881. The clerk also informs me that warrants against said amount have been issued by our predecessors since the 15th of March last, to such an amount as to now leave on hand in cash the sum of $104.18. The city also holds unpaid orders on the county treasurer for rent to the amount of $90.00; so that it may be said that we receive our trust unencumbered by debt, and with $194.16 in the treasury. A casual glance at the sources of revenue will disclose to you that from three items, namely, the saloons, druggists, and county treasurer, the city received $2,347.01, the balance of the revenue amounting to $973.30 coming from sources still open to us under the ordinances as they now exist.

It is perhaps hardly fair to assume that the receipts from the sources left will be as great this year as last, because I find on examination that the fines for the first quarter of last year amount to five times as much as they do for the fourth quarter, and is accounted for by the fact that during the first part of last year the last of our railroad building was being done, and every person will doubtless remember that the railroad builders were very liberal contributors to this fund. I suppose that with the saloons will also go out some of the billiard table licenses. The clerk, who is perhaps best able to estimate the income from the present sources, places it at about $635.00. Now "the nut we are expected to crack" is now to run this city on $600 or $700, when it cost $3,423.73 to maintain the city during the year last past, and do this without imposing enormous taxes on an already tax-burdened people.

Certainly radical and practical economy and retrenchment will be required to enable us to accomplish this result. It will be observed from the foregoing statement that there was expended on the streets in cash the sum of $1,009.46. It does seem to me that with a faithful, efficient, and honest street commissioner, that the two days' work (or in lieu thereof three dollars) which every able-bodied male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five is required to perform or pay, will be abundantly sufficient to keep up and maintain in proper condition all the streets and alleys in the city. This source of revenue to the city seems to have been sadly overlooked and neglected, as I find that no report or accounting has been made or had at the hands of the street commissioner during the past year. I trust that with your assistance we may be able to make this department sufficiently efficient to keep up the streets without any expenditure out of the city treasury, and if possible create a revenue besides. This will save an item of $1,009.46.

I have a proposition from a gentleman who is in every qualified for the position, that if he be appointed city clerk, he will furnish to the city free of rent a suitable room for the sittings of the council, during the year. I hope that you will agree with me in this appointment, to the end that we may thus save to the city an item of $120 rent, and $27.20 fuel.

The item of $200, to a water works committee, I take it can very well be dispensed with entirely during the coming year. It seems to me that the officers' salaries ought to be brought within the sum of $1,000, especially while we are in our present condition, and graded and fixed at $500 for the marshal, $200 for the clerk, including registration services, $150 for the street commissioner, $100 for the city attorney, and $50 for the city engineer. If that could be done, it would save us on the item of official salaries the sum of $460.05 over last year. Thus on the five items of streets, rent, fuel, water works, and official salaries, we can, if we do our duty as we ought under all the circumstances, save the sum of $1,818.41, which would bring our expenses down to the sum of $1,613.63. I think that by exercising rigid and practical economy, we might reduce all the other items of expenses sufficiently to save $212.63 more, which would bring it down to $1,400.

We have seen above that we may expect from the ordinary sources under the ordinances as they now exist, about $700; rent from the county $120.00; and now we have on hand $194.18, making in all $1,014.16 as our present and future resources, leaving us only the sum of $385.84 to be raised in some way to be provided for by you.

If after mature deliberation and investigation, we find that we can raise that amount either by increasing the licenses already imposed by ordinance or by imposing other licenses on some transient or special business that will not militate against the reasonably accepted best business interests, growth and prosperity of our city, then I shall be in favor of so raising said sum in that way; otherwise, I am of the opinion that it ought to be raised by direct taxation.

In conclusion, gentlemen, I trust I shall have your cordial cooperation in reducing our city expenses to the lowest possible limit consistent with the efficient management of its affairs, and its material growth and development. I also trust that you will unanimously aid me in the organization of the executive force of the city in such manner as will insure the enforcement of all laws which are calculated to secure morality, sobriety, virtue, and protection to person and property in our midst during our term of office.

Let us not make use of our power in the reflection of the executive force "to reward our friends and punish our enemies, but let us have in view solely the enforcement of law, and good order and government.

I recognize the fact that upon the mayor largely depends the enforcement of the laws providing punishment for crimes peculiar to all cities, such as gambling, bawdyism, and the sale of intoxicating liquors; and I say to you here and now, that if you will provide me with subordinates who will faithfully and fully aid and assist me in enforcing the laws, that I will undertake to see that all the laws prohibiting these things shall be duly enforced.

I say this not in a bragadocio spirit, nor for the purpose of cruelly or harshly persecuting any person, or class of persons; but on the contrary, I say it in all kindness but firmness, believing that it is now my sworn duty, during my term of office, to see that those peculiar vices are made to feel the full penalty of the law.

Believing that you, each and all, have in view only the government of our city in such manner as will secure to us an orderly, moral, temperate, and law abiding community, wherein we may have our homes without "fear and trembling" lest our sons and daughters may be led away by these pitfalls of ruin, I confidently and implicitly rely upon you to do all things within your power to aid me "in enforcing all laws and ordinances for the government of the city" in such a way as to secure to us that priceless blessing.

M. G. TROUP, Mayor.

Winfield, Kansas, April 11, 1881.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

C. M. Scott and James Leonard returned from their trip in the Territory last week and reported having a good time, only "a little cool in the mornings," you know.

James C. Topliff, our Postmaster, has been to considerable expense in fitting up and arranging the post office in this city, until it is one of the best in the state, and our people should show their appreciation of this enterprise by taking a box, by which they, at a nominal expense, can save themselves much time and trouble.

We hear rumors to the effect that the salt springs are to be utilized to a much larger extent than ever before for the manufacturing of that necessary household article: salt. The undertaking has been decided upon by wide awake businessmen, but all the preliminaries are not yet arranged. There is a fortune, and a large one, too, for someone, in this hitherto neglected industry, and we will gladly hail the day that shall obviate the necessity of being dependent upon other localities for that salt which we liberally have at our own doors in inexhaustible quantities.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

ARBOR DAY. Friday afternoon of this week will be observed in the east ward as arbor day. All citizens are cordially invited to assist the teachers and pupils in making the school grounds attractive and pleasant. If any can donate trees, they will inform the principal, who will see that they are properly planted. All who can plant a tree will please be on the grounds early Friday afternoon.

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The persons who took such an interest in having a certificate issued to Mr. Kinney have quietly dropped the matter since they saw the stupidity of such action. Their hind sight is better than their foresight, and either is greater than their knowledge of the law in such cases made and provided. If they wish to sustain their reputation as lawyers, they had better confine themselves to the few statutes which which they are familiar.

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One of the paupers at the poor house got angry at Sam Berger recently, and informed him that if he couldn't be treated decent, he would no longer accept the hospitality of the county. He was so mad that he walked down to the depot, bought a ticket for the east, and left on the morning train. If Sam has the interests of the county at heart, he will get a club and treat all his guests to a dose of hickory.

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The commissioners on Monday appointed Profs. Phelps, of Arkansas City, and Trimble, of Winfield, as examiners for the coming year. The appointees are closely identified with school interests, and will conduct examinations thoroughly and in a way that will be felt by the schools.

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We have heard it rumored that Chas. Harter would take the Brettun House. Charley is the most popular landlord in the country, and could run this magnificent hotel better any anyone we know of. We hope he will take it.

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Krets is so incensed at our stealing his occasional locals that he has resolved to beat us by furnishing nothing to steal. He has succeeded admirably this week, and has compelled us to cease our peculations.

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J. W. Bachelder has purchased the Dickerson property on East 11th street, which he will fix up in good style for his future home. The sale was made through the agency of Bryan & Harris.

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If you haven't applied for a position at the hands of the new city administration, please step up to the clerk's desk and hand in your name, if only for appearance sake.

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Harry Lacy says that he will haul no more nuisances out of the city until he has disposed of the city council. He is a candidate for marshal.

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If there are three righteous men in Cowley county, let them come forward and pray for rain.

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$1.75 buys a standard screw kip boot, warranted to wear six months, at Smith Bros.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 14, 1881.

Before the Board of County Commissioners of Cowley county, Kansas.

In the matter of the organization of Washington township.

Notice is hereby given to all persons interested that a petition signed by Daniel Zerger and forty-nine other qualified electors residing on the territory hereinafter described, will on the 4th day of October, A. D., 1881, be presented to the board of county commissioners of Cowley county, Kansas, asking said board to set off and organize a new township, bounded as follows, to wit:

Commencing at the northeast corner of section one (1), in township thirty-one (31), south of range seven (7) east; running thence south along the section line to the southwest corner of section thirteen (13), in township thirty-two (32), south of range seven (7) east; thence east on the section line to the east line of Cowley county; thence north along the east line of said county to the township line between townships thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), and thence west along said township line to the place of beginning; said new township to be called Washington, and to be formed wholly out of territory now being a part of Windsor township.

TROUP & PENCE,

Atty's for Petitioners.

Winfield, Kas., April 1, 1881

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

Cowley has 21,000 sheep, Coffey 19,000, and Russell 17,000.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

Farmers are all busy plowing and planting corn of which there will be a large amount planted and with a good season there be plenty and some to spare. Peaches are not all killed yet. There will be plenty on the uplands and some in the bottoms, or low lands. Wheat that was sown early looks well and will make a good crop. The late wheat is trying hard to live but the cold and dry weather makes it hard work. If it rains soon, it will make it.

The sheep men have fed all their feed up and have the sheep standing on the prairie, watching for grass like potato bugs in Iowa, and as soon as a spear of grass comes up, they nab it. They are losing a good many young lambs, the cold night being the cause.

Had a little racket up at the saw mill on General Green's land, where pistols and knives were so plenty the boys hid behind the logs; but the General only used them with his tongue and when the steam blew off, no one was hurt.

Our friend Kelsie has built a fine grape arbor and has made other improvements in setting out trees.

Our efficient store keeper, Mrs. Colvert, is doing a lively business in the way of a general trade.

Mr. Tribby is having some lumber sawed to put in his fine building.

Mr. Lacy has a brother and family from the east. They came for their health and have located with us.

Mr. Johnson has sold his farm to one of Vernon's best farmers, who has come to live with us.

Our friend Deacon Harris is growing thin and it is hard to get along with him since the Hoosier grocery stole his opossum, as that is all the kind of meat he can eat and that was the last one in his neck of the woods. They will confer a great favor on his many friends if they will ship some to him.

The Dunkard mills are having a fine trade and make first class flour and sell it cheaper than any other mills. Give them a trial.

There is preaching and Sunday School at the Walnut Valley Church every Sunday and all are invited to come. There will be a meeting at Little Dutch school house next Sunday to organize a Sunday school. P. B.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

The Methodist Episcopal people of Kansas will hold a grand camp meeting in the grove just north of Winfield, next September, from the 14th to the 25th. This will be the greatest affair of the kind ever held in Kansas, not excepting the Bismarck Grove camp meeting of last year. Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, will preside. The Rev. Mr. Tucker and others are already preparing the ground in the most beautiful grove in Kansas close to town, and the most extensive and perfect arrangements will be made.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

As I have not seen any items from these parts, I will take it upon myself to pen you a few if you will allow them to enter the columns of your valuable paper.

Of course, we might just as well be out of the world as to try to write for the paper and not say something about the weather. It has been fine for spring work, though some mornings we have had some pretty sharp frosts.

Farmers are in the height of corn planting. Some wheat looks fine but the majority of it is pretty badly damaged by the cold winter. Peaches are all killed in the bottom but on the upland there will be a good many.

Irwin Cole has moved his two thousand sheep out on the range. He has made many friends during his stay with us the past winter. He will return to the Big Bend to feed next winter again as he is making arrangements to have considerable millet sown this spring.

There is a good site on Spring Creek for a mill if capital would come here and invest.

Dave Bright is talking of going to Colorado. It is our opinion that he had better rest in "Sunny Kansas" a while yet.

The Lone Star Sunday school was organized the first Sunday of April, Mr. John Smalley as Supt.

Dave Carder has a new corn planter, what more of the farmers of this Bend ought to have.

George Corly's little boy has been very sick for some time with pneumonia.

Will Furry has invented a new windmill, but has no patent on it yet.

NOVUS HOMO.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

In comparison with our neighbors, our city government did magnificently last year. With only four saloons licensed, we got through the year clear of debt and have a nice balance in the city treasury. Wellington with eleven saloons licensed comes out with a debt of $6,667.39 over and above all assets. Caldwell with saloons which we have no means to number, comes out with a debt of more than $3,000.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

Mr. J. E. Snow is with the Hoosier grocery.

Gilbert & Fuller have put up several handsome signs.

Clerk Short has made one of the most efficient city

officers.

J. P. Short has been putting a new roof on his corner building.

Miller & Cox have sold their meat market to Mr. J. A. Graham.

Mrs. J. E. Conklin has been quite ill for several days, but is now much better.

Arch Stewart has rented Jas. Fahey's building, and will fit it up for a restaurant.

Hay at eight to twelve dollars per ton has caused much activity among our livery men.

The Cole [? looks like Cole ?] Bros. are now consolidated, and have one of the finest drug stores in the country.

Miss Minnie Scheumann left for Trinidad, Colorado, last Friday to attend the marriage of a sister.

Mr. Chas. Kelly is running the mail car from Arkansas City to Newton during the absence of the regular route agent.

Max Shoeb has traded his residence property on Ninth avenue to Ansel Gridley for his Oxford residence property.

Mr. McDonald is removing the buildings from the old Boyle lots and will begin work on his elegant new building at once.

Jas. Fahey returned from the west Friday. He has purchased property in Albuquerque, and will open a wholesale liquor store there.

Sam Myton has all the alley room on his block occupied with wagons and agricultural implements. It looks like a circus ground.

Uncle Peter Smith started with his family for Illinois last week. Uncle Peter is one of the old residents of the county and has been a good citizen.

Winfield seems to be having a big improvement boom this spring. Four, and perhaps five, large brick business buildings are being contracted for now.

The Rev. D. Thomas, of Winfield, will preach at the school house near Salem on next Sabbath at 11 o'clocl a.m., and also in the after part of the day.

Jim Hill has put out his "ice-cold lemonade" signs. Those who remember the excellent lemonade Jim made in olden times have not forgotten its cooling properties.

Mr. B. F. Herrod, of Tisdale, one of the "old timers" of Tisdale township, dropped into our sanctum Saturday.

Mr. J. M. Blair, of Richland, brought to our office last week a parcel containing sugar, made from the sap of the box-elder tree. The sugar is of a yellowish tinge and is grained nicely.

Mr. McDonald is fixing up the building which he recently purchased from Harry Bahntge, preparatory to opening his stock of goods. He will be ready for business about May 1st.

Mr. W. B. Skinner, trustee of Vernon township, called on us. He thinks the wheat looks very favorable, and that with seasonable rains, we may expect a good crop.

A supper and ice cream festival will be given by the ladies of the Baptist church on Thursday evening at the opera house. Sun bonnets, aprons, and fancy goods for sale. Supper 25 cents.

Winfield Courier, April 21, 1881.

The Winfield Bank was caught in a rather unpleasant predicament Tuesday. On Monday they had a workman fixing something about their safe, and it is thought he accidentally turned the dial on the time lock; at any rate, when the cashier came to open the safe at the usual time, he found that it would not open. This left the bank dead broke as far as the availability of their cash was concerned. In the emergency Read's Bank came to the rescue and furnished Cashier Fuller with a roll of bills about the size of a man's hat, with which the Winfield Bank did business until by close watching they caught the changed time of their lock and got the safe open. These timelocks are sometimes as annoying to the banks as they are to the burglars.

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The committee in charge of the public shearing of sheep at Winfield on Wednesday, the 4th day of May, have about completed all arrangements. Uhl, of Butler county, has notified the committee that he will be present with some of his blooded and heavy fleece sheep. This public shearing is attracting the attention of nearly all the sheep men in Cowley and Sumner counties, and will no doubt draw a large crowd of sheep men and spectators. The committee expects to have a patent sheep-shearing machine on the ground for the purpose of testing its ability to perform the work that is now being claimed for it.

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A portion of the Grouse between Dexter and Torrance was visited by a very severe storm Sunday evening. Mr. John Reynold's farm seemed to be about the center of the rainfall, and it was so heavy that two gaps were washed out of his stone fence. Plum creek was raised so that it overflowed its banks, and Grouse creek rose three feet. Dexter had but a light shower, and Torrance has scarcely any. The hail was very heavy, and some of it remained on the ground until Monday noon. The rains seem to be striking in spots for some reason or other.

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RUNAWAY. Wednesday morning Sam Gilbert left his team in front of a barber shop with his little girl, Nanny, holding the lines. The team became frightened, turned short around and started for home. When the team turned, Nanny was thrown out, but sustained no injuries beyond a few scratches. The ponies started out Ninth avenue at a terrific gait, and reached home, a mile and a half distant, without much breakage. It is fortunate that the little girl fell out before the team got under full headway.

Winfield Courier, April 21, 1881.

Quite a jolly party left on the A. T. & S. F. Tuesday afternoon on a pleasure trip to Topeka and Kansas City. The party was composed of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bahntge, Mrs. Dr. Emerson, Mrs. A. T. Spotswood and children, and Miss Smith. They will be absent several days. M. L. will stop over in Topeka to attend the directors' meeting of the A. T. & S. F. M. L. Robinson was selected by the commissioners to vote the Cowley county stock.

Our new Judge, Hon. E. S. Torrance, is holding his first term of court in Elk county and to the pleasure of friends and surprise of those who opposed him for election, our young friend wears the judicial ermine with as much dignity and ease as any old judge. Mr. Torrance is but a boy in years, but in point of ability and experience in the law, he is the peer of any lawyer or jurist in Southern Kansas. The bar of this district can rest assured that they are practicing their profession before a clear headed and impartial court. Courant.

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Frank Manny was indicted by the U. S. Grand Jury last week for neglecting to post his internal revenue license. He was fined fifty dollars and costs, amounting in all to one hundred and eighty dollars. Such mistakes are liable any time to occur, and it does not seem fair to fine a man for a failure to post his license in a conspicuous place after he has paid the government for it.

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Missouri has a law against gambling and Kansas a law against whiskey selling. The gamblers and saloon keepers propose to build establishments across the state line at Kansas City, with the saloon in the Missouri end and the gambling house in the Kansas end, and thus the outlawed fraternity will endeavor to make both ends meet.

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We understand that parties on the Arkansas river are netting fish, contrary to law, and our market has been flooded with small catfish caught in this way. The farmers along the river who are interested in protecting the fish should look after this matter and not allow the streams to be robbed in this manner.

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Friday was "arbor day" in the schools. Each of the children appeared on the grounds in the afternoon with a tree, which was set out. City Engineer Smith surveyed the grounds, and the work was done systematically. If the trees grow, and the board takes steps toward protecting them, our school grounds will in a few years be very attractive.

Mr. J. C. Roberts, trustee of Walnut township, has been putting in the week superintending the repairs on the Timber Creek bridge. He informs us that the abutments will be ready for the iron by Friday. The bridge will likely be opened for travel inside of thirty days.

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A charter has been filed with the secretary of state incorporating the "Commonwealth Company." The capital stock is $75,000. The company will publish the Commonwealth and run a job concern.

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Mr. Chas. Black received a dispatch Monday afternoon announcing the severe illness of his grandfather, Mr. S. L. Brettan [? THOUGHT HIS NAME WAS BRETTUN ?]. Mr. Black left on the afternoon train for Hampton, Illinois.

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Uncle Isaac Comfort is dead. He died at his home in Pennsylvania on the 5th inst. Thus closes a long and eventful career. Uncle Isaac was over seventy years old.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

A shooting case occurred near Mulvane on Monday. A man named Lake went into a field where his neighbor, Trout, was at work, and demanded payment of a dollar and a half which Lake claimed was due him. Trout denied his indebtedness, and angry words followed, until Lake seized a plow wrench and was about to assault Trout with it, when Trout drew a revolver and fired three times at Lake, who fell and soon died. He leaves a wife and three small children.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

On Monday night Mayor Troup gave his nominations for city officers in the council. The names offered by him were: For marshal, James Bethel; for city clerk, D. C. Beach; for street commissioner, C. M. Wood, for city engineer, S. C. Smith. The council confirmed the appointments of Beach for clerk and Smith for engineer, but refused to confirm Bethel as marshal. A resolution was passed requiring the marshal to perform the duties of street commissioner in addition to his own, and reducing his salary to forty dollars a month. The council then went into executive session on the marshal question, which resulted in the appointment of Mr. John Burris. Mr. Burris is a good man, and will fill the position to the satisfaction of all, if he decides to accept the appointment.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

In company with Mr. Wm. Moore, we visited his stone quarries on Black Crook last Friday. These are the quarries from which come most of the magnificent flagging, out of which our far-famed sidewalks are built. Our inspection of these quarries convinced us that the supply of flagging is practically inexhaustible. The rock lies in layers, running from three inches to three feet in thickness, the thinnest layers being on top, and the flagging can be taken out any thickness or size desired. The workmen had one layer uncovered which was fully fifty feet square and six inches in thickness. This was marked off into blocks three feet by four. Holes were bored in the marks at intervals of six inches, and the huge block was being cut up into sizes suitable for the four-foot crossings of the city. Blocks of flagging have been taken out eight inches in thickness, and sixteen feet square, and hauled into town to be used as floors in kitchens and outhouses. In these instances the floors were laid and the houses built over them. The foreign demand for this flagging is growing constantly, and Mr. Moore is compelled to add more force from time to time. He has shipped carload after carload to Kansas City, has filled large contracts at Wichita and Wellington, and has orders for much more. He is making arrangements to ship several blocks to Kansas City to be laid in front of the new Custom House. They will be as large as one of the flat railroad cars, and each stone will make a carload. As the value of this stone becomes known, the demand increases and in time it will become one of our leading industries.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

Monday evening Wallis & Wallis received permission to move their frame building and will at once begin the erecting of a stone building, 25 x 80 on the lot now occupied by their store. It will be one story high, but built so that another story can be put on at any time.

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We were treated to a little blaze Friday afternoon. The house of Mr. Caywood, on fifth avenue, caught fire from the flue and burst into a blaze. It was dry as tinder, and burned rap-

idly. Ye local owned property next door, which was considerably scorched, and had it not been for the efforts of the crowd, it would have gone up in smoke. We speak from experience when we remark that it's mighty consoling to be well insured under such circumstances. Mr. Caywood was insured for $300, which covers about half of his loss.

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"Buck" is an accomplished salesman. Spotswood had a lot of bananas which were about to rot, and as it would never do to let anything spoil in a grocery store, Buck made up his mind to sell those bananas. So he grabbed a board and with a few artistic touches manufactured a sign, "Something new: West India soft string beans for seed." The ruse took, and many an enterprising stranger traveled home with a package of new beans. If any inquisitive tourist sees the end of a banana sticking up out of the ground during his travels through Cowley, let him call on Buck for an explanation.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

Johnny Graham has quit farming this season, and can now be found at his blacksmith shop in Dexter.

Mr. Joseph Church has purchased a house in the country, and contemplates moving it to town.

P. J. Smith started for Illinois the other day, but had traveled only a few miles when he was overtaken and brought back to settle up some debts. Having straightened up his accounts, he is now ready to start again.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 21, 1881.

The prospect for a good crop of corn is very flattering.

Wheat is looking well, although it is needing rain very badly. Peaches are nearly all killed.

Mr. Pitt started for Colorado last week in search of wealth.

Health is good, except some few cases of the measles.

It pains us to chronicle the death of Mrs. Ollie Condit, who departed this life on the 10th instant. She leaves a husband and five children. She was a kind neighbor, and her loss will be deeply felt in the community.

H. C. CATLIN.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

The Moline (Illinois) Review-Dispatch of April 22nd contains the following notice of the death of Soranus L. Brettun, which is doubtless correct, though no information of the kind has been received from C. C. Black, who was there at the time named. It is with deep regret that we have to make this announcement.

Mr. Brettun has been a friend to Winfield, where he has invested large sums of money and made some of our grandest improvements and we had learned to regard him as a citizen of this place, and a man of enterprise, a warm hearted and courteous friend and a true gentleman of the old school. The citizens of Winfield will deeply sympathize with the bereaved.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

Ice wagons are active.

Hank Clay took in the "hub" Tuesday.

Pearly Conklin spent Monday in the city.

Hon. C. H. Mitchell was in town Saturday.

Mr. J. E. Conklin left for the east last week.

Frank Frye has gone into the grocery business at Oswego.

J. H. Finch is helping Gen. Green through a rush of real estate business.

The government is having the census taken of all the Indians in the Territory.

Ed. P. Greer has sold his residence property on Tenth avenue to W. P. Hackney.

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Geo. Cunningham, of Arkansas City, has an ad in this paper. Read it, Farmers!

AD: GEO. W. CUNNINGHAM, ARKANSAS CITY, AGENT FOR COWLEY COUNTY FOR THE SALE OF HODGES' HEADER. YOUR FARE AND EXPENSES WILL BE PAID BY ME IF YOU WILL COME AND EXAMINE AND BUY THIS HEADER THIS SEASON. WILL GUARANTEE LOWEST PRICES, LONGEST & BEST TERMS.

LATEST IMPROVED & BEST HEADER MADE.

Will bear your expenses if it is not so. Machine and repairs will be delivered free at Winfield, and freights guaranteed less than Winfield freights. Machine and repairs on hand, and you are sure to get them if ordered.

GEO. W. CUNNINGHAM, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

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The Brettun House is nearly ready for the plasterers. Archy Stewart has the contract.

Sam Gilbert has an unpleasant boil on his cheek. The cheek can stand it, but it worries Sam.

Nommsen & Stueves have removed their barber shop to the room next to the English Kitchen.

Geo. Heffron has sold his dairy, south of town, to a young man by the name of Howard for $5,000 cash.

Col. McMullin has a new boy at his house. Born Friday. The Colonel was able to attend to business Monday.

Why don't the coal company get to work? Don't linger in developing the mine of wealth which lies under our feet.

We learn with sorrow of the sickness of Mrs. Ben Wright, of Pleasant Valley township. We hope she may rapidly recover.

Mr. Smyth will move his stone sawing machine to his quarry and furnish building stone in blocks ready for laying up.

SHEEP FOR SALE. Ewes with lambs, either new or after shearing. Apply to R. B. Ving, Cedarvale, Chautauqua county.

Mr. Dever has fitted up an elegant ice cream parlor. He dishes up the cooling decoction in the highest style of the art.

Mr. Moorehouse and family are home again after several months' sojourn at Hot Springs. Mr. Moorehouse is much improved in health.

Rev. J. J. Wingar, who preached on Grouse creek and at Arkansas City some years ago, is now stationed at San Carlos, Arizona.

Those parties who go around posting bills on fences are still courting sudden and awful death at the hands of the enraged property owners.

The Arkansas City water works will succeed. We congratulate our brethren on their good works. Their faith is shown by the (water) works.

Squire Harvey Smith, of Silver Creek township, was in town Tuesday.

A good time was had at Arkansas City at the Creswell township Sunday school convention. Rev. S. S. Holloway and Superintendent Storey, of Winfield, were in attendance.

FOR RENT. We still have a few good farms for rent for spring crop. E. A. HENTHORN & BRO., Burden, Kansas.

The council has awarded the contract for the erection of the fire bell tower to I. W. Randall. It will be thirty feet high, and will be put up in the rear of Max Shoeb's blacksmith shop.

Winfield has been selected as one of the points of holding examinations, for admission to the State University.

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ANOTHER RUNAWAY. Last Friday W. A. Lee was out to Mr. Stephens' farm, seven miles east, to attend to some business, having in company with him a Mr. Ireenman, traveling man for the firm of B. D. Buford & Co., Kansas City. On their way back the neck-yoke became disconnected from the end of the tongue. The tongue dashing out loose in front of the horses fearfully scared them, and they at once began to kick and run. The buggy top being up, the situation became desperate. Mr. Lee held his team and kept talking to them to quiet them. When he found that impossible, he at once pulled them into some plowed land and circled the team until he turned the buggy over, throwing himself and friend out without a scratch, but badly smashing up the buggy and harness.

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We acknowledge a call from Mr. S. Fry, of Acton, Indiana. Mr. Fry is quite a large property owner here and is improving several farms. He says that he has been reading with much interest the articles on tree culture which have appeared in the COURIER from time to time, and is firmly convinced that tree planting would add much to the beauty and fertility of the county. He brought out with him about a peck of catalpa seed, which he will plant on one of his farms. We are under obligations to him for a box of the seed.

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Col. Scott, from Lockport, N. Y., an early schoolmate of

J. C. Fuller, has been visiting in this city for the past few days. He is one of the wide awake and successful businessmen of the Empire state, having made a large fortune in manufacturing. He regards this as a promising point for various kinds of manufacturers, and may take a fancy to make a start of some branch in Winfield.

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A boy by the name of Will Clarke had his foot caught in the horse power of the street sprinkler pump Tuesday morning and badly crushed. All the small boys in town seem to make this pump their headquarters and we have often thought that some of them would come to grief. The boy is badly injured and may loose his foot.

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Workmen are busy tearing away the brick barber shop and moving the Wallis & Wallis store room to make room for the fine stone store to be erected immediately. Brown & Son will also put up a handsome stone and brick building, and are already removing the old Whitehead building.

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Miss Anna Hess died Sunday afternoon. Her disease was consumption, of which her sister, Mrs. Harter, died two weeks ago. Miss Hess has been suffering for several years. The funeral was held at the M. E. church Monday afternoon.

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Mr. F. E. Fogg, a bright young attorney, has located here, and has his offfice with Dr. Wells. His card appears in another column.

CARD: F. E. FOGG, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WINFIELD, KANSAS. OFFICE ON MAIN STREET, BETWEEN 9TH AND 10TH AVENUE.

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A heavy storm visited Dexter and Grouse Valley last Sunday. Hail was blown up against a stone wall three feet thick, so we are told. Enterprise.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

Wheat is looking fine. Most of the farmers are through planting corn. We have a good prospect that the coming fruit crop will be a large one.

The people do not seem to be very uneasy about the world coming to an end next fall, according to the prophecy of old Mother Shipton, for they keep on working for wealth as if they had never heard of it.

FRIEND.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

Farmers are busy planting corn. Peaches are all killed on the low lands. The wheat is looking well since the rain of Sunday night. The cherry trees are blooming out, and the prospects are good for a large amount this season. The prairie is beginning to don the mantle of green, which the farmers are glad to see, as feed was becoming rather scarce.

Allen Henthorn and John Sargeant are talking of putting in 100 acres of cane this season.

A Sunday school was organized at this place last Sunday. The officers elected were as follows: Superintendent, R. S. Thompson; assistant superintendent, A. L. Crow; secretary, Alice Stolp. JULIUS.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

The people of this vicinity are all jubilant over present prospects for both grain and fruit of all kinds. Corn is nearly all planted. Early planting is up and doing well. Wheat bids fair, considering the severity of the past winter.

Our little town is still improving.

D. Richards has nearly completed his neat stone residence.

Enos Harlan and Dr. Burnham have formed a partnership and are building an addition to the Doctor's office, and intend putting in a full line of drugs.

Our enterprising merchants have their store rooms full of goods, and are building up a large trade, which from the location of our town, will be permanent.

Our doctors, judging from the practice they get, are doubtless skilled in the profession.

Last week our citizens were successful in procuring one of the best blacksmiths in the county. He will be ready for business in about ten days.

A town company has been organized for the purpose of improving the town. Extra inducements will be made for businessmen to come and locate with us. C. A. P.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

John Clover handed us a limb from his peach trees Monday morning, and nearly every bud was alive. Look out for peaches and cream.

Hon. R. F. Burden left Monday morning for Champaign county, Ohio, where he goes to visit his father, who is prostrated with sickness and not expected to live.

While in Winfield last Friday, we took a look through the Brettun House. It is not finished yet, but the carpenters are busy getting it ready for the plasterers. It is going to be the finest built building in Southern Kansas. It is a credit to Winfield and Cowley county.

John Clover brought us in a string which he used in measuring the circumference of a cottonwood tree, grown from the seed in eight years, and what do you think this monster measured? 62 inches at the ground. How is that for timber culture in Kansas?

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

The new hotel, known as the Brettun, at Winfield, is now under cover and rapidly becoming pushed to completion. It is hoped that it will be ready for occupancy early in July. It is an imposing structure, and is an improvement of which Winfield is justly proud.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

Mr. A. W. Berkey, cashier of the Winfield Bank, paid his friend in the city a short visit last Friday.

Our congenial young friend, Joe Baldridge, of Winfield, came down to the city on Saturday evening again for the purpose of taking in the "canawl!" At least that's what he told us, so it must be so.

How is it that it takes a constable with a search warrant five whole days to satisfy himself there's no whiskey in a temperance town, when a thirsty citizen in the same town steps out of his office, walks briskly away, and in less than three minutes emerges from an adjacent alley, wiping his perspiring mouth and looking as demure as--Ben Butler on the speed issue?

While in Winfield the other day, thanks to the courtesy of Mr. E. P. Kinne, we drove around the hub and took in the various improvements. Buildings are going up in all parts of town, as well as other improvements. A driving park in the north part of town, near Dutch creek, is to be a prominent feature before very long. A large amount of garden products is grown and shipped west from the garden in the northeast part of town. Oh, yes, there's life in the old town yet.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

One of the best sentences we have heard pronounced for many a day came from Judge E. S. Torrance last Tuesday morning, when an attorney of the bar proposed taking up a divorce case, while the court was waiting for the arrival of a witness after a jury had been drawn. In answer to the remark that it would require but a few moments, the Judge said: "It takes a good while to get a divorce in this court." This policy lived out will result in great good to the country.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

CRIMINAL DOCKET: STATE OF KANSAS VERSUS 59 CASES...

Theo Miller, R. Ehret, Jos. Whitteman, Frank Manny, John Himelspach, James Fahey, Frank Merrill, Stephen O'Lane, Theo R. Timme, Thos. H. Benning, E. A. Henthorn, Geo. Miller, B. M. Terrill, Joe R. Smith, A. W. Patterson, Harry Bahntge, David Harter, A. H. Green, Barney Shrivers, Thos. Wright, Sid S. Major, W. A. Gibbs, S. S. Moore, Geo. Corwin, Ed G. Cole, A. Hatfield, ____ Squires, John Custer, Wayne Bitting, Ed Appling, Ed Howell, S. R. Walcott, W. L. Mullen, H. Jochems, James Allen, L. J. Webb, Ed Collins, Sol Frazier, R. Ehret, Major F. Moss, Geo. Haywood, E. B. Weitzel, Allison Toops, Willie Fogg, Alex May.

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CIVIL DOCKET: 120 CASES.

Patrick Harkins vs. David F. Edmons; C. C. Harris vs. Sanford Day; Mercy M. Funk vs. Cinthia Clark et al; W. W. H. Maris vs. T. W. Gant et al; James Kelly vs. Frank Manny; J. A. Myton vs. S. H. Myton et al; M. E. Bolton vs. Caroline Arnold; S. D. Pryor et al vs. M. L. Read et al; John Lowry vs. C S & Ft S R R Co; Seymour Tyrant vs. David Hitchcock; Seme vs. C. L. Harter et al; John Pittinger vs. Samuel B. Atkinson et al; B. B. Vandeventer vs.

S K & W R R Co.; John S. Mann vs. J. D. Burt et al; John B. Lynn vs. S K & W R R Co.; M. L. Read vs. Francis M. Small et al;

M. L. Read vs. John J. Breene et al; Curns & Manser vs. Warren Gillelen; J. W. Lane vs. T. S. Green; John Stuart vs. B. Corrygan; Edward Geist vs. same; John Templeton vs. same;

J. E. Hayner & Co. vs. H. L. Cowles; Wm. D. Rason vs. John Brooks; Emma J. Keffer vs. George Brown et al; Albert P. Johnson vs S K & W R R Co.; Oscar F. Weeks vs. same; Martha C. Dyer vs. Andrew R. Wilson; Daniel Bell vs. County Commissioners; E. M. Bird vs. same; J. R. Harmon vs. same; C. C. Hollister vs. same; Sarilda Paxton vs. Clayton A. Paxton; Miles L. Smith vs. W. P. Olney et al; Henry S. Ireton vs. Charles A. Bliss; D. M. Osburn vs. Godfrey Mast et al; Harry McNeil vs. A. T. Shenneman; John Moffit vs. John Smiley et al; Same vs. Thomas Wright et al; Joseph W. Pugsley vs A. T. Shenneman; Mary Lawson vs. Peter Lawson; Wyland J. Keffer vs. T. B. Norman; McCord, Nave & Co. vs. A. T. Shenneman; City of Winfield vs. Joseph Poor; Malin Fowler & Co. vs. Knisley & Bowles; John Himelspach vs. same; Ida Arnold vs. Elizabeth Dressel et al; John B. Fleming vs. C. C. Krrow; Winfield Bank vs. T. M. Linscott; Moore Brothers vs. J. H. McBerth [? McBeth would seem more like it ?]; J. L. Byers vs.

W. B. Seward et al; M. L. Read vs. H. Tisdale et al; Basheba Goodell vs. Charles Goodell; W. H. Fritch vs. T. M. Maddox; Robert Allison vs. James Finch; Frank C. Wood vs. Geo. H. McIntire; Hackney & McDonald vs. Bolton and Creswell townships; Thomas J. Jackson vs. James P. Williams et al; James P. Walch vs. Knisley & Bowles; S. L. Brettun vs. Jacob G. Titus et al;

Field, Leiter & Co. vs. A. T. Shenneman; M. L. Read vs. John L. Rusbridge; Brotherton and Silver vs. Elmer V. Stevens; H. P. Farrar vs. E. R. C. Gray; John B. Tallman vs. John H. Willis et al; James L. Huey vs. Agnes Wilson; George B. Green vs. James Harden; Libbby & Moody vs. James Harden; Almost Wiley vs. James Harden; R. L. McDonald & Co. vs. Agnes Wilson; Tennent Walker and Company vs. Agnes Wilson; Evan Richards et al vs. S. B. Littell; Aultman & Taylor Co. vs. George Hafer; Winfield Bank vs. H. F. Burnett; Rosanna E. Sydall vs. James H. Finch; W. M. Wyeth & Co. vs. P. J. Sydall; S. P. Kinsley vs. A. T. Shenneman; Frank S. Sydall vs. James H. Finc; T. E. Lewis vs. E. A. Wilson; In the matter of W. M. Null for mill dam; Adolphus H. Green vs. E. F. Widner et al; Daniel Sheels vs. G. E. Bradt et al; M. Brettin vs. Alvin E. McDeed; Rufus B. Wait vs. E. E. Lewis; M. L. Read vs. Samuel C. Fitzgerald; F. E. Lewis vs. Charles Jones; S. B. Tucker vs. O. F. Boyle et al; Nancy A. Snodgrass vs. John Snodgrass; Jennie P. Coleman vs. Geo. W. Coleman; L. Lowenstein vs. B. Saddler; Mary Lewes vs. Lewis Sherbino; J. E. Hoyt vs. A. T. Shenneman; Comstock, Castle & Co. vs. E. S. Rose; Elijah Wells vs. Nancy J. Wells; Rilda P. Hughes vs. Charles Marshall; Robert E. Wallace vs. Martin West; March C. Anderson vs. Wm. D. Anderson; Margaret J. Manning vs. Edwin C. Manning; Almira I. Clay vs. Wm. Clay; Hattie B. Fuller vs. J. S. Chick; Jostin [?] Hollistter vs. John L. Morton et al; John W. Sargeant vs. Susan Sargeant; John Lowry vs. F. A. Osborn; Aultman Taylor & Co. vs. Reuben Corman et al; Wm. C. Hastchings vs. Thomas Copeland; Mason & Tulle vs. Malinda Clay et al; Frank J. Sydall vs. James H. Finch; N. C. Myers vs. Elijah Murphey et al; Quincy A. Glass vs. School District 123; John Rhodes vs. John T. Quarels; James E. Searl vs. Overa Y. Searl; Simmons and Ott vs. J. B. Williams et al; Thos. James vs. James Boyd.

NOTE: #105 WAS MARGARET J. MANNING VS. EDWIN D. MANNING.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

We have removed our grocery stock to the building next door north of Curns & Manser's office. The change is made necessary by our deciding to erect a new business house upon the site of our old store. The quarters in which we now are, and will be compelled to stay for a few months, are not as commodious as the comfort of our customers demand, but such inconveniences are unavoidable, so we trust that the trading public will bear with us for a little while. With the completion of our new building, we intend to run a model establishment, and will be able to supply our large and increasing trade with the best the market affords, both in quality and prices.

WALLIS & WALLIS.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

LAST CHANCE! NO MORE CHEAP GOODS AFTER SATURDAY.

I am disposing of all the goods that I can sell this week at cost. Next Monday I begin packing what is left for shipment to Colorado. What I sell now will not have to be shipped. I can carry the money to Colorado cheaper than I can the goods, so if you want bargains in clothing, hats, caps, or gent's furnishing goods, call between now and Saturday night.

G. A. SCOVILL,

Agent for Henry W. King & Co.

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THE WINFIELD COURIER APRIL 28, 1881.

[THIS WAS MENTIONED IN APRIL 21ST PERSONALS: "We have received an excellent article entitled "Reminiscenses," which will appear in our next. The paper is well written and will be of interest to the pioneers of '70 and '71. The writer says, 'Should you consign it to the wastebasket, no offense will be taken.' We always like to publish articles that will recall the early days of our county. We should like more of them." THE AUTHOR IS NOT GIVEN!]

ARTICLE:

It will be ten years in June since I made my first visit to Cowley. The terminus of the railroad then was Florence, at which point my traveling companion and myself arrived a little before sunset, where we found our father waiting for us, to convey us to his new home down in the wilds. As camping out was then in vogue, after loading our goods, which until this time had been stored in our southern home, we started out of town and traveled about two miles until we reached a clear stream, where we thought it best to spend the night. My father and my friend pitched their tent by the side of the wagon where they soon were quietly reposing, but as the grass was their bed, and having quite an aversion to the snake fraternity, which I knew inhabited these prairie countries, no persuasions nor entreaties of theirs could induce me to share their lowly fare, so I climbed on top of a large dry goods box on the wagon and there spent the night. It was a splendid place for meteorological observations, but an exceedingly poor place for sleep; but true to first impressions, I spent three nights on that box, and when on Saturday, about noon, we arrived at our destination, it was with difficulty that I could be persuaded to relinquish my claim, and a number of days till youthful vigor asserted its wonted rights, and I could move around with ease. This first experience of camp life was anything but flattering.

What a strange country this was; one vast expanse of prairie, with here and there a line of trees showing the track of some stream. Although it had been but a few months since this country had been opened for settlement, almost every quarter section was marked by its pile of stone or cottonwood cabin.

How it made my heart sink as we neared our home, where my always patient mother was waiting to embrace me and give a hearty welcome. Although different from our former homes, adversity causing my father to seek this frontier settlement, still he and mother were cheerful, and with their usual good sense, trying to make the best of everything. The house was about twelve feet by fourteen, no window, a loose board answering that purpose, being shoved to one side when light and air were needed. Then the fare! Who would have thought of a city pedagogue enjoying corn bread, made without milk, and bacon; no butter, but instead "back woods preserves." But it did not take more than a week to convince us that these were much better than we supposed, and finally good appetizers.

Then came those hot days of July and August, and as the early settlers will remember, the tendency to rain at most any moment; the sun blazing out with scorching rays one hour, and the next a great black thunder cloud covering the sky's deep blue; and how everything did grow; the sod corn was a marvel, and the grass and weeds were without a parallel. Such a state of things could not last long without developing that unwelcome visitor, chills, and almost everybody had them.

The place of public worship was a little grove by the side of a stream where a clear, cold spring quenched the thirst of those who many times suffered for such a cooling beverage, wells at that time a rarity. Rude seats were improvised, and these weekly gatherings seemed to be the "season of refreshing for the people." Although the toil and privations they were enduring was telling on many, still almost all kept brave hearts, looking forward to the great future of this land of their choice.

Quietly and quickly sped the ten weeks' vacation with nothing to save the monotony except a couple of visits to Winfield. 'Twas a strange town, but then this was only its babyhood. Not a chimney in the place, and such a collection of articles in the stores: everything from a side of bacon down to a paper of pins. But of these small beginnings are the great ends.

Then came the sad good-bye, leaving the dear ones in this wild place, and sick most of the time, but feeling it was the best braved my heart. We traversed the same road to Florence again, this time making the trip in a little over two days, and having the empty wagon to sleep in, which was very conciliatory.

The months, fraught with hard work and its compensation, rolled along, bringing word weekly from the Cowley house, telling of plans and prospects, and giving words of admonition as well, until the next June, and again I packed my trunk for my second visit to the south. By this time the railroad had reached Newton, which was noted as the congregation point of the leading desperadoes of the country, so we hurried away from the polluted spot, and camped several miles away from town. The change one year had wrought in the appearance of the country was remarkable. So much had been done for the comfort and convenience of these new homes.

After the home greetings and rest of a few days, having brought a saddle with me, I proceeded with my faithful horse to explore the country. Every nook for miles around was subjected to a series of inspections, but the one spot particularly impressive was the canyon. To me it was full of wonder, contemplating the whys and wherefores of such a work of rude beauty, and it was not long until I grew to love the quiet spot.

Winfield had passed my expectations. People seemed to be flocking in from every quarter, all eager for the one great object: the "almighty dollar." There was something fascinating about this feverish bustle after something; it showed an object in life, which so many eastern people lack.

It took some time to become reconciled to the appellation of bachelor, as bestowed alike on boys of twenty-one and men of forty-five. All the men who had taken claims and were unmarried, be they beardless youths or middle-aged men, were designated in that term. Of course, any lady with an average share of attractions would come in for some attentions, although sometimes the way they were bestowed was quite impressive. For instance, one day going to Winfield, one of the young bachelors happened by accident to accompany me. Although the conversation was rather one-sided, still a good listener is to be appreciated, and I was more than repaid for my expenditure of strength in the entertaining line, when on coming home my escort bashfully rode close by my side, and without a word slipped some peanuts and apple in my hand. I shall always think of that boy with feelings of interest.

The third vacation was a more lively one. People were cordial and seemed glad to welcome me back, and my horse was ready for the summer tours; and this time, we had picnics, horseback parties, etc. Farmers were jubilant over good crops, and housewives proud of their culinary stores. Winfield had made a great stride toward its future greatness, and the stir and bustle pervading all was such as only a westerner can appreciate or endure.

Only too rapidly the weeks sped by, and again the ten months of work were entered upon, this time with a zest, for they were to be the last. The fourth summer was quietly spent, and one evening in early autumn I promised to share the fortunes and misfortunes of one of those lonely bachelors. It was misfortune to start on, for the grasshoppers were black over the land, making their way into every nook and corner of the house, stripping every green thing of its verdure, and making the whole land look as though a vast fire had devastated it. Some of the settlers turned back to their old homes, heart-sick and breathing out anathemas on Cowley's fair name; but the men with nerve and sinew stayed, and they are now reaping the harvest of their toil and endurance.

It did not take long to settle down to housekeeping, and thanks to my bachelor husband, I soon learned to make bread and biscuit, and experience taught me the grand possibilities there are in rice, and that soda and sugar are each good in its place. The "red letter" days were those when I could go home, and my father would always meet me with a smile to take care of my horse and show me some new improvement.

So sped three years of married life, bringing with them cares and many blessings. The most perplexing care was when household help was needed. Oh, those girls! And many another housewife will echo, "those girls!" When you can relish pumpkin pies made in such a way that they seem like modified sole leather, then you can truly sing, "Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness," for what you eat and drink will be of little consequence.

The fourth year brought its cloud. The white-haired father was stricken with disease, and as week after week he lay daily learning patience and trust, enduring untold anguish without a murmur, it was then we felt it would be a mercy if release would come, and it did come, and all that was left of our dear one was the poor, wasted body, to be laid by us tenderly away. It is a beautiful spot, overlooking the town, where our dead rests, and the simple inscription on the marble, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints," seems peculiarly adapted to the case.

Now as I sit by the open door in my home overlooking Winfield, for the farm life is one of the things of the past, I can take in the full beauty of the town, the setting sun casting its golden glow over all and adding to its already many charms. The beautiful Brettun House is the prominent feature; then the churches, school houses, courthouse, and fine stone and brick residences all present a striking contrast to the ten years ago.

Now our transportation facilities are fast approaching the best, our newspapers are spicy and intelligent, our pulpits are filled with men who have the people's good at heart. May blessings crown the work of men who can visit the poor, sick, and afflicted, and utter words of cheer, comfort, and hope, as well as preach the Everlasting word in the pulpit. This is surely what the bible means by "pure and undefiled religion."

Last, but not least, is the people. They are so genial, intelligent, and warm-hearted. The eastern idea of caste is only slightly recognized here. As a rule, the intelligent class place merit as their standard, and such judgment cannot fail to bring about good results. Everything seems to unite to make this a place of beauty and attraction, and we are often led to exclaim, "There is ne'er in the wide world a valley so sweet."

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