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John & Susan Howell
__Candidates are "rustling." __Shall we have street lamps? __Public school opened Monday. __Trade is brightening up immensely. __School books sold like "hot cakes" this week. __Marshal W. D. Fossett and wife are attending the Harper fair. __It seems quite natural to hear the clang of the schoolbell. __Geo. F. Berry was out to Ninnescah several days this week on business. __W. L. Easten, of Richland township has our thanks for some fine peaches. __Attend the entertainment at the Opera House next Thursday evening. __Capt. L. C. Almond and Carson M. Bay were in Wichita last week on busi- ness. __The United Brethren are erecting neat edifice in the northern part of the city. __Marshal Fossett will enter his little gray mare In the running race at the Har- per fair this week. __Mrs. Jennie Nicolette, nee Capps, of Newton, visited her sister, Mrs. P. J. Conklin, of this city, last week. __W. P. Jones, of Fall River, Kansas spent several days in Kingman this week with a view to investing in property. __Mr. and Mrs. Woolard, of Wichita were visiting their daughter, Mrs. Harry Gillen, of this city, last week. __M. N. Jones, official reporter of the twentieth district, was in the city Mon- day en route for Pratt Center. __W. H. Childs is making preparation to build a coal yard near the Wichita & Western railroad track, on Sherman Street. __Dr. C.W. Myers left Tuesday for Atkinson, Henry county, Ill., on an ex- tended visit to friends and relatives at his old home. __Medicine Lodge Cressett: Mrs. J. P Jones and Miss Katie Veatch, of King- man, passed through the city Monday on their way to Comanche county. __John M. Beck, a capitalist from New York city, in company with J. D. Humph- reys, of this city, made the Courier a pleasant call Wednesday. __A Garden City editor speaks of hav- ing "embraced an opportunity." It must have been an apparition. We don't be- lieve he would be guilty of such an act. |
__The fiends who do the "drumming
act" for the different hotels in this city, make night hideous with their yells for residents in several blocks of the depot. __James Kelly, the able editor of the Pratt Press, was in the city last week, Bro. Kelly has rather a warm county seat fight on his hands but he is holding his own. __Capt. L. C. Almond, proprietor of the Opera House, has just put in a Math- ushek orchestral piano. Ha purchased this elegant piano of Oscar Capps, the music dealer of this city. __While the excitement about extreme western lands continues, do not lose sight of the fact that Kingman county is our home, and that our first and best ef- forts should be towards building it up. __The Courier issued this week a neat eight page folder for the enterprising real estate firm of E. W. Stafford & Co. The genial manager and proprietor, Mr. J. D. Humphrey, is not only a wide-awake businessman, but a reliable and courte- ous gentleman. Parties wanting to pur- chase a farm should not fail to call and see him. __The Norwich News is the name of a new paper issued at Norwich, this county. E. N. Haag is the editor, and H. G. Price is business manager. It is a newsy sheet and presents a neat and prosperous ap- pearance. We wish it unbounded success. __James St. John, of Hutchinson, Kas., one of the proprietors of the St. John & Marsh Lumber Co. was in the city this week. This firm has recently established a yard in this city, with H.T. Provines as manager. __Married, at the residence of the bride's grandfather, Mr. Jno. Nickell, in Chicas- kia township, on 'the 6th inst., by the Rev. T. P. Hales, Mr, Thos. Cummings, of Sedgwick county, and Miss L. M. Jacks of Kingman. __N. G. Covell, living two and one half miles west of Kingman, brought to the COURIER office this week a nice variety of peaches, and a sample of 'his timothy. One Peach, "stump of the world," meas- ured eight and one half inches in cir- cumference. He presented the editor with a peck of this variety, for which he has our sincere thanks. |
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