Lost Corner Items and Local Notes in Peck County
Spring greetings from Peck county residents. Sam Slayton returns home with a bride while J M Mayes visits El Dorado. A house fire destroys Carrie Simpson’s home. Riley Gilbert’s crew finishes a summer job in two days. Nearby visits include Spearman, Moon, and Darrell families, with church officers elected at Cove Creek Baptist Sunday School. A Saturday sales sale draws a large crowd as Jim Craigmiles hurries to his mother’s bedside. Various moves, church events, and local business notes follow, including mill activity, blacksmith work, and footwear promotions at Stayton’s.
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Sam Slayton
J.M. Mayes
el Do
Rado
Carrie Simpson
Walter Hendrickson
Riley Gilbert
Wm. Moon
Kansas City
Coleman
Aaron
John Spearman
Martha Brooks
Topeka
Kans
W. J. Spearman
Jesse Moon
Cass County
Tula Spearman
Henry County
Cove Creek
Local Hardware Catalog Highlights Offered Goods
Head This List features Majestic Steel Ranges Universal Cook Stoves Bent Wood Churn Detroit House Paint and Buggy Paint along with a good 11 inch paint brush. The ad promotes a full line of brushes pumps wind mills granite ware nails barb wire iron steel and wagon woodwork for sale.
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Majestic Steel
Universal
Detroit
Delft Ware and Kitchen Goods Sold by Deacon Bros Co
Beautiful blue and white Delft ware with white interiors featured among kitchen items available from Deacon Bros. & Co. The catalog highlights bowls, dishes, and various porcelain pieces as part of their used kitchenware assortment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delft
BUCDY WACON Line Spotlight Best Quality Buoys
A description praises a magnificent line of best quality single and double BUCDY WACON. The note highlights durability and performance, naming BUCDY and WACON as top makers in the segment and signaling market emphasis on premium equipment.
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Wacon
Local Hardware and Tools Offered At Great Low Prices
A catalog listing shows hammers hatchets axes braces bits chisels handsaws post mauls shovels and garden tools available at very low prices. It references a wide variety of tin pails and gear alongside hardware items from a Buatess Cog sized store and Cuthery in Weelanu with emphasis on leather bogey clips staples and harness shapes.
Spruce Items Show Locals Busy With Spring Work
Readers report neighbors at Spruce busy with spring tasks. Mitchler sowed oats last Thursday. Dickerson travels to Oregon for year’s work. Greer sick. Thompson gardening. Baker moves back to Pleasant Gap from Oklahoma. Henton leads wagon sheet market. Newberry trims vineyard. Kretzinger repairs rented farm. Ludwick sisters sell furniture near Spruce. Mistler praised as best banjo picker. Edna Lawson leads Stringtown organists. Dad Muehler jokes about Rich Hill courthouse. Callahan changes wagon motto. Lane buys coal from Kretzinger mine. Kretzinger couple host music night. Stephenson skater in Deepwater. Oliver avoids smallpox exposure. Alisha Anderson ill but improving. Beard sisters vaccinate with Dr Colson. Jessie Kretzinger owns coin dated 1867. Young and Kretzinger trade stock. Stringtown motto changes to reflect Kretzinger and Stephenson streets and eateries. Preaching at Pleasant Home Church on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays. Walker and wife visit Callahan’s. Rev. Clark settled in new home. Claude Stephenson visits relatives. People seek chicken roasting receipts from William Ewing. FRONT.
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the Times
Mitchler
Tiaac Dickerson
Oregon
Carrie Greer
Josephine Thompson
James Baker
Oklahom
Pleasant Gap
Henton
John B. Newberry
I. M. Kretzinger
Frankie
Jessie Ludwick
Spruce
Lester Mistler
Edna Lawson
String Town
Dad Muehler
Rich Hill
Dad
B. Callahan
Lane
Kretzinger
Frank Kretzinger
Susie Kretzinger
Pet Stephenson
Deepwater
Henry Oliver
Alisha Anderson
Minnie
Maude
Dora
Winnie Beard
Stringtown
Kretzinger Town
Walker Street
Greer’s
Stephenson Street
Schillinger’s
Pleasant Home Church
Mr. Walker
Bates
Henry County
Callahan
Rev. Clark
Claude Stephenson
William Ewing
Virginia Items and town notes from Aaron area
Local Virginia items report weddings expected this paper's arrival. Notes describe horseshoe repairs, illnesses including cholera morbus, travel between Paola Kansas City and Elkhart Township. Mentions people: J W McFadden, Will Cope, Willie Ruble, John Allen and wife, Mrs Allen, Cole Hensley, W C T CO at M E church, W W Park, John Harper, Will Vogt, Steve Cook, Geo Jenkins Jr, RB Jenkins, W J Park, Ada Shelton, Annie Menzie, S E Jones, Peter Crook, Baily Becket, Will McClure, Prof Price, T S Harper, Durst, Elida Witherspoon, Rev Veer. Also notes farm work, plowing, wedding season, and a curious stranger mistaken for President Kruger.
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Virginia
J.W. McFadden
Will Cope
Kansas City
Willie Ruble
Baldwin
Kan.) University
John Allen
Pleasanton
Kan
John Hensley
W.J. Park
Elkhart Township
Aaron
Ada Shelton
Foster
Bethel
Harper Bateman
Annie Menzie
Neb
E. Jones
Peter Crook
Baily Becket
Will McClure
Prof. Price
Kruger
Great
T. S. Harper
Walter Wallace
Durst
Elida Witherspoon
Rev. Veer
Crook
Self cure ends surgeon warnings in Ohio case
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio survived a 14 month fistula ordeal after using Bucklen arnica salve though doctors warned of death without costly surgery. In Kansas City Fort Scott and Memphis depot at Aurora Missouri officers report a safe blow open with 3200 dollars stolen plus tickets and papers.
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Renick Hamilton
West Jefferson
Ohio
Bucklen
H. L. Tucker
Fort Scott
Kan
Kansas City
Fort Scott & Memphis
Aurora
South Springfield
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Chase & Sanborn’s
Boston Coffee
Fort Scott Zephyr
Fort Scott Standard
Power Bros
Plant Seed Co
Seward
Deacon Bros. & CO
IN Butler
Coun
Deering
Studebaker
P. & O Izzard
World Buggy Co
Deacon Bros & Co
Butler, Missouri
Mr. Hayes
Polly Starks
Mr. Silvers
L. Mayes
Mr. Hamilton
Neila Scranton
Walter Staley
Walter
William Spearman
Iss Dale
B. P. White
S.C. Stayton
Alva Dudley
Deering Goods Alwaye Please
Weelanu
Poe
Ladies
U An
Famers Bank
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