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a a a GIRARD PRESS. GIRARD, KANSAS, JUNE 29, 1911. For Sale Fresh milk cow and calf. M. OLES, Girard, Kas.

ELMER LOOMIS, of Girard, has been named as one of the delegates from Kansas to the national G. A. R. Encampment. Presbyterian Church.

Sunday School, 9:45, a. m. Morning service, at 11:00, a. m. Evening service, 8:00, p.

m. A. H. MORRISON, Pastor. M.

E. Church. Sunday School, 9:45, a. m. M.

G. Slawson, superintendent. Public worship, 11, a. m. Moworth League at 7, p.

John Eltobard, president. Preaching, 8, p. m. OLIVER C. BRONSTON, Pastor.

MRS. MARGARET THOMAS, wife of of Rev. J. A. Thomas, of East Fork, died at her home last Sunday morning.

She, was seventy-five years of age. and her husband formerly lived in Kansas, but moved back to this county a number of years ago. She was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church and was buried in the Bethel cemetery Monday in the midst of a large and sorrowing concourse of relatives a and friends. Services were conducted by Rev. J.

N. Parrot.Sevierville (Tenn.) paper. She was a former resident of Girard,) and will be remembered by many of our citizens. Mr. AND MRS.

F. R. CORNELIUS received a letter from their son, C. D. Cornelius, who is in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.

He says he is 1,400 miles from here, and that it is awful hot up there, it is so close to the sun and they do not have very much night. It gets dark about 10 o'clock and daylight about 3 o'clock in the morning only about 6 hours night. On going out he went through Minneapolis and St. Paul, Waterloo and Sioux City, Iowa. He is working for the International Harvester Co.

He will be home about Sept. 1st. He says it is a fine country, with prospects for fine crops. Teachers Employed. The county superintendent has received notice of the employment of the following teachers for the coming school year: Irene Brogan, district 32, Olive, 7 months, at $45, commencing Sept.

11th. C. H. Ausemus, district 61, Base Line, 8 months, at $50, commencing Sept. 11th.

Georgia Klock, district 6, Pleasant Ridge, 8 months, at $45, commencing Sept. 11th. Fairview, district 100, 9 months, commencing Sept. 5th. Estella Clugston, at $70; Margaret Parrish, at $60, and Beulah Thomas, at $50.

Married at Carthage. The marriage of Mr. Emery Johndrow and Miss Minnie Anderson occurred Wednesday, June 21st, at the probate judge's office in Carthage, Mo. This love affair was no surprise to the neighbors about school district No. 75.

Miss Minnie is a twin daughter of Mr. Martin Anderson's, now renting the old Lashley farm, eight miles northeast of Girard. Mr. Johndrow has captured a valuable prize, as Miss Minnie is a young lady of many excellent qualities, a fine housekeeper, and of a cheerful disposition. They will live for the present with the bride's parents.

May all kinds of family bliss be their lot in their journey through life. Former Girard Boy Married. Miss Roe Ferris, of Talmage, Iowa, and J. A. Ransom, of Junction, Iowa, were quietly married at Des Moines Tuesday morning, June 20th, Win.

Ferris, brother of the bride, accompanying them. The groom is telegraph operator at the Junction Station. While his residence in that vicinity has been short he has made many friends and commands the respect of the people of that place. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ghas. Ferris, prominent residents of Talmage. The bride is accomplished and well fitted to grace the home. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

S. B. Ransom, of Girard, Kansas, and grew to manhood in this city. District Court in Pittsburg. The following cases were disposed of in district court in Pittsburg during the past week: Sally C.

Singer vs J. Luther Taylor and Mary S. Taylor, executors of the last will and testament of Joseph I. Taylor, deceased, and Mary S. Taylor and J.

Luther Taylor. To set aside will. The case occupied the time of the court from Monday morning until Friday. After the plaintiff had submitted her testimony Judge Curran sustained a demurrer to quash the suit on the ground that the evidence had not proven that the will was procured through fraud or undue influence, and the jury was diseharged. John Paul vs The Cherokee Pittsburg Coal and Mining Co.

$25,000 damages. Trial begun, but settlement made, judgment being given by agreement in favor of plaintiff for $81,000. T. B. Kassebaum vs The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Co.

$300 damages. Settled by agreement for $100. W. C. FERG recently exchanged for his a old automobile, Las fine new machine.

JOSEPH KEYS has just finished a new barn on his farm four miles north of Girard. E. W. Stahl was the contractor. Mr.

Stahl is also building a new residence for Mr. Keys, having begun work Monday. Re-elected President. Capt. W.

J. Watson, of Pittsburg, was re-elected president of the Kansas Postmasters' Association at Hutchinson last week. The next convention will be held in Kansas City, Kas. A. A.

Montee Got It. A. A. Montee secured the Mrs. Geo.

M. Slough property on West Buffalo street and also ten lots north of it. W. O. Colborn made the sale.

This is the property for which there were four claimants, each hoping to secure it: Miss Pucket Dies. Edith Rell Puckett, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mr. M. J.

Puckett, who formerly resided at No. 2026 Pennsylvania avenue, died at her home in Walnut, late Friday night, after an illness of several months. Miss Puckett had been confined to bed for more than nine months and her death was not unexpected. She was one of the persons who were on the suspension bridge when it fell at the opening of Lakeside park, more than a year ago. -Joplin Globe.

From The Hepler Enterprise. Quite an interesting ball game was played at Hepler Saturday afternoon Walnut vs Hepler, with a score of 11 to 17 in favor of Hepler. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gaylord arrived from Lonoke, a few days ago, and they expect to make this their home, for the present at least.

They formerly resided here and we welcome them back. -Mr. DeMotts' daughter met with a very severe accident Friday. She was climbing a tree and fell, catching her arm about the elbow and a large piece of the tree limb protruding her flesh. She was brought in to the Doctor who extracted it, and at this writing she is doing nicely.

From the Mulberry News. Tuesday morning Mine No. 7, just south of town, caved in and for a while it looked as though things might prove serious. The men had just got started to work when the bottom of the mine began giving away and the men that were working there got back away from it and the whole of the bottom of the mine filled up. It will be several days before the mine will be in condition for work.

-The Sheridan Coal Co. has bought the Willie mine about miles west of town and will put an extra crew of men on immediately to develop it so as to be able to put the men to work that are laid idle by the burning of No. 4. It will be known as No. 4.

-John Pellegrino happened to: a painful accident Monday, and as a consequence he has his hand in a bandage. He was opening a box of cigars when the knife slipped and entered his hand, splitting the whole back of it open. From the Cherokee Sentinel. Frank Crowder, who lives out on the Harmon place four miles west of town, had a very exciting as well as an expensive experience over a month now, ending up co far in his going to Kansas City to take the pasteur treatment for mad dog bites. Over a month ago a strange dog came to his place and bit his dog.

He thought the stranger acted queerly, but the animal disappeared and was seen at another farm and from there disappeared. Mr. Crowder tied up his dog for a month awaiting developments, when he coneluded to turn him loose. This he did. The dog played around and seemed to be in the best of humor, but all at once he jumped up and bit Mr.

Crowder viciously on the shoulder. He went to a mad stone, but there was no response. Later he went to a physician at Pittsburg who poses as an expert, and he advised him to go to the Institute at Kansas City. Dr. Ester, of this city, who has had much to do with the Institute up there during his school term, went with Mr.

Crowder Monday night. -C. P. Kelso has started a wholesale feed and flour store in the building formerly occupied by the Kelso Theater and is putting in a large stock. -Monday, L.

A. Beck sold his bakery and restaurant to Fred Tharp, who has taken charge. -Mrs. M. H.

Alberty was over to visit her son Dr. Alberty, of Asbury, Missouri, Friday and to see her sevenyear old grandson who was so unfortunate as to get hurt by his automobile a few days before. The doctor and a friend were in the machine, and were backing out of the garage, and did not notice the little fellow who had followed them the house, and backed over him, hurting his head. They were badly scared, but the boy will recover. THE effort to inject life into the political situation in Kansas by proclaiming a state war in Cherokee and Crawford counties is falling a little flat.

There is probably more intoxicating liquor sold in holy Topeka than in naughty Pittsburg. Public officers charged with the enforcement of the prohibitory law should do their full duty, but there is no occasion for going about with a brass band. -Leavenworth Post. KING IS CROWNED Eighth of House of Hanover Consecrates Life to Country. ANCIENT CEREMONY IS USED.

Service Is Like All Previous Events for Twelve Hundred Years Crown Is Placed Upon King's Head by Archbishop of Canterbury. London, June George eighth of the house of Hanover, consecrated to the service of the British empire and in turn received the public homage of his world-wide subjects. With his consort, Queen Mary, his majesty was crowned in the abbey of Westminster with all the wealth and religious rites and royal ceremonial prescribed by historic custom. The picture within the gray walled abbey was one of medieval splendor. The coronation services, solemn and imposing, were those handed down from the earlier centuries and the actors in the principal and secondary roles of the great function were garbed in reproductions of the multicolored, gold embroidered trappings WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

worn by their ancestors. The latter made a wonderfully effective setting around the central figures. Multitude Sees Pageant. Outside the usually dull streets had been transtormed into a mass 'of color. The king and queen's progress to the abbey and the return to Buckingham palace was one unbroken ovation.

The route was hedged with a vast polyglot host with A background of decorated viewing stands and windows and roofs, all of which were crammed to their capacity. Hundreds of thousands of spectators shouted themselves hoarse at central points like the Mall and the entrance to the admiralty, where the government stands held a score of thousands. Trafalgar square was SO densely packed with humanity that it would not have been difficult to traverse the square walking on the heads of the people. Parliament. square and Constitution hill held their countless thousands.

The tumult of thunderous welcome was almost deafening as the king and queen passed on the outward and home journeys, preceded in the first instance and followed on the return by a stately, superb cavalcade of erninent persons, many themselves heirs to thrones, statesmen, diplomats, courtiers, soldiers, sailors and men of all hues, races and creeds from the four quarters of the globe. Coronation Oath. The Archbishop of Canterbury administered the coronation oath, saying: "Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this United Kingdom and the dominions thereof according to the statutes in parliament agreed on and the respective laws and customs of the same?" The king: "I solemnly promise so to do." The crown placed on King George's head was of solid gold studded with precious stones of inestimable value, including 8,000 diamonds, 300 pearls and hundreds of rubies, emeralds and sapphires. The queen's crown contained the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, with its legend of bringing good luck. Over forty members of royal famflies, 250 rulers of foreign states, 1,450 ears, dukes.

lords and ladies, 300 ambassadors and ministers; 1,500 representatives of the army, navy, judiciary, clergy, formed part of the 7,000 guests at Westminster abbey. America was represented at the coronation by the American ambassa-1 dor, Whitelaw Reid; the American special envoy, John Hays Hammond; many Americen wives of English peers, members of the American diplomatic corps and many unofficial Americans, including Charles P. Taft, brother of President Taft. Chicagoan Heads Live Stock Exchange Sioux City, June H.Eng. wersen of Chicago was elected prest.

dent of the National Live Stock exchange in convention here. Portland, will get the next meeting, al though Chicago also is a bidder, Experts say this year's cotton yield will be a record breaker. The Elks' convention at Atlantic City is expocted to be attended by 000 persons. A drought of seven weeks' duration was broken at Leavenworth, Kan. by a heavy rain.

The Chicago board of trade firm of W. H. Lake Co. suspended business, owing to embarrassments in the southwest. The cruiser Colorado, which ran on a mud bank in San Diego harbor, has been pulled off and found to be unharmed Mrs.

Dell Neel Spaete, a young author and playwright, went insane in Boston over the arrest of her husband in Detroit. Sixty-five children who ate ice cream at a picnic at a resort near San Bernardino, are suffering from ptomaine poisoning. Harry Adams, son of a wealthy bathhouse owner of Atlantic City, has lost his sight from a flash of lightning reflected in a mirror. The treaty of trade and navigation between Germany and Japan was signed. It has a tariff agreement attached to the other articles.

The seamen's strike at Southamp-1 ton has been settled with all the lines excepting the White Star, whose terms have been rejected by the men. Approximately 20,000,000 gallons of liquors annually are shipped by express from mail order houses direct to consumers in prohibition states. Three persons were killed and six severely and a number of others slightly injured by an explosion in the nitro. gen works at Trostberg, Bavaria. Senator McCumber introduced a bill amending the pure food and drugs act to conform with the made to congress by President Taft.

George W. Fitzgerald, under ment on a charge of embezzling 000 from the United States subtreasury at Chicago, pleaded not guilty be fore Judge Landis. During the last eleven months the imports and exports of the United States amounted to $3,312,383,506, which exceeds the record year of 1908 by almost $3.000,000. Wall street is pleased with the decision of the United States circuit court at St. Louis, declaring legal the Harriman merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railway lines.

Captain D. H. Jarvis, vice president of the Booth Fisheries company and formerly head of the Guggenheim interests in Washington and Alaska, shot and killed himself in the Arctic club at Seattle One hundred and fifty thousand person saw the "rainbow" parade of the Foresters, the uniformed branch of the Modern Woodmen, now in session at Buffalo. More than five thousand men were in line. Representative Lee O'Neil Browne of Ottawa assaulted E.

O. Phillips, the legislative correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, in the speaker's room at Springfield. Mr. Phillips was unconscious for forts minutes. The National Children's Home SOciety, in convention at Detroit, elected a board of directors, among the memhers being Judge Ben Lindsey of Colorado, Rev.

E. P. Quivey of Nebraska and F. A. Hiser of Iowa.

Every common railway carrier will be required, after July 1, to report to the interstate commerce commission by telegraph "any collision, derailment or other accident," resulting in the death of one or more persons. Congress will be asked for $10,000 for the proper entertainment by the United States of Admiral Togo, the famons Japanese naval officer, who will visit this country immediately after the coronation festivities at London. Fourteen members of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Secretaries' association were indicted by the federal grand jury at Chicago for conspiracy to blacklist wholesalers who sold direct to consumers and to restrain trade. Speaker Adkins wielded the gavel to the defeat of the administration's waterway bill in the Illinois house. Riotous scenes followed, but the lack of a floor leader kept the waterway adherents from overriding the speaker's ruling.

The capture of a convict by a posse headed by Governor Oswald West of Oregon, who telt morally bound to retake the prisoner because of a misplaced confidence, concluded a chase which ended in the apprehension of Jesse Hall near Blodgett, Ore. Advances in class rates Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, covering a wide range of freights, between Mississippi and Missouri river transfers, by all the railway carriers operating in that territory, were suspended by the interstate commerce commission until Dec. 20 next. The French government was defeated in the chamber of deputies on question relative to the supreme command of the army in case of war.

The deputies voted against the government, 238 to 224, and the ministers presented their resignations to President Fallieres. King George reviewed the greatest naval parade in history. The armada which formed the pageant in the Solent represented a total outlay of $500,000,000. The United States had the biggest vessel, the Delaware overtopping all other ships in the six-mile me in its tonnage and guns. CONDENSED NEWS Mickey's Big Firecracker 1WO in cery.

the mammoth They window were of firecrackers twelve Casey's inches stood grolong and proportionately thick. For a month before the Fourth of July these gigantic indicators of enthusiasm had stood in the window like British soldiers 011 dress parade, while a preCatory spider hung a filmy hammock between them and calmly killed his buzzing victims over two powder mines. 'The firecrackers were the admiration and the envy of all the boys in Cooney Island. It was seldom that a youthful nose was not flattened against the window pane in ardent covetousness. But the price demanded by Casey for the thunderers was prohibitive, SO far as the boys were concerned, and there was not one of them patriotic or courageous enough to invest 25 cents in a single ecstatic explosion.

Said Mickey Finn timidly one evening when he had been sent by his mother to get a quarter of a pound of tea and half a pound of pork: "Mr. Casey, I suppose now that whin one o' thim big fellows wint off it would blow the stars out of the sky?" his mind tilled with blissful thoughts of mighty explosions. Casey stopped measuring out a half pint of New Orleans molasses, raised a monitory finger and replied: "Mickey, my boy, I'd be afeerd to tell you what would happen if I stood wan o' thim big follows out on the sidewalk and touched the stem wid the l'ghted end of a five cent ciga-ar. The noise would be terrible, my son. "Twould make your head ring like an anvil, and you would see sparks like fireflies." "Would it blow the house asked the boy in an awed whisper.

"No, I don't think it would," snid Casey. "It might shake the chimly down and break all the glass in the windys in small pieces, and there would be paper in the street as would fill an empty barrel o' flour. Oh, but thim big fellows is mighty powerful, Mickey; mighty powerful. They use them in China to kill murderers and robbers. They put wan of thim big firecrackers bechune the teeth of: a murderer and make him light the fuse wid his own hand and blow his own head off.

Thim Chinese is mighty crool, Mickey; mighty crool." This vivid description inflamed Mickey's desire, which was Casey's motive HE "T'LL NIP IT OUT AFORE IT GOES OVF." in telling it, for the incident occurred on the eve of the Fourth. and Casey was afraid that the big firecrackers would be carried over the national holiday and remain a loss on his hands. In order to deepen the impression made upon the boy Casey permitted him to handle one of the twins. The boy's eyes had widened to their utmost capacity when he was outside of the window, but now that he could feel the red jacket his hands trembled with the eagerness of possession, and he would readily bave given ten years of his life to own it. "Take it along wid you, Mickey," said Casey cajolingly.

"Thim creckers were made in Chowchow, in China, for the Cooney Island trade, and 1 want to get rid of thim I have on hand before I send another order to Wan Lung, the haythin." "But 1 have no money," said Mickey sorrowfully. "My father is goin' to give mne three bunches of little firecrackers and a pinwheel, but 1 know he wouldn't buy wan o' thim big firecrackers for me." "Well," continued Casey, "you come down bere tomorrow mornin' and carry in a bait ton of coal for me, and I'll give you the big cracker." The next morning Mickey was busy for two hours carrying chestnut coal in a nail keg and dumping it in Casey's cellar. Just after noon. with a smile covered with coal dust and a bosom full of chuckles, he received his prize. No grass grew his bare feet AS he ran homeward, the precious powder mine clasped to his bosom.

Holding the big frecracker aloft as be darted through the kitchen door, he exclaimed: "Mother, I have it! Ain't it a beauty?" I don't see anything about it. to be makin' a fuss over." said Mrs. Finn, who, like most mothers, had no love for fireworks. "Now, don't be bringin' it nearer to me," as Mickey ran toward her. "I don't want to De blown into the middle o' next week.

the dirty thing away! I'm afreed o' me life while you have it in your hands! Now, don't be goin' near the stove wid it! Arrah, ye little spalpeen, will ye take it off the stove? Take it off afore ye blow the roof off the house!" And the frightened woman ran into the bedroom and peered through the keyhole. With the recklessness of boyhood Mickey exclaimed as he lit a match and reduced his mother to hysterics by pretending to light the firecracker stem: "You needn't be afeered, mother. I'll nip it out afore it goes off." In this simple fashion the afternoon of the Fourth passed away in the Finn household, varied by the boy with 0c- casional visits to the neighbors, whom he threw into a panic of fear by pretending to light the big explosive. Mrs. Murphy and her' three children were gathered around the kitchen table when Mickey placed the lighted mammoth in the middle of the table.

Two ct the boys went head first 0 A PLACED IT UNDER HIS FATHER'S CHAIR. through the window, while Mrs. Murphy tried to crawl under the kitchen stove. All this excitement afforded the boy a good deal of delight, but he reserved for the evening the culmination of his joy. He intended to blow his father up as be sat in his chair on the back stoop.

Mickey thought it would be an inspiriting sight to witness his father flying across the back yard and plowing up the ground with his nose. In order that he might have an audience a appropriate to SO great an occasion Mickey had spread the news among all the boys of the neighborhood, and at 9 o'clock fifty boys sat on the fence surrounding the back yard. Mr. Finn, tired of the excitement of the day, had fallen asleep in his rocking chair on the back stoop when Mickey lit the stem of the big cracker and placed it carefully under his father's chair. The moon shone brightly, illuminating the grin on every boyish face.

Every ear was strained to catch the faint hissing of the fuse and every eye intent upon the sleeping man. The fuse burned itself out, and the silence and suspense were deepened. A minute passed and another until Mickey could stand the strain no longer. He reached down and lifted the firecracker from beneath the chair. As he held it up in the moonlight to examine it a mosquito lit upon his father's nose, and the old gentleman awoke.

Grabbing the firecracker from his son's hand, he arose and, holding it aloft, said: "Boys, there will be no explosion tonight. I'm sorry to disappoint you. I was afeered that Mickey might do some harrum wid that big cracker, so whin he wasn't lookin' this afternoon I took the powder out of it and filled it wid clay. So you see that the show is over, and ye may as well go home and go to bed. There'll be no more explosions only what I'll give Mickey wid a shingle afore I turn in.

Good night to ye all. Come around some other night whin there is somethin' Post. The Patriots. THE burly cannon cracker to the slender little Hag Said: "How are you to celebrate the day? You never make a single sound, you cannot jump nor shoot. And where they put you there you have to stay." The rockets, roman candles and the giddy, racy wheels With patriotic zeal began to brag Of how they'd leap and bang and f12z and flare and whirl, and all United to deride the ellent flag.

But when the day was done the crackers lay in scattered sureds, And bits of wheel were clinging to the trees, The rocket sticks were lying prone, but high above the scene The little flag still frolicked with the breeze. -Anonymous..