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Farmers Institute Wednesday November 1. A special invitation is extended to YOU. LUCAS INDEPENDENT. III. LUCAS.

RUSSELL COUNTY, KANSAS, OCTOBER, 19, 1911. NUMBER Dr. M. J. Brown, Specialist of Salina will be at the Arcade Hotel prepared to treat the medical and Surgical diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

Glasses Scientifically flitted. Watch for Date. W. Ketcham and wife left Saturday morning for. Philomath, Oregon he has purchased a small vrack of land adjoining the town where they expect to build them a home.

Barnard Man for Senate. Moved to Oregon. Last week's Barnard Bee announced the name of F. F. Bracken of Barnard as a candidate for senator on the Republican ticket, in the thirty-fourth senatorial district, comprising Lincoln.

Osborne, Ellsworth and Russell counties. Mrs. H. Bruihl Dead. Mrs.

H. Bruihl who has been suffering from a stroke of apoplexy for the past couple of weeks passed away at about 8:30: last evening. Funeral services will be conducted Friday morn ing from the Evangelical church ane the remains will be laid to rest in the Lucas cemetery by the side of her August 7, 1911. Wedded at Lincoln. Floyd Barr and Miss Cora Dorman were united in marriage by Probate Judge Altman at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. H. E. Barr at Lincoln yesterday at high noon after which dinner was served by Mrs. H.

E. Barr to the newly married couple, Mr. and Mrs. F. W.

Barr and the Judge. The bridal party arrived in Lucas about 5 o'clock. In the evening the band boys acdompanied by a crowd of young people serenaded them. The bride is 4 daughter of John Dorman of this city. She is a highly respected young lady and her friends are numbered only by those who know her.

The groom is a son of F. W. Barr. He is a very energetic young man, being recently employed as Ass'-Superintendent at the city Water and Light plant. The couple are young and have a long bright life before them and the Independent together with a host of friends wishes them the best of success.

Farmers Institute. The local institute received word last week that J. H. Miller and Mrs. Mary E.

Simmons of the Kansas State Agricultural College will be here Wednesday November 1. The following is in part a letter which J. E. Vroman received from Mr. Miller.

"I know that the farmers in your community are pretty badly just now, and doubtless think it is not worth while to have a meeting, but I want to come out there myself, this fall and have a conference with one hundred of the best farmers in your community and see if we cannot come to some agreement to plan for some detinite work. In my judgment, there has never been a time in your county when there was as much need for a farmer institute as just now. If I lived out there, I would want to have an institute and meet with all the far. mers in the community each week between now and next spring to see if we could not find some way to solve the problems existing in that territory." President C. G.

Brown and Secretary, J. E. Vroman of the local organization was in this office last Saturday and stated that they desired to have this meeting a success and desired to have the merchants and town women turn out as well as the firmers and their wives. Remember the date and plan to attend. You may hive the stars in a nail keg, hang the ocean on the fence to dry, put the sky to soak in a gourd shell and unbuckle the belly band of eternity and let, the sun and moon out, but don't think you can escape the place that lies the other side of purgatory if you pay your subscription to the home paper.

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F. DUNN LUCAS- -THE LEADER IN UP-TO-DATE CLOTHES- KANSAS The new public utilities law puts the telephone companies in much the same position as to making rates and extending privileges as the railrords. They are required to file with the utilities commission a schedule of rates which cannot be changed without the consent of the commission. Also the commission may determine whether the rates are reasonable. In many towns for the convenience of patrons, the phone companies put a phone in the depot without charge to the railroad company.

Under the law the rail. oad will have to pay like other people or the service will have to be cut off. Some companies have made special rates to ministers; in some cases giving entirely free service. Like the half rate on the railroad, this will have to go too. -Russell Reformer.

Autumn Festival. Must Charge Same to all, For the past several years the young people of the Evangelical Sunday School have been holding social entertaiaments among themselves, but several weeks ago they decided that they would give a social entertainment and include the public as well as their Sunday School, so last Friday evening being the date set for the occassion the G. G. Hadlock room was secured as the place to hold the entertainment. Before eight o'clock, the time set to begin, the house was full.

The program opened with a song by the audience, Rev. Eiselein then told the object of the gathering and called special attention to the many attractions, such as restaurants, tea stands, and the many interesting sights in the Amusement Alley, after which a short prayer was given. Wishing them all a pleasant social evening he instructed them to take in the various sights. The first as you went in the door Was the Japanese Tea Garden, it was built in the fo. of latus work and lighted with Japanese lanterns.

Here six Japanese girls, Misses Cecil Scriven, Florence Swearington, Della Waterman, Georga Had lock, Eva VanSeyoc and Mrs. Prudence Keeney served tea and waffers, Next was a stand where popcorn, chewing gum and oranges were sold by Harry Carbiener and wife. The Amusement Alley or where many wild animals, such as blind bats, monkeys, lynx, rats, horse and butterflies wers kept under the supervision of Merced Stephens. At the pose to go back to the Philippines until next year. He has leased his Blue Stem farm.

The old creamery burnt down Sunday night. It was erected in the '80s and has been a landmark in the extreme eastern part of Russell. Readers of the Independent at Russell were surprized Saturday morning at not receiving their papers. This changed to astonishment Sunday morning. But even on Monday the papers had not yet come.

In Gove county the court uses a trial docket that was begun 16 years ago. It will last several years longer. Several other counties need a docket much oftener, not simply because they have more cases, but also because Gove's docket has seven cases on each page. While others have only 6 or 5 and in one county only 4. This means just SO much wasted space and helps add to the cost of running the great public corporation that we call a county.

A large new piano is about to be added to the musical furniture of the M. E. church. This with three organs are expected to meet all needs till a pipe organ is installed. Sheriff David M.

Prica of Wallace county, gave an object lesson Monday night on the new wife desertion law, by passing thru Russell on U. P. train number 103 with a prisoner brought from Lincoln, Nebraska, for leaving his wife and baby in Sharon Springs. The 1000 souvenir books of Russell, gotten out by the commercial club, went "like hot cakes" and are still in great demands. They contain 10 or 12 views of various edifices of public interest in Russell.

Each of the city's three big schoolhouses is in use. The high school building has 200 pupils in it, the north side build. ing has 150 and the Fifth street building 100. There are 15 teachers. Senator H.

L. Pestana was down from Hays Monday. The younger children of John H. Plumb deceased are assured of proper care and rearing by the Masonic lodge. The elder children will likely take most of the younger ones.

The youngest boy, Dean, age 9 years, may go to the Masonic home, care of Supt. Snedden at Wichita. Plumbs sudden death shocked the people last week. restaurant, Misses Neta Lord, Jessie Scriven. Anna McNerney, Mesdames, Grace Moore, C.

G. Eiselein and Ellwood were kept busy serving chicken sandwiches and coffee. Later in the evening the program consisting of: A solo by Mrs. Eiselein, reading by Miss Neta Lord, solo by Miss Eva VanScyoc, reading by Rev. Eiselein and duet by Mrs.

Moore and Miss Eva VanScyoc was rendered. The "Whirlwind Band" consisting of ten of the band boys furnished music throughout the evening. Everyone present pronounced the affair a grand success and were only too glad to encourage the young people in their Sunday School work. A couple were recently married. The ceremony the wife began to weep.

copiously. "What's the matter?" asked the new husband. "I never told you that I don't know how to cook," sobbed the bride. "Don't fret." said he, "I'll not have anything to cook; I'm an Many a woman goes out shopping dressed in silk and envelopled in perfume whose hard working husband hasn't had a new suit of clothes or a decent meal in five years. Yes, and many a loafer stands on the street with a stinking pipe in his face, tank full of "booze" and his mouth full of profanity, whose hard-working wife hasn't had a new dresss or a kind word since she was married.

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The prices are no higher than what you have been paying for most ready-makes-and a mere inspection will prove this to you. Torrence Vaughn Quality of Kansas Waters. Report on the Water Resources of the State by the Uhited States Geographical Survey, In its publication of the re- I sults of studies of the water resources of the country the United States Geographical Survey has just issued Water Supply Paper 273, a large volume descriptive of the quality of the water supplies of Kansas, by H. N. Parker, with an accompanying preliminary report on stream pollution by mine waters in southeastern Kansas by E.

H. S. Bailey. The work incident to the preparation of the report was done in cooperation with the Kansas State Board of Health. The geology and underground waters of Kansas are discussed at some length, as well as the surface waters of the various rivers and creeks of the State.

The report also contains a discussion of the quality of the underground waters of each of the 104 counties in the State, and includes a large number of chemical analyses of water, both surface and underground. The report should be of no little interest and value to the people of Kansas, both individually and collectively. A copy may be obtained free of charge on applicaa tion to the Director of the United States Geographical Survey, Washington, D. C. From Russell E.

W. Voorhis, the real estate broker longest in, continuous service of all in Russell county, went to Trego and Gove counties this week. Among his avocations is the persistent study of science and inventious. The matter of building an auditorium capable of meeting Russell's biggest needs is again receiving attention. As there are many unemployed laborers, it is thought that putting up an ample building would be a good thing in several ways.

Such building should hold 2500 to 3000 people comfortably and more if crowded, and would likely cost $10,000 for any fair sort of building. Gove county is the scene of court operations in this district this week, with a short docket. There are several appeals from courts of justices of the peace, and the parties think they can try the cases without lawyers. Saturday evening Henry C. Ruppenthal started for Denver.

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