The Norcatur Register from Norcatur, Kansas • 1

THE NORCA XUR register; VOL. XXII NORCATUR, KANSAS, AUGUST 16, 1907. NO. 33 1 1 i v' 1 Spokes From The Hub BARGAIN COLUMN JayhawkerCook Books at this office. Farm Loans.

The Decatur County Abstract Co, C. S. KENNEY, M' OFFICE hours W-lOa. m. 7-8 p.m.; Glasses Fitted Both Phones Norcatur Kansas Times.

A Chautauqua is supposed to be of a religious or educational character, and no place for a buffoon or one who uses low, indecent, vulgar and profane language. Men and women too have a right to demand that public speakers use proper language and talk as gentlemen and not as rowdies, hobos and saloon bums. Barring the Monday afternoon meet-ing not an indecent, vulgar or profane word was used by any person from the rostrum, and when Manauw Pasta have been found to possess more gas-producing power than the celebrated Youghigheny or Pittsburg gas coal, used the country over as a source of supply for illuminants; A Cleveland chemist, backed by Eastern capitalists and operating in the city of Beatrice, an experimental plan on large scale, has proved the commercial value of a discovery that sounds much like a cracked inventor's dream. J. Russell Coutts, the chemist and in-ventor, has made good, and as a result the problem of getting cheap gas in a region hundreds of miles from See me for Farm Loans.

Chas. Darlington. For correct abstract of title, seethe Decatur County Abstract Co. Eye. Will Mayes was up from Norcatur last week and remembered us with a pleasant call.

J. E. Adams, the Norcatur merchant, wasuplastweekto.Oberlin on business, and as usual remembered us with a pleasant call, Dr. Dale Morrison came up from Ellsworth last week on a visit to his brother, Dr. II.

J. Morrison, and other relatives and friends. A daughter, was born to Mr. and Mrs. A.

C. Banta at the home of the mother's parents in Clayton Tuesday August 6, 1907. All well. The happy parents are heartily congratulated. Alfred Miner, who is now in Sabetha with his brother Ted in the hardware business, arrived in Oberlin last week on a visit to his parents, Dr.

and Mrs. S. Miner, and his Oberlin friends. Obituary. Harry J.

Gregory, son of Peter and Amanda Gregory, was born in Carrol county Indiana, July 28, 1884. Died August 7, 1907, aged 23 years and 10 days. At the age of Is months Harry came to Norcatur with his parents, where they lived for II) years. They then moved to Nebraska and from there to Fremomt county Iowa, where his health began to fail, and where he died. Harry was of a kind disposition and well liked by all who knew him.

There remains to mourn his loss a father, mother, one sister, one brother and a host of relatives and friends. His funeral was held from the Christian church in Norcatur, Saturday afternoon, August 10, 1907, and was conducted by Rev. A. W. Henry.

The body was interred in the Norcatur Cemetery and was followed to its last resting place by a large concourse of sympathizing friends. W. F. LOPER Well Driller. Stissfaction guaranteed.

Central State phone No. 719. Call him up for quick work. A. L.

Hare has the finest line of Buggies and Carriages ever sold in the city. Call and see him. told Senator Tillman that his lecture was not of the kind to take with the people in this part of Kansas, the senator's reply, "I don't give a damn," showed that Mr. Tilman was neither honest nor sincere in his lecture. Courier.

Heavy dewTuesday morning. What, not up early enough to see it? coal mines has been practically solved. The plant at Beatrice manufactures and sells gas at $1.15 a thousand. Previous to its entry gas brought there a price of $3 a thousand. There are a hundred or more cities In the grain belt between the gulf and Canada, where similar reductions in gas will follow the introduction of the new process.

For Farm Loans: Call on, J. M. Shuey, Norcatur, Kan. I have coal to sell, und expect to handle coal all winter. See me at the mill before buying your winter supply.

8 Tom St. Clair." O. SWANSON Painter and Paper Hanger Thirty-seven years Experience. NOIiCATUBJ KANSAS Dr. J.

NEE DENTIST Office hours 8 a. in. to 0 m. Phone Connection Better got one of Campbell's books on the art of farming successfully without rain and familiarize yourself with the plan so that you can put them into execution next year. For sale at the Register office- A radius of ten to twelve miles about Norton is lacking in a sufficiency of moisture.

We are a granddad A little daughter was born to Julian and Mrs. Du-vail, Thursday night August 8th. Rockwell Correspondent. Laura M. Shuey, has secured the Pleasant Hill school for another the third term.

Lone Hand will probably secure Minnie Ankenman, of Oberlin. Last week Mrs. H. 0. Douglas went to Topeka and brought home her daughter, Aliss Hazel, returning home Monday of this week.

We are all very glad to see Miss Hazel again. She is greatly improved in health. There is practically but one opinion about the Oberlin Chautauqua that it is the best thing Oberlin has ever had and will be made permanent. Our people are all enthusiastic about it too. J.

D. Wickham was up from Lyle this week and made a mighty pleasant though brief, call on us Monday Doc is getting pretty gray instead of bald headed like the writer but he talks just as young as ever. Governor Hoch has appointed Otis L. Benton of Oberlin and Harrv Ken- Republican-Gazette, Gove Co. Good, heavy, soaking rains are reported all over the county.

Corn is the most promising we have ever seen it. Hail has damaged the crop in certain places, but only here and there. Farmers are jubilant, housewives are happy, and improvements are going up on every side. Taking it all in all Gove county is just about as well off, and her citizens just about as well fixed, financially, as anywhere on earth. Another six months will see her forge to the front.

Many are the comtemplated improvements, and if all the buildings that are being planned for materialize, Gove county will outshine her neighbors. Let the' good work go on. The Decatur County Sunday School Convention. Kanona, Kansas, August 19 and 20, 1907. PROGRAM.

MONDAY MORNING. Devotional Service. 10:30 The Personal Element in the Sunday School Rev. Caldwell Discussion. 11:30 Assignment of delegates.

MONDAY AFTERNOON. Song and Praise Service Rev. G. L. Rarick 2:30 General Exercises in the Sunday School H.

O. Caster 3:15 Black Board Exercise The Norcatur Realty Co. wants your land. Come in and list it with us if you desire to sell. Office with First National Bank.

23 Norcatur Realty Co. I If you want to buy the right farm, at the right price, in the flU right ountry, write to Hughes, Rairdkn, McDonald, Kansas. Percy Whelden has secured a patent on the best animal yoke ever made, and has received several tempting bids from manufacturers. When these yokes are used its safe to say that your neighbor won't be calling you up to say that your cows are in his corn. Now here's where I get off.

For Salk Cheap My Blacksmith shop and tools in Norcatur, Kansas. Or I will sell the tools to the right man and rent him the shop. 31-4w John Edinholm tacre. 0-16 nedy of Cedar Bluffs with 12 other Jl delegates from Kansas to attend the John Edinholm COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS. fifteenth National Irrigation congress, II to be held at Sacramento, California, September 2 to 7.

Each deWn.t The Decatur County Abstract Co. of Oberlin has the only complete set of Abstract Books up to date in the County. If you want an abstract on short notice, write or telephone to them at their expense. BLACKSMITHING and REPARING. August 5, 1907.

The Board of County Commission O. E. Furman 3.45 Bible Study Symposium: (a) Study in the H. E. Brown (b) Study in the Sunday Rev.

Will G. Thompson 4:15 Round Table Miss Bayliss, (State Worker.) MONDAY EVENING. 8:00 Music and Devotional Service. 8:30 Address Miss Bayliss Address, (To be TUESDAY MORNING. 9:00 Prayer and Praise Service his own expenses.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon B. Borin at their home in Beloit, Friday, August 2, 1907. All well.

This makes the Old Man of this office a granddad, but instead of feeling older he feels younger. Grand- You have in the long hot days just passed longed for a cool drink, and no doubt wished you could crawl into the cool depths of an ice cellar for a refreshing snooze, but you found on coming out that you contracted a slight cold. Now you are worse off than when the sweat was on your brow. Say, did you ever have any cold water poured down your back, and did you notice how chilly you were for some time afterwards. We are working on a simple arrangement which we call a "keep cooler." It is a small rubber bottle holding a pint of water; this bottle is to be fastened on the inside of uerriuiy oia anyway -not old enough to be at all rare.

Market Report Corrected each Wednesday Hogs Rye 62 Corn so Wheat 67 Barley 40 Oats. Restaurant and Confectionary The McCue restaurant is a good place to eat The finest confectionary' in town. Fresh fruits and vegetables in season CX McOUE your hat, with a small rubber tube running from said bottle to the nape of your spine. Now we will take a bottle and fill in a pint of water which will The baseball tournament last week brought additional visitors to Oberlin. The three days the Haskell Indians played were especially attractive, and the games were largely attended.

Some fine ball playing was witnessed and the games were not by any means one-sided, as the Oberlin team put up a strong game and did some exceptionally good playing the second day. The first day resulted Eggs 10 Butter 15 Potatoes, new $1.25 ers met in the County Clerk's office to make levies for the taxes of 1907, and attend to such other business that might legally come before them. Present, Harry S. Keanedy, Chairman; J. R.

Conquest. The following levies were made: County general 7 mills; County Bridge fund 2 mills; High School 2 mills; Interest on County Bonds 7-10 mills. The State Board of Equalization raised the valuation of personaVprDp-erty 20 per cent in Decatur county making the levy for personal property 75-10 mills; all other property 6 3-10 mills for state purposes. The following levies were made for bonded school districts: Dist. Mills Dist.

Mills DUt. Mills 1 6 3 4 7 4 8 5 13 2 JS 2 20 4 22 2 24 2 25 8 30 4 31 5 36 10 40 10 47 1 48 1 f.l 6 54 5 55 3 '56 7 63 2 65 3 69 13 70 5 Rev. A. W. Henry 9:30 Round Table Miss Bayliss 10:00 Links in the Sunday School Chain Lew ii Darrow 10:30 Reports of Officers: President, Secretary, Treasurer, District Presidents, Superintendents.

11:15 Election, Collection, Business. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 2.00 Devotional Service Rev. E. H.

Teal 2:30 What shall We Do? Mrs. Dean 3:00 The Teacher's Master Key Rev. F. C. Everitt 3:45 Work Which the Teacher Should Do J.

B. Grove 4:15 Work Which the Scholar Should Ura Danley TUESDAY EVENING. 8:00 Lecture. I A OS TflS, Hamilton sir, -v nasKeu, Uberlin2; the second game was won by Oberlin by a score of 7 to 5 and the Haskells won the third game Lovers of the game saw some brilliant plays each day. Tfi last a half day) and try it on our neighbor; its a hot day and we fix the bottle in his hat, and turn a small thumb screw to govern flow of water.

The first drop is followed with a long e-w-h the second drop, "Gee, its coid;" third drop, getting farther down the spine, "Ww golly I'm freezing;" fourth drop, 'iDammit, I'll have chillblains if I don't get a move on," then I watch him as he works away for hah a day, with no sweat, no broiling, no colds no ill feeling against old Sol and his power. Walk up gentlemen, its great. Come and get a "keep cooler" and endure the heat. Herald, 1 Mrs. FTncHno rt vr U1 norcatur JNews was in the city over the Sabbath.

Wm. Vernon and wife of Harlan, took in a big part fifthe Chautauqua. Miss Luc Prewfin of The Home 2 83 3 2 99 4 9 104 2 2 108 2 1 1 94 103 107 74 5 87 8 100 6 105 2 109 4 been visiting at theBivans home this reflects the standard. W. H.

CAMPBELL PHOTOGRAPHER Central State phone number 19 Views a specialty Nowaitur Kansas' AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. Jt. N0.2D&N. 3 weeK. A.

C. Brown of Lrle From South Dakota. Akaska, S. Aug. 9, 1907.

Dear Friend: Well the weather has been so much like Kansas the last few days that it has brought to mind more than ever thoughts of other days, and of the friends at Norcatur, not that I especially associate them with a place of extreme heat, but I do remember seme "nng IhlS Wife's npnnU anA Assembly. lWaams thQ of the family. A piano, in the home means culture and refinement if it is a "piano." The Hamilton meets the requirements. oe wicuiam of Lyle was up to hear Tillman. It, 1 mat he was not.

The bonds of The Oberlin National Bank, Farmers National Bank and The Citizens State Bank as County Depositories were approved. Nothing further appearing before the Board, Commissioners adjourned. Harry S. Kennedy, attest: Chairman. L.

F. Campbell, County Clerk. speech. wim ltiS Prairie View News. Ira Gassett of Clayton, a young man who has been farming for Arthur Mizell this summer, was in this city last Thursday.

He reported corn looking fine around Clayton. He was on his way to Jewell county to visit his parents. E. Witham nf Kirn0, 7 Jlc raum panied took in VMr- Brittom wife" took in theChnnto. days last acouple 01 Mr.

Alexander- nt Beloit Gazette. The insurance cominissinnia 01 the days I worked on the church. Well, how is the -sunny south, anyway. What are you all doing? I think of the contrast of what was and now is. I am making money out here.

Am busy all the time and havn't worked for less than 4 50 per day, part of my work has been day work and part contract and I have about two montns work ahead. I came up here in April, and I have been to but one church service. There was a Methodist preacher came thru tt AI ana son pleasant art of the county. "ieeast L. E.

White of Harlan fending Chautauqua on Friday and sailed and made thi. 7 YOU ARE GOING WRONG Jiroundthis office for nJl poked prosperous and said he was ungalong very well and if we got ain to make corn he would have no ick to make. We carry the largest stock of Pianos of any house in Northwest Kansas, buying them in car load lots. We sell only high grade instruments and guarantee everything we sell. Cash or payments; old instruments taken in exchange Drop us a card and a salesman will call on Oberln Furniture Co.

Transfers. List of transfers for week ending August 10, 1907. Furnished by the Decatur County Abstract Company. Mittie Ellen Cole to J. C.

Lathrop, Is 18 to 20, l(i, O. O. Francis Pankaski to L. J. Pan-kaski and Mary R.

Pankaski se $2000.00 T. D. Meak to Hugh Baker, Is 1 to 4, 24 OHg. Norcatur $825.00 James C. Nelson to D.

R. P. Hibbs, se 11-5-30 George Colby to S. A. Wel-stead, si block 21 Johnston's add to Oberlin, $3000.00 Helen M.

Thurber to Oswa Traxler and E. Vernon, 1 IB, 10, Cedar Bluffs jwo.OO against the fire insurance companies is bringing them to time. The National Fire Insurance company of Hartford, is the first to lie down. It has promised to be good, and quit the trust, and has paid its share of the costs so far incurred, on promise to discontinue the suits so far as it is concerned. They will all come to it, as the brewery companies did, and Eldndge will be put out of business.

Here is another, this time from the Beloit Gazette, that seems too pood to be true: Lincoln, Nebraska, Aug. humble corncob has proved to be sus-ceptible of being transformed into a coke that makes a fire hotter by far than that obtained from Pennsylvania coal. The straw pile and the cornstalk tntn Cns was down ir Ms Incoln township ranch on Monday to irS 8he hands with Ceroid friends If yon take chances you can't afford You can't afford to buy coal that don't give satisfaction, and that makes you lose your religion. Cool That's Coal, that comes from our yard, will help make a sinner pious. It warms your home, helps in the cooking and keeps wife young.

People say we have the best coal out. They've tried it and certainly know. You try it, and you'll never use any other. You better lay your winter supply this month while- nere some time ago, but I guess he thought we were too hard a bunch. Well, I am not going to tell you any more about us, as the best I can say is, we are a live western town with the devil running it to suit himself and nobody seems to care.

Some of us do though. But it goes without saying that we would rather be in Norcatur. Now Brother, I wish that out of the goodness of your heart you would write me a letter and tell me of all the friends, for I feel the need of a good deal of help. Yours truly, ROYTOi'tXEltiae. tlTJ9 ho of having the fruit orchard in the count ht r.freezetoo much for 1'u4t worth mentioning.

Oberlin, Kansas. we nave plenty. NELSON REID J- L. ,1.