Minneapolis Messenger from Minneapolis, Kansas • 1

MINNEAPOLIS IS MESSENGER THE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER GUARANTEED LARGEST THE OFFICIAL CITY PAPER FIDE CIRCULATION Terms, $1 Per Year. MINNEAPOLIS, OTTAWA COUNTY, KANSAS, JANUARY 6, 1916. Volume 42, No. 28. Hogg Jennie May Hogg was born June 1881 and died at her home east of Minneapolis Tuesday, December 28, 1915 aged 34 years, 6 months and 14, days.

Pneumonia was the cause of her death. Mrs. Hogg was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.

M. Bennett of this city. She was united in marriage to John Hogg March 19, 1902. To this union five children, two girls and three boys, were born, all of whom with the father live to mourn the loss of a mother and wife. She is also survived by her father, mother and brother.

Mrs. Hogg was a member of the Christian church. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. J.

York, at the U. B. church, at the home at ten o'clock Thursday morning, December 30th. Interment was made in Hall cemetery. Stephenson Stephenson Z.

T. Stephenson was born in Wayne county, Indiana, November 17, 1848 and died at his home in this city Tues- day, December 28, 1915 at the age of 67 years, 1 month and 11 days. Heart failure was the cause of his death. Up until the day of his death, Mr. Stephenson had been in his usual good health and had worked at the shoe shop with Frank McCumber.

The announcement of his sudden death came as a great shock to the people of the community. Mr. Stephenson was married to Mary Morgan in Indiana in 1868. She having died, Mr. Stephenson was united in marriage to Bertha E.

Curtis in this city November 17, 1886. Mrs. Stephenson died a few years later. By these two marriages, Mr. Stephenson had six children, two of whom died in infancy.

Those living are Mrs. George Woodward, of Oregon City, Oregon, Mrs. Charley Latham, of Glen Elder, Kansas, Mrs. Lulu Todd, of Concordia, Kansas and Myrtle Stephenson, of Chicago. With the exception of Myrtle Stephenson, all the children were present at the funeral.

On June 24, 1894, Mr. Stephenson was united in marriage with Pauline Ingram, who lives to mourn his death. Mr. Stephenson spent his early life in Indiana and Nebraska. He came to Kansas about forty years ago and during most of that time has lived in Minneapolis.

In his death, Minneapolis loses a good citizen, the people of the community lose a kind friend and good neighbor and his wife mourns a loving husband. He was respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the United Brethren church and the I. 0. 0.

F. lodge of this city. The members of the I. 0. 0.

F. and Rebekah lodges, to the number of two-hundred and fifty, attended the funeral services in a body. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church, Sunday afternoon, January 2nd at two o'clock and were conducted by Rev. A. J.

York assisted by Rev. L. E. Cooke and W. V.

Shaffer. Interment was made in Highland cemetery. The pall-bearers were John M. Brown, Henry Hahn, James Gard, John Hartley, A. R.

Gage and J. C. McCrum. Hull Fannie Josephine Blake was born in Galesburg, Michigan, January 15, 1856, and died in Delphos, Kansas, January 2, 1916, being fifty-nine years eleven months and eighteen days old. She was married to Porter C.

Hull in October, 1879 in the house in which she was born. They came to Kansas thirty-six years ago and have lived here continuously since that time. Two sons were born to them, one dying in infancy and the other, Blake, who lives in St. Louis, was with his mother at the time of her death. Mrs.

Hull was one of those splendid women who was daily doing good. Her life was given to "doing unto others." She has been a teacher in the Sunday school at the Presbyterian church for twenty-five years, and at the time of her death was president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society, treasurer of the Ladies Aid Society and Superintendent of the THE BLUE STORE Special January Announcement all heavy and medium weight, worth up to $6.00 pair. Your choice for $3.85 $6.85 The Clearing Sale of Boys Suits at $5.00 and $6.50 Sizes 10 to 18 years and values up to and including $12.50. These are in regulatakes in our whole range of Boys Knicker Suits, serges and fancies, in sizes 5 to tion dress lengths and ulster styles, and are very special bargains at the price 17 years. A good time now to secure a good all round suit for that son.

offered this week. We want to emphasize the fact that during this two days sale Clearing Sale of Boys' Mackinaw Coats We will include all of those beautiful Serge Suits, silk lined, at these are the handsomest $6.50 and $7.50 Coats for $5.00 suits, both in fabric and model, we have ever offered. You Mackinaw couldn't now please $5.00. the boy better or get a more sensible coat than This is our Clearing Time When we face a new season, with new goods on the way and arriving; when the fall and winter goods are about to be put aside for spring things; we look to the stock we have left and decide that we'd rather sell it for less than it's really worth than carry it over to next fall. This is the time.

Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes and a lot of other things now to be offered at Clearance prices. Hart Schaffner Marx Suits Hart Schaffner $20.00 Marx Overcoats You've never had such an opportunity as this- it's an offering of $25 and $27.50 Special at Hart Schaffer Marx suits for Friday and Saturday. beautiful merchandise at a saving of $5.00 to $7.50 per suit. The weaves are very choice; Scotch, English and American fabrics; very $20.00 Including all of the highest grade Excellent Worsted Suits coats in our stock today. You will Copyright Hart Schuffner Mara find some very special coats in Clearing servative price.

models and the new wide skirt and belted models -all at our annual Pure wool in the new shades, the weights are for all the year round. We have sizes and styles for men of all types of figures. Your Second Choice of Overcoats at Nothing ever shown better for. $16.50 Sale of Separate Trousers for Saturday for $10.00 Here's the greatest of opportunities for the man who wants to spend but little. $3.85 Thirty-five Coats in this lot values up to $16.50.

Your choice of some 'I wo Hundred pairs heautiful worsteds and cassimeres, Boys' Overcoats at Cradle Roll for the Sunday school. She was a splendid nurse and was always helping her neighbors in time of sickness. She took all of the care of her husband in his sickness which lasted for several years, not continuous, but very bad at times, until his last illness when her son's wife assisted her. At the time of Mr. Hull's death on December the 7th.

there was a big sale on at their store, which was advertised to continue through the most of the month, and Mrs. Hull felt obliged to carry out the sale, in which she probably overtaxed her strength. She went to Minneapolis on Monday, and to Salina on Tuesday before she was taken with a hard chill Tuesday evening, and from that time was very bad until the end which occurred on the following Sunday evening at six-thirty. Three doctors and two nurses worked with her constantly and all that friends and neighbors could do was done for her but to no avail. The funeral services were held at the home, Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock.

The same male quartette sang the same songs that were sung at Mr. Hull's funeral. The beautiful floral piece "Gates Ajar" that she got fat Mr. Hull as a symbol of a vision she had just after he passed away, WAR duplicated by her family for her. The floral offerings from her societies and friends were beautiful and abundant.

The pall bearers were Harlow Billings, Jesse Olds, Fred Porter, Jack Scranton, Will Hale and Charlie Truex. The male quartette were Ray Garrison, Joe Richards, Charlie Adams, and E. B. Stokeley. Her pastor Rev.

H. C. Driver preached the funeral sermon, taking for his text various passages of scripture, including the tweny third Psalm. Childs Clothing Company's big clothing sale begins Saturday, January 8th. Read their ad on page three of this paper.

Fred Doering is recovering from a severe attack of grippe..